You Know What's Freakin Hilarious...Bigotry

[guido911]

John Stewart is gonna have a field day with this... so will Stephen Colbert... equating the NAACP as a racist organization is about as lame as trying to tar the AARP as advocating reverse age discrimination... geez.

You might be right. I do not know if those two are "typical white person".

Perhaps if these two take it to someone of their "kind" they will get the go ahead.

[JeffM]

Yawn.  Typical partisan hack soundbite politics.... yeah, that Barack Obama sure is a raaaaaaaacist..... which I guess means he hates his own mother..... freudian?

/sarcasm.

[nathanm]

Gee, I was unaware that white people and black people had identical average incomes, crime rates, arrest rates, and everything else. Nothing to differentiate them but the color of their skin, dontchaknow.

[Townsend]

From all the coverage and interviews I've seen since yesterday I believe we've witnessed the birth of a political career.

[JeffM]

Gee, I was unaware that white people and black people had identical average incomes, crime rates, arrest rates, and everything else. Nothing to differentiate them but the color of their skin, dontchaknow.

That's because of your typical black person, who is more likely to be a criminal which is why they make such good athletes.... poor people are lazy, which also describes your typical black person.... we are in a post-racial America, which is actually a reverse-racist America in which black people and minorities get special treatment... you didn't get the memo?

The NAACP unfairly called some tea partiers racists when the proper, politically correct word should be:  NEGROPHOBE.

Ne·gro·pho·bi·a  (ngr-fb-)
n.
1. Fear of or contempt for Black people and their culture.
2. Behavior based on such an attitude or feeling

/snark.

[Conan71]

That's because of your typical black person, who is more likely to be a criminal which is why they make such good athletes.... poor people are lazy, which also describes your typical black person.... we are in a post-racial America, which is actually a reverse-racist America in which black people and minorities get special treatment... you didn't get the memo?

The NAACP unfairly called some tea partiers racists when the proper, politically correct word should be:  NEGROPHOBE.

Ne·gro·pho·bi·a  (ngr-fb-)
n.
1. Fear of or contempt for Black people and their culture.
2. Behavior based on such an attitude or feeling

/snark.

That must be the new buzzword on the libtard blogs, I got an email from FOTD via Facebook last night commenting on this thread and calling Guido, Gaspar, and myself negrophobes.

Do you not think though that President Obama could exhibit better leadership on the race issue?  How about straight out saying "enough of the race baiting and pulling the race card".  Or "Opposition to my policies is in no way racist, we all have different points of view."  I honestly think it would go a long way.  As it sits now, I think race relations have suffered a 20 year set-back.

[nathanm]

Um, Obama has done that. Remember the speech he gave after people got upset about Reverend Wright?

The problem is morons like Beck, Limbaugh, and now Breitbart who are intent on race-baiting.

[Townsend]

Um, Obama has done that. Remember the speech he gave after people got upset about Reverend Wright?

The problem is morons like Beck, Limbaugh, and now Breitbart who are intent on race-baiting.

Glenn Beck's been smited...

http://healthyliving.ocregister.com/2010/07/21/the-disease-taking-glenn-becks-eyesight/22065/

Now we just have to wait on swift conservative old God punishment for the others.

[we vs us]

Do you not think though that President Obama could exhibit better leadership on the race issue? 

But this isn't Obama's fault.  This is entirely the product of scumbags like Breitbart (and Hannity, and Rush, and Beck, etc etc) trying to get the right's racism Q score up.  That's where the core rot lies.  Yes, the rest of the media is craven and willing to gobble up the smile Fox serves, and yes the Administration (not necessarily the White House) reacted in a moronic fashion.  But all of that is on the periphery of a central truth, and that is that swiftboating is alive and well as the political tool of choice of the right wing.  

[JeffM]

Actually, Maddow got it right a couple of nights ago.... so, I went ahead and watched her show last night.... she was spot on.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/07/22/eugene_robinson_on_the_right-wings_negrophobia.html

NEGROPHOBIA LIVES!!!   

[Gaspar]

That must be the new buzzword on the libtard blogs, I got an email from FOTD via Facebook last night commenting on this thread and calling Guido, Gaspar, and myself negrophobes.

Huh?  Coming from the guy who's been banned numerous times for inflammatory commentary?  LOL!

I don't think I have ever made a comment about President Obama's race.  Don't think it has any bearing on his or anyone else's ability to do a job.  I am actually very impressed at his ability not to bend to the wills of the race baters like Sharpton, Jackson, et. al.   This thread is not really about the President, it's about the prejudice and bigotry present in the NAACP. 

We have several people on this forum, and in society in general that do not know the difference between racism, bigotry, and prejudice.  FOTD used racism to define everything.

I do think that the NAACP is discriminatory and prejudice.  I do not think that they are racist.  Racism is defined by the belief that your "race" is superior to others.  The NAACP by it's mission and initiatives does not hold this belief. 

By their very NAME they are however prejudice.  They seek to aid people based soley on their color, not on individual merit or the "content of their character."  They are an organization devoted to the delivery of aid and services to a specific race of people. 

Now, are they bigoted (do they hate other races).  I cannot answer that.  They did finally issue a statement last week saying that they do not support statements made by the Black Panther movement about "killing cracker babies."  I think it needs to be a renewed effort within the organization to admonish bigoted remarks and actions swiftly. 

The struggle for them is, where there is strong prejudice, it is very difficult to avoid bigotry.  I am hopeful that the day will come when organizations like this are not necessary.

[waterboy]

So, do you feel the same away about the Tribes? Are they prejudiced and erego likely bigoted?

[Conan71]

Um, Obama has done that. Remember the speech he gave after people got upset about Reverend Wright?

Actually I don't to be perfectly honest.  I do remember him setting down the white cop and black professor for a beer at the White House.

I'm not speaking specifically of the Shirley Sherrod incident, but this would be an opportune time for the President to make a serious attempt at curbing a lot of the rhetoric being thrown around.  The right wing commentators are fishing for anything they can right now like the Sherrod speech and Malik Shabazz's inflammitory remarks to counter the constant charges that Tea Partiers are a bunch of racists and that anyone who opposes President Obama's agenda or disapproves of his job performance only does so because they are obviously racist.

Terms like "negrophobia" are nothing more than a crude attempt at intimidation.  The race issue is obviously on-going and the President, being the best example we have of how far opportunities have come for black people in just his lifetime has the best ability to stanch it, but he won't do it.  Knowing who his chief advisor is, I believe the administration is convinced that allowing racial tension to increase only helps their cause.

The President needs to be making on-going attempts with his eloquent speaking skills at getting Americans to drop the racial accusations.  His job is far from done on that front.  He's our leader, he needs to lead and he's got a unique position to do so on this issue since he's bi-racial but has clearly identified himself as black.

[azbadpuppy]

Actually I don't to be perfectly honest.  I do remember him setting down the white cop and black professor for a beer at the White House.

I'm not speaking specifically of the Shirley Sherrod incident, but this would be an opportune time for the President to make a serious attempt at curbing a lot of the rhetoric being thrown around.  The right wing commentators are fishing for anything they can right now like the Sherrod speech and Malik Shabazz's inflammitory remarks to counter the constant charges that Tea Partiers are a bunch of racists and that anyone who opposes President Obama's agenda or disapproves of his job performance only does so because they are obviously racist.

Terms like "negrophobia" are nothing more than a crude attempt at intimidation.  The race issue is obviously on-going and the President, being the best example we have of how far opportunities have come for black people in just his lifetime has the best ability to stanch it, but he won't do it.  Knowing who his chief advisor is, I believe the administration is convinced that allowing racial tension to increase only helps their cause.

The President needs to be making on-going attempts with his eloquent speaking skills at getting Americans to drop the racial accusations.  His job is far from done on that front.  He's our leader, he needs to lead and he's got a unique position to do so on this issue since he's bi-racial but has clearly identified himself as black.

Why should it be the president's responsibility to curb the racial tension? Many tea-partiers have proven themselves to be very racist, as have nearly all of the outspoken talking heads for the conservative side. Why isn't anyone from the GOP, Fox news, or any conservative group for that matter, denouncing these racist actions and clearly racist hate speech? I'll tell you why- it clearly plays to a large percentage of their constituents, that's why.

Nobody will ever admit to being a racist. But allowing these types of passive-aggressive, covertly (or not so covertly) racist actions and hate speeches to take place within you own organizations, or at you rallies, or on your TV or radio stations, and not speak out against them, is in itself condoning racism.

[Gaspar]

So, do you feel the same away about the Tribes? Are they prejudiced and erego likely bigoted?

Has nothing to do with "feelings."  Any organization who's mission is based solely on a person's race is prejudiced.  That is the fact of the matter.  I am not passing judgement on that.   

The tribes are structured as a government body existing within a government.  Their mission promotes the advancement and support of a single race.  By definition that is considered prejudice, because it establishes a racial preference.

Now again, are they bigots? No. When that preference turns into hatred, or action against other racial groups you have bigotry. Are they racists? No. Their mission is to advance their race, and is not based on a perception of superiority over others.

It's not that hard.