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03-10-2009, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
No. No. No.
Racism isn't contingent upon any of this. LOL.
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Actually it is. I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, and at this point I don't care. One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it. When things like this happen, everyone wants to find excuses for it and brush it under the rug. It was the same thing with that cartoon in the NY post. Excuses were made for that. The powers that be told everyone it wasn't racist, people bought it. The end.
Not to mention the fact that there is something inherently wrong when these entities think it is okay to blatantly disrespect the President of the United States in this manner.
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03-10-2009, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
Actually it is. I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, and at this point I don't care. One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it. When things like this happen, everyone wants to find excuses for it and brush it under the rug. It was the same thing with that cartoon in the NY post. Excuses were made for that. The powers that be told everyone it wasn't racist, people bought it. The end.
Not to mention the fact that there is something inherently wrong when these entities think it is okay to blatantly disrespect the President of the United States in this manner.
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The NY Post was different in that the management KNEW what they were doing...you cannot compare what they were doing to this.
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03-10-2009, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it.
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No.
Racism lingers because people (in general) are looking for, and are outraged over, displays at B&N and email forwards of watermelon patches.
If all of that stuff ends and prejudiced people keep their opinions to themselves because they don't want to offend black folks and spark an NAACP march...racism still will not end.
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03-11-2009, 12:46 AM
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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
Actually it is. I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, and at this point I don't care. One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it. When things like this happen, everyone wants to find excuses for it and brush it under the rug. It was the same thing with that cartoon in the NY post. Excuses were made for that. The powers that be told everyone it wasn't racist, people bought it. The end.
Not to mention the fact that there is something inherently wrong when these entities think it is okay to blatantly disrespect the President of the United States in this manner.
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I think wearing shirts and using slogans such as "Do you smell what Barrack is cooking" and "Barrack the Vote" are blatant disrespect of the Presidency. Do you agree with that?
It was some stupid customer. Do you really think an employee would risk their job pulling a prank like this? Especially when jobs are hard to come by these days. And if it had been an employee, I'm sure someone would have found out and they would have gotten fired. That still does not make B&N as a national the bad guy.
Think of it this way. I'm assuming you're a member of a Greek organization. How would you feel if there was some random person, who hung out with members of your organization, did something horribly wrong... and other unknowing people thought this person was a member of your org, started boycotting it and spreading around how bad this org was?
One bad apple doesn't make a whole entity guilty... and this bad apple wasn't even a member of their team.
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03-11-2009, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
It was some stupid customer. Do you really think an employee would risk their job pulling a prank like this? Especially when jobs are hard to come by these days. And if it had been an employee, I'm sure someone would have found out and they would have gotten fired. That still does not make B&N as a national the bad guy.
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Are you living in the United States? You can't be serious with a statement like that. Do you know how many employees do stupid things of this nature?
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03-12-2009, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
these entities think it is okay to blatantly disrespect the President of the United States in this manner.
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kind of like the same entities who sell anti bush t shirts and those who showed the W movie?
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03-12-2009, 11:06 AM
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kind of like the same entities who sell anti bush t shirts and those who showed the W movie?
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Dude, that's TOTALLY different - he disagreed with me!
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03-12-2009, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Dude, that's TOTALLY different - he disagreed with me!
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LMAO
folks can talk shit about obama like the day is long. hell, i talk shit about him.
he's the president. he's got way bigger things to worry about than us peons making fun of him.
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