Is Standing on Steps Racist?

Wall Street Journal | 4/19/2005 | Chad Terhune

[reaganaut1]

Maybe Reinemund needs to be more sensitive -- or maybe some crybabies need to grow up!

[JoJo Gunn]

Link, please.

[TheBigB]

one of the attendees wrote that the scene reminded her of a plantation owner lecturing his slaves from on high.

Unless she herself was a slave on a plantation, then she ehrself wasn't reminded of a freakin' thing, except what she saw once in a storybook.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They can always quit. No one will stop them.

[massgopguy]

How about if he stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial?

[Sans-Culotte]

I wish more people, when charged with racism at moments such as this one, would simply refuse to answer such "charges" as being too ridiculous to merit a reply.

[YOUGOTIT]

I doubt that a plantation owner stood on any steps and talked. They had their overseers to do their bidding. Just as the democrat party has their paid overseers doing their bidding and passing it on to their bought voters.

[Fido969]

I think he reminds me of the English who oppressed the Irish for so long. I mean, making his remarks while standing on Paddy O'Steppes.

[GodfearingTexan]

hahahaha!!!! this is totally hilarious.

[AmericanChef]

-In the e-mail, one of the attendees wrote that the scene reminded her of a plantation owner lecturing his slaves from on high.-

Said attendee is way too self-absorbed. There should be a mandatory class for that.

[KJC1]

Ever since, he tries to avoid speaking from a podium."

This is silly. MOST speakers stand on some type raised platform, stage, etc.

[VRWCmember]

In the e-mail, one of the attendees wrote that the scene reminded her of a plantation owner lecturing his slaves from on high.

hmmm, I wonder if her memories of plantation owners lecturing slaves from on high were innate memories passed along in her DNA from her great great great grand-ma-ma, or rather if the scene reminded her of a scene from "Roots" or some other epic drama she might have viewed as a child. Or perhaps it called to mind the great Reverened Je$$e Ja¢k$on lecturing his serfs from his plantation porch reminding them to vote democrat to keep the plantation strong, and she subconsciously equated that with the plantation owner.

[theDentist]

I wonder if she'd feel that way at a speech by Jesse Jackson?

[Clemenza]

If only we were a society of REAL men and not sensitive twerps. The person who expressed her concerns to Mr. Reinemund truly is a horse's a-s who should have, at the very least, been politely ignored.

[cyborg]

I see some people have discovered the fountain of youth.

[ruiner]

In this story, there is a person who is unabashedly racist. Three guesses who it is.

[farmer18th]

I wish more people, when charged with racism at moments such as this one, would simply refuse to answer such "charges" as being too ridiculous to merit a reply

The poor fool who made the accusation in the first place is the one truly locked on the plantation. Anyone with a compulstion to see oppression in every wink and gesture shouldn't have a place in management. Whoever said this is picking cotton in their mind, every day of their lives. That's not the sort of person you to whom you give stewardship.

[BufordP]

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[Fido969]

" Diversity Isn't Just Image Polish"

As a Polish-American, I strongly object to this phrase.