Please tell me what the term 'racist' means?

[patdem]

I know 'terrorist' is very vague and can be used to paint a broad brush, but I thought we had the term racist pretty down pat..then I see these posts:

MATALIN: -- the achievement gap between the white and black students at a high, closing, narrowing. I mean, you know, I think these civil rights leaders are nothing more than racists. And they're keeping constituency, they're keeping their neighborhoods and their African-American brothers enslaved, if you will, by continuing to let them think that they're -- or forced to think that they're victims, that the whole system is against them. Articulate it better, Sean; it's so sad to me.


"RUSH: We've got a little office pool going on here, folks, and I wanted to share it with you, regarding the funeral. First, when's it going to end? The other things that we're looking at -- who's in the house? You've got Bill Clinton, you've got the Reverend Jackson, and you have Teddy Kennedy, and those are just the known culprits. I'm sure that there are others who fit the mold. They're all in the House. So here's the little office pool that we have going here. Here you might want to have your own version of this in your office or your home today. The end of the funeral, when it's all over, how many women will be picked up? The next question we're asking ourselves, how many babies will be born nine months from today? I mean, you've got Bill Clinton in there; you've got Jesse Jackson and Teddy Kennedy -- and the next question we're asking, "Will a car fail to negotiate a bridge somewhere in Georgia late tonight, and if so, who will have been driving?"


WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential presidential contender in 2008, "seems to have a lot of anger" and voters usually do not send angry candidates to the White House, the Republican Party chairman said Sunday.


"When you think of the level of anger, I'm not sure it's what Americans want," said Ken Mehlman, head of the Republican National Committee.

Mehlman cited the New York senator's remarks on Martin Luther King Day in which she called the Bush administration "one of the worst" in history and compared the Republican-controlled House to a plantation where opposing voices are silenced.

We all know which got more play in the media...Hillary and the plantation remark. WHERE THE FUCK IS THE 'LIBERAL MEDIA'?

[wtmusic]

1. Mehlman's right...Americans don't want anger

it's being foisted on us by the criminals in his party

[MadMaddie]

2. Each person you noted is the definition of racist...

They spout bullshit and refuse to use any facts or statistics to support their empty arguments.

There is no libral media...there is the Reichstag media...we should paint them as such...

Facts don't matter to them it's all about the propaganda and lining their pockets...

PatDem...as an African American I can tell you this...they are not talking to Black America they know that is a lost cause. Black America woke up during Katrina!!

They are talking to their 30-40 % White American backers and reinforcing their racism. Now that they have * and the neocons entrenched in WA they don't have to hide behind their White Hoods!! They can come out and say exactly what they are thinking!!

[patdem]

3. Mad, I am a white middle aged woman, married to a black man

and I am just OUTRAGED that Hillary is taken to task over the word 'plantation'..and the rest are given a free ride on OUTRIGHT ABSOLUTE RACIST remarks. :grr:

[MadMaddie]

4. PatDem The media has pulled out all of the stops....

And they are the propaganda arm of the * regime.

You know as well as I do that the audience that Hillary was talking to knew exactly what she meant. The media distorts what she says and doesn't show what she said after that comment to explain the comment!!

They are absolute Racist Remarks!!

The thing is this is not 1920, 1950, 1960...African Americans are going to sit in the back of the bus, or be treated as if they are not American citizens......

these nuts are going to get so bold and so rightous that they are going to say the wrong thing to the wrong brother or sister or spouse.....

:nuke:

[patdem]

5. Touche...there are not ONLY blacks..there are children of mixed

marriages, wives, husbands- in laws of inter racial couples..so if there are 15% blacks in the country..there are another 10% who are related in some way...GOOD take on the situation!...THANKS!

[MadMaddie]

8. PatDem....I should have included the other groups you mentioned...

You are right there are so many people that are impacted by this bias and racism. I have a partner of 13 years and she is white and she gets so angry about this blatent racism also!!

You are welcome!!:toast:

[Just Me]

6. I think "rascist" includes those who oppose economic and social justice.

They have simply learned how to be "rascist" in a more subtle way.

All forms of discrimination work that way now. I know. I am a professional woman who has been denied advancement because I was a mother ("you should consider going the 'mommy track'), I was an "emotional" being, I worked 6:30 am to 5:30 pm rather than 10:30 am to 7:30 pm, I was too attractive and a distraction *LOL*, blah, blah, blah.

The powerful have simply learned to be more sneaky about their methods of discrimination. Moreover, if you refuse to play their game, they are ruthless in their retaliation.

[patdem]

7. Well, I recall when Dean called the Republican Party the party of White

Men...I went to the RNC website..and there were ONLY pink mostly bald heads..and it reminded me of a gaggle of flamingos..(or is that a murder? as in crows?)

[MadMaddie]

10. Do you remember the flack he got for making the statement..

That's right if you state facts about them they are going swiftboat you one way or another..

[TahitiNut]

9. Racism is more than the mere acknowledgment of race ...

... it is the belief/assertion that there are inherent superiorities and inferiorities based on one's racial heritage. That's the conventional meaning. 'Race' is made real by the creation of different realities - independent of whether one asserts there is but one race: the human race.

'Racism' is beginning to mean the politics of division - exacerbating perceptions of separation and distinction for political advantage.