GOP and Swift boat politics

**TheBeast** · September 16th, 2008, 04:38 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CoeburnCane</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Keep the farmhands around, but don't let them run the plantation. That's how you can explain Colin Powell and Condi Rice's positions in the Republican party.

And those are two of the whitest black people ever on the history of this planet--and Republicans use that to say "see! we're not racist..." Yeah...I buy that one too...yeesh... </div></div>

That is one of the most racially motivated things I have ever read.

**NotSoSilentBob** · September 16th, 2008, 04:39 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CoeburnCane</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Keep the farmhands around, but don't let them run the plantation. That's how you can explain Colin Powell and Condi Rice's positions in the Republican party.

And those are two of the whitest black people ever on the history of this planet--and Republicans use that to say "see! we're not racist..." Yeah...I buy that one too...yeesh... </div></div>

Keep showing your true colors there B-Rad.

**Shooter** · September 16th, 2008, 04:40 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CoeburnCane</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Keep the farmhands around, but don't let them run the plantation. That's how you can explain Colin Powell and Condi Rice's positions in the Republican party.

And those are two of the whitest black people ever on the history of this planet--and Republicans use that to say "see! we're not racist..." Yeah...I buy that one too...yeesh... </div></div>

That has to be one of the stupidest posts ive ever seen on this board. Whitest black people? You say that simply because they are republicans!

**CoeburnCane** · September 16th, 2008, 04:46 PM

See how it feels when the shoe's on the other foot people...proved my point.

That's 5 of you I got. It's not racist when it's convenient for you, it's extra-racist when it works against the ones you pull for.

Thanks for playing.

**TheBeast** · September 16th, 2008, 04:50 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CoeburnCane</div><div class="ubbcode-body">See how it feels when the shoe's on the other foot people...proved my point.

That's 5 of you I got. It's not racist when it's convenient for you, it's extra-racist when it works against the ones you pull for.

Thanks for playing. </div></div>

I ain't buying it.

**CoeburnCane** · September 16th, 2008, 04:58 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TheBeast</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CoeburnCane</div><div class="ubbcode-body">See how it feels when the shoe's on the other foot people...proved my point.

That's 5 of you I got. It's not racist when it's convenient for you, it's extra-racist when it works against the ones you pull for.

Thanks for playing. </div></div>

I ain't buying it. </div></div>

I'm sorry you got "got"...but I did that on purpose man. Read em & weep.

**imported_ut1** · September 16th, 2008, 05:05 PM

The only reason you "got" anything from me was because you said my comment was racist. It wasn't, and never has been. The truth of it is what bothers some people. Pretty shrewd turnaround on your part after you got nailed.

**TheBeast** · September 16th, 2008, 05:14 PM

I have read'em and everything you have been saying for the past few months leads directly to you saying something like this and then geting nailed on it and trying to back out of it with some flip/flop bs.

**CoeburnCane** · September 16th, 2008, 05:17 PM

I didn't get "nailed". I posted something to get a reaction from certain posters on here that I called before I hit the submit button. Sure enough...it worked, I got the reaction I was looking for...so deal with it.

Racism's wrong folks, whether you're Obama or Powell--doesn't matter what side of the aisle someone's one. Racism though, unfortunately, isn't looked at as a form of hate that we should shun anymore--it's morphed into a way to be offended and a tool to make someone backpedal off of something they say that could be taken as "racist", when a racist meaning/intent was not meant.

It's flat wrong to use something like that as a "convenience" to down someone--not because it's an unfair tactic that ignores the crux of what that person is actually saying--but mainly because there's nothing funny, ironic, or convenient about hundreds of years of putting down someone just because they're "different".

I think that was a nice little case study that showed me a lot about how some people view racial topics. I'll remember that going forward.

**NotSoSilentBob** · September 16th, 2008, 05:21 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CoeburnCane</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I didn't get "nailed". I posted something to get a reaction from certain posters on here that I called before I hit the submit button. Sure enough...it worked, I got the reaction I was looking for...so deal with it.

Racism's wrong folks, whether you're Obama or Powell--doesn't matter what side of the aisle someone's one. Racism though, unfortunately, isn't looked at as a form of hate that we should shun anymore--it's morphed into a way to be offended and a tool to make someone backpedal off of something they say that could be taken as "racist", when a racist meaning/intent was not meant.

It's flat wrong to use something like that as a "convenience" to down someone--not because it's an unfair tactic that ignores the crux of what that person is actually saying--but mainly because there's nothing funny, ironic, or convenient about hundreds of years of putting down someone just because they're "different".

I think that was a nice little case study that showed me a lot about how some people view racial topics. I'll remember that going forward. </div></div>

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