DNC video of Snow: "Racism is not that big of a deal anymore"

[Rose Siding]

SNOW: "...Here is the unmentionable secret. Racism is not that big of a deal anymore. No sensible person supports it. Nobody of importance preaches it. It's rapidly and thankfully becoming an ugly memory..."

http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/video/20060426_snow.wmv

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/04/tony_snow_clip.php

[helderheid]

1. Katrina anyone?

:crazy:

[yurbud]

2. it's not that big a deal because they think they've perfected it like

their golf swing.

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

3. An 'ugly memory' in '03 when it was said, but

which reared its ugly head once again in '05 in the Gulf. Hmmmm.

[rniel]

4. They've got so much ammo to use on this guy

He'll be destroyed without much effort.

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Plus all his 'scrubbed' posts in Freeperville.

Stephanie Miller had a caller this morning talking about it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Here's how to read the scrubbed posts:

Click the "Cached" links and look for the "by Tony Snow" highlighted:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22by+tony+snow%22+site%3Afreerepublic.com&num=30&meta=site%3Dsearch

[wtmusic]

5. For a WASP male to make that statement

is actually pretty amusing.

[Hand]

7. Well, no one's used the n-word on him lately... nt

[Botany]

8. So why did Snow write this racist crap?

http://www.martinlutherking.org/kwanzaa.html

Nobody ever ennobled a people with a lie or restored stolen dignity through fraud. Kwanzaa is the ultimate chump holiday -- Jim Crow with a false and festive wardrobe. It praises practices -- "cooperative economics, and collective work and responsibility" -- that have succeeded nowhere on earth and would mire American blacks in endless backwardness.

Our treatment of Kwanzaa provides a revealing sign of how far we have yet to travel on the road to reconciliation. The white establishment has thrown in with it, not just to cash in on the business, but to patronize black activists and shut them up.

[Rose Siding]

12. That's the real "unmentionable secret", as are studies like these-

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Another study presented at the conference, which was in Palm Springs, Calif., explored relationships between racial bias and political affiliation by analyzing self-reported beliefs, voting patterns and the results of psychological tests that measure implicit attitudes -- subtle stereotypes people hold about various groups.

That study found that supporters of President Bush and other conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks than liberals did.

"What automatic biases reveal is that while we have the feeling we are living up to our values, that feeling may not be right," said University of Virginia psychologist Brian Nosek, who helped conduct the race analysis. "We are not aware of everything that causes our behavior, even things in our own lives."
...
Vincent Hutchings, a political scientist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, said the results matched his own findings in a study he conducted ahead of the 2000 presidential election: Volunteers shown visual images of blacks in contexts that implied they were getting welfare benefits were far more receptive to Republican political ads decrying government waste than volunteers shown ads with the same message but without images of black people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900642.html

[zbdent]

9. Tell that to Edna Boyl of Akron Ohio

who claimed last year (during her 2nd failed attempt to hold on to her judgeship that Bob Taft appointed her to) that a "racist caricature" (cartoon, for lurking freeptards) of her was being run by the evil democrats

[Goblinmonger]

11. Tell that to the one Korean girl in my high school

that gets called a "gook" or some other racial epitaph on a daily basis.