Why do white people scare so easily?

[woolldog]

the Wright issue, the Muslim smears, illegal immigration and so on.

Why?

:popcorn:

[oasis]

1. Rev Wright, is that you?

[sandnsea]

2. P-O-W-E-R

The top of the heap is a lovely place to be.

[woolldog]

22. But what motivates a guy like Lou Dobbs?

When I watch him I sense he has a genuine fear of Mexicans and looks for any reason to demonize them on the immigration issues. He's better off than 99% of those in America, and has plenty of power. Illegal immigration isn't going to challenge that. So what's he afraid of?

[Teaser]

28. smack. He is motivated by smack

.

[tigervalentine]

29. Actually, Lou is married to a Mexican woman

and says she often tells him he isn't hard enough on the immigration issue.

Go figure.

[daleo]

34. Heh, heh, heh

She said "he isn't hard enough".

[krawhitham]

30. RATINGS

[Teaser]

33. and smack.

.

[Whisp]

24. pecking order.

even the poorest of whites, have to feel dominant over someone. whether it's your malesness over women or your birthright of whiteness or having more physical muscle or or or.

some can only feel good about themselves if they think they are 'better' than others.

[DebJ]

25. ie, lack of self esteem drives one to put down others

[jlake]

3. More racial divisiveness from the 0 campaign. SAD!

[emilyg]

41. They are very good at that.

[NMMNG]

43. Yeah, but it's Hillary that's always accused of doing it.

:eyes:

[sandnsea]

4. dupe

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. That much is certain. n/t

[KittyWampus]

5. ALL people scare easily when they don't have adequate health coverage, pensions, enough rent money

food, education.

[snailly]

6. Why do people scare so easily?

There I fixed it for you.

[Solomon]

7. Fear trumps everything. Julius Caesar knew that.

That's why they will try to terrorize us into voting in another republican. Works like a charm.

[sorrybushisfromtexas]

8. I be one....

I am not scared.

[grantcart]

9. It is simply a question of leadership

Think of how FDR calmed a nation when the entire World was at war


Think of the hysteria Bush/Cheney has built up since 9/11


That is why the scare attacks from one side in this campaign reveal such a lack of leadership

[Ytzak]

10. Because under their skin, in their private thoughts...

They are racist, biggoted, misanthropes who want to be told what they want.

[woolldog]

13. wow

that's a bit extreme, don't you think?

[Ytzak]

42. My signature says what I think is one of life's great truths.

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. Robert Heinlein"

I think the majority want to be controlled. They majority are, at best, at the second tier of Maslows hierarchy of needs. People who will give them safety will be rewarded with their loyalty.

[shadowknows69]

11. I think Public Enemy said it best

"Fear of a Black Planet"

[Teaser]

17. "FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET!!!"

It needed to be said louder.

Louder than a bomb...

[HughMoran]

12. Scared of the unknown

It's very common to be afraid of what you are nto familiar with. I laugh at the wimpy white people here in the burbs - bunch of cowards.

[arundhatiroyfan]

14. Irrational fear of losing benefits...

whether it is money or something else.

[Armstead]

15. Because we're weenies?

[skooooo]

18. scary dark people..

..might take our STUFF!!

:scared:

[woolldog]

23. lol

:rofl:

[skooooo]

27. ooooohhhh don't laugh at me.. ....

it makes me sceeeeeaared!

:scared:
:scared:

[uponit7771]

37. ...good 1, snickering

[Danzo]

19. You Racist-Ly Lumped Me In With The Timid Caucasions

Thanks a lot.

When Martin Luther King said that people should be judged by the content of their character and NOT by the color of their skin, I'm pretty sure he wanted that lesson to be applied to ALL races.

[HughMoran]

21. I don't mind

Most whities are a bunch of wimps.

[Danzo]

44. I Respect Your Opinion

I just feel that it's going to be hard to achieve a colorblind society unless we reject ALL forms of racism.

[fascisthunter]

20. Because If the Tables Were Ever Turned

they assume blacks would treat them just as unfairly.

[DebJ]

26. which is to say....they feel guilty.....I don't...

[alcibiades_mystery]

31. Privilege...it's like a broadband conection...once you've had it

You never want to go back to dial-up.

[GoldieAZ49]

32. Disgust is not the same as being scared

And that is what the Wright video clips are, disgusting

[Zynx]

35. Most whites don't really care about any of those issues.

Sorry to smash your stereotypes there. Also, African Americans in polling have been just as upset over illegal immigration as whites.

[David__77]

36. Only the racist ones do.

And there are millions of them for sure.

This sort of ugliness is in full force on this board at this very moment.

[boppers]

38. Fear of losing their racially oriented "standing".

Basically, they're "white people" simply *because* they consider their skin pigment to be an important aspect of their identity. In a society free of pigment-oriented identities, that aspect of their person, that prized self-definition, becomes useless.

I may be a melanin-challenged person, but I'm not a "white" one.

I'm fascinated and delighted by the interesting cultures and heritages that combined to make me who I am, but I'm not that concerned with each of their individual genetic attributes, let alone obsessed over such simple ones as skin pigment.

[frazzled]

39. I was kind of thinking the same thing

I live in Chicago, in the city. I'm an older white woman of a certain age (Age of Aquarius once, with my mirrored Indian dress, very bourgeois now, with my Stuart Weitzman shoes). I've been kind of shocked that people are "shocked, shocked" at things like the Rev. Wright was saying. Well, I'm not so shocked. I hang in black cafeterias on the south side of Chicago. I understand where a congregation like that is coming from. I ride the bus where I am sometimes the only white person. I am neither black nor Christian, but I understand the language of black preachers who came of age in the 1960s, at least somewhat. He sounded like a black, higher pitched version of Susan Sontag to me (probably my equivalent of liberation theology for the artsy intellectual crowd).

I'll tell you this, I can relate to Rev. Wright's language probably a little more than I can to Geraldine Ferraro's language. If I had to have a beer with someone ....

Maybe I'm just weird. But I do not scare that easily at my age.

[Raine]

40. It's in the best interest of "the powers that be"

in this country to keep people pitted against each other. Those who have are terrified of losing what they have (power, money etc) to those who have been excluded. Keep people afraid all the time, keep them hanging on to what they have. Keep them from ever wising up and joining with other groups to overthrow those that have IT ALL. In a nutshell...Divide and Conquer.