I want YOU to stop being AFRAID!

[OneGrassRoot]

Love this image (not sure where I originally saw it, probably one of the earlier OWS protests in DC)

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. AWESOME idea . . .

but it won't happen until after the old, ignorant, racist, homophobic, white people die off.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I'm going to point out something to you that I hope you take to heart.

I may be old and white, but I'm not ignorant, racist or homophobic. From my personal experience, it seems that those viewpoints are not limited to people of a certain age or color.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. It is a good idea for us to keep in mind and take to heart.

Thanks.

[Chorophyll]

4. +1

Also, the picture was better before someone stuck the Guy Fawkes mask in it.

On edit: looks 'shopped to me, but I could be wrong.

[MrDiaz]

5. yea i agree

alot of people act like repubs when it comes to this viewpoint... stereotypes are bad in ALL forms, not just the ones you disagree with.

[Marinedem]

6. Ahhhhh...

The Irony of not recognizing your own bigoted, hateful, head up your ass, racism!

Priceless.

[lunatica]

8. Well I'm old by some standards and I'm white

So you're barking up the wrong tree here. I'd say you're showing yourself to be racist and bigoted against white people, and old people. Do you really want to come across that way?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. The middle-aged ignorant racist homophobic people of all colours teach it to their children

You are ignorant if you blame old people.

[ieoeja]

13. I used to feel that way. But, frankly, I encounter far more racists among today's youth.

I came of age in the 1970s. Liberalism was at its peak. Even old racists in the rural bible belt where I lived generally kept it to themselves, or were social pariahs. First time I heard someone my own age make a hateful comment I was shocked.

Today, those younger than myself where I grew up do *not* hide it. They feel perfectly comfortable in their racism and everyone's knowledge of it.

You younglings have no idea how much more progressive this country was before Reagan, "made it okay to say 'nigger' again," in the words of George Will. For the record he was unhappy about it and was calling out his fellow Washington socialites for pretending that wasn't why they celebrated Reagan.


Nor is this time unique. Not all founding fathers were all that enlightened. But they were trying to create a country that was (at least in Virginia and points north). Then Jackson brought all his anger, hatred and bigotry into the White House. The wealthy who had supported the founders found their own murdering psychopath in Harrison and the enlightenment was discarded by all sides for a time.


We recovered from that. We can recover from this. But not by pretending it is going to "die off".

[OneGrassRoot]

14. That's really upsetting...

I had hoped my experiences in that regard (with blatantly racist youth) was an anomaly, because most of the kids I know couldn't care less about race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.

Hopefully they're very, very much in the minority and it will die off, but we can't ignore it while it exists, of course. Need to shine a light on it every time.

[hfojvt]

7. is it still okay

to be afraid of the talibornigain? http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1174006

How about the 1%?

[rasputin1952]

9. Love it!

[BumRushDaShow]

11. K&R

What a thought-provoking truism!

[Cleita]

12. Beautiful OGR. Thanks. n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

15. You're welcome. Nice to "see" you, Cleita...

[cali]

16. Fantastic. I love it.

[Merlot]

17. Fear is a republican emotion.

really all they've got.

Great picture, thanks for posting it!

[RainDog]

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