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It can be hard to see racism if you’re white
Deluth News Tribune ^
| 1/27/2012
| Naomi Yaeger-Bischoff
Posted on 01/30/2012 2:29:07 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: Mr. Wright
It is not hard at all . . . I see it all the time. Gangs of minority youts wilding or flash mobbing whites. Minority youts committing hate crimes on white kids and adults.
No, it is not hard to see it at all!!
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Look at pop culture for more examples of racist behavior. Hollywood, MTV, rap music and other such forms of "entertainment" are filled with cuss words and references to n - - - , bitches and ho's.
The ghetto culture has overcome America.
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:48:25 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Newt or else. What part of "Join or Die" don't you understand?)
To: YankeeReb
The idea that the world is out to get blacks is bullshit, but it's a self fulfilling prophecy. That's the problem. If you're white and you're denied a loan, you try, try again. If you're black and you're denied a loan, you chalk it out to racism. They're taught that the deck is stacked against them so they don't persevere the way other races do. Their so-called leaders are more to blame for their plight than white racism because they perpetuate the myth.
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:49:36 PM PST
by
youngidiot
(Hear Hear!)
To: YankeeReb
It’s hard to see racism in the mirror if you’re black ...
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:50:07 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: YankeeReb
Step back if you ever watched a black colleague receive a promotion or other benefit at work based exclusively on “diversity” programs. Step back even further if other people were more qualified for that promotion or benefit.
Step back if your employer has ever had a special month that is designated exclusively to recognize black people but has no such month for white people.
Step back if your employer goes soft on workplace problems caused by black people because they don’t want to seem racist.
Step back if you had ever been sneered at in public by black people whom you have never seen before and seem to hate you because you are whote.
Step forward if you expect to receive slavery reparation payments someday.
Step forward if you expect to receive special government incentives for your business because you are black.
Step back if youve ever been denied a scholarship because you aren’t black.
Step back if youve ever been taunted by black punks in parking lot for driving your car in the wrong neighborhood.
Step forward if you have ever used the race card at school or at work because you know white people fall all over themselves at the mere allegation of racism.
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:50:54 PM PST
by
Notwithstanding
(1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
To: YankeeReb
Let's not blame the reporterette.
She's growing into a fine little liberal.
She's learning how to hate herself.
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:50:57 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
I realized that even though my father had literally put blood, sweat and tears into farming land in southwestern Minnesota, that had he been Native American or African American his parents probably wouldnt have even owned land in the first place.
Naomi Yaeger-Bischoff, even with the moronic hyphenated name, I hope you realise what a massive disappointment you have been to both your parents and grandparents. Take a walk around some parts of Philadelphia by yourself in the evening some time and then tell us all about prejudice.
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:51:18 PM PST
by
pyx
(Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
To: YankeeReb
It’s obviously politically correct on FR to ridicule this article but I happen to believe that its essential point is true. I *think* even if you were to ask conservative blacks like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Alan Keyes, they would likely say that they have experienced racism. I also think that if you ask all sorts of blacks in America they would report the same thing. This is not the same thing as saying that there isn’t imagined or made up racism. There is. There is also real racism. To deny it is to deny reality.
I don’t go from there to then say we should have affirmative action. We shouldn’t. That’s just compounding the problem.
But come on people - racism isn’t something like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus - it’s alive and well. It’s not as pervasive as it once was, it’s not as accepted as it once was, it’s not an excuse for every failing.
But, to cite but one example, there *is* such a thing as Driving While Black. To pretend otherwise is foolishness.
To: YankeeReb
...step back if you had ever been followed around a store. Step forward if you expect to inherit at least a little money when your parents die. Step back if youve ever been denied housing because of your race. Step back if you worried that your hairstyle was too ethnic for an employer...Step forward if you have ever been thrilled that a brother got away with a brutal double murder.
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To: YankeeReb; All
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:52:22 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: SoldierDad
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:53:22 PM PST
by
brivette
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
And of course, just as there is white on black racism, there is surely black on white racism. They both exist - just like shoplifting exists, adultery exists, corruption exists and all the rest.
To: YankeeReb
The gullible amongst us - notibly the geeky, left-wing media types - would make good subjects for a carny hypnotist...they are so subject to suggestion and innuendo that they'll believe anything.
In reality, we all have our own road in life, and sitting down and waiting for a ride won't always get you there.
The sole object of obamanism is to strip the rich (code word for 'whites' of all they have and transfer it to the poor (code word for "blacks"). He can preach "rich" and "poor" all day, and except for an "exceptable" number of tokens, that is the way it works out.
I'm white and it's not hard for me to see "racism", I see it everytime Jesse Jackson,Al Sharpton, Shiela Jackson-Lee, Clymer, oprah, and yes, obama, appear and speak. They bellow out that the whites are the "haters", yet 90% of the whites I see are smiling and of good humor, working, and living up to their responsibilities, while 90% of the blacks I see are scowling, pouting, bitching and complaining...all the signs of the real "haters".
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:54:10 PM PST
by
FrankR
(You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
To: YankeeReb
Its called the “Guilt Walk” - they do it in the colleges around here to make the white students feel guilty about being white....
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:54:25 PM PST
by
Patrsup
(To stubborn to change now)
To: nolongerademocrat
It can be hard to see racism if youre white
Look at the FBI crime statistics to see the race of those who rape, beat, rob, sell drugs to, and murder blacks. It's not white folk. Even Jesse Jackson knows this and demonstrated it when he said if he was out alone late at night and heard footsteps behind him and turned to see it was a white guy he would be relieved.
Racism is that which, if attributed by a racist to another race with respect to his own experience with that other race, is seldom true, but which, if denied by that same racist about himself with respect to how he characterizes that other race, is almost always true.
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:58:44 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: Notwithstanding
I checked my White Guilt Bank Account.
Balance: $0.
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posted on
01/30/2012 2:59:25 PM PST
by
Jacquerie
(No court will save us from ourselves.)
To: YankeeReb
White people can't be racist because they have no power.
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posted on
01/30/2012 3:01:19 PM PST
by
donna
To: YankeeReb
The corollary is it is easy to charge racism when you see white.
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posted on
01/30/2012 3:01:19 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: YankeeReb
Step forward if you’ve ever been in a flash mob.
Step back if youngraduated high school.
Step forward if you have committed a violent crime.
Step back if you do not use drugs...
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posted on
01/30/2012 3:01:55 PM PST
by
Bon mots
("When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...")
To: YankeeReb
I just got back from a trip to Duluth. These billboards are everywhere, and every time I saw one, I wanted to puke. I would love to see an identical campaign based on the theme "It's hard to see equality when you've been brainwashed."
The "when you're white" signs are nothing more than racist themselves, and their message is appalling. But Duluth is populated with guilt-ridden left-wingers, socialists, and artsy types so this bilge plays well there.
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posted on
01/30/2012 3:04:45 PM PST
by
IronJack
(=)
To: YankeeReb
when I was young, i got a job, and when i showed up for my first shift, the foreman looked at my name and said, “ I will not have another pollock on my shift”... I was fired after 3 hours.... I scored so high on an employment test, that the form said I was guaranteed a job.. when I went to talk to the HR person, this blonde bitch would not even look me in the eyes... she said, “ I’m sorry, but you are the wrong sex and the wrong color. If you were a black female, you would not even have had to take the test. I’m sorry, we have nothing for you.”.... then comes the time I was sued by a black male that threw a chair at me so hard it stuck in my wall... you see, to fire someone for assaulting you is racist (the case went on for 2 years before it was dropped, I refused to settle).... you all can take your charges of racism and go straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect welfare...
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posted on
01/30/2012 3:05:19 PM PST
by
joe fonebone
(Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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