Mr. Pink begs to differ:

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Isn't that gesture he is making in that photo considered obscene by at least one culture? I seem to recall it is.

@everyone: Ok, enough with the racial slurs... Even if the target group happens to be Caucasian. Its not nice.

On topic: I can't speak for other large cities, but Dallas, Tx seems to be somewhat quiet of late re: racist incidents. The city's population is majority-minority, and so is the police force. The last one I heard about was years ago, when Mr. John Wiley "King" Price (one of the Dallas County Commissioners) was staging a protest. I think it was at one of the local TV stations, where "King" Price was leading a protest over the station not employing enough African-Americans nor showing enough shows featuring African-Americans. I can't be sure, because "King" Price held several protests in succession back then, at that TV station, City Hall, and the local County (charity-case) Hospital (Parkland Hospital).

Anyway, "King" Price's protest was partially blocking the street, and when a woman attempted to get by in her car (in a peaceful, non-threatening way), "King" Price hopped up on the hood of her car and vandalized it, ripping off the car's windshield wipers. Why did he, a supposedly responsible Government Official, do this? The woman wasn't African-American. If she had been, they would have let her pass. This senseless act of racially-motivated violence helped to tone down "King" Price's high popularity, although he remains in office.

Now, there is still some racial tension in Dallas, but it is between the African-American and Hispanic communities, as the Hispanics have supplanted the African-Americans as the largest minority group in Dallas. Selection of the Superintendent of Dallas ISD tends to be quite lively. But the Dallas PD is very racially balanced, and I can't recall any 'racist incident' involving them in quite a number of years. There may have been a few, but if so they didn't receive wide press coverage.

I never said, that racism comes only from the white men.
The other ones can be racist too. Heck, there are Nazis & racists all over the world, in all colors! But before something can be done against them, we must fight discrimination in our own countries!

I'm against ALL discrimination.

All men are created equal.

That means to me, that all humans have the same rights, no matter which skin color or which gender or which origin or which health state... no matter what: a human being is a human being. My sibling in creation.

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can anyone name a racial term for white man

Gringo??? ;)

Peckerwood...

Wigger, White Trash, Redneck, WASP, Hillbilly, republican. The list is endless. ;)

Thank you for the list. Most of these will get a post deleted if used to describe someone or a group of people. Since it is a list of perjoratives and not being used in context, I will let it stand, (my fellow moderators may disagree).

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I'm against ALL discrimination.

All men are created equal.

That means to me, that all humans have the same rights, no matter which skin color or which gender or which origin or which health state... no matter what: a human being is a human being. My sibling in creation.

For once, at least, we are in total agreement, Thorin. To quote one of the greatest Civil Rights heros of the USA, a man that gave his life for what he believed in, here are a couple of excerpts from the best Civil Rights speech ever given in the USA, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech of Aug. 28, 1963.

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.
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Let freedom ring,

And when this happens,and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

I strongly urge each and every one of you to visit this link and read the speech and watch the video of it.

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/speech.htm

Martin Luther King
I have a dream speech
August 28, 1963
17 mins

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1732754907698549493&q=

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