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Subject: 
The term racist gets thrown aroun a little easily around here..
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Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:59:48 GMT
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At least according to some.  When pointed out that the number one case of death
for black males b/w 18 and 34 is homicide, it's a racist remark.

Oh but wait...  What have we here?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/06/17/registering.immigrants.ap/index.html

"
He and more than 13,000 other young, mostly Muslim immigrants who complied with
the order to register now face possible deportation. Like thousands of others in
the same situation, Ramadan is shocked at the turn of events.
"

"
A total of 144,513 immigrants registered nationwide, according to the U.S.
Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, formerly known as the
Immigration and Naturalization Service. Of those, 13,434 have had deportation
proceedings started against them.
"

Well, by using the logic applied to me, this snippet above seems pretty racially
oriented--out of the 150 thousand people who registered, 13,000 are facing
deportation, and yet somehow those 13000 are "mostly Muslim immigrants..."

Comments John?

Dave K



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  Re: The term racist gets thrown aroun a little easily around here..
 
(...) We have laws. "Because he had overstayed his six-month visa, U.S. immigration officials said." (You forgot to include this quotation) Also I would add that "Muslim" is not a race; Arab is. Are you talking about religious persecution? [JOHN] (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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