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  • Diversity is a disease

    The bottom line is fear...fear that a black man (that happens to be the President of the United States) is going to have an influence in their children...it reminds me of other fears...fear that a black man is going to rape white women...fear that white children play with black children as if theywould get some type of disease...How can people ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by albertroldan on September 14, 2009

  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008

  • Re: What function does this Racism serve

    Racism is every bit as real and pervasive as sexism. It is a reality that has major influence over our culture and economy. In the work place, in government and in our educational systems are all places where it perverts what should be; into something else. It is a CURRENT reality, and a problem we face on many planes today. But picking at ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Den on April 1, 2008

  • Re: What function does this Racism serve

    I would never deny that Racism is real, nor that it needs to be erradicated. But when we look for it everywhere, we will find it everywhere, real or imagined. There is a very large and important difference between Racism, an act of hate and fear, and percieved racism in everyday pictures and activities. How far do you want to take the parania? ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Den on April 1, 2008

  • What function does this Racism serve

    Moderation has its place. It is possible to see racism everywhere, that does not mean it is truly there. We have faced this problem with a thousand different faces all throughout history. Like people searching for communist behaviors in their friends and neighbors during the cold war, or people looking for homosexual tendencies when aids first ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Den on April 1, 2008

  • Racism vs. Prejudice

    Reflecting on comments by Ferraro, O'Reilly and Imus, I'd like to offer the notion that we really need two different words to deal with two very different forms of discrimination:Prejudice: an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.Racism: a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or ...
    Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by SpanktheUser on March 14, 2008