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While my thread on this was ignored (having gotten only a single response), it illustrates what the MLK supporting, left wing, liberal, black socialist / communist combine stands for. If you're white, you're racist - they think it's in your DNA (who is the real racist????)
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The words,
racist and
racism, will retain their power until anyone who uses them in some formal manner (reportage, etc.) is required to define them to avoid confusion. Because those words mean different things to different people.
I once heard a young Black girl say on a radio call-in program that her father is
"racist against cats." I'm sure what she meant by her choice of words is something far different from what is meant when IM2 and other participants here (and elsewhere) accuse me of
racism. Doubly confusing is the fact that I cannot say for sure if my accusers are right or wrong because I really don't know what they mean -- and I wonder if they do.
My definition of
racism is the belief that one's race is superior in every way to all others, combined with a malicious loathing for members of all other races. And based on those specifications I can honestly say I have known only one fully qualified
racist in my life.
His name was Ethan. He was from Florida and he said he joined the Marine Corps because there are "too many got-damn n!ggers in the Army" and the draft was active back then. It's true that there were relatively few Negroes in the Corps back then (1950s) and there did seem to be an abundance of White southerners -- including our senior DI. Ethan, along with his brother and their "daddy," belonged to the Klan and he had photos to prove it.
I never had much to do with Ethan, mainly because he was a big, mean sonofabitch and he didn't like yankees, especially New Yorkers. Again, he was the only real
racist I've ever known.