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One thing that i would change is slavery and faster ways of finding a cure for diseases like cancer. Because back in the 1812 people didn't know how to bassically take care of themselves properly, or in other were able to find a cure.

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One reform i feel is needed in today's society is to help improve the school system in some way possible.

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One reform i would change is trump winning the election

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I would reform, racism because many colored people are seen as ether badly or not as good as others.

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If American racism were a thing of the past, nine men and women who went to church last Wednesday evening would be alive.

What happened in Charleston, S.C., is not unfathomable or even ambiguous. It's a story much older than the nation, a story that began when the first Africans were brought to Jamestown in 1619: the brutalizing and killing of black people because of the color of their skin.

The weekend displays of multiracial unity throughout the saddened city were inspiring, but they cannot be taken as a sign that the country has moved beyond its troubled racial past. The gunman who so coldly killed those innocent worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church did not exist in a vacuum. He inhaled deeply of the race hatred that constantly bubbles up like foul gas from a sewer.

The alleged assassin, Dylann Roof, left behind a manifesto that said he drew inspiration from the Web site of the Council of Conservative Citizens , a prominent white supremacist group. The organization's proudly racist " statement of principles " declares that "the American people and government should remain European in their composition and character" and opposes "all efforts to mix the races of mankind."

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, describes the council as a modern-day incarnation of the "White Citizens Councils" throughout the South that fought so tenaciously against desegregation during the civil rights era.

The council's membership is thought to be small but its reach is vast, thanks to the Internet. Like hateful jihadists, white supremacists use cyberspace as a bulletin board and a meeting place. Come on in, young Mr. Roof, and let us tell you how those black people and those brown people are responsible for everything that's going wrong in your life.

Some conservatives have been quick to absolve society of blame by pointing out that the accused Charleston shooter was mentally disturbed. But of course he was mentally disturbed; normal, well-adjusted individuals do not commit mass murder. And the fact is that the Charleston killings were intended to advance a specific cause. To look past Roof's racism would be like ignoring the fact that the Tsarnaev brothers, who committed the Boston Marathon bombing, believed in a violent, twisted version of Islam.

"You rape our women, and you're taking over our country," Roof reportedly said to his victims before opening fire. This sick narrative comes straight from the Council of Conservative Citizens Web site, which inflates isolated incidents of black-on-white crime into some kind of race war and portrays the nation's "European heritage" as being in dire peril.

President Obama chose an unusual forum - a podcast with comedian Marc Maron - to deliver his most candid remarks since the Charleston massacre. Race relations have clearly improved in our lifetimes, he said, but "we are not cured" of racism "and it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'nigger' in public." Slavery and Jim Crow discrimination cast "a long shadow, and that's still part of our DNA that's passed on."

Obama's election in 2008 undoubtedly marked a milestone, one I never dreamed I'd live to see. I wrote at the time that it felt like morning in America.

What I didn't fully appreciate then was the extent to which the mere fact of a black family living in the White House would, at least in the short term, heighten racial anxieties and conflicts. I didn't see that the spectacle of African Americans in power would apparently lead some whites to feel powerless, aggrieved and victimized.

In the long run, I'm an optimist. But a post-racial future will not just appear. There is urgent work to do.

By all means, South Carolina, get rid of the Confederate battle flag, which has become an emblem of the white supremacist movement. The flag first flew over the state house in Columbia in 1961, not 1861; it was essentially an act of defiance, a raised middle finger toward a federal government that was forcing the end of Jim Crow.

But we need to go beyond speeches and symbols. Law enforcement should subject white racist organizations to the same surveillance and scrutiny as groups devoted to jihad. Governments at all levels should enforce fair housing and employment laws as vigorously as they enforce the Patriot Act. Police departments and court systems must be compelled to administer justice equally - with African Americans, too, considered innocent until proven guilty.

Our society will end racism when it stops being racist. Not a minute sooner.

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America will only end racism when it stops being racist

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If American racism were a thing of the past, nine men and women who went to church last Wednesday evening would be alive. What happened in Charleston, S.C., is not unfathomable or even ambiguous.

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I feel that  there is a reform needed in education.

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One reform that i feel is needed in today's society is racism. choose this topic because people feel the everybody is equal in the rights.

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MELBOURNE, Australia - My father survived the killing fields of Cambodia, where he was threatened with having his tongue cut out with a sickle for speaking his native language, Teochew Chinese. When he and my pregnant mother arrived in Australia in 1980 and discovered that their new country encouraged them to maintain their language and culture, they were incredulous. My father named me Alice because he believed I was delivered into a Wonderland, a place that allowed for the full expression of human personality and potential.

The White Australia policy, which barred nonwhite immigrants, had recently ended, and a new era of multiculturalism had begun. National policy mandated that at school we all learn another language in addition to English. There was an explosion of international food and festivals.

But Australia's fling with multiculturalism was temporary. In less than 15 years, politicians began advocating assimilation for nonwhites. In Australia today, the discussion around race and immigration has deteriorated to the point where many politicians no longer appear to believe that assimilation is even possible.

Racism has returned to the front of public discourse. Visiting Australia this week, the United Nations special rapporteur on racism, Mutuma Ruteere, condemned Australian politicians for " xenophobic hate speech."

I grew up in Footscray, a West Melbourne neighborhood then brimming with factories and optimism. Refugees had always moved to Footscray to start anew: Eastern Europeans in the 1950s and '60s, Southeast Asians in the '70s and '80s, Africans in the '90s and the new century. A foreman gave my dad a trial at a car-trailer factory, thinking this 100-pound man would not be able to lift heavy metal parts. He didn't know that my father's previous job as a slave laborer was to bury dead bodies. He got the job.

But when businesses began to move production overseas in the early 1990s for cheaper labor costs, many proud working-class Anglo-Australians - including the kind of foreman who hired my father - were laid off. These were hard-working folks who had left school at 15 and had been loyal to single companies for decades. The mood shifted.

Some people in Footscray started to see multiculturalism as a punishment inflicted on them by the government. After all, it was the working-class whites who had to share their neighborhoods, jobs and schools with the new arrivals.

One evening, when my mother, brother and I were walking home, a car pulled alongside. The teenage passengers rolled down their windows and yelled out: "Go home! Stop stealing our jobs!" I was too young to know that Australia was going through its worst recession since the Great Depression.

Another time, someone threw a rock through our front window. Instead of having the glass replaced, my mother just drew the curtains and lowered the canvas awning outside, permanently darkening that area of our living room. My father would not repair the window, hoping to avoid provoking more hostility.

"Most Australians are good," he told us. "Those are the bad ones. Just ignore them."

My best friend's father mowed the lawns at our school. Her mother worked for the juvenile justice department. They were white Australians who lived in a concrete house like ours. The mother would tell us about poor children she encountered who felt hopeless; one kid was so desperate he injected Vegemite in his veins in search of a high.

Unlike their fathers and grandfathers, these working-class white kids could no longer leave school at 15 and easily find jobs that would set them up for life. Now they were lost, on the streets causing trouble, tormenting the newcomers. The immigrants were also scrabbling at the bottom of the barrel, yet we were seen as the main threat to the Australian working-class way of life.

It had long been this way for migrants in Australia. In drafting the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, Alfred Deakin, who later became prime minister, specifically went after Asian immigrants. "It is not the bad qualities, but the good qualities of these alien races that make them so dangerous to us," he said. "It is their inexhaustible energy, their power of applying themselves to new tasks, their endurance and low standard of living that make them such competitors."

In the mid-1990s, Pauline Hanson was elected to Parliament and formed her new political party One Nation, claiming that Australia was in danger of being "swamped by Asians." It was an easy claim to make: In 1971, the Asian population of Footscray made up a mere 1 percent of the population, but by 1996, it had risen to 17 percent.

At the same time that Dad was telling us to ignore the Bad White Australians, Bad Asians were beginning to appear everywhere. Vietnamese heroin dealers on the 7 o'clock news, Filipino welfare cheats on the radio, Chinese slumlords in the papers. Ms. Hanson declared that Asians had "their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate." People started wearing printed yellow T-shirts, the word "full" emblazoned across a map of Australia.

Keep your head down, my parents advised, because there was no point in fighting such bigotry.

The next time I went to my best friend's house, her father had tacked up a poster of Ms. Hanson draped in the Australian flag. He sought to reassure me that it had nothing to do with our family. Echoing my father's line about white Australians, he said, "Yous are the good ones."

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Pauline Hanson, an Australian senator whose One Nation party has targeted immigrants. Credit Reuters

I wasn't quite sure I believed him, but we tried hard to be good. By the late 1990s, I made it to university, and eventually moved out of my old neighborhood. I became a lawyer and then a writer, and my new middle-class existence seemed to buffer me against the more blatant acts of discrimination.

But last year, when I was seven months pregnant, my Anglo-Australian husband and I found a leaflet stuck to our car outside a Melbourne hardware store. It was a badly photocopied image of a little black boy and a white girl seen through the scope of a gun. Written on it in big black letters was "Stop race mixing."

"Too late now," I told my husband.

My college-educated friends were horrified, wondering how I could joke about such terrible racism. I could because it wasn't a rock through the window. It wasn't a fist to the face, or a polite but suspect withdrawal of a job offer - all things I have seen happen to friends from my old neighborhood. Yet I'm aware that what I now dismiss as the pathetic mad ramblings of a white supremacist would be a genuine menace to my safety if I were still living in that house with the broken window.

After almost two decades out of Parliament and a brief stint in jail, Pauline Hanson has been re-elected to the Senate, her One Nation party winning four seats there. Now their main target is Muslims, but the game is the same.

As Mr. Ruteere, the U.N. official, pointed out, our problems in Australia are not unique. In Europe and America similar xenophobic ideologies are brewing. Refugees are no longer comforted by a welcoming Australian government. Our new arrivals are no longer benefiting from a national policy of multiculturalism that tells them they belong. They are told to fit in or get lost, yet no one demonstrates how to achieve this assimilation.

I now understand how terrified those without power in Australia feel: They can't even confront a pregnant woman face-to-face; instead they deposit racist posters and slink off. I am reminded of a line in Ecclesiastes: "I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them. On the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them."

Racists feel that no one, neither society nor the government, appreciates how the modern world has left them behind. But one group shares their unrelenting feelings of deep-seated fear and anxiety: their victims.

What I have learned from experience is this: In your moments of vulnerability, the bigots will still come for you. Your tongue could still be cut out, your windows smashed. You can go about quietly achieving and trying to keep a low profile, but you can never choose invisibility. When the bigots decide to see you, they will see you.

But I am no longer keeping my head down. I can see them, too.

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Op-Ed Contributor MELBOURNE, Australia - My father survived the killing fields of Cambodia, where he was threatened with having his tongue cut out with a sickle for speaking his native language, Teochew Chinese. When he and my pregnant mother arrived in Australia in 1980 and discovered that their new country encouraged them to maintain their language and culture, they were incredulous.

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Jasmine Taylor

One reform that I would change would be racism

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Name one reform you feel is needed in today's society?
i really have no idea :(

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One reform i feel is needed is longer jail time for rapists.

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i remember when cups was right by chipotle. i would reform to bring that back. after a nice burrito, half steak half chicken, i would get a nice bowl of frozen yogurt but they closed on me :(.

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15 reviews of Cups Frozen Yogurt - CLOSED "It's your typical froyo place, I like how they can blend everything for you and actually have a bunch of yogurts to mix. I come maybe once a month or so, they have every topping I could possibly think of...

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Name one reform you feel is needed in today's society? one reform needed in society would be racism

Explain why you chose this topic?I feel that everyone needs to be treated equally.

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It wasn't just frustration or sour grapes. When former Hillary Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri exasperatedly said last week that "if providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost," she was voicing a widely shared concern that Donald Trump has fueled the resurgence of racism as a mainstream force in American politics.

And it's true, in a sense. There has been a marked and worrying increase in the number of racists creeping out of the shadows and into public life. But for all the ink spilled on the "alt-right," they remain a marginal, largely anonymous group. Advocacy of a white ethnostate is a fringe position even among Americans who could fairly be described as racist.

Sure, former KKK leader David Duke, America's most famous racist, has used Trump to get his name back in the headlines. But a closer look at Duke's Louisiana Senate election results actually argues against the racism revival narrative. Duke won 3.4 percent of the vote, even as Trump carried the state with over 58 percent. In the early 1990s, Duke made it to runoffs for senator and governor, winning around 40 percent of the total vote and a majority of whites both times.

Most Trump supporters aren't racist. Instead, they understand themselves to be practicing a race-neutral civic nationalism, as does the president-elect himself. "We condemn bigotry and prejudice in all of its forms," Trump said at the opening of his Rust Belt victory tour. But many white American civic nationalists do feel besieged by attacks on Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, the refusal of prominent athletes to salute the flag over racially charged issues, and the idea that their patriotism is at least implicitly white nationalist.

Of course, Trump does bear some responsibility for the racial tinge of his supporters' renewed nationalism. He has stoked racial resentment, sometimes through poorly chosen words and other times through deliberate actions such as his "birther" crusade. The man who would build a wall along our border has never truly erected the necessary wall between legitimate concerns about immigration and darker motives.

This is partly why the conditions are indeed ripe for genuine and widespread racism to make a comeback in America, insofar as it ever really left. Whites are shrinking as a percentage of the population. The white working class is suffering, socially and economically. Far too many people on the right are isolated from communities of color, in some cases literally uncomprehending of minorities' fears, concerns, and aspirations. Meanwhile, the left is increasingly defined by identity politics and fighting "white privilege," at a time when millions of whites aren't feeling so privileged.

"Frankly, if you're a white family living in Clay Country, Kentucky, the poorest county in American, [in] which the poverty rate is about 40 percent and whose population is 94 percent white, wouldn't this concept kind of tick you off?" asked former Democratic Sen. Jim Webb at a recent American Conservative magazine conference. "Wouldn't you see it as reverse discrimination?"

To many, the answer is yes. A September ABC News/ Washington Post poll found that nearly 40 percent of Trump supporters thought minorities have too much influence in society while 53 percent of Clinton voters thought whites had too much influence.

"White voters in this election behaved like a minority group," observed Fox News' Brit Hume. And their argument runs roughly thus: Other groups get to practice identity politics; there's a Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a National Council of La Raza; why can't whites play this game?

Politicians are forced to apologize for saying "all lives matter," much less white lives matter. Samantha Bee can say white people " ruined America" without fear of the consequences she would receive for saying something similar about any other group, much as Susan Sontag was celebrated rather than reviled as a racist after saying white people were the cancer of human history.

The history of racism in this country is a powerful (and, in my view, correct) counterargument to white identity politics. But the term racist is often overused. "'White supremacist' is a new way of saying 'racist' while stepping around the steadily increasing awareness that that word, too, is being wielded in sloppy ways," writes John McWhorter.

This election isn't necessarily the beginning of a new age of racism. It is, however, a warning that things could get much worse.

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America has not entered a new era of rabid racism... yet

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It wasn't just frustration or sour grapes. When former Hillary Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri exasperatedly said last week that "if providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am proud to have lost," she was voicing a widely shared concern that Donald Trump has fueled the resurgence of racism as a mainstream force in American politics.

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Amanda Salernitano

One reform I feel is needed in today's society is tax code reforms...(Never got to finish).

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One reform i feel is needed in today's society is racism

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i would change when school starts because most people arent really awake then

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The health dangers of early high school school start times imposed on our children are well established and medically non-controversial. Physicians (including pediatricians) and other health care professionals in Ridgefield recognize these dangers, and have written letters to the Board of Education supporting starting school later.

Early high school start times increase physical and psychological stresses on students, and are correlated to increased likelihood of sports injuries, emotional problems, depression, obesity, unsafe behaviors, and other health risks for students.

Ridgefield High School is recognized as a high-pressure environment. Some of the stress factors faced by modern students are outside the power of the school district to ameliorate, but early school start time is wholly within the district's control.

If invasive black mold was discovered in the high school, it is highly unlikely the Board of Education would respond by establishing a research project to examine "whether" to abate the danger at some indeterminate point in the future. Rather, in the event black mold was discovered in the building, the board would immediately allocate funds to quickly identify and expeditiously undertake the best available abatement method. As the medical research clearly shows, early start time presents a similarly serious health hazard to our children, and requires a similarly aggressive response.

The hazard is real and continuing and should be speedily resolved.

Meredith Harris

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The health dangers of early high school school start times imposed on our children are well established and medically non-controversial. Physicians (including pediatricians) and other health care professionals in Ridgefield recognize these dangers, and have written letters to the Board of Education supporting starting school later.

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racism because every single time i go to the bus or go to school i always hear people saying something racist. racism makes everyone upset but people do it to each other. racism should stop

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One thing i would change in today's society is what we wage war in. Somethings arent worth going to war for.

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The Airlander that is the Yankees finds itself in a holding pattern. The Hot Stove League will have to wait a little longer.

Brian Cashman said Friday morning he had alerted a host of agents representing available players, as well as executives of other teams with whom he had engaged in trade talks, of his intention to shut down business until the Yankees had a better grasp of the new collective bargaining agreement that was tentatively completed Wednesday night and awaits ratification by the players and owners.

"I said, 'Listen, give me at least 24, 48 more hours to see what sort of information we can get from baseball,'" the Yankees general manager said in Stamford, Conn., between stints rappelling down the Landmark Building as part of the city's Heights & Lights holiday program. "So hopefully we'll be able to hit the ground running Monday at the latest, but it's in our best interest to know what we're dealing with, first and foremost."

The Winter Meetings formally begin Monday in National Harbor, Md. The Yankees are looking for multiple relievers, with particular interest in free-agent closer Aroldis Chapman, as well as a starting pitcher and designated hitter.

It appears the new CBA will help the Yankees significantly on the revenue-sharing front, thanks to favorable adjustments, but won't offer much relief on the luxury tax.

"From the early returns, I think the decisions that we made in the summer [trading Chapman, Andrew Miller and Carlos Beltran, another candidate to return] are even that much more important based on what I'm reading [in the media]," Cashman said. "Speeding up the process and going with the youth movement is going to play an even more important part now, more than ever with what appears to be some of the restrictions in the marketplace that are occurring here."

He expressed no concerns that a delay in acting would cost his team any players. Realistically, no major free agent the Yankees seriously want, particularly Chapman, will make a move without waiting for the Yankees' best and final offer.

The Yankees never made an offer to Yoenis Cespedes, Cashman said, before the Mets re-signed the outfielder for four years and $110 million.

"I had several conversations with [Cespedes' agent] Brodie Van Wagenen," Cashman said. "He mapped out their expectations. Those expectations got met by the Mets. I think that they would have considered anybody that was willing to meet their expectations. Now, all things being equal, clearly New York was a place he wanted to stay. And I'm sure the Mets were a place he had comfort because that's where he's played and wanted to be. He never said the Mets were his first choice, but my sense was the Mets were his first choice.

"All the tea leaves pointed to him wanting to be a Met, hoping to be a Met, but willing - because it's a business - to do whatever's in his best interest depending on the other offers out there. ...He's a heck of a baseball player. Very talented and very impactful for that franchise."

When Jacob Lindgren was taken by the Yankees in the second round of the 2014 draft (55th overall, but the Yankees' first pick) the left-handed reliever from Mississippi State was touted as possibly being the first pitcher from that draft to reach the majors.

He did that in 2015 when he worked seven big league innings before surgery to remove bone spurs from the elbow. This past season, Lindgren underwent Tommy John surgery in early August, and on Friday wasn't tendered a contract for the 2017 season.

After making six relief appearances for Single-A Tampa, in which he went 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA, Lindgren was shut down. Since Tommy John surgery requires 12 to 16 months to recover from, it's likely Lindgren will miss the 2017 season.

The move leaves the Yankees with 39 players on the 40-man roster heading into the winter meetings and makes room if they want to take a player in the Rule 5 draft.
- additional reporting by George A. King III

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The Airlander that is the Yankees finds itself in a holding pattern. The Hot Stove League will have to wait a little longer.