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Originally posted by Bardan the Slayer:
Maybe he wasn't talking about any problems in specific. He wasn't giving a treatise on the state of your nation today vs. the segregationist parallel you could have had. He was giving a naively stated sucky-up comment to an old man judged worthy of an empty sucky-up comment, and the media is making it bite him in the butt for no other reason than to expose a politician as a 'racist' at every available opportunity (and if there isn't one, the media will create one!) sells newspapers and raises viewing figures.
Or that's how this Brit sees it 
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Actually, Bardan, I think you're spot-on in your assessment.