Time to play "Identify the Racist!!!!!!!!"

[Karmadillo]

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/012183.php

Friday :: Mar 21, 2008
Identify The Racist

by eriposte
Let's see if you can complete a (not so fun) exercise today. Identify which of the following individuals is a racist - without clicking on the links to find out who said what. (See my comments at the end for my view).

Person A:

...I think in the end he has an ability to help us bridge the divide of religious extremism. To maybe even give power to moderate Islam. To be able to stand up against this radical misinterpretation of a legitimate religion...

: ...What gives him credibility on that score?

: Because he's African-American. Because he's a Black man who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country.

Person B:

He, for the first time, I think, as a black leader in America, has come to the American people not as a victim, but rather as a leader.

Person C:

acknowledges, with no small irony, that he benefits from his race.

If he were white, he once bluntly noted, he would simply be one of nine freshmen senators, almost certainly without a multimillion-dollar book deal and a shred of celebrity. Or would he have been elected at all?

Person D:

The point I was making was not that harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it...

Person E:

I will probably start with a personal account, drawing attention to the historic firsts of both these candidacies in our party...
...
I will discuss what I think's been going on in her campaign and the role of the media, which has been far larger than anything I've seen before. And I'll get into what this bides for the future.
...
I have to tell you, this is a very emotional campaign for me...
...
I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama's campaign—to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against. For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It's been a very sexist media. Some just don't like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.
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If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky

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[blm]

1. BULLSHIT - Kerry remarks were dealing with the REALITY that most of the world views USA as a racist

nation.

Kerry's been consistent about this, that an Obama presidency on day one will do for America's credibility in the world what decades of diplomacy and billions of our tax dollars cannot - overcome the RACIAL BARRIERS and views of THIS COUNTRY'S racist history.

Any one with an ounce of objectivity would recognize the difference.

May I ask why YOU believe that Kerry is wrong on his remarks, or why YOU want people to believe the remarks are racist?

[karynnj]

7. Also, people who have an agenda, took an obscure Kerry interview

and cherrypicked sentences - and even partial sentences, cutting him off midsentence to get that quote - which even so is absolutely not racist.

Two things:
1) Here is the full thing - http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/3/20/133938/471/87#c87
2) Consider who may not like the fact that Kerry has been by far the best surrogate out there. Consider that they took this 2 day old interview done by a small MA paper and created a new tube to smear the Senator. It is pretty low to take only part of sentence - to make a point the full sentence would not allow.

[bunnies]

2. This is so NOT helpful.

*sigh*

[Skoods]

3. hmm.

A is just stupid because there is no way his race will make a different in foreign policy or legislative affairs.

None of them are freaking racist, many of them just came out wrong.

[karynnj]

8. That's because over half of the last sentence was truncated

I can tell you it would make a difference. My college daughter is in a third world country on a study abroad program - and there is intense interest and delight in the possibility that Obama could be President.

Anyway, here's a link to the full thing: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/3/20/133938/471/87#c87

I think that the Senator's 24 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee trump your expertise.

[Skoods]

11. Ha

Ok, so you're implying that we should allow a third world country with a fascist dictatorship to influence who we pick for President?

[karynnj]

12. No - that's a pretty big leap

First off Senator Kerry was not answering all the reasons he supports Obama - he gave that speech months ago. I think we will let Americans pick the President. We do this via a vote - and so far Obama has more of those vote things and delegate things than HRC.

The only mention of third world country was that I mentioned having a daughter in one - that they were intrigued was, I thought interesting. The country she is in is socialist - not fascist -if that makes you happy.

[ellacott]

4. You all need to be banned from using the word racist

Typical

[PATRICK]

5. In our ancestries

there are always slaves and enslavers, bigots and victims, believers and non-believers and most assuredly privileged men and victimized women.

And we all forget and all repeat the cycles, depending on who is raising the flag of dumb us-ism and who is liberating the wise we-sim.

They tried to manufacture the image of Powell as a cynical, false, vote sweeping opportunity and failed in their own falseness and poisons. The real thing comes along, of undeniably GOOD presidential timber a timely bridge to many of the best things about Americans and humanity, and the people DO respond. That is something more than progress. It is genuine hope. It is choice in the midst of lies and failings and is not afraid of all the history all the truth and all the great opportunity..

[JoFerret]

6. I am a racist

And so is Obama, and Clinton and YOU.

[2rth2pwr]

9. Simple if it is from Obama or his supporters it's not

racism, everybody else? Typical white people.

[Cheap_Trick]

10. simple

if you don't support HRC, you're sexist. typical