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  • This is a cheap way to call ferraro a racist. Her opinion

    I have to say that this article is just a run around blah blah trying to pin ferraro as a racist and label her in a group with Don Imus and people who lynched blacks? Ferraro made a comment about race, does this make her a racist? The fact of the matter is race exists and their is long history of racism in the world. So does this mean if a ...
    Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by PPB on March 17, 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

  • Obama and Ferraro

    I am of two minds about Geraldine Ferraro's comment that started all the excitement. Although I have no idea whether she is actually a racist, I do think that we have landed in a peculiar wrinkle in time where Mr. Obama's color is finally paying him back (and others, vicariously) for his trials as a black person. Unlike some past black ...
    Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by callmeplayfair on March 14, 2008

  • Inhuman Racism and Dehumanizing Labels

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is, of course, exactly right. The ''Kinsley gaffes'' of these polititians, scientists and entertainers (when they accidentally tell the truth about how they feel) are truly racist. No. Contest. Why then do we all resist the title ''racist'', even when caught in such a blatant transgression of moral discourse about skin ...
    Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by ptallon on March 14, 2008

  • Re: So then how is Ferraro racist?

    Oy vey. Please read this, though I'm sure that you'll keep going on like you are here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/orlando-lima/im-not-racist-some-of-m_b_91548.html And this: http://www.euroamerican.org/ AND THIS: http://whitepriv.blogspot.com/ Then after you finish rubbishing that as nonsense try reading Tim Wise, David Roediger, Grace ...
    Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by TACULAR on March 14, 2008

  • Ferraro was right - why can't we say that?

    What's so wrong about saying that Ferraro was right? Why does that make one instantly a racist? Let's look at the facts. Obama is only two years out of the Illinois state house. He wasn't even there very long. No white candidate would get 5 seconds of attention or $1.98 in campaign contributions with that thin of a resume', no matter how eloquent ...
    Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by JNietz on March 14, 2008