tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post5580023128227321887..comments2008-11-03T18:59:54.568-05:00Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-27400504322742662722008-11-03T18:59:00.000-05:002008-11-03T18:59:00.000-05:00Libhom,<BR/><BR/>The Right is more like Hollywood than they can imagine. They need to always stick to the script. They ACT like they love America, while they really hate half the people. <BR/><BR/>Kulkuri,<BR/><BR/>We old geezers can always be reverse agists if the youth vote fails to emerge this electon. We may have to let 'em have it.<BR/><BR/>Betmo,<BR/><BR/>Generally speaking, you're right. Our generalizations are far more grounded in reality than the Right's are.Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-73450874590510340522008-11-03T18:28:00.000-05:002008-11-03T18:28:00.000-05:00i am fairly judgmental and i definitely have blinders on when it comes to rethuglicans. it has only been in the last 2 years that i realized that the left wing can be just as ignorant as the right. having said that- i can honestly say that dan'l always calls me on my shit- and i hope that he always does because i need it too :) that doesn't mean that i still won't overgeneralize and be prejudiced against the right wing- because i am just not interested in giving them any ground at this particular time. perhaps in a year or two :)betmohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206096509976316141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-15967314531647311712008-11-03T11:46:00.000-05:002008-11-03T11:46:00.000-05:00aWol has talking points??? Who read them to him??<BR/><BR/>I have met and sometimes worked with racists of all colors. And at times I have been quilty of racist remarks, but hopefully as I aged, I got wiser!!<BR/><BR/>As for the race riots in Detroit, I know people who were in the Guard at the time and were sent to Detroit and given rifles with no ammo!! Talk about a scary situation!!Kulkurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09198195648066700925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-30303977446523840642008-11-02T23:00:00.000-05:002008-11-02T23:00:00.000-05:00What would Hasselbeck do without talking points? What would Palin do without talking points? What would Shrub do without talking points?libhomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-6921457913987932942008-11-01T17:44:00.000-04:002008-11-01T17:44:00.000-04:00Dan’l,<BR/><BR/>You keep me honest, seeing my weakness for generalizations! There are just so many good ones. "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public," being a particular favorite.<BR/><BR/>Just as I love a good generalization, I also can’t stand intolerance, I despise hatred, and I’m not sure about ambiguity. <BR/><BR/>I am also prejudiced against racism. <BR/><BR/>How does that Ave. Q song go? Everyone's a little bit racist. Humans seem to have an inborn distrust of others with physical, geographical, religious or cultural differences. Alas, try as I may, I can’t shake all the bias out of me. Although some of my best friends are Southern whites or Republican voters. ;-) <BR/><BR/>I have a problem with the whole pride thing. Is it a sin, or is it a virtue? It seems to me it should be something you feel in regard of others. I’m proud of a lot of people, but I don’t strut on about being proud of myself. I have enough difficulty with an inflated ego issue; pride would push me over the edge.<BR/><BR/>To me, pride is like honor. You can claim honor, but it has to be awarded to you for it to have value. <BR/><BR/>I learned my first racial wisdom from my great-grandfather. He was a lumberjack in the Great North Woods who married an Ottawa woman. He would say, “You can’t trust them Indians”. Then he would add, “You can’t trust those white people either”.Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-15458607244288045532008-11-01T04:23:00.000-04:002008-11-01T04:23:00.000-04:00I was deeply involved in the civil rights movement for approximately <A HREF="http://thefuturewasyesterday.blogspot.com/2007/04/double-standards-of-black-community.html" REL="nofollow">twenty years.</A> <A HREF="http://thefuturewasyesterday.blogspot.com/2008/03/cardboard-box.html" REL="nofollow">Here</A> are just a few memories of some of the marches. My involvement began in 1967, the year of the Detroit Riots that threatened to destroy that city. The city I lived in at the time, Saginaw Michigan, had a large black population. That city teetered on a knife's edge between order, and turning into complete chaos. Against that background, I began my civil rights career.<BR/><BR/><I><B>"And if you’re proud to pass this along, you ARE a racist and probably a Republican"</B></I><BR/>You make quite the generalization there, and elsewhere!:) But I agree, there's no need for white pride month or anything else. Nor is there for Black pride month, I might add.<BR/><BR/>In the late sixties and all of the seventies, I heard very little, if any, of <I>"proud to be Black"</I> reasons they were demonstrating, and a LOT about human dignity, and equal rights. Not Black rights. <I><B>"EQUAL rights!"</B></I>! The people I worked with understood all rights had to be colorless, or they were doomed to failure. The Black marches and demonstrations back then weren't a mail in campaign, a <I>"answer a national telephone poll,"</I> they were a <I>"get ready to take stones and rotten fruit to the body: we're marching!"</I> affair.<BR/><BR/>In later years, both sides got lazy. The white people invented Political Correctness to cover their failures; blacks soon learned PCness was the perfect vehicle to get anything they wanted - just scream racism. Political Correctness also invented the Black Racist, only nobody wants to admit that. To do so, would mean admitting they've both been F'ing off on racism when they should have been working towards equal rights.<BR/><BR/>Political Correctness also set the black person back in the fifties and sixties in terms of equal rights. Instead of equal rights, they get lip service that looks like equal rights. The current generation of Blacks are more than content to accept that lip service as long as they personally get what they want.<BR/><BR/><I><B>"Why is it that only whites can be racists?<BR/>"</B></I><BR/>A lot of people would like an answer to that question - a LOT! They would even settle for a publically acclaimed and acknowledged black racist, in the David Duke manner. I can give you two with a long track record of racism in a flash. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. But both are treated as if they were flawless.<BR/><BR/><I>"Pigmentation"</I> Rights are forever doomed to failure.<BR/><BR/><I><B>"Please do (sorta) what the proud, white, democracy-hating Americans say in their flyers down south:"</B></I><BR/><BR/>ROTFLMAO!!!!! You have enough blanket generalizations to put out a forest fire!:) I'm a Proud, White, Democracy LOVING Southerner.... I won't bore you with the old one of <I>"them"</I> is my best friend, but our wives constantly complain about our fishing trips. We never take more than three a week, either!!<BR/><BR/>Throw away the Kool Aid. You've been lied to badly by those you should be able to trust.The Future Was Yesterdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515544130113138363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-61384607918392618742008-10-31T19:38:00.000-04:002008-10-31T19:38:00.000-04:00Elisabeth Hasselbeck of the View television program: Wikipedia and the media declare her a Republican. How she is registered to vote from age 18 till today<BR/><BR/>The Brother has the party affiliation of Youth International, the Abbie Hoffman founded movement <BR/><BR/>webofdeception.comreunionpihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04017784991860640080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-41155010347294348832008-10-31T19:04:00.000-04:002008-10-31T19:04:00.000-04:00nice :)betmohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16206096509976316141noreply@blogger.com