Posted on 09/07/2005 6:18:40 AM PDT by johnny7
Ah me, being notorious for my typos, I bear the brunt of your smart-aleckness, but the LSD comment was uncalled for.
Bar is a mean old rich-bitch, and this proves it.
She might just as well have said, "Let them eat cake".
Please realize it's nothing personal. It's just when an opportunity like that shows up, my sick mind is compelled to run with it.
Blanco essentially told them to die.
First of all, your attempted history lesson on Chicago shows you really don't know the place. Daley didn't live in Beverly. He lived in Bridgeport, a white Irish neighborhood. And I certainly wasn't excluding other neighborhoods from what I was saying. In my very particular part of the south side, Hyde Park, where the University of Chicago is, the streets are cleaned more regularly. When I said they don't do clean-up very often "here," I was really referring to a few blocks away, where things are pretty different.
Look, if you think that every single person on this forum has to look at things the exact way you do on every single issue, and you get in a tizzy when that doesn't happen, that's YOUR problem, not mine. I'm an Alan Keyes Republican and proud of it. If you recall, Keyes accused the media of racism toward him during his presidential campaign. Was that race baiting too? Is he not conservative enough for you? Should he be "whacked here, badly"?
I stand four-square with the Republican Party on issues that involve race directly (affirmative action) and on issues that have indirectly become linked to race (school vouchers, e.g.). It's just that my attitude on the subject is a bit different than that of most people on this forum.
You're somehow angry at me for referring to a "typical Republican," but one thing's for sure: I am not one. There are a handful of black Republicans out there, and a few outspoken ones, but unless your head is in the sand, you know it's not typical. And with people like you screaming at me for the merest mention of any case of racial disparities, it's not surprising why.
Hmmmm...Ombana is black, Keyes is black...but the Chicago media was racist towards Alan, because he's a black ? ROTFLOL
Okay,Bridgeport, not Beverly; both are on the South Side and I goofed. BIG DEAL......NOT!
I also gave many other examples, all of which you ignored in toto.
Though nowhere near as large a group as they once were, there are quite a number of black Republicans; even in Chicago and I know some of them well.
Nobody here thinks that every Conservative/GOPer has to walk in lockstep with each other, but racist statements are NOT condoned here, no matter who makes them.
The reason I ignored your other examples is they weren't relevant to what I was saying. I never said that the entire south side was ignored or the entire north side was taken care of beautifully. You inferred points I never made, then attacked them. Not worth a response.
Second, regarding your assertion that "racist statements are NOT condoned here, no matter who makes them," pointing out a racial disparity is not the same as making a racist statement.
That bears repeating: pointing out a racial disparity is not the same as making a racist statement.
That's so obvious it's hardly worth mentioning. But I guess to those who are not only knee-jerk defensive but knee-jerk explosive about such things, it's not obvious at all.
If you believe that the racial disparity does not exist, that's a perfectly legitimate ground for debate. We can argue that point. But to accuse someone of racism for even mentioning that race sometimes matters in this society...wow.
Feel free to get the last word in, because I'm done here.
Oh, you may have the last word, n00b; far be it from me to reply to your "refutation", when you've buried yourself. :-)
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