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mickeyd said:I wonder how many folks will be outraged at Mr. Rangel's racest comments. Don't look for the NYT to feature any articles or opinions about it.
It was not a racist comment. Far from it. He did not say that whites were inferior. He said that 'white supremacy was a myth'. IOW - white's were not superior race.
If you believe otherwise, then you would be the racist.
razztazz said:No, it is racist. What it does is cast White People as racists by referring to an old stereotype of White People held by non-whites, of Whites fancying themselves as superior based soley on race.
It'll slide because it's comes off with a funny little twist in that Archie Bunker/Fred Sanford kind o' way we've gotten sued to over the years
But it is racist. Altho individual exceptions only prove the rule and reinforce the stereotype. The old saw about one exception and the stereotype has been disproved is simply incorrect by logic.
That and the fact that whites were not held in slavery for the first 80 years or so of this country's history.
And that groups like the Aryan Nation have proclaimed 'White Supremacy' for decades. Hardly a case that this Congressman is mentioning it 'out of the blue'.
You stand corrected!
razztazz said:You didnt read one word of what I said. And certain people wonder why I leave for long periods of time/
WHat you said is totally irreeveny to the question of racists remarks Rangle's in particular. It's like invading Mexico or Iraq as a reaction to 9/11. WHy did you saiy when it was mindless? I will not waste time expecting an "Answer".
Also.. Blacks still practice slavery. They also have their version of KKK and Aryan Nation.
Whne I'm wrong someone can correct me. YOU dont have the goods or the reading ability
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dusk_to_dawn said:I wonder how loud Congress and Cut-Throat would be laughing if George Bush had said the same thing about Charles Rangel?
Mr. President, what do you think of Charles Rangel?
Well, I really think he shatters the myth of black supremacy once and for all.
Somehow I don't think Congress and Cut-Throat would find that response all that funny. Double standard?
Andre1969 said:I think the statement is racist in the fact that a person of one race made a disparaging remark about a member of another race. Regardless of what race each person is.
Andre1969 said:I think the statement is racist in the fact that a person of one race made a disparaging remark about a member of another race. Regardless of what race each person is.
Cut-Throat said:No because Rangel isn't as stupid as Bush is.
Also, if blacks held whites in slavery in this country for 80 years or so, and blacks discriminated against whites, it would be a legitimate statement. You don't seem to grasp the blacks struggle for civil rights. Do you?
Let's get real here folks. People make disparaging remarks about each other all the time. It is only racist if the negativity is attributed to race. Rangel's quote was funny because it was personal, not generic. Bush is regularly portrayed as dumb. Rangel just used tongue-in-cheek faulty logic to extend Bush's perceived dumbness to the broader class of whites to "disprove" a racist myth of white superiority. It doesn't say whites are dumb - it just uses Bush to "demonstrate" that they are not smarter than others.Andre1969 said:I think the statement is racist in the fact that a person of one race made a disparaging remark about a member of another race. Regardless of what race each person is.