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Sorry Ben Stein, These Presidents Were Way More Racist Than Obama
Boston Globe ^ | November 4, 2014 | Shan Wang

Posted on 11/04/2014 1:24:39 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Ben Stein—lawyer, Nixon speechwriter, and erstwhile actor known for his turn as Ferris Bueller’s economics teacher—stopped by Fox News on Sunday with some choice words for the Obama administration.

“This president is the most racist president there has ever been in America,” he told Fox News.

Most racist? Plenty past presidents could challenge Obama for that title. Here are some strong contenders: you be the judge.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: benstein; bostonglobe; demagogicparty; history; massachusetts; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; presidents; racism; shanwang; stein
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To: maddog55
Slave owners when slavery was common doesn’t make one a racist.

People who owned "chattel" slaves were racists. They believed people of other races (black, Chinese, sometimes Irish) could be owned, but others could not.
21 posted on 11/04/2014 1:44:31 PM PST by Vladiator
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To: oblomov
“Eisenhower avoided issues of race, and was silent on segregation.”

Eisenhower tried to pass the civil rights act of 1957 it was filibustered by the Democrats in the Senate.

You're right this writer knows nothing about history.

22 posted on 11/04/2014 1:44:51 PM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: raccoonradio

After THAT quote LBJ said...”And then those n@@@@@@s will be voting for Democrats for 200 years.”


23 posted on 11/04/2014 1:45:37 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s a pity that a shining exemplar of virtue like Shan Wang is condemned to live in a country like America with such an evil past.

I personally would like to contribute to a fund that will help him relocate.


24 posted on 11/04/2014 1:48:42 PM PST by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Comparing pre-Civil War presidents to Obama regarding racism is misleading. It is apples and oranges.

Liberals do this all the time. It is like telling a grandma or grandpa that they grew up in poverty because when they were children they only had radios and not TV’s.


25 posted on 11/04/2014 1:49:29 PM PST by Gumdrop (woamn)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

At least the guy who can’t think said something! ping


26 posted on 11/04/2014 1:51:14 PM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
And MLK was right behind him when he said it.

Wow. I'd heard the quote, but never heard MLK was right behind him when he said it!

27 posted on 11/04/2014 1:52:02 PM PST by Nea Wood (Even Heaven has a gate.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Of course Shan Wang neglects to mention that George Washington had his slaves freed after the death of Martha.


28 posted on 11/04/2014 1:54:07 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's better to die free than live as a slave)
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To: ConservativeStatement

29 posted on 11/04/2014 1:57:30 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: maddog55

Exactly. I will also note the language in the U. S. Constitution or was it the Declaration of Independence, that declares all men equal. My what a bunch of racists to coined that term, or merely repeated it.

The media today including the Boston Globe simply will not list the race of criminals who commit criminal acts.

Not very racist are they...

After all, what does it matter now anyway?

When you’re dead, you’re dead.


30 posted on 11/04/2014 1:59:07 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: TigersEye

Anyone who thinks racism is a one way street is blinded by reality. A case in point is our Attorney General, Eric Holder.


31 posted on 11/04/2014 2:02:07 PM PST by billhilly (First eligible to vote in 1958)
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To: Vladiator
Slave owners when slavery was common doesn’t make one a racist.

People who owned "chattel" slaves were racists. They believed people of other races (black, Chinese, sometimes Irish) could be owned, but others could not.

"Irish" is a race?

BTW, the existence of black slave owners who owned black slaves tends to torpedo your argument rather effectively.

32 posted on 11/04/2014 2:02:48 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: maddog55
Slave owners when slavery was common doesn’t make one a racist.

?????

Way too much to sort out there. By today's standards, owning slaves did make you a racist, and they didn't have the word "racist" back then, so today's standard will have to do.

Otherwise we'll be arguing forever about whether the "nice" slave owners were really "racist" or not. We all have more important things to do with our time.

It's all a pointless discussion anyway. Obviously there were more racist presidents than Obama. The author's snark doesn't really add anything to the discussion.

33 posted on 11/04/2014 2:10:03 PM PST by x
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To: Zeppo

AFAIK, the Irish, at least in America, were never chattel slaves. Those that were “sold into slavery” here were according to the sellers, criminals transported for committing treason.

They would thus have even been subject to forced labor after the 14th Amendment was passed.

Not saying the laws under which they were punished were just, but they were the laws at the time.


34 posted on 11/04/2014 2:14:02 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: x
By today's standards, owning slaves did make you a racist,...

And 0bama exists in today's world so how racist does that make him?

35 posted on 11/04/2014 2:15:16 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I think Nixon is most anti Semtric US president we ever had with Jimmy Carter closed second


36 posted on 11/04/2014 2:16:44 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: TigersEye

Yeah he was caught on audio tape saying it LOL!


37 posted on 11/04/2014 2:17:31 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: pepsi_junkie
I guess the author "forgot" about TR inviting Booker T. Washington to the White House for dinner, and also visiting him at Tuskegee. Both men got death threats.


38 posted on 11/04/2014 2:17:40 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Vladiator
People who owned "chattel" slaves were racists.

There have been more white slaves throughout history than black ones. I'm sure American slaveholders would have accepted any race. Africans just happened to be fashionable at that point in history.

39 posted on 11/04/2014 2:17:57 PM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Obama is the most unrepresenting President ever, from illegals, to his executive orders etc...

he has the most spite of all President and that includes his feelings of being unrepresented by white people, proving his utter retarded infantile form of racism.


40 posted on 11/04/2014 2:20:47 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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