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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 955416" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>Sorry, Island.  Racism is reality.  It changes slowly over time, but to dismiss it's very real existence as "playing the race card" is as insulting as it is just plain wrong.  All that one needs do is look at sentencing discrepancies for like crimes and if you don't see racism, then you are simply not accepting reality.  Until recently crack cocaine held a sentence 7 times longer than cocaine...it is exactly the same drug, but is seen as a "black" or "inner city" drug.  Cocaine, on the other hand, is upscale and recreation for suburbanites.  Racism.  It is what it is no matte how you want to obscure it's ugly nature.</p></blockquote><p></p>