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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Mike220 on February 18, 2009, 12:58:11 PM
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WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues.
In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," said Holder, nation's first black attorney general.
Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, Holder said, but "we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race."
He urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for honest discussion of racial matters, including issues of health care, education, and economic disparities.
Link (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152ap_holder_race.html?source=mypi)
Oh, well hell, I wonder why? Is it because if someone happens to say something critical of another, they're promptly labeled as a racist and their lives are ruined.
***edited by WE: thread title clarification***
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Link (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152ap_holder_race.html?source=mypi)
Oh, well hell, I wonder why? Is it because if someone happens to say something critical of another, they're promptly labeled as a racist and their lives are ruined.
Yep.
I don't get it.
Is it important for a black person to talk about being black?
Apparently so! lol
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Why the hell should race be a PRIORITY subject for discussion?
Is the whole f'ing planet hating Opwah gonna cause her to go out and re-register as a caucasian?
Is every "disaffected" black man defending Dear Leader gonna make His Holiness any less a mulatto?
Is all of the world's envy gonna make me one dram less Scottish, or make them one dram more?
What's the f'ing point, Mr. Attorney General?
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Heck I want to know why Black Americans after finally getting out from under a Master go right to a new Master called Uncle Sam.
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People avoid subjects that are socially awkward for the same reason they walk around piles of dog crap instead of stomping on them.
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People avoid subjects that are socially awkward for the same reason they walk around piles of dog crap instead of stomping on them.
cuz no matter how hard you try, you can't get it off your shoes? :lmao:
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Black people are constantly reminding the world that they are not equal to the white people.
If they spent half as much time not thinking about being black, complaining about inequality, and pointing out to everyone else that they ARE black.....they might realize that they themselves are the ones making a big deal about "blackness"....not the white folk.
When I look at a person....the color of their skin is not the first thing I notice or even think about.
I will admit that the first thing I notice may be their behavior or their appearance....
but it is never....."hey, I'm lookin' at a black person...."
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Black people are constantly reminding the world that they are not equal to the white people.
If they spent half as much time not thinking about being black, complaining about inequality, and pointing out to everyone else that they ARE black.....they might realize that they themselves are the ones making a big deal about "blackness"....not the white folk.
When I look at a person....the color of their skin is not the first thing I notice or even think about.
I will admit that the first thing I notice may be their behavior or their appearance....
but it is never....."hey, I'm lookin' at a black person...."
You are a friggin' genius. Hit that nail on the head woman!! lol :thumbs:
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cuz no matter how hard you try, you can't get it off your shoes? :lmao:
There is a certain small percentage of the population, generally about 8 years old and male (or college-age, drunk and male), that will do it simply in order to spatter everything in the area with dog crap....
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****ing racist dumbass moron
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Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.
WTF? I work with mostly whites and I don't associate with them outside of work. Does that mean I hate white people?
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Many of the blacks I knew and worked with, had no issues with making sure you KNEW they were black (they diden't). I was/is a NON ISSUE. As a matter of fact we gave eachother "shit" about the truths of each race. Black guys: love Church's Chicken, watermelon (sorry boyz-n-girlz), and used the "N" word at times (shoulda seen the white guys faces the first time THAT happened :lmao:).
White guys: can't dance, look like fools trying to be "inner city", and coulden't do "slang" if we tried (stupid wiggers :loser:).
Basically, we laughed at ourselves, our differences and got along just fine. I made some great friends who, if I could have, I would liked to have tracked down just to see how they are doing.
This whole business is nothing more than keeping a "fire" going for the likes of Jesse Jackson. :bird:
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Our next door neighbors on one side are black. On the other side, the husband is basic white, his wife is Chinese.
Both houses are half again larger than ours.
We don't "hang out" with either one...nor do we really know anything about them except to wave at as we go by....I'm not sure that I would recognize any of them if I ran into them somewhere. There's probably close to an acre between our houses.
We've lived here for 5 years. We have friends outside of our neighborhood.
Within days of moving in here....one of the kids in the subdivision came and knocked on the door, he had something the previous owner had ordered from him. Told him she no longer lived here. So his mother comes and knocks on the door and wants to know who I am, and all the "details"....then she asks me what my husband does. I said we weren't married. You would have thought I said he was Charles Manson!
We moved in the first of December. The homeowner's association bill made it to us with no problem. The invitation to the subdivision Christmas party never arrived.
The next year....I got a phone call from the HOA president wondering if we would hold the Christmas party at our house.
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
No f'n way!!!
Now you know why I really have no interest in my neighbors.
When David Keith (the actor-his wife is Asian) moved into the subdivision.....a party was held to welcome them. ::)
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admin note : I added the bloomberg headline to the title of this thread for clarity. it's a big story; it should get more traffic
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There he goes race-baiting again . . . tell me, Mr. Holder, how much courage did it take to storm that house to seize Elian and take him back to your Uncle Fidel?
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wait a minute. I thought that The Obamessiah "fixed" the race issue last year when he delivered his epic "Speech On Race" during the Rev. Wright controversy. you remember that, right? according to the MSM, it was the most important speech since The Sermon on the Mount.
maybe he meant to say that we were cowards until about 8 months ago. :-)
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Why does it seem like race has become an even bigger topic since Obama has been elected than prior to him running for president?
It seems like it's a constant "in your face" topic....or is it just because it's February and Black History Month and it along with MLK's birthday coincided with the presidential inauguration of a black president?
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admin note : I added the bloomberg headline to the title of this thread for clarity. it's a big story; it should get more traffic
Cool, thanks.
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wait a minute. I thought that The Obamessiah "fixed" the race issue last year when he delivered his epic "Speech On Race" during the Rev. Wright controversy. you remember that, right? according to the MSM, it was the most important speech since The Sermon on the Mount.
maybe he meant to say that we were cowards until about 8 months ago. :-)
That's just what they want you think.
Deep down all whites are nothing but racist, wannabe slave owners who get their jollies lynching blacks or burning crosses.
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Link (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152ap_holder_race.html?source=mypi)
Oh, well hell, I wonder why? Is it because if someone happens to say something critical of another, they're promptly labeled as a racist and their lives are ruined.
***edited by WE: thread title clarification***
a nation of whining cowards??
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I don't get it.
Is it important for a black person to talk about being black?
Black guy: "Hey I'm black"
Me: "So I see.
A friend and I played a variant of this at work:
Co-Worker: I'm black. [not an exact quote but the back story is long]
Me: What?
CW: I'm black.
Me: Since when?
CW: My whole life.
Me: WTF? When were you planning on telling me?
CW: I'm sorry, it must have slipped my mind.
Me: @#$% You think you know a guy.
We had a good laugh, mostly at the expense of the mystified on-lookers.
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admin note : I added the bloomberg headline to the title of this thread for clarity. it's a big story; it should get more traffic
You racist.
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admin note : I added the bloomberg headline to the title of this thread for clarity. it's a big story; it should get more traffic
It's also a helluva lot less inflammatory than the old title. :cheersmate:
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Where the hell is "White History Month" since we are the ones to actually build the country?
Don't get me wrong, Blacks have definitely contributed to this great country, but lets be real! If it weren't for the White population, which includes English, Irish, German, Swiss, French, Russian, etc...,there would not be a country!
After all, I see how gret the country's in africa are doing with all Black populations!
Where the hell is OUR month?!
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It's also a helluva lot less inflammatory than the old title. :cheersmate:
Ah, man... I was going for inflammatory. :fuelfire: :-)
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I don't get it.
Is it important for a black person to talk about being black?
Black guy: "Hey I'm black"
Me: "So I see.
:rotf:
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Just think, forced busing to backyard BBQ's :cheersmate:
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Just think, forced busing to backyard BBQ's :cheersmate:
Do we get to do drive-bys while on the bus? :uhsure:
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How amazing that now in power, they run as far away as fast as they can from Dr. King's call of judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
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....is it just because it's February and Black History Month
Well, Febuary was the shortest month they had....didn't have any with just 3 days.
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The Onion had a funny headline this week: Nation's Blacks Creeped Out By All The People Smiling At Them