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  • Aug 29, 2012, 11:52 AM
    speechlesstx
    Let's talk racism
    So Republicans just hate black people, is that it?
  • Aug 29, 2012, 11:54 AM
    smoothy
    Democrats seem to think that... despite the fact they are who fought against desegregation and to keep the Jim Crowe laws that hardest. Which were things the Republicans championed, not them.
  • Aug 29, 2012, 11:56 AM
    NeedKarma
    You could throw nuts at them, that's how you feed them.
  • Aug 29, 2012, 12:00 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    You could throw nuts at them, that's how you feed them.

    In Canada maybe, we have more respect for people in the US. But thank you for yet another provocative, irrelevant contribution.
  • Aug 29, 2012, 12:05 PM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    In Canada maybe, we have more respect for people in the US. But thank you for yet another provocative, irrelevant contribution.

    Sorry but it's people at the RNC convention:
    https://www.google.com/search?source...ch&safe=active (pick the source you like)

    Quote:

    “GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying ‘This is how we feed animals.”
  • Aug 29, 2012, 12:20 PM
    smoothy
    As opposed to OBama himself telling republicans to get on the back of the bus...

    Don't believe he said it... well here he is on video in his own words doing it.

    Obama Tells GOP "Get In Back" | Obama "Get In Back" | Video | Mediaite

    And that wasn't the only time he did it.

    YOu might not grasp the significance and the meaning to that being a Canadian, you would have to go back to Rosa Parks and before to understand the meaning behind being told to get on the back of the bus.
  • Aug 29, 2012, 12:23 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    As opposed to OBama himself telling republicans to get on the back of the bus......

    And again, context is everything.
  • Aug 29, 2012, 12:27 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Wondergirl View Post
    And again, context is everything.

    Tell any Black to get on the back of the Bus and there isn't any context you could think of that would shut the left up.

    It's a two way street... he used those words... and in the context of that speech, which I have heard over and over.. he meant the very same thing as it meant to blacks when they were told right up to the late 60's they had to ride in the back of the bus.

    In fact I heard him say it when he said it live on TV. And my initial thought was he did not just say that did he? Which in fact he did.
  • Aug 29, 2012, 01:05 PM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    YOu might not grasp the significance and the meaning to that being a Canadian, you would have to go back to Rosa Parks and before to understand the meaning behind being told to get on the back of the bus.

    Yea, I got it. Hang on, got to feed my pet polar bear. http://www.thegamingtailgate.com/for...es/eyeroll.gif
  • Aug 29, 2012, 01:11 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Yea, I got it. Hang on, gotta feed my pet polar bear. http://www.thegamingtailgate.com/for...es/eyeroll.gif

    Clearly you don't grasp the connotations behind a quote like that.
  • Aug 29, 2012, 01:33 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Sorry but it's people at the RNC convention:
    https://www.google.com/search?source...ch&safe=active (pick the source you like)

    And once again we're all racists because of one idiot, right?
  • Aug 29, 2012, 02:22 PM
    speechlesstx
    Some former Yahoo news guy (former because he got fired) had a Kanye West moment and said of Republicans, "They're not concerned at all. They're happy to have a party with black people drowning."

    I guess they should have not just canceled the first day of their convention, but every day and descended on Louisiana to lend a hand. Just like Obama, right?

    Oh wait, he's campaigning in Virginia today and doing an online chat today "while black people drown"as David Chalian put it. Guess he had nothing better to do.

    But we still just hate black people because we're racists, right?
  • Aug 29, 2012, 03:15 PM
    Magpie95
    I don't understand all the sensitivity around race on either side. I think it gets to such an extreme that, in an effort to not be racist, we become so aware of race... that it actually makes us racist!

    Power to the freckled people!
  • Aug 29, 2012, 03:24 PM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Magpie95 View Post
    Power to the freckled people!

    Many redhead women are hot.
  • Aug 29, 2012, 03:31 PM
    paraclete
    Now that's racist
  • Aug 29, 2012, 11:22 PM
    talaniman
    Leave it to you righties to be so sensitive when you have been calling the guy names that smack of racism for the years he has been in office.

    Maybe riding in the back would give you guys a better perspective on what its like to not have control for a while. Then you could chill and look out the window and enjoy the ride.

    Just saying.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 06:39 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Magpie95 View Post
    I don't understand all the sensitivity around race on either side. I think it gets to such an extreme that, in an effort to not be racist, we become so aware of race....that it actually makes us racist!

    Power to the freckled people!

    The sensitivity on the left is political bullsh*t, I'm just damn tired of being called a racist.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 06:42 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Leave it to you righties to be so sensitive when you have been calling the guy names that smack of racism for the years he has been in office.

    Must be some of those code words only liberals can decipher. Feel free to justify your asinine remark any time.

    Quote:

    Maybe riding in the back would give you guys a better perspective on what its like to not have control for a while. Then you could chill and look out the window and enjoy the ride.
    Dude, I don't ride with anyone that leads from behind. I want the driver out front.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 06:42 AM
    Magpie95
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    The sensitivity on the left is political bullsh*t, I'm just damn tired of being called a racist.

    Both sides are sensitive about it. Racism exists everywhere and every walk of life. People are even racist amongst their own race. Nothing new.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 06:44 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Many redhead women are hot.

    Now that was sexist, women are not objects and this is just further proof that it isn't us waging a war on women. Stay on topic please.

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