More Food for Thought on Race

This has been an interesting series of reports. However, little in it is surprising or newly revealed, just that it’s surprising and newly stated information that few are willing to discuss without a great deal of degrading emotionalism involved (which you’ve avoided, which is great).
It’s not so much “discrimination,” though, in the emotionally derisive sense of that word and deed, that is of issue here, but it IS discrimination of individual decisions, like “what to buy” or “who to talk to” or “what color to wear” or “how I feel” and “who I don’t like and why”…
People (all of us, of every race and ethnicity) make “discriminatory” decisions based upon discriminatory perceptions daily hundreds of times over. The concept of discrimination has been taken to extremes, in my view, in most societies, going so far as to reprimand and punish people for exercising individual thoughts and making individual decisions, while, what discrimination is, essentially, is simply making decisions about one’s life if not survival on a daily basis. There really ARE some people and many things that are bad for us and our families and deciding to deflect those people and things is not a bad thing but a thing of survival and standards.
This isn’t to give a pass to what Reid said, however, since what he was saying was political usery and it was gratuitious and ugly, in my view. He was relishing in the “supremacy” of his views that racial dialect/s were to be avoided if his/party was to maintain success.
Law firms, for example, though, do discriminate against “regional dialects” and that includes anyone of any race (Southern accents discriminated against in the West and Northeast, for example, candidates passed up who aren’t “working on overcoming the dialect”), BUT, there’s a big difference in discriminating against someone’s race versus someone’s “dialect” and Reid was prejudicially citing that “Black dialect” thing which was Reid trying to hide a racial prejudice amidst his attempted-sanitized phrase.

Interesting that the right wing concern with Reid’s comments do not stem with viewing the comments themselves as racist but rather as payback because of Trent Lott suffering political payback for making an odd claim about the virtues of segregation.

I wish you luck on Nightline with this valuable piece of information. But Jake, there are many who just don’t want to Know. There are some who live not in understanding and knowledge, but anger, fear and hate…..All based on IGNORANCE. Just look at our country. Sad isn’t it. Read some of the comments on a daily basis. Sometimes it’s embarrassing to even read the outright ignorance (hate, division, fear) that is written. And the sad thing about it is Schools has nothing to do with it, as there’s plenty of materials on the Systematic and Institutionalized structure that set forth Racism and the many ways it is exhibited (socially, economically etc) and the effects of it. Some are just satified to call it “playing the race card”.

because of Trent Lott suffering political payback for making an odd claim about the virtues of segregation.
Posted by: Ryan C |
Interesting how hard it is for the Democrats’ sycophants to accurately state what Lott said.

“And then there’s that phony, false origin issue as to Obama — an Arab”
Odd that lately you find birtherism in right wing racist circles when its usually the other way around.

“Only a dem could get away with it KKK Robert Byrd rin a bell.”
Yet again the right wing is not angry about racism or racist speech.
They are angry that they are actually called out on it.
That should really tell you all you need to know.

I just love watching liberals play psycho-analytical twister over this..I really do. Frankly its so much more amusing than the cut and dry/zero tolerance response when a republican mouth strays off the ranch.

“Love your one size fits all broad brush.”
Gee I thought you were an independent.
Why would my comments towards the right wing raise your personal defense?
Ya know unless you’ve been lying.

STOP, STOP with all the RAAAAACism talk. The nation is sick to death of it. We don’t need ABC to tell us about dialect or ‘light skinned negroes’. Ridiculous!

Look Obama has a racial makeup of many varieties but his upbringing was elist and world travelling. His education was expensive (we dont know who paid yet) and highly elite. Obama is not “from the street”. Yes, he went to Chicago to agitate on the street to earn some political points but people like Rev.Jackson know the truth about Obama.
So when Obama, or Hillary, or Bush, fake an accent (whether “black”, “Texan”, “Good ol boy”, or in Hillary’s case “black preacher”) it is a political move. They don’t talk that way in their secret meetings with bankers, international corporations, and political handlers.

Meanwhile the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. called Reid’s remarks “sadly outrageous”.
It’s so fun to watch Obama, Reid, and hypocritical company bend over backwards for cover and propping each other up like an unsteady cardhouse. Nervously, eyes darting back and forth hoping America doesn’t see right through their blatant hypocrisy with awkward slaps on the back saying, “I’m okay, you’re okay” – just like the approach they’re taking to “fixing the economy”.
The Democrats are a joke.

he went to Chicago to agitate on the street to earn some political points
Posted by: Ed
does that also mean the ‘tea party’ folks and their corporate sponsors are also showing up and ‘agitating’?
re: ‘I just love watching liberals play psycho-analytical twister over this
Posted by: cindy
so do I, it shows that Dems actually do some soul searching about the subject, republicans? well their xenophobic history speaks for itself..
btw: as Michael Steele recently said: ‘honest injun’

oh yeah..you totally misunderstood me. The psycho/analytical twister being played by DEMS and the media isn’t soul searching on their part..listen to Reid for heaven’s sake..I
“I’m done talking about this, I’m moving on”..no..this is the DEMS putting an endoscope down the mouths of everyone else..diligently checking for any malignant signs of racism. soul searching..? what a laugh.

what a laugh.
Posted by: cindy
I must have imagined the arab, muslim, ‘not one of us’ republican 2008 campaign madness..
‘honest injun’ as Michael Steele recently said..
you don’t seem to be able to understand the difference between what Reid said and Lott’s enthusiasm for a segregationist for Pres pre civil rights..

“If you have some evidence of “right wing racism, could you please present it?”
Thankfully the right winger who shot up the Holocaust museum is now in hell.