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<p>Yeah, I’m sure that if the kid wasn’t autistic the officer would have calmly asked him to stop stabbing him until he bled out.</p>
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<p>What a bogus statement. If the NAACP had had its way in this case Carolina Forest High School could have quickly turned into another Columbine. Thankfully most people aren’t as delusional as the person who wrote that statement.</p>
<p>Glad to see that the NAACP is willing to sacrifice the safety of students anywhere just to advance their own political agenda.</p>
<p>“And had Gates been white, the Constitutional breach would have been just as illegal.”</p>
<p>Yes, but the story would not have interested some of you in the least then. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I think the statement by the NAACP was excellent and very appropriate. However, I am very happy and relieved to find out that one can be in disagreement with the NAACP and NOT be a racist, as NSM pointed out above when she said that her view on this matter was at odds with that of the NAACP. </p>
<p>As far as playing the race card, I was only turning it around to show how ludicrous it is when some of the posters on this board play it. Ad nauseam. 
Again, I’m glad to see that you are in agreement, ph!</p>
<p>"“And had Gates been white, the Constitutional breach would have been just as illegal.”</p>
<p>Yes, but the story would not have interested some of you in the least then."</p>
<p>How do you know that the story wouldn’t have interested some of us if Gates had been white?</p>
<p>One big reason that I found the story to be compelling is that I have met Gates on several occasions including being on a panel with him in which he calmly responded to opinions on a controversial issue that differed with his.</p>
<p>Another reason that some posters – including me – were attracted to that story was that Gates is a Harvard professor. That made the story more compelling than if he had been, for instance, a small town high school history teacher.</p>
<p>“A review of your posting history, NSM, will reveal that you make a racial issue out of any-and everything possible, and you are the most frequent thread starter about these things.”</p>
<p>Sweetie, your logic is lacking and your biases are showing. I have more than 15,000 posts – and that doesn’t even include my cafe posts. I’m the most frequent thread starter on a variety of issues, the majority of which have nothing to do with race.</p>
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<p>Absolutely! I was going to point that out, but then it occurred to me that her agenda leaves little room for logic and/or fairness, so I just let it go. Plus, I was pretty sure you would set the record straight. </p>
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<p>Besides the presumption that she can read other people’s minds, she ignores the fact that we very often decline to participate in threads dealing with racial issues and post in other that have nothing whatsoever to do with race. The thread about the “gentleman” in Louisiana who refuses to perform marriage ceremonies on interracial couples, for example, is one in which I declined to comment despite the fact that I am a black woman who has been married to a white man for 26 years and counting, and have two bi-racial children about whom he would have been “concerned”—LOL!. “Ditto” the Rush Limbaugh thread, which still rages on about his racial attitudes without my input—and your’s too, I’ve observed, Northstar. But apparently, according to the only person who chose to inject race into a thread which has nothing to do with it, we aren’t interested in a topic of discussion unless we can jump in and “play the race card.” How incredibly rich! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>“Sweetie, your logic is lacking and your biases are showing. I have more than 15,000 posts – and that doesn’t even include my cafe posts. I’m the most frequent thread starter on a variety of issues, the majority of which have nothing to do with race.”</p>
<p>Darling, my logic is just fine, but though you say you graduated from the esteemed Harvard, yours is lacking. I said that you were the most frequent thread starter on racial issues. What does that have to do with your post count? Someone could have one third of your posts and if every thread he started were about race, he would likely surpass you in those types of posts. I didn’t go to Harvard, but even I can see that. :p</p>
<p>Northstar is the most frequent post starter on many issues, most of which have nothing whatsoever to do with race, and I’m sure you know that. Many times, she will start a thread (regardless of which kind), and never post in the thread again. She’s just interested in seeing what other people’s opinions are on that issue. And I believe it may be strongly argued that there are plenty of people who start and sustain many more race issue threads than Northstarmom. And there are a number of “usual suspects” who take a political thread about economic issues, like health care, taxes, “entitlement spending”, the recession, education, etc., and seize the opportunity to rant against blacks and/or Hispanics as a generalized whole, and I never see you part your hypothetical lips to object to their screed. Lovely:rolleyes: Regardless, it is still you purpleflurp who took this thread that has nothing to do with race , and turned it into a racial rant against black CC posters. Own it.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Purpleflurp, you have been entirely duplicitous in your dealings in this thread, starting with this quote, where you took something said by Cuse and tried to use it to pillory Northstarmom and I.</p>
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<p>Not once, did Northstarmom or I say that we thought this incident had a “good outcome”. Those were cuse’s words (one of your conservative comrads). We both indicated that we thought the outcome was tragic. But, there again, don’t let facts get in your way.</p>