re: #215 Spare O’Lake

Thank you for being honest enough to admit that, and I understand.
But tell me, are there ANY personal attacks on Pres. Obama which you do NOT interpret as being racist?

Yeah, most of the ones that I hear on this site. That’s why I come here. There is a difference to attacking policy and attacking a person. Heck, you can attack him personally and as long as it makes sense ride it out. Was his seal that he created during the campaign a sure sign of hubris Hell to the Yeah.

I’m not saying that it is racially motivated in all all cases, heck in most cases I don’t think it is, In the specific case of George Will I don’t think HE was racially motivated but I do think in SOME of the cases around the web and on the television, yes It is.

The question I ask myself when I’m thinking about criticism and this happens whether black or white or male and female. If there was a switch what would I think or what do I think they would say.

Would Beck be saying health care was “reparations” if Hillary were pushing the same policy? No

Do I think that Saxby Chambilss would have said that John Edwards needs to address Congress with some Humility? He might have, but I doubt it (I could be wrong).

Do I think Limbaugh would say we need to have segregated busing to protect the children if the same violence happened and John McCain were the president? Nope

Have I heard ANY PRESIDENT before this ones have his citizenship questioned? No

Do I think we should have a great debate about the need for fiscal responsibility vs the moral oblicagation of health care? YES

I agree with the needs of the bailouts but I ask, beg, you to make arguments and protest about why we shouldn’t have done it.

I do think that often times we conflate racial insensitivity with racism. There are times when people have no intent of being racist, but they don’t know the history behind a word or a phrase. There are parts of the country where some people still refer to an adult African American man as a “boy” not because they meant it as a racial slight but because that’s just what they’re referred to. They feel its akin to calling a mule an ass its not derogatory, its just the term for it.