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ORIGINAL: MarkinLaredo
Having been in business, knowing many very successful people who are black, Hispanic, Asian, white, and from every other racial and ethnic group I can say that if you set out to prove that being black is what causes you to fail in business.... Well that is exactly what you would prove. People who succeed in business do not start out with the attitude that they are doomed to fail because or racism or anything else, they succeed because they put in hard work and long hours, and give their best, and they provide a service or product that is needed and marketable. You would be hard pressed to find a successful butcher in a vegan colony, and you will be hard pressed to find a successful businessman who has the attitude that the world owes him something because of an accident of birth.
I've worked in the Small Business Administration. There are plenty of cases in which the owner(s) put in a hellish amount of effort and long hours, but the business still failed. And many examples of good employees either let go, skipped for promotion, or simply ignored, even though they worked hard, put in good effort, and labored long hours. Its a myth that 'long hours and hard work' will make you successful. Even with good business skills, a good personality, and personal time management, businesses still fail. Employees still end up on the losing end of the situation.
Those companies that become successful, whether local only or to a national stage, have many hundreds (if not thousands) of moments when things worked out for the company's favor. IBM did not become a success with just one person. Wal-Mart was not successful with just one store. McDonalds was not successful for making good burgers. Local area businesses are the same way. Interacting with customers, handling customers with problems with the product/service to their expectations and desires, and managing the business environment the company found itself year after year, determined successful operation.
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ORIGINAL: MarkinLaredo
Liberals are by and large dishonest with themselves, they tend to want to "help" people by controlling them, and almost always end up hurting the very groups they want to help. Kind of funny, except that often the people they hurt are then forced into positions where they become dependent on taxpayer subsidies. Go figure, the very idea that anyone is served by becoming dependent on the government for anything is repulsive to conservatives, but liberals just eat that stuff up. Liberal democrat party members have done more damage to the black American public than the Klan ever thought about doing. Welfare policy that took the black father out of the household was worse than the slave owner who sold the parents of black slaves and took them away from their families, because the slave owner never claimed to want to help the people he was hurting. Millions of poor black kids have grown up in single family homes because the liberal democrat party wanted to help them, tell me who the real racists are in that situation?
I'm not dishonest with myself. I know plenty of other liberals that are not dishonest with themselves. This paragraph of yours displays a total lack of understanding of concepts your throwing around. You want to blame them for all of life's troubles without much direct evidence shows its more opinion then fact. That's how the Nazis convinced the Germans that the Jews were bad: it was the Jews that had undermined the whole nation, leaving it in ruins after WW1, while pocketing all the money away. The reality and fact were sadly, very different from the fantasy pushed onto an ignorant population. The educated ones tried to stop those Nazis from acquiring to much power.
'A Liberal Education' was actually favored by business people. To be more 'worldly rounded individual', to 'think on one's feet', and 'consider possibilities and/or think outside the box' were and still are liberal concepts. Most of the nation's scientists are liberal. The more educated one it, the more liberal they tend to be. Because the root of the word 'Liberal' is from Latin, 'Liberalis'. Liberalis means 'freedom, to be free, the process of being free'. Which is why I often chuckle at conservatives bashing and hating that 'Liberalis Media' that operates and doesn't place conservatives. libertarians, Republicans and Tea Party in the most positive light like conservative media sources.
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ORIGINAL: MarkinLaredo
I am sure that you accidentally omitted the rest of my previous post, the part where a famous liberal democrat senator was a racist.
My gosh, a human being was a racist? STOP THE PRESSES! Yes, its possible for anyone to be a racist. Including you. While you can only come up with one example of a liberal in public office that was racist, I can come up with many times that of the conservative/libertarian philosophy.
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I am sure that you are just the epitome of intelligence, (okay, probably not) but how can you say that because one white guy wrote a book about how he was treated when he was in black face paint or some other silliness is exemplary of the systematic discrimination against all blacks? If I were betting I would bet the "author" was not hired because he was acting "black" and people just felt something was off about him. I bet the book would not have sold as well if he wrote " Wow, I was not treated any differently" and since authors tend to like to sell books...
Your stating that all authors think alike? That is just laughable. I'm an author, and I don't even think like that. There are many millions if not tens of millions of people that don't think like this; and they are all authors. Authors like to write. Their job might be to write things that other people would buy. Thanks to technology, you are an author! You wrote that post that I'm quoting, right? Well, you just stated you think exactly like that guy as well!
The difference between us being authors is that I have actually published works for sale in addition to posts in online forums.
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Bias much?
You would do well to look at what you wrote and consider how bias you have been towards liberals. You really do not understand them. They are first and foremost, your fellow Americans. Second, the 'low information voter' really doesn't help any of your arguments here. Third.....welcome to the forums 
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