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‘Most Americans Don’t See Color’: Beck Explains Why Spike Lee Is Wrong About Mitt Romney

On Wednesday evening, Glenn Beck discussed controversial film director Spike Lee’s recent declaration in “Vulture Magazine” (the title is not a joke) that African Americans won’t vote for Mitt Romney because he is too white, and is a Mormon.

Whether Americans re-elect a black man or elect a Mormon for the first time in history, Beck asked if either scenario is really all that historic, given that Americans no longer see color, race or creed — at least they shouldn‘t in today’s day and age.

A president vote, according to Beck, should be based on the person’s “character” and ability, not the color of his skin.

 

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  • watersRpeople
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:26am

    Haha, “Most Americans don’t see color”, now that’s funny.

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:48am

      You are CORRECT.
      Becks whole starting premise is false.
      Is a FOX technique.

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:11am

      “the president is a racist who hates white culture.” Now I’m trying to remember who said that

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    • Roberto G. Vasquez
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:02am

      Is it really just a big coincidence that almost all blacks voted for Obama? Or is it that they aren’t really color blind after all?

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    • termyt
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:19am

      That’s not the biggest component to the Black vote. Or do you really think they would have all voted for Herman Cane over any white liberal democrat?

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    • Occupy_The_Blaze_FORWARD2012
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:25pm

      It’s abundantly clear: Not only is Glenn Blech delusional to the nth degree but also that he never stops by the Blaze (Blazingly ****-erotic name for a website doncha think?) comment section! Epic Racism Fail, Glenn Blech. Let’s move the discussion about race FORWARD in 2012. Ho ho.

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    • jethrObama
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:30pm

      Born and raised in Utah… the entire civil rights movement was presented to us in gradeschool as a just cause and that America was in the process of correcting a wrong. I agreed with this and although I never even saw a black person in Utah until I was 18, I have to say that I honestly have no prejudice because of skin color.

      On the other hand, it seems to me that a portion of the black community (not all… I have lots of black friends) are completely on-board with their feelings that whites hate blacks and you know what? It boils down to human nature and perspective; “some people just like being victims.”

      Speak for yourselves hate-mongers! I laugh when I hear someone tell me I’m prejudice. You don’t offend me… I won’t give you that power, but you need to remove the long raspy object from your corn-cobb compartments and get a life.

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  • macpappy
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:13am

    This is rich, coming from a Morman.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:31am

      These rose colored glasses, that I’m looking through, show only the beauty
      cause they hide all the truth.

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:54pm

    The Dems see nothing but color, if it will further their efforts to take power.

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  • broker0101
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:44pm

    The fact that Glenn Beck would even think to acknowledge Spike Lee and his opinions says it all about the level at which Glenn Beck really operates.

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:40pm

      I Still like Joe Klein’s description of Beck = Tele-Charlatan.
      Like Romney and most conservatives, their facts/truth changes to fit the current speech.

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  • RebelPatriot
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:35pm

    Until the African-American Christians stop voting for progressive socialists who support abortion and same sex marriage I will not relent from my position they are far more racist than white Americans.

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    • Winedude
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:05am

      They are not only less racist than white Americans they‘re a lot smarter than you and I do believe you’re a white American. What a stupid statement you made…

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:30am

      @wino

      Yup, black folk are so smart they voted for a commie pig that is destroying any vestige of wealth and progress the black community ever had.

      Why did these “smart” people vote for him? BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. No other reason. None. Well maybe they voted for him because he WASN’T WHITE.

      Now, I guess that’s not racist to you, but then I’m guessing you are black.

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    • SeeingThingsClearly
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:56pm

      @Wino…how dumb are you. I can’t tell you how many blacks here, in my town, all said that they were going to vote for “that black man running” (during the 2008 election). And now they are saying the same thing again, I was even told “I don’t care about his policies, he’s black, that makes him my people.” Well, you can count me out of that vote. I care about character and policies, not if someone is “my people” or not.

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  • Brother Winston Smith
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:15pm

    Race? Wow… what a wonderful DISTRACTION from this:

    Barack Obama – Illegal alien criminal Dream Amnesty
    Mitt Romney – Illegal alien criminal Dream Amnesty
    Ron Paul – NO DREAM AMNESTY

    Barack Obama – Executive ordered sodomite/lesbian marriage
    Mitt Romney – Executive ordered sodomite/lesbian marriage
    Ron Paul – Get government OUT of marriage

    Barack Obama – TARP (that ignited the Tea Party)
    Mitt Romney – TARP (that ignited the Tea Party)
    Ron Paul – Warned and warned and warned and warned AGAINST TARP

    Barack Obama – Signed NDAA
    Mitt Romney – Would sign NDAA
    Ron Paul – REPEAL NDAA

    Barack Obama – PRIVATE Federal Reserve banking cartel
    Mitt Romney – PRIVATE Federal Reserve banking cartel
    Ron Paul – END THE FED.

    Barack Obama – Isolationist foreign policy of UNCONSTITUTIONAL welfare/warfare
    Mitt Romney – Isolationist foreign policy of UNCONSTITUTIONAL welfare/warfare
    Ron Paul – American, Constitutional nonintervention

    Barack Obama – UNCONSTITUTIONAL “Patriot” Act.
    Mitt Romney – UNCONSTITUTIONAL “Patriot” Act.
    Ron Paul – Fourth Amendment

    Barack Obama – Gungrabber (Endorsed handgun ban and limiting gun purchases)
    Mitt Romney – Gungrabber (Gun Control flip-flopper who SUPPORTED Brady)
    Ron Paul – Second Amendment

    Obama – COMPULSORY, collectivist, UNAMERICAN “healthcare.” (Obamacare)
    Romney – COMPULSORY, collectivist, UNAMERICAN “healthcare.” (Romneycare)
    Ron Paul – American free-market healthcare

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:30pm

      Brother, I hate to say it but I feel we are just banging our heads against rocks. These people deserve Obama.

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    • broker0101
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:51pm

      Ron Paul is a radical Leftist with just enough PR sense to fool people like you both. I‘m sure he’d appreciate your undying support in the form of some Pro Bono yard work at Casa de Paul Now that he’s off the public dole (besides his multiple public-sector pensions, that is). Idiots.

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    • BryanB
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:04am

      @Mutiny

      Please don’t hit your head to hard, I wouldn’t want it to impair you………

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:17am

      @bryan

      Me in a dazed rock induced haze would still have more sense not to vote for Obama/Romney 2012.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:13pm

    My Brain… Discriminates between Objects & Colors… so I do not consume BS!

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  • chips1
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:50pm

    The Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson plantations just get larger and larger. They hold on to slavery with both hands around the necks of their captives. Chains they can believe in.

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    • socialism.rocks
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:56pm

      and king orielly for the last thirty years play clips about how the right is attacked we are victims while demonizing the oppostion-come on fox news is based on playing the victim… the poor christian white victim card white race hustlers

      that goes for beck too- he plays the victim while sayin= those evil liberals lmao

      conservativism just blows chunks- it leads to universal poverty just look at the red-states

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    • Bamabelle
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:25am

      OMW, you actually believe that stupid nonsense Social? I have been to your so called “rich” states that are democratically controlled. I think CA is one of them and didn’t I just read where some of their cities are disappearing because of financial ruin? And I do recall that debacle when hurricane Katrina hit in New Orleans. That was a pure mess caused by that Dem mayor and Gov at the time as well as a nanny state mentallity of the people of that city. I live in an area that was also affected by that storm and our Gov. had the people evacuated and the interstate turned into a one way all the way to Montgomery so we had plenty of space to travel out of the city and in plenty of time. And don‘t go saying it was Bush’s fault…that was the state of LA fault. Each state is responsible for it’s own evacuation plan and what to do in emergencies. I am sure they have revised their plan now. As for poor states, WV is one of the poorest and it is full democrat. Yes they voted for the republican last time out of concern for their industry, wouldn’t you? He said it that he would shut coal down. However look at their Governor and all their reps… Democrats. Been like that for years and years. Worst cities for crime..Detroit…full on Democrat. Chicago…Democrat. Highest costliest cities to live in…all democrat. I could go on but this is too long already.

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  • dmerwin
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:48pm

    I would agree. Having served in the military in the late seventies I learned that there are jerks of every color and ethnicity. Being white I KNOW that there are more white jerks than blacks, I would bet that the RATIO is the same. I work in a diverse industry (health care) and just today, got great help from a black lady, a Hawaiian man of Japanese descent and several Filipinos and a bunch of white folk. I am proud to work with them and absolutely would go to the mat for them. I also am aware of the urban inner city hate groups that claim victim status. I do think that IF they had a job and responsibilities to other humans they would begin to see the HUMAN in everyone and could ASSIMILATE into the greater society. It appears to me that they seek to remain segregated and with an agenda. Just sayin’.

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  • Tankertony
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:35pm

    Umm,….. being a godless leftist, ol’ spike is probably wrong about almost everything.
    Thank you.

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  • MCDAVE
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:25pm

    I would vote for Allen West over Romney in a heartbeat…West is a conservative

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:19pm

    The only thing democrats ever see is color………..

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  • drphil69
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:16pm

    Actually, Glenn, a huge segment sees color – they are called LIBERALS. Liberals believe they are superior to blacks – therefore blacks need their help and wouldn’t be able to get along without them. Same with hispanics, gays, etc. Liberals believe everyone else is racist because it is the liberal that sees everyone for their color – therefore everyone else must as well. This is why libs can’t understand how a black, hispanic, or gay could possibly be conservative, and when one becomes prominent, they trash him or her. Just ask Clarence Thomas or Allen West.

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:22pm

      I agree, don’t forget that he was going to be the first “post-racial” President in our nation’s history……not so much. This country has never been so divided. I applaud Mitt Romney for speaking to ALL Americans, that’s the way it’s supposed to be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JODQoMEveds

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  • spirited
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:12pm

    As Michelle Obama recently said, “a thousand votes” could make the difference as to who is elected.

    >Hopefully, Shabazz of the New Black Panthers’ “Democrats use blacks… like whores” helps some Black Americans to vote with their minds and hearts.

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    • JesusWasBlack
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:24pm

      the ‘New Black Panther Party’, which isn’t even associated with the good black panthers, have zero relevance to black america. They’re just an angry fringe group that gets picked up to make it look like black america is counter to achieving. Truth is, only racists pick up stories about these crazies.

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    • chips1
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:32pm

      It’s going to be a Kodak moment. These new cameras hold a lot of pictures.

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  • TROLLMONGER
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:08pm

    Beck sees color. Thats why he constantly promotes race baiting stories on his blaze website.

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    • BryanB
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:34pm

      @TROLLMONGER

      You are Narrow-Minded and Blind, most racist are………

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:40pm

      BryanB
      Spot on brother!

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    • Canada_Goose
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:20am

      Trollmonger is correct.

      If you do a search on the Blaze with “racism” you get 15 pages of results. This web site picks up any 2 bit non-story with even a hint of racism. Drudge is the same.

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    • BryanB
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:51am

      @Canada_Goose

      There are 436 hits on the Blaze search engine for Canada.

      So what you are saying is Canadian Racist are infiltrating the United States, and the U.S. should attack Canada ? Better yet why don‘t we just teach you Canadian’s how to drive a car………

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 12:42pm

      FOX has ALWAYS made black people an enemy of real ‘merican culture.
      It’s a major part of their schtik.

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  • KC1
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:04pm

    Ha for Beck to tell us to vote based on character and principal is laughable. I agree with him don‘t get me wrong but he doesn’t seem to be practicing what he preaches.
    Romney whose only consistency is to change his political message depending on the polling data is one of the least principled men to ever run for office.
    For Beck to tell us he is the best candidate after his self righteous spiel about principals if infuriating.

    Despite the hypocrisy, we should all heed the advice.
    If your principals include Free Markets, individual liberties, fiscal and monetary responsibility and Constitutional restraints on the Govt, then casting your vote for either Obama or Romney “who are in policy, mirror images” is selling out your principals for establishment bumper sticker rhetoric of pragmatic rationale.

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    • chips1
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:26pm

      Glenn was referring to the two current leading candidates, Obama and Romney. We must remember that Americans didn’t pick them. The politicians give us a choice of candidates they approve of and not the people most qualified for the job. There are many qualified for the position of President. It’s just not our place to say anything about it. Hope the convention changes things in favor of Americans.

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  • TrueSoundsOfLiberty
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:59pm

    Wait, wait, wait… Glenn Beck is trying to claim, on The Blaze, that Americans don’t see color. Wow, he really is an idiot. This site runs nothing but stories that put blacks and other minorities in the worst light possible and most the readers eat it up then comment with some of the most racist and close-minded statements possible. Spike Lee is correct in saying that people wont vote for a Mormon, just like there are people that will vote for him only because he is. My father is a Mormon who knows nothing of politics but will vote Romney because of his religion.

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    • Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:12pm

      I see you are against religion, but why are you against Jesus Christ. The only person who ever died for your sins. ????

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    • technecium
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:38pm

      I will agree with you that you will find reader comments that are questionable but please give even one specific example of where Beck has put minorities in the worst light possible for the sake of putting down those minorities and where he was not speaking the truth.

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    • pwatkins
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:36pm

      Mnay blacks and other minorities put themselves in a bad light and that is all I see from the posts on the Blaze, the truth as best it can be told. I have never been a racist but since Obama started separating races I have slightly become one I think. If I am going to be hated for my skin color I am not going to bend over backwards and take from my family to help the haters….let them help themselves. I will distribute to the ones I choose to, not the ones I am commanded to. I once felt we were all Americans but I found out I was wrong bc there are many that lives in our country and hates it….very anti-American I would say.

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    • TrueSoundsOfLiberty
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:10am

      Jumpin’ Jesus on a pogo-stick, Tech, I never claimed Beck has made overtly racist statements. I was pointing out that The Blaze runs racially bias stories regularly and to claim, on here, that Americans don’t see color is asinine. Not just racially bias stories but religiously bias stories. I’d be willing to bet that 9 out of 10 religious stories on The Blaze are about Muslims and that none of them are positive.

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  • Restoreamericanow
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:58pm

    Blacks seem to have a much harder time not seeing people as only color. There are absolutely whites, too. But blacks have been taught to be victims. It‘s ingrained and it’s sad. If I’m wrong, why do we STILL have affirmative action, NAALCP, the black congressional cauces, etc.? They want equal, but they still enjoy the separate. Get rid of the separate and maybe we have a chance.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:09pm

      We had a discussion at lunch, I made the comment that I don’t see color, I judge people by who they are. One of my co-workers, a black lady, just disagreed and said over and over, “That’s impossible, everyone sees color. America is racist.”
      I don’t have a problem, but it is funny how good friends that I have known for years can’t get past seeing race only with people.

      I did challenge her to specify how or when I have ever been racist, her answer was, well you aren’t, but most white people are. So there again, a few others in the office asked, are we racist? Again, she said no one in the office, but she sees it in most white people she has met.
      So it is never you, or the people around you, but it‘s all the other white people that aren’t in the room. Again, never a specific event, just a generalazation.

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:51pm

    I disagree.

    I believe we were on the path to “not seeing color”…but the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Rev. Wright, the “new” black panther party…and on & on…has thrust their “color” in to the face of America’s white population.

    They accuse, threaten, incite, lie…with every word they speak.

    Would a natural born citizen of any middle east country, whose heart & soul calls them to believe in the christian faith, not SEE the fundamental islamics living around them?

    How can we possibly “ignore color” when 24/7 we are exposed to their tired, hate filled rhetoric? Not from individuals around us, to be sure…but certainly from their chosen leaders…“chosen” as in they keep letting them talk, give them money and their votes.

    Sorry, but I’m not prepared to stand still and be scourged and nailed to a cross, all the while thinking “They’ll soon stop. They’ll soon see that we are the same. Soon they’ll take me down and hug me upon seeing that I am a man…and not a “white man.”

    Only an idyllic fool these days does not see color. That is why Spike Lee does not believe it when you say it. He knows it is not true. How? Because he and his buddies have worked tirelessly towards making SURE we see color. It is their goal. It propels them to the front of the crowd, builds them their soapbox, provides them with a mike…and gives them the POWER they crave.

    We don’t see color? Who are we kidding?

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  • Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:51pm

    Color only became an issue when a loser took over the White House and destroyed our heritage. Blacks used the race card to cover the wicked vile evil record of the White House. Race won’t work anymore. Smart blacks know better and racist blacks are all smoke.

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  • Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:47pm

    Color is an issue because we have a loser in the White House. If we had a decent black prez it would never be discussed by blacks. The loser needs to be tried for treason.

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  • anomnomnommm
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:44pm

    Wrong, Glenn. People don’t vote rationally, period. They never have. Why do you think articles on EVERY site (Blaze included) talk about how ‘in touch’ politicians are, or make news stories out of Muslim politicians.

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    • spirited
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 10:06pm

      Muslim Congressman Andre Carson, of the 7th District of Indiana, voicing his belief that America’s school system would be improved if schools were modeled after “madrasas”

      ~~> isn’t nutty ? (to be polite)

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  • Depressed_American
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:40pm

    I spent 20 years in the Military. Race is not a factor (USAF). We work together for the common defense of or Nation!!! I am a civilian now, working for the DOD because I get a chance to continue to work with Young Men and Women, from all over the world. We are not black, white, yellow, green, purple….. We are AMERICANS working together to defend our nation. America needs to get over this “Race Issue” (NAACP, KKK, NAZI, WHITE SUPREMIST, BLACK PANTHERS, etc…)

    However, the aboved mentioned groups can’t because the RACIST B.S. is how they control their sheep……

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    • Bikkiboo
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:51pm

      As a school teacher, I no longer saw color either. If someone asked me how many black kids I had, I’d really have to stop and think about it. I saw them as the kid who liked moto cross, or the kid who loved reading Poe, or the kid who talked too much, or the kid who needed extra help on this or that, or the kid who had behavior problems and disrupted everyone else. Color didn’t really matter. It was what they did or how they acted that mattered.

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    • anomnomnommm
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:55pm

      I agree with you, though there is real hate in this country toward many races, including blacks. Institutionalized racism should certainly not exist at all in this country, and official it does not, but there are other factors at play in peoples’ lives.

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  • Mutiny
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:37pm

    LOL, Sorry Beck. If you honestly believe that you are delusional. Romney will get as many black voters as Obama will get Mormon voters.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:50pm

      In the case of this election color and policy are linked, in Obama’s case it’s more of an ideological standpoint based on color, BHO has not even played to the Blacks and yet he’ll still get their vote. Romney may get the Mormon vote but at least the runoff in Utah with Orin Hatch shows Mormons can even split on ideology.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on July 11, 2012 at 9:34pm

    many of the Romney voters secretly do the ones that aren’t ignorant to not see he is the same as Obama.

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