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GOP GETS GOOD NEWS IN NEW POLL
In the Tennessee Senate race, Corker now leads Ford by 8. And in the race for Governor of Maryland, Ehrlich appears to have closed a 10 point gap.
I'm assuming you don't mean this one, that there must be another one of which I am unaware. If THAT is the one that people are calling racist, I'm surprised they can even function through the day being as hypersensitive as they are! You would have to WANT to be offended to call that one racist!
However, I'm sure I'm wrong. Please point me to the real racist one, if you would be so kind.
I will, but if it has to be explained, or worse yet, explained by someone who can "explain it much better", you can't really blame someone for saying you are being hypersensitive.
Someone explained it to me on my own blog when I posed the question. I am of the opinion that it would have been WORSE had they put a black woman in the "I met harold" bimbo role and you really have to WANT to be offended to see racism in that ad.
I've yet to decide if that's as slimy or slimier than being a racist.
You're assuming that that was their intent.
When it's time to vote and the Republicans try to tell them "we welcome you," they'll remember what this incident shows.
And the Democrats have treated blacks any better? As a hispanic, I am MORE insulted by the "Aw, poor little stupid brownish person. You just can't make it in the big mean world without US!" attitude that the Democrats have.
You are spouting so much garbage Rob that it isimpossible for me to avoid thinkingof you as a troll. To Hell with your partisan racist garbage. The Democratic party is rooted in racism and it shows with nearly everything they do. "Blacks need handouts, Blacks need help with this, Blacks need help with that... Blacks will vote for us because they are supposed to."
I am no great supporter of any party, but lies make my skin crawl, and the factis that under president Bush Blacksin America are far betteroff financially. The Republican party was the party which originally aided Blacks out ofslavery, and I won't view life with race blinders on.
Your attempts to categorize people with my skin color (much more evident than your cute little 1/8) in order to further your political view is just as offensive and racist as the continuing approval of the Democratic party of it's supporters using racist terms like "Oreo" toward Michael Steele and painting Joe Lieberman in Blackface.
You sound just like the typical Democratic liberal spouting "Oh those poor Blacks" and how we're just a bloc to be categorized.
Your attitude just furthers racism by not seeing people as individuals, but as groups of groupthinkers.
Speaking as a man whose "Blackness" doesn't require a "feel good 'cause I suffer with them" DNA test, go read a book or talk to some actual Black people who think for themselves.
I AM NOT A TOOL FOR YOUR POLITICAL ADVANCEMENT.
Reading your words just reminds meofhow deeply rooted racism continues to grow in people who fail to think.
Thanks for your help though, because without welfare, continued Affirmative Action and the dumbing down of testing of all sorts, I might actually have to find my own identity instead of being shackled to the government teat.
No we won't. I see today that Jesus Christ is Lord and that will never change. God appoints our leaders for His reasons, and none of them save our souls, so no, all we'll see is either new faces or the same old faces, but how likely is it that any of them will be remembered by the general public in 100 years or so?
You politics aren't the beginning or the end, and the day you realize that, you'll experience a real awakening.
"But I also believe that racism is evil, and that there are consequences for such behavior and for appealing to those with those leanings."
~Your words here totally disagree with your other comments. You've come out against Republicans for using skin color as an appeal, yet it is abundantly clear that the Democratic party has reliedon this tactic as a pillar of their party for decades.
In fact, for quite some time the cry has been "The Republicans don't care about you...look how they ignore you!"
If you are fighting the use of ethnicity and color in politics,the battle starts with the Democratic Party, and the Black, White, Brown, Yellow and other participants who've kept it a banner issue.
Ignoring that to singleout the Republicans for the same thing is like complaining that nobody turned off the front burner on the stove while the house is on fire.
Especially when history proves that the Republican party has done a great deal of good for minorities in this country.
Funny how nobody has brought up Reagan's amnesty to illegal immigrants in this hot button issue.
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Is this the one where the woman says "call me?" I don't see how that commercial is racist.
I'm assuming you don't mean this one, that there must be another one of which I am unaware. If THAT is the one that people are calling racist, I'm surprised they can even function through the day being as hypersensitive as they are! You would have to WANT to be offended to call that one racist!
However, I'm sure I'm wrong. Please point me to the real racist one, if you would be so kind.
I'm just not seeing how it is racist! Maybe I'm just an ignorant, unenlightened fool, so please explain it to me.
Is it because it criticizes a black man? Is that the new definition of racism(tm)?
I will, but if it has to be explained, or worse yet, explained by someone who can "explain it much better", you can't really blame someone for saying you are being hypersensitive.
Someone explained it to me on my own blog when I posed the question. I am of the opinion that it would have been WORSE had they put a black woman in the "I met harold" bimbo role and you really have to WANT to be offended to see racism in that ad.
I've yet to decide if that's as slimy or slimier than being a racist.
You're assuming that that was their intent.
When it's time to vote and the Republicans try to tell them "we welcome you," they'll remember what this incident shows.
And the Democrats have treated blacks any better? As a hispanic, I am MORE insulted by the "Aw, poor little stupid brownish person. You just can't make it in the big mean world without US!" attitude that the Democrats have.
You are spouting so much garbage Rob that it isimpossible for me to avoid thinkingof you as a troll. To Hell with your partisan racist garbage. The Democratic party is rooted in racism and it shows with nearly everything they do. "Blacks need handouts, Blacks need help with this, Blacks need help with that... Blacks will vote for us because they are supposed to."
I am no great supporter of any party, but lies make my skin crawl, and the factis that under president Bush Blacksin America are far betteroff financially. The Republican party was the party which originally aided Blacks out ofslavery, and I won't view life with race blinders on.
Your attempts to categorize people with my skin color (much more evident than your cute little 1/8) in order to further your political view is just as offensive and racist as the continuing approval of the Democratic party of it's supporters using racist terms like "Oreo" toward Michael Steele and painting Joe Lieberman in Blackface.
You sound just like the typical Democratic liberal spouting "Oh those poor Blacks" and how we're just a bloc to be categorized.
Your attitude just furthers racism by not seeing people as individuals, but as groups of groupthinkers.
Speaking as a man whose "Blackness" doesn't require a "feel good 'cause I suffer with them" DNA test, go read a book or talk to some actual Black people who think for themselves.
I AM NOT A TOOL FOR YOUR POLITICAL ADVANCEMENT.
Reading your words just reminds meofhow deeply rooted racism continues to grow in people who fail to think.
Thanks for your help though, because without welfare, continued Affirmative Action and the dumbing down of testing of all sorts, I might actually have to find my own identity instead of being shackled to the government teat.
Yassuh!
No we won't. I see today that Jesus Christ is Lord and that will never change. God appoints our leaders for His reasons, and none of them save our souls, so no, all we'll see is either new faces or the same old faces, but how likely is it that any of them will be remembered by the general public in 100 years or so?
You politics aren't the beginning or the end, and the day you realize that, you'll experience a real awakening.
"But I also believe that racism is evil, and that there are consequences for such behavior and for appealing to those with those leanings."
~Your words here totally disagree with your other comments. You've come out against Republicans for using skin color as an appeal, yet it is abundantly clear that the Democratic party has reliedon this tactic as a pillar of their party for decades.
In fact, for quite some time the cry has been "The Republicans don't care about you...look how they ignore you!"
If you are fighting the use of ethnicity and color in politics,the battle starts with the Democratic Party, and the Black, White, Brown, Yellow and other participants who've kept it a banner issue.
Ignoring that to singleout the Republicans for the same thing is like complaining that nobody turned off the front burner on the stove while the house is on fire.
Especially when history proves that the Republican party has done a great deal of good for minorities in this country.
Funny how nobody has brought up Reagan's amnesty to illegal immigrants in this hot button issue.
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