With gay marriage decided, what will be the next big left-led social change?

We're just tying to protect what we built.
-- Labor Movement

 

YF, this thread may be of interest to you.

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YF's argument doesn't hold up in part because racism doesn't exist in America anymore. We've been told that repeatedly.

I don't think there's racism.
-- Eric Bolling

We are not a racist nation.
-- Bill O'Reilly

The world is being told by anti-American haters that we are a rank, racist society, and that is a lie.
-- O'Reilly

Unfortunately for liberals, there is no more racism in America.
-- Ann Coulter

I don't know that Barack Obama could have been elected president if he was living in a racist nation.
-- Steve Doocy

Today we remember Rosa Parks' bold stance and her role in ending racism.
-- Republican National Committee.

 

According to Wikipedia: The racial makeup of the town was 72.41% White, 13.07%African American, 0.17% Native American, 8.77% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 2.94% from other races, and 2.59% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.02% of the population.

My town seems like America to me but it turns out we're a little less white and a little more black and Asian than the country as a whole.

 

Who knew YF was such an affirmative action advocate?

 

Yeah? This "we" to which you refer ... how much of this "we" that's not white lives within a mile of you?

 

Hey, Cran's town already lost a federal housing discrimination lawsuit.

So, all of those issues have been resolved.

(Love you Cran.)

And, I don't really blame anyone for wanting to live in a nice town or neighborhood. Just don't draw up the draw bridge behind you to keep the Negros out.

 

But what if you do so through "democratic processes"?

 

Let's see: Two doors down there is a house that three Central American families share, probably illegally, but they're nice and they don't let their chickens wander around the front yard anymore, so they're cool. They seem to be mostly day laborer types. My next door neighbor Jim, a county judge, is black. His wife is white, though, and their kids are mixed race. The family directly across the street is Indian. My other next-door neighbor is a dentist who operates out of his house and listens to Rush Limbaugh all afternoon and who often corners me in the yard to rant like Old Tony. On the other side of him, two doors down, is Theresa, a black corporate lawyer. A black family recently moved in two doors up across the street, too.

My immediate neighborhood is about as diverse as they come.

 

Too small a sample size! [/OOP]

 

Fair enough. You're walking (ok, livin') the talk.