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Racism still exists today because of people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson who have taught African-American’s to believe they are entitled to something or owed something. Many liberal Democrats have fallen prey to this teaching as well and developed the guilty conscious. A good example of the effects of this thinking is seen at a recent Dallas County meeting about speeding tickets. Note: Emphasis added.
A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.
County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.
Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.
This is where it gets good.
Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”
Is he serious? A white hole? Wow. That’s intelligent. Does any else see the race baiting going on here? Wait there’s more.
That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.
A Judge? Are you serious? Racially insensitive analogy? He thinks a scientific entity that has existed since the beginning of time is racist?! What a moron. Read on.
Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster’s, is perhaps “the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape.”
At least someone paid attention in Science class. Or maybe this means that science is racist?
Other County officials who were present interceded and got the meeting back on track.
This my friends is why racism is still alive. It’s not white oppression. It’s the the constant walking on egg shells and not wanting offend anyone. It’s the mentality that something is owed to another group of people. And if we’re not careful, soon, we’ll be doing the same thing for Muslim’s.
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July 9th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
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July 9th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
You’re entirely right.
In order to prevent racism, we must be as racist as possible.
Otherwise we might let up on the Arabs.
By the way, the guy in the story is about as smart as shit. It’s just that your point is too. Racism is still produced because Whites and Blacks (more whites really) choose to separate themselves due to stereotypes passed down from the pre-antebellum period and even the first years of European contact with Africans, making other races literally the “other”, a foreign, strange person who we don’t know how to deal with. The way the other can be pictured can only be as extremes i.e. Uncle Tom or The Black Menace, or, on the other side, The Slave Driver or the Heroic Embodiments of the Ideals of the outdated theory of White Man’s Burden. Integration has never been instituted in truth. Many Communities are still overwhelmingly white or black, and although that trend is changing, The amount of Clique that is introduced into schools or social situations may make any sort of reconciliation impossible. So, to recap, Racism is caused by separation and caricturization of the other, not by a few remarks from an idiot or two.
July 10th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Racism still exists because you can’t force completely different cultures to integrate and just “get along”. That’s why you see neighborhoods still consist of mainly one race only. You have the black side of town, the white side of town, the latino side of town, and so on. It’s not because those people are racist, it’s called similar interests and similar cultures.
Why can’t you and other people accept the fact that people are going to congregate and associate with other groups that have similar interests. As a conservative, you won’t often see me at Democratic rallies or associating myself with other liberal minded people. I choose to associate most of the time with like minded people. Does this mean I live in a bubble and ONLY associate with people just like me? No.
Speaking of stereotypes, when does a stereotype become mostly true? For example, there are certain stereotypes about white people. A lot of those are true. For a list of some, check out Stuff White People Like. Notice how you don’t see any white people calling the ACLU saying they’re being discriminated against. There are no press conferences called. Sometimes, the stereotypes are actually true. Something to think about.