Cant we all just get along?
Posted on 07/20/2010 7:59:45 PM PDT by kristinn
That is how I took it. They gave approving sentiments for several points denouncing racism so it makes little sense that they were approving of it at other junctures.
It certainly was at one time. As I said before this was not the national chapter we hear about in the news of late.
If you don't see the difference between a woman who once shuffled off a client to someone else, and then made up for it, to a man who dedicated his life to white supremacy and overt racist hatred then I probably couldn't pound sense into your skull with a sledge hammer.
She didn't say she was planning on going on his show she said the WH said she would be on it. Obviously not personally but the story would be on Glenn Beck.
I had read post #8. I don’t think the poster understood that she had prefaced the entire story with a statement that she was about to explain a change of viewpoint from race to poverty.
I think Breitbart got caught by someone giving him a video with the front lopped off and the end lopped off. That is why Beck and Krauthammer[sp] were cautioning us to tread lightly on this story.
The gist of her story was: I once saw people in a racist way, but I found that that was not right.
To expand on my premise, I would like to point out that I arranged Bible studies three times a week at a men’s shelter in Phoenix for two years. On the nights when we had visiting Black pastors the tone of the meeting was just different. Normally staid men would turn into the “amen corner”! :)
The story is now up on FOX NATION with the video of her saying she was fired for planning to go on the Glenn Beck program.
>> Still I see this issue of the thread as unresolved and will be a thorn in our side.
I tend to be optimistic about issues involving racism, and don’t consider racial bickering to be a significant problem. Any racism, however, that restricts liberty in any way whatsoever obviously needs to be eradicated.
We need to be smart about the 1st Amendment and not abuse it through intolerance of others’ opinions and anger.
>> I know, huh. Let’s both crack a cold one.
LOL - this would have been much easier in that kind of setting my FRiend.
As far as I can see, you are letting her off the hook 100%, so the Duke comparison doesn’t make much sense to you.
I have not let her off the hook, I view her as an admitted racist, which makes the Duke comparison valid.
We do not know for 100% certainty that this was the only instance of racism that she ever engaged in.
You say she shuffled off a client to someone else then made up for it. What she did was send him to one of his own kind. What she did was perceive his alleged attempt to impose superiority of one kind or another over her, and her paranoia caused her to respond as she said she did. Then, possibly out of guilt, she went out of her way and outside of the scope of her job to help him, which puts everyone else who isn’t him on a lower rung because of her racism.
If you can’t see that she compromised herself, her ability to do her job and the perceptions of others about her doing her job, then I probably couldn’t calmy talk sense into your skull without childish insults or violent references.
I agree.
There were all the liberal comments one would expect for a presentation to that group (Obama doing a great job, Bush was evil, etc. — my words, not hers)
But she also said a lot of good stuff. Personal responsibility. Education. Discipline your children. Promoting entrepreneurship. Give back. Keep a good credit rating. Save for the future, don’t charge it. Everyone (of all colors) needs to work together to solve the problems of the community and so on.
I certainly expected a lot worse given all the hoopla (ala Jeremiah Wright).
That was her whole point. I was so right about the sledge hammer metaphor.
Cant we all just get along?
I just watched the video and that's not what she said. She said that the WH said "because you're going to be on Glenn Beck tonight." Which she was but not personally.
so I suppose now the NAACP will also condemn LA RAZA for their overt racism? /s
Peddle your cr@p elsewhere, troll.
Try again...is the NAACP racist, or not? Is a lady who talks about sending someone to get help "from his kind" a racist, or not?
I'll wait...
I've seen almost these exact words in many places..."I don't know if Breitbart will ever re-earn my trust."
I smell trolls and a campaign to discredit the messenger.
Well, that would depend upon the definition of the phrase, "Racial discrimination."
(/Billy Jeff)
A political machine that will decide to call someone a racist to change the subject is more than capable of such an operation...and the words have been strangely repetitive.
"Firm Ethics?"
You're wrong.
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