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Gosh, I was really hoping to have a discussion about this...

He [Johnson] boasted that his strategy would "have the niggers voting democratic for the next 200 years."

However, Layman, you try to ignore that he said that after he just pushed through and signed the bill which guaranteed blacks the right to vote, the right to go into a restaurant and order a burger without having to sit in a special section, the right to use the same bathrooms in that restaurant as the white people, and the right to apply for a job and not get automatically turned down because of their color.

And all you can do is talk about Johnson's choice of word at a moment like that?

I explicitly acknowledged his intention to give blacks "something" for the purpose of quieting them down.

The Chicago Police Department has also been criticized for its liberal use of the controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy. The policy gives officers much more autonomy to conduct stops and pat-down's if there exists a reasonable suspicion that a suspect might be armed and dangerous. The ACLU has claimed that the policy unfairly targets African Americans, who accounted for nearly 75% of those stopped in 2014 even though they make up only about a third of the city's population. However, that same 1/3 of the population is responsible for over 70% of all homicides so the stop-and-frisk numbers are not disproportionate.

The stop and frisk policy was largely abandoned by CPD in early 2016. 2016's surge in murders and shootings, coupled with a decline in gun seizures, led former Police Superintendent John Escalante to express concerns in March 2016 that officers might be hesitant to engage in proactive policing due to fear of retribution.

Officers anonymously reported to the Chicago Sun-Times that they have been afraid to make investigatory stops because the Justice Department and American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois have been scrutinizing police practices. Data of the supposed pullback was reflected with an 80 percent decrease in the number of street stops that officers made since the beginning of 2016. Dean Angelo has claimed that part of the problem is politicians and groups like the ACLU who don't know much about policing, and yet are "dictating what police officers do".

Actually, no. I was pointing to that ridiculous claim and cliche by layman that I (or others) bring every question down to race. To which you responded "Exactly" with two exclamation marks, no less.

What was the "riduclous claim and cliche" to which you are referring?

Layman asserted that skin color should become irellevant in social interactions. Is that ridiculous?

For example: European White settlers did horrible things to the Indians they found on the land they wanted. In turn, the Indians did horrible things to the European White settlers, when they could.

Unfortunately for the Indians they were unable to defeat the European White settlers. Injustice or historical imperative?

And even if the later, what does modern Canada need to do about it?

The school system was rooted in policy aimed at removing children from the influence of the aboriginal culture, and assimilate them into the dominant Canadian culture. Over the course of the system's existence, approximately 30% of native children, or roughly 150,000, were placed in residential schools nationally. It has been estimated that at least 6,000 of these students died while in attendance.

For example: European White settlers did horrible things to the Indians they found on the land they wanted. In turn, the Indians did horrible things to the European White settlers, when they could.

Unfortunately for the Indians they were unable to defeat the European White settlers. Injustice or historical imperative?

And even if the later, what does modern Canada need to do about it?

The school system was rooted in policy aimed at removing children from the influence of the aboriginal culture, and assimilate them into the dominant Canadian culture. Over the course of the system's existence, approximately 30% of native children, or roughly 150,000, were placed in residential schools nationally. It has been estimated that at least 6,000 of these students died while in attendance.

I'm sure you never said it, but how would I know if you ever thought it?

What is required for you to lay down the "Racism Club?"

Blatham is a crypto Nazi.

Re: Walter Hinteler (Post 6346422)
The Right, of course, doesn't equal Nazi, but you've tipped your hand in regards to your personal left-wing thought.

Well I just asked one of my senior employees if I make such (ex cathedra) statements.

The bastard agreed with you.

Gosh, I was really hoping to have a discussion about this as opposed to the dick measuring contests going on.

Puts me in mind of those stupid Indians complaining about oil in their drinking water. Anyone knows oil improves the taste of drinking water.

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He [Johnson] boasted that his strategy would "have the niggers voting democratic for the next 200 years."

Our fellow primates are in trouble.

In a study of unprecedented scope, a team of 31 primatologists has analyzed every known species of primate to judge how they are faring. The news for man’s closest animal relatives is not good.

Three-quarters of primate species are in decline, the researchers found, and about 60 percent are now threatened with extinction. From gorillas to gibbons, primates are in significantly worse shape now than in recent decades because of the devastation from agriculture, hunting and mining.

All of those are the kinds of problems that have torpedoed nominees in the past. But it is far from certain — or even likely — that any of Trump’s nominees will buckle under the political pressure.

That is in part because the ­president-elect himself has broken so many norms — notably, by flouting the convention of major-party presidential candidates making their tax returns public and by refusing to sever himself from his financial interests while he is in the White House.

Critics say that Trump’s actions and those of his nominees suggest that an incoming administration that promised to “drain the swamp” of Washington has instead brought in a new, lower set of standards.

Speaking of autocrats, Vladimir Putin’s engagement in American politics on Trump’s behalf continued Tuesday when he called reports that Trump had been compromised by Russian intelligence “total nonsense” designed to “undermine the legitimacy” of Trump’s presidency. Putin accused those spreading the information of being “worse than prostitutes,” adding: “They have no moral boundaries.”

You know we are entering a strange time when Putin, many of whose enemies wind up dead, is lecturing Americans about “moral boundaries.” Then again, Putin must have been grateful when Trump told the Times of London this week that he still considers NATO “obsolete.” Wrecking both NATO and the European Union, which Trump also demeaned, are central Putin objectives.