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Obama or Not, America Still a 'Racist Nation'

by Larry Elder

Republicans show more optimism about race relations than do Democrats. A June 2007 Gallup Poll asked Republicans and Democrats to rate relations between blacks and whites. Among Democrats, 67 percent said relations were "somewhat good" or "very good," while 77 percent of Republicans gave those answers. Similarly, 22 percent of Republicans ranked black/white race relations as "somewhat bad" or "very bad," yet 31 percent of Democrats gave those pessimisti ...

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Posted by: Yanka
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Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:48 PM

I certainly agree with Mr. Elder that America is racist, but it is not just the Whites. After thinking about it for awhile it came to me that the Latinos dont like the Blacks or Whites, the Blacks dont like the Whites or the Latinos and the Whites dont like either of them. In Asia, the Han Chinese think that all others are barbarians. So, it becomes clear that every race dislikes or hates all that are of a different ethnic background. If we ever do encounter intelligent beings from outer-space that are non-human, I forsee nothing but disaster.

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