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To: CitizenM
Good post citizen. Hanson again writes a thought-provoking and excellent piece.

My two cents (I hope doesn't sound too pointless) is that I've always had black friends (I'm white). My brother was never very happy about it, but other than him no one in my family cared because all of my friends were nice, intelligent, funny, and kind. I was brought up to judge a person by his qualities, good or bad, and befriend them accordingly.

Fast forward fifteen years. My brother married a half-black, half-German woman with a major racial chip on her shoulder. Why someone who is half white would hate whitey is nothing I can understand, but anyway, now my brother is spouting anti-whitey racial paranoia. He's accused my parents and me of being racist numerous times, although we've accepted this woman into our family lovingly and fully.

Whenever there is a minor family argument or difference of opinion, my brother and sister-in-law pull out the race card and turn it into a "you hate black people" shtick. My best friend in the world is black and has never pulled the race card...probably because she is mature, and successful and doesn't need a crutch or chip or card to make a point.

Sorry for ranting but my experience is that when someone pulls the race card you will never win with them, no matter what you try or try not to do. It is pointless.
14 posted on 06/04/2009 9:40:43 AM PDT by fleagle ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
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To: fleagle
When you find yourself looking at "the race card" you are in the wrong place. Try to anticipate "those places" and stay the hell away. It there are "family" there, so much more.

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18 posted on 06/04/2009 9:52:08 AM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" and the Scout Motto)
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To: fleagle

Thanks. Isn’t this all a shame? I think race relations are being set back 50 years by the Obamas and their snide remarks and their obvious prejudices. Just goes to prove that you can take the person out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of the person. What a sorry situation that could have been so much better with someone above being spiteful and hateful in the WH.


26 posted on 06/04/2009 5:09:39 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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