Ok, let me ask you all a serious question here.
Is there a difference in a loud mouthed big bellied, vulgar talking, tobacco chewing, slap you if you look at him wrong, "redneck", and a more easy going, well versed, clean articulate, family loving, church going, hard working, stable white man who is not considered a "redneck" yet is cast in the worst light possible with the redneck to stereotype all White's by another group who would do such a thing ????
Is there a difference in the two ???????
Is there a difference in a gangsta thug, murderer, killing his own kind without thought of, drug attic, pimp, rapist, law breaker etc, and a hard-working, Christian hearted, family loving, compassionate, Blackman ??? Is there a difference ??
Yes there is, and people have used labels to define and separate the individuals or groups based upon their character's. The good are separated from those who gather together to do evil and disrupt by labels given them.... it's a way to separate the bad guy's from those who are not in with those who do evil things, and disrupt, act up in bad ways, and/or don't care about their hygiene or health, nor do they care about anyone else in life but themselves.
Now do we agree with the labels that are given to people by people in this way or not ??? No we don't, but it does make it easier to identify the bad from the good if see identifying traits or actions that lead us to believe that maybe this person falls into this category or under a given label, yet the other person don't.
Thinking that an entire group of people or a race falls under one label due to their race or other appointed things is just simply ludicrous and stupid. A thug is a thug, and a good black man is a good black man. People know full well the difference in these things.
Remember when the blacks tried to claim that whites using the term thug, was just another way to say the N-word describing blacks as a whole ???? Well are Black's as a whole "thugs" ????? No they aren't, and they know that, but their suspicions are always looking for that so called code talk. LOL
Only Black's that fall into the thug category or label are exactly what the word refers to them as, and nothing else. Hey if the shoe fits then wear it right ?
The same with the redneck, the hillbilly or any other label given for certain identifying traits or character's shown, but it doesn't include all White's in a blanketing way. See how that works people ?? Yes you do.
Politicians want to play the game as if to say that if one uses a category label to describe someone, and it being based upon the actions or character found in that someone or in the individual, then of course it somehow blankets them all when everyone knows full well that it doesn't. SO PEOPLE ARE JUST WRONG ABOUT ALOT OF THIS STUFF OR ARE THEY REALLY ???
How stupid is thIs RACE BAITING bullcrap WE CONSTANTLY SEE NOW, but it has been very effective over the years politically. Sad.
People don't like to be categorized, because it separates them from the herd, and they hate that even though in a lot of ways they do it to themselves.