No NOT bullshit. Remember a guy named Trent Lott? All he did was say he liked a guy on his birthday. And he got ousted from his majority leadership because it was racist since the guy ran on a pro-segregationist platform 60 years ago.
:tool:.............This is not news and it's as obvious as the schnozz on Celine Dion what the OP is attempting to do .
If you wish to look for RACISM, both overtly and subversive you have no further to look than the teabaggers , birthers and fanatical right-wing lunatics ! Many don't even do a damn good job of hiding their bigotry . I know ALL ABOUT BIGOTRY first hand coming from a uber-conservative , old money family with deep roots in slavery. I am in no way bigoted myself but a great majority of my family is, much to my chagrin. The older relatives I can sorta understand since they had blk servants and all but with my cousins it really disturbs me.
I cannot emphasize ENOUGH how very much I loathe RACISM and will only tolerate it within my family.
If this is ALL you have , you have very weak ass amunition .
HH
. . . I am in no way bigoted myself but a great majority of my family is, much to my chagrin. The older relatives I can sorta understand since they had blk servants and all but with my cousins it really disturbs me.
I cannot emphasize ENOUGH how very much I loathe RACISM and will only tolerate it within my family. . . HH
. . . More importantly though is where the fuck are your balls? You tolerate racism within your family? I have nothing to do with family members who display racism or bigotry at any point in time, then again I'm not a pompous asswipe that you are. You are not even half a man if you can't stand for your beliefs, and clearly if you allow family to behave in this manner, then you don't stand for your supposed beliefs. They are your cousins, not siblings and not your parents~~they may show at family functions but you do not need to associate with them and you sure as fucking hell don't need to tolerate their racism. If you tolerate racism anywhere at any time then you are no better than they, in fact you are worse, since you claim to know better.
You tolerate it in your own family? Why?
No NOT bullshit. Remember a guy named Trent Lott? All he did was say he liked a guy on his birthday. And he got ousted from his majority leadership because it was racist since the guy ran on a pro-segregationist platform 60 years ago.
Friday, December 13, 2002
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Thursday sharply rebuked incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for comments that some have called racist, saying any suggestion that segregation was acceptable is "offensive and it is wrong."...
What would be really nice is if both Dems and Republicans stopped playing "gotcha" everytime someone makes a mistake or says something they regret, and started working together to try and solve the problems this country faces, instead of using race to divide us even more. . . . QUOTE]
Yes, that would be nice. But I have to ask, what little fantasy world are you living in? :wink:
The controversy lay not with Trent Lott liking Thurmond, but that Lott's Dec. 5, 2002 comments manifested his longing for the U.S.A. to still be segregated. He made similar comments in 1980 BTW, and this time around he was chastised by non other that George W.Bush. He stepped down of his own volition.
CNN.com - Bush calls Lott comments 'offensive' - Dec. 13, 2002
The fantasy world of "hope and change"
when are you Libs going to wake up ? Just have a look at Cities controlled by the Dems over the past 30 years and you will see your future if you continue to vote for these scumbags!!!
Consitution? Free Speech? Have you been listening to the Obama shit these days? Bf2K
This is not a defense of Trent Lott or anything he said...it is a point of clarification:
Trent Lott did not make comments that manifested his longing for the U.S.A. to still be segregated.
The article you linked did not even assert that.
GWB should have chastised him. Lott was rightly ousted because of the uproar over his comments.
. . . Lets review shall we? The first response to the shocking comments made by Reid were:
"It's the truth! Why condemn the man for making a true statement? Can't we have a real dialogue about race?"
Yes, sadly it IS the truth. It was a comment on the attitudes of the electorate, not his personal view. Why can you not comprehend this?
. . .The American electorate had already fallen in love with Gen. Collin Powell and wanted him to run for President . . .
Who is 'articulate' and very much 'assimilated', and to borrow another phrase, 'a light-skinned Negro'. Kind of undermines your basic premise, don't it?