Anyone else pretty much done with the race debate? I mean here, and out in the real world? I’m going back to my practice of simply rolling my eyes and walking off when the topic comes up.
Respect me, and I’ll respect you. I might not always do or say what you like, but I’ll never deprive you of your liberties. But, that’s pretty much it. If someone has a grudge, fine. Just don’t look my way for a guilty conscience on the subject.
I guarantee you that if we had a conservative black republican running for office, racism wouldn’t be a big issue in the media.
Some people are racists, but more people like to play the race card for political manipulation.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Anyone else pretty much done with the race debate? I mean here, and out in the real world? I’m going back to my practice of simply rolling my eyes and walking off when the topic comes up.
Respect me, and I’ll respect you. I might not always do or say what you like, but I’ll never deprive you of your liberties. But, that’s pretty much it. If someone has a grudge, fine. Just don’t look my way for a guilty conscience on the subject. [/quote]
I’m tending in that direction. And I feel no guilt either. White guilt, in general, is pathetic. But that’s a topic for another thread.
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
I myself could probably have more European ancestry or DNA than most whites on this thread…yet I will be addressed as being black before being American because of what people perceive me as. So who’s really confused??
I guess my wife should start taking the blame for being asked “What are you?” I will remember to check “American” the next time I fill out an application. [/quote]
For the record, I used to think you actually looked like Mr. Sinister. Which would have explained the European ancestry, if only it were true.
[quote]Otep wrote:
Big_Boss wrote:
I myself could probably have more European ancestry or DNA than most whites on this thread…yet I will be addressed as being black before being American because of what people perceive me as. So who’s really confused??
I guess my wife should start taking the blame for being asked “What are you?” I will remember to check “American” the next time I fill out an application.
For the record, I used to think you actually looked like Mr. Sinister. Which would have explained the European ancestry, if only it were true.[/quote]
You should see my dad…he looks like Apocalypse. 
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Anyone else pretty much done with the race debate? I mean here, and out in the real world? I’m going back to my practice of simply rolling my eyes and walking off when the topic comes up.
Respect me, and I’ll respect you. I might not always do or say what you like, but I’ll never deprive you of your liberties. But, that’s pretty much it. If someone has a grudge, fine. Just don’t look my way for a guilty conscience on the subject. [/quote]
I agree, although it can’t happen.
There are too many folks who are speaking out of two mouths on the matter: (a) I want a colorblind world, but (b) I want to make the pertinent issues all viewed through the context of race. The attempts to smear McCain as a racist are a perfect example of this.
Obama’s surrogates naturally want to use the issue to deflect criticism of their candidate. They want race to act as a firewall when discussing Obama - as in, when you start whittling down the candidate to his true political parts (that he is an out-of-touch academic whose politics are not centrist enough to win a general election), the backstop is “oh, wow, you must have something against black people, aye?”. It’s immature and dumbs our politics down by introducing race where it doesn’t belong, but it isn’t going anywhere.
The fantastic irony is that the party and political bloc of people who think they are the most “enlightened” on the matter - lefty types - have turned the campaign for the Democratic nomination into noting but naked, disgusting identity politics, and are trying to feed the poison over into criticism of McCain.
Our country will be worse for it.
Should Obama lose at any stage, there will be a chorus of self-indulgent “wow, he didn’t win because of all the racism directed toward him” when the truth is Obama is substantively a very weak candidate that, as one commentator put it, probably got pulled out of the minor league too early for his own good.