j58 - And what specifically was in this post that led you to think(?) the author didn't want "an open honest discussion on race?"

Justice58
By your logic, anyone who is bothered by being call lazy, welfare babies, delinquents, criminals, worthless or the infamous N-word is really just a matter of their conscience eating at them. That is ridiculous.

Open, honest discussion? Good.

Haranguing lectures about how you're wrong, wrong WRONG for NOT believing like the lecturer is something else again.

How about the ones claiming we're 'cowards' put up what THEIR ideal world would look like? I'm thinking for a lot of us it'd look awfully familiar, and for most of us we're already judging people by the content of their character instead of the melanin shade. But THAT isn't good enough.

Indifference to race and color simply isn't an option with those who can't see beyond their need to blast someone for not believing like that do. We've come a long way in the last 50 years, but the race-baiting malcontents who want what THEY consider perfection NOW do themselves no favors in advancing the cause.

j58 - And what specifically was in this post that led you to think(?) the author didn't want "an open honest discussion on race?"

I'll go with, "Beacuse of His/Her Overly Simplistic Generalizations and Perceptions of Any and All Things Republican" for $800, Alex....

"believing like that do."

Make that... "believing like they do."

Coward? I can't believe he called America cowards about this topic. The problem is when this issue is raised the Al Sharpton's, Jessie Jackson's and Rev. Wright's jump in and warp the debate to the extremes and make the issue impossible to debate.

For Pete's sake, Sharpton picketed the NY Post over the cops and monkey cartoon. There wasn't a thing wrong with that cartoon! If the debate is over that, then we cannot have a constructive discussion.

The problem is that we are NOT cowards. WE are tired of having ridiculous discussions about extremes and not about what really happens in the country in relation to race.

I have had great "constructive" discussions about race when the extremes are not thrown into it. We need to be reasonable on both sides and NOT follow the leads from the Al Sharpton's, Jessie Jackson's and Rev. Wright's.

http://franklinslocke.blogspot.com/

Liberals do not want to have an honest discussion about race. That's the last thing they want. In fact, liberals care about race only insofar as they can use it as a weapon against their political opponents.

So it's not racist to assume that a picture of a monkey is actually a metaphor for a black man? Every picture of an ape is racist, just on the face of it?

Is the Post actually trying to confirm that blacks are apes? That's what it looks like, ironically. Is the Post now a Stormfront newspaper?

It's not the color of people's skin I'm worried about; it's the thinness of it.

STOP APOLOGIZING! You're making an ass out of yourself. (Uh oh, I compared journalists to a donkey!)

How do you get rid of racism?

Ask Morgan Freeman.

Of course, such a thing is anathema to the race-baiting poverty pimps who are dependent on racism for ensuring their employment. Where would Al Sharpton or Jessie Jackson be without a perception of racism?

Working for a living, lol.

PF - "I'll go with, "Beacuse of His/Her Overly Simplistic Generalizations and Perceptions of Any and All Things Republican" for $800, Alex...."

ding.... ding... DING, DOUBLE JEOPARDY.

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JLawson, I'm DYIN' to read what Freeman said - but alas still the linky is brokey ....

:)

Not having much luck with links today... Maybe this one?

Here.

Sorry, Oyster! Looks like the linky be fixey now.

j58 - And what specifically was in this post that led you to think(?) the author didn't want "an open honest discussion on race?"

I didn't see anything that led me to believe the author did want an open honest discussion on race.

j58 - "I didn't see anything that led me to believe the author did want an open honest discussion on race."

Nice non-answer. How typical of you. Anything else in your bag of tricks?

But, I have to ask, what was missing that made you believe what you do?

what was missing that made you believe what you do?

The author's blown opportunity to have a serious discussion. But you know, why waste time on something that could help move the country forward in race relations. What's more important than getting digs in at someone's race. What's more important than belittling someone in order to make one feel superior. It was a wasteful blown opportunity to really do something good that would have helped a lot of people. Sad.

Justice, how about being honest. The victim mentality is what is hurting the african american community. Almost every time there appears to be a chance for a discussion on race, your black leaders shout "victim, victim, victim". So save your breath by you leacturing us on a "serious" discussion. It cannot happen as long as the loud shouters are in control of the mike. I include you in there because of your past racist comments about white people. So, grow up. I am guilty of nothing except working hard, raising a family and paying my taxes as I watch those that do nothing for no one get my tax dollars. ww

j58 - "The author's blown opportunity to have a serious discussion. But you know, why waste time on something that could help move the country forward in race relations."

So?

Correct that "blown" opportunity, address the subject to him and me.

Lets talk.

Justice, you have got to be kidding right? When do you not spew your hate? ww

Justice, you have got to be kidding right? When do you not spew your hate?

No dammit. Show me proof where I stated anything racists against white people. You can't because you're a liar./b>
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BLACK AMERICA AND THE N-WORD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP2U0jmZjec

Lets face the hard bitter facts,this entire political race, as in the election, was never about race to the majority of voting whites. Thats not saying some back wood redneck didn't throw a racial slur or two. However, if a white man didn't choose to vote for Obama, he is a racist.

>"However, if a white man didn't choose to vote for Obama, he is a racist."

Yeah, 'cause it simply COULDN'T be about the lack of experience Obama's had, or his professed political aims, or his ideas. Gotta be about the skin, 'cause the Skin is IN!

We laugh because it hurts and we are relieved that we aren't the ones hurting; otherwise we'd be crying. At it's best, laughter is an expression of empathy with the person hurt; at it's worst, it is joy at hurting the other person.

I'm 50 years old, does that mean we should ban all jokes about age?

I'm a man, should we ban all jokes about men?

I'm a father, should we ban all jokes about parents?

I'm a husband, should we ban all jokes about spouses?

I work in a cubical, should we execute Scott Adams for his Dilbert cartoons?

I'm black, should we ban all cartoons and articles about monkeys, apes, and other anthropomorphic comparisons between animals and people because on a bad day I might think you were comparing ME with one of them?

I'm white, should we ban all cartoons and articles about polar bears, snowy owls, snow leopards, blind worms, or anything else of pale or white coloration because on a bad day I might think you were comparing ME with one of them?

To call the NY Post cartoon about the chimp and the stimulus package racist is to show a pathological over-identification with the subjects in the cartoon. Those who do so have finally, clearly, decisively proven that they are no longer capable of intelligent, objective discourse on the subject of racism. These people must be put aside as they are no longer the solution to the problems of racism; but can only define themselves by, and justify their existence, by fanning the very flames of racism they claim to abhore.