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Three days ago I saw a racist sign while driving through Harrison, AR.

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Did it make me reach back and and touch the grips of my 1911 .45 Automatic as I drove on by? Yes.

Why? You want to get violent when people say things you don't like?
 
I am being very consistent. There is a huge difference between saying accept (respect?) all people including "my kind" as your equal and saying show more love (respect?) for people that happen to share your race, gender or ethnicity than other people.

On the other hand, taking pride in simply having an immutable trait (e.g. race, gender or ethnicity) that you did nothing to acheive is moronic but not necessarily bigoted.

Here in liberal NYC, I see and hear racists everyday. Not as much bigotry as I used to come across, but still surviving.

The future belongs to the kids, and everyday I meet and see more rainbow babies. Such may be the only solution, when the human race is the only race.
 
Such may be the only solution, when the human race is the only race.

That would not be a "solution". It would be a tragedy. There would be no more white people.
 
That would not be a "solution". It would be a tragedy. There would be no more white people.

I'm not white, I don't care. Your sarcasm failed.
 
Why? You want to get violent when people say things you don't like?

How much catfish do you hope to catch with all this BAIT you are throwing around?

Normal people knew exactly what I meant.
 
You have no idea how prophetic your post was and is.
I had this very discussion with my lady friend, and one of her group said ONLY...only... white people can be racist.
That got a huge eye roll for almost everyone present. (8 people).
Where they all white?
If you could understand the difference between the majority race being prejudiced based on race, vs a minority race attacking-back with race-based insults against the majority, maybe you'd stop rolling your eyes.
In the public arena, where people don't think, yeah, they roll their eyes because they are ignorant. Here though, you have a choice to learn. Or remain ignorant, your call.


Here's what's going on.
There is still large swathes of the American population who are racist in one significant form or another.
There are lots of organizations and efforts to keep awareness of the issue up, so that it can continue to be addressed and discussed.

Right wing strategists have seized on this, and they hunt for examples of whites being called racists, and they fan the flames. They did this to the degree that it's a primary anti-Democrat talking point...Democrats just call you racists.
Obama called you racists. etc.

They also intentionally use dog-whistles, like the hanging comment, ape, monkey, etc., and they do it for two reasons. To signal to their base without saying "nigger" directly, and they do it to further enrage people who call out such racism, which is a self-reinforcing cycle. They cry racist, and the right points to that again as "see they think we're all racists!".

So are you playing into that, or were you really shocked to see a ****ing racist sign driving down the highway? You do know David Duke was elected to the House not that long ago right? Have you ever been down south...deep south?
You think Caravans/immigrant/muslim outcry was about taxes and not some healthy dose of racism threaded through there?
 
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