racism is obviously worse when it's against white people.
it's also better for ratings.
Is it excused when used for a poltical purpose? No matter who ssaid it?
No, in my opinion.
racism is obviously worse when it's against white people.
it's also better for ratings.
The Tea Party only puts up with more subtle, sophisticated racism?Tea Party does not put up with that crap.
The Tea Party only puts up with more subtle, sophisticated racism?
Or Lynrd Skynrd for that matter. Some how both seem to get a pass. I don't know why. But even I'm not incensed about those examples and I have no good explanation for that.
I knew it was spelled wrong but I was too lazy to correct it. I've been kind of ruined by spell check and they don't have it on hear.
Whatever happened to Benji anyway? He disappeared as suddenly as he arrived.
Yeah. They should totally be okay with racist elements in the tea party movement, right?
racism is obviously worse when it's against white people.
it's also better for ratings.
Every white person is not racists. You chose your way to deal with it. Nobody made you and you had a choice. "Rebel by Choice" in my journal. I wanted to fit in." You had a choice.
You want to see reverse racism, go watch smithermen speak. He hates everyone if they are not black and militant.
Also seems to work wonders when it comes to putting an increasingly inconsequential "civil rights" organization and their new "I see racist people" chairman back in the news and on the front page for a day.
PS Williams was ejected from any form of the Tea Party today for his words. He is gone. From Tea Party anyway.
Is it excused when used for a poltical purpose? No matter who ssaid it?
No, in my opinion.
that's kind of their job, isn't it? to point out racism and tell people to stop? that's what they've been doing for a long time.
I know that not every white person is a racist. My wife is white. So are several members of my immediate family.
Well, actually, I do think racism is part of the human condition so I think everyone has a bit of racism to one degree or another. Both my wife and I struggled with racist thinking while living and working overseas--not towards black or whites-but towards some of the ethnic groups we worked with out there. Ironically, it became easier to fall into racist thinking patterns the longer we lived there because the more we mistakenly thought we "knew" how these other cultures "worked." You know the kind of: "Oh, Ethnic Group X are lazy and just want government jobs where they sit on their ass and do nothing" thinking. Or "Ethnic Group Y is so pushy; they're all complainers." You learn just enough to think you have the other group "figured out."
If you read my post carefully, you'll note that I was in no way blaming the people around me for my desire to "fit in." What I was doing was explaining the speculation I'm tempted to make about the motivations of the Black Americans involved in the Tea Party.
It's unsavory term, yes, and not one I'd be likely to use, but what it means is not without merit. Do you know what a so-called "Uncle Tom" is?
I'm sure Mfume would agree that any African-American is entitled to his or her opinion. He is also entitled to think that opinion is stupid and self-hating.
From the article:
" As far as Mfume and the rest of the NAACP leadership is concerned, any display of a Confederate flag is inherently racist."
Um, YEAH. I'm sorry, but any display of the Confederate flag that is intended to honor and show respect to the Confederacy IS inherently racist. Period. End of story. Granted, there may be whites who don't understand that and thus display the flag without any racist intent, but that is ignorance. They don't understand what the flag means to most black people. The flag belongs in a museum. The Confederacy should not be lauded, honored, respected at all. It stood for Americans being willing to fight and die to for their states' right to enslave other human beings. It is a shame. Not only that but it has continued to be used by racist groups such as the KKK that desire to keep black people down.
To be honest, every time I see that flag on a car or in front of a house, it makes me feel just a little nervous.
scroll back. I posted it.
Actually, the Klan had a relatively brief period of popularity in the 1860s -- formed in the South response to the Emancipation Proclamation and the aftermath of the Civil War -- but was virtually extinct by the 1870s, when the federal government began prosecuting them. The Klan didn't return to national prominence until after D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" in 1915, but by 1930 was once again defunct. The third wave of the Klan was created in response to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, as well as the Civil Rights Act. They're a great example of what I'm talking about -- a mob that operates outside the law because it doesn't agree with said laws.
Oh, I see it now, earlier I couldn't get it to scroll past the video.
Well good for the them, they did one thing right.
They do not tolerate this stuff. Not at all. They really don't, as being that there really is no leadership, when something like this happens, Nationally, or at a rally, it is quickly delt with.
They have ZERO tolerance for it. They don't accept it, nor do they need or want it.
There are way more one things that have happened in their history. Zero tolerance. It is not what they are about. In no shape or form.
Look, I'm glad they dealt with Williams and his blatant racism, but to say they have zero tolerance is just ridiculous and turning a blind eye on to what is going on. William's letter is by no means the first example that was shown, it was just probably the most public display by someone with a leadership role.
Look, I'm glad they dealt with Williams and his blatant racism, but to say they have zero tolerance is just ridiculous and turning a blind eye on to what is going on. William's letter is by no means the first example that was shown, it was just probably the most public display by someone with a leadership role.
William's letter is by no means the first example that was shown, it was just probably the most public display by someone with a leadership role.
President Obama is an “Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief.”
President Jimmy Carter is a "creepy faggot."
"[R]epeat after me: Islam is a 7th Century Death Cult coughed up by a psychotic pedophile and embraced by defective, tail sprouting, tree swinging, semi-human, bipedal primates with no claim to be treated like human beings or even desirable mammals for that matter."
when I say zero tolerance, that is from the ground up, sideways, and to the top.
I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask. But, does anyone know what the Health Care Bill is really about? And what happens to those who chose private insurance coverage? Did Congress read it? And can we?