I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !
Tailfins, I don't think most, or anyone for that fact, know about Brazil Nuts, and what they were very long called prior to the change. Anyway, as reference purposes I have no issue with the word being used. As part of a post, I will often use the word as a factual representation of what another side, or just a part of the story without labeling a particular person. So while the word is not banned here at DP, we would hope it's used in a responsible manner. There are a million other ways to insult one another that don't bring racial slurs into it. Or you can just not insult one another anymore now that you all had your say.
In 1984 she voted for Republicans for the first time, much as a result from my influence. She said she could hear her Dad spinning in his grave. Actually I see the strength of racial hated decrease in my family from generation to generation. My grandfather whom I never met because he died in 1930 was a card carrying Klansman. It's all a matter of your reference point.
"Can't we all just get along?"
Love,
Rodney
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown
“Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
-Abbey
That series aired in the mid 70's so the answer to my question was "yes, she was a Democrat". Interesting about the racism of your previous generations of Democrats.
So it took her to Reagan's second term to come out of that whole mess.
Kinda destroys the revisionary history that Democrats now parrot that Nixon's Southern Strategy turned racists democrats into racist Republicans. More lilke what I've bee asserting all along, that Democrats who actually thought about things with an open mind came to realize the crappiness of their party and its racist roots...
You're looking at it with blinders on. The catalyst was seeing politicians like Jimmy Carter riding around in a jet while asking regular people to sacrifice. The New Deal where people on WPA had to work was one thing, seeing deadbeats who don't want to work not pay for their groceries was quite another.
Moved to the cage. The thread went from discussing a TV show with racism as a topic, to real racism as a topic.
Totally AGREE.
All in the Family was screened over here in the UK. But who, here, knows of the show's origins ?
That show is an American version of a series of programmes that started out in the UK. The original was called 'Til Death Us Do Part', and the original Archie Bunker character was Alf Garnett, played by Warren Mitchell.
Several series were made. But, sure enough, today it'd be impossible to screen it in the politically correct 21st century (.. or make its equivalent, anyway ..).
Here's a taste of it ('The Blood Donor', itself a sort of spoof of a 1950's Tony Hancock comedy episode of the same name ..) ....
Last edited by Drummond; 03-03-2014 at 04:23 PM.
It's That Bloody Foreigner Again !!!
Sir Drummond. As despicable as the comment was. It further proved my point.
Anyone...and I do mean ANYONE...Black, or White, who needs to use that word. Deserves no recognition as a mentally stable person.
If my statement offends anyone. I don't care. Lowering yourself to such racially low standards proves your own racism is working.
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I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !
I think it all depends. I've used the word on this board, as part of a discussion and as a word of reference. I think there's a big difference between using a word as part of a discussion, a word still used widely, as opposed to calling someone the word. I think the context in which the word is used makes a lot of difference.
Seriously. Anyone who feels ANY NEED to repeat, or say that word...IMO
is just using the opportunity to use it. Like an excuse to get away with
SWEARING.
In today's world. We all know. Using the descriptive word CONTEXT, tied to the use
of that word....UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, BY ANYONE...just doesn't fly with me.
If we want to seriously STOP the use of the word while calling it RACIST, or OFFENSIVE.
The STOPPAGE must be TOTAL, COMPLETE, and avoided by ALL.
I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !