Dang, folks need to post with a name. There are too many Anonymous posters in this thread!

I did chuckle a bit when I read this however: “The fact is white europeans RAPED, BRUTALIZED, SHAMED, and utterly DESTROYED entire cultures, religions, societal orders and whole peoples in the worldwide imperialistic pursuit of filthy dirty money.�

Yes imperialism of the new world was bad. We got it. Do you want to now make the argument that because Tookie was black it was ok for him to kill 4 innocent people? 3 of which weren’t even ‘white devils’ you seem to despise with such vigor. Are you going to be so ignorant as to think that your world view and acceptance of cold blood murder is going to make this a better place?!
Time and time again the imperialism defense comes up. I can almost always count on it to pop up regardless of what topic we are discussing. Using that same logic, are all minorities who end up as functioning members of society ‘uncle toms’? Does wanting to get gangs out of our streets, and the murders who have lead them, make us racists?

No, it does not. I would say the racist comment would be the one that excuses crimes because of someone’s skin color.