Questions of racism in hurricane photo captions; Yahoo responds

[Jesus Christ]

Gregory,

Please stop calling My children "******s"

Yours in Myself,
JC

[Unchainme]

Originally posted by Jesus Christ
Gregory,

Please stop calling My children "******s"

Yours in Myself,
JC

Amen

[ELVIS]

Hahaha...

[scorpioboy33]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Hahaha...

just curious how can you be in New Orleans helping and be on the board...anyway.....with your brilliant retort you further solitify your rep. as a moron thanks

[Jesus Christ]

Gregory, If I looked like this....



...would ye still believe in Me?

[ELVIS]

All of our surrounding communities are taking in prople who lost everything. I'm 30 miles from downtown New Orleans. People are everywhere and they need everything. The churches, convention centers, schools, nursing homes, etc are all taking people in...

[scorpioboy33]

so you don't consider yourself a racist...do you think black people are more predisposed to criminal acts

[Nickdfresh]

BTW, I don't think the use of the word "******" by whitey necessarily makes them a racist since a lot of African-Americans use that word also. But it sure is a big symptom of racism if it's used freely and hatefully.

It's pretty silly for anyone to forget that 90% of the victims of this are victims of "black-on-black crime."

[Baby's On Fire]

Simply using the word ****** is not itself racist. Racism is the sentiment and context behind the use of the word. To answer FORD's question, to me a "******" is a black person who ALSO happens to be a low life piece of shit. some examples include:

Black drug dealers
Black thieves
Black lowlifes of any sort.

******s one and all. So it is race combined with the character or lack thereof, that makes one a "******" versus a "non-******".

At least in my use of the word.....................

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by FORD
Why would you use a racial slur to describe someone acting in a criminal manner? Isn't that calling them out on the basis of race, rather than their actions

Bush is the biggest criminal in all of this. Why don't you call him a "******"?

Is Chertoff a "******"?

Who are the "******s" in the Israel/Palestinian situation? Both are guilty of war crimes.

Bottom line, what is the fucking purpose of using a racist term and then trying to justify it as meaning something other than that?

Brilliant.

Well put.



Fuck Elvis and his ilk.

Ignorant hypocrite.

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by scorpioboy33
so you don't consider yourself a racist...do you think black people are more predisposed to criminal acts

No

[scorpioboy33]

ah you know Elvis it's ok I'm done with you...idiots like you will always stay the same prolife proracist prowar propollution proignorance losers for ever.....talk to you never bill
p.s. thanks for helping you your a real hero

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Mez used that word in his Kanye West post. Nobody called him a racist. He used it in the same context as Elvis. I smell a double standard around here.

I'm not here to defend MEZRO, but he said "gang ******(s)," he used it in a very specific context. Not as in anyway a generalization of blacks overall, but as an attack on "gang-bangers"...

I think he was implying that this was a specific criminal problem that afflicts, and mostly victimizes, the black community...

[FORD]

I'm down wit' da Black JC, that's what I'm sayin'

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by FORD
I'm down wit' da Black JC, that's what I'm sayin'

Word.