Paraphrasing AR, racism is the lowest form of collectivism because it negates individuals based on the accident of birth.

Recently seen on one of my FB pages: " Hello, muslim bakery? I`d like a mohammed cartoon cake baked ..... yes, you have to."

Old dino Bama boy sees eye to eye with you.

I'm curious. I have retired to ethnic heaven -- Florida. Where's up here?

My first laugh of the day. Thank you.

Bullseye!

Hi, bradberry:
Your comment reminds me of an old joke, however, you may need to be Jewish to understand it.
Q: How can you tell a Jew from a gentile?
A: By the cars they drive. The Jew drives a recent model as expensive as he can afford. The gentile drives a white station wagon filled with jars of mayonnaise.

Racism has become worse under our Alinsky-loving Marxist Prez and his idiot wife. Not real racism, but manufactured, misrepresented. My first years in the Midwest in the 40s and early 50s included black family friends on our coach and at our dinner table. I early on told Obama to can it since I spent more time with blacks as a child than he ever did. No answer of course, but I knew of his Alinsky divide and cause chaos. He has so harmed the black communities and youth. Inspiring them with made up racial victimhood and allowing reverse prejudice in their speech to and against other cultures. Until a leader calls for mutual respect, we will have an Alinsky world. I am disgusted with what the schools have done to blacks, failing to teach them and reinforcing the victimhood. It is a crime.I have a black lady friend who is constantly countering what her adult son in another town hears, trying to keep him centered. She is disgusted with Obama. Does that make her a racist, if she agrees with Herb?

You automotive bigot you!

When there is a conflict between cultures the easiest and most simplistic response is "racism". It is much easier to blame racial prejudice when the actual problem is ideological differences. Ideology is complex and racism is simple and simple is easier to sell.

Ironically a friend of mine called me a racist and said my family was racist and after I picked up my jaw I asked him to explain. He said that I own four white vehicles and don't you think that I should add some color in my life..Then he began to chuckle at me....Wow! It would not surprise me in the least to think that someone out there may actually think that my choice on vehicle colors leans me into the racist column.

It seems to me, a 66 year old white guy, that the problem of racism in this country has gotten decidedly worse in the past 6 years. Obama and Holder have ruined any progress that this country made in race relations. But isn't that just a small part of what they (progressives) want to do? If it's not race that divides us, it's the disparity in pay, health care options, my life vs. your life and etc. We are decaying from the inside out.

Stupidity trumps racism. When a group treats its own as having no value, then proclaims, "our lives matter", I'd say there's a disconnect.
And so I ask those complainers, If your life has value, tell me the how and why of it, other than that your mother loves you.
Crickets....

Perhaps I phrased that wrong. I should have said" The joke up here is" > There just aren't any black folks around is all.

I think it's driven by unearned money, Rich

The problem is there's a lot of money to be had. You can be irresponsible and lazy and still live. I have noticed that you can't tell the people on welfare from the working people any more. They buy the same groceries, wear the same clothes, get the same, or better healthcare.

Mamaemma:
The thing that irritates me is blacks cannot stop complaining. Italians, Poles, Jews, you-name-it came to this country under horrendous conditions. They patronized one another and uniquely, were able to do as well as their brains and brawn allowed. True they. weren't slaves, but it's been 150 years since slavery and what? sixty years or so since segregation. Get over it already. Men, stay with your woman and child. Get educated. Very few people get to be basketball stars or hip-hop artists. And for goodness sakes, stay away from the poverty pimps like Sharpton. They are only looking to enrich themselves. They really don't give a crap about you.

Herb, I am of the generation that grew up in the south with segregation. I participated in the dismantling of that evil, and have made a conscious effort all my life to see people as individuals, not as members of a group or race.
But I can hardly tell you how utterly disgusted I am with the system we have today. Our president and First Lady are resentful and hateful and racist.
Young white men are discriminated against in every facet of life. Good people of color are caught in the middle. Will individualism ever prevail?
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Whaaaat?
It's OK to be a pissed off white guy, but let's not cross the line.

I've got a feeling they'll make an exception to the goodies if you're white, even if you're a minority. It'll be payback for all those years that you were such a mean plantation owner.

Gosh I haven't seen a black person in years( except on TV) Up here the Indians think they taste like chicken.

I read somewhere recently that given the immigration policies and current birth rates, whites will be a minority by 2020 or so.

Won't it be great to get our hands on some of those minority's set asides and affirmative action goodies?

Must have been. He was white, wasn't he?

Was Michael Jackson racist?