Salon Columnist Strikes Again: Mass Shootings Related to ‘White Privilege’
Earlier this week, Salon columnist David Sirota told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that the major issue in school shootings was the fact that so many of them are committed by white people.
“The issue with it will be, politically, I think; the profile is white men. That’s a profile that’s not, essentially, in America allowed to be profiled,” Sirota said at the time. “That’s the one profile in America that’s not allowed to be profiled.”
Now, Sirota is back, this time speaking to CNN’s Don Lemon on the subject of how mass killers might have been influenced by what he calls “white privilege.” Mediaite reports:
Lemon referenced a recent article Sirota had written in which he said if the shooter was a black male, he’d be a labelled a “thug,” or if he was Muslim, he’d be labelled a “terrorist,” but since he’s white, no generalized labels have been thrown about. Sirota stood by his piece and said he hoped the “next time something bad happens,” we don’t “ascribe to entire groups the bad actions of individuals.” The reason we’re not now, he said, is because it’s a form of “white privilege.”
“White privilege” has been a favorite cause celebre of the Left recently, with its attendant implication that all white people enjoy a superior degree of social power to minorities. Certainly, Sirota himself has joined this ideological bandwagon.
“This idea white people are being kept down, that white people are being oppressed – does this have anything to do with this?” Sirota asked. “I think it’s worth asking the question.”
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CommonSense41
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:20amThe guy is on of the useful idiots.
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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:38amUndoubted on the idiot front, I seriously question just how useful this parroting tard is.
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spikebu
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:06amSo is the
so, is the white guy annihilating black people? Nope. Who are black people killing? Not white people. We are enemies because…?
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spikebu
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:14amMedia says we are. Sorry, I forgot to salivate when they rang the bell.
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Ray2447
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 5:19amBullying leftist wackos are pervasive in the main stream media. They’re trained by America’s colleges and universities. The propaganda of the “race (white), class (Patriarchy), and gender (male)” war is being regularly spewed from leftist teacher’s podiums in taxpayer funded schools all across America as shown in “Marxist Valley College” at Youtube. http://tinyurl.com/7ub3dv7
The vitriolic indoctrination of future members of the MSM from these Marxist-feminist, hate-mongering bigots should be looked at more closely in connection with all school shootings, IMO.
Go to Amazon.com some time and type “race, class, and gender” in the search field of the book section and just watch what comes up. Many of those books are used in classrooms to vilify and witch-hunt males, especially white ones, who Marxist-feminist professors allege to be privileged by “Patriarchy.” It only gets worse as the products of Marxist “race, class, and gender” indoctrination enter the main stream media and spew their vile prejudices.
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wayner4162
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 6:51amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KejIHMyYhI
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:08amI noticed that Dawn Lemon swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
Funny considering what David Sirota says, all while it is usually the white male who is the only group of people who can be profiled by the PC crowd. And, they do it all of the time in the MSM.
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starman70
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:15amI wonder what this blithering idiot would have to say if a black man entered an inner city school and managed to kill 50 students (GOD forbid that should ever happen). Who would he blame? Is it the fault of the inner city mentality fostered by the entitltment society? Would he blame repressed anger at his disfunctional family? Would he place blame on the drug culture extant within the inner city?
I bet he would find inane talking points and bloviate on and on. The trouble with these far left idiots is that they never shut up.
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Honestybefore truth
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:25amAnother one of the supposed “intelligentsia” that clog our airways with poor commentary, disingenuous misdirection, and outright lies. Would it be great to hold these people accountable for their B.S. Like not being allowed on TV, radio, or cable, every time they are caught lying or being hypocritical. 6 months for for repeating or making an original “misspoken statement.” And so on. Beck played a hilarious clip of Bill Crystal making a fool of himself in just this manner, ban him for a year.
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LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:37amI guess any moron with something stupid to say can get on tv. Its amazing how this network puts some of the worlds biggest idiots on the air.
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Al Gator
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 9:57amLOL
This “white privilege” fart gas is nothing more than the bigoted, infantile rantings of those suffering from “white envy.”
They cooked up this tripe to try to excuse and explain a certain race’s inability to produce and perform.
It really is funny that Asians, such as the Japanese and Chinese, never speak of such stupid, nonsensical things. Their outlook is: “white privilege? what’s that? if whites can do it, so can we, and we can do it better.” And in a lot of cases, they do.
So take your whiny, racist, childish “white privilege” mantra and stuff it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Have had enough of this anti white BS.
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dwilco77
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:51pmI don’t think anybody has had a problem calling the shooter anything other than he was – an insane, evil Idiot that should have just shot himself in the head that morning without taking anybody else out with him. What does it matter what color he was?
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Wolf
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 4:42pm“…“This idea white people are being kept down, that white people are being oppressed – does this have anything to do with this?” Sirota asked. “I think it’s worth asking the question.”..”
He has a point there. Seriously. Whites are being trod down with white guilt for not having done enough to free slaves, for not having allowed enough immigrants into the country, or allowing ilegal immigrants the right to vote. Whites are being oppressed in so many ways in this country by the current administration it’s attrocious. Remember the 08 election and th estimulus money- and the WH spokesman came out and said that, ‘No whites need apply for these (stimulus) jobs.’?
Of course whites are being kept down and oppressed- by blacks, black wannabes and this administration.
But to profile whites as being the only ones responsible for mass shootings? Maybe he should look at crime stats for D.C., Chicago, L.A…
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Balpit
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 6:30pm“since he’s white, no generalized labels have been thrown about.”
He’s been labeled “evil”, “sick”, “insane”, “monster”, and more. Get out more.
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sillyfreshness
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 1:57amDavid Sirota=Juden, leftist “chosen person” propagandist in the Marxist Media that they own and control.
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charles116
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:06amHe HAS a point.
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VanGrungy
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:15amYAY!@!!
whites need to DIE!!
go to hell you sick idiot
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betterpart
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:19amWhen Sirota et al gets his azz kicked in by a black person, he’ll also have derision for them as well.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:03amYes DORA, he does have a point…..on the very top of his head.
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oldbullfrog
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:44pmDear Charles116,
Maybe there’s no way to profile black killers is because they are not reported by our old friends, the MSM. Pop over to theBlaze.com and read the story by Jamie Glazov there today about how black crime is hidden by the media.
We hear about Columbine, Newtown, Tuscon and the rest because it’s in the media. Blacks are given a free pass because the libs don’t want the truth to be known.
Ya know, like Benghazi where our President hid the truth so his incompetence wouldn’t be known about.
Same thing.
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MastrSSG
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:20pmWell, If Black people in America stopped killing people the U.S murder rate would drop by 42%. Thats amazinf given Blacks only account for less than 13% of the population. If your white and murders you have about a 18% chance you were killed by a Black male. If you’re a Black person you have less than a 1% chance you were murdered by a white man.
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Margaret Thatcher
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:48amSirota is a clueless hack. I won’t waste me time criticizing this idiot.
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antiprogressive
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:24amIn addition – does this make that idiot a racist for saying we are NOT profiled?
And 2 – where is the “privilege” mentioned and what does that have to do with anything?
Privilige is getting things that you don’t deserve just because of your race, sex, religion etc.
Straight white christian males are 4 time LOSERS in the description of “privilege”.
The gov’t gives us NOTHING but change any of those 4 descriptions and shazam!
Government MONEY and ENTITLEMENTS!!!
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:19amHe nailed it.
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socialism.rocks
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:30amwhite man deciding where the subsidies “jobs” go- white man putting people in prison for white mans morals and values.. white man making the decisions of who gets what and how much allocation of resources
you know at one time it was illegal to be a christian and they were thrown to lions… the same thing is done to anyone-basically who dont conform to white southern idealogy…
i am white i see it daily… white people giving whites the hand-up and telling everyone else pull up your own bootstraps with a wink
you think its bad now just give it ten years
the economy is not free market nor free enterprise.. and white conservatives are the most-anti liberty-pro big government telling other people what to do- and how to do it- people on earth
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Clownzilla
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:09am@Socialism-Rocks
A racist socialist…….how rare these days.
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spikebu
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 4:49am@Anti…you have a warped vision of privilege. Talk to your Mom and Dad, or your Grandparents. They paid for your privilege! Now it’s a dirty word. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa, Mom and Dad, but what you put aside for me is evil. If you had to kill someone in order to get it, that would be okay. If you actually earned it, not so much.
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spikebu
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 5:13am@rocks…Your position is, if you aren’t white, your morals and values are so far distant, we’re on separate planets? K…What planet are YOU coming from? I don’t get why you hate whites? You say you are white, but I don’t believe it. I suddenly don’t care. We’re all the same. God is here.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:24amSOCIALISM.ROCKS, Please tell us all, just how white are you? Being a Democrat suddenly floats you above this or something magical? If you figure it out please pass along to all just how you can change your spots. Funny how you attempt to brand us with the color of our skin while you are just as lily white. I have to agree with a Republican of the ’40s, ’50s, and was murdered for his beliefs in the ’60s. Dr Martin Luther King who said in his famous “I have a dream” speech, “I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!”
But, we have the likes of you and so many of the lib left Dem-wits who take every opportunity as you just have to urinate all over mankind, and Dr. King himself your own deranged agenda. And, YOU dare call others racist from time to time here?
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antiprogressive
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 5:04pmspikebu
IHard to tell from your post if you agree or disagree but I am assuming you don’t like my view.
My grandmother came over to the US when she was 4 years old because her father was about to be jailed after eating a squirrel his dog killed.
Yes, really.
They came here and worked on farms, raised 11 kids without government help and sent all that wanted, to college.
Similar story on mom’s side, farm workers, poor, gramps became a sheriff in their small town.
I went to public schools, got bussed through jr high to a school with 700 students and my neighborhood group of 32 whites.
Didn’t learn a damn thing from the books but got a pretty good lesson in society.
While I made As and Bs, i watched as blacks were made fun of by other students if they did the same.
Many quit doing it and decided to cut up and act a fool just to “fit in”.
I got a job and got a 2 year degree and followed up with a 4 year degree that the company reimbursed me for.
After 29 years, I’m still with that company.
It’s not where I want to be in life but I blame no one other than myself for not leaving and doing something better.
now, what “privilege” did I receive?
WHO did I personally enslave?
Who did I hold down?
Who did I not HIRE – (I’ve never hired ANYONE)
Yet, me and “my peoples” are still blamed for every problem in every community.
Blame me for what I PERSONALLY did, and shut the he11 up about the rest.
Take responsibility for your own life a
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DesdemonasCrew
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:23amWell, truth is they have profiled in this case: the profile is white gun owners, NRA members, 2nd Amendment supporters.
Another truth…the killer was a lunatic, much like you clowns at CuNN and pMSNBC.
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standupforthegood
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:16amTragic we turn killing innocent children into a racial issue or a gun control issue. No wonder the world is headed to hell.
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antiprogressive
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:01amEveryone knows a mass shooting by a single individual is gonna be done by a crazy azz white bot.
I can say that. I am a white male.
Even those “investigative” crime dramas ya’ll watch profile certain cases as most likely a white male.
White males ARE profiled, when the shoe fits.
Doing drive-by shootings, murders for a hit of crack, in a nght club or over an argument with a baby momma?
Not typically our kinda thing.
But there are exceptions to EVERY profile…
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1TrueOne55
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:19amActually Drive-by’s were perfected by the White Profile of Italian Cosa Nostra. They even made a series of movies about the profile, “The GodFather” it made a lot of money and it showed the minority community that to get what you really want you have to use a gun…. And then the Irish got jealous and joined in and that was the era of the MOB during Prohibition and Bootleg liquor of which Josef Kennedy Sr. made lots of his money in Massachusetts because of his family’s location on the beaches. It funded the Presidential race for John F. Kennedy in the ’60′s. Could have been his reason for assassination, forgot to pay back the mob with special favors.
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denkat56
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:55pmWho’s racial profiling now. How is this even news worthy, leftist upset because there’s no white slang like thug or terrorist for these killers. You lefties are sick, in a time when innocent people are killed you come out of your hiding places like roaches, and have the audacity to complain about racial names. Be proud of yourselves you attention whores.
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sasquatch08
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:55pmWhere do they find these people?
The people who “are not being profiled” by the media are the blacks killing each other in major cities. No one on MSNBC or CNN seems to care about them because they don’t fit the narrative of “conservative, white lunatic with an SBR”!
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Walkabout
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:19amDoes not matter what CNN does at this point. They could fire Piers Morgan & their rating will still be in the tank. The staff at CNN are not morons. They are not even idiots. A new classification has to be made up consisting of people who are less intelligent than idiots (i.e. CNN staff).
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DIR
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:01pm@SASQATCH08
In answer to your question, It appears one method is janitors all over the fruited plain who go into the bathroom and sometimes discover someone didn’t flush the toilet, gets a reward for telling big media. After being directed, Media execs. rush in and take the contents, certifying it as reporters. Hayes qualifies. He’s just an old steamy pile of toilet waste. One can tell because he stinks. All you have to do is read this article to get a load of him.
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RaydocX
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:50pmFine… Let’s profile everyone…
It’s fair, and since the LEFT want to profile there should be no more hurdles…
See, the thing is, race isn’t the biggest issue. It’s just one of several appearance and behavior indicators… The sort of thing cops call intuition. It’s not always right, but it’s better than flipping a coin.
As to the race baiters claiming only whites kill in mass, ask the survivors in Somalia and various other African countries… Genocide is still a risk there, and some mass killing were accomplished by machete…
Too much truth?
Even the sheeple knw at some level hat the networks are ‘reporting’ is make believe.
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Armyof One
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:43pmLet’s add up all the blacks shot this year in Chicago, by other blacks, with illegally possessed guns. There’s a statistic you won’t see on MSNBC.
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denkat56
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:42pmWhere do you find these idiots at, put back under their rocks. Oh by the way most of the victims were white. Only leftist would come up with this racial crap, after so many innocents were lost, it always has to be about them, any thing to draw any attention away from them can’t be tolerated. I think the term is attention whores.
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californiakhg
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:40pma large gov that can give you a lot is……. a gov that is big enough to take everything you got. sooooo trueeee.
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Salamander
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:40pm“White Privilege”? Who dreams this stuff up???
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MDECKER
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:55pmAnd the problem is?
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BODYBAG
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:39pmI will continue to speak the truth ——
The progressive left has used you like a soiled diaper in regard to race, brainwashed your children
and turned them against you. They push their “tolerance & equality” but its all a scam.
Because once you buy into it, you are supporting THEIR cause and shooting yourself in the head.
It you’re a WHITE person you’d better wake up and start supporting your own kind.
Make NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT —- blacks will side with their own against you EVERY time.
The same goes for Hispanics and all the rest. If you dont believe that look at the past 2 elections.
98% of blacks voted for Barry —- they ALL voted because of skin color. Every white person voted for him because of “fairness”, “racial equality”, “historic significance” —- and in doing so they’ve slit their own throats.
Progressives have used race-baiting as a wedge FOR YEARS to get to this point. Now they’ve got so
many people believing their BS they’re robbing you BLIND and stealing your country right out from under you.
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rawmilker
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:29amThat’s right, just more of the founders & whites are bad, the new illegal immigrants are taught by these fools that big govt is good and will hand you everything. Lets just take down what is standing in our way and that is the racist white man. Vote for us and we’ll change everything….
Memo to these illegals: you have to earn your way here in the US and believe it or not, people died for what we have. The libs want to give them everything without having to earn it.
This is also the reason they want us disarmed, We bad white boys are standing in the way of their tyrannical planned economy….
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bintalshamsa
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:10amIf all of the black people who voted for President Obama did it because of his race, then we can also say that all of the white people who voted for Romney did it because of his race. See, that works both ways. It also means that the majority of racist voters were white. Sorry to burst your bubble, bro. LOL
At some point, you’re going to have to face reality. Most white people just don’t agree with your worldview. They simply don’t WANT the same kind of world you wish they’d want. They understand that it isn’t THEIR country and it never was. This was a predominantly non-white country for thousands of years and it’s simply returning to that state. But, you still have options! You could always go back to the land of your forefathers. I’m sure Europe would love to see the return of its long-lost prodigal sons.
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bintalshamsa
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:18amRawmilker, you’re so funny! It’s hilarious whenever I see white people complaining about “illegals”. What do you think YOU are? You’re one, too. That’s why people from other countries have no reason to give a care about whether you think they should keep coming and what you think they should do once they get here. I’ll tell ya’ what, when you and the other white anchor babies go back to the land of your forefathers, then you’ll have some kind of moral authority to talk about how people should earn their way in America. If white people had been willing to work hard when they got here, they wouldn’t have engaged in all of the human trafficking that resulted in millions of Africans being forced to come and live here. White people could have picked their own cotton, but they were too lazy to do it. Now, this country is about to be predominantly non-white, and you have no one but yourselves to blame for that.
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Capt_Gregg
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 9:15am@BINTALSHAMSA
“If all of the black people who voted for President Obama did it because of his race, then we can also say that all of the white people who voted for Romney did it because of his race.”
Poll after poll showed that blacks overwhelmingly voted for Obama because he was black and a was proponent of black racism.. If those who voted for Romney did so because he was white, then who were the throngs of Herman Cain supporters in the primaries? No burst bubble here, dearie.
“Most white people just don’t agree with your worldview. They simply don’t WANT the same kind of world you wish they’d want.”
Most whites DO want want a safe and stable country. (You really need to stop smoking that stuff, it’s making you lose all touch with reality.)
“It’s hilarious whenever I see white people complaining about “illegals”. What do you think YOU are?”
If you believe that everyone who came here from elsewhere was illegal, think again. Prior to 1790, there were NO legal restrictions on immigration to what is now the U. S., hence ANY immigrant prior to that was here legally. I can’t speak for any one else here, but all of my ancestors were legally here long before the Revolution, except for one set of g-grandparents who came here legally in 1870 and became naturalized citizens.
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Capt_Gregg
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 9:16am@BINTALSHAMSA
“If white people had been willing to work hard when they got here, they wouldn’t have engaged in all of the human trafficking that resulted in millions of Africans being forced to come and live here.”
Here’s an inconvienient truth for you, dearie. An examination of the 1850 and 1860 U. S. Census and its accompanying Slave Schedules reveal that a higher percentage of free blacks owned slaves than did whites.
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Berbel73
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:37pmThis is a perfect example that proves CNN has lost all credibility.
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semihardrock
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:34pmThe shooter was raised in a Teacher Union household who had been brainwashed since birth by a Socialist Religion based in New England States.
THESE are the facts!
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bintalshamsa
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:58amIt’s also a fact that he was a white guy. Facts are facts.
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Obamazombies
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 4:26amIt’s also a fact 95 percent of black people voted for him cause he is half black
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CSADTOM
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:54amThe Virginia Tech shooter was Asian. Next topic.
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taintso
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:07pm@obmazombies that makes the blacks racist, he is half black therefore only entitled to half the black vote. The other half of the black vote could have been used for a write in for his cheerleader Maxine Walters.
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The-Monk
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:27pmSeems to me that I remember that the largest one day mass murder committed in America happened on 9-11-2001.
And those weren’t white people and they can’t be profiled….
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bintalshamsa
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:57amActually, they were white. The United States classifies Arabs as white. It’s been that way for decades. Like it or not, it was white guys that committed those crimes, too.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:15amBINTALSHAMSA, Only in this last census. Its a government game just like crime stats. Talk about a game! Hispanic on Black crime is considered white on black, while white on Hispanic crime is technically referred to as just that. Mark Twain was right all along when he described three types of lies. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:35amBINTALSHAMSA, Wow, I must say that you really do look just like your avatar. Hats off to the artist who did that.
http://www.interpals.net/bintalshamsa
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Jerry Frey
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:20pmSociety can’t ban crazy but it can ignore crazy Lefties.
http://napoleonlive.info/what-you-think/pray-for-the-children-1/
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amerbur
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:19pmYou are an idiot. 70%of Americans are white and 70% of people involved in mass shootings are white.
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nesmond
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:17pmWTF is he talking about?
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Not going to take it anymore
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:17pm“Stupid is as stupid does”.
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Advection
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:11pmIf you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Idiots!
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ares338
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:10pmJeez…that’s a whole bunch of stupid there.
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gyro
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:09pmthis is nuts not news
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