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Cartwright Wrote: May 12, 2012 12:15 PM
This is all such nonsense. I am white. Joe D. Blackman is black. I am no more responsible for the oppression committed by my ancestors, against Joe's ancestors, than Joe is. Why should Joe now get a benefit that I'm not allowed to get? (See: 'perpetual recompense'.) Someday this foolishness will all unravel, (hopefully), but until then we will get people like Warren benefiting from the sufferings of ancestors who were not her own.
John1921 Wrote: May 12, 2012 2:18 PM
You're not keeping your eye on the ball. Africans-in-America are demanding special privileges, and grabbed onto past slavery as a pretense. The real supports for their demands are the constant threats of a "long, hot summer" if they don't get what they want. It's extortion, plain and simple, backed by threats of terrorism. Within my lifetime (60 years) this type of threat would've been countered by rampaging white mobs in huge race riots. Now that whites have been made spectators in their own demise, the Africans-in-America can fight it out with the Mexicans for dominance.

Sometimes a trivial embarrassment can become a teachable moment. It was recently revealed that Harvard professor and U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren had self-identified as a Native American for nearly a decade -- apparently to enhance her academic career by claiming minority status. Warren, a blond multimillionaire, could not substantiate her claim of 1/32 Cherokee heritage. (And would it have reflected any better on her if she could have?) Instead, she fell back on the stereotyped caricature that she had "high cheekbones."

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