Racial differences don't matter unless your roots are 'bigoted' -

Telegraph - UK ^ | December 22, 2003 | Barbara Amiel

[cyborg]

As Rudyard Kipling said, we're all shades of pinko-grey.

[sauropod]

A big ado about nothing.

[sgtbono2002]

I take it from this that Dan Rather is the bigot and this lady is not. You see many liberals are bigots their bigotry is in hating their own race , I suppose that stems from some sort of ingrown guilt complex.

[ikka]

Kipling said "The Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skin."

[rogue yam]

Race defies rather than defines us. The differences are more than skin colour or physiognomy, just as ethnicity is more than language. One can make too much of it, as the extreme Right tends to, or make the mistake of thinking that differences don't exist at all, as Left liberals usually do.

What a load! I live in Frisco. Anybody who thinks that lefties aren't hung up on race is a complete and utter re-tard.

[cyborg]

wise man wasn't he?

[blackbart.223]

"What a load! I live in Frisco."

Why do stay there?

[cyborg]

Worst people to hang out with are libs of ANY color... they all talk talk talk about race. I've yet to meet a conservative who obsesses about race. I've met white racists but they're so beyond conservatism it's pathetic.

[mhking]

[Yawn!]

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[rogue yam]

Why do stay there?

Good weather. Great food. Great entertainment/culture. Physically beautiful (for the most part). High wages. Nice outdoors stuff nearby. Clean air. It's really just the politics that's screwed up here.

[Qwinn]

"Segregation now, segregation tomorrah and segregation forever," thundered Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas to the damn liberals up North and his battle cry was shared by Strom Thurmond"

He was a Democrat. Notice how his party affilation was missing in the article. This tells you the affiliation of the author. This is usually the case whenever the Left recites the history of segregation and racism. Strom was a Democrat at this point too. Think if he was Republican it would've been omitted?

The loving relationship between "liege lords and serfs" still exists. It's the relationship between the majority of Democrat blacks and the leaders of the Left.

Blacks in the Republican Party are our equals and treated that way by most Pubs I know (tho sadly some of those old bigoted Democrats who switched parties and their bigoted kids are still around making Pubs look bad). The black Republicans are still few in number but some of the brightest voices among us.

Qwinn

[aquaculture]

Right. Now it's the left demanding segregation -- discouraging or banning interracial adoptions, promoting majority-minority congressional districs, separate (but equal?) housing on campuses, etc.

[MissAmericanPie]

Has this all been confirmed by DNA tests?

[Amerigomag]

What on earth makes Jews different

The author was doing OK until he tried to intimate that "Jews" are a race.

Guess his religious bigotry, or educational deficiencies, are showing.

[Jeff Chandler]

I've yet to meet a conservative who obsesses about race. I've met white racists but they're so beyond conservatism it's pathetic.

So true. I've met a few racists in my time, mostly when I was a kid, but all the conservatives I know wish that black folks would come over to our side.

I'm reminded of a time when I was about 14, and my best friend Brian and I were doing landscape work for my father's sideline business. A very nice, very elderly, and very southern lady next door to where we were working invited us in for a soda break. While we were there, out of the blue, she started discussing black people and how their homes all have a funny smell. We thought her assertion was quite ironic, because we both noticed immediately upon entering her home that her house had a strong strange odor!

[BnBlFlag]

"Segregation today, etc." This wasn't said by Faubus. It was George Wallace. This lady doesn't have a clue as to what she's talking about.

[OldPossum]

Some pretty damning remarks about our Dan the News Man, don't you think?

[OldPossum]

You're absolutely right. What makes some Brits think that they can write authoritatively about American history?

"The Guardian" (newspaper) is more guilty of this than the others, I think.

[Between the Lines]

Interviewer and interviewee were both speaking in English, but they might as well have been speaking in totally different languages. They had different assumptions, different values, and not because they came from different races. Their souls came from two different worlds and the world of Essie Mae's was by far the more attractive. As the interview progressed, Dan Rather's world emerged as one inhabited by entitlements and resentments, a world of which Essie Mae had no sense.

I watched this interview and this sums it up very well.