Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin

[Michael]

the black community

I love terms like this. I'll join you later for the white community meeting.

Even the black community refers to "the black community".

Anyway, our meeting will be held at the local farmers market.

[Michael]

The guy behind me in line this morning was discussing how different it might be if Obama was much darker complexion--would he have gotten this far? And what if he carried himself like "a brother" (his words)? I have to admit, he probably wouldn't have reached this point.

Disagrees...

haha that movie is so underrated.

[TimeForGuinness]

the black community

I love terms like this. I'll join you later for the white community meeting.

Even the black community refers to "the black community".

Anyway, our meeting will be held at the local farmers market.

I was thinking Whole Foods...but the farmers market is cool too.

I'll bring bagels from Panera.

[Cronos]

the black community

I love terms like this. I'll join you later for the white community meeting.

Even the black community refers to "the black community".

Anyway, our meeting will be held at the local farmers market.

I was thinking Whole Foods...but the farmers market is cool too.

I'll bring bagels from Panera.

If someone doesn't save me an Asiago Cheese, I shoot things.

[JL21]

The guy behind me in line this morning was discussing how different it might be if Obama was much darker complexion--would he have gotten this far? And what if he carried himself like "a brother" (his words)? I have to admit, he probably wouldn't have reached this point.

Disagrees...

I wish I had a bumper sticker that said "Don't Blame Me. I Voted Camacho."*



*Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

[TheoSqua]

So what exactly is racist?

Is it just when you dislike someone specifically because of the color of their skin? Or if you think they are inferior because of it?

Is it disliking the culture of a specific race? Does disliking black people with bad attitudes make you racist? Does thinking that the Spanish speaking population should be forced to learn English to live in this country make you racist?

What about believing in stereotypes? Does being afraid of getting mugged when you walk by a black person when you wouldn't think that when walking past a white person in the same attire make you racist?

I ask because i sometimes think the term racism is used loosely. I disagree with a lot of my examples and think there the sort of thinking that our culture needs to change. At the same time, though, I think it's hard to discuss race. It seems if you publicly take issue or want to debate anything that has to do with interactions between the cultures and ideology of people with different skin colors, if you disagree you're labeled a racist.

Being so quick to call someone a racist without knowing intent or that persons reasoning doesn't help mend the scars that racism has caused, it only makes it worse. If people are too afraid to address racial issues because they're afraid of being called out as a racist themselves then the problems will never be solved, they'll just keep being ignored and continue to cause problems within our society. Whether it's reverse racism, affirmative action, stereotyping, any of the tons of racial issues that we face. We all know what issues there are and the lines of thinking that people have. We have to be able to actually discuss them without name calling or judging people if we ever want to be able to address and solve the issues. To me, the way that the race topic took course the last few pages of this thread only make things worse and will never lead to productive discussion about the issues at hand. Can we be a little easier on the name calling and insinuations and put a little more effort on actually discussing the reasons people think the way they do?

[Freed Roger]

Riots are what happens when, say, the Phillies win the world series.

This is an election. It's not really a riot-time.

Aw shoot. I was hoping to pick up a flat screen tv.

[paskal]

The guy behind me in line this morning was discussing how different it might be if Obama was much darker complexion--would he have gotten this far? And what if he carried himself like "a brother" (his words)? I have to admit, he probably wouldn't have reached this point.

Disagrees...

Whoa, I thought for sure I was the only person to have ever seen that movie.

[Arthur Dent]

So what exactly is racist?

Is it just when you dislike someone specifically because of the color of their skin? Or if you think they are inferior because of it?

Is it disliking the culture of a specific race? Does disliking black people with bad attitudes make you racist? Does thinking that the Spanish speaking population should be forced to learn English to live in this country make you racist?

What about believing in stereotypes? Does being afraid of getting mugged when you walk by a black person when you wouldn't think that when walking past a white person in the same attire make you racist?

I'd say that it's not really a black and white thing.

[Popeye_Card]

So what exactly is racist?

Is it just when you dislike someone specifically because of the color of their skin? Or if you think they are inferior because of it?

Is it disliking the culture of a specific race? Does disliking black people with bad attitudes make you racist? Does thinking that the Spanish speaking population should be forced to learn English to live in this country make you racist?

What about believing in stereotypes? Does being afraid of getting mugged when you walk by a black person when you wouldn't think that when walking past a white person in the same attire make you racist?

I'd say that it's not really a black and white thing.

Yeah, it's more of an Obama area.