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Just like how Obama didn't call the BLM protester who killed 5 cops in Dallas a terrorist.

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Yes, yes, you want to make them out to be terrorists so you can dismiss and ignore them further.

"Oh, but that's different!" No, it really isn't.

Ok, tell us what isn't different about the actual response by Obama versus Trump. Compare and contrast.

Both BLM and the Nazis need to go...they're both breeding violent, hate-filled people.

All evidence indicates that Micah Xavier Johnson had mental health issues that long predated the formation of BLM, with no substantial connection to the movement.

That's why those lawsuits keep losing.

White POWER!!!

Clayton Bigsby oblg ref.

My all-time favorite Chappelle bit!

White POWER!!!

Clayton Bigsby oblg ref.

So you wish to implement fascism and have the state dictate who can work and where base on their ethnicity? Good luck firing Jews that exceed their quota (1.9% in the US). Also good luck firing 87% of the Blacks (13% in the US) employees at the all Black Entertainment Television.

LOL. You did not think this through.

In case anyone was wondering what this rapper, Chief Keef, is wanted for? He failed to show up for a pretrial hearing for a DUI charge (because he was working in California?).

While a DUI charge is serious and failing to show up for a court date is too, this does seem like an overreaction from the city and the police.

Maybe he wanted to prove a point about "women's rights" to the women.

I remember years back, when all the talk was how sports clubs for men, 'the old boys network', was illegal and discriminatory, and how no sports club could ban women.

Today there are thousands of female-only fitness centres across the country.

Don't forget other things like how its illegal to have a white only scholarship, but perfectly ok to have a Racial/ethnic only scholarship, if you tried making a 'White Entertainment Television' it'd be shut down before it started but its perfectly fine to have a Black Entertainment Television, as you mentioned it's illegal to have a mens only fitness centre but perfectly fine to have a women's only fitness club. I think it was that one comment I overheard that put it best when applied to these kinds of things "Men can't say that because its sexist. But it's ok if we do because we're women."

I had no idea Rick Ross went after the CoS when not rapping.

Racism is in the eye of the beholder - and in the narrator.

Jon Stewart made a great comment when Obama visited Saudi Arabia:
Don't receive the first black president of the United States while you're wearing a white robe and hood

And don't be giving him no bling bling!

As a nigger, I must say that you even mentioning the word "race" is offensive to me.

Only those of African descent are allowed to say the word "nigger" and have a Black Entertainment Channel . Not only do you snotty-ass caucasians, littledick Asians, and fence-jumping Hispanics don't get your own racial entertainment channels, you're not even allowed to mention race; lest you be a raciss 'n' shit.

And don't forget the Crack VS Powder laws passed in the '80s where you would need 100 TIMES the amount in powder(used by whites) to equal the sentence given out for crack(used by blacks). While I agree we have come a long way,the drugs laws do screw the minorities a lot worse. I wonder if anyone has run the numbers to see what the incarceration rate is in black VS white with regards to drug cases? Because I bet the white guy gets to walk out a lot more than the black guy,if what I saw when I had to go to court was typical.

"I saw on another site people were trying to make it like this was racial profiling because the girl is brown-skinned. WTF?"

Pretty simple to understand.

If bad things happen to vaguely black-looking people in the USA these days, it's racial profiling. If you're muslim, mediterranean, aryan, or any other visible group, it's just life. If you're "African American" (including 1/74th black but excluding actual first-generation African immigrants or visitors), then it's ratial profiling. SOMEONE will take your side and jump up and down about the racially insensitive behaviour of the white oppressors.

Seriously when you look at it from the outside, the USA's hypersensitivity about anti-black racism is leading to pro-black racism to a degree that's almost unheard of in the rest of the world (outside of Zimbabwe, of course.)

From a Harvard study: As of 2005, the present proportion of black students at majority white schools "are a level lower than in any year since 1968." What isn't addressed is _why_ this is happening again--it's naturally assumed that the white oppressors (yes, them again!) are isolatiing themselves, but is it really?

Consider Black Entertainment Television." Could I get away with a "WTV. White TV for White Folks" channel in the USA? I doubt it. Then there's blacknews.com and blacknewsweekly.com, the latter of which would probably constitute hate-speech if it were anyone else writing it.

The USA has to get over itself. That's the short answer.

As much as I hate racial stereotyping, UPNs flagship shows have been typicaly targeted tward the urban African Americans. The only thing missing are commercials for StoveTop Cornbread. In fact, only BET shows these commercials dispite the fact that cornbread tastes a hell of alot better then their stuffing.

Try it!

Once you go black you won't go back.

The south is full of black people, and mostly we get along fine.

Well, they mostly do until they start having sex with white girls.

I see your points about Rush Limbaugh being an ignorant fool. I've listened to Rush's show and I see what you're talking about, but I've also heard many other broadcasters do the same, so I've grown somewhat accustomed to it. Limbaugh does have some points, and for all the negative about him, he does present a side of the story that you might not otherwise get from the generally liberal media.

Donovan McNabb is, indeed, overrated by the media. But it's not at all because of racial reasons at all. Let's face it, fans and sportscasters alike enjoy watching a quarterback who can scramble and can turn a play that looks like a sack into a big play to get positive yardage. It's not necessarily the greatest style of play, either, and is one that can lead to injury problems. Also, Philadelphia's defense really is underrated and doesn't get enough credit.

Now, what bothers me more is there's people who have said equally bad or worse things and there's been little to no fuss about it. Take Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez. He lashed out against ESPN in an expletive-filled tirade and yet nobody made a fuss about it. He accused ESPN, and specifically Peter Gammons, of being racist. Pedro claimed that Sammy Sosa was treated unfairly due to race. Martinez pretty much said that Barry Zito was overrated by the media because he's white. Nobody made a fuss about these comments. Absolutely nothing happened. And yet what he said was worse than what Rush said.

Cubs manager Dusty Baker also made some questionable comments about black players withstanding heat better than white players. There was some complaints about Baker, but not the outcry there was about Rush. He wasn't forced to resign. There was no suspension leveled against him by the Cubs or Major League Baseball.

Why is it we pick and choose who we're going to go after when they make possibly racist comments? All of these examples - Rush, Pedro, and Baker - made stupid comments, and all of them had the potential to be inflammatory. If we want to stop comments that may provoke racial tensions, we can't pick and choose who we stop and who we let go. If a fuss is going to be made about Rush's comments, we can't let Pedro or Baker off the hook, either.

Stupid comments like the ones mentioned above have no place in sports. Sports are constantly becoming more and more ethnically diverse, and as such, these comments have the potential to alienate more and more players.

It's perfectly okay for anyone to have those views. It's also okay for them to say what they thing. That's what the first amendment is all about. On the other hand, it's the right and responsibility of teams, leagues, and networks to encourage an attitude of ethnic tolerance in sports and to remove those who choose to say things that are racially inflammatory.

If Rush can't say it, why can Pedro or Dusty?

So this explains how 'music' groups like the BLackstreet Boys came into existence.

Now, every educated person knows that HIV is not limited to gay people, or to drug users, or to people who have anal sex. HIV is out there, and everybody is at risk of contracting it, though for the vast majority of people that risk is statistically insignificant.

But the notion, correct or incorrect, that HIV is confined to a particular group or that it's only transmitted by a particular illegal or socially unacceptable activity gives one pause. Is it really right to spend $X on AIDS research when one hundred times more people die of cancer or heart disease or stroke every year?

So let's get this straight: what you're implying is, that since AIDS is contracted mostly by poeple conducting "socially unaceptable" activities it's better to spend the money on curing cancer, heart diseases, etc.

So you're discriminating parts of the population based on your moral assumptions about acceptable/unacceptable behaviour and decide that the folks not living after your moral codex are less worthy of a cure for their illness (or an illness they're more likely affected by) than the rest. I don't know if that's what you intended to say, but that's the basic assumption that is part of your argument.

So unding or not funding AIDS-research is suddenly based on the moral views of those who decide where the funding goes. Well, maybe you're not the only one thinking along those lines, and the Bush administration is just pushing their moral views by basically hindering funding for AIDS-related research, or, to be more precise, for any research dealing with people engaged in "socially unacceptable behaviour".

Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!

• G -- 00
• A -- 01
• T -- 10
• C -- 11

This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .