Post racial America

[Baasha]

LOL. "post racial" America is stuff of 5-year old's fantasies and absolute hogwash.

The history of this country is marred by the unparalleled racial bigotry of slavery and the despicable genocide of the native populace.

The proof is in the pudding: just reverse the scenario of the 2008 presidential elections and ask yourselves what the result would have been.

In other words, if McCain graduated from the top of his class at Harvard and was the editor of the Harvard Law Review while Obama graduated near the bottom of his class in the Navy, despite the fact that Obama may have served in Vietnam, do you think he (Obama) would have received 48 million votes? You must truly be delusional to think so.

Although some people may have voted for McCain due to conflicting principles, the majority of any populace of any country, especially that of America, is far too obtuse to understand the ins and outs of any policy, let alone ones that concern national and international interest. It is farcical and frankly hypocritical to say that many whites voted for McCain because they did not "like" Obama's policies. The simple fact is, most whites cannot tolerate having a minority lord over them, especially one who is as intelligent and articulate as Barack Obama.

Make no mistake, as long as people judge others by their appearance instead of their character, racism and bigotry of every stripe will always be prevalent in society. It is foolish to think otherwise.

 

[5150Joker]

You know I'm right. Minorities are overwhelmingly racists, it's part of their culture and deeply ingrained and specifically blacks are the worst offenders.

We're not racists, we just don't like White trash like YOU specifically. Most Whites, especially liberals/Democrats, are fantastic people.

 

[manimal]

Rainsford, regarding racism still in this country the truth, and you know it, is the most racist people there are are overwhelmingly minorities. Obama is no exception. White people really just don't care what race you are.

I do think a subset of the racism is cultural. If you look at the difference between the lives that are led in rural america and the lives of the rest of us there is a big difference.

The US is such a large country that culturally what passes for socially acceptable in say NYC is vastly different in say Indianapolis where I live.

I have lived in many cities from LA, NYC, Chicago, Indianapolis, San Fransisco, San Diego, Tulsa, Memphis, and spent months on end traveling for work. The difference socially in Tulsa were very different than San Fransisco.

For instance San Diego has been multicultural for generations now where in Tulsa there was a big backlash against Hispanics and even blacks. Tulsa specifically is still scarred from racial riots that resulted in the largest and most affluent African-American neighborhood being burned down to the ground because of an interracial affair.

A large part of this country has dealt with these scars and learned those lessons. Some places and most specifically people have not.

I was in a group of people recently-businessmen-having drinks after working. Some were from out of town and most were from here in Indianapolis. Now one of the locals here began a diatribe about Muslims and Mexicans and the rest you can imagine. Most of us from here just wrote if off as the guy being a dumb ass but one person took it very personally and left immediately.

Culturally the US is as different geographically as sweden is to france. In that large space comes big differences socially and economically. Change is painful and the recent race baiting has made pulling of that scab much harder than many are able to deal with.

Fear is the best tool of scoundrels and charlatans and fear as of late has been aplenty.

 

[Chaotic42]

Racism will not go away until everyone is secure about themselves, so it's hopeless.

 

[waggy]

racism will never go away. why? far to many whites' and blacks don't want it to.

 

[Chaotic42]

racism will never go away. why? far to many whites' and blacks don't want it to.

And Hispanics. And Arabs. And Chinese. And Japanese. And Koreans. And Indians...

 

[manimal]

And Hispanics. And Arabs. And Chinese. And Japanese. And Koreans. And Indians...

Not nearly as much as you would lead us to believe.

 

[Chaotic42]

Not nearly as much as you would lead us to believe.

Huh?

 

[Moonbeam]

You know I'm right. Minorities are overwhelmingly racists, it's part of their culture and deeply ingrained and specifically blacks are the worst offenders.

Hehehe, and to think I just got through mentioning how blind bigots are.

I'm not a racists. Black people are. That's just telling it like it is, as if a racist could possibly see it any other way. Black people are only inferior because they are worse than me. They are the big racists, not me.

spidey, you are an immense asshole and as stupid as a brick. That you can show your racist bigoted asshole of a face in public and not cringe with shame is a testament to the blindness of bigotry. I can thank you for demonstrating how profoundly insane one has to be to be a bigot, at least. Thanks for demonstrating what it means to have no organic shame. You are pathetic at its deepest meaning.

 

[Moonbeam]

racism will never go away. why? far to many whites' and blacks don't want it to.

It's not that they don't want it to volitionally. They have to not want it to. Their moral structure is bases on a need to belong to the better race because they themselves feel worthless. Since there is really nothing wrong with them there is a cure for bigotry, it's just that folk are afraid to know that all the hate they feel toward what they imagine is worthless is really only the hate they feel for themselves. A person who hates black people because they are evil isn't going to easily reconcile himself to finding out that that evil he sees is really his own evil. It's not easy to see one day that all you have ever been all your life is a piece of shit. They don't know that dying to bigotry frees you of being shit because you can't know that till you've done it.

 

[werepossum]

LOL. "post racial" America is stuff of 5-year old's fantasies and absolute hogwash.

The history of this country is marred by the unparalleled racial bigotry of slavery and the despicable genocide of the native populace.

The proof is in the pudding: just reverse the scenario of the 2008 presidential elections and ask yourselves what the result would have been.

In other words, if McCain graduated from the top of his class at Harvard and was the editor of the Harvard Law Review while Obama graduated near the bottom of his class in the Navy, despite the fact that Obama may have served in Vietnam, do you think he (Obama) would have received 48 million votes? You must truly be delusional to think so.

Although some people may have voted for McCain due to conflicting principles, the majority of any populace of any country, especially that of America, is far too obtuse to understand the ins and outs of any policy, let alone ones that concern national and international interest. It is farcical and frankly hypocritical to say that many whites voted for McCain because they did not "like" Obama's policies. The simple fact is, most whites cannot tolerate having a minority lord over them, especially one who is as intelligent and articulate as Barack Obama.

Make no mistake, as long as people judge others by their appearance instead of their character, racism and bigotry of every stripe will always be prevalent in society. It is foolish to think otherwise.

Reverse the election scenario? M'kay. Let's all contemplate the number of white folks elected president on the basis on their college careers and nothing else. Face it, if Obama were white he'd never have made it to the Senate, much less the White House, and probably he'd never have made it to the state senate either. Obama's two positive characteristics are his black skin and an excellent ability to read a TelePrompter - albeit without the sense to avoid thanking himself for inviting himself to the White House to meet himself if that's what the TelePrompter tells him to say. Without the former, Obama would be nothing more than a well-educated community organizer.

 

[peonyu]

So, there have been a few articles in the past few days that have really gotten under my skin about Obama and his so called "post racial America" agenda that was put on by the media.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39204164

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39250950/ns/politics-decision_2010/

Both articles are nothing more than our President trying to appeal directly to minorities against what might be called a "white agenda" by the GOP.

I find both of these occasions and his words to be so racially charged that I can't help to but be angry by them. So much for seeing past race...

White people are the Bogeyman remember. If you cant blame issues on something that is real, you can always blame it on the White Bogeyman. Even though slavery ended 160 years ago it still has an effect on minority people...So if you decide to not work and are poor - Well that is the Bogeyman's fault, your great-great-great-great-great-grand dad was a slave remember. And non-black minorities...They have it bad, because.....they are minorities to I guess ? Even the people who moved here within the last twenty years like the majority of Muslims. They are automatically minorities here, so any problems a Muslim has in America can be pinned to the Bogeyman/whitepeople/racism.

That is Obama's post racial America for you.

 

[Zebo]

I do think a subset of the racism is cultural. If you look at the difference between the lives that are led in rural america and the lives of the rest of us there is a big difference.

The US is such a large country that culturally what passes for socially acceptable in say NYC is vastly different in say Indianapolis where I live.

I have lived in many cities from LA, NYC, Chicago, Indianapolis, San Fransisco, San Diego, Tulsa, Memphis, and spent months on end traveling for work. The difference socially in Tulsa were very different than San Fransisco.

For instance San Diego has been multicultural for generations now where in Tulsa there was a big backlash against Hispanics and even blacks. Tulsa specifically is still scarred from racial riots that resulted in the largest and most affluent African-American neighborhood being burned down to the ground because of an interracial affair.

A large part of this country has dealt with these scars and learned those lessons. Some places and most specifically people have not.

I was in a group of people recently-businessmen-having drinks after working. Some were from out of town and most were from here in Indianapolis. Now one of the locals here began a diatribe about Muslims and Mexicans and the rest you can imagine. Most of us from here just wrote if off as the guy being a dumb ass but one person took it very personally and left immediately.

Culturally the US is as different geographically as sweden is to france. In that large space comes big differences socially and economically. Change is painful and the recent race baiting has made pulling of that scab much harder than many are able to deal with.

Fear is the best tool of scoundrels and charlatans and fear as of late has been aplenty.

Shows how ignorant you and your friends are Mexicans and Muslims are not a race. White people own Mexico and are Mexicans and are pushing indigenous Mexicans out so stave off revolution. There have been white, brown, black, yellow suicide bombers and terrorists from that retrograde faith. That you affix race to them tells me more about you as in like to generalize than ferret out real racism.