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Old 11-12-2013, 03:51 PM
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So, color does matter after all?
Not so much the color as the deception, I think.
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Old 11-12-2013, 03:57 PM
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So, color does matter after all?
To some folks, apparently it does. Look at all the people who hated the president before they had any excuses for it.

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Old 11-12-2013, 04:39 PM
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Why does racism only apply to white people? It doesn't bother anyone that the only reason he got the vote was because black voters thought he was black? If a white voter votes for a white guy over a black guy only because he is white he is labeled a racist, but the inverse is not true?

Don't get me wrong what he did was ridiculously deceptive and wrong but makes me scratch my head.
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Old 11-12-2013, 04:58 PM
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Why does racism only apply to white people? It doesn't bother anyone that the only reason he got the vote was because black voters thought he was black? If a white voter votes for a white guy over a black guy only because he is white he is labeled a racist, but the inverse is not true?

Don't get me wrong what he did was ridiculously deceptive and wrong but makes me scratch my head.
The winner presented the choice as between two African-American candidates.

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Old 11-12-2013, 05:50 PM
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Why does racism only apply to white people? It doesn't bother anyone that the only reason he got the vote was because black voters thought he was black? If a white voter votes for a white guy over a black guy only because he is white he is labeled a racist, but the inverse is not true?

Don't get me wrong what he did was ridiculously deceptive and wrong but makes me scratch my head.
Everyone in the USA is racist. Some get past it, some don't, and in reacting defensively on the subject, in effect defend it.

Black people remain much more oppressed by racism than white people, and the majority of oppressors are white people. So kicking black people around for their racism is generally hypocritical and inappropriate.
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Old 11-12-2013, 06:57 PM
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Everyone in the USA is racist. Some get past it, some don't, and in reacting defensively on the subject, in effect defend it.

Black people remain much more oppressed by racism than white people, and the majority of oppressors are white people. So kicking black people around for their racism is generally hypocritical and inappropriate.
So racism is worse when white folks do it?
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Old 11-12-2013, 07:07 PM
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So racism is worse when white folks do it?
Then one also needs to ask, who invented racism?
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Old 11-12-2013, 08:02 PM
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So racism is worse when white folks do it?
In it's harmful effects, often so.

It's like this. Say a cop, a prosecutor, and a judge have negative ideas about black guys, and the cop arrests a block guy who has negative ideas about white folks. Who is likely to suffer more in that situation?
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Old 11-12-2013, 08:04 PM
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Then one also needs to ask, who invented racism?
Maybe it was Abraham of Ur? Or maybe someone else? Why does one need to ask?
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Old 11-12-2013, 08:27 PM
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So racism is worse when white folks do it?
Why are you asking such a simplistic question?
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