If you criticize a black person you are racist.

[Bunnykid68]

I know more black people that have racists tendencies than white people with racists tendencies

 

[IndyDave1776]

And many dumb ones did.

Mark your calendar. We are in complete agreement!

 

[GBuck]

I understand that. My point revolved entirely upon nonsensical connections between a description and completely unconnected qualities that someone else arbitrarily assigns to it. Case in point, calling an incompetent individual incompetent is not racist any more than calling someone a Rhodes Scholar is a backhanded way of calling him a draft dodger.

Correct. However, when you say, "I thought Rhodes Scholar was the same as a draft dodger," or however it was phrased, IS calling them draft dogers; not even in a backhanded manner.

 

[level.eleven]

It worked for Slick Willie!

And living in a castle; riding your ten-speed around Paris worked for Slick Willard!

 

[IndyDave1776]

Correct. However, when you say, "I thought Rhodes Scholar was the same as a draft dodger," or however it was phrased, IS calling them draft dogers; not even in a backhanded manner.

Isnt Rhodes Scholar code word for draft dodger?

I would remind you that the discussion on the matter started with the above quote followed by a remark I made of a sarcastic nature and then addressed the more serious implications of the stupidity involved with assigning nefarious meanings to the words of others.

 

[Rocket]

I too believe that the race war is propagated and made to fester. On Purpose. I know good people and bad people. Find me one that doesn't bleed red and I will point to someone to be afraid of (maybe). But until we intermix so much that there is only one Color this will be a problem. If you were born in this country you are an American! All other hyphenated peoples are continuing the problem! My father wasn't born here but came over when he was three. I never heard him call himself anything but an American. He proudly served in the US Navy for 8 years and has lived in Indiana Most of his life. He is an American. As am I. I will use my intellect to insult you if you deserve it by doing something dumb. I am insulting YOU not your relatives!

 

[level.eleven]

There is a certain segment of society that prides itself on its ignorance and considers intellectualism and the seeking of knowledge as things to be mocked and ridiculed. Sad, but true.

You can be honest. They are called conservatives.

 

[IndyDave1776]

And living in a castle riding your ten-speed around Paris worked for Slick Willard!

I see I can't be a smart*ss in peace tonight!

 

[level.eleven]

I see I can't be a smart*ss in peace tonight!

You can. You first must have a legitimate basis. The fact is, Republicans and Democrats dodge the draft. It has nothing to with party and everything to do with plutocracy. My father wasn't a senator's, or for that matter, a governor's son. He also wasn't a slave to mythology, a tangential point in this discussion.

 

[Survivalcookie]

Apples and oranges. I am not convinced that the intelligence was entirely bad, especially given the things we did find. I am still not convinced that invasion was the proper response to that information. In this case, the administration's annointed spokeswoman gave faulty information regarding an event that had been watched in real time and addressed (or rather not addressed) in a most reprehensible way. I find it highly suspect that she did not know the truth, and also find it to speak volumes that in the case she did not know the truth that Obama is not getting roasted for deliberately sending her out armed with falsehoods. It certainly is not the fault of our members of Congress that she got left holding the bag one way or the other.

And I am sure that it is not her fault that Obama wants to appoint her as speaker of the house....no one will want to talk to her because they might say the world watermelon or fried chicken in her presence and be called a racist.

 

[Mark 1911]

What if I think Obama is a socialist but admire Clarence Thomas and think Condoleezza Rice would have made a better running mate for Romney than Paul Ryan?

 

[billybob44]

+1

I know more black people that have racists tendencies than white people with racists tendencies

This is the "Norm" in the last 10-15 years or so. The majority of Black People will use the "Race Card" often.

The minority of Black People that do not use the race card regularly are labeled an "Uncle Tom" by members of their own race.

It's a shame, but it does place a good Person of Color "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"...Bill.

 

[Survivalcookie]

I don't think calling a politician "incompetent," is racial. It's commonly used to describe bad politicians.

Now, starting a thread about this nonsense, not racial either, but...........

No mine is racial, what the congressman said is racist...I have nothing to hide...I am sick of every time an accomplished black person does not like what someone is saying about them it becomes a racist issue. I am not a racist, but crap like this is dividing our country...I have a black friend who I have been good friends with for 30 years...
our kids grew up across the street from each other, we have shared alot...but when she posted a Photoshop picture of MLK reaching out shaking Obama's hand...I told her exactly what I thought ...that MLK knew what the dems were doing to blacks...that he was a republican and he would most likely smack him in the face than shake his hand considering he has set race relations back 50 years.

 

[Bunnykid68]

And the Prez is still a hoodlum too

 

[Solitaire]

And living in a castle; riding your ten-speed around Paris worked for Slick Willard!

 

[Survivalcookie]

What if I think Obama is a socialist but admire Clarence Thomas and think Condoleezza Rice would have made a better running mate for Romney than Paul Ryan?

Agree with you 100 percent...but the left went after Clarence Thomas because his white wife was supporting the tea party. It seems it is only ok to say something bad about a black person when you are black and trying to destroy them or they are a black republican.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Agree with you 100 percent...but the left went after Clarence Thomas because his white wife was supporting the tea party. It seems it is only ok to say something bad about a black person when you are black and trying to destroy them or they are a black republican.

Yep, there is a reason JC Watts got out of politics, and I bet it wasn't just to spend more time with his family. He was a smart, intelligent black man that didn't follow the status quo and he decided it was time to get out while there was still a chance people might forget about him. God, I miss that man.

 

[jamil]

Seriously, there are two points to take into consideration. First is that this is equally preposterous to the trend of seeing racism in most anything anyone says. The race hucksters have made twists and stretches every bit this unreasonable. Second, given the origins of the Rhodes Scholarships and the original purpose that doesn't seem to have changed much other than in group loyalties over time, I find myself split between recognizing that they are generally among the best and brightest, but have a difficult time trusting them.

Wasn't Dick Lugar a Rhodes Scholar?

 

[Bunnykid68]

Wasn't Dick Lugar a Rhodes Scholar?

Do not know about that, but he was an assbag

 

[GBuck]

Wasn't Dick Lugar a Rhodes Scholar?

Yes, he was.