Christ I'm glad to live in an America where real racism like lynchings, dragging blacks behind trucks, burning crosses on front yards, smashing truck
drivers in the head with cinder blocks during riots because the driver is "the wrong color" at the "wrong time", and social "leaders" trying to
rabble rouse by declaring any action that doesn't go their way as racism in an attempt to call for wide scale demonstrations are all things of the
distant past and so far gone from our memories that we can now label a man sharing jokes and not voting for a man to get a forced national day of
recognition as being figureheads of racism.
It's damn funny to me. McCain voted against MLK Day because he was opposed to the feds forcing a holiday onto the states. It was a state
sovreignity issue and he, as an elected representative of a state in which the MAJORITY were opposed to MLK Day, had a responsibillity to his
constuents to support their ideals and their interests. There's a reason Arizona voters didn't want MLK Day and it had nothing to do with racism.
When the state acknowledged it as a holiday, we lost Good Friday. WHO IN THE BLUE HELL GOES ON VACATION ON MLK DAY??? How many people travel on
Easter to be with family? King was a Christian, he could have dug the reasoning behind it. I'm sure he'd have greatly appreciated getting that
Friday off to help him travel instead of burning a paid day off.
As for the jokes, so freaking what? My God, remember when America and Americans had skin and testicles? Doesn't anybody remember "Sticks and
stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me?" Seriously, Louis Farrakhan has openly spoken about "killing whitey" and "killin' jews"
and takes less flak over it than does some white dude that 30 years ago was overheard by a classmate dropping an n-bomb. I'll tell you something
else, I'll crap in my hand for a week if Barack Obama has never in his life laughed at someone using the word "cracka-ass" or referred to a
caucasian as "whitey." The difference? "Oh, he's entitled because of all that his people had to go through... and besides, "cracka" is nowhere
near the same league as the N-word is..." BALONEY! If it's racist for one group, it's damned racist for all groups. The only solution is for
everyone to grow a pair, recognize that words are meaningless compared to a man's actions, and get over it already.