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I don't believe that I used the term 'racist.'
Consider the same situation speaking to Hispanics...
Consider the same situation speaking to Asians...
Consider how the Left has taught the electorate to seek 'offenses' the way
pigs seek truffles.
Couldn't be a better example of same than post #24 above...
Read post #4.
The "Left" taught blacks to use different dialects when speaking amongst ourselves and when we talk to whites? Whites really have no clue about black Americans, do you? This came up in 2008 and it's stuff like this that brings any wavering minority support right back to Obama. It just shows that the conservative/republican/tea party crowd is really clueless about minority communities.
1. You are correct...I should have said that I didn't apply the term 'racist' to any of the individuals in the thread. Rep on the way.
I avoid the term as some sort of indictment...
...it is all in the mind of the listener.
2. 'The "Left" taught blacks to use different dialects when speaking amongst ourselves and when we talk to whites?'
Although I read "Losing the Race" some time ago, I believe McWorter makes the point that being authenically black is often ascertained by knowledge of 'black lingo..'...
"According to McWhorter, nearly forty years after the Civil Rights Act, African-Americans in this country still remain a race apart. He feels that modern black Americans have internalized a tacit message: authentically black people stress initiative in private but cloak the race in victimhood in public in order to protect black people from an ever-looming white backlash. McWhorter terms this phenomenon the New Double Consciousness in homage to W. E. B. Duboiss description of a different kind of double consciousness in blacks a century ago. It is within this context that McWhorter takes us on a guided tour through the race issues dominating our current discourse . . ."
Manhattan Institute | Books by John H. McWhorter
Remember..."terrorist fist jab?" They actually threw that out because he fist bumped his wife. Jesus H. Christ. The conservatives have no idea....none.