Racism. What does it mean to you?

[Otto]

Racism is when you disagree with a Liberal.   Or, is that 'being filled with Hate' ?   I forget....

[Gadfly]

I thought Racism was when you loved NASCAR. Go Junior!

[udet]

Rednecks and Affirmative Action

[mietla]

Originally posted by Otto
Racism is when you disagree with a Liberal.   Or, is that 'being filled with Hate' ?   I forget....

both, and you are a homophobe as well.

[mietla]

Originally posted by Karnak
Racism is when your expectations of who or what somebody is are influenced by their race.  Racism can also be when policies are structured or implimented in such a way to focus on a particular group of people irregardless of qualifications.

Agree. And that's one of the reasons why I believe that the Afirmative Action really hurts the cause it is invented to promote.

I hurts those who genuinely deserve the position based on merits, and helps those who do not deserve it (not to say race hustlers).

[GtoRA2]

mietla
 Well I have to say I was a tad offended at first on the commy thing, but it has been a long time and even then the offendedness went away and I was more amused. I have NEVER had anyone ever call me one before. LOL I am far from it.

All I was saying is the system is not fair. I understand it prolly will never change.

I am also not saying there is no REAL racism. I know it is out there till this day.

Another case I forgot about:

Friend of the family is the head couch at a highschool in hayward. He couched baseball, basketball and football I think. He has been teaching and couching at this school for more then 20 years and his basket ball team just about always went at least to the state championships.
 I know this man is no racist. He took in a black kid when his mom kicked him out at 18(not that, that proves anything, but trust me he is not,). He let this kid live in his home for over a year! lol The kid still visits all the time.  
 His team members always loved him. Hell they would come over and help him do stuff to his house all the time.
 He had rules. No C average no team sports, and none of that fix the grades BS.

 He cuts a kid for having bad grades, the mom contacts the school district and claims he is a racist. The school pricipal won't back him up and now he only teaches english. This man LOVED couching. He was good for the school and his teams won. He would not sue over it, he was withen 3 years of his 30 I think so he decided to stick it out as a strait teacher and retire.
 
 He would have stayed on as a couch for longer.  It only hurt the kids in this otherwise pretty crappy school. But the pricipal sold him down the river.

 It is total ****. This mans career as a couch ended of a false claim..

[mietla]

Originally posted by GtoRA2
mietla
 Well I have to say I was a tad offended at first on the commy thing, but it has been a long time and even then the offendedness went away and I was more amused. I have NEVER had anyone ever call me one before. LOL I am far from it.  

Although I did not call you a commie, it is good to hear that you felt offended by even a hint of it . I'd be more than happy to make it up to you over a beer or something.

I would also use an opportunity to convince you that "equal anything" is a really bad idea, especially if enforced by the omnipotent government.

All we are owed by the society is the equality before the law. In other words, the government and the law owes us to treat us equally.

Other than that, our fellow citizen owe us NOTHING..

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by GtoRA2
She asked who did the listen in and I say I did. She turns to my boss and says “this is all just because I am black and he is a racist!

That's when you immediately say, "You're just saying that because I'm white, you're a ractist.  You wouldn't have said that if I was black, right?", and really confuse the **** out of her.  

Now when I hear “I was discriminated against I always have to take it with a grain of salt. A big one.”

Good idea to take a grain of salt with everying...except food ironically enough as it can lead to high blood pressure.  However, keep in mind that just because some of the black people you know used the "race card" to try and escape person resonsiblity, doesn't mean all or even most will, to believe different would be racist.  

[mietla]

Originally posted by Thrawn
That's when you immediately say, "You're just saying that because I'm white, you're a ractist.  You wouldn't have said that if I was black, right?", and really confuse the **** out of her.  

nice try Mr. BleedingHeart. They have PC and activist judges on their side. Confusion is cheap, monetary awords they win are not.

[loser]

Originally posted by mietla
nice try Mr. BleedingHeart. They have PC and activist judges on their side. Confusion is cheap, monetary awords they win are not.

I think thrawn was joking Mietla.  But one of those jokes that you'd actually like to see happen.

[mietla]

Not sure about it, were you sarcastic Thrawn?


BTW, I do know how to spell award.

[mietla]

GtoRa2,

Care to join our West Coast MiniCon? You are at a spitting distance...

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[Drunky]

What racism means to me?   Hmmm....

It's means that when I say "I don't understand YOU people" it is always intertrepted as....

(a) black
(b) african-american

people and that I'm making a racists remark.

Go figure...perhaps I don't like people who fold the newspaper in my perferred manner.

Racism also mean to me that others are oversensitive to it and that it also works against me.

Of course I'm rasicts because I say things like "you" people...whatever I happen to mean.

I think it would be laughable and un-noteworthy if I[/size] wasn't judged by my skin and therefore my comments are "colored" because of my skin.  You want to talk about racism.  My comments are judged because of my skin color.  FU

Talk about racism.  I call it reverse-racism.

Go figure.

[vorticon]

its not racism...theres only one race...the human one

jews arnt a race...there a religous order

its just idiocy

[GtoRA2]

I was planing on attending, but my aunt is coming into town that weekend. It may be the last time I get so see her since she is dying of cancer.

I may be able to just stop in for a time, I can't remember if I have to pay for that though! lol.