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Town's White Police Official Calls Obama N-Word [W:301]

Are you serious? Really? Illegal to use racial slurs while on duty? Wow. Just wow.

I know it's sleazy, and it's scumbag behavior, but illegal? :lamo

I only stated that because I do not know the laws, or if there are laws. One law might fall under the definition of hate speech. But, everyone has first amendment rights, even though it makes them look like asshats.
 
Are you serious? Really? Illegal to use racial slurs while on duty? Wow. Just wow.

I know it's sleazy, and it's scumbag behavior, but illegal? :lamo

There is a difference between illegal behavior and criminal behavior
 
Are you serious? Really? Illegal to use racial slurs while on duty? Wow. Just wow.

I know it's sleazy, and it's scumbag behavior, but illegal? :lamo

That's the direction things are headed. Equal opportunity and equal protection under the law isn't enough. Now we have to start punishing unpopular thought and stuff that might make others feel uncomfortable. The only way we can achieve true freedom is by getting rid of people that piss us off.

Liberals roundly criticize the Catholic church for the inquisition but they're good with the same process when it comes to stuff like this.
 
I'm talking about the type of racism expressed by the vast majority of white Americans where they tell denigrating racist jokes in one breath and then claim to be colorblind in the next.

Um, actually, not so much. Your statement would be mostly true if it were applied to many areas of the Deep South where I was raised as a strongly-conservative Southern Baptist racist, but for most of America, not so much. Don't get me wrong - there's still many millions of white Americans who are just as you describe (and whose continuing racism is enabled by people like the rightists on this thread), but most white Americans (like myself) have gotten away from that kind of thinking or are trying to do so. If that were not the case, then Obama could not have won the blue states - twice.
 
I don't understand how a story like this gets 8 pages of heated comments?

The guys used a racial slur, was caught, admitted it and refused to apologise. The guy is a racist and an idiot, end of thread /
 
Dumbass old man says something racist about a politician.

In other news, the sky is blue, taxes are due, and all white people are racist even if they don't know it.

Have a good weekend DP!
 
Um, actually, not so much. Your statement would be mostly true if it were applied to many areas of the Deep South where I was raised as a strongly-conservative Southern Baptist racist, but for most of America, not so much. Don't get me wrong - there's still many millions of white Americans who are just as you describe (and whose continuing racism is enabled by people like the rightists on this thread), but most white Americans (like myself) have gotten away from that kind of thinking or are trying to do so. If that were not the case, then Obama could not have won the blue states - twice.
No, most white Americans have not gotten away from "that kind of thing". In fact, one of the great lies told by white people on the left is that racism is just a problem in the South or on the right. The fact that the VAST MAJORITY of white Americans are still racist, not because they are bad people who hate blacks or Asians, but because they were raised in a society filled with racism that they could not help but be conditioned in such a way. This, again, is why so many white Americans - including liberals and progressives - tell racist jokes, minimize racism, deny white privilege, avoid black people, dismiss nonwhite criticism as "politically correct" and so on. Now, there are some white Americans who are working to improve themselves and, indeed, get away from this modern sort of racism, but they are few and far between.
 
Or he recently went to a Chris Rock show....




Chris Rock almost immediately stopped using that bit because white people though it was permission to start calling black people niggers.
 
Chris Rock almost immediately stopped using that bit because white people though it was permission to start calling black people niggers.
Heaven forbid some people share the same opinion as Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, etc.

I dont think Chris Rock CALLED Black people niggaz. He said there was a DIFFERENCE between them. I dont use the word (and for the record dont use honky, chink, spic, or cracka either) but I DO accept some realities. It is a reality that some people are just outright racist. White people, black people, brown people...everyones got em. I accept as a given that if anyone invests a whole lot of your life having your feelings hurt because someone used a bad word or called you a name you are going to run up a serious gyno bill for attention to your mangina. I accept that some people exercise extremely poor judgement. I accept the sun is going to come out tomorrow and if life is going to get better it will be because we spent more time looking towards the positive opportunities for growth and change in this world and less whining about how our feelings are hurt by some 82 year old guy in New Hampshire or an 80 year old man in California.
 
You know shrubnose, I wonder why and how. Why people like this haven't been found out about long ago before they're placed into positions of trust, and how they've gotten through their whole lifetimes being the way they are and never changing their feelings or opinions about other people.

I have to admit, I've never known a person who has held similar beliefs as this guy, that ever changed. I wonder if people ever do?




I have known a few people who thought like this guy, as a matter of fact my father was one of them.

As far as I know, none of them ever changed. Sad, but true.
 
Thank God the dude's from New Hampshire.
 
Heaven forbid some people share the same opinion as Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, etc.

I dont think Chris Rock CALLED Black people niggaz. He said there was a DIFFERENCE between them. I dont use the word (and for the record dont use honky, chink, spic, or cracka either) but I DO accept some realities. It is a reality that some people are just outright racist. White people, black people, brown people...everyones got em. I accept as a given that if anyone invests a whole lot of your life having your feelings hurt because someone used a bad word or called you a name you are going to run up a serious gyno bill for attention to your mangina. I accept that some people exercise extremely poor judgement. I accept the sun is going to come out tomorrow and if life is going to get better it will be because we spent more time looking towards the positive opportunities for growth and change in this world and less whining about how our feelings are hurt by some 82 year old guy in New Hampshire or an 80 year old man in California.

Not to mention, the people who seem to be butt hurt the most, are white folks.
 
I don't understand how a story like this gets 8 pages of heated comments?

The guys used a racial slur, was caught, admitted it and refused to apologise. The guy is a racist and an idiot, end of thread /

He used a specific racial slur. Other racial slurs are ok.
 
I have known a few people who thought like this guy, as a matter of fact my father was one of them.

As far as I know, none of them ever changed. Sad, but true.

Mine too. Mine was a neoconservative, or a hard right person, however one defines it, and, he despised Mayor Richard J. Daley with a passion because Daley was just a democrat. But, I was unaware of Daley's positions about race, until I'd left home at the age of 16. But after leaving, I'd made new and different friends, and found racism was prevalent even in the early 1970s' and later learned about how Daley handled people in the city he was a long time mayor of, which was despicable. He basically kept his thumb upon black aldermen of certain districts.

How Mayor Daley Outfoxed Martin Luther King | NBC Chicago

I never bought into my father's racism, I was too young to do that because the schools I went to were integrated, which he didn't like either. If he'd ever found out I'd played sports with blacks during recess or after school, I'd probably be dead.

Here we are, 2012, and I would have thought all of this was well behind us, until recently, when different people from different walks of life basically outed themselves, and these are basically the older people who never evolved into thinking that people are people, no matter what color they might be.
I find it somewhat disturbing. I don't like it either. There's no place for it in today's society.

My dad never changed either. On a visit to see mother and father while home on leave, he made a comment about blacks, and I just gave him the dirty look and said, don't start that again, I listened to it for 16 years, just stop it.

Maybe it's a few, maybe it's more widespread than I can imagine.
 
I cal obama what he really is an ahole.

I won't go into calling Obama anything, but if any people really think that liberals or democrats like everything Obama has done thus far as president, you would be wrong. There are some things he's done that I dislike, there are other presidents who did things people didn't like either. We'll never have the perfect president that will please everyone, never.
 
I won't go into calling Obama anything, but if any people really think that liberals or democrats like everything Obama has done thus far as president, you would be wrong. There are some things he's done that I dislike, there are other presidents who did things people didn't like either. We'll never have the perfect president that will please everyone, never.

allowing 36k illegal alien criminals go free is just wrong on so many levels.
 
Mine too. Mine was a neoconservative, or a hard right person, however one defines it, and, he despised Mayor Richard J. Daley with a passion because Daley was just a democrat. But, I was unaware of Daley's positions about race, until I'd left home at the age of 16. But after leaving, I'd made new and different friends, and found racism was prevalent even in the early 1970s' and later learned about how Daley handled people in the city he was a long time mayor of, which was despicable. He basically kept his thumb upon black aldermen of certain districts.

How Mayor Daley Outfoxed Martin Luther King | NBC Chicago

I never bought into my father's racism, I was too young to do that because the schools I went to were integrated, which he didn't like either. If he'd ever found out I'd played sports with blacks during recess or after school, I'd probably be dead.

Here we are, 2012, and I would have thought all of this was well behind us, until recently, when different people from different walks of life basically outed themselves, and these are basically the older people who never evolved into thinking that people are people, no matter what color they might be.
I find it somewhat disturbing. I don't like it either. There's no place for it in today's society.

My dad never changed either. On a visit to see mother and father while home on leave, he made a comment about blacks, and I just gave him the dirty look and said, don't start that again, I listened to it for 16 years, just stop it.

Maybe it's a few, maybe it's more widespread than I can imagine
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From what I've seen, there's not near as much racism in the USA as there was when I was a child (I was born in 1943.). A lot of people have changed their attitudes.

Most of the little racism that still exists is not as blatant and open as it once was.
 
From what I've seen, there's not near as much racism in the USA as there was when I was a child (I was born in 1943.). A lot of people have changed their attitudes.

Most of the little racism that still exists is not as blatant and open as it once was.

I agree.
 
Town's White Police Official Calls Obama N-Word - Imagine that.

This sounds familiar with old people who haven't evolved into the modern day.WHOA!

So the modern day world uses 'the N word' instead of nigger? I don't see much advancement there. The man didn't call him 'the N word', so let's start telling it like it is.
 
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