The debate rages over whether Sen. George Allen is a racist? For John Dickerson, Allen is more of a boob; according to Rich Lowry, he just has a mean streak. There's also an undercurrent that Allen isn't all that bright.
Generally, the mainstream media isn't sure whether you're a racist or not unless you're a Klan member, or are a white guy using the n-word all the time,
That's part of the reason why the media needs to get out of the Beltway more. Here in Kentucky, there are plenty of signs that someone is a racist--
There's always the threatening letter to the black people who just moved into your county, neighborhood, school or dorm threatening to kill, bomb, or burn them out;
Add Confederate flags on your bumper sticker, Confederate flag hats, Confederate flag shirts, and Confederate flags in the back yard. Guys get into Confederate flag paraphernalia as a way to announce that they "don't give a shit about what people think," are proud to be "rednecks," "hillbillies," or "crackers," or think it's a funny way to be an asshole. They do it as a way to stick it to their parents, their teachers, church, and town elite as well as city people and the North. Oh yeah, and black people too;
Thinking that every black male you see in a city is going to rob you or not going to the cities because there are too many blacks; not going to State U because there are too many blacks or because you might be assigned a black roommate;
Dismissing hip hop, rock, jazz, and other musical styles as "n--music," loving NASCAR because it's all-white, worshipping the screaming white coach of your State U basketball team and assuming that the players need to be screamed at; disparaging State U's opponents in racial terms; disparaging professional sports in general and the NBA in particular as too black;
Telling blacks to "get over it," that "everybody is oppressed" and that "stereotypes (about blacks) are real;"
Bragging about how Southerner whites know blacks better than anybody else or how well everybody in the South got along before the "outside agitators" or "activist judges" came in or the "turmoil" of the Civil Rights Movement got started.
Claiming that Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Denzel Washington, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, and other blacks you like aren't "really" black; really hating Spike Lee and other race conscious blacks because they're "so" black.
Arguing that anybody who complains about racism is a "racist" and that blacks who complain about racism are worst racists than the whites of the segregation era.
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I guess as compared to those nice/smart racist national politicians who are pretty acceptable and all.
"Racism" allegedly can be ignored, perhaps, if shown in the "proper" way. This perhaps is the underlining and troubling message of such commentary.
Joe,
Double standards. It's okay for others to be out for their group, but not us. We must commit group suicide, eh?
I can add a few more to the signs that "you might be a racist" or as the blog owner says...50 ways people can be racist. Ahem....You might be a racist if:
you have ever dismissed the wholesale slaughter, torture, and cultural decimation of an entire race of people as "the slavery thing".
said that those left to perish after Hurricane Katrina should have just
"gotten out" before the storm hit
clutch your wallet or purse in a elevator when an african american (male or female)enters
defend the country's founders and their institutionalization and justification of enslavement as "just products of their time"
believe the struggle for civil rights began and ended with Martin Luther
King, Jr.
you think it merely coincidental that blacks (especially black males) are incarcerated at rates nearly nine times
higher than that of whites (or worse, that you think all blacks in prison are there because the committed crimes and 'deserve' to be there)
justify gentrification as community improvement while people who've lived in a neighborhood their entire lives suddenly cannot afford to live there any more.
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