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72. Nice post. A lot of folks don't view people from around the world so positively. Immigrants do make

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Wed Aug 8, 2012, 03:19 PM

Aug 2012

our lives "richer". Always have, always will.

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i don't get white supremacism. [View all] barbtries Aug 2012 OP

About a dozen years ago an IT Director who worked for me hired a Pakistani man... Scuba Aug 2012 #1

US citizens come in all colors. I don't really think the OP is in support of H1Bs, either way. nt Romulox Aug 2012 #21

I'm sorry, I didn't make my point clear. The asshat in question would have been... Scuba Aug 2012 #22

I'm pretty certain ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #29

Check out the frustrated white man thread. ieoeja Aug 2012 #37

Yep, I recced that yesterday. Scuba Aug 2012 #40

I posted to that thread yesterday ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #53

Sorry I brought up the issue of class in that thread. Insinuate I'm a racist now, to punish me! nt Romulox Aug 2012 #38

You didn't. You tried to hijack the thread into an H1-B discussion. Warren Stupidity Aug 2012 #54

That wasn't my intention. I think it is odd to frame an employment issue that way, though. Romulox Aug 2012 #57

Why would I do that? 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #55

If I've misread you, I apologize. I'll admit to being hyper-sensitive to such accusations. However Romulox Aug 2012 #60

No one will argue that race and class ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #62

the OP is in support barbtries Aug 2012 #33

If all you have going for you is your skin color yellerpup Aug 2012 #2

I think that's kind of the thing.... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #31

I grew up in a family of yellerpup Aug 2012 #42

i'm glad you made it out barbtries Aug 2012 #51

The price of 'going against yer raising" yellerpup Aug 2012 #56

you have my respect. barbtries Aug 2012 #58

All I did was stay true to myself yellerpup Aug 2012 #61

Its the system we live in. We all participate in one Solomon Aug 2012 #3

You nailed it brush Aug 2012 #4

It's not white supremacism, it's Evil; with a capital E Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #5

I find it tragically ironic Homer Wells Aug 2012 #6

Change "white citizenry" to "humanity" and you've got a +1 n/t Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #8

I know, right? Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #32

Being White Did Come with a Lot of Privileges Yavin4 Aug 2012 #7

...it still does. uponit7771 Aug 2012 #18

True, But Far, Far Less Than It Once Was Yavin4 Aug 2012 #23

Unless ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #43

That is what the do-nothing wealthy want you to think siligut Aug 2012 #49

"here we ALL are on this planet together. all human, all together on the planet." pampango Aug 2012 #9

It's the refuge of the former masters of a dismantled system of slavery. Skidmore Aug 2012 #10

The people that are white supremacists JoeyT Aug 2012 #67

It's also in this instanced, warrior1 Aug 2012 #11

I would like riverwalker Aug 2012 #12

It has always made me scratch my head as well. hifiguy Aug 2012 #13

If you don't get White Supremacy, then you must not think you are better than everyone else. slampoet Aug 2012 #14

Oh, they have more engaging things - FOX Noise and Limbaugh! HopeHoops Aug 2012 #15

Definitely time to revisit this nichomachus Aug 2012 #16

id never seen it barbtries Aug 2012 #64

But white people are supreme! Nye Bevan Aug 2012 #17

it is the extreme of white privilege that so many deny. he KNOWS he is entitled to so much more seabeyond Aug 2012 #19

you would have understood white supremacism BOG PERSON Aug 2012 #20

i hope not. barbtries Aug 2012 #34

It's like nationalism. Lizzie Poppet Aug 2012 #24

"Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you never met and take pride in pampango Aug 2012 #30

yep barbtries Aug 2012 #36

Nationalism should be distinguished from "populism", however, which is about banding together for Romulox Aug 2012 #46

That's because you're not a loser. Zoeisright Aug 2012 #25

reminds me of something the humorist fran lebowitz said BOG PERSON Aug 2012 #35

Fear Berlum Aug 2012 #26

Someone said, "George Bush is proof The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2012 #27

But, at the same time, ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #44

+1, this is what makes most black folk I know mad as hell. Bush was a dumb ass uponit7771 Aug 2012 #59

so much of these attitudes IMHO gopiscrap Aug 2012 #28

out of the mouths of babes janlyn Aug 2012 #39

wise for her years. barbtries Aug 2012 #48

Any kind of X-supremacy is silly to me 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #41

It gives poor whites somebody "below" them to feel better than. Odin2005 Aug 2012 #45

exactly what i don't get. barbtries Aug 2012 #47

of course, the flipside of the exclusivist religion BOG PERSON Aug 2012 #52

It's how one person can be ''one-up'' on another. Octafish Aug 2012 #50

Maybe because they wish they was not white. Thinkingabout Aug 2012 #63

Well, I don't get it, either. Denninmi Aug 2012 #65

"...we're all richer for it." ailsagirl Aug 2012 #71

Nice post. A lot of folks don't view people from around the world so positively. Immigrants do make pampango Aug 2012 #72

why some whites are supremacists... Sick of the GOP Aug 2012 #66

Looks to me like you understood it just fine. JoeyT Aug 2012 #68

that's the part i can see, barbtries Aug 2012 #69

They're not pursuing happiness. JoeyT Aug 2012 #70

apparently. barbtries Aug 2012 #73