I don't believe laws enabling discrimination are an issue today, I don't think citing Jim Crow Laws" as being a modern day problem is being intellectually honest, and this is how you responded;
If you don't think Jim Crow laws still have an effect today, you're ignorant or dishonest. Maybe both.
Now how am I supposed to respond to your response? Do you think you're going to illicit an educated, informed or respectful response?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights and US labor law legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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OK, I'll bite, what forms of discrimination are legal today?
From http://www.workplacefairness.org/proving-employment-discrimination:
Seems pretty obvious to me: The very fact that we have protected classes such as race and religion is proof that anything that any group that isn't covered by those laws are open to be discriminated against. There's been such a major movement to end discrimination against the gays because up until recently it was perfectly legal to discriminate against them everywhere in the US (now it's illegal in only about half the states). "No shirt, no shoes, no service" is clear discrimination against beach goers. A lot of companies are perfectly fine not hiring anyone with visible tattoos. There was a Seinfeld about a restaurant that wouldn't hire women with little titties. And of course, just because something is illegal doesn't mean it isn't happening. Dave was using either the most naive or retarded thinking ever when he came up with that one.
From about 30 seconds on google: http://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/legal-discrimination.html/?a=viewall
Spend a few more minutes and we could come up with a lot more examples: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/25/stigma-of-mental-illness/9875351/, http://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/n...s-can-discriminate-against-dreadlocks-w441580
“If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas.”
We as a society are far advanced over other parts of the world and people
still bitch that they're discriminated against.
Try living in N. Korea, China or any Muslim country and find out what real
discrimination is.
Did it ever occur to you that the people in todays America who claim to be
discriminated against have always been losers all their lives when they have
the same opportunities as everyone else. Some people just need a crutch in
order to survive.
If you think Jim Crow laws still have an effect today, you're ignorant or dishonest. Probably both.
See how easy that was?
Anyway, considering that Jim Crow wasn't some national policy, and the overwhelming majority of blacks in America were either not born, or not subject to, Jim Crow laws, I'd love to see you expound on this in more than a bumper sticker.
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Anyway, something not being codified in federal law, your example of mental illness literally has nothing to do with the topic, doesn't mean it isn't prohibited by state law.
So Mr.Obama basically blaming the whites. How about the blacks that bully and intimidate every white person they see? Nevermind walking through a black neighborHOOD. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against blacks. Some of my best friends and colleagues are black but racism goes both ways. Both sides need to meet in the middle not just us pandering and saying sorry for another few decades. Hell, my father and his father and so on weren't even slave owners so I don't even have anything to be apologetic about. Sensitive towards their history and issues yes, apologetic no.
Its always Darkest right before Dawn and, if you've ever noticed, it also gets most Cold for some reason
right before the sun comes up.
The generation that is around 10 years old right now and younger, they will come to view this moment in time, this period of history we're living in right now as the final ringing of the bell of Extreme Ignorance. On certain matters.
When they grow to be 35yrs old + their view of us, our squabbles and how we interacted with one another will (historically) seem to them to be very very Primitive.
Great Grand-children of that generation will look back upon us as we view those that existed during the time of The Crusades.
We, yeah, live in a time that is similar to falling into a shit-filled Septic Tank but whats coming is totally different than this.
I agree with our Great-Grandkids and their kids 100%, We were absolutely Primal where that is defined as relating to an early primitive stage in evolutionary development that is difficult to comprehend as relates to exactly how those who existed during that time could possible have been so desperately stupid.
Gets vastly better though, eventually. "darkest before dawn".....its not just a Cliche.
ML Dog, I have often thought about that myself. That future generations that are more evolved look way back at us and think what strange and ignorant people we were fighting over religion, skin color and so on. That day will come I know that. I just don't know how far down the line it will be. Or if it will take a global catastrophe to and half the population of earth killed by aliens who don't care what our color is, they just want to exterminate us all. Maybe that will make humans think, wait, we need to forget race and religion.
The race thing is much easier to solve and unite over than the religion thing. Religion is the tricky part. That's what really divides us. Future advanced generations will look at us and our religious beliefs be it Christianity, Islam or whatever and see it in the same way we look back at old generations and how they believed in witchcraft,demons and the earth being flat. The advanced human race in the future will be in complete disbelief that humans actually believed in their respective religions and Gods and wasted time worshiping and fighting over religion. I'm sorry but in my opinion religion is the only thing survived from the earth is flat days. Maybe because people can make money off of it or control people or have access to kids to abuse. That's probably why religion survived all this time.
The race thing is much easier to solve and unite over than the religion thing. Religion is the tricky part. That's what really divides us. Future advanced generations will look at us and our religious beliefs be it Christianity, Islam or whatever and see it in the same way we look back at old generations and how they believed in witchcraft,demons and the earth being flat. The advanced human race in the future will be in complete disbelief that humans actually believed in their respective religions and Gods and wasted time worshiping and fighting over religion. I'm sorry but in my opinion religion is the only thing survived from the earth is flat days. Maybe because people can make money off of it or control people or have access to kids to abuse. That's probably why religion survived all this time.
