Posted on 09/16/2009 8:47:03 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
The Joe Wilson controversy has made me do some soul searching. After examining the 6,000+ posts written over the past few years and conducted some deep self-reflection, there is just one conclusion, the Liberals are Correct..I AM a racist !
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All human beings are racist. The only purely non-racist man that ever lived was hung on a cross.
The real question is “how” racist.
Is it racist or tribal?
I think more tribal - the white tribe created the best country in the world and opened up to other tribes that have come in and tried to make it more like their failed tribes.
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People just naturally gravitate to people that look like them.
What divides our country has nothing to do with race or religion.
You are either an AMERICAN, or you are a SCAMERICAN.
The race card is becoming a joke.
Actually the race card has always been a joke.
Lately, however, it is being exposed to the population at large as such.
I pretty much hate everybody. I just hate some people more. I need to work on that I suppose.
time for a new tag line...
Chuckling!
I see it as part of the “fight or flight” reflex. We are all, when encountering other people, looking for “not like me” clues to determine danger of any kind, or possible “opportunity” in the case of the opposite sex.
I think it is hard wired as part of “first impressions” and then the intellect takes over to either expand or contract the relevance of the “differences”.
For example: if you are white and you come across a black man that dresses like you, moves like you and talks like you, and even has the same interests (maybe you both met on a bike trail), the racial difference is first noticed and then quickly discarded.
On the other hand, if you are white, and you come across a white man that has a “gang attitude”, clearly is hostile to you, is physically larger than you, is belligerent and otherwise “not like you” you increase the significance of the differences and go into strong “fight or flight” mode. But skin color is not one of those differences.
It was Jesse Jackson that said he would rather come across a white man in an alley then a black man.
Oprah once said the biggest secret is that blacks, hate other blacks that are of a different shade of black.
I think blacks are more tribal then most races, they cannot seem to get along with anyone — look at gang fighting in schools or prisons between mexicans (browns) and blacks.
From the 1950s-1970s, the blacks in urban schools in the northeast were constantly fighting with the (usually Italian) white kids. Now that they white kids are gone, they are fighting constantly with the Latinos.
I've lived around different groups of people over the course of my adult life (Jews, Arabs, Asians, various Latino groups, and blacks, to say nothing of plain old white folks), but have NEVER felt the level of hostility from the other groups than I have from blacks.
The more the Democraps and the liberals scream racism, the more racist I become.Discrimination is the act of making a choice and is not a bad thing....and I discriminate with whom I wish to associate.
You know, I’m really glad you brought this up. I was thinking about this the other day. I have an idea:
How about if we just start prefacing everything we say politically with “I know I am a racist, but. . . .”
And I do mean ALL of us -— red and yellow, black and white -— as the little children’s song says.
Let’s either make the powers that be edit that ubiquitous proclamation off our every statement, or let the audience hear it repeatedly for the joke that it has become in our USA -— a USA that has become post-racial on its own free will and BEFORE we elected Obama as president.
I think “owning” the “racism slur” in such a flamboyant way, like the satirizing use a decidedly insulting term like the “N” word among friends to desensitize it and to remove its power, will help to further diffuse a slur that just doesn’t fit anymore, and finally let us relax enough to get over it.
It's what Maureen Dowd of the New York Times is "hearing" anyhow... what have we got to lose?
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