MrRain422

*grumble*

Oh wow. I hope Kate wasn't watching that.

I hate Jason Grilli so much.

Close enough.

Homerun Cabrera!

Verlander = lights out

I can't find my Tigers animated avatar thingy anywhere.

Let the Miguel Cabrera era in Detroit begin!

Vlad

You're clever.

Okay, then what were you saying?

I predict not only last in runs for the year, but for the decade.

Care to expand on that at all?

An extended primary isn't inherently damaging to the party, but the way the Clinton camp is persuing it, it sure could be. Of course I wouldn't mind her staying in if she had some chance to win. But she has literally zero chance of winning the nomination unless Obama is completely destroyed between now and the convention so that the superdelegates have no choice but to vote for her. There is no other possible way for her to win and she knows that. In this context, yes, it is damaging because if she is successful in doing so, then a great deal of the electorate will resent her for it (and

I'm surprised to hear that about Dykstra. I was always lead to believe that he was slightly crazy and enjoyed running into walls.

Sure, but why are so many black people disproportionately too poor to afford proper representation? It's the same issue.

Decriminalizing =/= legalizing.

Sure. Black people are sentenced to prison at a higher rate than white people who committed the same crime, and black people who are sent to prison get longer sentences on average than white people who committed the same crime. To give just one example, a 1998 study by the Pennsylvania State Correctional System found that white men aged 18-29 were 38% less likely to be sentenced to prison than black men of the same age group, and those that were sentenced to prison received an average of 3 months shorter sentence. Black murderers are also more likely to receive the death penalty. A 19

Forgiveness =/= ignoring history and the remnants of it. Sorry. Forgiveness for past sins does not mean ignoring the injustices that still exist. Please clarify your position, because here is what I am understanding it to be: "Black people: Get over it. Things are still unequal, but tough shit. We're not going to do anything about it, so shut up and live your unequal lives happily." And I have no idea what Jesus would think of Reverand Wright. Neither do you. And it's irrelevent anyway.

You seem to know an awful lot about Rev. Wright based on, what, 3 minutes of video that you saw?

They can forgive all they want, but that still won't improve their situation at all. How do you think that the problem should be corrected? Or should nothing be done to correct racial inequalities? Also, I didn't hear any hate in Rev. Wright's words, just anger. They're not the same thing. And what about the equalities that exist directly because of government actions (like in the justice system)? Shouldn't we at least be working to correct racial inequalities that exist within government itself?

Hence my sarcasm.

Yes, because you are feeling those affects equally as much as those who were legally discriminated against within their own lifetimes and are only a few generations removed from slavery.

So black people should just accept the fact that they are still suffering due to earlier injustices (as well as current ones) and never complain? Just accept that because there was slavery 150 years ago and Jim Crow 40 years ago that their children will not get good educations, will not get a fair shake in the legal system, and will live and die poor? And while accepting this, they should be grateful for America's history and never comment on wrongs done in America's name? I know you didn't say that explicitly, but if that's not your meaning in relation to the Rev. Wright affair and Obama's