The New Racism: First you deny racism exists

[Ghost of a Rider]

No to all three. But there is a woman named Marie who delivers my propane by boat.

Fair enough... Made a cyber connection with a fellow about 15 years ago from down on the Bayou... Hell of a nice fellar... As for Marie, can she cook?

She not only cooks, she cooks with gas.

I'm actually not from this area, I'm from upstate New York. How we wound up here is a long story.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I'm actually not from this area, I'm from upstate New York. How we wound up here is a long story.

I understand... Most long stories involve a woman...

 

[IM2]

Monnica T Williams Ph.D.
Culturally Speaking

At its face value, colorblindness seems like a good thing — really taking MLK seriously on his call to judge people on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. It focuses on commonalities between people, such as their shared humanity.

[...]

Monnica T. Williams, Like Martin Luther King, is a deceitful opportunist. King was a plagiarist, a skilled bullshit artist, and a slick politician who rose to prominence on a platform of deceptive agitation packaged in the tiresome mantra of "skin color."

It has always amazed me how so many glib race pimps and shifty politicians have managed over the years to convince their deluded following that the profoundly complicated racial conflict which effectively divides America is based on something as simplistic as a difference in pigmentation.

If it were only so.

[Black Africans imported as slaves] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever a profit could be made by it. This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race. It was regarded as an axiom in morals as well as in politics, which no one thought of disputing, or supposed to be open to dispute; and men in every grade and position in society daily and habitually acted upon it in their private pursuits, as well as in matters of public concern, without doubting for a moment the correctness of this opinion.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

 

[MikeK]

[Black Africans imported as slaves] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever a profit could be made by it. This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race. It was regarded as an axiom in morals as well as in politics, which no one thought of disputing, or supposed to be open to dispute; and men in every grade and position in society daily and habitually acted upon it in their private pursuits, as well as in matters of public concern, without doubting for a moment the correctness of this opinion.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

At the time African slaves were brought to America the practice of slavery was relatively common and regarded as acceptable in most parts of the world -- especially on the continent of Africa where the practice continues to this day.

But it was here in America where the concept of abolition originated and was propagated by Whites, at the cost of their very lives for many -- a fact that virtually all of these historically prominent Negro whiners conveniently ignore.

It was here in America that the Negro was first regarded as fully human. And it is here that the standard of living of the Negro is higher than that of any other place in the world -- especially in his homeland of Africa.