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Originally posted by D4Saken
Originally posted by KennibleLecter
Originally posted by D4Saken
Dude you sure your not some old white Republican spinning it?
Because it sounds like a conservative propaganda conspiracy.
You know what man... you're exactly the type of person I'm talking about!
Can't a black man who has done well for himself NOT SWALLOW the crap being spoon-fed by the liberal democrats?!
People like you disgust me.
How many black men or women are a member of the Tea Party.
Out of those numbers, if you can find any, how many know what the Tea Party thinks of them?
Originally posted by Sternblut
reply to post by ergastulum
I believe living conditions are their own fault. The way you make your home and get along with your neighbors is up to you! How is the government or anyone going to change that? Especially when your being provided housing. And whites came here on ###SNIP### wagons and made a whole country.
Originally posted by KennibleLecter
I'm not sure if this is the place to post this thread as it is a bit of a rant, but I've stated it before in a number of threads.
I'm tired of hearing how conservatives want to keep the black man down, when in fact I find the exact opposite.
Originally posted by OccamAssassin
Just to stir up the thread.
If a black man is endowed with poverty......It's whitey manipulating the world to keep the black man down.
If a white man is endowed with poverty.....Its just bad luck or he/she is too lazy to make it work.
If a black man gets an education and becomes successful....It's because he did the "hard yards".
If a white man gets an education and becomes successful...It's because he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
From the perspective of someone who lives in another country(Australia) and has only television & internet to go by....I hear lots of racist remarks coming from the USA......But out of all the racists remarks I hear......I rarely hear them coming from a white person( I'd guesstimate 1% or 2%).
I'm not saying that the racism toward blacks isn't there, but I wonder if it is really as bad as a black man would have me believe or it is just an excuse for the same man to lash out at others for failure to take responsibilities for his own life and make something better of it.
Sorry if I've offended anyone with my post....I'm just trying to make an observation from a different viewpoint.
You answered your own questions. They want us fighting with each other about our differences while conveniently leaving out all our similarities.
And let's face it, at this point we are all slaves to them, just some of us are in cages within cages.
Yeah, the democrats are almost as bad as the republicans when it comes to screwing over the working class. All those trade agreements were fully supported by conservatives.
You will notice from your chart that once Newt got his contract on America passed, the trade imbalance got much much worse....
...
Government and Operational Reforms
On the first day of their majority in the House, the Republicans promised to pass eight major reforms:
1. require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;
2. select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
3. cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
4. limit the terms of all committee chairs;
5. ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
6. require committee meetings to be open to the public;
7. require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
8. guarantee an honest accounting of the Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.
en.wikipedia.org...
Clinton made it one of his goals as president to pass trade legislation that lowered the barriers to trade with other nations. He broke with many of his supporters, including labor unions, and those in his own party to support free-trade legislation... [Article contains video of] Clinton's December 8, 1993 remarks on the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement.. en.wikipedia.org...
US President Bill Clinton vowed on Wednesday that he will do his utmost to reach an agreement with China on its entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and if that is done he will try to push the Congress into offering
China a permanent normal trading partner status....
"an open China that is a responsible partner in a
world in which China will be at some point in the 21st century, if it keeps growing, the biggest
economy in the world. Accession to the WTO would make them a part of the rule-based system of
global trading and investment."
"So I hope that we can work it out, and I will do my best,"
Clinton said.
www.international.ucla.edu...
...While violence shook Seattle, solidarity marches were held in New York, Portland, OR, Boston, MA, and other US cities. 75,000 took to the streets throughout France to protest the WTO on Nov. 30. Police also attacked a solidarity rally in London, UK. 40 were arrested, and a police van was torched. "Green Rennet" eco-saboteurs even cut power to the WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 3, crashing several computers. Peasants held marches against the WTO throughout India. Hong Kong also saw solidarity protests, although the official Chinese media hardly mentioned the Seattle protests. On Dec. 11, hundreds of striking students marched in solidarity with Seattle in Mexico City. Riot police attacked the march, and 98 were arrested and ten wounded--including four police. Windows were broken at the US embassy.
The WTO finally met towards the end of the week, only to deadlock on setting an agenda. The threat of protest forced Clinton to insist on bringing the issues of labor and environmental standards to the talks. The Democratic Party's alliance with organized labor was already strained by Clinton's support for China's new WTO membership. This move won Clinton's WTO position the support of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, but UAW's Stephen Yokich and the Teamsters' Jimmy Hoffa sharply dissented. With 50,000 in the streets of Seattle, Bill couldn't soften his line.
China and Third World countries refused to discuss labor standards. Various Third World countries also protested that the top industrial powers held real power in the WTO, with only their inner circle gaining access to WTO Secretary-General Michael Moore. At week's end, the delegates departed for their respective countries, having accomplished nothing. "The protestors were successful in stopping the negotiations," admitted James Clawson, a member of the US negotiating team....
morc.info...
Can't a black man who has done well for himself NOT SWALLOW the crap being spoon-fed by the liberal democrats?!