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Is Racism a Real Problem today?
Commenters on the cereal's Facebook page also said they found the commercial "disgusting" and that it made them "want to vomit." Other hateful commentersexpressed shock that a black father would stay with his family.
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Permalink Reply by LoveLife&Laughter on
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Too true.
To what can we attribute racism? The Bible?
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Permalink Reply by Snagg on
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No, not the bible - Mankind has been coming up with excuses to hate "the other" for a lot longer than the bible's been around.
Tribalism, fear of the unknown, superstition and the need to subjugate and control the "other" - Plenty of modern-day "christians" use the bible to justify those attitudes and actions, but I have seen with my own eyes the hatred and prejudice some Native American tribes harbor towards black people, whom they consider vermin to be exterminated. Japan has had a virulent strain of "ethnic purity" in it's cultural background long before they ever set eyes on a white man or his particular holy book.
Racism is only one of the many miserable failures of the human species that, like religious fundamentalism or a love of country and western music, are the rancid fruit of seed that had to be sown, but required only inborn stupidity and a certain amount of inner rottenness to sprout and flourish.
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Permalink Reply by Lifesighs on
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People seem to want to feel superior to someone to make them feel like they are somehow better. It's a total crock because those that need this are on the bottom of the totum pole as far as being an evolved human. We're all the same just different flavors.
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Permalink Reply by ProblemAgain on
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i guess i am pretty lucky. i missed the controversy...in fact i watched the commercial and never even noticed it in that respect but then i've lived in places where interracial marriages weren't a new thing...and the fact that anyone can get incensed about it? fucking sickos....clean your own head first..i recommend rotorooter for some people
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you can see the video at that linked site...
Video captures Jasper, Texas, police officers beating woman
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[Updated at 5:50 p.m. ET]
A southeast Texas town with a history of racial unrest on Monday fired two white police officers recently captured on video slamming a black woman’s head into a countertop and wrestling her to the ground.
“The amount of force used was abominable,” the woman's attorney, Cade Bernsen, told Yahoo News.
The incident was captured by security cameras at the Jasper, Texas, police headquarters.
Keyarika "Shea" Diggles, 25, was brought to the jail on May 5 for an unpaid fine, according to Bernsen. He said she was was on the phone with her mother trying to arrange to get the $100 owed when Officer Ricky Grissom cut off the call.
There’s no audio on the video, but Diggles and Grissom were apparently arguing when Officer Ryan Cunningham comes in behind Diggles and attempts to handcuff her. When she appears to raise her hand, Cunningham grabs Diggles by the hair and slams her head into a countertop. The officers wrestle Diggles to the ground before dragging her by her ankles into a jail cell.
“She got her hair pulled out, broke a tooth, braces got knocked off … it was brutal,” Bernsen said.
Diggles was charged with resisting arrest for arguing with the officers, a charge dropped on Monday, according to Bernsen.
Cunningham, reached by phone Monday afternoon, hung up on a Yahoo News reporter. A message left for Grissom was not immediately returned.
The officers’ firing comes 15 years to the week after an infamous hate crime in Jasper, a town of about 8,000 people two hours northeast of Houston. James Byrd Jr., a black man, was tied to the back of a pickup by three white men and dragged for several miles until he was decapitated. The high-profile case triggered marches by the New Black Panthers and Ku Klux Klan.
Last year, a majority-white Jasper City Council fired the town's first black chief after 16 months on the job. Rodney Pearson is now suing, claiming his civil rights were violated.
“It’s a different part of the world, man, it’s crazy,” said Bernsen, who's also representing the fired police chief.
Jasper's interim city manager confirmed the terminations, but referred questions about the Diggles case to the interim police chief, who was unreachable Monday afternoon.
“The more things change, the more they remain the same,” Jasper City Council Member Alton Scott said of the city's racial troubles.
Scott obtained the video in the Diggles’ incident and turned it over to a local TV station after he heard that her written complaint against the officers was apparently being ignored.
“There’s nothing she said that could have justified what they did,” Scott said. “They are supposed to be trained professionals. They are supposed to be above that. It was inexcusable.”
After terminating the officers on Monday, the council requested that the pair be investigated for possible criminal charges. Bernsen said he hopes that probe is done by the FBI or state police.
“I don’t trust the Police Department as far as you can throw them,” he said.
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