Compliance to "diversity" and "affirmative action" cost 4% of GDP each year.

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I'm not sure it is sports alone.

I don't know anyone who hears Jimi play guitar and say, "Oh, that black dude could play."

Or listens to Carlos Santana play and says, "Oh, that Hispanic dude could play."

Michael Jackson transcended race to a great extent with his music.

I don't think today people think of Richard Pryor as one of the greatest black comics...they just think of him as one of the greatest comics.

Most people who listen to Stevie Wonder sing rarely think, "Oh he is that black blind guy."

Denzel Washington is considered one of the finest actors of his generation...not because his is black.

Who wouldn't want to play golf with Samuel Jackson (an avid golfer)?

Who wouldn't want to hear an audio book read by James Earl Jones?

So there are some areas where progress has been made. In the political arena? Almost impossible, because of the natural divisions in politics. In business people admire the successful and secretly despise their success.

The beauty of sports though, is that when guys like Bird and Magic were playing, I doubt race actually ever came to their mind in a negative way. Magic could say "That white guy can't jump, but man can he beat your ass." Bird might say "That Magic is unstoppable...I hate it when he beats us" and though there was hatred...at losing, rarely is there hatred of the person you are losing to in the way racists hate a person just because of the color of their skin.

Sports can be pure, so can music, acting and comedy...in those areas the greats bear their souls to the world...and we love them for it.

The truly talented...they make us laugh, they make us cry, they sooth our hearts and make our heats ache, they make us go ooooh and awwww...touch that part of us that is common to all men and well beyond race.

I think Colin Powell had a chance to change the world, to bring us together...but he completely blew it by compromising himself in front of the U.N.

Obama has made compromises good and bad politically, but more than anything I believe he has compromised himself in the process...sad actually, he got some very bad advice in the beginning, surrounded himself with some bad advisers, and got lost in the process.

He had potential, but in the words of Andrew Young,

when asked about Obama in 2008, Young said:

"I really like Obama...in 8 years."

Yep I agree, Geoge Carlin, Eric Clapton, and Robert DeNiro ain't half bad either. Is DeNiro considered white?

 

[OPTIONAL777]

Maybe by some. I watch Taxi Drive, and "white guy" or "Italian guy" never comes and never came into my mind.

Musicians of all colors hang together and love making music. Comedians of all colors hang together and love making each other laugh. Great actors love working with any great actor of any color.

Maybe it is why most people like Trading Places, 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon or other black/white buddy type movies. The contrast of culture and race seem so damned unimportant by the time the movie is over.

Really, can anyone watch John Travolta and Samuel Jackson together in Pulp Fiction and be thinking about their respective race?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RUvoJ-DLzI&feature=related

Quentin Tarantino...just amazing the way he uses music in his films.

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Yep I agree, Geoge Carlin, Eric Clapton, and Robert DeNiro ain't half bad either. Is DeNiro considered white?

 

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Speaking of De Niro and Italians...

Don't know if you ever saw this True Romance, but this scene with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walker, written by Quentin Tarantino really stands out:

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Never saw this, nice how Tarantino weaved history into a mob moive, and then dumbed it down so it could be disgested, he is one of my favorite directors. I forgot about Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken, both excellent actors. Anyways, in the morning the Stormfront Kids and their Familiars will be back and reassert the true order of P&R.

 

[OPTIONAL777]

Must have been a Stormfront rally tonight...or a sale on pork rinds at the local Piggly Wiggly.

Fun while it lasted.

Ciao!

p.s. The movie True Romance is worth watching for the dialogue alone. A great scene it it with Gary Oldman as a drug dealer, as well as some early Brad Pitt as a stoner/slacker in L.A. Not surprisingly the great Samuel L. Jackson, Val Kilmer, and James Gandolfini are in it. Very under rated film, probably because Christian Slater isn't that good. Watch this film, and imagine a young Jack Nicholson playing the lead.

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Never saw this, nice how Tarantino weaved history into a mob moive, and then dumbed it down so it could be disgested, he is one of my favorite directors. I forgot about Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken, both excellent actors. Anyways, in the morning the Stormfront Kids and their Familiars will be back and reassert the true order of P&R.

 

[Lucrum]

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Wrong again cab driver in the sky...

Now you just look stupid computer salesman on the ground.

 

[OPTIONAL777]

That's such a novel way to admit you were wrong.

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Now you just look stupid computer salesman on the ground.

 

[Lucrum]

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You claimed that everyone...yada, yada, yada.

No actually dopey I said:

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03-11-11 02:55 PM
Shared by almost everyone on ET...

If you hope to be a real intellectual someday TrollZz, you might consider learning to read first.

 

[OPTIONAL777]

Oh, so now you are posting Disney photos...

Please, just start your poll, and we can see what everyone does...

Mr. Taxi Driver in the sky...

Cracks me up...

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No actually dopey I said:

If you hope to be a real intellectual someday TrollZz, you might consider learning to read first.

 

[OPTIONAL777]

Where did you get the notion that races did not exist?

The comments I pasted only demonstrated that there is no such thing as a sub species of human beings.

Race at its worst may possible by considered a breed by the inbred southern types (get the joke?) but not a change in species based on change in color of skin or slight variation is size and shape.

Laws have to do with discrimination on the basis of not only color, but on the basis of gender, age, religion, ethnicity, etc.

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Well that's good news then. Since races don't exist, "racism" is an absurd notion. Therefore, we should not have any laws against it, or practices which favor one race over another in terms of jobs, education funding, protection under the law, university admissions criteria, or anything else. Since it is imaginary, there shouldn't be any laws regulating it.

Hence, because this is your belief, you should be standing up against any regulation or law against racism. You should be opposed to any racial quotas. You shouldn't be in favor of any "diversity" because any perceived difference is actually imaginary. Hence, "diversity" serves no purpose and is in pursuit of an imaginary goal.

Wolves are canines, so are grey hounds and poodles. Any perceived difference between wolves, grey hounds, and poodles, are imaginary, since they are, after all, all dogs. Any perceived difference between poodles and greyhounds is imaginary, or a product of "breedism".

 

[Lucrum]

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Please, just start your poll, and we can see what everyone does...
Mr. Taxi Driver in the sky...

Polls are for people who don't know but want to find out what people think, I already know. Mr. drunken lard ass trollZz computer salesman on the ground.