Racist or not...YOU decide.

Imagine the following was said:



Would you think the above statement was....


(EDIT TO ADD: This is not to determine if the SPEAKER is or isn't racist, only the comments.)

(2nd EDIT TO ADD: Option #4 has NOTHING to do with the poster who bares that name...NOTHING!)

But what it clearly is is simplistic, ignorant and insensitive.

:think:

Which would make this poll a direct call out, which is totally against the rules....

post-racial world!

allowed to vote until 1920. I take it personally.

What did somebody do to deserve having that said to them? I can't really imagine.

I mean the phraseology only makes sense in those terms.

Bryant

I would really like to know what I am supposed to imagine was said to require someone to make this remark if I am to evaluate the remark.

Because in discussions regarding race, I've several times heard the argument "Well, my Irish ancestors were abused and blocked from employment and businesses, so we know exactly what it's like for blacks, but WE MANAGED TO DEAL WITH IT!" - seriously, there's one in every discussion on racism.

This response would be wholly appropriate in response to that guy.

But the descendants of slaves still pay a heavy price for that horror. As for clean hands? Bullshit.

I've seen roadsigns in the US threatening death to blacks. One in particular stood through the sixties. How do you get over that?

I get that way myself at times. And if you have European ancestors they were most likely serfs at some point. They were tied to the land and consequently, the land owner. Slavery was an economic fact of life over much of the world at one time or another. The American proponents didn't invent slavery, they just clung to it in an incredibly self involved, narcissistic way, far beyond any possible economic "use by" date. They were in major denial and quite dysfunctional. And some of them may still be with us and need to grow the *#@! up. The modern world was beginning to emerge over the horizon. It was the wrong culture, the wrong era, it was a poor fit from the beginning.

After Descartes there was definitely no turning back. Although the religious fundamentalists are still trying to do just that.

That's just my humble view.

I'm going to add that slavery and it's lingering effects have dragged us down and hold us back as a people.

Probably.

In sociology racism could also be called a pathology...

And what better way to build hate groups and armies then to infect the ignorant population with racism?

The real tragedy is how ignorant people end up being the followers of those who knowingly and covertly spread the racist disease as means to gain power.

Definitely stupid, offensive, and factually incorrect - and I've got a pretty good guess what 'side' this person would have been on back when people really did have to make choices on slavery...

Seems this is a self-fulfilling poll. If you continue to beat people over the head with things, they are going to start beating back. At some point it ceases to matter who is right, who is wrong, who is racist, who is not... I'm ready to say "just get the hell over it" to polls that stir the shit like this.