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		<title>By: redkat</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-2/#comment-67487</link>
		<dc:creator>redkat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Redkat, you must have some special powers of vision to know what hue someoneâ€™s skin is by their posts on the internet. Not to mention being bizarrely off-topic and without precedent or logic in this thread.&quot;

Spoken like a true demi-god.  Who are you to claim it is without &quot;precedent&quot;?  Since you failed to respond and chose rather to &quot;avoid&quot; I would say you&#039;ve made my point for me.  Thank you so very much.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Redkat, you must have some special powers of vision to know what hue someoneâ€™s skin is by their posts on the internet. Not to mention being bizarrely off-topic and without precedent or logic in this thread.&#8221;</p>
<p>Spoken like a true demi-god.  Who are you to claim it is without &#8220;precedent&#8221;?  Since you failed to respond and chose rather to &#8220;avoid&#8221; I would say you&#8217;ve made my point for me.  Thank you so very much.</p>
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		<title>By: RedBeard</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-2/#comment-67436</link>
		<dc:creator>RedBeard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Um... redkat... white folks think that racism doesn&#039;t exist?  I must have missed the memo.  Can you post a copy?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Um&#8230; redkat&#8230; white folks think that racism doesn&#8217;t exist?  I must have missed the memo.  Can you post a copy?</p>
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		<title>By: Christopher Taylor</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-2/#comment-67430</link>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Taylor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Redkat, you must have some special powers of vision to know what hue someone&#039;s skin is by their posts on the internet.  Not to mention being bizarrely off-topic and without precedent or logic in this thread.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Redkat, you must have some special powers of vision to know what hue someone&#8217;s skin is by their posts on the internet.  Not to mention being bizarrely off-topic and without precedent or logic in this thread.</p>
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		<title>By: Improbulus Maximus</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-2/#comment-67417</link>
		<dc:creator>Improbulus Maximus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know what was intended by the show&#039;s producers, and though I haven&#039;t seen it, I have seen the promo spots, and I wouldn&#039;t waste a minute on it if I had the time, which I don&#039;t, but at least it&#039;s got people talking about how stupid racial stereotypes are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know what was intended by the show&#8217;s producers, and though I haven&#8217;t seen it, I have seen the promo spots, and I wouldn&#8217;t waste a minute on it if I had the time, which I don&#8217;t, but at least it&#8217;s got people talking about how stupid racial stereotypes are.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-1/#comment-67414</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I easily resisted watching this show. It actually looks like the safe race discussion talks that we are allowed to have, and those just do nothing for me.

Now if they did a show where an Aisian family and a Hispanic family switched places, that would actualy be interesting to me. That at least would be something new.

Let me ask, do you think this show is something for white liberals who long for the experience of being black?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I easily resisted watching this show. It actually looks like the safe race discussion talks that we are allowed to have, and those just do nothing for me.</p>
<p>Now if they did a show where an Aisian family and a Hispanic family switched places, that would actualy be interesting to me. That at least would be something new.</p>
<p>Let me ask, do you think this show is something for white liberals who long for the experience of being black?</p>
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		<title>By: redkat</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-1/#comment-67381</link>
		<dc:creator>redkat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love the way white people declare themselves to be these self-righteous,non-racist, moralistic demigods.  Ever ask yourself WHY black people think racism is occurring in subtle ways?  Because about 50 years ago it was a crime to ride at the front of the bus, it was a crime to drink from a water fountain, go to a school IF you were black.  It took violent protests (water hoses, german shepherds...nuff said)and organized activism just to get the attention of local and federal government.  Now, take into consideration that white people were so strongly against the integration of &quot;ex-slaves&quot; into society that they took it upon themselves to lynch and hang, murder activist leaders, murder civil rights activists and bomb their places of worship.  I could go on but you get the picture.  Now here&#039;s your homework assignment (whites only) Go ask your parents, grandparents and great grandparents if they&#039;ve ever been escorted to school by the National Gaurd.  Afterwards, we can talk about how silly it is for blacks to believe racism is alive and kicking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the way white people declare themselves to be these self-righteous,non-racist, moralistic demigods.  Ever ask yourself WHY black people think racism is occurring in subtle ways?  Because about 50 years ago it was a crime to ride at the front of the bus, it was a crime to drink from a water fountain, go to a school IF you were black.  It took violent protests (water hoses, german shepherds&#8230;nuff said)and organized activism just to get the attention of local and federal government.  Now, take into consideration that white people were so strongly against the integration of &#8220;ex-slaves&#8221; into society that they took it upon themselves to lynch and hang, murder activist leaders, murder civil rights activists and bomb their places of worship.  I could go on but you get the picture.  Now here&#8217;s your homework assignment (whites only) Go ask your parents, grandparents and great grandparents if they&#8217;ve ever been escorted to school by the National Gaurd.  Afterwards, we can talk about how silly it is for blacks to believe racism is alive and kicking.</p>
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		<title>By: Raymond B</title>
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		<dc:creator>Raymond B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You got that right, the show does nothing for racial relations, or humans. The show just looks to exploit stereotypes while flying under the guise of trying to teach us something, I ain&#039;t buying their bull. The show stinks and so does its premise. I get more out of the cartoon channel.
Raymond B
www.voteswagon.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You got that right, the show does nothing for racial relations, or humans. The show just looks to exploit stereotypes while flying under the guise of trying to teach us something, I ain&#8217;t buying their bull. The show stinks and so does its premise. I get more out of the cartoon channel.<br />
Raymond B<br />
<a href="http://www.voteswagon.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.voteswagon.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Wayne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One question: Why did they have to pick a white family from California of all places on earth?? White people from California? They might as well have picked a French-Canadian &quot;alternative lifestyle&quot; family from Montreal. 

Why didn&#039;t they come to the Midwest, or somewhere where there are &quot;normal&quot; white humans. You know, the kind of folks who aren&#039;t crass, arrogant, self-centered, hedonistic, obnoxious, immoral, socialist-educated examples of moonbat thinking. Just the usual uneducated, unenlightened, stereotyping rednecks.

I&#039;ve spent too much time spent dealing with &quot;enlightened&quot; white people from the Peoples Paradise Republic of California. They&#039;re almost as obnoxious as people from Madison, Wisconsin!!
The joy of being looked on as a devolved barbarian by people who are so smug in the righteousness of their own mental beauty brings up my cookies faster than a bottle of Ipacac.

They are twice as racist in their condensation than is the most reactionary redneck I have met. 

The thing that amazes me is how quickly normal folks from the flyover states who move out there end up acting and thinking like this. Its like there is a moonbat virus in Cali. They move to Cali and boom, they all become Sheryl Crow. Come to think of it...Sheryl Crow was from Missouri!!!

Its insidious!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One question: Why did they have to pick a white family from California of all places on earth?? White people from California? They might as well have picked a French-Canadian &#8220;alternative lifestyle&#8221; family from Montreal. </p>
<p>Why didn&#8217;t they come to the Midwest, or somewhere where there are &#8220;normal&#8221; white humans. You know, the kind of folks who aren&#8217;t crass, arrogant, self-centered, hedonistic, obnoxious, immoral, socialist-educated examples of moonbat thinking. Just the usual uneducated, unenlightened, stereotyping rednecks.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve spent too much time spent dealing with &#8220;enlightened&#8221; white people from the Peoples Paradise Republic of California. They&#8217;re almost as obnoxious as people from Madison, Wisconsin!!<br />
The joy of being looked on as a devolved barbarian by people who are so smug in the righteousness of their own mental beauty brings up my cookies faster than a bottle of Ipacac.</p>
<p>They are twice as racist in their condensation than is the most reactionary redneck I have met. </p>
<p>The thing that amazes me is how quickly normal folks from the flyover states who move out there end up acting and thinking like this. Its like there is a moonbat virus in Cali. They move to Cali and boom, they all become Sheryl Crow. Come to think of it&#8230;Sheryl Crow was from Missouri!!!</p>
<p>Its insidious!!</p>
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		<title>By: rigel</title>
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		<dc:creator>rigel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I haven&#039;t seen the show, one of the people i chat with tells me i should have.  I thought it would be artificial and I think that simply changing the skin tone of people doesn&#039;t quite reflect how one experiences the cultural environment.  

For example, I&#039;m a 47 year old african american married to a irish lapsed catholic from boston...  One of the things my wife noticed when we first used to go out was how slow service seemed in restaurants.  She asked me simply if I&#039;ve noticed that service was slow...my response was, I don&#039;t see any difference in service.   She clued in that service may have been slowing down because of racism on the part of restaurant staff...I told her simply that may be...but that it might be due to the fact that you&#039;re focused in on the possibility of being adversely impacted because of race.  In any event I told her I was intent on enjoying my dinner with her and not worry about the issue because the worrying just made me worse off.

Life is too ambiguous in most instances to know if any slight is due to racism or due to something else.  If you spend all your time worrying about it, then you make yourself worse off.  My strategy is to be cognizant of the possibility but not a prisoner of it.

Rigel</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t seen the show, one of the people i chat with tells me i should have.  I thought it would be artificial and I think that simply changing the skin tone of people doesn&#8217;t quite reflect how one experiences the cultural environment.  </p>
<p>For example, I&#8217;m a 47 year old african american married to a irish lapsed catholic from boston&#8230;  One of the things my wife noticed when we first used to go out was how slow service seemed in restaurants.  She asked me simply if I&#8217;ve noticed that service was slow&#8230;my response was, I don&#8217;t see any difference in service.   She clued in that service may have been slowing down because of racism on the part of restaurant staff&#8230;I told her simply that may be&#8230;but that it might be due to the fact that you&#8217;re focused in on the possibility of being adversely impacted because of race.  In any event I told her I was intent on enjoying my dinner with her and not worry about the issue because the worrying just made me worse off.</p>
<p>Life is too ambiguous in most instances to know if any slight is due to racism or due to something else.  If you spend all your time worrying about it, then you make yourself worse off.  My strategy is to be cognizant of the possibility but not a prisoner of it.</p>
<p>Rigel</p>
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		<title>By: Everyday Thoughts Collected</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-1/#comment-67314</link>
		<dc:creator>Everyday Thoughts Collected</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Tammy Bruce Rocks&lt;/strong&gt;

As much as I disagree with Tammy on a couple of issues, I still deeply respect her courage and intellect. Here lately she has chosen to highlight two women I truly appreciate. Her willingness to bring attention to these women</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Tammy Bruce Rocks</strong></p>
<p>As much as I disagree with Tammy on a couple of issues, I still deeply respect her courage and intellect. Here lately she has chosen to highlight two women I truly appreciate. Her willingness to bring attention to these women</p>
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		<title>By: SickAndTired</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-1/#comment-67300</link>
		<dc:creator>SickAndTired</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Frankly, I have a desire to wash my hands after touching anyone&#039;s hands, even my own.  Wish I could have gone to etiquette class, sheesh!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frankly, I have a desire to wash my hands after touching anyone&#8217;s hands, even my own.  Wish I could have gone to etiquette class, sheesh!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I found one portion of the show particularly revealing.  Brian and Bruno were talking about racist  experiences that Brian had suffered through.  He specifically cited getting poor or slow service while trying to shop.  Bruno then went shopping and a salesman approached him after a short period of time.  Brian then complained that this salesman was being racist by coming over so quickly.  He asserted that the salesman was checking Bruno out and sizing him up.  I got the impression from Brian that he sees racism everywhere.  In the case of shopping if you get slow service the salesmen are racist because they don&#039;t like black people and don&#039;t want to serve them. If you get fast service they are racist because they are checking black people out and thinking they might steal something.  It seems that no matter what the response Brian would see racism in what happened in the store.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found one portion of the show particularly revealing.  Brian and Bruno were talking about racist  experiences that Brian had suffered through.  He specifically cited getting poor or slow service while trying to shop.  Bruno then went shopping and a salesman approached him after a short period of time.  Brian then complained that this salesman was being racist by coming over so quickly.  He asserted that the salesman was checking Bruno out and sizing him up.  I got the impression from Brian that he sees racism everywhere.  In the case of shopping if you get slow service the salesmen are racist because they don&#8217;t like black people and don&#8217;t want to serve them. If you get fast service they are racist because they are checking black people out and thinking they might steal something.  It seems that no matter what the response Brian would see racism in what happened in the store.</p>
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		<title>By: Creative Dude</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-1/#comment-67298</link>
		<dc:creator>Creative Dude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is not quite as simple as that Andrew.  Working hard, waiting for marriage, and learning to take responsibility all improve your chance of doing well. There are also hard working people who meet those criteria that will struggle.  To maximize our chances is a good thing.  Believing it will always lead to success is not.  On the other hand, all of those things help us to achieve happiness even if we do not make that money.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is not quite as simple as that Andrew.  Working hard, waiting for marriage, and learning to take responsibility all improve your chance of doing well. There are also hard working people who meet those criteria that will struggle.  To maximize our chances is a good thing.  Believing it will always lead to success is not.  On the other hand, all of those things help us to achieve happiness even if we do not make that money.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Bosee</title>
		<link>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/03/15/black-white-shallow-and-pointless/comment-page-1/#comment-67295</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Bosee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>La Shawn, here&#039;s my idea for a reality show about racial/cultural diversity: take two four member American families, one census-defined as black, the other census-defined as white, and drop them off in the middle of Mongolia! Their differences would disappear faster than I can make Yak butter!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La Shawn, here&#8217;s my idea for a reality show about racial/cultural diversity: take two four member American families, one census-defined as black, the other census-defined as white, and drop them off in the middle of Mongolia! Their differences would disappear faster than I can make Yak butter!</p>
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		<title>By: RedBeard</title>
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		<dc:creator>RedBeard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Too bad this goofy production is supposed to be serious.  If it were a satire, it might be funny.  Remember Steve Martin in &lt;em&gt;The Jerk&lt;/em&gt; thinking he was born &quot;a poor black child?&quot; 


Navin:  &quot;It&#039;s like I don&#039;t fit in. It&#039;s like I don&#039;t belong here.&quot;
 
Mother: &quot;It&#039;s your birthday, and it&#039;s time you knew. Navin, you&#039;re not our natural born child.&quot;

Navin: &quot;I&#039;m not?&quot;

Mother: &quot;You were left on our doorstep. But we raised you like you were one of us.&quot;

Navin: &quot;You mean I&#039;m going to stay this color? (Navin cries)&quot;

Mother: &quot;Navin, I&#039;d love you if you were the color of a baboon&#039;s ***.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too bad this goofy production is supposed to be serious.  If it were a satire, it might be funny.  Remember Steve Martin in <em>The Jerk</em> thinking he was born &#8220;a poor black child?&#8221; </p>
<p>Navin:  &#8220;It&#8217;s like I don&#8217;t fit in. It&#8217;s like I don&#8217;t belong here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mother: &#8220;It&#8217;s your birthday, and it&#8217;s time you knew. Navin, you&#8217;re not our natural born child.&#8221;</p>
<p>Navin: &#8220;I&#8217;m not?&#8221;</p>
<p>Mother: &#8220;You were left on our doorstep. But we raised you like you were one of us.&#8221;</p>
<p>Navin: &#8220;You mean I&#8217;m going to stay this color? (Navin cries)&#8221;</p>
<p>Mother: &#8220;Navin, I&#8217;d love you if you were the color of a baboon&#8217;s ***.</p>
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