I think weather has more to do with free agents coming here than race. Playing and living in cold isn't easy for some warm weather folks to deal with. If we had a dome, may e they'd be more enticed. I also think Packers previous GM was absolutely not a sales person at all. I think it was come visit, heres our offer, take it or leave it. There wasn't any wooing or nothing. Just my thoughts.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Sorry to disagree. Too many times I see people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton blaming everyone except those actually responsible for bad actions.
I’m white, so I’m supposed to say it’s ok for certain people to use excuses to do bad things?
How many years have we seen reverse discrimination to some how make up for history? I and my ancestors never owned slaves.
In fact, they fought against slavery.

Look at the affect that things like rap music has had on people. Calling women “bitches and hos” and saying it’s ok to kill cops. Yet people like Tupac and Notorious BIG are treated like some kind of heroes. I say, “garbage in, garbage out”.
If you feed that kind of crap and that cops are all bad, constantly to people, what do you expect the outcome to be?
People killing each other over drugs, or being “dissed”, or because you want something they have. Or just because you WANT to. Where does that come from? It’s a collapse of our very moral fiber in this country.
Things will never improve between races if we keep telling people they SHOULD be pissed off constantly.
That makes them LOOK for trouble.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

. . . when moving to a new city . . . it's more difficult for black people . . . to feel safe . . .

Originally Posted by: earthquake 

. . . the rate of white-on-white violent crime (12.0 per 1,000) was about four times higher than black-on-white violent crime (3.1 per 1,000). The rate of black-on-black crime (16.5 per 1,000) was more than five times higher than white-on-black violent crime (2.8 per 1,000). The rate of Hispanic-on-Hispanic crime (8.3 per 1,000) was about double the rate of white-on-Hispanic (4.1 per 1,000) and black-on-Hispanic (4.2 per 1,000) violent crime.

BJS wrote:

I need a new career if you're able to post on a packers forum while in a meeting. Shit.

Originally Posted by: gbguy20 

IMO, the issue is not so much race, but culture. I'm white, yet there are those of my own race that I do not care to socialize with or be like in any way. That said, I do not care to care to forced by social or political pressure to change my cultural preferences. It is not enough that I peacefully tolerate cultures that I don't agree with, I'm pressured to rebuke one for another. To accept what I may feel are lower moral/social standards in order to appease a culture that I don't agree with.

Wars have been and still are fought because one culture wants everyone else to believe as they do. Instead of living in peace, go to war to try to impose their culture upon another people/country. It has been the case for thousands of years with religions, races, countries, and even next door neighbors.

Originally Posted by: Smokey