unbelieveable!!! Do you really think this way.
If the manager worked for me, he would have been out so fast, his shadow would miss the ride.
WE, as Americans can not have this kind of racism in this country, and as FReepers, I find it disgusting.
If the manager worked for me, he would have been out so fast, his shadow would miss the ride.
WE, as Americans can not have this kind of racism in this country, and as FReepers, I find it disgusting.
Absolutely, when racism is thrown around for racisms sake as news I make fun of it. And that is what this is.
What is racist about a noose? When I think about a noose I think cowboy's and the wild west. I don't think poor black men in the south.
To me a, native sun of the west it represents the law, and our desire to control the outlaws that wanted to take advantage of our peaceful ways. Racism has nothing to do with it. I would call for a hanging just as quick regardless of race if they committed the same crime.
Lynching, now that evokes evil im my mind. Punishment without the rule of law. That is evil and racist when committed because of someones race.
It hasn't been established as an act of racism just because a couple of cable guys and you say so.
In the context it was used, I would agree that the managers should be fired. Making a noose a forbidden image, item that can never be shown in any context is another matter.
The N word has pretty much been banished from our language, except when used by black rappers. Our present day imagery would picture it being used in the past in a hate dripping slam at the race. It was common descriptive word. Everybody used it or Negro.
Negro = black in Portuguese and Spanish derived from Niger =black in Latin.
Now both N words have become off limits and we are all to use black because of negative connotations to a variants of the same word. Those who would scream racism when words are used by whites, are free to use the word(s) in jest with each other and it is also acceptable in their gansta rap booming from their cars and Ipods.
What do we do when they find black and colored offensive and declare them off limits? How will we categorize them on traffic stops (required) and employment applications (required)?
At some point we are pushed into extreme levels of stupidity trying to NOT offend someone. Especially when there exists a professional class of people seeking to be offended so they can hit the jackpot.(I don't see that is the case in this noose incident. Also I don't think we have many true racists here on FR.)
It's kind of like the leftists being shocked when a prosecutor charges blacks with hate crimes when a white victim was involved. They say to themselves "You can't do that! That law was enacted specifically for white racists and white male homophobes. Not FAIR!"
I'm still waiting for a prosecutor to use the hate crime law on black on black, white on white and gay on gay violent crimes. Most all violent crime is a hate crime.