tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post4972476554157831173..comments2023-10-17T08:04:08.714-04:00Comments on The Examined Life: Post Racial America? Hell to the No!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04614116686638969278noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-27526809232142809912012-08-16T23:08:46.818-04:002012-08-16T23:08:46.818-04:00What to do? Send a link to whom? To where?? Who ...What to do? Send a link to whom? To where?? Who else sees the importance of shining the bright light of awareness on this site and has a profile large enough to make an impact..?Big Mark 243https://www.blogger.com/profile/10974573439218884164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-36205323186788584702012-08-16T15:22:35.281-04:002012-08-16T15:22:35.281-04:00@Beth, already checked and couldn't find a FB ...@Beth, already checked and couldn't find a FB page for them but thanks for a great suggestion! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04614116686638969278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-12573027254032177522012-08-16T13:46:44.926-04:002012-08-16T13:46:44.926-04:00How utterly vile.
Do you know if they have a Fac...How utterly vile. <br /><br />Do you know if they have a Facebook page? If so, you can report it.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149068921334726430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-31546047221919616912012-08-16T12:44:54.835-04:002012-08-16T12:44:54.835-04:00I's a little torn about this. It is so obvious...I's a little torn about this. It is so obviously designed to shock that it would seem that more attention is exactly what they want.<br />I would take comfort in the reality that if even a few thousand supporters equal a teeny-tiny percentage of the population. One hundred and fifty years ago, fully one-half of the nation took his words as objective, scientific truth. Fifty years ago, they had made minimal progress. And now there the richest woman in America is black, the President is black, and there are tens of thousands of black elected officials. To his maybe thousand supporters there are 30 million black people and perhaps and 270 million other Americans who overwhelming find his comments disgusting. (Now--only now--I find the presence of Allen West and Clarence Thomas on the right comforting.)<br />I would imagine these haters are virulently anti-gay as well, and lines at Chick-Fil-A certainly attest to a degree of support for Leviticus-like attitudes that certainly goes as deep and virulent as racist hatred. I choose to compare it to America in the 50s, when no one even polled on the question of attitudes towards homosexuals, it was so taboo. Now, even Sarah Palin felt compelled to say she had gay friends. <br />I am pro-vigilance - I've read too much about Auschwitz. But these guys are miserable creatures who despise themselves and don't know what to do with all their self-hatred so turn it outward. We must, must not take it inside ourselves, and feel "hurt" any more that if a mental patient in an asylum was screaming epithets at us. <br />Every time I pass the Westboro "God Hates Fags" Group at a gay rights rally, I want to take them out with baseball bats, but on some level, that would be making their hate something I was giving form and substance too, instead of letting it redound back on to them. If black kids see this, their parents needs to say: "There are sick haters out there, sweetie. Pray for them, for they no not what they do."Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173711110500689117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-67229195464975370942012-08-16T05:36:16.270-04:002012-08-16T05:36:16.270-04:00I definitely wanted to write down a brief message ...I definitely wanted to write down a brief message in order to say thank you for all of the magnificent guidelines you are sharing here. 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I plan to follow up on this post with info on what we can do to focus attention on this site. I'm also looking for and finding evidence that the hate speech on the site crosses the line by promoting violence which would call into question its 1st amendment protections.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04614116686638969278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-83258063281874270752012-08-16T00:17:54.560-04:002012-08-16T00:17:54.560-04:00All one has to do to give the lie to the whole &qu...All one has to do to give the lie to the whole "blacks are inherently intellectually inferior" thing is compare President Obama to his predecessor...<br /><br />Sheria, I know that vile racism still exists. I've known it for awhile, but have become particularly, painfully aware of it since the election of our first black president. In my opinion, it is the racists themselves who are a "species of animal" that decent people need to restrain.Lisa :-]https://www.blogger.com/profile/02237889098638895390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-91699686162325062852012-08-15T21:11:45.895-04:002012-08-15T21:11:45.895-04:00With this you have bested your own usual shining w...With this you have bested your own usual shining way with words: "They are vampires; they don't feed on blood but on ethics, on morality, and everything that makes us decent. A stake through the heart isn't the only way to end a vampire; dragging them into the light will render them into a pile of dust."<br /><br />I will, indeed, share. And I've missed you!Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166865250789996825noreply@blogger.com