Reply #57: I think people are forgetting [View All]

[CitizenPatriot]

that racism is not about a true hatred of a black person. It is a TOOL used by the privileged to maintain the status quo. therefore, it is implemented in subtle ways to maintain power and stoke the fires of resentment in the poverty striken whites. This has been going on forever.

The comment does not have to be about race to be racist.

Frankly, I don't care if it was racist or not, but I do know that it was rooted in racism. I challenge anyone who lives in the south right now and is familiar with SC politics to say otherwise. The Muslim smears and "Obama Osama" smears against Obama on their government websites, the effigies in people's front yards, state senators calling Obama the anti-Christ on their official gov sites -- read the local papers there. I think you'll be hard pressed to not barf first and then realize that the strain of racism is implicit in the very fabric of their government in SC. It doesn't need to announce itself.

Remember the fundies moved there en masse to impact the primaries. add that up with SC civil war history and it's not pretty.

We don't have to rely upon calling it racism in order to establish he was out of line, as he was out of line either way. So, if it floats your boat to think otherwise, go ahead. Sure, they treated Clinton with disrespect, too. He was also sneeringly referred to as the "First Black President".