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Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« on: April 26, 2011, 11:06:21 PM »
Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/26/tavis_smiley_2012_will_be_the_most_racist_election_ever.html

Here goes the race card game crap again.
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2011, 11:08:01 PM »
Tavis Smiley is a jackass.  Next time I want a worthless opinion from a race-baiting fool, I'll as Jesse Jackson.  At least he has name recognition.
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2011, 03:16:41 PM »
Tavis Smiley is full of hate.


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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2011, 03:56:40 PM »
whoppi goldberg has declared (s)he is now playing the race card.

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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2011, 08:14:43 AM »
He certainly hopes so...even if he has to become a self-fulfilling prophet.

Of course this will backfire. You can't claim that a nation that elected Obama by popular vote is racist and those suggestions will piss off independents even more. They're mad at Obama's performance not his skin and they won't be intimidated into forgetting that when it costs twice as much to drive to a job that might be laid-off at any time.
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2011, 08:30:29 AM »
whoppi goldberg has declared (s)he is now playing the race card.

  "I'm Playing The Damn Card Now"


...and she's still hoping someone will pull "The Old Maid" card from her hand.

You may have to be old as dirt to get that one.

Is there such a card as the "Ugly Card"? She may have a fist full of those.
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2011, 10:58:22 AM »
whoppi goldberg has declared (s)he is now playing the race card.

  "I'm Playing The Damn Card Now"


I think she meant "Still."
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2011, 11:01:43 AM »
...and she's still hoping someone will pull "The Old Maid" card from her hand.

You may have to be old as dirt to get that one.

Is there such a card as the "Ugly Card"? She may have a fist full of those.

I'm not even 40 yet, and I got it.  Wasn't it a game that Atari put out, way back when? :confused:  :-)
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2011, 03:18:01 PM »
I'm not even 40 yet, and I got it.  Wasn't it a game that Atari put out, way back when? :confused:  :-)

It was a card game. You didn't want to get left holding the "Old Maid".
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2011, 02:05:12 PM »
Racists are terrible people and ones I despise.

But you know what's almost as bad as racists?  People that whip out that race card every nanosecond when it's not warranted.  It's pathetic and extremely dishonest.  And even worse, is it diminishes the acts of REAL racism when it occurs.  It's the boy who cried wolf syndrome.  When someone cries "racism!" hundreds of times in a row when there is none no one is going to believe them when there actually IS a case of racism.

I knew the race card was going to be played a lot when Obama was elected.  I just didn't think it would be this bad.
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2011, 04:17:38 PM »
Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/26/tavis_smiley_2012_will_be_the_most_racist_election_ever.html

Here goes the race card game crap again.

How about we make a point?  Cain/West 2012.
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2011, 04:55:25 PM »
How about we make a point?  Cain/West 2012.

I could pull the lever for that one.  No matter who's on which side of the ticket.
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Re: Tavis Smiley: 2012 Will Be "The Most Racist" Election Ever
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2011, 12:12:31 PM »
Racists are terrible people and ones I despise.

But you know what's almost as bad as racists?  People that whip out that race card every nanosecond when it's not warranted.  It's pathetic and extremely dishonest.  And even worse, is it diminishes the acts of REAL racism when it occurs.  It's the boy who cried wolf syndrome.  When someone cries "racism!" hundreds of times in a row when there is none no one is going to believe them when there actually IS a case of racism.

I knew the race card was going to be played a lot when Obama was elected.  I just didn't think it would be this bad.

People who whip out that race card, by definition, practice racism. Invariably, the hue and the cry that goes up by the Sharptons and the Jacksons for perceived injustices favor those same injustices being exhibited toward the other group.

Sharpton, in particular, is an angry man. He carries a chip on his shoulder, just daring Whitey to come along and knock it off. He is nothing more than a vintage 1960's militant black man who is convinced that Whitey must give up what he's earned to give to blacks just because he's angry.

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