Barbour: Sorry for Obama remark

There are racists just don't assume and keep it out of politics.

From the Tao Te Ching.

"There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy."

"The more you know the less you understand"


I am willing to listen to your side and respect your views but if they are all based on race, fear and something other than just plain talking about what you really believe than I can't talk about it. I am starting to believe the only reason you are democrats is because you believe that you are saving the world from the satanic republicans. Is that really a platform? I hope you prove me wrong.

"Racist" is the new cool buzz word for the liberal party. It is spoken over and over again amongst them.

Nobody that matters wrote: Puttin a fire to someone's butt is now racist?

For God's sake, people are going freakin insane.

No but branding a black person is, in some peoples minds.

Raees wrote:

Nobody that matters wrote: Puttin a fire to someone's butt is now racist?

For God's sake, people are going freakin insane.

No but branding a black person is, in some peoples minds.

He never said anything about branding. People are looking too hard for racism, and I contend it's because they're more concerned about race than the people they're accusing of being racist.

And Joe Biden never said anything about slavery... Pot/Kettle/Black

Martin Ent Inc wrote: If you are not a democrat, you are a racist.
If you disagree with lj, archer, raees, ss, stds. you are a racist.
If you think this country is on the road to hell, you are a racist.

This is why the country is so divided, people on this board as well as certain public figures that Want it that way.

Really, because I found only found a few instances of posters on this forum calling other posters racists. CinnamonGirl, Nobody that Matters, LGOT and the cowardly slime 500 foundation have called other posters on here racists in regard to politics. What I and others have done have labeled specific acts or comments as racist.

CinnamonGirl wrote: As far as I am concerned you are both racist. But double standards in this area are not new.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: ... to quote Lady Jazzer... our resident left wing racist.

Nobody that matters wrote:

Raees wrote: Why are all the examples you pick white?

Only a racist would have noticed that.

The 500 Foundation wrote: and face it
You are a racist. Live with it dog

Nobody that matters wrote:

Raees wrote:

Nobody that matters wrote: Puttin a fire to someone's butt is now racist?

For God's sake, people are going freakin insane.

No but branding a black person is, in some peoples minds.

He never said anything about branding. People are looking too hard for racism, and I contend it's because they're more concerned about race than the people they're accusing of being racist.

I look at it like this:

A woman has had a rape in her immediate family, therefore she is sensitive to rape and comments about rape.

She finds something that upsets her in a comment about rape. That's her reaction based on her history.

Someone who has never been raped comes along and tells her she's too sensitive and complains that she's too PC. That person has no idea what the woman has experienced or where she is coming from.

It's easy to sit back, unaffected, and complain she is being too sensitive.

To her it's a real feeling because of her past history with it.

So tell me this, do you agree with that disgusting cowardly slime 500 Foundation, that it is racist to point out discrimination against minorities? That pointing out factual evidence that a segment of the American population is not being represented by a major political party?

No, I don't agree with him. My comment was for the "it doesn't have anything to do with racism" crowd.

Because one person thinks it's not racist and another does, doesn't mean one of them is wrong. It all depends on personal perspective.

Edited to add: That why I think the Republican Party has such a disconnect with many minorities. They just don't get that there can be alternative points of view when it comes to racism. One of them says something that they don't deem to be offensive not realizing it can be very offensive to another with a different personal history.

Here is my question. What is racism to you? Is one sided? Are there only certain races that can claim it? That will help me understand you. Are minorities the only people on earth that are unfairly treated when it comes to race. This is not a leading question. I just think that we might not be on the same page. Because to me racism is looking only at the race of a person and making decisions or assumptions based on that. I think of all races not just some. You must see it differently. i don't look for racism. It happens and I denounce it loudly! We are all part of the human race. Let's stop looking at it at all. If we all were the same color would we have any of these issues? I still think you are seeing race where I don't. Maybe you need to reword it as discrimination not racism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Racism is generally defined as actions, practices, attitudes, or beliefs that reflect or support the racial worldview: the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called "races". This ideology entails the belief that members of a race share a set of characteristic traits, abilities, or qualities, that traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural behavioral characteristics are inherited, and that this inheritance means that races can be ranked as innately superior or inferior to others.[1][2][3]

The exact definition of racism is controversial both because there is little scholarly agreement about the meaning of the concept "race", and because there is also little agreement about what does and doesn't constitute discrimination.[4] Some definitions would have it that any assumption that a person's behavior would be influenced by their racial categorization is racist, regardless of whether the action is intentionally harmful or pejorative. Other definitions only include consciously malignant forms of discrimination.[5] Among the questions about how to define racism are the question of whether to include forms of discrimination that are unintentional, such as making assumptions about preferences or abilities of others based on racial stereotypes, whether to include symbolic or institutionalized forms of discrimination such as the circulation of racial stereotypes through the media, and whether to include the socio-political dynamics of social stratification that sometimes have a racial component. Some definitions of racism also include discriminatory behaviors and beliefs based on cultural, national, ethnic, caste, or religious stereotypes.[3][6]