I am sure you understand is highly offensive to some people.
Posted on 07/10/2009 9:53:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
You and me both.
Great post.
The parents, as many do, use their kids.
As for how the kids dress, I don’t have any problem with it really. I’d make my kids dress differently of course, but it’s not that big a deal really.
I am sure you understand is highly offensive to some people.
Did you see the story today that in Germany, they had named one of their new monkeys “obama” in honor of the President, but then they were told it was racist so they changed the name?
Why not? Should “they” be held to a different standard? It’s ok to call a bunch of white kids monkeys, which I do often, but not ok to call a kid who is black a monkey because there are issues there? Hmmm. Maybe those who are offended need to get over it?
Well said.
From what I’ve seen firsthand, black people do often overestimate racism and can see racism where it isn’t but the flip side is that white people often underestimate racism and don’t always see racism where it really exists. I’m not trying to play on guilt but it asking people to be nice really that much of a burden on everyone?
No, it’s not how I live my life and I don’t intend to ever let some person behind a keyboard tell me how to live my life so don’t try. I refuse to slink like some snake because some people want to take a knife to this gunfight we are in now. I see how far playing nice got us. We lost it all! Now we have a Marxist in the WH that is hell bent on destroying our country and the futures of generations if not forever.
YOU are exactly what they hope for. They complain, cry racist when in fact they are the biggest racists of all. They scream racist, you tuck your tail between your legs and run for cover as you yell “I promise to be good and always play nice”. It’s their MO. They hope it works and then they win. I refuse to let them win. Damn right, they want to play hardball, count me in.
Well said! So much better than I could.
From what Ive seen 90% of white people bend over backward.... often making complete fools of themselves not to appear racist. The total inverse is true of black folk. Gets rather old.
Moi? Personally busted? I don’t spend all that much time on FR and the time I do spend here, I devote to looking at things that interest me, not troll-hunting. If I encounter someone trollish, though, I check his posting history and report him to the mods if I think he’s a troll.
I have exposed a couple of “aww, I don’t hate Jews, I just hate Israel” liars for the anti-Semites they were. Those were years ago, I don’t remember their names. I also warned people about a suspicious poster who later exposed himself as a Holocaust denier and got banned. I remember that one’s name.
I’ve seen the mods ban several neo-Nazi trolls over the years that were busted by others. And like I said in my original post, DUmmies and KosKids love to pretend to be Nazis and sign up on conservative sites to try to bait us. The black lefty sending racist messages to black FReepers is exactly the sort of thing I expect from DU/Kos.
I wish I had seen you post earlier.
Ghetto/Trailer Trash/Redneck...
Maybe you should just accept reality.
Calling someone black a monkey a chimp or a gorilla makes you sound racist while calling someone white a chimp or gorilla isn’t.
That is just how it is.
Why is that? Put a real fine point on it for me.
So I checked out my dictionary for the exact meaning of ghetto:
"A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background, often because of discrimination."
"An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages."
Exactly, ghetto was the word once associated with Jews, and now has a broader meaning, but it certainly doesn't mean 'black.' And the word "trash" doesn't have any particular racial connotation, either - it's meaning is obvious.
Now, if I remember correctly, the political left has constantly and consistently trashed Sarah Palin's children in a vicious and disgusting manner. Words like 'retard' come to mind, used in mocking baby Trig. A mainstream (liberal) late night personality joked about the statutory rape of a 14 years old. Horrible language said about Bristol included words like trash, whore, and numerous other epithets were common. But hey, we are conservatives, and nowadays that means, we're supposed to shut up and take it. We play nice, turn the other cheek, and when the Marxist parents who have publicly proclaimed their hate for America with observations like "for the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country," and dress their children with political symbols to convey a message to the world, we are simply supposed to say nice things about them and leave it at that.
The parents should know better not to use their children as props, but they hide behind them because they know no one will dare to criticize them. That is a cowardly attitude, but typical of liberals. So they deserve whatever they get.
“We cannot be effective in winning converts to our conservative positions if we do not ridicule the racist nonsense that sometimes appears on this site.”
Whatever so called “racist nonsense” appears on this site is so minor compared to in general across the board stuff....it also seems that those who post the most are those with the most ridulous opinions.
I really don’t get how this is a racist site or how concerned some are about this site being viewed as racist. If anything, it’s pretty PC when it comes to race.
>I’d make my kids dress differently of course, but it’s not that big a deal really.<
If this were simply “the Obama family and cousins” out for a vacation to Disney world, or even on a tourist trip to Europe, I would agree with you. However, this group of people represents the United States internationally. Those children (and the sloppy teen male cousin) should darn well dress in their Sunday best when out in public.
And, had America elected a person to the Presidency with any class whatsoever, REGARDLESS of race, we would not be discussing them on this forum.
Thanks for the ping, btw.
ZERO class.
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