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bobevenson wrote:

Arising_uk wrote:Were you or were you not quoting this W.]Williams?

What the fuck do you mean, "this W. Williams"? I don't have to quote anybody, and if one quotes somebody, how does that become "plagiarism"? Try learning the English language, and I don't mean that British crap!

bobevenson wrote:

Greatest I am wrote: Black Police Affirmative Action would serve justice well.

The problem, of course, is teaching them to write tickets.

bobevenson wrote:How do you come to that conclusion when I'm always quoting Walter Williams?

Kayla wrote:twice in the past two weeks i had complete strangers look at me for a while and then aproach me and aks me if i was black or not

this is not a common thing but there was some statistical clustering

so what is a black person or a white person?

there are still living members of my family who think, and always thought of themselves, as white - and yet were accused of being black trying to pass for white, back in the day

my perceived race changes depending on what I do with my hair, and whether i take extra care to avoid getting tanned - i tan very easily

Arising_uk wrote:The interweeb loon shouts again!

Yes if you cherry pick his statements and apply them willy-nilly to support your racist aims.

So once again I please ask you to point me toward where you got Williams's words from so I can read them in context.

Kayla wrote:twice in the past two weeks i had complete strangers look at me for a while and then aproach me and aks me if i was black or not

this is not a common thing but there was some statistical clustering

so what is a black person or a white person?

there are still living members of my family who think, and always thought of themselves, as white - and yet were accused of being black trying to pass for white, back in the day

my perceived race changes depending on what I do with my hair, and whether i take extra care to avoid getting tanned - i tan very easily

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:

Kayla wrote:twice in the past two weeks i had complete strangers look at me for a while and then aproach me and aks me if i was black or not

this is not a common thing but there was some statistical clustering

so what is a black person or a white person?

there are still living members of my family who think, and always thought of themselves, as white - and yet were accused of being black trying to pass for white, back in the day

my perceived race changes depending on what I do with my hair, and whether i take extra care to avoid getting tanned - i tan very easily

Are there any normal people in your country?

Greatest I am wrote:

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:

Kayla wrote:twice in the past two weeks i had complete strangers look at me for a while and then aproach me and aks me if i was black or not

this is not a common thing but there was some statistical clustering

so what is a black person or a white person?

there are still living members of my family who think, and always thought of themselves, as white - and yet were accused of being black trying to pass for white, back in the day

my perceived race changes depending on what I do with my hair, and whether i take extra care to avoid getting tanned - i tan very easily

Are there any normal people in your country?

What is a normal person. We, all who are alive, are all descendants of black Africans.

Regards
DL

bobevenson wrote:Christ, I could give you the site that you can read Williams' column each week, but I know you're not interested in that since you're a socialist idiot. P.S. I don't cherry-pick anything, dum-dum.

Greatest I am wrote:What is a normal person. We, all who are alive, are all descendants of black Africans.

Regards
DL

Arising_uk wrote:

bobevenson wrote:Christ, I could give you the site that you can read Williams' column each week, but I know you're not interested in that since you're a socialist idiot. P.S. I don't cherry-pick anything, dum-dum.

Go on then and whilst you're at it highlight the one where you plagiarised his thought from as I'd like to read it in context.

bobevenson wrote:I've been printing the whole fucking columns from Williams, you godforsaken idiot!

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: What is it with people on here completely missing the point of blatantly obvious posts? To me, it's not NORMAL to ask a complete stranger what colour they are.

bobevenson wrote:

Brit Dems wrote:Yes.

Affirmative Action is a good tactic.

I think you mean a good racket.

United Nations[edit]
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination stipulates (in Article 2.2) that affirmative action programs may be required of countries that ratified the convention, in order to rectify systematic discrimination. It states, however, that such programs "shall in no case entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate rights for different racial groups after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved."[77]

The United Nations Human Rights Committee states that "the principle of equality sometimes requires States parties to take affirmative action in order to diminish or eliminate conditions which cause or help to perpetuate discrimination prohibited by the Covenant. For example, in a State where the general conditions of a certain part of the population prevent or impair their enjoyment of human rights, the State should take specific action to correct those conditions. Such action may involve granting for a time to the part of the population concerned certain preferential treatment in specific matters as compared with the rest of the population. However, as long as such action is needed to correct discrimination, in fact, it is a case of legitimate differentiation under the Covenant."[77]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmativ ... ed_Nations