Mar 20, 2012 -- 12:55PM, Larosser wrote:

 As a black friend of mine summed it up, in the south, they don't care how close we get as long as we don't get too uppity, and in in the north, they don't care how uppity we get as long as we don't get too close.

When I responded to the initial comments, the point I was trying to make is that racism - even in its most brutal expressions - isn't dead in America, and it's wishful thinking to suggest that it is. Is it better than half a century ago? Yes. But that's like saying that scarlet fever is better than bubonic plague. The mortality rate may be lower, but it's still unacceptable.

Mar 20, 2012 -- 2:57PM, DotNotInOz wrote:

I heartily agree.

What I think more dangerous is that racism for the most part isn't as overt in the U.S. as it was even 30 years ago.

Mar 20, 2012 -- 2:57PM, DotNotInOz wrote:

Whites tend to think that there's no more racism since outright, government-sanctioned segregation of the "can't eat or stay the night here" no longer is the norm.

Actually most whites see it as a 'non-issue' since blacks have Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and other advocates out there championing for them, sic.

Mar 20, 2012 -- 2:57PM, DotNotInOz wrote:

However, look closely in any major city or even small town and there's still a skin-color ghetto in most places. Sure, non-whites who've managed to educate themselves into white-collar professions can live pretty much anywhere they can afford, but the less-educated with lower incomes typically live in a certain area.

Atlanta is literally run by blacks, so that sort of exposes your point, as it the same for many other major cities.

Mar 20, 2012 -- 2:57PM, DotNotInOz wrote:

Skin color determines who gets traffic-stopped as well as arrested more frequently--that's been proven in many places.

Maybe for a reason...random stoppings should be stopped though.

www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.ht...

Mar 20, 2012 -- 2:57PM, DotNotInOz wrote:

 Indeed, the disease is less serious and the mortality rate lower...but it's still there.

It will always be there, as well as black racism.

Mar 20, 2012 -- 5:09PM, Esdraelon wrote:

...Atlanta is literally run by blacks, so that sort of exposes your point, as it the same for many other major cities....

Actually, your responses here proves the point that racism is alive and thriving in the South.

Mar 20, 2012 -- 5:26PM, jane2 wrote:

A member of another minority shot this teen. Is that significant ???

 

Possibly, but likely it was simply a vigilante mentality...lie down with wolves, you may get eaten...

Mar 20, 2012 -- 5:26PM, jane2 wrote:

A member of another minority shot this teen. Is that significant ???

 

I don't know, but it is no reason to dismiss the possibility of racism out of hand.  Hispanics can certainly be bigots too.  Actually, so can blacks.

But, fact is, this case would be deserving of investigation even if the victim had been white.  How such an individual came to be in such a position, "patrolling" the streets with a gun- smells of something rotten somewhere.

Mar 20, 2012 -- 5:55PM, Esdraelon wrote:

I am not, by any stretch or the imagination, a racist....

Your posts show me otherwise.

...but then again....neither am I a bleeding heart liberal..

I am, and damn proud of it. I care more about people than I do money or politics.