Our New Openly Racist World

LOL. I hope someday that equality means being able to take a joke at your own expense.

I hope it means that we one day don't need to pretend to be color blind. We can see the colors we all come in and love and appreciate each other.

FYI Good Ol Boy:
Good ol' boy describes a system of social networking and perceptions alleged to exist prevalently among certain communities and social strata in the United States. Although the term originated in the South, these networks can be found throughout the U.S. and the rest of the Western world. It is typically taken to refer to informal legal, judicial, social, religious, business, and political associations among white males ("good ol' boys"); however, in modern times can be composed of either or both sexes. In some areas, the good ol' boy network is said to still exert considerable influence over many aspects of local government, business, and law enforcement. Usage of the term can often imply a wrongful exclusion of others from the network; however, often the emphasis is on inclusion of a member, as in, "doing a good ol' boy a favor".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_ol'_boy_network

Reich gave the good ol boy network a clear message.

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"Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need."

Marshall Rosenberg

Just the white good ol boy network. He was quite specifically racial about it.

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -Mark Twain

The good ol boy network needs to be shaken up once and awhile. No more business as usual.

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"Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need."

Marshall Rosenberg

The construction trade has few blacks report says:
http://transportationequity.org/inde...do_pdf=1&id=59

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"Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need."

Marshall Rosenberg

I hope you were able to catch the very nucanced expressions such as "alleged" "informal" "can be" "said to" "can often imply". I can't think of a case that I have come in contant with, but perhaps you can name some that have impeded your access.

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People are most conservative on issues that they know most about. --Ann Coulter

Blacks and women continue to lag behind in getting hired for construction trades.
Blacks, women lag behind in building jobs - USATODAY.com

Reich addressed this inequality in his speech. Some whites prefer to keep the construction trades the job domain of white guys only.

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"Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need."

Marshall Rosenberg

What kind of construction work do you do?

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People are most conservative on issues that they know most about. --Ann Coulter

in Saginaw, Michigan---

Can't they use a shovel or do they only teach that in white schools ?

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -Mark Twain

oh please---like they are just dying to get one---How can you buy into all this bullshit with a staight face ?

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -Mark Twain

this statement brings to mind a question. why are the mexicans in New Orleans re-building the city? doyathink?

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

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"Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need."

Marshall Rosenberg

Because the federal government suspended the wage laws in the area, IIRC.

Robert Reich wants to give some jobs to some people that aren’t white? Sounds like a good idea to me.

there are those who like discrimination.

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." -Mark Twain

This sounds like trying to make up for discrimination of the past by including blacks instead of excluding them.