Posted on 11/04/2014 1:24:39 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Michelle Obama: "You make a good point because I am, I do talk about health. But I think that a good victory for Democrats on Tuesday, you know, should be rewarded with some fried chicken."
Let any white man or woman suggest that black voters reward themselves with fried chicken.
I don’t care who you are, that -right there- is FUNNY!
Well played, sir.
Well played.
Depends how you define "history."
I'm sure American slaveholders would have accepted any race.
Earlier maybe, but not so much in the 19th century. The country was high on liberty and democracy. Whites weren't going to deny rights to Whites, so they had to use another group as slaves. Ironically, what we call "racism" may have become such an important factor because slave owners started to have scruples about who they could enslave.
“Racism” is a relative thing, and in most instances, it has not one whit to do with slavery. It has everything to do with stereotyping those who are “different”, and that may be expressed in so many ways other than placing another under bondage.
Crossing the street before approaching closely to a person of doubtful aspect, which may or may not include an abundance of melanin, COULD be ascribed to “racism”, but Americans of African descent have been known to do exactly that when confronted with such a dilemma. Are they being “racist” or merely prudent?
One would argue that many Caucasians were also at one time or another enslaved, and highly notable among that number were the Jewish people, who suffered repeated enslavements over the centuries. Other populations, over human history, have been oppressed by tyrants and ideologies, and compelled to be servants against their will. In fact, just such a society, or several of them, exist even today, and they go under the general umbrella of “Islam”.
Since the Current Occupant of the White Hut appears to have a major alignment with Islam, he is also a racist, and a racist who sees nothing at all wrong with imposing a form of slavery, known as “dhimmi”, upon that greater proportion of humans on this planet who do NOT profess Islam as their first choice as religion.
Bttt.
Nixon did come of age at a time when anti-Semitism was probably stronger in the US than at other periods, but it's not always easy to separate out boorish or politically incorrect comments from real bigotry and malice.
The one that really was racist was LBJ calling them n word or other racial dergoraty
I don’t think Bush 41 or 43 had racist bone in their bodies
Neither President Reagan
shan wang, sham wow...
does this make me a racist?
does my racism make me look phat?
human = race
ethnicities are the spice of life
ignorance is niggardly when it comes to acceptance
did i go too far with that one?
Nixon was caught on several years’ worth of tape-recordings making some antisemitic comments out of frustration with what was going on in the world, but he found time in the middle of Watergate and especially the Saturday Night Massacre to make sure that Israel had the military supplies it needed during the 1973 war and surrounding turmoil - and he had a lot of Jews working in high level positions in his administration, including Henry Kissinger, Bruce Hershensohn, and a guy named Ben Stein......
Bush came from much more comfortable circumstances and went to college after the War, when prosperity was coming back, so the anger and bitterness weren't there. Reagan came up from poverty, but he also didn't have the kind of resentment that Nixon had.
I suspect you probably would have heard a lot of foul language and ethnic slurs if you could have listened in at the Johnson (or even the Kennedy) White House. The Kennedys were born rich, but like Nixon, they always wanted to appear tougher than they actually were.
To be fair to LBJ, though, that famous n-word conversation happened when he was trying to get men he assumed were racist themselves to go along with some measure of integration, so it's not necessarily the most representative comment.
The fact that he genuinely hates white people, while other racist presidents have, for the most part, merely thought people of other races to be inferior, makes his racism particularly vile.
With that said, I do suspect that a few 20th century democrat presidents did actually hate blacks - Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson in particular.
And, interestingly, Wilson is responsible for resegregsting our armed forces after they had pretty much begun integrating on their own.
Actions do speak louder than words, don’t they...
“we were fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to destroy him. No convention, no treaty was possible – only destruction.”
There are several questionable assumptions there, but start with the idea that people who "merely" think another race inferior are worse than those who have an animus or hostility against a different racial group.
Somebody's feeling that you are inferior may actually be stronger and more pernicious and harder to uproot than your "hatred" of them. I'm not saying that it always is, but it's certainly possible.
I still think race hatred is worse than simple prejudices developed by environment and / or education ( or lack thereof). Hatred leads to closed minds and often to violence.
Closed minds and violence do not allow free discussion and do not lead to the education and the elimination old prejudices.
The man that wrote the lines “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. Over Jefferson’s life, he owned 700 slaves. During his life Jefferson freed 5 of those slaves. After his death 5 more of Jefferson’s slaves were freed in his will. Seven of those slaves manumitted by Jefferson were blood relatives of one Sally Hemings, herself a slave at Jefferson’s estate at Monticello.
If one president has a cabinet that has a majority of members of another race and any other president had a cabinet with no members of another race, I'd find it hard to believe that the first president's feelings towards that other race were ineradicably evil compared to the second's, even if the first president had some hard feelings and the second never thought about the other race at all.
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