How come if you mention a person is black it can be construed as racist. But I still see the loonies on Fakebook and other libtard sites talking about our President as being orange in a derogatory way. Is one color good and one bad? Is one socially acceptable and the other not? What a bunch of hypocritical assholes.

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...hypocritical assholes.

Not much to say, but that.

Orange lives don’t matter. Capishe?

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Originally posted by Some Shot:

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...hypocritical assholes.

Not much to say, but that.

I don't think saying a person is Black is necessarily considered racist. It has to do with how it's used. If For example if you say "He's Black so he must have done the crime" That's racist. If you say "Chris Rock is Black and he won a BET award" that's not racist.

At least that's the way I take it. But of course I'm a white boy and can't even play that funky music so what do I know.

Why is the "N" word racist, but "cracker" is not?

Too often these days racism is a one way street, a double standard, the primary purpose of which is to demean America and justify preferential treatment.

First 'colored' is racist, now 'black'...

It's not about what is said but who says it.

No matter what a Republican says, it's racist.

No matter what a Democrat says, it's not racist.

The ones that really fire me up are the "not my President" crybabies. Never once in the eight years that Barry was the President did I ever make that statement. I may have said that I did not like him, did not agree with him, he was not the one I voted for, etc. But I did give him respect as the elected President.

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Originally posted by shovelhead:
The ones that really fire me up are the "not my President" crybabies. Never once in the eight years that Barry was the President did I ever make that statement. I may have said that I did not like him, did not agree with him, he was not the one I voted for, etc. But I did give him respect as the elected President.

Well, we may have respected the office but not the person. Honestly, I had no respect for him as person. He's self indulgent, impetuous, deceitful, corrupt, un-American and detrimental to God, Country, Family.

So, I respected the office but I certainly had no respect for him. But he was our president.

I'm a nine generation Florida cracker, complete with lots of sun cancer from being a blue collar roofer what does that make me?

When I worked as a teacher recently in a Flint, Michigan school for “at risk” students, black students addressed other black students as N***r. Several of the young ladies would even hug me and address me “my N^****r. I guess words mean to inflect injury must be evaluated in context.

When my parents came to the USA after WW2, the neighbors called us “refugees” to insult us. Students at my elementary school called me a WOP and half-n****r even though I was neither.

Being called My N***r by my students actually was
Ok with me because I had been accepted as one of them, as opposed to the white guy trying to teach them white things.

The world of racial tensions and relations is played on an unlevel field by players of varied skills and with varied intended results. If the participants are completely in harmony with each other, their objectives may be commendable. However either side can easily twist the intent and outcome with just a little manipulation. The race baiters seem to be experts at laying traps.

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I'm a nine generation Florida cracker, complete with lots of sun cancer from being a blue collar roofer what does that make me?

Deplorable?

Welcome to the club.

^^^^this^^^^

All my roots go back to Kentucky. In the area I grew up, Kentuckians were referred to as "briars".
There is even a Patrick Swayze / Liam Neeson movie that refers to this. Bad movie, but an actual briar movie.
Being called a briar did not bother me a bit. I guess it would be the same situation for blacks to use the N word.

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First 'colored' is racist, now 'black'...

That's pretty much how I feel.

I'm to the point of starting out conversations with them by asking, "What do you people like to be called these days?", but that probably wouldn't go over well either.

I'll just stick with black.

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I'm a nine generation Florida cracker, complete with lots of sun cancer from being a blue collar roofer what does that make me?

American

I've got news for you EVERYONE is a racist.
Birds of a feather and all that.

It is true that everyone is a racist. But it is not always a prelude to hatred. When I lived in Europe it was common to say “go down to the Arabs and get some bread and cheese; go to the Italian and get olives; go to the Black and get some vegetables, go to the black baker”. Is it derogatory to be a black baker? No, it just distinguished him from the white baker. No one took this personally. It was easier to say the black, rather than the Ethiopian. Not racist, just easier to identify. No problems with anyone, no hard feelings. Life was easier. 20 years later; who knows if PC has reared its ugly head.

Somebody got mad at me in June at a restaurant when a fellow hockey fan and I were discussing the playoffs and, in particular, how well Nashville's P.K. Subban was playing.

We started talking about the strides Black players have made since Mike Marson, Bill Riley, and Tony McKegney all got into the NHL in the late '70s (up until that time, Willie O'Ree of the Bruins had been the only one in NHL history).

A male in an adjoining booth turned around and almost yelled, "It's 'African-American,' not 'Black.'"

I stared right at him and said very quietly, "Marson, Riley, and McKegney are all Canadian-born. So is P.K. Subban. If you're going to play the race card, have your facts straight."

I still can't believe I said that to him, but being basically called a racist infuriated me and I wasn't going to take it.