There is definitely an underlying racist tone to this thread. It may just be there to bring the issue of race out to the forefront and discuss it without trying to incite any racial tension on this already tense board. The highlighted lines of text in you response seems to imply that you are trying to get a discussion started on this very thing, that you claim to detest.
So if it's there to bring it to the forefront for discussion, being the volatile topic it is, whether it incites racial tensions or not, you seem to want to hang me by singling me out for "taking the bait" ? Don't you think that by posting volatile threads, there is a distinct possibility that a witch hunt might result ? Posts taken out of context ? Even posts for the purpose of labeling ? If the purpose is to have a witch hunt and there are threads created for the sole purpose of "entrapment", would that not be construed as lurking, inciting racial tensions and so on ? It certainly doesn't make me the instigator ? What is the motive of the thread, even the motivations of the express or implied accusations of your posts ? If one doesn't want to hear what they don't want to hear, why would it be brought up for discussion ? Why would an LPSG member post, revisit & read, then repost, pursuing the entrapment or witch hunt ? This isn't about me, remember, it's about:
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Will Republicans vote black ?" And more specifically,
"Will Republicans let democrats have a black President ?".
Please stay on topic in that regard. The first question seems plausible to ask, but let's face it, implying the Republicans letting democrats have a black President, or anything else for that matter, is pretty ludicrous to ask ? Almost as ludicrous as asking if the Republicans would allow democrats a white female President ? I wasn't aware that in any point of the history of the American election process that the Republicans let anyone have the candidates of their choice for the opposing party ? Democrats, devoid of election tampering pretty much select their candidate for Presidency in their own selection process, whether it's by popular demand or not, there's a delegate award process that pretty much is similar to the electoral college, so popular vote can be circumvented even in determining a Democratic nominee for President. Now come November 2008, I'm certain the American people will vote their preference for the Presidency, but again, how is that construed as Republicans letting Democrats being allowed to have a black President ? Each of us gets a single vote, and each state will award electoral votes based upon popular vote and it's all or nothing. It's how Bush won in 2000, Gore won the popular vote, but the states he needed all the electoral votes from, to sum to a Presidential election win, he didn't get. BTW, that wasn't my fault either.
To be honest, I doubt anything I've posted in this thread would incite riots like a Rodney King incident, but if you prefer, you can continue to imply that I am this one eyed racist monster (based upon the doubt in your mind), if that's your prerogative, that is, if you so choose to continue to follow down that line of posting ? I personally don't empower it ! Others might believe you based upon how you go about it, but again, what's your or their agenda, is it a lame attempt to ban. Or maybe I'm reading way too much into this and it's all just one big mis-understanding ?