Is Presdient Bush A Racist?

[DrFate]

Bush is a Royalist. His friends are Saudi Royalty, Plutocrats, and the members the Eurpean and American Power Elite. His family has close business ties with the Asian Power Elite also. Bush is not racist. Bush is Royalist.

 

[Silent Bob]

Right, I forgot. Those blacks who are Republicans are sell-outs, just like Powell and Condy, yeah?

[SIZE=-1]"Colin Powell is openly White. He just happens to be Black."

--George Carlin
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[SummerMadness]

Republicans will never get the support of blacks especially when you do things like send Alan Keyes to Illinois just so he can run against Barack Obama.

 

[praying]

[SIZE=-1]"Colin Powell is openly White. He just happens to be Black."

--George Carlin
[/SIZE]

Okay that is funny.

 

[praying]

Republicans will never get the support of blacks especially when you do things like send Alan Keyes to Illinois just so he can run against Barack Obama.

Barack is of the devil I saw it posted here on CF several times. It is his eyes.


I am serious about seing that posted on CF, he has been called the anti-Christ.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

Republicans will never get the support of blacks especially when you do things like send Alan Keyes to Illinois just so he can run against Barack Obama.

That's because of one thing: the 60's. Since then, it's always been the Dems to remind us that the black community owes them for the backing of the Civil Rights movement. Yet lately, I have not seen the Democrats do anything good for the minority community. In fact, which party has?

 

[k]

Barack is of the devil I saw it posted here on CF several times. It is his eyes.


I am serious about seing that posted ont he CF, he has been called the anti-Christ.

Obama is coming to UMass/Boston to be our Keynote speaker at graduation this year.


Not sure how I feel about the guy...not that it matters.

 

[Scribbler]

That's because of one thing: the 60's. Since then, it's always been the Dems to remind us that the black community owes them for the backing of the Civil Rights movement. Yet lately, I have not seen the Democrats do anything good for the minority community. In fact, which party has?

Actually, It was more the REPUBLICANS who voted the Civil Rights Act into law (80%), than the Dems (66%)...

 

[Arkanin]

[SIZE=-1]"Colin Powell is openly White. He just happens to be Black."

--George Carlin
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I laugh, but I think this sentiment feels true to a lot of african americans. The Republican party (for better or worse) does not care much about racial or minority problems. It's just not high on their list of stuff-to-do. This makes a lot of people feel this way about Colin Powell and Condi; ditto for the fact that they have gone out of their way to sever cultural ties in terms of their speech and dress. This is why from time to time you hear people say seemingly racist stuff about Colin Powell; in reality, they aren't racist, but they do feel like he is a sellout. I do, of course, think there's a fundamental problem if being successful and well-educated makes you a sellout to another race, but that's not usually why they call Colin Powell a sellout; they call him a sellout because they feel like he is just helping oppress another group instead of his own.

 

[Fineous_Reese]

they call [Colin Powell] a sellout because they feel like he is just helping oppress another group instead of his own.

heheh, so, he should help oppress his own group?

in regards to "the fact that they have gone out of their way to sever cultural ties in terms of their speech and dress" i must say that my personal cultural ties are to wear t-shirts, jeans and sandals and speak using lots of pop culture references but to speak thusly and wear such gear in my place of work will not bode well for any perception of professionalism. ergo i must sever those ties (note: thankfully i've not yet encountered the need to wear ties) or find another job.

do folks who cry "sellout" because someone won't stay "real" understand the reality of the working world? do they speak to their grandmother (assuming her soul still resides on this mortal coil) the same way they speak to their friends? if not, and they're not speaking to their friends with grandmotherly differential respect, then said grandmother needs to smack some respect into them. same with the working world. respecting your elders and respecting your superiors doesn't by default make you a 'sellout' or 'yes-man' (it's still possible to do/be either/both but simple respect doesn't do it).

 

[SummerMadness]

Selling out has nothing to do with how you dress or speak, it's about what one's actions are. In my estimation, a sell out isn't someone that is successful, but let's say you do become successful (I'm not talking about Colin Powell here) and then you become an opponent to many of the same programs that gave you opportunity in your career, many might label you a sell out.

 

[Fineous_Reese]

[when] you become an opponent to many of the same programs that gave you opportunity in your career, many might label you a sell out.

when the programs cause more harm than good then even those that profitted from the programs need to work to oppose them.

 

[SummerMadness]

when the programs cause more harm than good then even those that profitted from the programs need to work to oppose them.

That is to say the harm is truly there, that's something that comes more from perception. But as far as I know, Colin Powell has taken a beating because of the Iraq War, he supports many of the programs designed to help the poor and minorities.

 

[Scribbler]

The long and the short of it is, Rice & Powell are conservatives, so the left is going to slam them any way they can. Powell has a lifetime of working with disadvantaged people, but unless he subscribes to the leftist version of solutions, he'll be labeled a tom. Were Rice a liberal, she'd be lauded for her achievments a great deal more than she is, but the media sees a threat in lifting her up too much, lest some begin to see being black and republican as ok. It's what Clarence Thomas referred to as 'intellectual slavery'. With white Christians voting overwhelmingly for the Republicans, it's vital that the Dems sew up as many minorities as possible, so they try to force all blacks into a voting bloc. Rice/Powell are a threat to that, hands down.

 

[GraceLikeRainFallsDown]

What I mean is that if he was racist and didn't want to appear racist, then hiring people with a range of racial backgrounds would be a smart move .

So if he is not racist he should only hire white people? That way people will not think he is just trying to look like he is not racist. (note: sarcasm)

Give me a break!!


(For the record - I do not think Bush is a racist at all.)

 

[MikeMcK]

]Yes. He's a good ole' boy with the same ideals of the South.

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As somoene from the Deep South, I find this to be unbelievably ignorant and offensive.

Odd that you would say such a thing in a thread about racism. Of course it would be wrong of you to say that all blacks are lazy and stupid, all Jews are greedy, Puerto Rican people...do whatever it is Puerto Rican people are supposed to do, etc, and yet you have no problem implying that all Southerners are racists?

 

[royboy]

So if he is not racist he should only hire white people? That way people will not think he is just trying to look like he is not racist. (note: sarcasm)

Give me a break!!


(For the record - I do not think Bush is a racist at all.)

For the record, I don't think he is either, or more to the point, I don't know.

I was responding to another post which said something like "If George Bush is racist then why did he hire people of other races".

Point was that just because he hires said people doesn't mean he isn't racist.

 

[ballfan]

Everybody is a racist. At one time or another the term will fit you, me, and everybody we know.

 

[k]

Everybody is a racist. At one time or another the term will fit you, me, and everybody we know.

That is patently false.....even IF someone commits an isolated act of prejudice, that is not sufficient for that person to be a racist. It is a lifestyle, not a moment or two of bad judgment.

 

[Fineous_Reese]

That is patently false.....even IF someone commits an isolated act of prejudice, that is not sufficient for that person to be a racist. It is a lifestyle, not a moment or two of bad judgment.

then by this definition Bush is easily *not* a racist