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• • 17 Feb 06
  • 5:26 pm

  oh...MY GOD!!! i thought Tina1's inane comment that africans in american had overcome because of some random football stats was bad, but KUYA...your advice that we Africans in America should suck it up and 'get over it' takes the cake. i take it you are White, and i can tell you this much, Africans in a American will only 'get over' racism and systematic discrimination when Europeans in American 'get over' being racist and systematically discriminating against us. The overwhelmingly WHITE government of this country throws a few civil rights and a couple-a-holidays in our laps like they lost a football …

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• • 20 Feb 06
  • 4:30 pm

  KUYA, you took the time to write a 657 word response (excluding 'hello anonymous lala'), so, i have read it carefully, and have given it thought before writing this response (keep in mind that i'm not trying to change your mind, as you did not change mine. Nevertheless, it is cathartic, as is your case i'm sure, to "put it out there"). While your response to my opinion is not as hate- filled, ill-informed and flat out ignorant as the overwhelming majority of white "thought" on the internet, it is nevertheless naive, and shows a blantant disregard (more like outright denial, …

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• • 21 Feb 06
  • 5:07 pm

  well, this is just to round off my part in the discussion based on this month old news article about black history month. BLACK HISTORY MONTH will be relevant as long as black people live in the united states. keep in mind, people migrate, people die, people move on...noone stays in one place. that has been proven throughout history. black people have been black for tens of thousands of years, and as black people, we will not be defined by, nor will anyone else with critical thinking skills define us, by that brief period in our ages-old history when we became …

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