al-alo, #4 of your 18:22 list is mistaken. This group's petition is addressed to our city, county, and state govts and a bunch of politicians - asking them to take "any and all" measures for this. Do you suppose they're asking the addressees to…

I didn't forget anything. It was just a blog comment, written in a balanced way, and without absolutes. It countributed one perspective to the conversaiton. Anyone reading it carefully can see, I didn't make any broad generalizations and wasn't …

That petition the article links to is very extreme. It starts: 'We, the undersigned, support any and all measures designed to improve the City of Buffalo through the development of a stadium and convention center on the Buffalo waterfront. ...'…

BRL - Anecdotes can be told on both sides I'm sure. There's just as much chance the cause-effect is the other way around - people not burdened by racist hate perhaps are more likely to succeed in life because they're more likey to cooperate wi…