> To say that "any and all discussions about race are useless" is
> equivalent to saying any and all discussions about anything is
> useless. Why talk it about when it won't do any good. I know let's
> fight or kill each other over our differences. Problem solved, let's
> move on.
>
> I would agree that many leaders, if not all, have some hidden
> agenda(s) and I would imagine some are racially motivated. I would not
> agree that ALL of our country's leaders are racist, or white
> supremacist. In fact I would even like to suggest that there may be
> some black supremacist(s) in positions of power. Niether have to be
> overtly so, but with their agenda(s), hidden (maybe even to
> themselves) their decisions are likely to be influenced by them.
>
> 1. All white people are in power or better All people in power are white
> 2. All people in power are bad, therefore,
> 3. All white people are bad.
>
> Both premises must be true in order for the resultant logic to be
> true. Since there are more than just white people in positions of
> power argument one is false. Since there are inevitably good people in
> positions of power (probably newly acquired positions, ha) argument
> two is falise. Since both premises are false 3 is ulitmately false.
> Now I haven't completed Logic 101 so my terminology may not be proper
> but I think you get the gist so dont come attacking me.
>
> This is somewhat divergent from the topic but it is true terrible
> things have happened to blacks at the hands of colonial entreprenuers.
> Is colonial America the only folks ever to enslave fellow humans? It
> has been happening since recorded history. It was realized and
> stopped, at least in its blatant forms and here in N. America. I
> can't speak for other country's and I understand to sex slave trade
> to be quite booming. Marx would argue it is still at hand, that is
> slavery, in the class struggle between the bourgeoisie (sp, no time
> for spell check) and the proletariat. The working class is paid just
> enough to sustain them as a worker and no more ( I just read the
> Communist Manifesto for the first time ever ; P ). Slaves weren't paid
> monetary sums, but received enough food to barely sustain themselves.
> Bad things happen and will continue to happen now and in the future.
>
> Ramble, ramble.....I got to go take my meds now.....
>
> Overran, over run....who cares.....I mean really?
>
> On Oct 23, 9:04 pm, Knowledge
charter.net> wrote:
>
>
>>> 2005 Racial Attitudes and the Katrina Disaster Study ... The racial
>> composition of the respondents is as follows: White: 703, Black: 487,
>> Hispanic: 52, ...
