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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

That's sad, Vince. The differences between the explicit and implicit test results especially so.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

How about Florida and their racially based education goals?

http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/10/12/florida-passes-plan-for-racially-based-academic-goals/

"90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent."

So based on the color of skin or DNA, we just cannot expect some students to do as well?

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Of course that is basic racism 101.no call to hate the black man....you just pity him as a lesser form of life,he is an animal which one should not expect much of other than shiftiness and laziness......hence no need to hate..

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A shame,but at the end of the day the country will have found a way to move pass this ugliness into a better future as far as race relations go...at least that is my hope

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Hard times…competition for jobs…crime…these are the reality of 2012. Our national problems and the frustrations they bring increase natural prejudices among all people of all ethnic origins.

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But keep in mind this is just not a white thing… take that same poll and turn the questions from black to white and ask the black community and you will have , in my opinion, the same prejudices.

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These polls also sometimes ask the wrong questions then apply a correct answer to prejudice. If a relatively small portion of the population is committing the majority of crimes and a question is asking if the group is more violent or not the answer will be true or yes and would be correct. This answer is then used to claim prejudice and that is wrong.

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If the majority of Americans were truly prejudice against blacks then Obama does not get elected the first time let alone the second.

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So bottom line… is there prejudice…yes Is it just white against blacks….no Is there work to be done in human rights…yes… but …it is my firm belief that with each generation skin color means less and less.

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I think this whole story is more sensationalistic journalism for the sake of circulation.

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Well what do you expect? Obama has made everything a racial issue and intervened numerous times in incidents that should have been handled by local law enforcement.

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It's too bad someone like Allen West wasn't our first President. You would have seen half of redneck America start thinking, 'wow, some black politicians have more common sense than white politicians do.'

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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Of course that is basic racism 101.no call to hate the black man....you just pity him as a lesser form of life,he is an animal which one should not expect much of other than shiftiness and laziness......hence no need to hate..

That is not unique to Americans, Mike. Dehumanization and presumed inferiority are the modus operendi inherent to prejudice the world over, i think, whether aimed at indigenous people in South America and Australia, or the dispossessed in the Middle East. It is interesting that words like the ones you mentioned were used in the explicit tests.

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A shame,but at the end of the day the country will have found a way to move pass this ugliness into a better future as far as race relations go...at least that is my hope

Yeah, hopefully it will diminish with generational succession.

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I never,for a moment,thought it was unique to Americans Vincent...not even close
Generational succession is all we have to look forward to......unless of course some green men show up from another planet,giving the species something else to hate and fear

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We also know treats against the POTUS are way up above the normal levels......

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

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ORIGINAL: kdsub
…it is my firm belief that with each generation skin color means less and less.

An admirable sentiment, Butch, but can you honestly say that you think things are improving in that respect after some of the crap we've spent the last four years listening to about the Kenyan?

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

Yeah, I agree, Rich. Big variance for the self-identified Democrats. I guess you can look at it in two different ways. The Democrats are in denial (the glass is half empty) or the cultural absorption of racism is really freakin difficult to shake off but they are trying (the glass is half filled)

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I think the latter. I know I've talked to people who intellectually believe everyone is and should be equal but still have a hard time shaking off that last little bit of gut-level unease about people that are different from them. An ex of mine, a white woman, confessed to me once that if she was alone at night and saw a black man she'd get scared. She knew it was BS and felt guilty about it, but couldn't manage to get rid of it.

What I found REALLY interesting was that Republicans were apparently more likely to say racist things than have racist feelings.

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ORIGINAL: Toysinbabeland

Quote:An ex of mine, a white woman, confessed to me once that if she was alone at night and saw a black man she'd get scared. She knew it was BS and felt guilty about it, but couldn't manage to get rid of it.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee
How about Florida and their racially based education goals?
http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/10/12/florida-passes-plan-for-racially-based-academic-goals/
"90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent."
So based on the color of skin or DNA, we just cannot expect some students to do as well?

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Others in the community agreed with Lopez’s assessment. But the Florida Department of Education said the goals recognize that not every group is starting from the same point and are meant to be ambitious but realistic.

As an example, the percentage of white students scoring at or above grade level (as measured by whether they scored a 3 or higher on the reading FCAT) was 69 percent in 2011-2012, according to the state. For black students, it was 38 percent, and for Hispanics, it was 53 percent.

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Whites scored at 69% and their goal is 88% (an increase of 19%)
Hispanics scored 53% and their goal is 80% (a 27% increase)
Black's scored 38% and their goal is 74% (a 36% increase)

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