Dueling 'racist' claims defuse once powerful word

By Jesse Washington

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Nessie at 11:16 PM JST - 23rd September

But if everybody’s racist, is anyone?

What is "yes, everyone."

I'll stay with Inanities, for 1000 please, Alex.
ultradodgy at 07:00 AM JST - 24th September

zzzzz.....
Taka313 at 07:37 AM JST - 24th September

I get a kick out of the people here trying to paint the Democratic Party as racist by pointing out things that happened almost a half a century ago while completely ignoring the antics going on now.

That's true dedication to delusion and denial (and a lot of D's).

Taka
LFRAgain at 09:44 AM JST - 24th September

4thEstateDotCom

George Wallace won his final run for governor of Alabama with the overwhelming support of blacks in that state.

You've turned the act of cherry picking facts into an art form.

George Wallace received black support in 1982 because in the 1970s, as a born-again Christian, he entirely renounced his racist and segregationist stances, apologized unequivocally to civil rights leaders and the black community in general, and promised to (and did) appoint several blacks to key state posts in the Alabama state government.

Not one of your better efforts to prop up an already flawed argument.
4thEstateDotCom at 10:30 AM JST - 24th September
- - "George Wallace received black support in 1982 because in the 1970s, as a born-again Christian, he entirely renounced his racist and segregationist stances, apologized unequivocally to civil rights leaders and the black community in general, and promised to (and did) appoint several blacks to key state posts in the Alabama state government."
That doesn't change the fact that he was, like most Southern Democrats of his time - including the unreconstructed racist LBJ - an avowed segregationist until it was no longer politically feasible.

There is no single 'point' to be made when the thread is an opinion piece about race.

On threads like this and when dealing with uninformed extremists and those who deal purely in stereotypes (like zurcronium, for example) I prefer to simply point out certain paradoxes and ironies in the American system - like the standing ovation the Republican Tom Tancredo, staunchly opposed to illegal immigration, received at the 2007 NAACP convention, or how black voters in California voted overwhelmingly against the proposition legalizing gay marriage.
zurcronium at 11:10 AM JST - 24th September

More ad hominem tactics from the above poster. So typical of the republican racists who deny what the Palin and Beck republicans are all about, hatred of the other.

Republicans for the most part are a whites only group and are aging rapidly. Its so strange to see white retired teabaggers on medicare calling Obama a socialist monkey, while they take their meds daily courtesy of taxes collected from workers. Its not socialism when they benefit from government spending it seems.

The decent moral republicans are leaving the party to the racists and the bible thumpers, often the same thing. Over time they will just be honest and rename the party the dixiecrats and call for the return to slavery.
LFRAgain at 01:08 PM JST - 24th September

4thEstateDotCom,

"I prefer to simply point out certain paradoxes and ironies in the American system . . . "

There are plenty, I would agree. However . . .

" . . . the standing ovation the Republican Tom Tancredo, staunchly opposed to illegal immigration, received at the 2007 NAACP convention

. . . isn't one of them.

" . . . how black voters in California voted overwhelmingly against the proposition legalizing gay marriage."

. . . Nor is this. How does being black automatically make one pro-illegal immigration? How does being black and opposing gay marriage constitute a paradox, much less irony, particularly when black opposition to gay marriage is rooted in religious beliefs, and not race?

It seems you want to lump all minorities of whatever belief, faith, persuasion, political bent, or gender into the same boat and paint them with the same brush, in order to reach some predetermined conclusion about a particular group that fits your worldview, and the truth is it’s never ever that simple. A Liberal can be anti-illegal immigration, and many are. A Conservative can be pro-choice, and many are. Just as a black person can be Republican, pro-life, anti-tax, and pro-business, and still want improvement in race relations in America. There’s nothing contradictory or ironic about that.
biglittleman at 03:35 PM JST - 24th September

LFRagain,

He want respond to your comments. He will simply change the topic.

No substance.
LFRAgain at 04:47 PM JST - 24th September

biglittleman,

I'm getting that feeling judging by how random most of his posts are on any given topic. Sigh... Oh, well. No harm in hoping, I suppose.
gogogo at 12:21 PM JST - 25th September

American's play the race card way way to much, sure there are times and places where it's okay but it seems everything in America now is race, race race
4thEstateDotCom at 12:32 PM JST - 25th September

It's clear: America is a post-racial country, has been for decades. Anyone still trying to paint others as 'racist' is a crybaby, a race-baiter desperate for an angle, or a liberal who is trying to end a debate she knows she can only lose.
biglittleman at 05:46 PM JST - 25th September

@4thEstateDotCom

It's clear: America is a post-racial country, has been for decades. Anyone still trying to paint others as 'racist' is a crybaby, a race-baiter desperate for an angle, or a liberal who is trying to end a debate she knows she can only lose.

Is that what Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh did when they called President Obama a racist.

Or when you called Black people racist.

4thestatedotcom wrote:

The ugliest racism in America is black on black. But I understand some people need a crutch.

So you are a :

crybaby, a race-baiter desperate for an angle, or a liberal who is trying to end a debate she knows she can only lose.

I'm glad you are so honest about who you truly are.

Moderator: Readers, please keep the discussion civil.
biglittleman at 06:29 PM JST - 25th September

Not mention you had no comment about Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck using the word! Too funny. LOL!!!
4thEstateDotCom at 08:14 PM JST - 25th September

America is post-racial. This article is right - 'racist' has lost its meaning and the once-useful capacity to end debate that soi-disant liberals and progressives were losing.
biglittleman at 10:28 PM JST - 25th September

So you are not going to comment about Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck using the word! Too funny. LOL!!!