re: #233 Walter L. Newton

Yes, I would certainly include those items, and I never said that race does not motivate some people. But that’s not the only reason, not by a long shot. There can be other reason, two which you mention above.

I listen to black callers in Denver who call talk shows and some of them are nuts into the secret Muslim thing. Is it racism motivating them? When I heard these blacks talk, I hear more of a religious reasoning given.

I agree that there are non-racists into the sekrit muslim thing! I think we just disagree about the proportions. I think it’s vastly more likely that the core of hatred is coming from “he doesn’t look like us, doesn’t have a name like us, and I associate that name with Saddam”. How’s this: it’s racism as the wood in the fireplace, and paranoia about sekrit islam as the accelerant.