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Wow...with people telling you repeatedly, other minorities telling you, and now with the facts staring you in the face...
You can be black and have disagreeable philosophies and policies. One has nothing to do with the other.
To hear you people talk, the guy is a flippin' genius and no one will give him credit bc he's black.
I don't care if he's blue, orange, or purple. He and his idiotic cronies are a bunch of socialist-leaning, tax money-grabbing, lazy people-pandering, pie-in-the-sky nutjobs and they need to be ousted.
Come on you all they have to blame race because it cant possibly be the policies that people have a problem with. It cant be that people just really dont want bigger gov. That people really thought Obama had a problem and wouldnt increase the debt like he is
No way...these people have to convince themselves that everyone who is against Obama is some white redneck no-toothed good ol' boy chewin' on some hay in his overalls.
Hey, guess what? Most people I know who don't like him (and most people I know, period) have at least ONE graduate degree...and are from all over the world and of many races, religions, and professions.
Even Democratic strategists concur that anti-Obama rage is not about race, but about Obama's agenda. If James Carville, an enemy of conservatives, concedes as much, then there must be some truth to it.
Yes, there must be some truth to it .... some truth. But if there were not also some bigotry and race hatred mixed in with the "anti-Obama rage", how else would one explain the words we've heard and the signs we've read?
Most people attack the ideas, the policies, the direction, and that's fine - that's our right. When some people (thankfully, a small minority) attack the race, they cross a line.
It's totally immature, but sometimes when you are angry and you really dislike what someone is doing, you will name call. And maybe that name calling is completely inappropriate and uses racist terms/words. But that doesn't mean that the reason you're up in arms is actually because you're racist.
I'm not making any excuses for people like that, though. Immature. Use your words, people.
Look at the responses in this thread... They STILL won't give up the race card.
No wonder they have a childlike belief in the health care fairy - they think the costs and tax increases somehow magically won't be borne by Joe and Jane Taxpayer and the end users.
Look at the responses in this thread... They STILL won't give up the race card.
No wonder they have a childlike belief in the health care fairy - they think the costs and tax increases somehow magically won't be borne by Joe and Jane Taxpayer and the end users.
You have to understand its easier to blame race then accept that maybe people just dont like the direction that Obama is taking this country
One of the main arguments of conservatives against health care reform is that 'minorities' may benefit- there is a very subtle undertone in their message.
therefore to say that racism plays no role in this debate seems doubtful.
Remember this; the GOP/Teabaggers/Conservatives derive most of their support from the south.
A region that still practices a sort of 'Plantation Style Laissez Fair Economics' that is very much a throw back to the state rights idea over 60 years ago.
Yes, there must be some truth to it .... some truth. But if there were not also some bigotry and race hatred mixed in with the "anti-Obama rage", how else would one explain the words we've heard and the signs we've read?
Most people attack the ideas, the policies, the direction, and that's fine - that's our right. When some people (thankfully, a small minority) attack the race, they cross a line.
The majority of conservatives cannot be held responsible for the acts of a few idiots with signs. Can all liberals be held responsible for the "chimp" signs when Bush was in office,...or the photos of Bush morphing into Hitler? Hatred works both ways.
One of the main arguments of conservatives against health care reform is that 'minorities' may benefit- there is a very subtle undertone in their message.
therefore to say that racism plays no role in this debate seems doubtful.
Remember this; the GOP/Teabaggers/Conservatives derive most of their support from the south.
A region that still practices a sort of 'Plantation Style Laissez Fair Economics' that is very much a throw back to the state rights idea over 60 years ago.
One of the 'main arguments'? I have never even heard that as a minor reason. And I work in health care!
Where do you get this bunk?
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