I'm in Florida. My customers are not, for the most part, fans of Obama. I am a white dude....and it is assumed that I will appreciate the racial slurs. I hear them A LOT. Your take on things does not jive with my experience, Gramps.
Jackson......you called Obama a beast in your whinefest about how Cain is being treated. Did you mean to do that?
Your experience=/= mine
I must be full of it.
I smoke, my grandmother didnt. Therefore she must have faked her heart attack since I never had one.
/failed logic
More failed logic: The glasses are on Foxfyre. The glasses are on the table. Therefore Foxfyre is a table.
Early on when Obama started gaining momentum I remarked in a large active forum that I did not want a BLACK president. I was perfectly okay, however, with a president who happened to be black.
Every conservative knew exactly what I meant. And most, not all but most, leftists and Obama supporters accused me of making a racist statement.
For example, the 'tar baby' flap. I grew up on all the popular children's books with some of my favorites being Joel Chandler's Uncle Remus series. Br'er Fox made a tar baby to ensnare Br'er Rabbit who, the more he struggled, the more stuck he became. I still remember my teacher explaining that the 'tar baby' was a bad situation that is difficult to get away from. I knew Uncle Remus was black and I knew him as a gentle, endearing, and lovable soul. I could imagine sitting at his knee hearing the stories he told to the children.
But even after the social engineers decided Uncle Remus was politically incorrect and it disappeared from school library shelves sometime in the 60's, I never ever associated a tar baby with a black person until the Mitt Romney flap some months ago. Thus another perfectly good and practical term was taken away and assigned to the murky world of 'racism'.
In my opinion, until we can stop doing that, racism will remain alive and well and will be nurtured and encouraged in all of our everyday lives. It is just as racist to insist that a black person be treated as a BLACK person as it is to openly accuse him or her of being inferior or incapable because of his/her skin color.