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Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by SLAYER69
A weak attempt to rewrite history.
I find it about as effective as a Jedi mind-wave with the mutterings of "These are not the racists you've been looking for."
Just look at how progressives define themselves versus conservative folks.
Conservatives focus on the individual. Personal responsibility, individualism. . etc.
Progressives can't get past skin colour. To them it's all about groups, and classifications, and categories.
Progtards can write all the lofty essays they want, they can try to rewrite history all day long, but in the end, their actions will define them as the true racists.
So, they started without debating the issues?
Originally posted by beezzer
A few years ago I wrote an op-ed piece on Obama. I was called racist by the progtards.
When they found out I wasn't white, I was called Uncle Tom, house #######, etc.
They started the name calling without ONCE debating the issues.
Originally posted by charles1952
was it slavery that was key, or was it the idea that the federal government shouldn't be too powerful?
Originally posted by muse7
Many Republicans use "states rights" as a code word for supporting a state's racism. It's well documented.
Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce the first African-American president
They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement — and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.
"I've been told I hate myself. I've been called an Uncle Tom. I've been told I'm a spook at the door," said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.
"Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks," he said
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Racism and the American Right
Racism and the American Right
May 19, 2013
Exclusive: From the start of the Republic to today’s Republican ranting against Barack Obama, racism has been a central element of the American Right. But this ugly feature of U.S. history has often come concealed behind words praising traditions, liberty and states’ rights, Robert Parry reports.
By Robert Parry
Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce the first African-American president. Other factors have come and gone for the Right, but racism has always been there.
Though definitions of Right and Left are never precise, the Left has generally been defined, in the American context, by government actions – mostly the federal government responding to popular movements and representing the collective will of the American people – seeking to improve the lot of common citizens and to reduce social injustice.
President Thomas Jefferson in a portrait by Rembrandt Peale.
The Right has been defined by opposition to such government activism. Since the Founding, the Right has decried government interference with the “free market” and intrusion upon “traditions,” like slavery and segregation, as “tyranny” or “socialism.”
I haven't posted a thread in a while. So, here we go.
I found this to be a rather interesting read and thought it would make a worth while topic for our members to discus, giving us their thoughts and opinions.
This should make for an interesting thread...edit on 20-5-2013 by SLAYER69 because: (no reason given)
You seem to have fallen into that same trap I was alluding to earlier. You seem to think that we are all created equal. It is obvious we are not. It is true that not all blacks are uncivilized. Some are good, decent people. But even the good ones are mentally slow and quick to be offended over trivial matters. You must open your eyes to what happens when you treat them as equals. Look at Detroit. Look at any inner city. Look at Africa. Put away your excuses and see what they do when given power and a chance. If that is not something you're willing to embrace then do away with your silly notions of equality.
It is like fruit in a sewer. Sure, the fruit is still edible, but do you want to save it or just go ahead and flush the sewage away? You see the apples and oranges and think it is a fruit salad. I see it is just sewage to be flushed away. The fruit is the good people. The fecal matter is the gang banging thugs. You mix them and what do you have? Fruit salad or more sewage?
We have tried for over 150 years to assimilate them and have gotten 40,000 rapes a year, 80,000 murders, and uncounted robberies and assaults. And you still think there is something to save? And you think conservatives are so stupid as to not see what is going on? It is not racist to understand that not all are equal, playing fair is not always a good thing, and that some people will never act contrary to their nature and expecting them to is stupid. It is realist. Conservatives are realists who see the truth and do not lie about it in order to save people's feelings. At least most of them are. Probably not you.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
reply to post by SLAYER69
Racism is born out of ignorance, fear, victimization and hatred. There is no lack of those qualities on either "side" of the political aisle. It doesn't matter if the politics of racists lean to the left or right. Pieces like the one in the OP do nothing to help the situation, but instead, they cram the wedge a little further between the two. That's ALL it does. It doesn't educate or explain or help to understand the problem.