I found this on a DUer's extra-DU blog ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/07/racism-is-white-people-problem.html

This is one DUer that clearly "gets it."

[sheshe2]

1. OMG!

I was just getting ready to hit post my thread on that. I saw it a few nights ago and was to tired to post.

Of course we attempt to appear in control of our racism by following the law. On paper, blacks can vote, live where they like, have better shot at jobs, run for office and get elected, go to school with whites (at least the few whites who haven’t fled to segregated private academies), and they can’t be refused service for the color of their skin. They can live mostly without the fear of white violence.

But white superiority lives on, because our hearts were never committed to recovery.

http://www.alternet.org/culture/how-i-overcame-my-soul-crippling-deep-south-addiction-whiteness-5-steps?page=0%2C0&fb_action_ids=10202309074223943&fb_action_types=og.likes

But he says that recovery is possible. To get us thinking in that direction, Jonathan shared his first 5 steps (your mileage may vary):
1) I came to believe that I am powerless over my racism. I’ll always be a racist, and might as well stop pretending otherwise. Voting Democrat or watching Oprah won’t cure me. It goes too deep.

snip

Just imagine for a moment how everything would change if white people were to finally accept #1. No more "how DARE you call me a racist!!" We could actually get on with a conversation about how/when we do/say things that are racist.

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/07/racism-is-white-people-problem.html

Thanks for posting this OP 1SBM! Excellent read as always from Nancy LeTourneau aka
immasmartypants, who many here seem to hate with a passion. Hmmm wonder why.

[jaysunb]

2. This comment also hit the nail

According to Peck an evil person:

Is consistently self-deceiving, with the intent of avoiding guilt and maintaining a self-image of perfection.
Deceives others as a consequence of their own self-deception.
Projects his or her evils and sins onto very specific targets (scapegoats) while being apparently normal with everyone else ("their insensitivity toward him was selective".
Commonly hates with the pretense of love, for the purposes of self-deception as much as deception of others.
Abuses political (emotional) power ("the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert coercion".
Maintains a high level of respectability, and lies incessantly in order to do so.
Is consistent in his or her sins. Evil persons are characterized not so much by the magnitude of their sins, but by their consistency (of destructiveness).
Is unable to think from the viewpoint of their victim (scapegoat).
Has a covert intolerance to criticism and other forms of narcissistic injury.

Most evil people realize the evil deep within themselves but are unable to tolerate the pain of introspection, or admit to themselves that they are evil. Thus, they constantly run away from their evil by putting themselves in a position of moral superiority and putting the focus of evil on others. Evil is an extreme form of what Scott Peck, in The Road Less Traveled, calls a character disorder

[BainsBane]

3. She's cool.

Last edited Thu Jul 31, 2014, 07:42 PM - Edit history (1)

Deleted because I don't want to be accused of identifying anyone. Cool blog. Cool member.

[randys1]

4. Yes, racism can only be resolved by white folks...

Problem is most of em wont acknowledge it exists

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Oh, They acknowledge it exists ...

it's just they can't seem to recognize it when those that experience it point it out - Then, it "playing the race card."

[randys1]

6. ACA, Benghazi, IRS, Guns/Mexico

Absolutely nothing a con opposes regards Obama makes sense.


Not one issue when broken down, makes any sense at all for any con to criticize.



I am very critical of Obama, but I also voted for him twice, worked on his campaign and would again if necessary.

I voted for him knowing he was not the liberal I ideally want in the WH. Neither is Hillary nor was Bill or Jimmy Carter, not even close.

When I criticize Obama it is from a left perspective, but were I a con and I criticized him I would have to be a hypocrite, I can prove this by asking any con to list any issue with Obama and I can prove to them that they were for it before he was or they were AWOL when W or Reagan or Nixon or Bush Sr did the same thing.

No living american politician could have succeeded where Barack has succeeded given the greatest obstruction in american political history.

So he isnt real chummy with others on friday nights, or he is too tolerant of rightwing haters, he is the most effective and hard working president maybe of all time, in that imagine what he could have done if terrorists werent opposing him

LOOK at ACA,. do I need to remind these idiots