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Update: University Refuses to Defund ‘Divisive,’ Pro-White Privilege ‘Unfair Campaign’

We’ve already reported extensively on the University of Minnesota-Duluth-sponsored initiative that rails against “white privilege.” The main thrust of the “Un-Fair Campaign,” which is illustrated through billboards, videos and lectures, is that society is setup to benefit Caucasians. But now, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the campaign, the university isn’t backing down from funding the project.

University of Minnesota Duluth Refuses to Defund Unfair Campaign

As reported, at least one of the ads features white people who publicly express guilt for their alleged preferential treatment as a result of their skin color. A slogan for the initiative prominently reads, “It‘s hard to see racism when you’re white.”

University of Minnesota Duluth Refuses to Defund Unfair Campaign

While the University of Minnesota has admitted that the campaign is “divisive” and that it has “alienated some people,” it plans to continue ”fully support[ing] the foundations and principles of the Un-Fair Campaign.”

(Related: ‘Not Fair to Be White’: See the Unbelievable New Campaign Sponsored by the University of Minnesota-Duluth)

Campus Reform, the organization that originally broke the story, has more about the university’s response to the incident and the subsequent fall out:

The university declined comment for three days but after becoming the subject of international news coverage and receiving hundreds of “calls and e-mails expressing concern about UMD’s participation in the Un-Fair Campaign,” officials released a statement acknowledging they were in part behind the offensive video. [...]

The campaign’s official mission is to “raise awareness about white privilege in our community, provide resources for understanding and action, and facilitate dialogue and partnership that result in fundamental, systemic change towards racial justice.”

According to their official website, the University of Wisconsin – Superior is also a sponsor. A spokesperson for UWS declined comment at the time of publication.

University of Minnesota Duluth Refuses to Defund Unfair Campaign

Here’s the ad that set off the firestorm:

You can read more information about the “Unfair Campaign” in our original report. At this point, it seems the school, despite admitting that the initiative is offensive, isn’t prepared to back down.

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  • jvlag3
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:43am

    I see racism every time I see Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan on TV spouting the hatred against everyone that tries to live in this country. This trio of race baiters never tries to fix problems they are the gasoline to the problem…when they show up the situation goes from bad to worse. Now tell me that only white people are racists…

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:04pm

      Jesse Jackson Jr. has been on a leave of absence for the last 2 weeks from his congressional duties. It appears the feds are getting close. His marriage is supposedly on the rocks after his affair with a blonde swimsuit model.

      Apple did not fall far from the tree. Apparently Jesse Jackson did not teach his son well. Or maybe he did.

      The most interesting thing about the lawsuit against Jackson Sr. was that he might have had a some Sandusky action in high school. Look how he turned out.

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    • Maji
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:59pm

      It’s hard to see “self” ingnorance when you feel you’re too educated(or superior) to suffer it!

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    • iprazhm
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 1:46pm

      I see racism everytime I see the words ‘University of Minnesota-Duluth’.

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    • medic506
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 2:04pm

      Actually, tis campaign started off with blacks writing on their faces that being
      black was unfair. But, they used black Sharpies and no one could see the writing.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 2:58pm

      WHY IS EVERYTHING ABOUT RACE WITH THESE CLOWNS ????
      As bad as things were in the previous Administration, I DON’T remember
      going thru all this Racist BULLSHI**.. Obama said he would bring us
      together, This ADMINISTRATION has taken US back to the 50‘s 60’s
      I actually VOTED for the HOPEY, CHANGY and Bringing the Country
      Together Lies…Won’t happen again BO.. I’m Tired of the Racist BULLSHI

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    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 3:02pm

      I see Racism every time The President and his big butted wife speaks. In fact I see Racism in the whole Democratic/Communist Party.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 3:20pm

      Hey ! You Minnnnesotta Liberals really suck, GOOD GAWD..
      If you feel guilty about your race, move to another Country
      and take it all in..get a job, if you can..and get over yourself..
      YOU F”N IDIOTS are suffering from BRAIN FREEZE !!!!!!
      Can you’ll say, “Useful Idiot’s” ????????????????????????
      Before you know it these morons will be wearing Hajib and
      Burkas not to offend the Freekin Muslimes…. Wake UP
      and Be Proud to be White and American.. Hellooooooo !!!!

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 3:50pm

      Iv’e never seen racism. Its a made up word which is closely tied to made up phrase in
      “hate-speech” I will not lend credence to the word or the phrase. They were both created to trample our freedom of speech. These words hold WAY too much sway with sheeple.

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 3:53pm

      MEDIC506

      Thanks for the laugh!

      That is racist you know. LOL

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    • castuslonginus
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 7:19pm

      Al,jessie,louie,et al.couldn’t really work for peace between the races.If that happened they would have to get a real job.would you like fries with that.

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    • Teutonus
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:13pm

      This is proof positive that “Anti-racism is anti-white” !!!

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  • Popp40
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:43am

    If the people at UnfairCampaign.org says “It’s hard to see Racism when you are white” should try walking down the streets of an all black neighborhood and then they would be able to clearly see it.

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    • RightMeansRight2
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:04pm

      ….and FEEL it!

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    • usedCZARsalesman
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:46pm

      Thats the funniest thing about this entire “campaign”…EVEN IF there is some sort of understood “white privilege” (which the government has made sure for decades to try and “fix” by forcing minoirty privilege on us ie. affirmative action, welfare, lowering education standards so they can “keep up”, ect), why do you think that is? Is it, perhaps, a result of minorities (especially blacks) being lazy, VIOLENT (if you look at violence IN THE WORKPLACE, blacks are 4 times as likely…and I’m betting its actually much higher than that, we know how much the government likes to change stats to avoid talking about black violence), under educated, and generally lacking in social skills (this goes from the talking of ebonics to the baggy pants)…

      when it comes down to EVERY aspect of life, you most likely have someone in an position of authority that helps shape what new opportunities you get based on the current impression they have of you. If you dress well and speak well, show respect to those that deserve it and “do the right thing” (sorry spike, had to take it from you) you will most likely move on to the next best opportunity, and so on. So yes, if you raise you kid to be a disrespectful thug that doesn’t speak proper english or wear his clothes like a normal person, they will be judged their entire life…if that’s “white privilege” I’m sure glad my parents instilled it in me!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:52pm

      Try being white in Maxine Walker’s district Compton….you’ll see racism REALLY quickly.
      I’m sorry but everytime I see these damaged goods lefties and their feigned sadness in these pictures I bust up laughing. Look at their faces..they’re hysterical.
      And if they have a problem with the “un-fair” system, tell these college gits to give up their spots in college for a black person. Just leave and give a black person your studen loans and classes. Give up those $5K laptops, iPhones and subscriptions to a black person…go ahead….what’s that? That’s unfair”? LOL.

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    • B-Neil
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 1:37pm

      The only racism I see are those bit-hing about it. Race baters profit from it. I’m damnproud to be WHITE, as if that sentament has any value. People! its not the color of you skin. It’s the content of your heart and desire to be an individual. Complaining never benifited me. Being true to myself and others has. Ignore racists and they will go away. Your color doesn’t make you specual, your actions due. Forgive my spelling. GOD BLESS AMERIC AND ALLTHE STATES.

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    • Centurian
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 2:04pm

      POPP40, think about the comment you made, for you make a very strong argument and you may not have realized it.

      A white person….”walking down the streets of an all black neighborhood and then they would be able to clearly see it.”

      The premise can be considered from a different perspective. It is not whether the person is white who is walking through the neighborhood because he is a token white person in an all black neighborhood.

      The main premise should be that the white person should feel any concern for his/her safety in walking through the neighborhood.

      The first premise is based on the person who is walking’s color. The second is the premise that it is a black neighborhood.

      When the media reports crimes in black neighborhoods, when the FBI and other law enforcement agencies report statistics for crime rates of predominately black neighborhoods, any person, regardless of color, would fee unsafe to walk through a black neighborhood. And this conclusion would be reached by anyone who reads the statistics and who listens/reads media.

      This is what is so damaging about this campaign. It is aimed to make the white community guilty over the actions/inactions of the black community.

      And again I ask, when will the black community take any responsibility for what is happening in their own community?

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  • Freedom1984
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:41am

    This whole thing makes me sick. I AM A BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYED WHITE FEMALE (much like the first woman they showed). I am TIRED of having to “defend myself”. My life WAS NOT ALL ROSES, and handed to me on a silver tray. I WORKED HARD MY ENTIRE LIFE…….

    I am so sick of this crap. I really don’t know what to say without swearing. I am so tired of being called a RACIST. I work in the court system, and I see BLACK THUGS…. yup they are BLACK. Whoop-de-do. They are involved in GANGS.. there are constant shootings…. THEY FEEL THEY ARE ENTITLED TO CRAP IN LIFE THAT WE WORK FOR. It makes me sick how they can afford 300.00 sneakers, yet are on food stamps.

    Go to Walmart and by cheap sneakers, then perhaps i’ll start to show you a tiny bit of repsect.

    Sorry if this rant got anyone upset… but this issue ****** me off!

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    • nick e l
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:57am

      Dont apologize or feel bad.. if they call you racist.. so be it.. I could not care less. Dont descriminate, hate everyone :)

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    • Popp40
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:58am

      Now Freedom1984…you are just being racist and you should be filled with white guilt…..

      Okay sarcasm off…but Freedom1984 I used to work in a grocery store and would watch as they would come up to the register with carts full of groceries and pull out their foodstamps. Then they would pull out a LARGE stack of money to pay for their beer and cigs. Then they would walk out and get in their Escalade.

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    • blanco5
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:58am

      You are speaking for many!

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    • RightMeansRight2
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:11pm

      I agree with you Ma’am, but those $300 sneakers were more likely stolen than paid for. I too am white, and I carry ZERO guilt for it. No one seems to talk about opportunities, which we all have. It is those opportunities that, if taken advantage of, will propel you to a better life. Personal choices, not victimization, are always the answer. If you were born into a garbage existence, work to get yourself out of it. There are ways, but too many people choose to live on the taxpayer’s money and that is just wrong. Able bodied people need work to stay able bodied, and HAVE a life. Anyway, no…I have no guilt for being white. I take pride in who I am, not what my race happens to be. The creators of this sham are fools who seem to enjoy stirring the race-pot ’round and ’round until they get what they want…..division of the races.

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    • Angel_light
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:55pm

      Don’t apologize. I feel the exact same way. “how they can afford 300.00 sneakers, yet are on food stamps.” this boogles my mind too. I just don’t have the strong enough words to describe how hypocritical and backwards they are

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 1:02pm

      The days for the racist message has long pasted by. After years & years of affirmative action, and special interest give-a-ways, what have they gained? For one, the special interest folks got it all, deserving or not, while the mainstream people who had good grades and ability got squat-****. I‘d say if you didn’t have high cheek bones, you got no special interest goodies.
      The ability to lie and threaten racism seems to be the only way to get ahead of other deserving people who might have made it on their own merits, but NO! Not here.

      We have and keep giving away, hoping eventually they will stand on their own two feet.
      The problem is, all those we keep giving to only want more and never try on their own to get ahead in life. We, out of generosity, have given & given and receive nothing in return except to be called racists.. Sorry, I don’t feel guilty, nor am I a racist. Just that simple.

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    • FlowerBell
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 3:30pm

      Being called a racist is proof you still have a functioning brain and can discern between right and wrong. Wear the label as a badge of honor.

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    • ThinkingSidewayz
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 4:15pm

      Yes!! You are right you should be “proud” to be white because you earned it. When you were an embryo you said ” I don’t care what color my parents are, I am going to be white whether they approve of it or not!” and you took all the necessary classes and did all the training it took, and on the day you were born the ob-gyn had a certificate saying this child is white with blond hair and blue eyes. You did it, all by yourself. It wasn’t by chance, It was by choice. You worked hard to be white so be proud of it. Who dares to say that it is a person’s individual choices that makes them a bad person. Those idiots. People are definitely only bad because of they’re race. Clearly only minorities commit crimes.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 4:55pm

      Freedom1984: They don’t really care if you repsect them. It’s their peers whose repsect they want.

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  • mayihelpyou
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:41am

    I’m white and I see racism perfectly clear…….take this campaign for instance. If it’s not racist nothing is.

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  • thebigquad
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:40am

    Sad to say, I am a graduate of this university. Funny thing, though, the student body is about 95% white. What a bunch of idiots.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 1:05pm

      The Brain Discriminates… so you can discern Food from Poop… and do not try to walk through Glass Doors. This story is about Indoctrination, Not Education!

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  • Standing With Israel
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:38am

    It is easy to see racism – this campaign is a prime example. Whites are targeted, have their images defaced and are accused as a group rather than as individuals. University of Minnesota-Duluth is targeting students for negative treatment based solely on their race. Hopefully white students will file suit.

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  • HKS
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:37am

    Sorry to bust your bubble, but there is no racism that can compare to blacks racism. period.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:56am

      The only racism I see come from blacks and people like you. They need to get off the plantation and come into the 21st century. Nobody is out to get blacks. They have been beat down by Democrats so long, they actually believe they aren’t worthy of more. Why are all the poor neighborhoods poorer? All the cities in dire poverty are run by Democrats. Don’t take my word look it up on the Internet.

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    • wreckinball
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:30pm

      Come walk through my neighborhood, mixed but mostly white. You will be greeted by hellos good mornings etc.

      Now let me walk through an all black neighborhood, I can‘t publish the greetings I get there and I’ve had to do it recently as part of my job!

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 6:19pm

      When you read about this subject, I can’t help but notice slavery goes all the way back in time. Didn’t the Jewish people become slaves of Egypt? People were slaves or indentured throughout the ages in Europe.
      As I’ve understood it, the Dutch were the slave runners and sold them all over the world. The Africans were caught and kept in a holding area by their own people who sold them to the Dutch. Seems like their own should have some responsibility, but that was then and this is now. Whatever happened several hundred years ago, we who are living today, are NOT RESPONSIBLE for what others did to a group of people sold by their own people.

      I simply don’t understand why WE are continually blamed for their fate, created by their own people. Just doesn’t make sense. Go get redemption from your homeland (they sold your ancestors) or try becoming a part of America and drop the African American nonsense.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:37am

    Feel guilty for me dunderheads, because I’ve never felt guilty for being white a day in my life.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:56am

      Amen GONZO. I have no problem or guilt about being white.

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    • chips1
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:30pm

      Gee!!!! I’m not white, but I feel guilty because I worked for a living. That was a big no no!!!

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  • Dde13
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:32am

    Like I had a choice!!!! I’m white and proud of it…don‘t think I’ll be feeling sorry for myself soon. I’m proud of my heritage just like everyone should. How narrow minded can people be?

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:31am

    My “white” father did more for equality in a year by hiring blacks as equals (leftwing translation: job = exploitation) than obama, sharpton, jackson would do in 1,000 lifetimes!

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  • lukerw
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:30am

    What sign do you place upon a Fence around an Institution… that turns it from a School… to an Insane Asylum?

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:45am

      We (the taxpayers) should defund the school .. no more loans or grants either .. clearly they don’t want diversity (WHITE KIDS) so they should not get any of our hard earned and mostly wasted (by the government) money.

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  • Treaty
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:29am

    “Operation Liberalism Self-Destruct” is ahead of schedule LOL.

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:47am

      If I were a student .. since I am white … I would not be attending or planning to attend this racist school. Let them try to survive without the white kids grant and loan money.

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  • T-2
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:29am

    It don’t matter the skin color losers and failures will always look for someone to blame. When you points the finger at someone, three other fingers point back at you.

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  • ravendoe
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:29am

    So it‘s only racism if you aren’t white, how ironic….

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  • suedstate
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:28am

    White and proud of it.
    My ancestors never owned slaves worked hard at farming and raised their children to be honest, hardworking and responsible,
    I feel absolutely NO GUILT whatsoever for a bunch of whining, lazy, worls owes me everything losers.
    GET A LIFE.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 9:33pm

      My ancestor didn’t have slave help either. My grandpa had a large farm and hired his help. Then on Saturdays, he drove the workers to town to do their shopping. He treated them all with respect and they respected him as well.
      He was the type man who refused to take money to quit growing certain crops, because he thought the idea of paying a man not to grow something was sinful. That’s the type man he was and even as a young child, I remember the respect the blacks showed toward my grandfather many years later.
      He lived on a dirt road and I still hear the beautiful singing from a black church one evening while we were driving home…….he pulled over and we listened for a while. Wonderful memories. No, didn’t know what racism was until they started calling us that ugly name. I refute it.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:28am

    The only real advantage to being white is the absence of representation by the racist and exploitative left!
    After all it is the White man who ended the culture of slavery, AND funded Trillions to try to integrate opportunity and equality for all! It is the concerted effort by black representation (jackson sharpton obama) that has failed and it’s no accident, IT’S ALINSKY, Cloward/piveb AND GREED!

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    • chips1
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:39pm

      The white man ended it, but the black tribes started it.

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  • ssortors
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:27am

    this is easy… just have these “WHITE GUILT” people go walk down a all ethnic neighborhood see if there “we are all the same” holds up while there robbing you and raping you.

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    • FlowerBell
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 3:37pm

      Obviously none of these fools have been anywhere near Detroit and the “superior” people who inhabit it.

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  • Blazen420
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:27am

    Time to defund this racist university.

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  • IAMMADDOG
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:25am

    Yeah this is a joke. No white guilt here. I can’t see racism because the word has been thrown around so dang much that no one even knows what the heck it means anymore,

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  • cessna152
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:25am

    White guilt? I love these dopey “we stand for you” morons. If they [really] “practiced what they preached”, then you would give them your job, house and money. When you do that, maybe…. just maybe I’ll listen to you.

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    • Steelheadisadouche
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:42am

      I will wait until the rainbow coalition of cair speaks on this matter. Only then will I open up a can of white guilt. Where do people buy theirs? Uncle never issued me any.

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  • biffo
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:22am

    Why any parent would send their money/child to this obamunist gulag is beyond me. If they do they deserve what they get.

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  • spirited
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:22am

    The poor and lower class used to be considered outcasts….. and they were Caucasian.
    Caucasian (white), Christian, heterosexual, conservative, and wealthy are the new outcasts.

    >The people in the video: useful idiots.

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  • SREGN
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:19am

    So you stop racism by becoming racist?

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on June 26, 2012 at 12:46pm

      Yup. That has been the modus operandi for decades now. Welcome to Politically Correct USA. Brought to by 1960s half witted pseudo philosophic sociological idiocy.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:19am

    Sorry…. I have absolutely NO WHITE GUILT.

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  • Uncurable wound
    Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:18am

    This state blows!Enough Brainwash Uneducation!!

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