Speakeasy forum: The folly of racial prejudice.

One still can not dismiss the facts that being Korean and walking in the wrong Baltimore neighborhood is a good way to get killed quicker than any other way. Also a danger in being black and walking in the wrong Jewish neighborhood in Baltimore. I don't doubt it's the same in many other places. To pretend demographics and geography have no bearing on race based crimes, is to become foolish. The anomalies should always be appreciated though, and may give hope of a better day.

"g-d United Nations"

And, excuse me, but your post has all of YOUR racial biases showing........and you've never revealed YOUR last name. Why?

And, do you honestly believe that only Anglo-Saxon Conservative 'whites' are racists? I've heard plenty of our black caucus Congressional (House and Senate) spew lots of hate speech over the last couple of years and it's only gotten worse lately.....and it's always against people who don't agree with BO, his policies, and his appointees.

I DO have a problem with a regular poster here specifically pointing out that BECAUSE of SOMEBODY ELSE'S last names he has a real aversion to believing anything they have to say. It has nothing to do with having different points of view evidently....it has everything to do with the fact that, in his opinion, if they have a 'certain' type of last name, their point of view will automatically be different from his so therefore it must be disparaged and criticized at all costs even if it's a rational difference. It is to be discounted completely. It's one thing to have that point of view when it comes to media sources....it's quite another when it's because of the person's name for the most part.

of Anglo-Saxon names. They were hardly chosen at random from a very deep bucket of available names. They could well be suspect of being snipes at known media personalities and at an SE contributor.

seem to dispise each other.

Wonder why two such opposites are the two most often to bring race into anything?

Liberals have now determined that Conservatives use CODE words in order to disguise their racism........words like CHICAGO, for crying out loud. Chicago can only be a 'code word' for CORRUPTION and THUGGERY tactics. I've used that term on a regular basis here in SE to describe BO's method of politics (does that make ME a racist in your opinion?)........but have never even considered the possibility that Chicago refers to his RACE.

We can't criticize Rice because of the 'war on women' or HER race. We can't criticize BO because he's from Chicago and only knows how to bully to get his way and because he's half black.

Please point out to me the 'clear racial animus and the 'oblique racial references' you refer to. Because I don't see any of what you are referring to when I look back on people like Colin Powell or Condi Rice or Bush's Latino AG that Dems pushed out the door (but refuse to do anything about the POS we have currently in that position) or any of the Republican blacks and Latinos that are in office all over the country, including both Houses of Congress, governorships, State positions, local mayors, etc.

You didn't know what Paul Ryan was referring to when he mentioned the "urban vote?"

it's a term that's been used for years by both sides, Dems use it usually when they are wanting money for 'urban development'.......does that mean that THEY are using a code word for their base? Hell, they even have PROGRAMS with that specific name attached to their titles.

at the end of my posts, it is of French origin, but in my case comes from the coast of Scotland in Fife. There are Boyter's in England too, so I don't know if what we are is expatriate Norman French, who went to England and ultimately ended up in Scotland, or if the family legend is true, and my ancestor was a shipwrecked French seaman sailing with the Spanish Armada. It is true that the Armada sailed into a French port to take on additional soldiers and seamen, got caught there and were severely mauled by English fireships. The Armada then went on to be buffetted by storms at sea all the way over the top of Scotland and around Ireland before about 10% of it made it back to Spain. That's how Eamon de Valera's people got to Ireland, he was the Prime Minister of Ireland in the 40's and 50's. I have certainly never made a secret of my name or my origins about which I have talked here. My Great Uncle's family home is on the web, Google The Grange Anstruther.

I did forget to mention that my Endodontist, who will be operating on me to fill the aperture left by an abcess, is Dr. Salamah, and as nice a Canadian gentleman as you could meet.

What the post was about was the fractionation of the Right's view of who is an American. Canada seems to accept that everybody here is a hyphenated Canadian, French-Canadian, Scottish-Canadian, Ukrainian-Canadian, Lebanese-Canadian (Paul Anka), Chinese-Canadian, Native Canadian. All that matters is the Canadian part.

In the speech of the Right I hear hyphens used to denigrate the person and their race, to dismiss their participation in the voting process or to pre-judge (and dismiss) their inclinations to vote one way or another. But hyphenation can cut two ways. Now the Republican party is the party of Old-Disgruntled-White-Men. Just because Herman Cain is a Republican, or Toni Hackler is a Republican, or Michelle Bachmann is a Republican or Michael Steele is a Republican doesn't mean that the base is not fundamentally Old Grumpy White Guys like Sheldon Adelson, and the Koch Brothers.

There is however light at the end of this tunnel. They're dying off.

Rob

racially attuned. His writing, both on Barack Obama, and those dreadful dark skinned Democratic voters, not to mention some of his opinions on Jews, and Ukrainian Auto Workers have indicated that he too has a racial axe to grind.

To ignore race in the presence of racially charged comments is to ignore the Elephant in the Room. To acknowledge the Elephant is not racist, it is simply acknowledging something introduced by implication or clever phrasing or something brought in through the back door.

"It came in through the Bathroom window ..."

Rob.

"racist!" are the ones trying to hide their own prejudices...racial or otherwise.

We say that of some of the sweetest people we've known...often our own deceased or older family. We love them but acknowledge their prejudices as coming from ignorance and not hatred. I see that today in people but it's expanded beyond just race. It's now party affiliation and more. For some, all they need is to know if a person is politically an R or a D to define their prejudices...or lack of them. These people don't even need or care to get to know anything beyond that. They are content within their own ignorance. The difference between these folks and the ignorant of old is that they are not sweet. They are truly mean.