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Another random quote - Poll

What person is this?

  • A) A racist

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  • B) An idiot

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  • C) The person who will address and eliminate racism

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  • D) Both A and B

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  • Total voters
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Anonymous

Guest
Sandhusker said:
Who would make the following comment?; "......she is a typical white person."

In the context it was used- it appears to me to be someone that faces the realities of the world....
 

Mrs.Greg

Well-known member
Its like someone trying to justify something the Bible says,they take one sentence but doesn't look at the whole passage :roll: :roll: :roll:
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
Mrs.Greg said:
Its like someone trying to justify something the Bible says,they take one sentence but doesn't look at the whole passage :roll: :roll: :roll:

Then look at the whole passage, heck, look even bigger than that. The man is married to a racist woman, he's gone to a church for 20 years under a racist pastor. You don't think any of that has rubbed off? His statement reflects that. "Typical white person" is defining a group of people solely on race - the very definition of a racial comment.
 
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Anonymous

Guest
I know of few people that don't stereotype at least some types of people- be it because they are black, or latino, or wearing a turban, headscarf, or yarmulke....I think I even saw some posts on this site earlier- addressing that to someone wearing cowboy dress....

And you won't make any progress at reducing these sterotypes and prejudices by denying them or avoiding them by sticking your head into the sand about their existence....

On Thursday, Sen. Barack Obama described his grandmother's racial attitudes as those of a "typical white person."


During a morning interview with Philadephia's WIP and its host Angelo Cataldi, Obama was asked about his reference to his white grandmother in his recent speech on Reverend Wright.


Obama responded:


"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it."

During his speech on race Obama said his grandmother was "a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world," but he then qualified that description by noting she was also "a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
 

Mike

Well-known member
"a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street

Talk about stereotyping!!!!!!

"There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."

— the Reverend Jesse Jackson, as quoted in US News, 3/10/96

Obama is a fool to push this further........................
 

Faster horses

Well-known member
You are right, Mike. The radio talk shows are full of this conversation and it's pretty interesting what they have to say--and it's not good for Obama.
 
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