Racist America?

[SpiritAlight 1]

racism = fear

Fear of what?

Something/someone different.

So truly sad.

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racism = fear

Fear of what?

Something/someone different.

You can be so trite sometimes

[Danno 1,228]

I have no idea what the percentage is.... or if everyone is even using the same definition.

But it's seems the number of Racist's cannot be that high if a Black American is expected to win the white house in a land slide. Especially when you consider he is very far left (trying to be nice).

In my lifetime I don't recall any far left Democrat getting the white house.

I think the Racist hype is way over blown.

Think about it,

Blacks are like 12% of the population, most living in the South/East ... which will be Baracks weakest region in the country.

Doesn't that tell us a whole lot of "other than black" citizens are Pulling for a Black man to win>?

IF 30% were racist.... it could never happen.

[MrsCat 6]

Think about it,

Blacks are like 12% of the population, most living in the South/East ... which will be Baracks weakest region in the country.

Doesn't that tell us a whole lot of "other than black" citizens are Pulling for a Black man to win>?

IF 30% were racist.... it could never happen.

It could also mean that John McCain is really THAT bad.

Even the racists are willing to set aside their beliefs rather than vote for him. (shrugs)

[mRx 16]

Well, at our Halloween party one of the guys there suggested he would never vote for a n****r, to our surprise. This is in a pretty liberal area, where whites are almost nearly no longer an official majority (50%+). I've seen it far worse in areas with 80%+ whites, usually rural valley people in CA. If it's this bad here, it can only be worse in the south,, as I've seen.

I wouldn't even dare try to put a % because it wouldn't be based upon anything tangible, and there's really no way to tell as racial views differ depending on too many factors, location being one. I will say though that simply going out and talking to people yields shocking results that racism is still alive in America. But I question how much of it we can really get rid of. We too much have a mindset of hating things different from us, which I'm sure even logical people fall into because at one point it's just too much a bother to try and negotiate with people who can't deviate from their pre-dispositions.

It's because people think in a "group mentality". They are not individuals with individual merits, but merely members of a collective group. So-called Equal Opportunity and Affirmative action actually perpetuate racism, because that's the enacting of laws that gives preference to groups. Groups can't have rights, only individuals can. So racism lives on.

Well, when people enslaved others based upon their skin color, then, once the 14th and 15th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution went by, turned to segregation, Jim Crow laws, that tells me there are plenty of people who wish to outright prevent other "groups" from achieving success or being correctly integrated into society. If you have one source of group-based discrimination, being that this Constitution protects the minority from the tyranny of the majority, it makes all the sense in the world to un-do that discrimination by law and further action.

The Constitution protects ALL the people, not just this group or that group. All men are created equal under this Constitution, right?

We deserve equal treatment under the law, not laws created to attempt to equal the society. We are all different individuals, both superior and inferior to each other in different ways.

Plus has any of this societal engineering actually accomplished anything but more inequality?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Think about it,

Blacks are like 12% of the population, most living in the South/East ... which will be Baracks weakest region in the country.

Doesn't that tell us a whole lot of "other than black" citizens are Pulling for a Black man to win>?

IF 30% were racist.... it could never happen.

It could also mean that John McCain is really THAT bad.

Even the racists are willing to set aside their beliefs rather than vote for him. (shrugs)

This is my favorite McCain from this season (so far):

Plus has any of this societal engineering actually accomplished anything but more inequality?

There is a huge AA middle class today. You'd be hard pressed to make the argument that it would exist in its current size without AA.

[SpiritAlight 1]

racism = fear

Fear of what?

Something/someone different.

You can be so trite sometimes

True.

Some things/ideas truly make me feel sick to my stomach.

[MrsCat 6]

He's such a brutal speaker. If McCain wins on Tuesday (if), the nearly impossible will have happened. The US will have elected a President whose an even worse public speaker than Bush.

[SpiritAlight 1]

The other day on CBC radio (Canadian, yes), on this show, Darryl Lenox, a US/CDN comedian said something really great when asked why people didn't talk about the fact that Obama is half white.

He said, "You can't see that half."

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

The other day on CBC radio (Canadian, yes), on this show, Darryl Lenox, a US/CDN comedian said something really great when asked why people didn't talk about the fact that Obama is half white.

He said, "You can't see that half."

[mRx 16]

Plus has any of this societal engineering actually accomplished anything but more inequality?

There is a huge AA middle class today. You'd be hard pressed to make the argument that it would exist in its current size without AA.

Perhaps, but at the expense of others rights. Because when a law is created that is preferential to one group, it will undoubtedly adversely affect all others.

Before the mob comes after me, I'm all for civil rights and equality, but I just disagree with the methods used to attempt to engineer it. That's all.

[Ling Ling 22]

I've got friends of all shades and all religions. I've got some White friends that are openly racist, and some that keep it hidden.

I personally dislike most people until they can prove their intelligence to me. I'm not talking about education or degrees, I'm talking about plain old intelligence.

I guess I'm racist against stupid people. I wouldn't want them in my home, or in my neighborhood. I wouldn't hire one, and I wouldn't want my children to marry one.

They scare me, because I've seen the things they're capable of. I think they should all be sent to their own island.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Plus has any of this societal engineering actually accomplished anything but more inequality?

There is a huge AA middle class today. You'd be hard pressed to make the argument that it would exist in its current size without AA.

Perhaps, but at the expense of others rights. Because when a law is created that is preferential to one group, it will undoubtedly adversely affect all others.

Before the mob comes after me, I'm all for civil rights and equality, but I just disagree with the methods used to attempt to engineer it. That's all.

I'm not gonna come down on you for expressing a sentiment I've heard many white folk express. It's cool. All I'm gonna say is that without AA, we'd still be fighting a lot of the same battles that we were fighting in the 60s and 70s (with their roots in black poverty and hopelessness) today. And that wouldn't have been good for any of us. There are no perfect solutions, of course, but I'm glad we as a society made the choices we did.

[dalegg 143]

Think about it,

Blacks are like 12% of the population, most living in the South/East ... which will be Baracks weakest region in the country.

Doesn't that tell us a whole lot of "other than black" citizens are Pulling for a Black man to win>?

IF 30% were racist.... it could never happen.

It could also mean that John McCain is really THAT bad.

Even the racists are willing to set aside their beliefs rather than vote for him. (shrugs)

I guess you missed the earlier topic:

What If Things were switched

Apparantly the bulk of the 46% remaining voters who support McCain are in fact racist. 30% is probably not so far off.

"You could easily add to this list. If these questions

reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be

as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and

minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative

qualities in another when there is a color difference."

[SpiritAlight 1]

The other day on CBC radio (Canadian, yes), on this show, Darryl Lenox, a US/CDN comedian said something really great when asked why people didn't talk about the fact that Obama is half white.

He said, "You can't see that half."

:lol:

"He barely passes the brown paper bag test."

and that man's expressions.

"Vote for the white half!"

Awesome, simply awesome.

Thanks A.J.!

:star: