AP Poll says racial prejudice has increased

[Drip]

I know this is destined to be locked but here it is. Hopefully there can be frank and open discussion about this poll.
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-poll-majority-harbor-prejudice-against-blacks-073551680--election.html

 

[Bob Cook]

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Well, that's mighty white of them.

 

[YGBFKM]

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But what people really hate are Mormons.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

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That'll be up to 55% in four years.

 

[Armchair_QB]

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Wonder what percentage of black people hate white people?

And how many people hate Asians?

 

[YGBFKM]

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Obama can fix this. Just give him four more years.

 

[Captain Obvious]

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Obama can fix this. Just give him four more years.

That's why we need a white guy as president, so people can go back to being closeted racists.

 

[Drip]

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"Can we all get along?" - Rodney King.

 

[YankeeFan]

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But what people really hate are Mormons.

It's not hate, they should just be disqualified from being President:

In principle, someone from any religion can be President of the United States. So even though all but one president has been a member of some flavor of Protestant Christianity, Mitt Romney’s Mormonism doesn’t disqualify him from the presidency in the eyes of the American public. This is a good thing. In principle.

At the risk of sounding like a mullah, I believe there are deeper reasons that a Mormon should be disqualified from being president.

Romney’s candidacy, along with a Broadway smash musical and a few other things, have come together to create a “Mormon moment.” But despite this, public knowledge of Mormonism is limited to some superficial cultural impressions, with an underlying feeling of vague suspicion.

If Romney were to win, you could say Mormonism is a fringe branch of Protestant Christianity, and therefore he wouldn’t be charting any new territory. Mormonism is actually kind of a hybrid between Protestantism and Catholicism. They embrace the most basic Protestant idea of a personal relationship with God, (for men, anyway), but have the hierarchical power structure, rigid dogma, and the expectation of obedience of Catholics.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-a-mormon-should-not-be-president-2012-10#ixzz2AW5d3Xe0

 

[amraeder]

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I wonder how a poor economy impacts racial attitudes. (When it's harder to make ends meet, do greater us vs. them attitudes develop? Seems logical.)

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

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If those people would just know their place and stop being so uppity we wouldn't have these issues.

 

[Captain Obvious]

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If those people would just know their place and stop being so uppity we wouldn't have these issues.

Racism wouldn't exist if we all knew our place.

 

[YGBFKM]

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I would like a further explanation of what, exactly, predjuice is?

 

[Mark2010]

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I wonder how a poor economy impacts racial attitudes. (When it's harder to make ends meet, do greater us vs. them attitudes develop? Seems logical.)

Yes, I think it does. It makes everyone a bit more grumpy.

Racism isn't a one-way street, either.

 

[Batman]

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Obama has tread cautiously on the subject of race, but many African-Americans have talked openly about perceived antagonism toward them since Obama took office. As evidence, they point to events involving police brutality or cite bumper stickers, cartoons and protest posters that mock the president as a lion or a monkey, or lynch him in effigy.

Maybe I missed something, but has Obama been "lynched in effigy" anywhere outside of Klan rallies, or Middle East protests?

 

[Batman]

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If those people would just know their place and stop being so uppity we wouldn't have these issues.

Your avatar is making me nervous. I think it might jump off the screen and mug me.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

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If those people would just know their place and stop being so uppity we wouldn't have these issues.

Your avatar is making me nervous. I think it might jump off the screen and mug me.

Billy Ocean is from Trinidad, so he's not like the "those people" we have in this country, with the baggy pants and the rap music, so you're safe.

 

[Mark2010]

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I wouldn't disqualify anyone from being president -- or anything else -- based on their religion. Mormon, Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, whatever. If you can snicker enough people into voting for you, so be it.

 

[Captain Obvious]

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I wouldn't disqualify anyone from being president -- or anything else -- based on their religion. Mormon, Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, whatever. If you can snicker enough people into voting for you, so be it.

Even a Muslim born in Kenya can be President.

 

[dixiehack]

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This dovetails nicely with the genius ex-coworker this morning who couldn't understand why the Facebook photo of her very white friend painted as Carlton Banks was not a good plan.