On 10-22-10, EARL CROASMUN said to ROSS SAUER:  
    
  ~>  RC> You havent said a single word about Juan williams being canned.  
    
  ~> Why should I?  
  ~> While anti-Muslim stereotypes are the norm and encouraged at Faux "news,"  
  ~> at NPR they are verboten.  
    
  EC>You mean stereotypes like this from Jesse Jackson?  ""There is nothing  
  EC>more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street  
  EC>and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery," Jackson told the  
  EC>audience.  "Then look around and see somebody white and feel  
  relieved. . .  
  EC>. After all we have been through," he said. "Just to think we can't walk  
  EC>down our own streets, how humiliating.""  
    
  EC>Or President Obama's grandmother, "a woman who once confessed her fear of  
  EC>black men who passed by her on the street?"  "The point I was making was  
  EC>not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But  
  she  
  EC>is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street  
  that  
  EC>she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our  
  EC>experiences that don't go away"  
    
    
  When I drove for Yellow Cab down in the city of San Diego back in the late  
  1970's, there were areas of the city uniformed cops didn't go without two or  
  three two-man squad cars on one call. The cops all carried two or three  
  handguns on their person all the time! And those areas were NOT  
  predominately  
  Irish. They weren't predominately Scandinavian, either! NOR were they  
  Latino.  
    
    
  Facts are facts. To ignore the facts can be hazardous to your continued  
  existance.  
    
    
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