It is pure propaganda that every other non-white race is peaceful and wonderful. "It isn't until the evil white man shows up that things turn to violence and oppression. The Aztecs and Maya were so peaceful and beautiful until the evil Cortez arrived." Are you kidding me?? They were slaughtering and eating each other for centuries and Africans were doing the same thing LONG before white Europeans ever stepped foot on the continent. They are STILL chopping each other's limbs off and killing each other like it's a national pastime. I think Milo said it best when he said that all races have tried to compete and dominate, it's just that white Europeans did it better.
The media has made a big to-do about the Rick Santelli "rant" on CNBC recently. The first thing that anyone needs to know about the media is that it is never intentionally meant to be informative or helpful in a way that affects their lives in a meaningful and positive way. What the media IS meant for is selling products and controlling information to serve the interests of those who run it. Any instance of the contrary is unintended or accidental. That said, let us all please avoid the fantasy that this "rant" we all witnessed was a moment of truth slipping through the cracks or that it was anything other than a staging point for controlled and marginalized debate. This particular type of propaganda always reminds me of a conflict one might have with someone who is completely wrong or crazy yet some incense-burning, age of Aquarius conscious wacka-doodle floats out of the woodworks and insists that "there are two sides to every story and the truth is somewhere...
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