Hate In America. Not Much Has Changed.

[RKP5637]

"You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

South Pacific Rodgers & Hammerstein"

http://perrie.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/15/3565635-hate-in-america-not-much-has-changed

"As a New Yorker, I have always felt comfortable with my cosmopolitan idea that hate in America was an anomaly . I felt I lived in a fairly progressive country, that had grown from the civil rights movement and WWII. As a country, I was confident that we all knew that hate is bad, that hate is evil. Then I was introduced to the world of news groups and my illusion of an evolved America was blown. It wasn't that I was naive that hate was out there, I knew that it was. But I didn't think that it was as pervasive as it is. Many articles that I read contain "information", that in actuality is an attempt to spread hate. All kinds of hate. This rude awakening that my assumptions were wrong about America is shocking. So I decided to investigate the facts about hate, and it confirmed my worst fears. I found out that very little has changed about hate in the US. All that has happened is it went underground, and how it is reported depends on the news service what what editorials you choose to read."

http://perrie.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/15/3565635-hate-in-america-not-much-has-changed

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. Have you visited the "Happy Blasphemy Day" thread?

They could use a link to your OP.

[RKP5637]

4. Hadn't seen it. Thanks. n/t

[Carolina]

2. K&R

[HappyMe]

3. k&r

Sad, but true.