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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTOM TOMORROW: Black and White
DAILY KOS LINK: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/01/1348341/-Cartoon-Black-and-white
onehandle
(51,122 posts)I'm sure that the NRA's real clients, gun manufacturers, would agree.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Ronald Reagan and the NRA's response was to pass the Mulford Act of 1967.
They're liars and hypocrites. This was too scary for the NRA and the GOP's superhero, because black people.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)From Wikipedia:
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)It may not always have been that thin, if you catch my drift.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)It doesn't look like the Conservapedians have been at it. It seems to have always been quite perfunctory.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)....put on Blackface makeup, walked around town for 3 days with an AK47, then walked around another town that was close by...(Tampa/St Petersburg ??)...with the same gun...SANS Blackface and reported what happened.
THAT would be interesting. Be better if the men were reporters.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)Do you remember how much he wanted to say, "But I'm white, like you!"
Ironic, isn't it?
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)..by realizing that the world can be so unfair to certain people and races.
It WAS an eye-opener.
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)I remember it had just come out, so it must have been '62 or '63 or so, when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school. My mom worked in a bookstore at the time, and each payday she would bring me home an interesting new book to read. I am pretty sure it wasn't required for any of my classes, but I do remember the premise of the book and it still affects me to this day.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)RoverSuswade
(641 posts)I felt his fear as he was apprehensive about crossing over the state line into Mississippi.
Auggie
(31,058 posts)and yes, I ask myself the same question.
Grey
(1,581 posts)As a teenager (1950's) the only blacks I knew were on the television, and seemed remarkably nice. (We lived on a small island in the Pacific northwest.) My father, on the other hand hadn't a good thing to say about anyone that wasn't Wasp. Two opposing views. That book cemented my feeling about colour and race. It should be required reading in grade school.
TBF
(31,919 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)KG
(28,749 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)sometimes it is the only thing that makes sense.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)cause he always seems to nail it down.
Central Scruitinizer
(57 posts)The blacks are frightening, subhuman if you will, so every white cop, or wannabe cop can just shoot them because they are so scary(Hulk Hogan scary!)
Only in America does a black boy go to trial for his own murder.
Petrushka
(3,709 posts). . . around St. Louis --->
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/02/bosnian-killing-st-louis-hammer-murder-charges/19768909/
Edited to add:
Was the hammer attack on Bosnian man racially motivated?
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/12/02/was-the-hammer-attack-on-bosnian-man-racially-motivated/
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)but I wish he could have added Trayvon and the "Yes, but he was acting suspicious!" response
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Any excuse to validate their worldview.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)One night my brother-in-law had one of his friends over. His friend was a policeman for L.A. (he later transferred to Huntington Beach), I'm not sure what he's doing now. He was always very aloof, like he wasn't there, when I would talk to him.
I went upstairs to bed that night while they were in the tv room.
The next day, I reached for a magazine. There was a black actor on the cover (I don't recall who), and the policeman had written numerous racist comments all over the actor's face.
There definitely needs to be more in-depth psychological interviews done when hiring police. They're supposed to be there to serve and protect, not search and destroy.