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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is what I told a racist bigot on Randi Rhodes facebook page today
I'm editing part of what I said because I don't want to call them out here but you'll get the gist of what I mean here
You freaks always pull that crap. You can't live in reality. Your race was never held in slavery for 400 years. Your race was never denied the right to vote. Your race was never lynched by men in white sheets. Your race was never denied the right to sit down at a lunch counter and eat. Your race was never allowed to go into a "Whites Only" restroom or drink from a "Whites Only" water fountain. Your race is not being targeted by the GOP for "Voting fraud" so don't come on my comments and accuse me of being bigoted when I'm speaking from personal experience at having been called the n word from people like you and having studied history and knowing my history. The only one exposed here is you, racist bigot.
Was I a little too over the top with this? Comments
Ian David
(69,059 posts)warrant46
(2,205 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Hit them with it in the face.
Except, I think you meant: Your race was allowed to go into a "Whites Only" restroom or drink from a "Whites Only" water fountain.
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 21, 2013, 12:13 AM - Edit history (1)
Randi was talking about how Fox and the right wing was quick to pounce all over Trayvon but are silent with Congressman Lydell's cocaine arrest. Heck Governor Rick Scott's own staffer replied into my thread which shocked me.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)BTW, I looked it up and commented under that post. We have got to shout those idiots down.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)RWers deserve no pity. No kindness. If you think that, just reverse the situation, and imagine what they would do.
Boomerproud
(7,964 posts)Keep fighting the good fight!!!!
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)Maybe I was a bit polite but I was worried about my blood pressure. These guys are ruthless and you're right on that.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 20, 2013, 11:23 PM - Edit history (1)
And you've your blood pressure to worry about. You get upset then go Recommend to them that they go support a chick-fil-lay or something. Let them go eat some of that good cholesterol-drenched junk and know your helping clean the gene pool in your small way
calimary
(81,467 posts)LOVE this post!!!
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)sheshe2
(83,901 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)Most white folks didn't like what they saw in the mirror Rev. Wright held up to them, either, so they blamed the mirror.
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)It makes me shake my head when only years earlier they were pouncing on him for being a member of Rev. Right's church. You can't have it both ways.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)and there are a lot of them out there with short memories.
That's what we're up against.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)And they can't even recognize the contradictions. The same person will call him weak and dictatorial all in the same breath. The major mistake is in expecting them to talk sense, as they haven't any.
I like what one poster said recently about what to do when RWers start popping off: Lean in and say, well I plan on voting for him in 2016 too, because y'know he's already fixed it so he can have a third term....
By now in this tiny RedNeck MidWest bump in the road excuse for a town, I've pretty much taught the loudest teabaggers to keep their distance from me. But the next time one of them does buttonhole me, I think I'll say, "You'll be begging for President Obama to come back when we elect VAN JONES!" It will take the bagger a moment to place Van Jones, but then the light will come on and you can count on a real freakout. Yes, that's playing with fools but they're asking for it.
BTW, I think you struck the perfect balance of righteous anger. Those unspeakable windbags can't be allowed to dominate conversations unopposed. It might seem that you're only defending blacks, but what you're really doing is standing up for justice for all, because you seem to be a very honest person. I admire and appreciate that.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Good job on talking to that ignoramus. I hope he or she has the guts to answer back without resorting to any more KKK, John Birch Society, Stormfront or whatever they have been listening to get such ideas. It's a matter of historical record and the person is ignorant or playing at it. I don't think I'd have been so polite...
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)babylonsister
(171,092 posts)Are you hearing 'crickets' or did someone actually react to it?
Good job!
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)We use words as tools of communication. The English language is a rich tool box, ranging from words with a scalpel precision to the blunt force trauma of a twelve pound maul. Sometimes, hammers are the right tool.
If anything, I thought you handled him with kid gloves. You have far more restraint than I.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)You WERE the "Coolest Ranger!"
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)marry me!!
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Uh oh... I just remembered how old I am. Forget what I said. But you got off lucky. Back in the day, I was, shall we say, assertive? Regardless, I'd say the gentleman's worth fighting over.
Hey, CR! Have you got a (much) older brother?
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)For some things there is no "over the top".
TRoN33
(769 posts)You absolute nailed it. I wholeheartedly agree with you! Very well said.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)but you will find plenty of enablers here.
I think haterade comes in cases of 36.
tell me you didn't just really say that and mean it and are still a member of DU. Man, what's wrong with you?
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)about the start of civilization in fact they know nothing about being civil at all fuck those racist bigots I hope they all burn in Hell if there is one!!!
muntrv
(14,505 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)The only thing I might have amped up would be the voting fraud section, to point out that this discrimination is taking place to this very day. Same with stop and frisk and the other cop stuff.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)"Your race was never allowed to go into a "Whites Only" restroom or drink from a "Whites Only" water fountain. "
Never *forced* to go into a . .. or something?
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)Jews are white. . .do we include them too? Pogroms, Inquisition, anti-Semitic hiring practices, "Christ killer," Holocaust, Expulsion from countries, denial of citizenship. Slaves to Egypt.
I do not want to get into the "we are more oppressed than you are" debate, but, at least to me, claiming the white person route seems dismissive to the oppression and subjugation of a group of people that have been the world's whipping boy for the better part of 2000 years.
Other than that, I agree completely with you what you said.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)But then, it also says to send all the Palefaces back to Europe.
ReRe
(10,597 posts).... just roll out of you so fast and furious and one sentence runs into anther and yet you keep going and going? You WAS over the top, but not in a bad way. That's the way you have to be with those KKK brain dead bigot descendents. You have to jerk them into the 21st century. You did great. And don't you ever ever change!
Chaco Dundee
(334 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Monk06
(7,675 posts)days when castrating and lynching a teenage black kid in the town square was considered Saturday night entertainment. That was in the 1920s and there is photographic proof of it.
Now black kids sucker punching white males is considered the same thing by white racists. It's not.
It's not right but it is not the same thing as drag hanging some kid because he looked a white person in the eye.
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)And you were much nicer than I would have been.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)No, and even if your White and married an Afro-American or your best man is the same does it mean your exempt.
Just too much tim effort and money put in by media and right wing politicians and pundits,
mdbl
(4,973 posts)I was working in an office where an issue of prejudice came up between co-workers. The perpetrator of the racist remark claimed they weren't trying to come off that way, even though they did. I remember the victim of the racism telling me, "I can't believe this, this is the 1980's not the 1880's" Ever since then, when the same situation comes up, my mind remembers that statement. It seems we are backsliding still today- almost to the 1880's it seems.
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)and who the hell are you to tell me that I don't know my damn history. We will grow the hell up when all you racist bigots admit that you hurt people who aren't white. It's people in your community who need to grow the hell up and grow a damn back bone and denounce people like you who hate for no reason. You sir are a product of Fox news. You sir are a product of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and god knows who ever else you stupid crazy idiots listen to. I am sick to death of trying to educate people like you Mark Sessions. Go back and put that white sheet over that hood so you can hate in peace cause you certainly aren't going to hate around me
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)ignorant fools, freaks.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)claim they are victims of racism when they are the racists. It's one of their memes.
I had one of my family claim he went into a black restaurant and was told "we don't want your kind here." Yeah, right. Poor white victim of racism from blacks. Unbelievable.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)I had one more come into my thread since then, I just blocked her. I got tired of having to say the same thing over and over again. It's like trying to talk to a seven year old who see's candy and cries over and over again when they know they can't get it.
cordelia
(2,174 posts)To the point, and not over the top at all.
Now, watch your blood pressure.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)No quarter, no mercy.