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I think this is a sweeping generalization. It may be apparent in the media wiht the likes of Sharpton but everyday blacks don't think this way. Despite the fact that in everyday life people can be and often are racist. Just because a group of black kids are hanging out; they're expected to be rowdy and loud whether they are or not. Black teens are just as loud as white teens. Yet they're perceived differently due to their skin color. And honestly most young black people I know expect this discrimination and they just simply ignore it and don't let it phase how they act.

If you're frustrated about your status you're more likely to vent it out. Domestic violence can often be pinpointed to trying to establish control or substance abuse. Those two things result out of a loss of control or status.

An attitude approving of assault, murder and rape results from a mentality where a person can't legitimately create a positive status for themselves so they create a status by kicking a white guy's ass or raping a chick or murdering and robbing a local store. This is basic strain theory. Lives are put under stress and crime is an outward attempt to create meaning.

Africans enslaving Africans just like whites enslaved whites through the use of indentured servants or feudalism. Yeah? Back in the 1900s, they use to say Egypt was built by African slaves enslaved by Greeks yet that has been debunked. Just because Egypt was built on slavery doesn't mean we should ignore its achievements; instead, we should see that it didn't have to rely on slaves. Hasn't it been proven recently the pyramids weren't built by slaves?

Gang violence is an example of creating a status not based on income which the poor turn to. There has been studies like this questioning people in these types of situation. One example asked a guy why he stabbed someone he was stealing. He said the guy resisted, saw his face and he couldn't just let go of that money or let that guy live because of the environment he surrounded himself with. People would've kicked his ass, stabbed him, robbed him if he had not proven himself.

This isn't the right mentality but it results out of people trying to create a new status not based on income.

Cheney has outwardly said he supported waterboarding. Does that make him a war criminal? Has he done this prior to just a day ago?

He always has, no?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15433467/

I'd suggest a US version of www.arrestblair.org except you guys have guns, and so on, and so forth... They all deserve what they're never going to get.

Whites are in gangs. Whites do lash out on each other. The fact that you don't see how whites lash out violently at people due to status frustration is as one-sided as the liberal media you're bashing. Every lower class white person I'm sure knows someone who has been arrested for or been a victim of domestic violence, no?

People are structurally neglected from rising up despite the few who make it a majority can't. It's been proven. Maybe the few are better than the rest but I refuse to believe that. Whites, blacks, or other races whatever are all barred from equal statuses in different ways. You can't just tighten your belt to overcome discrimination based on race, sexuality or income. If you're making next to nothing you can't save. You won't have a belt to tighten.

Work ethic in the West results out of the education you have. Public schools in the inner city do not provide or even encourage the growth of a work ethic. If you're against public schools, you're an idiot. As far as I know, charter schools provide no way of improving poor schools; all they seek to do is remove the wealthiest of the public schools to the wealthiest of school districts. I have firsthand experience with Cincinnati's public schools so I know firsthand how blacks and whites, more black than whites due to the demographics, aren't encouraged or expected to develop a work ethic. We have problems that don't arise out of race and we need to raise people out of poverty to get to the roots of problems.

Are not more and more blacks going to universities? This won't continue as more and more people can raise themselves out of poverty. I'm sorry your tax dollars don't go to what you approve of. It's the plight of living under a democracy. I only hope the plans you disapprove of were supplemented by a strong pushes for opportunity so you're money isn't wasted; I just see those doors as closing as they should be opening.

Work ethic in the West results out of the education you have.

Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has called for a jihad or armed struggle against Switzerland branding it an "infidel state".

He said Muslims everywhere had a duty to act against the country, which he claimed had been destroying mosques.

"Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against (the Prophet) Mohammad, and God and the Koran," he told a meeting in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

In his rambling address he added: "The masses of Muslims must go to all airports in the Islamic world and prevent any Swiss plane landing, to all harbours and prevent any Swiss ships docking, inspect all shops and markets to stop any Swiss goods being sold."

Libya's relations with Switzerland broke down in 2008 when one of Colonel Gaddafi's sons, Hannibal, was arrested in a Geneva hotel and charged with assaulting a member of his staff.

He was detained for two days before being released, but in protest Libya cut oil supplies to Switzerland, withdrew billions of dollars from Swiss bank accounts and arrested two Swiss businessmen working in the North African country.

Gaddafi told supporters the Swiss referendum last year, in which 57.5 per cent of voters called for a ban on the construction of minarets, proved it was an "infidel state".

The federal government had however urged voters to reject the vote, warning it would contravene religious freedom.

But Gaddafi said: "Let us fight against Switzerland, Zionism and foreign aggression."

The Libyan dictator, who has been in power since 1969, said what he was proposing was not terrorism and he condemned the work of al-Qaeda branding it a "kind of crime and a psychological disease".

He told the crowd: "There is a big difference between terrorism and jihad which is a right to armed struggle."

The Swiss Foreign Ministry refused to comment on his remarks.