I don't agree with cynthia mckinney claiming that officer was racists?
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Cynthia Mckinney has always played the race card. Ever since she got into public office and even before. Her father was an activist for "black rights", not "HUMAN rights".  This same incident has happened 4 times in the past and each time she has claimed "racism" as the cause. She was not wearing the special pin given to members of Congress FOR ID PURPOSES. Nor was she carrying her Congressional ID and just BLEW thru the security checkpoint.\n\nTHIS is an example not only of the "entitlement" mentality, but of the racism that seems to be sprouting up with CERTAIN "black leaders". Not saying ALL black leaders are racist, just noting that SOME have shown racist tendancies LATELY.
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I rise with you. Racism and the fact that some people just cannot stand difference make sure many of us still have to continue looking over our shoulders, despite people like you, who have admirably represented your country in no less a way than any of the bravest that have fought with our armed forces. \n\nRemember that platoon of black soldiers who were refused the highest honors this country could bestow on the bravest of the brave? USA is a long way away from being free and equal to all.
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Less then the NAACP would want you to believe. I live in Jersey and when the scandal broke we all questioned one thing. Almost everyone complaining of racial profiling was found to be in the act of violating the LAW.... Drugs, Guns, you name it......
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Finally I'm not alone! I think it is kind of racist, actually it is racist. Just think about it. A whole television network worshiping white people? It would be an outrage! Many black people would call it white supremacy. Am I right? Its ok for blacks to go around shouting "Black Power!" but a white person would be in trouble if they said "White Power!". I think its wrong that another race gets special rights because they've been done extreamly wrong. Don't get it twisted I feel really angry about slavery and segregation. But I think its wrong that Black people get off with some stuff that obviously they shouldn't. Thats just what I think.
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the guy screwed up, what he did was just plain wrong, and there is not alot he can say except to appoligize and keep a low profile for a while.\n\nTo piant the guy as a "racist" over one incident is more than I care to do. Folks screw up,..at what point is the pennance paid? Besides,...I am more concerned with the racist that I do not see. Just me,...your mileage will vary.
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Yes they are very racist.What I didn't understand is "WHY they only pointed out th blacks looting?" As if they were a bunch of hooligans that had nothing better to do during a crisis.I KNOW for a fact that they were not the only ones to to steal material Items.And besides who the hell would really care,it was a HURRICANE for christ sake, THAT BASICALLY WIPED OUT THAT WHOLE DAMN STATE..and they were concerned about people looting.To me it seemed like they just wanted a story to tell,and to stereotype blacks like they usually do!
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confused_honey, you sure are confused.\n\nBush is prejudice?  How so?  Name one case.  He has hired more minorities than any president in history.  You just 'believe' he is racist inside?  You can't show me one instance?  Is it the southern accent?  does everyone with a southern accent hate minorities?  Is mayor negan racist?  He left all those Black people there to die, and did not follow the written evacuation guidelines for the city.  Then the governor would not allow the national guard to come into the city to help because once she allowed them, she would lose 'control'.  What specifically did bush do wrong?  I'll bet you can't answer.\n\nBush is greedy?  How so?  He has given more money to social programs than Clinton has.  Where is he greedy?  If you want to see greedy, look at clinton and his real estate deals, or widow marrying kerry and his wife he picked up at her husbands funeral.\n\nStop repeating every liberal propaganda crap you hear, and look into things yourself.
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Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are some of the biggest racists out there. No if the men were anything but Black Sharpton would not lift a finger for them. The fact is police brutality is a color blind issue. It affects us all and until we stop caring about the "racial" aspect it will not go away. \n\nYes they were Black, at least two of them were. The third man had a last name of Guzman which might suggest he was Hispanic at least in part. \n\nThe second hyprocritical aspect is that these guys from what I understand first hit the mini van full of cops. Ok they might have been drunk and had an accident.  Then they almost ran over a cop backing up and hit the van again.  So one of two situations existed. The driver was either totally wasted and incapable of driving or only intoxicated enough to become aggressive and targeted an ethnic minority that he hated.  If they were so wasted they were incapable of driving then their deaths were sheer bad luck. Were the cops supposed to wait until they killed somebody to stop the car they were driving?  Being that drunk they would have killed somebody else on the road if they had not hit the cop's mini van. If it was an act of aggression then they had likely done this before and may have killed people in the past for random reasons such as skin color. Then it merely becomes ironic that they met their end in the way they did. More of a Darwin award than police brutality. \n\nIn both instances this is not a clear cut police brutality issue unless the twice ramming the mini van is wrong. As such the cry of police brutality is damaged. True cases of police brutality lose credibility. That is the really saddest part of this. These guys were not innocent byestanders gunned down for no reason. They'll be used to discredit real instances of police brutality though.
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Just about.  I don't agree with the order, and racism.  Other than that, you nailed it.
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I have to agree with the majority of answerers....nowadays we see inverted racism with a bias against the whites.   I feel sorry for the police in having such a difficult job where they are damned if they do and damned if they don't!
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Of course it played a factor. Race permeates our society, and is particularly noticeable when it comes to criminal trials. One of the main factors was how different is the experience with police in the black vs. white cultural history. Many blacks have experienced what they believe to be police misconduct (remember the history of lynchings and kangaroo courts in the 20s and 30s), and thus find it easy to believe that OJ was framed. Whites tend to see the police as honest and credible, and therefore don't question the evidence.\nIf you don't trust the police & the D.A.'s office to honestly collect, analyze, and present evidence, then it's easy to vote "not guilty." If you cannot believe the police would fake evidence, then the "not guilty" decision seems to be an outrage.
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I wondered if I was the only one who thought he was racist. In an interview with members of the Texas Western team that beat my Wildcats, he kept trying to push them into talking about how they felt about the race aspect, even though they kept telling him it was just about basketball for them. There are still race issues in several areas of American life, but not as many as Stephen A. seems to see.\n\nI hate to admit that his over-the-top style is humorous at times, but give me Bill Walton or Charles Barkley any day.
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Ridiculous.  I disagree. \nI've actually read statistics that people that say those things about police officers are the ones with small weiners, are insecure and have no self esteem.  One article I read said that people that down cops are closet homosexuals.
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PANCHITA linda, name calling is not a powerful tool. Knowledge and good argumentative statements are for the wise. The more we use the word racist, the more the actual situation converts itself into a racist issue and not the original basis for solving a problem.  I am ignoring the racist variable altogether when formulating my opinion because this is an economic issue. Be objective when standing up for a cause. Subjectivity is cause for strife.
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Cynthia McKinney is an idiot.  And a documented anti-semitic idiot at that.  Her calling anyone a racist is as hypocritical as Bush Jr. talking about left wing media bias on fox news.
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When Cynthia lost her seat to Denise Majette a few years ago, she and her whack-job daddy blamed "the Jews"...and they did it on local tv.  Then, to add insult to injury, they sued the State of Georgia for allowing registered Republicans to vote in the Democrat Primary...Georgia is an open primary state, and it's perfectly legal for registered voters to vote in which ever primary they want to, regardless of party affiliation, but they claimed it was a conspiracy...a recurring theme with Cindy.  Apparently everything is a conspiracy to her...the Jews are out to get her...the white man wants to keep her down...Tupac was killed by the US government.  The woman is a nut.  Plain and simple.  Racist?  Probably.  Crazy?  Definitely.
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Wow, she didn't even mention race and got called racist several times. You pro-illegals are wearing that old taunt out.\n\nI hate when people say that things would cost 5 times more if we hired legal labor. So you're saying that illegals are paid 6 times less? Isn't that a crime?\n\nScumbags who hire illegals do not pass the savings on to us, they pocket the difference. If they received not just fines but jail time, they would stop hiring really quickly.\n\nAlso, we somehow found people to do all of those "jobs Americans won't do" before the illegals flooded in. You know how, because people were paid a living wage for that type of job.\n\nYou people who cry racism have no respect for real victims of racism. Read about the Civil Rights movement. Have you ever heard of illegals being lynched? Illegals are criminals.