Back in Detroit 20 years ago, the Detroit Public Schools wanted to put a Malcolm X Academy smack in the middle of one of Detroit's last white middle class neighborhoods (Joy Rd. near the Southfield Expressway, any further and you'd be in Redford Township). In Detroit, cops and firemen have to live in the city, so there were a couple of white enclaves left. One of Detroit's dirty little secrets is that they're still trying to get back at white people any way they can. Why else would they put it there? Detroit is known for its blocks and blocks of open land. Shit they're talking about going back to farming there's so much empty land. Yet they just had to put a school with a radical black man's name on it in a white area.
Same argument here with this mosque. Trying to fuck with people. I know it when I see it.
Raocha is usually 100% on point but I'm not feeling him on this one. I'm with unChosen, I hope they're fighting for you as much as you are for them.
We're kinda at war with these people right now. This is wartime. I'm as liberal and nuanced as the best of them, but here's where it gets black and white. Your average, everyday Muslim guy selling hot dogs on the street is making bombs at home. They just caught such a guy in Colorado, Americanized, normal. With a trunk full of bomb-making shit.
The would-be Times Square bomber was an accountant of some sort. White collar guy you wouldn't think twice about.
How about the Fort Hood shooter. HE WAS IN THE FUCKING U.S. ARMY.
I fly a lot. Everytime one of these fuckers tries something, prices go up, hassles go up. I remember when you could go to NYC for $99 round trip. Now it's almost $300.
BHO is a nuanced, balanced cat. I dig that. I voted for the man and still love him. But the President is or should be America's cheerleader first and foremost, and he's got to make shit simple for the masses. They are not law professors, they do not parse. America is far from nuanced and he needs their votes.
We kinda fucked over the Japanese-Americans during WWII but hey, pay their asses after it's over, say you're sorry.
It's fucked up but that's show business.
Re: Ground Zero, it should be a memorial park, period. The "Freedom Tower" is equally offensive to me as a mosque would be. Crass commercialism.
PS I'm still out but just had to put in my .02 on this one.
Welcome back from the dead, bruh. Good to have a logical senior member voice heard on this crazy board again!