“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
Hillary Clinton, 2003
I am sick and tired of being called a racist for one reason - disagreeing with some of the policies and programs being brought forward by the administration in Washington.
Mrs. Clinton is correct. Foolishness has to stop. People need to get over themselves.
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Stu, I totally agree that we have the right to disagree with any administration. That is one thing that makes this country great.
If anyone is playing the race card, in my opinion, it just means that they have run out of reasonable counter arguments.
You and I don't always (or often) agree on politics, but I will defend your right 100% to disagree with me.
Well said KK.
My brother-in-law and I are on opposite ends when it comes to politics. Instead of fighting, we just decided to agree to disagree and leave it at that.
ANd that is why I try to keep my politics off the JTI so we can discuss other things without the stain that is today's political system. I just got cheesed off yesterday and had to vent.
The race card is played so often these days that it is meaningless. Every time that I have had a disagreement with a neighbor of a different race, they have brought it up. I was talking to a guy about parking once. He concluded that I was a racist because I wanted him to obey the law. Same thing for those that were blasting music so that the whole block could hear it. When I asked them to turn it down, I was a racist. In fact, whenever I've asked anyone of another race in Racine to obey the law, I've been accused of being a racist. Sometimes I say it now before they do, just for the confused look on their faces.
Btw, I know that my problem is that I actually approach people and ask them to obey the law. I do this knowing full well that I will be called Cracker, Honky, Whitey, Redneck, etc. I was brought up in a world where people took individual responsibility for their individual acts. I will continue to act that way - f--k you to the enablers who cripple people with their lies.
Racism is overused and hence is less effective when the charge is truly justified. Most people these days make a pretty good effort to avoid being overtly racist.
When I moved to Tucson, I had nice long hair I tied back in a tail. I guess the Sun darkened my skin enough because I spent about two years constantly being mistaken for a Native American here. Most of the time it was relatively harmless (but mildly racist) things like being called "Chief" in public frequently. Unfortunately, I had a few nasty run ins with people as well.
I don't have long hair anymore...not because I don't want to be mistaken for Native American, but because I have less hair and tying it back in a tail REALLY shows off my receding hairline!
But in the end, you are right, Stu. Just disagreeing with Obama does not make you a racist any more than disagreeing with the previous administration made me an unpatriotic terrorist lover.
Yes it did, you unpatriotic, terrorist loving indian you!
Just kidding Hale. I value your opinion and respect your views.
I too dislike the "over use" of "racist" What you refer to Is the YOUNG "entitled" people in this country. Being Racist Is not JUST a stupid reaction to asking a person of another race to obey some law, that is just an execuse in MOST cases. True racism does occur, by ALL races. It occurs EVERY day when a person of color is treated different than a person of another color. We have a black President. Do you REALLY think racism doesn't play a role in the things he can achieve as President?
Thus to ignore the continuing problem as BS will allow the problem to progress.
If I were Native American and someone called me "Chief," I would explode. There is plenty of racism today, plenty. I don't mean to trivialize it. Hollering out "racist" every time that you disagree with someone, however, does trivialize it. I didn't go down to Selma to march (I was a little too young, for one thing), but I like to believe that I have a progressive view on race.
Sometimes when my dad got drunk, he would bring home some of "those people" and scandalize the neighborhood. I loved it. I had an eclectic upbringing. And I always empathized with the underdog because of what I and my parents perceived as prejudice against them for being DPs. (In fact, when dad got lubricated enough, he would occasionally refer to himself as a "white-skinned n*gger.")
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