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Originally Posted by Showroom Shine
Wait ,what about the S & L's that went under years ago. Mr McCain had his hands in there. It's fact. You have to read more than your city paper. dave 40co
I'm going to tell it like it is. There are some whites that will never vote for a Black man to do nothing. They will cheer for their favorite team,football, basketball, baseball, golf whatever. But when it comes down to them sitting at the same table with a Black Man and eating. Taboo! Not Way Hosea!
Unless you have walked in a Black Mans shoes, suffered ill treatment. Been refused food,or service ,or a job, or housing. Or gone to a hospital and been denied treatment. Sent to the back door. Stood up on the bus. Threatened ,beat hanged ,imprisoned because of your skin color. You do not have a Clue what it is to be Black in America. So for me ,I'm proud that someone that resembles me has a chance. I'm also proud for Sarah Palin , because she is a woman who has gone further than any other woman to run for VP. Does she have what it takes ? I don't think so. But yet she is there,that with in it self is an acomplishment for Woman!This is truely a FREE country. We can worship, live, work,be a bum, live on the streets, choose your sexual orientation and still be excepted. Dumb smart,whatever. But Be Black, and you are cursed by OUR society for ever. It does not matter how much money you have,where you live, what you drive. I'm still a Black Man,and that's putting it mildly. In the end WE will all stand before GOD, and Our race will not come into question!
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This goes two ways and I am so sick of hearing ONE side of the story...
I am a white dude who grew up in the South Side of Chicago... I was beaten up, bullied, and had a knife to my throat by the time I was 13...
ALL by black people. Racism certainly goes two ways in this country, period. I have many friends (more black friend then white friends) but I was absolutely singled out for being white/italian/whatever...
My definition of racism is when any race is treated differently then another race.
BET, by definition (and I don't care about personalized agenda or excuses) is racism
Getting into college with lower standards BECAUSE of skin color (and not economic standing) is racism.
Affirmative Action is racism.
Also, I (a white male) used to get pulled over in black neighborhoods (Chicago is still sadly very segragated) all the time. No different then a black person in a white neighborhood. They thought I was buying drugs...
I had a bar tender at a local spot in Harvey Il tell me he wasn't going to serve my cracker-*** right to my face. My friends who I grew up with threw a fit and had my back.
So again it goes both ways, and the truth is that no black man will no what is like to a be a white person in a country that seems to hate the majority and make special rules for the minority. It goes both ways.
What I think is absolutely racist is that something like 93% (or whatever that NBC poll was) of black people registered to vote where for Obama. Why is that racist? Because if 93% of white people voted for McCain there it would be infaliable. Double standards=racism.
The fact that Obama (with no leadership skills and very shady past with ACORN/the Rev) can get this far and is leading in the polls it goes a long way towards showing how far the average American prioritizes race. They don't... (I'm not talking about small hick towns in the south, the same as I am not talkinga about the southside of Chitown).
If Obama doesn't win, it isn't because of racism...