Posted on 06/25/2013 5:26:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
> Well, I guess then it is YOU who owe the reparations. Please give your check to the first black person you see. :)
Are you kidding? I ALREADY have! I’ve been taxed to death for almost 40 years so they can eat for free, get free housing and medical care without having to work so they can watch television and let their butts spread out even further. Go into Walmart and look around...: )
Well, in this case the VRA is racist since it picks on the south. Im racists.....im white and proud of it...
you forot the Obamaphone...
you forgot the Obamaphone...
If that is not true then it proves the point that the voting rights monitoring by the federal government has out lived it's purpose and is no longer necessary.
I live in central Va that has a very high black population. It is a rare day when I am out and about that I see any blacks at work. Doing anything at all. Just an observation.
Just a joke...I know what you mean, though...
In my experience, having only visited South Carolina, I can safely say minorities in my home state of NJ are DEFINITELY more racist.
I’ve lived in a lot of places—North and South, East and West, small towns, fancy suburbs, inner-city slum, chic urban neighborhoods, mountain village, farms, working-class neighborhood. In my experience the North is far more racist than the South, in overt actions, in speech, and in the “soft racism of low expectations.” This is mediated by the fact that there are simply more white liberals in the North, and more serious, believing Christians in the South, both black and white. Yes, there are probably more people in the South who use the N word openly. But for the most part, blacks and whites in the South get along more amicably and think about racial differences less.
I dismiss statistics that say otherwise. Most such statistics are generated by leftist “researchers” whose study design, methodology, peer review, and analysis leave much to be desired.
As a lifelong southerner it has been my observation that some northerner s learned all the think they know about the south from watching “Roots” and reading “Tobacco Road”.
Until air conditioning made its way south, you couldn’t find a Yankee with 500 miles from the Mason-Dixon Line.
From spending time around guys from many states (Air Force) I have noticed that many Northerners base their opinion of Southerners based on the accent alone. They think themselves all-knowing that people who don’t sound like them are somehow, less intelligent. Profiling, anyone?
Insofar as slavery goes, that was a loooong time ago. And even though “progressives” like to fear-mongering people that we are trying to bring back slavery, or even “Jim Crowe” laws, it’s simply a canard to justify race-baiting.
Southern attitudes are based on individuality, whereas up North the tendency is “groupthink”. Down here we accept, or reject, persons of any color based on their personality, attitude, and honor...not just because some community organizer says we “must” like and/or accept them as a person.
Most Southerners now would not partake in slavery if they legalized again. It’s not worth it.
So, if “racism” is to be defined as not accepting blacks on a group basis, I guess we are more “racist”. But, percentage-wise, I know and like as many black people I’ve met, as white. It’s the individual, not the color, that makes the difference.
Now, I’ll let the author of this article get back to his stereotyping...
The critical problem with this study is that it has no correction factor for the truth.
We know that black people are convicted of crimes far more than other groups of people, so how is it racist if honest people's opinion reflects that fact?
Similarly, all measures of racial differences in intelligence indicate that black people, as a group, do less well on intelligence tests. So for a person to reflect that fact in their opinion does not make them racists.
The unstated assumption in the “study” is that all racial groups are the same in intelligence, trustworthiness, and work ethic.
I find it hard to believe that any honest person would claim that that assumption is true.
Racism has always followed the Democratic Party, just look at the Party’s history. There may be racist in the Republican Party (and I blame Liberal Republicans for this), but it has always been that equal rights before the law has been the institution strived for by the base. Liberalism breeds racism, Christian Conservatism does not. Follow these two philosophies to where they migrated and you will see where the racists are.
Well i played in an all black band years ago One of my best friends is black so you tell me. No I don’t hate blacks. I do dislike black thugs and white trash equally though.
“But then, that is the point of the constant bombardment of stories about race from the media and other lefties.”
Exactly. Lots of trolls here and all we have to do to find them is look for their bigotry about the South. It’s been on the rise again.
Correction. All black band minus me...: )
The biggest “racists” are the people who hate the South, several post on FR. Liberal trolls, nothing more.
Marge Shott.
Frank, I’m not doubting YOUR personal beliefs, but what do you make of the following comments?
“The fact of the matter is, being made a slave was the best thing that ever happened to those blacks. The vast majority of blacks that were made slave were simply captives from internal tribal conflicts among Africans. If they had no value, they would simply have been slaughtered (as they are today). Instead, since they had value as slaves, they were allowed to live, sold to slavers, and then brought to the greatest nation on the face of the Earth while their brethren were left in the hell hole of Africa.”
“Africa was such a horrible place to live that many Africans volunteered to come to America as slaves. The problem was that some of their descendants wanted out of the deal.”
“Some slaves were mistreated, but most were treated as beloved members of the family much as pets are today.
Would you condemn all pet owners because a few beat there pets or some fight them against each other? Should the states that allow pet ownership be justifiably burnt to the ground as someone suggested was deserved of the South earlier in this thread?”
“The point was, every argument you use to justify pet ownership can be applied to slave ownership.”
What do you think is the common component to each one of these FReepers?
For what it’s worth, the two most racist towns I’ve ever been to were in Michigan and Ohio respectively.
In one I saw a mob assemble, hurling obscenities and rocks at a Black woman in her car, telling her to “get out of town!”
In the other the Black manager of a local store had to be moved out of town by his company for his own safety after receiving numerous death threats.
Been to Alabama several times. Did not get anything close to the same vibe.
Yes I have a comment! I am a certified behavior bigot. If you act like a sub-human then I dislike you, won’t hire you, won’t patronize your business and would rather you go away.
When a large percentage of a group behave in a low class manner it is safe to say we are better off without the group.
Those who want to be contributors and refuse the plantation mentality of victimhood are A-OK in my book. The rest of you P— off and get out of the way. You’re nothing but leaches and a detriment to society.
No amount a diversity training, affirmative action, sharia law... can make a civilized human out of an animal.
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