White And Conservative? Must Be A Racist

[Blackflag]

The racism card has been so overplayed it is starting to not mean anything.

What a racist thing to say.

[kwame k]

Really isn't all violent crime, a hate crime?

Can you love the person you're beating the fuck out of..........my bad, you can! Spousal abuse......

What if a couple is of mixed race and they beat each other up but still love each other?

Is that a hate crime

[knuckleboner]

anybody who thinks that any significant portion of obama supporters claim that all or most opponents are racist is either a fool, or playing the race card as an attention whore. (after all, not too many people have labeled john boehner a racist, and he's probably obama's biggest critic.)

this columnist, without ANY supporting evidence, could be either.

[kwame k]

I used to love The Jeffersons

[WACF]

If it is starting to lose its meaning, then why should it bother you to hear the racism angle? Let people say what they want.



Huh? What are you saying here? The criminal is white; then the criminal is not white and the family cries racism?

Recently, a white teenager from Long Island was convicted of killing a Latino man, but he was acquitted of one of the most serious charges against him: murder with a racial motive, a hate crime. One of the jurors interviewed said that the key was that the teen and his friends had said the night in question they were set out to "beat up some Mexican guys" not "kill some Mexican guys." A hate crime is still a hate crime, whether the victim ended up dead or not (or does the law distinguish between death by a hate crime and injured by a hate crime?). The family and supporters of the family of the victim surely are justified in calling this a violent racist act, don't you think?



If only that were true. Sadly, I don't see it happening even if I live to be 125.

Your example is more of the extreme where it is for sure a hate crime...and family can say what they want of course.

But....why is a racially motivated act worth more time than just a violent crime because you do not like the look of someone...or they have what you want...I thought we were supposed to be equal.

Murder is murder.

[sadaist]

I used to love The Jeffersons

Used to? Thanks to Nick At Nite, DVR's, and the Internet you still can. Time to "move on up" from that old antennae television Kwame.

The bi-racial couple, isn't the wife Lenny Kravitz's mom? I swear I have heard that before. Lenny is fucking cool.

[FORD]

Used to? Thanks to Nick At Nite, DVR's, and the Internet you still can. Time to "move on up" from that old antennae television Kwame.

The bi-racial couple, isn't the wife Lenny Kravitz's mom? I swear I have heard that before. Lenny is fucking cool.

Yep. She was married to a white guy in real life too.

And I think the Jeffersons still air on the "TV One" channel. It seems to be primarily an African American channel, but that includes a lot of the old 70's sitcoms. Sanford & Son, Good Times, etc. One of the few channels I still get in my non-official cable lineup.

[GAR]

Yep. She was married to a white guy in real life too.

YEAH Fuck Whitey! Literally.. down with The Man. On the Bed, beiouiyatch..

[BigBadBrian]

this columnist, without ANY supporting evidence, could be either.

You need to open your eyes and ears to the State-Run Media...and columnists in the NYT, WashPo, etc.

[Seshmeister]

I don't know if this bozo is racist or not but he's definitely not a Christian.

[BigBadBrian]

Why is a racially-motivated act worth more time than a regular violent crime, you ask? [/COLOR]

It's not. All it does is indict one race and victimize another.

[ELVIS]

I don't know if this bozo is racist or not but he's definitely not a Christian.

I think he is...

[Nickdfresh]

Hold up. An Op-Ed is an opinion piece. "A truthful op-ed?" Are you saying opinion = fact?

And I don't see why one needs chutzpah to publish something if it were the truth...

You have to forgive Big Bland Brian's Cryin.'

If somebody didn't write his opinion for him, he wouldn't know what to think...

[Nickdfresh]

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The bi-racial couple, isn't the wife Lenny Kravitz's mom? I swear I have heard that before. Lenny is fucking cool.

Yup. I know his father was white and Jewish (not the TV husband) and his mother was indeed the actress Roxie Roker. I believe she passed away a few years back...

edit*

After reading her Wiki page, I now recall she died almost at the height of Kravitz's commercial success in 1995:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxie_Roker

[jhale667]

I think he is...

Of course you do...