If you want to talk about the simple presence of race hatred or the actions of racialists within any given group that seek to exploit hatred, it may be fair to say that racism exists beyond white people.

But if you are talking about what Stokely Carmichael referred to as “institutional racism” — which is the characteristic, widespread theft of privileges, rights, and opportunities because of race — then I think we can rationally consider that white people have been both the perpetrators and the beneficiaries.

That is not intended to be a “racial” remark in so far as I am not referring to all white people, nor do I feel that white people in general bear any special culpability for the historical facts that generate and perpetuate institutional racism unto this very day.

But am I pointing out that a certain class of citizens, who are white, have benefitted from the exploitation and denial of rights to minorities since the birth of the nation by well to do, slave-owning white men.

Your numbers game about white supremacists is also bizarre. There are millions of people who hold racist ideas, and put them into practice in a variety of ways, without consciously believing in over white supremacist ideology. You don’t have to be burning crosses on someone’s lawn to be a racist.

Bill and Beck actually makes sense to people whose IQ is below average. They take their words as the truth, after all, it is on television; they can’t lie, can they?

In fact, apparently yes they can lie about anything they want to lie about and nothing can be done to STOP them from doing it.

Someone I know is dying of pancreatic cancer and is against the health care bill. When I pointed out that if it wasn’t for Medicare, he’d have already died. “Well, Glenn Beck said…” Plus he continues to smoke despite the fact that it is speeding up the growth of his cancer. Ah! But he gets ALL of his snooze on Faux. Not too smart.

Who can explain why so many people buy scandal sheets at the grocery store? Does their large amount of sales make them right, these rags of “magazines” that specialize in spreading rumors and innuenco? Really? The same applies to members of the media who choose to see what is not there and make up stories.

Never have I seen a candidate or sitting president be so vilified, have so much invective spewed at him. Too many of the charges are easily proven to be false, and yet the nastiness continues. I have concluded that the issue is not his ability to do well in the office to which he was elected (because he has done many good, even great things), the issue is his race.

Is it because too many of the people who didn’t get out to vote don’t like having an African American hold the top office in our land? Maybe. Is it because he’s doing a poor job of being preaident? Maybe. The trumped-up charges and stories indicate (to me) an inability to prove him impeachable. Therefore, the right and “far right” choose to eat away at his proven ability to gain concensus and be a president for all the people by taunting him and the American public with ideas born in their rigid brains.

Desist, people.

The facts are that a leader in the New Black Panther Party was in the street verbally attacking whites and blacks who were with whites. He stated that “you need to kill some crackers, you need to kill some of their babies.” He admitted to hating white people. all white people “every single one of them” If this were a Klan member calling for the lynching of African-Americans everyone would be up in arms, the SPLC would be filing a lawsuit against the Klan because of these actions. The NBPP is no less marginal in the black community then the Klan is in the White community. Even according to SPLC’s own numbers tere are less then 20,000 white supremacists in a nation of over 180 million whites and 300 million total population.

It would appear that the SPLC, ADL and the NAACP who have striven for decades to stamp out race and discrimination have turned into that which they have fought against. They are looking a Fox News and Glenn Beck as the bad guy while letting the racist get a pass. Why? Because he is a poor Black man? That is discrimination and it is racism. It is a shame and these beacons of hope, these fighters for right should be ashamed of their actions in this report.

First off is a logical fallacy- more people watch Fox so they must be right. I hear this argument very often from conservatives, and it shows how they possess no ability to think critically. Second, Fox news airs more demonstrably false stories than any other network. No other network airs more faulty claims and information than Fox. Of course you won’t check, because you want their claims to be true.

“How sad for SPLC to not come out a rebuke the Black Panther racist group for wanting to kill women and children because of their skin color. SHAME ON YOU!”

Try doing this activity called “reading.” The SPLC does cover black hate groups like the New Black Panther Party.

I am not American, but grew up in the South (NC, GA), and have always followed US politics. In the leadup to 2008’s election, I spoke with numerous Southern Republicans who literally were heads-in-hands in horror at the thought of having EITHER a female President or a black one.

As to those who say, “he’s not REALLY black, he’s just claiming to be one and denying his half-whiteness” – really?to paraphrase Elon James White: if he looks black, and is treated as though he is black, how will he NOT identify as black?

Here, I’ll make it easy for you: http://www.splcenter.org/get-i.....separatist

If I could stand to watch any of their “news” programs, I’d be suing them for deliberately inciting to riot.

As for Glen Beck, he is not sincere about anything and that is obvious. His show is only entertainment for idiots.

How have you missed Obama’s pleas for bipartisanship that began in his campaign and have continued since he’s been in office? The Party of No and its Teabag watchdogs make sure that his attempts go in vain. The PON is out to oppose everything Obama proposes just because he is him — half black. This would not be the case if he were fully white.

Ask why or find evidence why they do it!

Does it divert us from what really needs our attention?

Does it profit a group or an industry in any way?

Exactly who benefits from it? America? Americans? If not ALL of us, why not?

How sad for SPLC to not come out a rebuke the Black Panther racist group for wanting to kill women and children because of their skin color. SHAME ON YOU!

There was a time when the conservative movement maintained a healthy respect for decency; indeed, while the Democrats ran negative ads the Republicans waded above the mud on a high horse. From the last elections till now, we have seen that the new breed of reactionary has little respect for “conservative” traditions and is openly braying like hyenas in an effort to taint the popular sentiment with this carrion of old meaningless news.

These short lived campaigns of villification serve no other purpose than to erode the governability of the country. In Congress the lawmakers themselves stoop to simple obstructionism, and the People follow in suit, taking their cue from the violence against Obama’s image and descending further into the pit of calumny.

I say the American people are stronger than this. This is no longer a question of Right vs Left. This is a question of whether we as a people will focus on the problems of our nation in search of a solution, or will we simply rend each other to bits in an effort to destroy the other. We must as a political block continue to expose the hazards of this kind or reactionary thinking and cut off the head of this serpent before it chokes out the vitality of our free and fair elections and turns our nation into dust.

For example, and MIT study, which was confirmed by other universities, showed that applicants were far more likely to receive a call-back if the name on their application “sounded white”. Now if your theory about the evils of equal opportunity are true, if white men are constantly being passed up for non-whites, then Tyrone Jackson’s phone ought to be ringing off the hook after he turns in a few applications. The fact that it is FAR more likely to ring when the name on the application is say, Peter Kowalski, disproves your little claim about discrimination.

So far there just isn’t any hard evidence to back up all these claims of terrible anti-white discrimination. At best, there is some anecdotal evidence, but when we examine many of those anecdotes, we often see that the situation is more complicated.

Let’s also not forget that affirmative action was devised because it was necessary. Of course you probably won’t admit to that, but then again in 1963, at the height of the civil rights struggle, most white people, over 90%, believed that America didn’t have a racial problem and that the races had equal standing in society.

As for my statements being racist, this is ridiculous and suggests that you have a very strange definition of racism. Racism is generally defined as the belief that there are different races of people(as opposed to ethnicities), and that some races are superior to others in various ways. I do not acknowledge “races” at all, because it is stupid to suggest that all Europeans, Africans, Asians, etc. can be lumped into one race. Koreans, Han Chinese, and Japanese for example, would not appreciate being lumped into the category of “Asian.”

What you accuse me of is laughable. You are angry that I am shattering the precious myth you have, the idea that because you are “white”, you have some biological link to the ancient Greeks, Romans, etc. That’s not racism, it’s just the truth. I don’t see people like you declaring your solidarity with the Tajiks, many of whom are descendants of the original Aryans. If your theories were true, you’d be celebrating them along with numerous other people from Central Asia. You don’t, because “white” is actually more of a cultural thing.

Especially the part where it’s okay for you to discriminate against white homosexuals, white Jews, white Muslims and other “undesirable” whites!

If there was a Neo-Nazi standing there in full regalia holding a club, would you be asking, “How many people claimed they were actually harassed?” Or would you realize just the fact of his being there was intimidation enough towards black people?

Perhaps FOX was covering it so intently because no one was lifting a finger to do anything about it and the liberal media were giving it short shrift.