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The Republican National Committee has clarified a tweet that erroneously declared racism over.

The original message, published on Sunday, was meant to commemorate the 58th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Instead, it suggested that the civil rights movement Parks was part of ultimately ended racism.

The original tweet: "Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism."


The tweet — which included (the above) quote from Parks — did not sit well with many Twitter users, who responded with a mix of snark and sarcasm:

"Oh racism ended. Thanks for the update!"

"...ending racism." Not."

"Seriously?“

"RACISM IS OVER?! *ENTERS BASS PRO SHOP TO SEE IF IT'S TRUE*"

"Why is this upsetting people? Racism IS over; I've never suffered from it in my life."

"GOP It's ok, we don't need you winning an election anytime soon anyway. Keep up the thoughtful tweets."

The RNC clarified its tweet several hours later, though it did not delete the original:

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Previous tweet should have read "Today we remember Rosa Parks' bold stand and her role in fighting to end racism."

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http://news.yahoo.com/rnc-racism-over-tweet-rosa-parks-150743320.html

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism."

I don't think this needs the 'clarification' they gave it. It's pretty clear - it's just wrong.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Some individuals will be racists as long as there are racial differences, but the courage of Ms. Parks and many others removed racism from the laws of the land.

Strange that you can't acknowledge this.

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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
That's not what they said, though, they said racism. And there are a lot more issues connected to it than either racist laws or openly racist individuals. Strange that you can't acknowledge this.

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Originally posted by Geezer:


I'm old enough to have seen bathrooms and water fountains labeled "Black" and "White", and to have gone to segregated schools. The makeup of the groups of kids I see walking home from school today, and the diversity of folks in my neighborhood, tells me that those days are past.

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

Horse shit Geezer.

One need only look at the GOP and listen to their bullshit babble for fifteen minutes to know this issue is far, far from over.
Of course, if they *HAD* anything to offer minorities it'd be a different story, but these days it's all they can do to trot out a few offensively stereotypical uncle toms doing the old negro shuffle, like Herman Cain, and seriously, that was just downright embarassing.

Me, I favor simply IGNORING race instead of making it a factor whatever, but alas no one else seems on board with that notion.

-F

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Amen to Frem and Mark. Racism is alive and well, tolerated and encouraged, in America today.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Your bias is amazing, and despicable.

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OVER THE YEARS, Marion Barry has said and done so many questionable things that the city whose politics he long dominated has become inured to his behavior. But his racist remarks this week about Asian Americans — and his oblivious response — are too ugly to ignore. On Tuesday Ward 8 Democrats looked past his failings to nominate him to a third consecutive term on the D.C. Council, but that doesn’t mean that the rest of the District and its political leaders should excuse his behavior.

Mr. Barry used the occasion of a victory party Tuesday to make this ignorant observation: “We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops. They ought to go, I’ll just say that right now, you know.” The bigoted remarks were picked up by WRC-TV cameras and, fortunately, sparked a fair amount of outrage. Among those objecting, to their credit, were Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) and D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown (D). They made clear, as the mayor put it, that “there is no room in this wonderfully diverse city for comments that disparage anyone on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, creed, disability or sexual orientation.”

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For the second time in less than a month, D.C. Council member Marion Barry is having to fend off criticism that he unfairly singled out an ethnic group as he attempted to explain how to get more African Americans trained and employed in the District.

At a hearing Monday on the University of the District of Columbia’s budget, he spoke about the need to train more African Americans to become nurses. In a video of his remarks aired by WTTG-TV, Barry noted a growing number of nurses are “immigrants” from the Philippines.

“f you go to the hospital now, you’ll find a number of immigrants who are nurses, particularly from the Philippines,” said Barry (D-Ward 8). “And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses, and so that we don’t have to go scrounging in our community clinics and other kinds of places, having to hire people from somewhere else.”

The National Federation of Filipino American Associations called Barry’s remarks “racist” and “bigoted.”

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism."

I don't think this needs the 'clarification' they gave it. It's pretty clear - it's just wrong.

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I could get mad at myself for not making an effort to hang out with any of them outside of work, but these days it's a chore for my family sometimes to make sure I make it to family holiday gatherings.

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I've never successfully dropped an active chainsaw from 15 stories

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Originally posted by AURaptor:



Good grief. T'was a minor faux pas on twitter.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Cypher is the epitome of the blue pill addict.

He doesn't care to know the truth, even when he's living in it. It's too hard to do the work required to form reality as it is. He wants the quick fix. To be drawn into the machine again, and just enjoy the delusion of all being just right w/the world.



Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
That's not what they said, though, they said racism. And there are a lot more issues connected to it than either racist laws or openly racist individuals. Strange that you can't acknowledge this.

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I'm old enough to have seen bathrooms and water fountains labeled "Black" and "White", and to have gone to segregated schools. The makeup of the groups of kids I see walking home from school today, and the diversity of folks in my neighborhood, tells me that those days are past.

I'm sure that there are racists in the U.S., but their power has waned to the point where they are figures of embarrassment rather than the figures of fear they were for so many years.

I understand that some folks have to keep the racist America stereotype up so they can paint folks who don't agree with them as racist, but that's more politics than reality.



"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Racism as a political force in this country is over. You can no longer make an appeal for votes based on racism and expect to gain more votes than you lose.

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Don't bother defending such comments or pictures, no matter if you said them, or someone on "your side." They are ultimately irrelevant to the conversation. Gotcha politics or "who does it more" demonstrates nothing and solves nothing.

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Originally posted by kpo:
Interesting view. No recognition or understanding of the enduring subtle, unspoken, coded forms of racism. For you racism = segregation, white robes, lynchings etc. I can see why you think the battle is won.

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So list the "enduring subtle, unspoken, coded forms of racism" that are endemic in the U.S.

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Discrimination against blacks, Hispanics and Asians looking for housing persists in subtle forms, according to a new national study commissioned by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Though less likely to face overt obstacles, like being refused an appointment to see a home, minority customers were shown fewer available units than whites with similar qualifications, the study found.

They were also asked more questions about their finances, according to the study, and given fewer offers of help financing a loan.

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Two years ago, I noticed that Monster.com had added a “diversity questionnaire” to the site. This gives an applicant the opportunity to identify their sex and race to potential employers. Monster.com guarantees that this “option” will not jeopardize your chances of gaining employment. You must answer this questionnaire in order to apply to a posted position—it cannot be skipped. At times, I would mark off that I was a Black female, but then I thought, this might be hurting my chances of getting employed, so I started selecting the “decline to identify” option instead. That still had no effect on my getting a job. So I decided to try an experiment: I created a fake job applicant and called her Bianca White.

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The studies using consummated purchase data contain strikingly similar results to those of the audit studies, and together they provide compelling evidence that Blacks pay substantially more for cars than Whites. The existence of this price differential is consistent with claims of racial discrimination and effectively rebuts claims that the audit studies are flawed because they do not reflect bargaining tactics that minorities could use in traditional, face-to-face car sales that would nullify the impact of discrimination.

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As a young woman—Barbara—he said he was discouraged from setting his sights on MIT, where he ended up receiving his bachelor’s degree. Once there, he was told that a boyfriend must have solved a hard math problem that he had answered and that had stumped most men in the class. After he began living as a man in 1997, Barres overheard another scientist say, “Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but his work is much better than his sister’s work.”

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
White privelege ?

Nonsense. That's pure code for racism, straight up. Racism against whites.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
White privelege ?

Nonsense. That's pure code for racism, straight up. Racism against whites.

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White privelege ?

Nonsense. That's pure code for racism, straight up. Racism against whites.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Racism is like sexism. It still exists, and it still exists in the vast majority of people.

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Niki - the caveat in your little fairy tale is that it limits such things to " in here ". Sorry, there's a large world beyond this little forum, and many times over, I've heard Obamabots exclaim exactly that. If anyone doesn't agree w/ Obama, it's because of his race.

Oprah Winfrey ring a bell ?

"Probably it's crossed my mind more times than it's crossed your mind," she said. "I think that there is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There's no question about that and it's the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody's thinking it."



So, pardon my lack of clarification for you, but I don't always speak ONLY about what I see going on " here ".



Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Why I think the battle against racism is done is that most people I know judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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As usual, you want to believe absolutely the worst about people in general, so trying to point out that things have improved greatly on the racism (or sexism) front in the past half-century, say, is pretty much a waste of time.

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"Probably it's crossed my mind more times than it's crossed your mind," she said. "I think that there is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There's no question about that and it's the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody's thinking it."

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RAPPY

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"Probably it's crossed my mind more times than it's crossed your mind," she said. "I think that there is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There's no question about that and it's the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody's thinking it."

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Show how this is wrong. Provide studies, quotes, links- not just your *opinion*.

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Oprah is offering HER opinion, I don't see you demanding studies, quotes, links...

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Race baiting is a full blown industry now. Just ask Revs Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.

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White privelege ? (sic) Nonsense. That's pure code for racism, straight up. Racism against whites.

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You dismissing my POV out of hand, simply because I refuse to blindly buy into your warped position doesn't equate to " Q.E.D " Sorry, you make a false statement, I'm going to disagree. ... It's like trying to defend the baseless claim that conservatives ONLY reject Obama and his policies because of the color of his skin. Nothing could be further from the truth, but nothing will convince those who believe that it's "RACISM" , and not politics.

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I've heard Obamabots exclaim exactly that.[That conservatives reject Obama ONLY because of his skin color] If anyone doesn't agree w/ Obama, it's because of his race. Oprah Winfrey ring a bell ? "Probably it's crossed my mind more times than it's crossed your mind," she said. "I think that there is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There's no question about that and it's the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody's thinking it."

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Good grief. T'was a minor faux pas on twitter. Get a grip, folks. I'm sure you'd rather the GOP never even recognize Rosa Parks, huh?

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And I'm telling you, my opposition to Obama is based entirely on his POLITICS. If it were race, I'd not support Herman Cain and other black conservatives, so the entire issue is phony in its entirety.

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