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To: ConfusedAndLovingIt
What does "half-black" have to do with the point he's making?

I'm not one to see racism around every corner but that phrase being thrown in there has no revelance and smacks of it.

22 posted on 06/12/2008 12:19:47 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (McCain, my penultimate choice in the primary and only choice in the general)
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To: Graybeard58

You’ve been reading too many Socialist talking points memos.

Want a glimpse at real racism, walk into Obama’s church on any Sunday of the year.

I have not met many whites who hate blacks in my life. But I have not met many blacks who like whites my friend.

Racism is in the eye of the beholder. Call it as you see it.


41 posted on 06/12/2008 12:29:26 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
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To: Graybeard58

“What does “half-black” have to do with the point he’s making?

I’m not one to see racism around every corner but that phrase being thrown in there has no revelance and smacks of it.”

Interesting. Black would have been OK. White? Nope. Why not? Is he not at least as much white as black? Half-black? Nope. Half-white, maybe? Accurately describing someone’s ethnic makeup accurately is racist? I don’t like where this is going.

It might have been superfluous but it was not racist. No offense but if that is your idea of racism, I don’t believe you have ever seen real racism.

Racism isn’t a joke at someone’s expense or cultural barbs folks throw at each other, as modern PC would love it to be. Adherents to it can control your speech or demonise you with the RACIST!!! label for non-PC, though factual, statements as you did this writer.

Don’t let yourself get caught up in that.


118 posted on 06/12/2008 2:22:01 PM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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