You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

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Originally Posted by Ineffable

I really wish someone would assassinate Jackson already. I am black and I still know he is an idiot. I agree with nhgunnut, the healthcare bill is complete shit. I haven't seen the latest polls but last I heard something like 60% of Americans don't support it. People like Jackson and Sharpton are what keep racism alive today. A KKK member stands on the street corner screaming that blacks should be killed is ignored and just considered crazy, one of those two idiots gets on a pulpit and says something then every undereducated black person starts bitching about inequality and how the white man is keeping them down. Last time I checked you could opt out of putting your race on a job application (it only helps anyways to fill 'quotas') and race isn't an issue in obtaining student loans or bettering yourself.

It seems to me that race not being an issue is exactly the problem in Jackson's/Sharpton's eyes. They want there to be advantages for those who check the "African American" box that aren't available for others. While I understand why they want it I still can't bring myself to agree with it.