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“I’m just going to just go ahead and say it…the blacks are the ones causing the problems and this ‘racial tension.. […] I’m almost to the point of wanting them all segregated on one side of town so they can hurt each other and leave the innocent people alone.”

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It’s the common practice of politicians to go with the easy wrong over the hard right. As a result, the soldier on the ground and the veteran in the wheelchair suffer.

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I don’t hate the people; I hate the system of double standards. And if you don’t believe me, then I hate you.

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My man side was guilt-tripping my white side, completely unaware that my man side was just as unfairly privileged as my white side.

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I decided to look up some statistics about interracial marriage in typical white-boy math-geek fashion.

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It’s hard to imagine a time when race no longer plays a significant role in society. Regardless of your personal views on the subject, it’s impossible to deny that many people still care a great deal about racism.

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I wasn’t sure whether to be angry that someone actually thought this was the real reason why more blacks weren’t adopting and the newspaper published it or to laugh at the fact that this person thought it was the true reason.

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And the Vietnamese are still rather touchy about the ’70s, and the Filipino—I guarantee you—are plotting a coup to take over all the cruise ships in the Pacific. Orientals seem socially benign because they/we tend to be well behaved, but that doesn’t mean they/we are not an extremely angry and hateful bunch. Oh, and my uncle hates exercise and the Jews.