God bless you. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is or what your culture is. They say that if you aren’t a democrat in your 20’s you have no heart. If you aren’t conservative by the time you are thirty you are stupid or corrupt.
It has nothing to do with skin color, its about common sense. Take money from business, and they can’t hire as many people. Simple.
When Government takes that money and gives it to other businesses to make ZYX, and it lowers ARTIFICIALLY the price that ZYX product can be sold for, and kills other businesses that are already IN the market, but can’t now compete with the government subsidized industry. Meanwhile, more jobs are lost than created, and those newer jobs PAY LESS.
Its NOT rocket science, and it isn’t racism. In fact, I am of the opinion that the only racism left in American on an institutional level is practiced by those who scream about it every day. Race isn’t really involved, but they have found that if they scream that false accusation, they can guilt trip people into what ever it is they want to get out of them.
Racism is ultimately about using race as a means to an end. You know a racist by whether or not he/she is USING RACE as a means of getting something. Most people don’t care about race, they care about whether or not you can do the job competently or not.
Am I right about all this, heck if I know, this is just the observations of a white woman who was raised in a society in Hawaii as a little girl that discriminated against white people. Haole isn’t a nice term at all. It equates to the N-word. I understand racism from the perspective of the person it was practiced against.
Thanks for the heartfelt post, Danae. I’m hip to all that you said.
Racism is a terrible human aberration, and thankfully, I haven’t had to deal with all that much of it in this life.
My real complaint was about what the poster said about Obama being able to do what he wants, “because he’s black.” That’s the flip side of racism, which is almost worse than the disease itself.
As you said, we conservatives tend to rate people on their performance in life, not their race, or their cultural origin, as libs do. I operate that way myself, and have no issue with others applying the same standard to me.
Thanks for all you said.