Didn't you hear the news?

The supreme court is also ruling certain portions of a landmark civil rights act, the voting rights act unonstitutional because.... wait for it... here it is in all it's confounded glory.

To show where the court has the authority to sunset a law passed by Congress. He also failed at math when he said Congress relied on 40 year old data in 2006 when it relied on a formula established in 1975, especially when using the truthful 31 year charge would be nearly as effective.

This decision also looks to be in direct contradiction with the language of the 15th Amendment which would make it wrongly decided in any case, let alone the non-cited sunset provision in the Constitution. This decision is as laughable as Dred Scott, Bush v. Gore and Citizens United.

We've got a long, long, long way to go still before we reach Dr. King's dream.

In his mind at least. There's no reason why he should think it out of the ordinary. After all, that kind of thing is quite justifiable, because he "knows" that Black people are just itching to kill Whites at the drop of the hat.

Brown skin is something to be feared by White people, at least he's scared of Black perps ready to gun after him and others on sight.

Tell me again, how in the hell do these people even go out in public?

Fecus Maximus.

... and they're usually totally clueless as to how wrongheadedly racist and offensive they actually are.

but of course Zimmerman wasn't?

Huh?

What?

Please tell me I didn't read all that I just read. Sigh.

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Institutionalized racism isn't a very distant part of our past.

A friend of mine very recently bought a house. It was an older home, built in the 1920s. Among the paperwork he had to sign was a promise that he would never sell the house to any non-Caucasian. An attorney explained that the promise no longer was legally enforceable, but since it had been tied to the land (along with other covenants) decades before the paperwork just kept living on over time.

Really strange to think about that language still existing in this day and age, but there it was in a modern real estate transaction.

Unless the house is sold directly by the owner could real estate agents use this as a factor in which houses they show to minority buyers? Redlining has a long history in the real estate market, after all.

who has the ability to foreclose, but racist covenants apparently will never disappear. Fascinating.

That pretty much excludes everyone other than those from the Caucasus.
The irony there is rich.

Because the rest of us have to suffer their ineptitude.

We've met lots of racists in Florida, and many move to gated communities and have HOA that enforce the norms. Many are educated and would say they aren't "racists", but the truth could be called white flight in every way.

It's worse in SC and GA where we grew up, but Florida segregates neighborhoods and schools. Carlson is typical.

Unfortunately, unethical attorneys who happen to have connections with public attorneys love them because it's easy to control large numbers of people by separating the head from the body.

Unless you are already the kind of person who wants to be all up in everybody else's business anyway.

No a short leap to wanting to keep the neighborhood racially "pure" to keep those "undesirables" out.

In a planning and zoning board meeting a city manager was expressing the city's latest strategy. They had been stumped by a Master HOA for several years (Not that the city didn't deserve it) and so in January 1998 they finally came out and admitted that they had to get a better courtship with this Master HOA.

One of the P&Z members made this remark: "You move into (the community), you buy a house, become the president of the Homeowners' Association and you call your own shots."

That's exactly what is going on. And in a right-wing community every public organization that is legally obligated to protect you, will sell you out in order to court a better relationship with that president.

Read the read of his bagger garble. He also doesn't seem to know what month it is. And what's with it being under Home?Collections?Muslim Brotherhood?

June 13, 2013
Last week: The Zimmerman jurors rose above the prejudice of the judge, the drama-seeking media, the prosecutor, the vicious racism of the liberal establishment in Washington and sadly, that of a vocal segment of the black population. "Hold on," you might say, "What about white racism?" Reverse the color of Zimmerman and Martin. To have a black neighborhood watch guy would seem to be playing with fire. Would he be fair to a teenage white guy in a hoodie? Yes, it would be OK if the black watch guy was a regular cop, doing an off-duty detail. Otherwise, I would feel that the black guy might be prone to violence, racial hatred. I kept coming back to the fact that the prison population is predominantly black, and that violence against whites, by blacks, is a fact of life in our cities. The lack of family life, a father at home, seems to me to be a major factor contributing to black youth crime.

Dear Sir/Madam:



I just wanted to express my feelings and concerns about the opinions expressed by your current director and former President, Fred Carlson, in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel as it relates to the recent verdict in the George Zimmerman case.

The full quote, lest I be accused of taking Mr. Carlson out of context, is as follows:

"The Zimmerman jurors rose above the prejudice of the judge, the drama-seeking media, the prosecutor, the vicious racism of the liberal establishment in Washington and sadly, that of a vocal segment of the black population. "Hold on," you might say, "What about white racism?" Reverse the color of Zimmerman and Martin. To have a black neighborhood watch guy would seem to be playing with fire. Would he be fair to a teenage white guy in a hoodie? Yes, it would be OK if the black watch guy was a regular cop, doing an off-duty detail. Otherwise, I would feel that the black guy might be prone to violence, racial hatred. I kept coming back to the fact that the prison population is predominantly black, and that violence against whites, by blacks, is a fact of life in our cities. The lack of family life, a father at home, seems to me to be a major factor contributing to black youth crime."

Of my greatest concern is Mr. Carlson's belief that a black neighborhood watchman would automatically be pre-disposed to engage in acts of racially motivated violence, apparently solely on the basis of his race.

Now it is true that Mr. Carlson, as a citizen of this country, has the right to express his opinions in any way without fear of criminal punishment or civil sanction from the government. And the Sun-Sentinel has the right to publish those opinions without similar recourse. Both of those rights are guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

However, it should be noted that your organization-the Central Broward Alliance-is not the public government, but instead a private entity.Furthermore, you are an umbrella group of various homeowners organizations. I am assuming that in the various communities that make up the Central Beach Alliance, there are representatives of a wide multitude of races and ethnicities, including African Americans. Would you have any doubt that they would likely feel uncomfortable to have their own character prejudged simply on the basis of their skin color? Would you blame them for feeling such a way?

While I realize that Mr. Carlson was likely speaking on an individual capacity (although his affiliation with the Central Beach Alliance was noted by the Sun-Sentinel), what sort of message is being sent to the African American residents in your communities when a member of your own board of directors is espousing beliefs that are-bluntly speaking-highly offensive and highly racist?

In his biography on the Sun-Sentinel website, Mr. Carlson lists himself as your organization's liaison to the Fort Lauderdale city government. At some point you have to ask yourself: Is this the type of person we as a group want representing us to the public?

Apparently, Mr. Carlson is Ivy-League educated and enjoyed a long, successful career in the financial sector in New York. He should know better. But-apparently-he did not.

I cannot tell you how you as an organization approach Mr. Carlson's comments. Whether Mr. Carlson remains as a director and/or as a liaison to the city government is entirely up to you. However, at the very least, the proper thing to do would be to issue a statement on behalf of the CBA strongly condemning Mr. Carlson's contemptible views, and re-iterating to the community that you are an association of communities welcoming to all races, ethnicities, religions, genders and orientations.

For the record, I am not a resident of any community within the Central Beach Alliance. Also for the record, I am white. I write to you today only as a concerned private citizen who believes in doing the right thing. And the right thing most certainly needs to be done in this instance.

Thank you kindly,

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Cowards.

That's awful.

who'll be gone soon. Let's hope those prehistoric beliefs die with others like him.

this racist writes a column for that magazine which describes itself in this way:
"CITYVIEW is the premium, upscale newsmagazine profiling the people, politics, business and fun things to do in NE Fort Lauderdale and around the city! It's the best of a full-featured city magazine with the 'up-close and personal' touch of local writers, businesses and neighborhood contributors.
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Copied them on that.

nature of their area feels comfortable with such extreme racism out of a regular columnist is shocking to me.

Again, please elaborate.

You can't just throw it out there, "He's right" and not elaborate.

So just for the record, are you saying that a black person is too risky to serve as a neighborhood watchman because he may be blinded by racial hatred and is inherently more violent than white people?

But he's far too cowardly come out and actually say it. So he leaves it implied.

Never mind.

Doesn't make sense, and this point I don't need to try to make it make sense.

Just so you know, pretty much everyone on this thread HAS read the article and recognized it for the racist bullshit that it is. You can back this guy up but are so cowardly that you can't even explain why you defend such racist tripe. At least it's becoming far easier to weed out the racists around here.

even though you agree with his racist sentiments...right?

If you're agreeing with his racist sentiment, perhaps you're at the wrong website.

One winter, when my aunt and uncle were visiting, my aunt, a lifetime New Yorker (emigrated from Poland with my grandparents at age 6), took a city bus. As was her custom, she sat in the back. The driver informed her he could not move the bus until she moved to the white section in the front. She moved to the front, but swore she would never move to Florida. My uncle won that argument, and they both lived out their lives in Miami, but she remained true blue and colorblind until the end of her life.

Once when I was visiting her, my cousin, her only son, came over. He had moved to Fl. as a young man. All of a sudden, he starts railing about "the blacks." My aunt rolled her eyes and dragged her arthritic body out of the room. I told him he was disrespecting cultural differences just like people do when they make nasty remarks about us (Jews,) and that he had become quite a racist. No way, he boomed, "they" just expect to be handed everything.

Later, my aunt told me she hated it there, but her grandchildren were attentive and loving and nothing like their father, and she was right. They are both still in Florida trying to turn this ugly tide.

He's just one more insecure white man who is terrified that black people do to him what was and continues to be done to us for centuries.

You just said "get over it" to a black person when referring to slavery. What's even more sick is that 5 DUers thinks it's okay.

You don't belong here...

I hope everyone here is taking notes on this one.

Wow, what a piece of shit. You've already demonstrated your KKK bona-fides in this thread. Did you get lost on your way to Stormfront or something? Creep.

i have neighbors who retired here from ny. he was a fireman and she was a teacher. both are anti-union and as rw as you can get. go figure.

Blacks, Hispanics.....he once said he'll "tolerate the jews", etc.

And he's a cop.

never ceases to amaze me zimmerman isn't a racist...but if he was black, he would probably be racist

I clicked that this was a Florida story.

My racist uncle was explaining to me patiently and condescendingly how hoodies are suspicious and why it would not be suspicious for a white person to wear one. Namely that blacks wear them in hot weather to disguise who they are as they commit crimes. When asked if white men wearing them in hot weather would be suspicious, he said white men weren't that stupid and therefore wouldn't be wearing one.

And then add in the sexism. Anyone without a father at home will obviously be violent.