All I can say, is, amazing just amazing.
No, @GOP, Unfortunately Rosa Parks Didn't End Racism - The Wire
No, @GOP, Unfortunately Rosa Parks Didn't End Racism - The Wire
GOP thinks racism ended.
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No it really didn't. I don't think they knew how to respond. Not all, but a large number of African Americans still hate whites. So I would say racism still exists. Just look at politics. The "race card" is played on a regular basis when something doesn't go the democrats way.
WanderngFool
Active Expediter
Racism still exists due to African Americans hating whites? That is one of the most amazing statements I've ever read. I hope white America can forgive the blacks for slavery and Jim Crow.
It is only amazing if you are living in the past.
NO one alive today was a slave. Africa's own were just as responsible for slavery as the whites who were involved. Racism is as bad among blacks in this country today as it is with whites. It is just as wrong no matter who participates in it.
As to slavery, there has been slaves and slave trade as long as man has existed. It continues today. Go back far enough in anyone's heritage and it would be likely there was a slave in the line. Slavery is no longer an excuse.
Even from a grammar standpoint, the Tweet didn't imply that racism is over. It's used "ending" which is an indefinite ongoing process (the bring to, or coming to a close, but not there yet). If it had said "her role that ended racism" it would imply that racism is already over.
WanderngFool
Active Expediter
So... Folks that spend quite a bit of their time talking up personal responsibility seem to think that whatever we did yesterday we don't have to be responsible for today. Kind of like a statute of limitations.
Ok, Slavery was a while ago but blacks didn't even get the 40 acres and a mule they were promised. It hasn't been a level playing field since then by any stretch of the imagination.
And then you have the Jim Crow era. We shouldn't take responsibility for how "we" acted? We white people were nasty and mean.
Ok, Slavery was a while ago but blacks didn't even get the 40 acres and a mule they were promised. It hasn't been a level playing field since then by any stretch of the imagination.
And then you have the Jim Crow era. We shouldn't take responsibility for how "we" acted? We white people were nasty and mean.
Bingo!
Some have another agenda they are pushing so that is how you get this goofy stuff.
WE? I was not here, and I had NO relatives of mine here. How am I responsible in any way/ Are you? IF so YOU repent, I only repent for my sins. What about the black people that sold other blacks to the whites? I guess we have to hold them responsible too, but I don't see the current "civil rights leaders" ever bringing that up.
Sure it has. If not, you wouldn't have Obama. As for "statute of limitations"? Not seeing it. If a white is robbed by a African American, should all blacks pay for the actions of one?
Yep....sounds pretty silly.
There is racism from all angles
, white on black, black on white, light skinned black on dark skin black, Mexican on those that came from south of them. The list goes on forever. To imagine it doesn't exist I guess is a form of white guilt.
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That's the point. The tweeter thanked Rosa Parks for her role in ending racism. Racism is alive and well.
KickStarter6
Veteran Expediter
I realize the statement I'm about to make is by no means a popular or even a correct one but I do believe that a small amount of maybe prejudice is a good thing. It keeps people honest and it keeps people from being able to lie to them self about the possibility they're not as open minded as they thought. I'm not talking about full on racism or bigotry, just how one feels out of place when surround by others that are different. For example me going to a Pentecostal church with my very religious grandmother makes me feel uncomfortable not because I'm atheist or not very religious but because it is something out of my comfort zone. Something I'm not use too. Same goes if your walking down a dark alley and see a big rough looking biker or gangsta type, someone who isn't use to those types are going to be nervous. Those things help people find their cliques/group/gang/posey whatever.
Racism is alive and well although not nearly as unidirectionally as the left would like one to believe. The Italian-Americans are proud of being from Italy and when they say Italian-American they refer to their nationality. Texans are proud of being from Texas and when they call themselves Texans they are referring to their heritage. Irish-Americans are referring to their nationality. Greek-Americans are referring to their nationality. African-Americans have been used by the left for so long that they are primarily referring to their race, not their heritage.
Yeah, "we" as in many of our dead ancestors treated blacks really badly. And blacks still are largely at a disadvantage on a very unlevel playing field. But "we" weren't one hundred percent all of us nasty and mean, so how do you get to decide who is actually responsible? And not all blacks were slaves or treated nasty and mean, so how do you decide who gets the benefit of the racist guilt trip imposed? Then you have the fact that a lot of white people were treated nasty and mean, and are still disadvantaged on en unlevel playing field.
The bottom line is life isn't fair, it never has been and it never will be. What happened happened and you can't undo it no matter what. You cannot make up for it, either. That was then, this is now, and all you can do is make the best of the situation you are in.
Incidentally, if you ever get a load out west, make the effort to drive through some of the Indian Reservations out there, like the Crow Indian Agency east of Billings, Montana and drive along US 212 from there to Belle Fourche. Or go up to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern Montana. Go visit the Wind River Indian Reservation west of Casper, Wyoming. Go visit the San Carlos, Hopi and Navajo Indian Reservations in Arizona. Those places make the inner cities of Detroit and the squalor outside of Montgomery and the Mississippi Delta look like Beverly Hills. Driving through some of those Reservations should make you embarrassed to be an American. As bad as it was and is for blacks, they don't have it anywhere near as bad as its made out to be. Not even close.
letzrockexpress
Veteran Expediter
Is what I think: Obama was elected to 'prove' that racism has been largely overcome. It hasn't, and even if Obama were a great President, it wouldn't make any difference to the racists.
Like Turtle says, we really can't make up for the past, [and the Indian reservations prove how little we care about it, really], we can only go forward. And FWIW: affirmative action and minority quotas are not helping.
The fact that Obama was elected to "prove" racism has been overcome is in it self racist. Had Obama been white, Hilary Clinton would have been the Democratic Party's nominee.