What people don’t understand is that there isn’t just a difference in the way whites and blacks look at race - there is a CHASM.
I work in a mixed workplace environment in every way, white scientists and black scientists, scientists alongside the cleaning crews, etc., and we all talk politics. The whites nearly all think that worrying about race is an artefact from the not-so-good old days. The blacks, on the other hand, are consumed with race. Concerning Cynthia McKinney’s claim that the government up and shot thousands of people in New Orleans during Ike, and buried them in mass graves, the whites think this is ludicrous nonsense, while the blacks think it is entirely plausible. The level of paranoia that runs through the black community is unbelievably high.
It doesn’t surprise me at all that Powell would endorse Obama solely for the reason that he is black. It doesn’t surprise me a bit.
Gee you think there would be a family member or two who would be complaining.
“The level of paranoia that runs through the black community is unbelievably high.”
My thought is if that same community were at all interested in just a little bit of truth then their paranoia would vanish. The like their pararnoia and have no plans to release themselves from it because it serves them politically and economically.
If BHO gets in, we’ll hear about race non-stop for the next four years.
Perhaps blacks are consumed with racism because they live it.
Racism is a fact. If it is not directed at you, and you are not racist, you don’t believe in it.
I live with descrimination as well. A discrimination that is denied by the groups perpetuating it. I am the rural, hardworking, God fearing, hetrosexual, patriotic, gun toting individule, that the Democrats hate. I have lived their hatred, and been subjected to their dissmissive, marginalization. It is real, no matter how they deny it.
“The blacks, on the other hand, are consumed with race.”
No kidding! Light ones dislike darker ones, i.e, ‘the paper bag test’. In that one must be no darker than a paper bag to enter the black ‘social elite’. I fully expect it to get ugly around here (ATL) soon.