[quote]tom63 wrote:
PRCalDude wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
This is now at scarey levels. People are actually psycologically profiling peoples thoughts and motivations. Welcome facists!! The left is now saying…"Yeah Joes from the south and they have been racist…so it stands to figure that he’s pissed off Obama is pres and he’s a racist. " Bullshit. Now, any disagrement of Obama by Wilson automatically will get the race card.
Obama was supposed to be the great uniter…but he and his administration have actually pulled that card and are using it over and over. Congress is now banning speech. They took an oath to uphold the constitution, and now they are policing words in the House. Thought police is now on the move.
Obama, the great Divider.
I actually welcome this incessant stream of racism accusations: ACORN vs. Fox News, Louis Gates vs. white policeman, Tea Partiers are racist, Rangel accusing fedgov healthcare opponents of racism. It needs to keep coming. Then white people will finally become immune to the term “racism,” realizing that it has no real meaning anymore and is just an Alinskyesque means of control of whites, who vote mostly conservative. I predict it’ll take another 1-2 years.
If that. I’m there 20 years ago. It’s a load of crap translated into I’m a freeloading commie who wants someone else to pay for my lack of responsibility.
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20 years ago, people could afford to be magnanimous. Sure, they paid a lot in taxes to groups like ACORN, but the economy was expanding and wages were going up. Now?
Combine that with the press and the civil rights industrial complex, the MSM, and our government screaming “racism!” all the time at increasingly-poor whites, and you have a recipe for backlash.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
From the FWIW department: I grew up not far from Carter’s home town and had a good friend that actually grew up in Plains, GA and knew the Carter family well. Went to swimming pool parties and such at Carter’s house. He told me the whole town couldn’t stand him and if I remember correctly he didn’t even carry his home town in his two presidential election results.
Parallels? Carter’s presidency happened only because of the Watergate backlash. Could we safely say the same about Obama and the Iraq War?[/quote]
No. It was the minority mortgage meltdown brought to us primarily by Republicans favoring giveaways to the un-creditworthy based on racial housing disparities. Bush beat Kerry when the Iraq war was unpopular.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
This is now at scarey levels. People are actually psycologically profiling peoples thoughts and motivations. Welcome facists!! The left is now saying…"Yeah Joes from the south and they have been racist…so it stands to figure that he’s pissed off Obama is pres and he’s a racist. " Bullshit. Now, any disagrement of Obama by Wilson automatically will get the race card.
Obama was supposed to be the great uniter…but he and his administration have actually pulled that card and are using it over and over. Congress is now banning speech. They took an oath to uphold the constitution, and now they are policing words in the House. Thought police is now on the move.
Obama, the great Divider.
Headhunter, you’ve gotten shorter and changed your avatar.
Remarkable progress.
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I’ll then take that as agreement with what I said.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.[/quote]
There are plenty of racist black people where I live as well. What’s your point?
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Racism? What’s that? I seem to recall a time when it meant something in particular, but I can’t recall what that was. Is it maybe a type of cheese? [/quote]
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.
There are plenty of racist black people where I live as well. What’s your point? [/quote]
That his comments may have some merit when talking about the southern states. We aren’t talking about racist black people in this thread, nice try though.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.
There are plenty of racist black people where I live as well. What’s your point?
That his comments may have some merit when talking about the southern states. We aren’t talking about racist black people in this thread, nice try though.[/quote]
No, it would have absolutuley nothing to do with it right? Geez. Keep looking one way down the two way street dude.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.
There are plenty of racist black people where I live as well. What’s your point?
That his comments may have some merit when talking about the southern states. We aren’t talking about racist black people in this thread, nice try though.[/quote]
yeah double standard much, the fact that people say this is racist is racist.
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.
There are plenty of racist black people where I live as well. What’s your point?
That his comments may have some merit when talking about the southern states. We aren’t talking about racist black people in this thread, nice try though.
No, it would have absolutuley nothing to do with it right? Geez. Keep looking one way down the two way street dude.
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Here we go. Big red crayon time.
Racism is bad. White people hating black people for being black is bad. Black people hating white people for being white is just as bad.
Black people hating white people for being white does not excuse white people who hate black people for being black and the same is true for the opposite.
The racist attitudes being displayed by individuals in my part of the country are bad, regardless of how racist black people in California are.
I can’t believe this is so difficult for you. “Two wrongs don’t make a right” is more easily grasped by preschoolers.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.
There are plenty of racist black people where I live as well. What’s your point?
That his comments may have some merit when talking about the southern states. We aren’t talking about racist black people in this thread, nice try though.[/quote]
Southern states? What’s you problem with southern states? I went Massachusetts and I found them twice as racist as southerners, so you can shove you stereotype.
[quote]pat wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.
There are plenty of racist black people where I live as well. What’s your point?
That his comments may have some merit when talking about the southern states. We aren’t talking about racist black people in this thread, nice try though.
Southern states? What’s you problem with southern states? I went Massachusetts and I found them twice as racist as southerners, so you can shove you stereotype. [/quote]
I have no problem with southern states. I’ve lived in South Carolina for my entire life.
I’m simply relating my personal experience to this thread.
Incorrect for a number of reasons, but the most obvious refutation is that he has lost most of his support with people with whom he once had it - for them to oppose him now because they are racist, they would have to have supported him then while also racist. Uh, no.
This is a lazy, convenient cop-out - Obama’s dwindling support is because he tried to do too much, too fast, with too much ideological bent, and managed that process as badly as any executive in memory (not an exaggeration - look at what he has tried to accomplish with the entire legislative branch in his camp and with no meaningful opposition from the GOP). Cries of “racism” are nothing but an attempt to remove that strong glare of accountability for what has been - surprisingly - really, really bad governance.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.
There are plenty of racist black people where I live as well. What’s your point?
That his comments may have some merit when talking about the southern states. We aren’t talking about racist black people in this thread, nice try though.
No, it would have absolutuley nothing to do with it right? Geez. Keep looking one way down the two way street dude.
Here we go. Big red crayon time.
Racism is bad. White people hating black people for being black is bad. Black people hating white people for being white is just as bad.
Black people hating white people for being white does not excuse white people who hate black people for being black and the same is true for the opposite.
The racist attitudes being displayed by individuals in my part of the country are bad, regardless of how racist black people in California are.
I can’t believe this is so difficult for you. “Two wrongs don’t make a right” is more easily grasped by preschoolers.[/quote]
Your crayon is broken.
You said “That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.”
You venture to tell us all what others are thinking. And to couple that with “It’s racism” is just unfounded. You can’t tell anyone what another is thinking and it’s an easy default for you to assume racism whenever people from a “southern” group criticize policies.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) â?? President Barack Obama’s spokesman publicly disagreed with former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday over Carter’s contention that some conservative opposition to Obama is based on race.
“The president does not think it is based on the color of his skin,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.
You said “That’s what I’m getting at…there are plenty of individuals down here whose main problem with Obama’s presidency is that he’s a black guy with an Arab sounding name.”
You venture to tell us all what others are thinking. And to couple that with “It’s racism” is just unfounded. You can’t tell anyone what another is thinking and it’s an easy default for you to assume racism whenever people from a “southern” group criticize policies.
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Ok, let me really spell this out for you here.
I encounter people around here on a DAILY basis who SAY that they don’t trust Obama because he is a black man with an Arab sounding name. Not because of his policies, not because of who he surrounded himself with in the past, but because he is a black man with an Arab sounding name. I’m not assuming anything because they are southern. This is explicitly stated opinion. NOT inference. NOT assumption. I’m telling you what other people have told me they are thinking. I’m coupling it with racism because it is expressly racist.
Is that clear enough for you, big guy?
Of course, I guess since there are racist blacks in America, white people openly expressing racist opinions can’t be called racist in bizarro Rockscar world, right?