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I believe we need to steal the term “racism” back, by taking a leaf from their communist predecessors with regards to “democracy”: Remember the “German Democratic Republic”?

The fun part is, we can do it and still tell Truth, not Pravda.

Whenever you open a discussion regarding anything with a Democrat, work hard — very hard — to get in a line something to the effect of “Well, I’ve just never understood how Democrats can have such a long history of promoting racism against negros/blacks/Africans/whatever-the-PC-term-is- today”

At this point, of course, they are going to almost certainly be dumbfounded, possibly spluttering and perhaps even verging on apoplectic.

It is a certainty that they will be utterly confused, however, so take your advantage and run with it.

Begin discussing how it is that they have decided so imperiously that black people who, by equality, should be presumed capable of doing virtually anything which whites or Asian/Oriental/whatever-the-PC-term-is-today can do, are instead taken as a matter of course by the Democrats to be utterly incapable of pulling themselves out of impoverished conditions as those two groups — including people of every stripe, creed, nationality, or religious affiliation — have managed to do in America.

Why/how is it that the Democrats insist on racist policies which basically claim that blacks cannot help themselves, unlike, say, Jews, who have fought anti-Semitism not just for a couple centuries but for millenia, yet still managed to succeed and succeed well.

Why/how is it that blacks are incapable of doing exactly what so many others have managed to do, which is to educate themselves and produce the kind of genius and work product to excel as a group in American culture.

Now, around this time, they might be regaining their feet, and throw out something to the effect of, “well, those groups had no history of slavery to overcome…”

Do not allow them to retain this advantage — knock it out from under their feet immediately by pointing out that the plight of the “coolee” and their descendants — workers from the Orient — was little, if any, better well into the 20th century.

The “coolee” was worked just as brutally, just as uncaringly, as any black slave, performing backbreaking labor for pennies a day, 10,12,14 hours a day, while valued less than a good horse. There were “no oriental” water fountains, too, and any “oriental” who dared look at a white woman sexually, well, he could look forward to the same sort of lynching a black man could.

Yet despite this disparagement, the descendants of those men and women have managed to not only succeed, but usually to surpass the descendants of the average WASP. They rank better financially, and educationally, than the average White Boy.

Now, of course, is the time to press it home… Ask — no, demand — to know why it is that Democrats insist on such racist policies which treat blacks as “lesser people”, utterly incapable of helping themselves.

Around this time their heads should explode with apoplexy, or, alternately, a swing might be made at your face. Be ready for it.

If they do, however, start to regain their feet, then it is time to press home on the history of the Democratic party’s racism.

Cite, first off, the fact of the abolition of slavery in the south, as a part of Reconstruction, was a Republican project, and was strongly opposed by Democrats, who used white racism as a recruiting tool to gain prominence throughout the South, to the point where Democrats are, even now, 140 years later, the dominant party affiliation in the region.

Forward to the 1940s. Cite from the Official 1940 GOP Party Platform:

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We pledge that our American citizens of Negro descent shall be given a square deal in the economic and political life of this nation. Discrimination in the civil service, the army, navy, and all other branches of the Government must cease. To enjoy the full benefits of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness universal suffrage must be made effective for the Negro citizen. Mob violence shocks the conscience of the nation and legislation to curb this evil should be enacted.

Then contrapose this with the 1948 Democrats, which split off to form the Dixiecrats, a blatantly racist political affiliation. These people, rabid racists all — over a million — were Democrats in 1944, and they were Democrats in 1952.

It continued into the 1960s, at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, wherein duly elected black representatives were blatantly disenfranchised by Johnson and Humphrey. I have no doubt that it was this treatment which contributed strongly to the race riots that occurred later on in the 1960s.

And it continues on through today. In the 2004 campaign, John Kerry’s campaign staff did not include a single prominent black person until someone commented on it publicly. And we all know how the immensely talented and highly competent Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice were treated at the hands of liberal cartoonists, with blatantly racist depictions.

Q.E.D.: The conclusion is inescapable. The Democrats are a party of racism, founded in racism, devoted to promoting racism through the last 140 years, and inexcusably supporting racist ideas and perceptions for that entire time.

Artfldgr Says: Yeah I was, sorry.
oh, then your just a scumbag…which is what i think of people who are hurtful for no reason.

Sir, let’s not forget you started all this by jumping onto my comment with your own misplaced arrogance.

I was wrong to apologize. I should have trusted my initial instincts – you deserved what you got.

I won’t make the same mistake again.

oh, then your just a scumbag..
which is what i think of people who are hurtful for no reason.

However, since you asked, an argument could be made for the fact that affirmative action is a form of institutionalized racism: in favor of certain minority groups (African-Americans and Hispanics come to mind) and against others (white males come to mind).

Oh really? Is the fact of racism so apparent that we can say that “of course” racism exists everywhere?

Please, do enlighten me. Point out 10 examples of blatant racism that are occurring regularly in the United States (but you cannot count racism AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE.)

I defy you to create such a list, because racism does not, as you say, exist.

Racists exist, in every race – including black racists.

But “racism” – defined as the systematic discrimination of a particular race – has been eliminated.

As for having a dream that the election of Barack Obama would improve race relations in this country, Obama himself disabused me of that possibility way back in December of 2006, when he told a reporter the following:

“Are some voters not going to vote for me because I’m African-American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn’t vote for me because of my politics.”

More here: “Did Obama just call me a racist?”

Artfldgr Says: Vieux Charles, i guess you dont read my posts either.

Nope Artfldgr, I don’t read your posts. They are way too long, and lack a clearly articulated, defendable premise. Nothing personal. You’re probably a swell guy and all, but I’m a busy dude and don’t have all day to muddle through it all.