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Makes one stop and think after reading this:
Michael Richards is better known as Kramer from TV's Seinfeld series.

This was his defense speech in court after making racial comments in his?comedy act.
He makes some very interesting points. He said :
I'm proud To Be White
Someone finally said it.
How many are actually paying attention to this ?
There are African Americans, Mexican Americans,
Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc.
And then there are just Americans.
You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.
You Call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker,' 'Honkey,'
'Whitey,' 'Caveman' ... and that's OK.

But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head,
Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner , Gook, or Chink ...
You call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you,
so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to li ve ?

You have the United Negro College Fund.
You have Martin Luther King Day.
You have Black History Month.
You have Cesar Chavez Day.
You have Yom Hashoah.
You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.
You have the NAACP.
You have BET.
If we had WET (White Entertainment Television) we 'd be racists.
If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
If we had White History Month , we'd be racists.
If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance'
OUR lives we'd be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and
then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that ?

A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant,
but any color can be in the Miss America pageant. If we had a college fund
that only gave white students scholarships you know we'd be racists. There
are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US . Yet if there were
'White colle ges' T HAT would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race
and rights. If we marched for our race and rights,
you would call us racists. You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and
orange, and you're not afraid to announce it.
But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.

You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us.

But , when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or
beats up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a
threat to society, you call him a racist.
I am proud.
But you call me a racist.
Why is it that only whites can be racists?

Midwest Flooding


... As you watch the flooding in the Midwest , have you noticed
that there are no farmers running around with stolen plasma TVs or
holding stolen liquor over their heads?

There's no looting or yelling "Where's Bush?", "Where's FEMA?,
Where's my check?", or "Why isn't the Government out here saving
me and my farm?"

Likewise, I've also noticed there are no reports of any other
country coming to help or sending aid.

And where are Reverends Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton? Both famous
for their conspiracy theories, and always find some way to correlate everything
that goes on in this country to the way black people are treated. Please. You
both are part of the problem, give it a rest already.

When New Orleans flooded, it was touted by the media as a racist
plan to wipe out black people. Now that white people are getting flooded,
the media needs to investigate, right? But, who?

I heard a dimwit talking head on CNN yesterday say that this
reminded him of New Orleans . How?

Outside of being flooded the similarity stops there. There is no
looting, no people wandering the streets looking for meanness, no
grocery carts being shoved through the water carrying stolen big
screen TVs, no people sitting on the tops of their houses waiting on the
government to come and get them, or police abandoning their posts.

There are no Iowans bitching how the government and George Bush
is failing them. There is not one single thing, other than water,
that is similar to New Orleans .

The streets in Des Moines are empty. People left when they were
told to evacuate. They didn't whine, bitch or blame the government for
the broken levees. They did what responsible people do in a crisis,
they acted responsibly.

The actions of the people of Des Moines only makes the actions
of the people of New Orleans look like what it was.....people of several
generations of dependency on government unable to depend upon
themselves to save themselves.

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