Obamas on Race: We've Been Treated Like the Help
 

I'm glad to see them speaking up on this.

I can only image the howling from the right about this.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama...ry?id=27636612


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I was wondering when he was going to get honest about the whole thing.

I have had the same thing happen to me as well as being asked to help get something off a shelf.

Of course, if you are black it is racism

This is what Mr. Obama said.

“There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys," he said, according to excerpts of the interview released today.

Not someone asking for casual help which happens for all of us. I remember helping an older lady with her bags at O'hare airport a few years back and she insisted on tipping me even after I said, "I am well off and don't need your money, give it to charity".

WTF do you know about racism that you don't hear from Sean Hannity?:rolleyes:

And WTF do you know that he doesn't?

Anyone who's read his posts knows. Unless they prefer not to....

In this thread, ZJ offers a BS apples-to-oranges false equivalency. Why? To try to say that Obama is wrongfully complaining of racial stereotyping. Why.....?

I spend as much time with blacks as I do whites. They live all around me.

There is definitely racial profiling.

But, somebody thinking you might be a valet , or somebody asking a tall lady to help them get something.

Give me a break.

They are about as far as you can get from real profiling.

You and your buddy Zero are getting real cozy I see.

That's nice because you two have so much in common these days.

Just so long as I have nothing in common with you I am way ahead of the game.

I'm going to go way out on a limb and suggest that an actual black person knows a helluva lot more about what kind of discriminatory treatment blacks get than a white guy does.

Although I will say that there seems to be an overabundance of white male conservatives that seem to think they are experts on being black.

I'm proud as Hell not to have anything in common with you.

In fact I would appreciate it if you would advertise that fact every chance you get.

Actually, when you get away from the black guys that make a living off of race the most amusing bunch talking about racism are the white liberal apologist who drive by a black neighborhood now and then.

When you go to your wine tasting whoever is the most indignant about racism wins.

OK. Tom Joad has nothing and never will. And, I am fairly wealthy.

How's that.

Don'tcha love it when these pearl clutchin' drama queens from up in the Carolinas fall back onto their fainting couches in a swoon? :rolleyes:

Another interesting post Bob. I think you have about 20,000 of them.

I live quite comfortably and haven't worked a day since October of 2007 and never intend to again for as long as I live.

How do you like them apples?

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This fascination with money here in America is possibly why the TV show Downton Abbey is so popular. It was a period in England when 1% had all the money and treated the other 99% like dirt. Personally I really stopped watching it long ago despite the fact that the acting is very good.

Howevr since there is no more Chat in Political Chat I guess it is time to pursue more adult pastimes.

Black people live all around all sorts of moronic white people who either don't understand fuck-all about it or simply don't give a shit. You qualify for both.

It's pretty unique, ain't it. Reckon what finn's need to defend the ignorant little putz from the evil Ike is all about, eh? Maybe they're secretly related.

It's a case of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend,' seems to me. Finn has a real case for about two people here, and they're both in this thread.

I resemble that remark.:D

You are a typical liberal. You know about as much about black people as you are told.
I just spent all morning goofing off with a couple of black guys.
Yeah, I know nothing about it.

Anyone with half-assed social skills and not too disordered a personality can get along with their workmates. Doesn't mean a thing.

And you're still being anecdotal, of course.... :)

Zero, why don't you stop by St. Louis, so I can set you up with a few black friends up here. Then you can regale us with your stories of hanging out with some ghetto blacks.

Don't work with them and never have. Do some work for them from time to time. Mostly fixing back pack blowers, chainsaws, weedeaters that they use for work. Never charge anything for doing it.


And, anecdotal pretty much covers anything that does not fit your preconceptions of the way things are. Actually they are not always the way you think they are. Not even close.

Actually , that is the point I am trying to make. It is not like that here.

The ghetto blacks are a product of what you got when blacks left the South thinking that somehow the wonderful Yankees were going to give them fortune. And, the liberals "helped" them for a few generations.

You made them, you can keep them.

Whatever.

That is not the meaning of anecdotal as I used it.....

Not always, true enough. Will you admit the last sentence applies to you, too?

I'll readily admit an aversion to ideological blowhards, regardless of political stripe. I'm as repulsed by Ed Schultz as I am Rush Limbaugh.

I'll admit an aversion to pompous asses, regardless of claims of political conversion.

If he emerges from that little get together surviving the ass-whipping of his life.

No Zero, you don't get it. I work with four of these ghetto blacks every day, all day long. They have no aversion to work, and they close to live cheap so they can afford other things. They don't like white folks who pimp them because of where they live.

I see we're comparing race credentials this evening.

So, tell me; Who here, other than myself, has bopped a black chick or two......or three.......or maybe have a few mulatto kids runnin' around out there?

Yeah, I know that's getting pretty personal. But I figured while we're at it, what the hell, why not go there?

Dave

Why not go there?
Because it is not flattering on you, on several levels.

That you see your conquest of women of color as a distinct accomplishment is possibly a bit racist in itself.
If you "maybe" have kids out in the world, you "maybe" are costing those of us who lived our lives more responsibly.

I have found beauty -- and ugly -- in many races.

No issues, there.

Conquest? How old are you man? :confused:

Ugly and beauty isn't the issue. Institutional racism is the issue.