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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.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 06:45 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    Dude, I don't ride with anyone that leads from behind. I want the driver out front.

    Just like the blacks used to have! I guess Rosa was wrong.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 07:00 AM
    smoothy
    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.

    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.

    Well Odumbos first two yeasrs in office the lefties had complete control and what did they do with it? Except drive the bus off the cliff and have a spending spree the likes of which the world has never seen... all on lefty programs that have helped nobody in the country but other lefties with connections.

    Really odd coming from someone in a party that did nothing but call George Bush names for 8 years... and repeatedly accused him of things he never did, and even tried to set him up with forged "evidence" that was proven to be false... Remember Rathergate?

    Really strange this selective and severe amnesia the entire democrat party is suffering from these days.

    Really odd as well that they have not seen a single one of the offensive and false advertisements Obama repeated offends the thinking portion of the public with on TV and radio...

    Has Obama ever started to accept the blame for making EVERYTHING worse since he took office? No... he still blames Bush. I seriously think Obama is suffering from a mental disease.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 07:15 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Magpie95 View Post
    Both sides are sensitive about it. Racism exists everywhere and every walk of life. People are even racist amongst their own race. Nothing new.

    I'm not sensitive about race, I'm tired of being called a racist. It's not true, it's not true about the majority of conservatives, it's a damn lie perpetuated by the left and I'm fed up with it.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 07:16 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Just like the blacks used to have! I guess Rosa was wrong.

    Do you ever have anything useful to add. Or is your sole joy in life being irrelevant?
  • Aug 30, 2012, 07:23 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    Do you ever have anything useful to add. or is your sole joy in life being irrelevant?

    Did you want to talk about your baseball or football pools instead?? :D
    I see how sensitive you are, I'll make a note of that.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 07:26 AM
    smoothy
    Look at them making the case we have always claimed about the left having a double standard...

    They feel they can do no worng... and we can do no right... and even if we do the same thing they do.. they still cry about it.

    THe left has a double standard about everything... and the above posts prove it in their own words.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 07:30 AM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Well Odumbos first two yeasrs in office the lefties had complete control and what did they do with it? Except drive the bus off the cliff and have a spending spree the likes of which the world has never seen...all on lefty programs that have helped nobody in the country but other lefties with connections.

    Really odd coming from someone in a party that did nothing but call George Bush names for 8 years...and repeatedly accused him of things he never did, and even tried to set him up with forged "evidence" that was proven to be false....Remember Rathergate?

    Really strange this selective and severe amnesia the entire democrat party is suffering from these days.

    Really odd as well that they have not seen a single one of the offensive and false advertisements Obama repeated offends the thinking portion of the public with on TV and radio.....

    Has Obama ever started to accept the blame for making EVERYTHING worse since he took office? No...he still blames Bush. I seriously think Obama is suffering from a mental disease.

    Rather broad complaint given the number of filibusters the republicans have used since day one one important issues, and the agenda that says NO to everything. That's was decided at the beginning by the Senate minority leader Mitch McConnel, but we will just overlook that and believe all the crapyou guys have put out there.

    He isn't the only one who still blames Bush, most people do, except YOU guys. I mean did you really think 2 or 3 years would make up for the 8 years Bush was in charge?

    Talk about short memories.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 07:30 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Look at them making the case we have always claimed about the left having a double standard.....

    They feel they can do no worng....and we can do no right....and even if we do the same exact thing they do..they still cry about it.

    THe left has a double standard about everything......and the above posts prove it in their own words.

    150,000,000 people in the US are like that? They must be on to something.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 07:32 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Well Odumbos ...

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Really odd coming from someone in a party that did nothing but call George Bush names for 8 years

    I'm sure the irony is lost on him but it was worth noting. LOL.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 08:09 AM
    Magpie95
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    I'm sure the irony is lost on him but it was worth noting. LOL.


    HA HA! Funny.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 08:14 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    150,000,000 people in the US are like that? They must be on to something.

    Were do you get that number from, your Butt? There are nowhere near that many people that consider themselves democrat, much less liberal in the USA..

    There are roughly 350,000,000 people IN the USA. Discount the numbers who are minors and the Illegals who don't have a vote... take away the Conservatives and the Independents and you are lucky to have 10% of that number.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 08:16 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Magpie95 View Post
    HA HA! Funny.

    NeedKarma doesn't understand Irony, or much else for that matter... they don't even live in the USA... so its absurd they consider themselves such authorities on the topic.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 08:22 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    I'm sure the irony is lost on him but it was worth noting. LOL.

    Know what..

    Unlike YOU... we earned the right to call him that since ODUMBO... seems to think Gearge Bush is still in office, since he blames him for everything.

    Unlike YOU... in Canada... we have to live with the consequences of a rank amateur lightweight who clearly has a poor grasp of anything every day.

    Unlike YOU... I don't think the man is more than a mental midget based on his own disaterous choices he has made time and time again that have resulted in RECORD unemployment here... unsurpassed even by Jimmy Carter and the mess he was responsible for.

    Unlike YOU... I don't think Obama is the Meessiah who can say and do no wrong...

    And Unlike YOU, I don't fall for left wing propaganda when abundent proof to the contrary is every place you look.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 08:26 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Know what....?

    Unlike YOU.....we earned the right to call him that since ODUMBO...seems to think Gearge Bush is still in office, since he blames him for everything.

    Unlike YOU.... in Canada...we have to live with the consequences of a rank amateur lightweight who clearly has a poor grasp of anything every day.

    Unlike YOU.....I don't think the man is more than a mental midget based on his own disaterous choices he has made time and time again that have resulted in RECORD unemployment here....unsurpassed even by Jimmy Carter and the mess he was responsible for.

    Unlike YOU.... I don't think Obama is the Meessiah who can say and do no wrong....

    and Unlike YOU, I don't fall for left wing propaganda when abundent proof to the contrary is every place you look.

    Wow, I believe all that stuff? Cool and yet odd since we've never met and you keep calling Obama a messiah.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 08:27 AM
    Magpie95
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Look at them making the case we have always claimed about the left having a double standard.....

    They feel they can do no worng....and we can do no right....and even if we do the same exact thing they do..they still cry about it.

    THe left has a double standard about everything......and the above posts prove it in their own words.

    I believe I stated it exists on both sides. Racisim is everywhere. I don't know anyone in my walk of life that refers to democrats or republicans as racist. There are some racist democrats and some racists republicans. What of it? There are ignorant people that align themselves on both sides of the argument. Just like it isn't just white people that are racists. Racism is just a form of fear. Fear of someone that looks different than you and therefore must be a threat. Just one of the many forms of prejudice that exist everywhere.
    So, I don't know why this thread is filled with sobbing crys "They think we're racists and I'm tired of it...boo hoo!" Racists are on BOTH sides... get over it. Everyone will be called a racist if you ask enough people.

    I've been accused of being racist because I had to fire an employee of a different race than me for attendance issues. I don't get all upset over it. I'm not a democrat or a republican, I am a libertarian who ends up voting democrat each election. This is simply because he is usually the less retarded option and doesn't come with the religious extreme baggage.

    PS. I am prejudice against guys in skinny jeans escpecially if they sag their skinny jeans... or the justin bieber hair cut. But still, prejudice I tell you!
  • Aug 30, 2012, 08:28 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    NeedKarma doesn't understand Irony, or much else for that matter....they don't even live in the USA....so its absurd they consider themselves such authorities on the topic.

    Yes I see, since we don't live in the USA we can't understand irony - gotcha.
    We wish you a great day!
  • Aug 30, 2012, 09:07 AM
    smoothy
    Well since I work in the middle of a lot of this stuff, and see it unfiltered, and you only see it on TV, with no other way to judge its accuracy... woe be it for me to question what I actually see if some talking head tells you differently on TV.
  • Aug 30, 2012, 09:08 AM
    Magpie95
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Know what....?

    Unlike YOU.....we earned the right to call him that since ODUMBO...seems to think Gearge Bush is still in office, since he blames him for everything.

    Unlike YOU.... in Canada...we have to live with the consequences of a rank amateur lightweight who clearly has a poor grasp of anything.

    Oh come on. You're just upset because he busted you guys on your hypocrisy. You're name calling the same as lefties did to Bush. You're no better in that department. And the fact that you are trying to justify it makes it even sadder.

    Based on what you are saying here, perhaps our government should model Canada's? Sounds like its so great up there that they couldn't possible understand our issues. Right! Ha.

    And by disastrous mistakes... you mean something besides invading the wrong country after 911and justfying it with the search for Santa Clause WMDs? Doh!
  • Aug 30, 2012, 09:16 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Did you want to talk about your baseball or football pools instead?? :D

    I don't talk to you about sports.

    Quote:

    I see how sensitive you are, I'll make a note of that.
    Awww, give yourself a pat on the back for being so clever.

    Back to the OP. Do you have anything useful to say on the topic?
  • Aug 30, 2012, 09:18 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Well since I work in the middle of a lot of this stuff, and see it unfiltered, and you only see it on TV, with no other way to judge its accuracy.....woe be it for me to question what I actually see if some talking head tells you differently on tv.

    I don't watch american news. Our education includes american history as I'm sure yours include canadian history. There is no "unfiltered" version that you have access to. That's kind of funny actually considering how incredibly partisan your posts are.

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