Part of a basic truth here in America is being missed. This fear or distrust is being called racist...but it is actually a fear of the tilted system leaving them behind in the dust. The legal system here is prejudice against them. True some of them are racist but most are just fighting for survival on the ground. They are fighting for their jobs and their families.
Most of us here worked hard in school or our businesses in our younger years to provide for our families and had good fortune as a result. These guys didn't do so well for whatever reason, immaturity or maybe a lack of IQ. But whatever the reason they are correct to assume that no one is looking out for them from either party. The minorities have the Dems wrapped up and the Blue dogs have nothing but the false promises left to look forward to. I try to put myself in their shoes. What would I do if I found myself in a low paying job and had to be a slave boy to minorities who play the race card to an employer and a judge at every turn?
Yes there is still racism in America...but is it what it used to be?
Let’s see Barack Obama attended a racist black church for years and the people that don’t want to vote for him are racist? He also has terrorist as friends, wants to gut our military and has the most liberal voting record in the senate. If the war wasn’t so damn unpopular Obama would lose in a landslide.
It isn’t race most Americans are concerned about—it’s QUALITY. And that’s something Obama doesn’t have.
First, I despise Obama. I will not vote for him. And I may not vote for McCain (he's going to have to have a really good running mate for one thing). Second, I have been a frequent and loud critic of the Black community on this forum--for its political alliances (homosexuals, atheists, evolutionists, etc.). Issues such as welfare and affirmative action don't set my blood boiling like they do some people. I'm sorry, but they don't. So in my frequent tirades against the Sharptons and Jacksons on this forum I have consistently aimed at their moral positions/alliances and have, to the best of my knowledge, never used the terms "poverty pimp" or "race hustler."
HOWEVER--all that being said, I am afraid I must agree that there is in America among my own group (the poor whites I usually defend on this forum) a prejudice against Blacks that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with that community's political alliances but is based on race and race alone. It is something from another time, it has lasted for four hundred years, and there appears to be no end in sight. It used to bother me, and it still does, but I new regard it as ineradicable.
I'm not happy about reporting this. I wish it weren't so. I hate it. But it's the truth. Despite the fact that they've lived here together for going on four hundred years, speak the same language (in practically the same dialect), profess the same religion (in fact, the same form of the same religion), and are intimately familiar with each other, they seem to hate each other like poison. I would understand this if it were based on contemporary Black political alliances. But it is not.
Again, I do not usually post such a message as this. I am an adamant defender of poor rural Southern Fundamentalist whites. And I most certainly point out the hypocrisy of those who excuse prejudice in one group while condemning it in another (not to mention the maddening fact that the same things which liberals regard as "charming" in Blacks [ignorance, poverty, a thick accent, authoritarian religion] is considered monstrous in poor whites). But I do not sweep the situation under the rug either. It's a %&*#$ shame that the two oldest and most similar population groups in the country seem to be such implacable, eternal enemies to each other. But that seems to be the case.
At the same time, as a Civil War Republican, I must observe that the fact that these particular poor whites think Hillary Clinton is their friend and that the only reason they're going Republican is the color of their party's nominee's skin simply confirms to me my own lifelong prejudice against "yellow dog Democrats." Screw 'em.
Yeah, we all know how those damn white people prejudge everyone....
Whether Obama wins or loses it will be because of the color of his skin, not due to racism, but because it’s all he is.
If Obama had a caucasian father, he wouldn’t have even been elected to the Senate, much less elected to be the democrat nominee.
Racist. Bah.
You know, nothing I've read here at FreeRepublic in the last few months has stuck with me the way this quote has (I read it yesterday Sunday June 8).
I think this gentleman is exactly right. His statement resonated within me, and touched something that came out of my life experience over many years.
You see, a close childhood friend of mine is black. His parents moved to the same suburb my parents moved to, back in the second half of the 1960s, and they moved for the same reason: to get away from forced integration of nice neighborhoods with thug neighborhoods in the city.
As I said, I grew up with this person. We were in elementary school together, straight up through high school graduation. He was accepted at a far more prestigious university than was I, and he crashed and burned there in his first year. Long story, and I won't go through the details for obvious reasons.
I saw him a few times over the years, and was shocked and discomfited by how he had changed. He had become bitter, quick to take offense, and constantly on the lookout for any racial slight. Things we had once said to each other in jest were now verboten, at least in one direction.
There was a period of time in recent years (I won't say the exact time frame) in which we spent a lot of time together socially. During that time, I noticed that he liked to be very... well, I don't know anyway else to say it, but bossy with me. He liked to order me around, treat me like a younger brother, even though we are the same age. He also had taken up the habit of humiliating me in front of others, although he only did this when we were with other friends from our old circle, so it didn't happen much.
Eventually I couldn't take it any more, and I tapered off seeing this person. Finally our paths diverged once again, and we never talk any more.
I spent too much time thinking about this period, and the incidents to which I alluded above. I'm a little bit embarrassed to admit that the conclusion to which I came was this: he wanted to treat me as he would a servant. Doing so gave him enjoyment.
I won't go any farther with this line of reasoning here, again, for obvious reasons. It would get this post deleted, and for good reason.
Let me just say, though, that the conlusion I came to was exactly that articulated by Mr. Telvor in the quotation. It gives me no pleasure to say this, believe me. I don't want to go into the reasons why I think this, either, other than to say that my own experience with an old friend led me to conclude the same thing.
Oh yeah, I forgot to change my tag line, which I’m doing as a result of thinking about this story for the past day.