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Zennie Abraham Has Strange Notions on Racists

As the black blogger for the San Francisco Gate wrote regarding Don Draper's racism, "Unless Don Draper was out marching for civil rights, and hired black interns or had a black girlfriend, it’s fantasy to think Draper wasn’t racist."

I do not mean for this to be a debate about whether or not Don Draper of TV's Mad Men is racist; what I want to be discussed is the logicality (or lack thereof) of the above, bolded statement written by Abraham.

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Unless Don Draper was out marching for civil rights, and hired black interns or had a black girlfriend, it’s fantasy to think Draper wasn’t racist

Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. (Wikipedia)

Zennie's conclusion is flawed, they've ignored the apathetic response to racism, which I believe is the majority of people. Either they're an idiot, or they're simply just trying to mislead people to their cause, neither of which is a good thing.

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Considering that this is a debate site, most of us should already see the flaw behind this reasoning.

Consider an interesting example:

Bush has put more black men in the Executive office than any other president, as well as have done more to help the African people than any other human being on the planet (even Bono agrees with this).

Yet you will still see many (not a few) claims of Bush being a racist towards blacks.

Why? Ben brought it up. It's to bring attention to a cause.

Black activism (or as the hip folk call it, blacktivism) is on the decline now that blacks are treated the same as every other human being. Now there's the high levels of poverty and crime, and since blacks don't want to abandon the democrats for the Libertarians (even though Libertarians are the only people who can help the blacks with these issues), the blacktivists have decided to go after prominent white figures (be it Don Draper or George Bush). it's sort of like displacement.

I see this as a Liberal conspiracy (muwhwahahahahah) to keep the Libertarians from attracting more blacks to their party. Clearly eliminating market regulations and ending the War on Drugs would help blacks get out of poverty and jail cells, but that would be a great damage to the Liberal ideological format of Big Government.

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