Posted on 11/25/2006 12:35:32 AM PST by JohnHuang2
As conservatives, we understand that from the moment Adam bit into the apple it was ordained that Sin would always be with us.
Much as fornication will always be with us, so it is with racism.
To Man's credit, we (the civilized nations) have gone to great lengths to eradicate the latter, but it will never fully disappear.
Thats real truth telling,Prodigal.
I will co-sign much of your experience and I grew up in "liberal"California,in a town south of San Francisco.Very few of my parent's generation believed in anything approaching racial equality and we all were from nice middle class families consisting of college educated professionals.Blacks were often refered to as niggers and coons and humor was often anti-black and anti-Jewish.
Politics were irrelevant.Both conservatives and liberals manifested these traits.Even dark skinned Italian kids at my high school were called"niggers"behind their backs.
I hate to say this but it took"radical"efforts by Dr. King and yes,Malcolm X,for many whites to take black people in this country seriously.Its sad to see King and Malcolm replced with hucksters like Jackson and Sharpton but no way in the world should we romanticize the"good old days"when"the colored knew their place",as one of my uncles used to say.
Interesting, my family all came from the South and we never used those terms to describe ethnic groups. I remember my Stepfather, who was from Chicago, using the "N" word and my mother was mortified. To this day when I hear someone use the word I can understand why it's so insulting to people that have to hear it.
Its the same at the integrated high schools where I sub.
Asians and Mexicans sound EXACTLY like the blacks!Up to and including extensive use of the N word.
I have a feeling they don't that way at home,however.
Thats because proportionately to their percntabe in the population,blacks watch much more telelvision than whites so the producers go with the demographics,not because they are enamored with black culture-or should I say their distorted VERSION of black culture.
I'll put it to you like this,Carolyn.I lived in the South from approximately 1971 till 1977 and I never heard a white Southerner say a racially derogatory term that I had not previously heard a Northern white utter from 1950-1970.
Blacks are either blind to this -or- They USE IT... -or- BOTH..
Thanks for the ping!
My point was really about the anger carried around by comics & comedy writers not their racism, so you can relax. Maybe if Muslim men started doing the comedy circuit we would finally have peace in the middle east!
Here you go:
http://www.arabcomedy.org/
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