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Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll.

But few Americans of either race -- just one out of eight -- consider themselves racist.

And experts say racism has evolved from the days of Jim Crow to the point that people may not even recognize it in themselves. (Watch people in a Texas town where blacks are still afraid to stop )

A poll conducted last week by Opinion Research Corp. for CNN indicates that whites and blacks disagree on how serious a problem racial bias is in the United States.

Almost half of black respondents to the poll -- 49 percent -- said racism is a "very serious" problem, while 18 percent of whites shared that view. Forty-eight percent of whites and 35 percent of blacks chose the description "somewhat serious."

Asked if they know someone they consider racist, 43 percent of whites and 48 percent of blacks said yes.

But just 13 percent of whites and 12 percent of blacks consider themselves racially biased.

Professor Jack Dovidio of the University of Connecticut, who has researched racism for more than 30 years, estimates up to 80 percent of white Americans have racist feelings they may not even recognize.

"We've reached a point that racism is like a virus that has mutated into a new form that we don't recognize," Dovidio said.

He added that 21st-century racism is different from that of the past.

"Contemporary racism is not conscious, and it is not accompanied by dislike, so it gets expressed in indirect, subtle ways," he said.

That "stealth" discrimination reveals itself in many different situations.

A three-year undercover investigation by the National Fair Housing Alliance found that real estate agents steered whites away from integrated neighborhoods and steered blacks in to predominantly black neighborhoods.

Racism also can be a factor in getting a job.

Candidates named Emily O'Brien or Neil McCarthy were much more likely to get calls back from potential employers than applicants named Tamika Williams and Jamal Jackson, even though they had the same credentials, according to a study by the University of Chicago.

Racial bias may even determine whether you can flag a cab.

New York Times writer Calvin Sims wrote a recent article about all the cabdrivers that refused to stop for him.

"If a cab passes you by, obviously it is frustrating, it's degrading and it's just really confusing, because this is akin to being in the South and being refused service at a lunch counter, which is what happened in the 60s and 70s," he said.

Victimized
The Opinion Research poll shows that blacks and whites disagree on how each race feels about the other.

Asked how many whites dislike blacks, 40 percent of black respondents said "all" or "many." Twenty-six percent of whites chose one of those replies.

On the question of how many blacks dislike whites, 33 percent of blacks said "all" or "many," while 38 percent of whites agreed -- a wash because of the poll's 5 percent margin of error.

About half of black respondents said they had been a victim of discrimination because of their race. A little more than a quarter of whites said they had been victims of racial discrimination.

The poll was based on phone interviews conducted December 5 through Thursday with 1,207 Americans, including 328 blacks and 703 non-Hispanic whites.

Racism is a bunch of fucking bullshit.

I don't hate people because of what color their skin is, I hate people because of how big a piece of shit they are. Prove to me that you are worthy of my respect and I will give it whole-heartedly, but prove to me that you are a sack of shit that isn't worth the genetic material then I will tell you exactly how I feel about you.


I'm an equal oportunity hate, all races are equally worthless in my view.

Not thread related but...

The Bible remains the highest selling book this year, while probably retaining its' position atop the 'most shoplifted' book, as well.

Q: Where the f8ck are all these bibles going? And why do so many new ones need to be bought EVERY YEAR?????

I just don't understand . . .

Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll.

But few Americans of either race -- just one out of eight -- consider themselves racist.

This is a stupid comparison. What if everyone knows the SAME racist? :P

And experts say racism has evolved from the days of Jim Crow to the point that people may not even recognize it in themselves.

So racisim STARTED in the days of Jim Crow, now it's somehow "evolved" into something people cant recognize? I dont think that you can draw that conclusion from the stupid comparison just above this.




. . . I lothe most statistics articles.

Not thread related but...

The Bible remains the highest selling book this year, while probably retaining its' position atop the 'most shoplifted' book, as well.

Q: Where the f8ck are all these bibles going? And why do so many new ones need to be bought EVERY YEAR?????

I just don't understand . . .


A lot of Christians read the thing so much the pages start falling out and they have to buy a new one. But I seriously doubt that has much of an impact on bible sales, there arent many 'Christians' like that.

Some buy portable ones for their purse or breifcase. Some buy one for work and one for home. Some buy them for every room in the house. But I don't think that many people do that to make it the best seller.


Some buy them in bulk to ship to missionaries in other countries. That probably has a big impact, but . . .

MANY buy them and never read them, MANY buy them as gifts for weddings, and MANY churches buy BOXES and BOXES of them to stock the 'pews,' where they are frequently picked apart by bored children or stolen (thus boxes and boxes of new ones must be bought.

I've been around the world, and very rarely have I beein in a hotel room where there was not a bible in the desk drawer. Thats a lot of rooms, and a lot of bibles.

Religious and secular schools, colleges, and universities, many require purchase of this book for certain classess.

Thats it for stuff I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are more reasons why.


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Oh, BTW.:offt: :p

Racism is a bunch of fucking bullshit.

I don't hate people because of what color their skin is, I hate people because of how big a piece of shit they are. Prove to me that you are worthy of my respect and I will give it whole-heartedly, but prove to me that you are a sack of shit that isn't worth the genetic material then I will tell you exactly how I feel about you.


I'm an equal oportunity hate, all races are equally worthless in my view.

Yep.

I hate gangstas, thugs, and all those other common bullshit dick fucks. Unfortunately, it has been my experience that many are black, so some might take it as me being racist, but I just hate people like that.

I hate white guys that pretend they are black.

I hate black people that use their being black as a reason to cut lines and things like that, because if you say something, it's because they are black, not because they are fucking ignorant and feel entitled to cut line, or whatever they decide to do.

I hate every stupid fuck that can't speak semi understandable English when they were born in the US.

I hate the words heezy, jeezy, and sheezy, they are too fucking cheezy!

I fucking hate Mike Jones.

I cannot stand some of the more... ebonycentric kids from Detroit, you don't understand a fucking word they say, and you know they know English. Hola a'shyo boi, ya hurd? I hear this, daily! Nahh' mean?

I hate people that are a drag on society, welfare collectors, for example, I despise them.

I hate people that talk like they are know-it-alls, "Well, you see, this simply cannot occur due to the..." SHut thE FUCK uP! No matter how smart you are, you're not a know-it-all. You're a retard for thinking you are.

And hillbillies waving the Confederate flag... don't even get me started. It doesn't mean you're a hick, it means you support the secession of the Confederate states from the Union, you nitwit. And no matter how hard you try, Wisconsin will not become a part of the Confederacy.

If you don't try to better your situation, I hate you. If you play the hand you're dealt your whole life, I will not respect you. Bettering yourself is not difficult. The goal of life is to end it better than you started, having achieved something, not right where you started, like a fucking dumbass.

Anybody that blames their ethnic background for where they are in life is stupid. Hick: "Well, ya see, my daddy worked these here heeeeeels with his bare hands and I will too, even though it's not making money and slowly killing me." Black: "I'm from da hood, yo, and up in hur, you best not be hatin, you be doin wha'shyou best, helpin yo' brotha out." Mexican: "Soy un Mexicano aburrido." Asian: "Exarrent, I ham sooo smaht." French: "Oh-ho, I am zee French and I will faht in your general die-rec-tiOn." Average American: "I have a house and a car, good enough. Hey, Mary, let's have ham and mayo and go bowling, then come home and ignore the debt we are incurring by spending more than we make trying to show everyone we aren't poor."

You are what you make yourself, don't blame anybody for you not having the drive to do something.

Dumbasses used to die for being fucking stupid, now they thrive and colonize.

I hate people.

. . . I lothe most statistics articles.
"There are three kinds of lies. Lies, Damned Lies, and statistics."
~ Mark Twain

OK, you explained the first part. How about the part where it saids "while probably retaining its' position atop the 'most shoplifted' book, as well." ?

OK, you explained the first part. How about the part where it saids "while probably retaining its' position atop the 'most shoplifted' book, as well." ?
I've known several potheads to roll a joint out of pages fom the bible.

Racism isn't a problem in the black community, it's just a damn good excuse for everything.

Racism is a bunch of fucking bullshit.

I don't hate people because of what color their skin is, I hate people because of how big a piece of shit they are. Prove to me that you are worthy of my respect and I will give it whole-heartedly, but prove to me that you are a sack of shit that isn't worth the genetic material then I will tell you exactly how I feel about you.


I'm an equal oportunity hate, all races are equally worthless in my view.


I'm with you. I give everyone a chance.

Except for ugly people. LOL

But seriously I bet ugly people have it a lot worse than blacks.

i dont see what racism has to do with the second coming
i knew you were a fundy but i sure as hell hope you ain't KKK

at any rate, this is true. when i first went to school i met this black guy. we were chilling at the law school and he was like, i'm down with my homies in newark. at this point, me and my other friend started laughing maniacally, because this kid is rich as hell and from cali, and he's well educated... etc.

basically, we told him he wasn't black. not like kids from newark. at that point, he asked us what we were saying about black people. the implication, of course, is that black people have to be ignorant and badly educated, or else they don't count as 'real blacks.'

so yes, i'm a racist... and so is everyone else in this thread. we just don't know it. subliminal racism is 10x worse and harder to deal with than explicit racism.

i dont see what racism has to do with the second coming
i knew you were a fundy but i sure as hell hope you ain't KKK

at any rate, this is true. when i first went to school i met this black guy. we were chilling at the law school and he was like, i'm down with my homies in newark. at this point, me and my other friend started laughing maniacally, because this kid is rich as hell and from cali, and he's well educated... etc.

basically, we told him he wasn't black. not like kids from newark. at that point, he asked us what we were saying about black people. the implication, of course, is that black people have to be ignorant and badly educated, or else they don't count as 'real blacks.'

so yes, i'm a racist... and so is everyone else in this thread. we just don't know it. subliminal racism is 10x worse and harder to deal with than explicit racism.

But stereotyping is fun.

me want sum egg fwied wice

you steel my eggwoll??? i chop you!

I'm ethnically aware

You know who are the most racist people around?

The ones who claim everything is racist.

I don't think you read my post

the global "tolerance" movement is what will allow one man to establish a world-wide political, religious, and economic system....the second advent occurs seven years later

it's practically already here...it's a world asleep

if you're talking about religious tolerance or political tolerance and unification, than yes i can see what that might have to do with NWO, anti-christ and all that fun stuff.

i don't see how racism factors into that. i suppose you could argue racism is just a sideshow of the 'tolerance' conspiracy.

You know who are the most racist people around?

The ones who claim everything is racist.

Yep I hate people that use the race card to get ahead. And the government just helps by giving out money to different races to try and help, but are there any free handouts for just being white. Nope.

Yeah they're taking our tax dollars and giving them to people to waste.