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Originally posted by I-Hate-Hulse+Mar 21 2005, 09:47 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (I-Hate-Hulse @ Mar 21 2005, 09:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-calf@Mar 21 2005, 10:29 PM
1 in 6 a victim of racisim
1.7 million would not welcome someone of another race as their neighbor
3.1 million would never marry or have a relationship with someone of another race
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I'd like to see these numbers by age group. I can't count the number of times I've heard people 50 and over crack a N-bomb line around me. I used to work with this otherwise sweet 63 yr old secretary who one day called licorice babies "ni**er toes". It's just the way they were brought up. Not that it's right, and you hope they would have changed by now. Some just dont.
It would also be interesting to see these by urban / rural lines. Oyen, Alberta would be certain to have a different reaction as to say, the Kensington district of Calgary. [/b][/quote]
I'm sorry, but I have always known the black licorice candies as "******** babies". No doubt it's racist, but to label it as a thing of the past is blatantly wrong. I've never heard them called anything else. None of me or the people I associate with are racist, that's just what they've always been called.
As for the survery, suddenly I'm racist if I don't want to have a relationship with people of another race? That makes me sick. It's not my fault I'm not attracted whatsoever to other races. And I resent being labelled as "stuck in the 50's".
What really makes me mad is the double standard that exists. There can be a Black Entertainment channel and an Aboriginal Peoples network but can you imagine the outcry if someone made a White Man Channel?
And Maxwell, unless I am severely severely mistaken, there have NEVER been slaves in the Dominion of Canada.
I read in today's paper the government is spending 56 million over the next five years on anti-racism programs. If that is not the biggest waste of taxpayers' dollars I don't know what is. That money should be going to education and health care, not towards telling Joe Blow from Surrey it's okay his city has turned into New Bombay.
As you can tell I hate political correctness.