Posted on 09/08/2015 11:13:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Majorities of whites think anti-white discrimination is as bad as the anti-black kind. Honestly, are they out of their minds?
Last week, New York Times columnist Tom Edsall, in a piece about Donald Trump’s appeal amongst conservative voters, cited an alarming survey on white people’s racial attitudes that made me wonder if large segments of white America are completely misinterpreting what racism is and how prevalent it remains in our society.
Edsall pointed to a study conducted last fall by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that 52 percent of white respondents agreed with the following statement: “Today discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities.”
Among subsets of respondents, 76 percent of those affiliated with the Tea Party agreed with the statement. Another 61 percent of Republicans, and 53 percent of independents. A majority of whites over age 50 also agreed with the statement, and 58 percent of working-class whites agreed. Evangelical Protestants (63 percent) and Catholics (56 percent) also agreed.
62 percent of white Democrats disagreed, and 61 percent of those with a college education. White Americans under 50 also disagreed, even though it was close. Only 48 percent of whites between the ages of 18-29 agreed, and 49 percent of them disagreed. Of whites 30-49, 46 percent agreed and 52 percent disagreed.
Upon seeing these figures I immediately wondered about what exactly white Americans perceive racism to be, and how the supposed racism they receive has become equal to that of African Americans and other minority groups.
Did a leading American presidential candidate refer to large swaths of the white American population as “rapists” and “murderers”(continued)
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Yes, that irks me. If I prefer Coke to Pepsi, I have discriminated, yet that has nothing to do with race.
I remember old commercials that would advertise their product was “for those with discriminating taste”. They would never play those nowadays, the brand would be ruined!
things i learned today... roving gangs of young black males punching unsuspecting whites/asians/latinos in an attempt to knock them out, doesn’t count as racism.
“I have yet to find an evidence that white people in this Nation have ever rioted when angered by blacks!”
While I agree with your sentiment in recent history, say 50 years, there were anti-black riots before then.
However, are there many obstacles to positive relations between races??. . .of course.. .But we have more legal terms to describe killing (murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, manslaughter, wrongful death, etc,) then we do to describe the obstacles that tend to divide races. . .it all falls under the one word: RACISM! . .and that makes the topic too emotionally charged for anybody to want to talk about it in a positive way. . .not because, as Holder said, "we are cowards". . .but because we don't even recognize the terms of the discussion.
“When I was working for GE in Camden, NJ I wanted to get lunch and help out the local economy.
I want into a black deli and tried to order a sandwich.
I was told “We don’t serve whites here.”
I left and never went back and always used to company cafeteria.”
Our tactics need to change as we take a page from the left. When this happens to a white American they need to get documentation/proof and then they need to sue them in court for damages
I observed living in the region that people of southern Illinois and southern Indiana were more discriminatory toward blacks than any place I lived or visited in the South.
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I was raised in southeast Mo., very near southern Ill. many, if not most people in that area consider themselves southerners. Must have something to do with cotton, when I grew up, southern Ill. had cotton and in s.e. Mo. it was the primary crop. Yes, there were many racists too.
WRONG!!!!!
You couldn't be wronger if you tried to be wrong.
Why?
Because "racism" means anything, anything at all, that non-black people do, say, or think, that self-appointed "Black Leaders" dislike.
Only "Blacks" can determine "racism", and if two or more "Black Leaders" disagree whether it's "racism", it's racism. And it's causing strife in the "Black Community". And if you're not black, you're guilty.
It bears repeating: It’s ONLY racism if it’s committed against Blacks.
Let me ask the author this: Is there more interracial violent crime committed by whites against blacks or blacks against whites? Are there more white people doing the “knock out game” against blacks or black people doing it against whites? Are there more white men raping black women or black men raping white women?
Hasn’t heard all the black racists call for the murder of whites, without a word of discouragement from the uniparty, government or media, either. Hasn’t seen all the hate crimes against whites, either. Hasn’t heard liberalism’s race doctrines making dark assumptions and classifications about all white skinned people, either....
Head up the butt syndrome?
You seem to have the unerring ability of finding bat-chit crazy leftists to amuse us. (Thanks for the laugh.)
Barrett Holmes Pitner has been castrated by femi-Nazis, is a 40 IQ ape and throws feces at his mother when she goes in the basement to give him a peanut butter ape sammich.
Do we have any brave and enterprising mothers willing to go there and change his DNC diaper?
1921 was almost 100 years ago.
Like I said, it has been a while.
Also note that the KKK, AKA the paramilitary wing of the Democrat Party, was heavily involved.
It did happen several times - about a hundred years ago. For instance, look up "Wilmington Race Riot 1898.
Thanks. Fortunately it hasnt happened in my lifetime
thenty five years before I was born
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