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I was using racist in the sense of the new Free Republic vernacular which means "anyone who is not sensitive enough about race".

To me, the original idea of racist is that of race supremacist but folks here long ago dumped that higher threshold definition of racist.
We even have the word "racialist" now
I did not mean for you to feel that I implied you had only one sort of friends.

I resist qualifying everything I say here and never go into the "but, I have black friends" defensive posture. Folks who do that all the time end up sounding like an Uncle Remus charactiture.

I know what you mean, a person who has been called a racist in public is damed if they do - damed if they don't. That is the way it goes when some are in a special protected class - all they have to do is say that someone is a racist and heck will break loose.

One word and there is nothing you can do about it. No wonder they get so upset when they think the power is not worshiped by all.

BTW- I am as much of a racist and a bigot as the sun sets in the East, and if people were not so frightened of being called vile names themselves- some freepers would show up and say so- but they are afraid- and who can blame them???- I have the freepmails and emails- (which I will never post or mention by name that tell me that.)

No matter- I have posted what others dare not- things, BTW our "black conservatives" have all said themselves- RDB3 says inner cities are an "experiment in Marxism" and that he would shoot and kill all of the looters in NO- but I am a racist for saying the inner cities are a mess and welfare should be controlled for fraud- I have donated to relief for those people who were displaced by Katrina, worked years in social work and in welfare, worked for a Democratic congressman, worked with Jesse Jackson and lived thru riots - I speak of my experience and opinions and I am somehow more of a racist than I was before I said anything.

I am called a bigot and a KKK member all over this forum- and those who are doing the name calling are demanding the world is unfair and full of hatred against them. (Rolling eyes)

There are websites dedicated to causing infighting at FR and are full of people who do nothing but call freepers and Jim Rob all sorts of horrible names- one which we know some posters( RDB3) on this thread are active participants with- and I am the one who is told to retract statements???? And freepers rush to his aid!?!

Ummm hmmm..... Food for thought: Can you imagine Dr. Rice getting on a pedestal and calling anyone a racist or a bigot for posting their opinions of riots and welfare on a website?

I can't- she doesn't need the smoke and mirrors. But then again this hysteria is about a culture which she does not belong to - not the color of her skin.

This too shall pass.