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I find it interesting a few regular posters here avoid this thread, a few names come to mind including the "birthers" and their assorted sock puppet accounts...
I was taught at an early age to analyze reactions, and treat people fairly...not everyone is taugt this...RPON has posted he wants to go back to the 1950's....imo this is a code way of saying that that era was better....I wonder why he posits this?
The tea party uses code words for racist intent, I never realized this until noticing the mantra of "taking our country back" and "returning it to the way it was" was an ongoing theme. Anyone who is that reactionary is not living in the real world, and needs to turn off the hate radio.
I have been called names for pointing out that we know the codes. Anyone who says they want to return to the 1950s is sending a message. The birther crowd is racist pure and simple.
I would have chipped his jaw...that's what i would have done...
Even if his boys came to assist...one of them were going to feel it.
That's what I meant...
Well I guess he would not tried to still anymore bikes then. The good news is once you went to court for A&B you probably would have gotten a slap on the wrist so yeah win win for you
The tea party uses code words for racist intent, I never realized this until noticing the mantra of "taking our country back" and "returning it to the way it was" was an ongoing theme.
Hmm, so was it racist then when liberals and Democrats cried about "taking their country back" when they voted for Obama in a racist effort to repudiate Bush?
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Anyone who is that reactionary is not living in the real world, and needs to turn off the hate radio.
I agree. You need to stop getting all your info about the Tea Party from MSNBC, the biggest hate mongers around.
Let's face it, racism in the USA will take time to disappear significantly.
It was only in the 60's that any kind of real change started here in the USA and that was only just over 50 years ago. Before that the USA was akin to the apartheid in South Africa....... oh how proud we must be.
I think white people in this country are used to being in rooms full of white people so when they're not they get uncomfortable. When you're uncomfortable it's detectable, if only on the subconscious, and people around you get uncomfortable and treat you differently. Many black people in this country are the same way. I know many who are scared to go to poor, backwoods white areas. If you told a white person they wouldn't understand just as a black person doesn't really understand when a white person is afraid to enter a poor black neighborhood at night.
As to me, I'm been the stand-out in just about every 'room' in the USA. Black, white, asian, latino. So it's something I'm used to, and don't even think about it. As a result I never noticed the things you guys talk about.
I stand out in every room too cause I use a blind cane so I can relate too. But I definitely notice it. When I walk into a room, most people become uncomfortable. I sense it immediately. It’s rare for me to walk into a room where people aren’t made uncomfortable by my blindness. But in spite of that, I have still noticed the racial dynamics that go on. I think different people just notice different things. I don’t think it has to do with how much you stand out personally.
Everything in the show is staged, including the above. They are all actors. The same people are used over and over, they're all in them.
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Everything in the show is staged, including the above. They are all actors. The same people are used over and over, they're all in them.
Do you get that the people who are asked “what would you do?” are not the same?
Even if they were, things like the scenarios depicted happen in real life. Many of the scenarios in “What Would You Do?” have happened to me personally, in real life.
Regardless of how staged these how itself is, the theme of the show does point to something very real that happens all the time.
You have lost any shred of credibility I might have thought you had with this statement. I could post 9 pages of responses to this inane statement - but I would only be giving credence to someone who is entirely consumed with a delusional schema of the the world.
I would have chipped his jaw...that's what i would have done...
Even if his boys came to assist...one of them were going to feel it.
That's what I meant...
You say that in the comforts of your home, it's a lot different in the street.
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