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They need to respect our feelings... that is when the conversation breaks down cuz they don't respect our point of view and the only way to get them to talk is to minimize the reality of our history so when we don't want to do that then we're cotton pickin niggers.
Gotta Love America!
Hypocrites.
the issues with race are not one of words but of thoughts.
Both whites and blacks picked cotton in the South. But I probably wouldn't say it to a black person. Here's some information from a previous discussion:
COTTON-PICKING - as an adjective cotton-picking "is widespread as a term of disparagement. Damned, darned." From the "Dictionary of American Regional English," Volume 1 by Frederic G. Cassidy (1985, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England).
: : Actually, I think it's more light-hearted/ teasing than disparaging. "Keep your cotton-picking hands off my sandwich."
if it was innocent, why stop himself? from wherever he was going to go.
Debra Mathis has a post at BlackAmericaWeb.com about this issue.
I've never liked her more...
He's whining because he thinks the only thing difficult about talking about race is refraining from derogatory language. He'd be on it like Andrew Dice Clay given the opportunity. He should thank us for keeping his anti-social tendencies on a leash.
If we were as progressive and inclusive as he says we are, he'd be out of a job... capitalizing on peoples' fears and ethnocentricity.
I've picked cotton. Do you think Secretary Fancy Shoes has? or Lou Dobbs for that matter?
Whites are constantly having to rethink terms once considered acceptable, now are questionable, but not yet removed from the lexicon.
Why not give him credit for stopping himself?
I don't see any connection between what Rice was saying and whatever Dobbs was yammering about.
Although he does show a pattern of racial ignorance and insensitivity. For the most part, he appears to be a jerk!
I know I don't consider most white people racist before meeting them.
But I absolutely believe that white people open their mouths and say things and share view points that they are truly too ignorant to speak about.
It's like me saying that a woman shouldn't be allowed to get offended or upset at certain things a man says or does. As a man, who am I to say what a woman should find offensive, degrading, and utterly insulting?
I just think it's ridiculous that, instead of white people conceding the point that they truly cannot understand minorities, what it's like to be the single black or Hispanic in the room, or the fact that America has chopped off black people's feet in this marathon race we call life, they instead become indignant. They get frustrated and upset--"How can YOU people be angry! Life is good! You can have any job you want! This is the land of opportunity! It's the most diverse America we've ever seen! And I have black friends, too!"
I just think it's insulting. It bothers me personally because some whites are spewing their ignorance--even when they aren't trying to be offensive at all. For example, I was listening to Air America. They had a white man as a host, and he was absolutely confounded and a little frustrated on why black people have to consider themselves black. Why not just be American, he would ask. He couldn't grasp why Barack Obama gets to be considered black, when he's half white. I'm sitting there listening and thinking, "Good God, is it that hard to educate yourself? Have you NEVER heard of the disgusting history of the One Drop Rule?" Things like this are issues CREATED by white people, and yet whites are ignorant of their own history, especially when it relates to the degradation of blacks in America.
They're just upset that we don't forget that history while they continue their selective amnesia.
You can bet if there were some far left commentator who said things equally shocking that the right wing would have their head.
Look at the way they ran off Dan Rather.
Next thing you know you'll see Hillary on Dobbs spouting the virtues of white supremacy.
Anonymous 6:33, I did indeed see that, and it's up to folks like us to stand up and say that no longer will Black folk be held accountable for what other grown Black folk say.
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Props Rikyrah!
"Lou, we'll see you back here in one hour. Thanks very much." *Cut the turd's mic.*
"Wait, what just happened?! No, wait darnit! Freakin' PC autpilot!Gosh-darn cotton pickin' social gospelers!!! Darn you, Blitzer!"
CNN
CNN
CNN
write, call, email CNN. and he's the same jackass who was saying a week or so ago "i have never, not in 40 years, heard any racist talk, never."
what a fucking liar. i hear it ALL THE TIME, and he's heard nothing in 40 years? cotton picking fuckhead.
"bloated blowfly fucker"
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ahahahahahaha! Yes he is!
Again--F-You Lou Dobbs!