Response to: "Owner of New York Post apologizes for cartoon"

"People making dumb comparisons like Bush depicted as a monkey are clueless and have no comprehension whatsover of what racism is all about. The comparison between Bush and a monkey was his level of intelligence- not something that he was born with and has no control over." -DSVet

You need to take another look at what you just said there, in relation to the context. This cartoon was clearly discussing the very qualification you just said is legitimate--intelligence. It says nothing about race, and nothing about Obama.The cartoon is mocking the people who wrote the stimulus bill...that's a sizeable group, definitely not a black majority, and all that Obama did with it was sign it. I highly doubt that he read even a tenth of it...the whole thing took a book cart to move it was so huge.

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Ok, America, you must choose one of two options. Which will it be? Cultural pride and seperate but equal or melting pot culture where all are just human? The reason there is so much chaos and confusion regarding racism is that the black community identifies themselves as just that--a specific community of humans that supports each other in dealings with dissimilar humans, thereby implementing the first mindset, while white (or whatever color the rest of us are...and most black people aren't black either...) people have been thouroughly indoctrinated to go with the flow in whatever group of people we find ourselves being a part of, thereby being more consistent with the second mindset.
So, to all the people of African origin, know this...you can't have it both ways. You can't be a distinct group while being truly on the same level as everyone else (whatever level that is...) because even if your intent of supporting one another is good, doing so still causes division, and that division is based soley on race. To identify by race is in fact to be racist, for the only way to not be racist would be to ignore race entirely and judge not by color of skin, but by content of character. The U.S. Government would be equally wise to know this. ENOUGH! Enough of the race surveys! Enough of the categorization according to race! Enough of the statistics comparing the livelihoods of various people by RACE! I know they often lame-duck it by saying it's "culture" instead, but that is equally foolish. I thought we were supposed to be done with seperate but equal in the '50s. All I know that it was not my generation's idea to make these distinctions (gen Y). It's all the black establishment and the US government keeping the chaos going. And holidays? Having a black holiday is just asking to have every race wanting thier peice of the pie, which requires that they realize that being a distinct race matters, which creates racism. Racism, as in the belief that race matters when distinguishing between people, not as in "ooohhh she said something mean about me because of my race." But, if no one cares about distinguishing by race, then no one will insult according to race. It's about time everyone figures this out.

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Oh, yeah, and the Media needs to shut up about race too.

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Wow, MLIL, that's an excellent angle you just brought up. I feel I have become much, much more racist due to what I've learned about race in the public school system--not less, as is their intent. Before public school, black people were just humans with darker skin to me. Now, they are black people. The schools keep rubbing salt into the sores of the past by bringing it up again and again, saying how awful it is to behave that way towards each other...don't they know that humans are always tempted to behave in whatever way is forbidden to them? And that in informing people of a sin previously unknown, they have given new life to an otherwise eradicated illness? Kids will experience certain groups' disdain for each other in their own social interactions. Teachers would be much, much better off working out the basic solutions to this kind of thing using the situations at hand as examples. Building good character in that way would prevent strife between factions later in life rather than emphasize it.

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The "doomed to repeat it" line is a popular one...but from what I've seen, bad things repeat themselves in history whether we know about them or not, because they always take a slightly different form which people don't recognize. It is core values that must be changed; more education does NOT automatically solve the world's problems, contrary to VERY popular belief.