What is the solution to the race problem in the USA?

[brooks85]

Remember when Chic-fil-a's owners said they don't approve of gay people? There was far more bs coverage than this.

Now they are the number 1 chicken seller in fast food... Wonder if it has anything to do with black people and fried chicken?

[unluckysob]

white Christians made the US a strong powerful nation. since about 1970 blacks, jews, muslims, and illegal Mexicans have watered down a great country---this means a lower standard of living for all decent hard working Americans.

[King Mayan]

white Christians made the US a strong powerful nation. since about 1970 blacks, jews, muslims, and illegal Mexicans have watered down a great country---this means a lower standard of living for all decent hard working Americans.

you should go back to Europe you cry baby.. And take your Jews blacks and Arabs back too..

[jjgold]

Jacob good one post of the day

JJ's an old white guy from Jersey, they won't change.

[PAULYPOKER]

John Lennon Give Peace A Chance (1969)

[PAULYPOKER]

Two, one two three four
Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Fagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

c'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers,
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking about
Revolution, evolution, masturbation,
Flagellation, regulation, integrations,
Meditations, United Nations,
Congratulations.

Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer,
Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare, Hare Krishna

[pavyracer]

Remember when Chic-fil-a's owners said they don't approve of gay people? There was far more bs coverage than this.

Now they are the number 1 chicken seller in fast food... Wonder if it has anything to do with black people and fried chicken?

white people eat chicken too..in fact Chic -Fil-A is booming because of white people sales.

[brooks85]

[bigtymer56]

Who voted for separate but equal countries?

[Roy Halladay]

Who voted for separate but equal countries?

[ParlayininHTown]

Is there a solution?

No.

[MoneyLineDawg]

Chick Fil A is a top seller now because it's good fukkin food

I don't really agree with all of their bullshit but Im still gunna eat there because I simply don't care enough and the food is awesome

America is all about results and always will be for 99% of people.....The rest is all fun to talk about and debate but means little when it comes down to it

[Seaweed]

A lot of fiction books have racism in them. Doesn't make it right.
Does it?

Which books are these?

[Seaweed]

What we call racism now was called being proud of your country 2,000 years ago. If you read the Bible is all full of racism.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 904 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

John 7:24 ESV / 698 helpful votes

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

Romans 10:12 ESV / 340 helpful votes

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

1 John 2:9 ESV / 330 helpful votes

Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 189 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

James 2:9 ESV / 168 helpful votes

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

John 13:34 ESV / 164 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Romans 2:11 ESV / 146 helpful votes

For God shows no partiality.

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 ESV / 118 helpful votes

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Colossians 3:10-11 ESV / 89 helpful votes

And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 59 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Revelation 7:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 10:29-37 ESV / 31 helpful votes

But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 29 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Ephesians 2:14-15 ESV / 21 helpful votes

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,

Deuteronomy 23:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

“No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever,

Numbers 12:1-10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out. And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

Matthew 15:22-28 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.” But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.” He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” And he answered, “It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Matthew 10:5-6 ESV / 14 helpful votes

These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Deuteronomy 7:1-26 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves, and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.

Nehemiah 13:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes

As soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.

Luke 10:25-42 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Song of Solomon 1:5-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!

Luke 4:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Nehemiah 13:23-30 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”

Romans 12:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Mark 12:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Isaiah 41:1-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment. Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow. He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod. Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he. The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

[Cuse0323]

Stop talking about it would be my solution...does nothing but force us to talk about something that isn't an issue anymore. Well, not a one sided issue at least. We all hate each other, all equally racist these days.

[Ralphie Halves]

Stop talking about it would be my solution...does nothing but force us to talk about something that isn't an issue anymore. Well, not a one sided issue at least. We all hate each other, all equally racist these days.

I agree with the last part, disagree with the first part. I think whites need to make peace with their racism and stop trying to pretend they're something they're not. Whites still are so afraid to be labeled "racist", though all of them are, as is everyone else. Just admit to it and relax.

Racism is an "issue" but not an "issue" in a sense that we need to do something about it. You can't tell people how to feel, it doesn't work. Like I said above, just be comfortable with it. I don't hate black people, but I hate a lot of the things a lot of black people do. I'm sure a lot of them feel the same. Whoop-di-do.

There will never be a time where you won't disapprove of something another culture does differently than you. Racism will never go away. Stop thinking it will. We can still get along just fine.

Shit, you have to laugh at what's going on in Europe. All sorts of immigration and cross-culturaliztion happening in places where it's never happened before, and they are NOT dealing with it very well. Having gone though all of this decades ago, we as Americans can sit back and laugh at how behind these nations are compared to us when it comes to being able to live together. Places like France, Sweden, and Greece talking seriously about ethnic cleansing, and Spain still throws bananas at black soccer players. USA is waaaaayyyy beyond shit like that thankfully.

[Eddy Munny]

Race problems must be addressed at their source.......the race track. I would start by lowering speed limits, with signs posted at every hairpin turn.

[rkelly110]

Key word in dealing with anyone is respect. If you show it, it will come back to you in return.

We ALL have our prejudices. It's a lack of respect for one another that's bringing this country down.
From kids mouthing off to their parents to a bar room fight at 3 am ending in a shoot out.

[Let's Go Rangers]

Is there a solution?

sickle cell anemia

[PerfectGrape]

From July 2001 to May 2002, Bertrand and Mullainathan sent fictitious resumes in response to 1,300 help-wanted ads listed in the Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune. They used the callback rate for interviews to measure the success of each resume. Approximately 5,000 resumes were sent for positions in sales, administrative support, clerical services, and customer service. Jobs ranged from a cashier at a store to the manager of sales at a large firm.

The catch was that the authors manipulated the perception of race via the name of each applicant, with comparable credentials for each racial group. Each resume was randomly assigned either a very white-sounding name (Emily Walsh, Brendan Baker) or a very African-American-sounding name (Lakisha Washington, Jamal Jones).

The authors find that applicants with white-sounding names are 50 percent more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with African-American-sounding names. Applicants with white names need to send about 10 resumes to get one callback, whereas applicants with African-American names need to send about 15 resumes to achieve the same result.

In addition, race greatly affects how much applicants benefit from having more experience and credentials. White job applicants with higher-quality resumes received 30 percent more callbacks than whites with lower-quality resumes. Having a higher-quality resume has a much smaller impact on African-American applicants, who experienced only 9 percent more callbacks for the same improvement in their credentials. This disparity suggests that in the current state of the labor market, African-Americans may not have strong individual incentives to build better resumes.

"For us, the most surprising and disheartening result is seeing that applicants with African-American names were not rewarded for having better resumes," says Bertrand.
Statistically, the authors found that discrimination levels were consistent across all the occupations and industries covered in the experiment. Even federal contractors (for whom affirmative action is better enforced) and companies that explicitly state that they are an "Equal Opportunity Employer" did not discriminate less.

http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.html

[brooks85]

Two kinds of people... the ones who read that and say that's not fair!

or the ones who read that and see the clear, logical solution; Stop naming your kids like you're coming up with names for an african beanie baby. It's hard to respect someone who has the name Latoya or Lamar etc and they have gone x amount of years without changing it. I'd like to see that study done with mexican names vs black names, I bet blacks would lose again. This is America, soon to be Mexico, so get with the program

[brooks85]

The richest black man in hollywood right now is Tyle Perry. Saw some thing the other day said his 15+ movies have generated a billion dollars and he's earned $400 million. Literally as soon as I saw that post I said to myself "I bet Tyler Perry changed his name" and guess what, it used to be Emmitt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Perry

[MoneyLineDawg]

Two kinds of people... the ones who read that and say that's not fair!

or the ones who read that and see the clear, logical solution; Stop naming your kids like you're coming up with names for an african beanie baby. It's hard to respect someone who has the name Latoya or Lamar etc and they have gone x amount of years without changing it. I'd like to see that study done with mexican names vs black names, I bet blacks would lose again. This is America, soon to be Mexico, so get with the program

Its hard to respect someone named Lamar?? WTF

[swordsandtequila]

Two kinds of people... the ones who read that and say that's not fair!

or the ones who read that and see the clear, logical solution; Stop naming your kids like you're coming up with names for an african beanie baby. It's hard to respect someone who has the name Latoya or Lamar etc and they have gone x amount of years without changing it. I'd like to see that study done with mexican names vs black names, I bet blacks would lose again. This is America, soon to be Mexico, so get with the program

Leader in the clubhouse for most idiotic (yet revealing) post of the year.

[swordsandtequila]

blacks=17% US population---black males 8%---young black males 5%-----this 5% is 85 % of prison inmates.

Members of Congress and Wall Street don't go to jail.

[bigtymer56]

The richest black man in hollywood right now is Tyle Perry. Saw some thing the other day said his 15+ movies have generated a billion dollars and he's earned $400 million. Literally as soon as I saw that post I said to myself "I bet Tyler Perry changed his name" and guess what, it used to be Emmitt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Perry

With every post u prove how much of a clown u really r.

First, ur solution of black people giving their kids non black sounding names doesnt address the problem that anything associated with being black is bad.

Second, Perry changed his name because he wanted to distance himself from abusive father who was Emmit Sr.

[retard]

[brooks85]

First, I didn't offer a solution about addressing anything associated with black as bad. You're just not very intelligent and had to connect the two so you could try make some kind of coherent argument. I offered a clear and simple solution to name profiling the study mentioned. There is even more research out there showing how people with shorter names, regardless of race, are more successful in the corporate world. So everyone with a long name should start bitching and moaning.

Secondly, so I guess Tyler perry sounded more black than Lamar Perry or LeQuan Perry, or how about Shabazz Perry? lol

[easyliving]

it will stop becoming a problem when blacks stop thinking its a problem.

[DwightShrute]

TIME

but there will always be racism. Learn to live with it.

[marcoloco]

Labeled racist and racist is not the same

if you dont fully worship another race, you might be labeled a racist
if you say you are attracted to white women and your not black, you might be labeled a racist
if you dont like indian food because it makes you poop for 4 hrs after, you might be labeled a racist
if you dont trust an asian behind the wheel, you might be labeled a racist
if you dont know how to properly say the name L-a (La-Dash-A) you might be labeled a racist
if you are surprised when a black guy cant jump or play sports (yes they do exist) you might be labeled a racist
if you have a business of 10 employees and none are black, you might be labeled a racist

all based on true events

[Dutch]

....

[brooks85]

Its hard to respect someone named Lamar?? WTF

lol is your name lamar?

If it is, today is a Monday and never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Get that name change paperwork submitted asap.

[muldoon]

blacks=17% US population---black males 8%---young black males 5%-----this 5% is 85 % of prison inmates.

Young Black Males (5%) make up 85% of prison inmates?

Source?

[stevenash]

There is no race problem, it's made up