Nowhere is political frivolity more in evidence than in issues involving racial and ethnic groups. Disagree with some policies or demands and you become an instant "racist."
The substance of those policies or demands, and the substance of the objections to them, get lost in an orgy of rhetoric and personal accusations. Racial issues are just one of a growing number of issues where rational discussion has become virtually impossible.
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I agree, Rhino. I dont even go there anymore. I just don't. It always gets ugly no matter what position you take. Even when smart people discuss it. I avoid it. I'm no masochist.
As I have told you, I do not agree with affirmative action and in a recent discussion of European quota laws, I mentioned that I dont think a mandatory requirement that 50% of positions be held by women is a good idea. Well I heard about this for weeks, what a sister hater I am... meanwhile, my reasoning actually comes from my view of empowerment. Am I supposed to lie just to tow the line with expectations? It often feels like we are supposed to. PC and all that as well.
Race and gender should be talked about, but I agree that people cant seem to do it without hysterics. And hating. Mad hating goes on.
Then I need my motrin and vh-1.
Republicans are the party of segregation? How do you figure that? The south was dominated by the dems during the days of segregation.
I disagree with you on this one donsky.
The 1968 election could have been important to people who understand and know anything about it, but most voters don't.
So while it was important back then, and the voters then understood the issues, most don't today. If you asked every black voter today about that election i would be willing to bet that less than 25% would even know what you're talking about. Same with most white voters.
People vote in their own best interest. Most don't give a shit about 30 or 40 years ago, and if they actually did think that deeply, more blacks would realize that sowell was right, and they would switch parties.
Of course, as sowell says, the republicans have not helped their own cause by propping up racists like jesse jackson and company, so it's really their own fault.
Long Live Bob Jones University
Bob Jones, Jr. once said that Catholicism was "not another Christian denomination. It is a satanic counterfeit, an ecclesiastic tyranny over the souls of men....It is the old harlot of the book of the Revelation -- 'the Mother of Harlots.'" All popes, Jones asserted, "are demon possessed."
I may have to re-consider my position on the Catholic Church, as I am a big fan of harlots.
Donsky, isn't that what sowell was saying then when he talks about political inertia?
Sowell is correct here on every point. I don't see any way they'll be able to swing the average black voter over to their side, until the average black voter wakes up to the fact that " the man" that's "keeping them down" is the democratic party.
for clarification, "they" is the republicans.
Heres where my problem lies, the discussion is racist in and of itself. The assumption that racism is strictly a black and white issue is dangerously and naively ignorant. The result being the bestowment of special victim status to one party as well as all the pyschological baggage that comes along with it and the blanket vilification of another i.e. "whitey".
If you want to call it what it is, then fine...white guilt for slavery, but how do you explain someone like me, who's people werent even in this country 100 years ago. Do I deserve to lose my spot on the FDNY to someone that scores lower but is the right man for the quota? Should my children be punished on college admissions because of the color of their skin? Am I a racist because Im white, and should be charged with a hate crime if I whoop up on some brotha, but when the role is reversed the black man gets simple assault? The color of my skin should hold me responsible for the actions of others, centuries before me. Well wouldnt that be a racist assertion.
Not to mention the numerous other groups that dont like others. Are Guatemalans not racist for telling Mexican jokes. Caribbean blacks that dislike American born? Spanish Americans that despise Puerto Ricans? Phillipinos that hate "asians"? How about the white border New Yorker that hates white Canadians, is he not racist because Canadians arent "black"?
Slavery was bad, we all get it. But last time I checked, damn near every people on this planet have been enslaved in bondage at one point or another, but theres only a few that still bitch about it, and that is exactly whats "holding them down"
It seems to me that we will never be able to find a solution when the discussion itself perpetuates the problem.
It's hilarious to listen to white boys talking about the Black Man's plight in America.
Its pointless for me to comment--because you just don't get it and never will.......
same with black people talking about the white mans plight. black people are clueless and will never get it.
However, the author of this article is black, and lived through all the tough times that you did not live through in this country and he seems to disagree with you.
Huh?
wtf you talking about Rhino? First of all you aint White;2ndly just because some "house nigger" conveys his view of america doesnt mean that the majority of black people walked down "cow-tow" lane with him.
And what white man plight are you referring to?
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