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How Can I Prove I am Not a Racist?

POSTED BY: AURaptor
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NIKI2

Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:42 PM

Oh, shit, it's back. Well, it was nice while it lasted, more like what this site was when I first found it, and what deeply impressed me about it.

Such is life.

Yes, KPO, xenophobic is a pretty normal human trait, too; what we don’t understand, we fear; what we fear, we hate, and so it goes. Good, salient point.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
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KPO

Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:15 PM

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Thus, they will languish at the bottom forever. Proof is there in basic black and white general observation. The bottom line is they have lower IQ's and a shitty community..Why?

But apply this same standard to the white working class in my country... and you contradict yourself. Blacks (of comparable social standard) are smarter, and whites live in a more shitty community. Can you explain that?

But I'll bet you're not interested in the world outside of America - right?

It's not personal. It's just war.

NIKI2

Sunday, July 18, 2010 5:16 PM

Update on that 'letter' from Williams:

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A member of the Tea Party Express leadership defended a satirical letter Friday that he says was intended to spark discussion but has instead erupted into a national controversy.

Saying he wanted to make a "serious point about the hypocrisy in the NAACP" and that he hoped to "get the dialogue going," Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams said on CNN's John King, USA that he has made some apologies because "what I said, and the way I said it, was getting in the way."

Earlier this week, and apparently in reaction to an NAACP resolution regarding racist behavior exhibited by some attendees at Tea Party events, Williams published a mock letter from NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to the late President Abraham Lincoln, which Williams has since removed from his blog.

in the course of defending his post, Williams said that the NAACP resolution passed earlier this week in Kansas City was the work of "race baiters."

"I would have far preferred to be on stage at the NAACP convention explaining to the assembled membership why it was so important for them to join with the Tea Party movement rather than stand there, listening to screeds from race baiters about what racists we were, because that was a complete lie," Williams said.

Williams made several modifications to his blog post after its initial posting, including removing references to bailouts as "big money welfare" that should handed "directly to us coloreds" and Tea Party demands for lower taxes preventing black Americans from getting "a wide-screen TV in every room."

In a personal note on his blog posted Friday afternoon, Williams explained his decision to remove the controversial mock letter entirely.

"I learned this morning that Ben Jealous, author of the NAACP anti-tea party resolution has offered something of an olive branch and wants to open discussions with tea partiers regarding dialing down the unproductive shots going back and forth," Williams wrote.

Although Jealous disputed the version of events offered by Williams, the civil rights leader said he was open to meeting with the Tea Party activist.

"I have not reached out to Mark Williams nor have we made statements against the Tea Party. We have simply called on the leaders to repudiate racist elements in their ranks … If Mark Williams does so, I would be happy to sit down and talk with him," Jealous said in a statement to CNN.

Gee, I guess Jealous lied, as well as being a race baiter[/snark]

Once again, note the NAACP was only asking the Tea Party to disown the actions/words of "SOME" members of its party, rather than being a "screeds from race baiters". Defensive, much?

Besides, they got it wrong; Williams resigned, remember? Wonder how much this had to do with it.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
signing off

NIKI2

Sunday, July 18, 2010 5:44 PM

Further update: Williams didn't "quit", he and his Tea Party Express were banned from the movement! He's right, this DID start something...something GOOD. It's the first sign that they WILL call out the racists among them, and I applaud them for it!

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The National Tea Party Federation, an organization that represents the Tea Party political movement around the country, has expelled conservative commentator Mark Williams and his Tea Party Express because of an inflammatory blog post he wrote, federation spokesman David Webb said Sunday.

Appearing on the CBS program "Face the Nation," Webb said that Williams and the Tea Party Express -- which has held a series of events across the country to generate support for the movement -- no longer were part of the National Tea Party Federation.

"We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote," Webb said of the blog post by Williams that satirized a fictional letter from what he called "Colored People" to President Abraham Lincoln.

Webb called the blog post "clearly offensive."

Ooops, I guess this disproves the cries that "there is ZERO racism in the Tea Party. It's a first step, I'm impressed.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
signing off

AURAPTOR

Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:13 PM

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.... Williams and the Tea Party Express -- which has held a series of events across the country to generate support for the movement -- no longer were part of the National Tea Party Federation.

"We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote," Webb said of the blog post by Williams that satirized a fictional letter from what he called "Colored People" to President Abraham Lincoln.

Webb called the blog post "clearly offensive."

So, right here, we have the complete and total debunking of not only the naaLcp's fanatical , pointless and utterly politically motivated referendum against the Tea Party. There was no need for this thread to even exist in the first place.

Now, if the Left would openly rebuke their own racists....

HKCAVALIER

Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:17 PM

Okay, I'll give this another go.

"How can I prove I am not a racist?"

Easy, easy, easy--that is, if you're not racist. If you're racist and just trying to hide it this will PISS YOU OFF!

Here it is: D E M O N S T R A T E compassion for people of other races on issues of race. Best of all, be forgiving of other races when they express outrage at the wrongs done them by members of your race. Do this simple thing and you have pretty much invalidated any accusations of racism against you in the eyes of right-thinking people (never gonna prove anything to zealots).

K, can we go now?

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

AURAPTOR

Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:26 PM

HK

Are you an individual, or are you a "race"?

Are we to judge you by your character, or the color of your skin?

My 'race' has done no injustices to people of color. I can honestly say that because we didn't transport anyone on a cargo ship, didn't buy / sell anyone, didn't treat anyone like property or cattle.

Were these things done ? Absolutely, but not by me, or by most others.

I refuse to accept blame for that which I am not guilty of having committed.

We, all of us, regardless of color, are just folk.

The sooner we all get to realizing that fact, and stop this pointless guilt trip, the sooner we can get to Rev. King's promised land.

MAL4PREZ

Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:46 PM

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Okay, I'll give this another go.

"How can I prove I am not a racist?"

Easy, easy, easy--that is, if you're not racist. If you're racist and just trying to hide it this will PISS YOU OFF!

Here it is: D E M O N S T R A T E compassion for people of other races on issues of race. Best of all, be forgiving of other races when they express outrage at the wrongs done them by members of your race. Do this simple thing and you have pretty much invalidated any accusations of racism against you in the eyes of right-thinking people (never gonna prove anything to zealots).

K, can we go now?

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Don't bother HK. Whozit got it taken care of. He answered Crappy's question on another thread:

"Thanks to the Tea Party they want you to belive[sic] that becuase[sic] of your political affliations that when people see you they see someone who is a complete racist. JUST RELAX!!! You're paranoid, everyone DOES NOT see you as a racist. Stop trying to prove something your not, or do you see the government everywhere! No one is after you, enjoy your life."

Or that's how it works if it's Moslims/terrorists rather than Tea Party/racists.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=44327

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AURAPTOR

Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:54 PM

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Originally posted by mal4prez:

Or that's how it works if it's Moslims/terrorists rather than Tea Party/racists.

Wait, did you just try to compare al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism to the Tea Party ?

Really?

Please, elaborate.

Show the long list of car bombs and heads cut off that the Tea Party has had a hand in, if you can.

You see, this is what I'm talking about. You start w/ a tiny, indefensible and unsupported lie. Upon that you feign outrage and heap loads of hysterical propaganda, and before long, you have Nero blaming Christians for the burning of Rome.

NIKI2

Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:48 PM

Crappy, are you saying you are not of the caucasian race (as the term is used these days)? Or that people of the caucasian race ""has done no injustices to people of color. I can honestly say that because we didn't transport anyone on a cargo ship, didn't buy / sell anyone, didn't treat anyone like property or cattle."

I'm curious.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
signing off