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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:49 PM
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Did Arron Brown just say "racism not a factor in NO"?###?
Edited on Tue Sep-13-05 09:50 PM by goclark

Please calm me down.

I just saw the end of Aaron "the wimp" Brown's segment with this bigot.

Aaron said something like," I don't think it was about racism but about class."


The identified bigot said something about the media allowing people to come on and express their views about it being about race and that is wrong.

Please tell me my ears are not working tonight!
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jim3775 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:52 PM
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1. This is a bullshit way for people do justify
a fantasy, the fantasy that america has moved beyond racial discriminaton.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:59 PM
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5. Agreed, the GOP dislike the poor and minorities equally n/t
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:55 PM
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2. I'm so glad he left Seattle,,, but D.C., I thought he would fail as a
"reporter".
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:55 PM
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3. I think it's the victims who get to make that call
Not some white guy in a TV studio.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:59 PM
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4. That was a**hole was Brent Bozell and
I wish they would stick to "socio-economic" when that term is every bit as appropriate as "racial".
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 10:16 PM
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6. That's the name Bozoo Bozell


He reminded me of the Bull Connor type KKK bigot.

And Aaron Brown is, IMO, a bigot in a suit.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 10:24 PM
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7. It is about the elites that sociopaths covet as being the only entities
Edited on Tue Sep-13-05 10:29 PM by applegrove
worthy of their greatness. Rove fell in love with Bush - for all his class.

The fact that you were black & poor in LA just meant that it would be an easy way to commute with the "like thinking base" if lawlessness were allowed to cycle. And private corporations & christian groups could then step in and get the $$$.

I've said all along - but if you look at the old and vulnerable & the kids (babies) and see only people who decided not to evacuate and got their just deserts.. and opportunity to push your personal agenda (small government ahead).. your problem is not race. It is humanity.

And the only way the sociopaths or the sociopathic corporations know how to relate to humans is by the superficial - in this case power that some classes have and some do not. Rich can give a ner-do-well instant "karma" because they are seemingly so coveted and admired. The corporations equate themselves with the rich because those happen to be the humans who own the corporations or run them.

So race is a part of it. But of no consequence to the power that be really - as Babs so clearly demonstrated. "Those people who have nothing now see that "it worked out for them"". Well they lost everything a human could loose like family, community, church, jobs, homes, connectedness, security, integrity, mementos, furniture, toys, pets, etc... But Babs just sees that they might have more stuff.

Race was just a tool - perhaps by taking a few seconds to respond - a chance to commune with the base of voters and shore up support. Those people were objects. It is institutional like slavery. The class of responders who arrived or were there and had to stand down were also severely damaged in the way only a human could understand.

But it was payoff time for the elites. Like the Blackwater Navy Seals - so special they no longer fight with the mass of the troops and get $350 a day. Like Haliburton. Like Rove shoring up gun buyers.

And projecting the hate on the looters. That wasn't race - that was projecting. The biggest looters were on the other end of the line of Dick Cheney's phone.



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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 11:09 PM
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8. Sad. Howard Dean said the same thing on Alan Colmes' show tonight.
Edited on Tue Sep-13-05 11:10 PM by in_cog_ni_to
He was asked point blank if he thought Bush is a racist and that's why his response to Katrina was so bad. He said NO. :grr: The kool-aide has been passed around, apparently. An agreement has been reached between the politicians. If the idiot accepted blame, the Dems would come out and say it wasn't about race. I call bullshit when I hear it and I heard it tonight. I'm sick to death of the wimpy ass Democrats. They stand up for NOTHING. It's ridiculous. They are going to give that bastard ANOTHER FREE PASS on this. Gutless assholes.
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