What if it were you mother, sister, daughter or wife?
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WOW!! Really? Go back and read your statement. Through innuendo you said he was stupid by default because of his statement.
Gimme a break. Typical double speak.
I'd expect them to retaliate. Of course, a strong response precludes throwing down the victim card.
Remember the Black Panthers, the same ones who publicly and vocally advocated genocide of the white race, standing outside polling centers in Philadelphia in support of Obama?
Happens everywhere, on both sides, it seems.
Happens everywhere, on both sides, it seems.
Just ignore JB. He's obviously in bed with some Democrat politician.
We can't mention the "other side" in this thread.
Its an trolling operation, designed to incite to riot the members of this board.
Yes, of course, you are the voice of reason here. Please, please, please forgive me. How dare I, or anyone, question the righteousness of your assertions.
Unfortunately, it does and those guys are racists too.
Did they bring cheetos? If so, I would've been all over that like a pig with a pancake on it's head.
I'm telling 'ya boyyy!
From my brother from another mother and the rise of Herman Cain (is was bigoted of you to use the euphemism of "Uncle").
The word "racist" has become so overused of late that it has lost virtually all of its meaning. Years ago the definition of racism was clear. To be a racist was to believe that one race was inherently or genetically superior to another. Under the traditional definition a racist statement would be a statement that alluded to or supported the concept of inherent racial superiority. Today, under the commonly accepted definition of the word, a racist statement is any negative statement made by a white person about any person not white.
Do we have racial problems that we need to address? Absolutely! These problems are nowhere near the severity of the racial problems that existed thirty, forty or fifty years ago, but they do exist and we'll all be better off if they're addressed. Any accomplished problem solver is going to tell you that before you try to solve a problem it would be a mighty good idea if you first identified it. You would think that first identifying and then solving a problem would be basic.
Problems categorized as racial could arise from bigotry, prejudice and racism.
A bigot is a person who is intolerant of ideas or people not like himwhile being strongly partial to his own particular racial, religious or political group (like an administrator I know). A prejudiced person is someone who has formed a less-than-favorable opinion or attitude about a person or an idea before really giving the matter any though. In other words, the prejudiced person has "pre-judged" the person, the group or the situation. Funny, isn't it, how neatly "pre-judged" and "prejudiced" fit together? Then we have the racist. A white supremacist would be a racist. He believes that whites are genetically superior to virtually all other races.
Now we have virtually blended the meanings of all three words; racist, bigoted and prejudiced. People who are bigoted, prejudiced or both are now commonly called racist, even thought they harbor no feelings of racial superiority.
The fact is, we no longer have a word in our language to describe one who believes in the inherent, genetic superiority of one race over another. The word "racist" has been so overused and misused over the past 20 years that it truly has become little more than a mild reprobation of virtually any white person who has said something that causes even the slightest bit of offense in a minority, usually black, community.
So ... let's get the Webster's people on this, and throw in a few Funk and Wagnels while we're at it. Maybe Jesse "The Sloganmaster" Jackson could take some time out from blackmailing American corporations and Al Sharpton could stop trying to beat the Guinness record on lies long enough to give this worthy project a shot.
Come to think of it, wasn't it Jesse Jackson who suddenly decided some years ago that all of the problems faced by black people in America would be solved virtually overnight if we would start calling blacks "African-Americans?" OK, so he's good at coming up with cute slogans and nifty phrases. Work on this "racist" thing, Jesse! You've so bastardized the word "racist" that we need a new one.
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