Comments on: How racism works

By: Mayya

Mayya — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:51:37 +0000

@Mike H

“Queen hippo.” Yes, your perception of the woman’s body immediately invalidates any social, racial, or philosophical discussion of what happened and any commentary on the situation. Please let us know what other qualities, real or imagined, we must consider before analyzing whether racism exists. I’m sure your response will be nothing short of astounding.

By: wtf

wtf — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:51:38 +0000

screw the sign kerfuffle, wtf happened to the separation of church and state “remember we all started this meeting with a prayer”

By: SQB

SQB — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:00:17 +0000

The reason it reminded me of Sinterklaas but which I forgot to add, is that I saw a report on a similar experiment with a black Sinterklaas with White Peters. Kids had no problem with that, but most adults thought you shouldn’t mess with tradition.

By: SQB

SQB — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:55:35 +0000

Interesting article, that in Newsweek. The part about the black Santa reminded me of the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas (I'm Dutch). His Black Petes are another prime example of how racism works. For me, the celebration is always a weird mix of fond childhood memories and shame. But we're getting off topic here, I'm afraid.

By: the real meme

the real meme — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:14:18 +0000

Well it’s obviously the fault of racist ::white:: babies!

http://www.newsweek.com/id/214989

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/09/06/nurtureshock-cover-story-for-newsweek-is-your-baby-racist.aspx

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:15:10 +0000

Well, orneryish then.

By: llewelly

llewelly — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:05:50 +0000

(angerly?)

(angrily?)

By: dal

dal — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:47:15 +0000

Luckily, not everyone in that audience jeered at the victimized women..so perhaps there is hope for Missouri..That Senator should keep praying. She may pray, have faith and hope but won’t get my love….until she see the error of her ways and learn that true leadership isn’t catering to the ignorance of a constituency.

By: dal

dal — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:37:56 +0000

I watched the video and the whole thing seems like some poor theatrics: The woman on the podium is talking. Logic says everyone in the audience should be focusing on what they had come to see: the woman on the podium and the subject of the townhall meeting. The two sign carrying women should logically NOT be the center of everyone’s attention since they were quietly sitting and incidentally unobtrusively showing the signs they had rolled up to a some interested person’s query-neither of the two women were disrupting the proceedings in any way at that time (like all citizens, they had a right to be at the meeting). YET SURPRISINGLY when someone from the audience steps up like some lurid prankster to grab the women’s signs and run off like some purse burglar..Logically at the ensuing altercation, the police step in to escort both parties away. YET A LARGE PART OF THE AUDIENCE WAS CLAPPING at the fact the two women thrown out- What were they clapping about?? At the women getting robbed in public? The two women were victims yet the clapping audience saw them as criminals.
This fact was immediately confirmed by what the podium speaker said in her pathetic attempt ‘to explain what had just happened’ and saying ‘they [the women] should not have been at the meeting’..oh really? Talk about a freudian slip!

So obviously something was amiss here: the audience and speaker seemed more interested in seeing the two women thrown out of the room than discuss the subject of the town hall meeting: Health Care Reform. IF IT HAD BEEN A CLASSROOM that audience behavior would have made sense because kids are bored by the speaker and interested in any sort of theatrics.

CONCLUSION: either the audience was just a bunch of IMMATURE kids or RACIST (in their unfair treatment and judgement ) towards the two women (who were NOT disrupting the proceedings in any obvious way at the time).

Hillsburogh Missouri? ok I guess I wont recommend that neck of the woods to any of my friends. There’s nicer places to spend money.

By: MIke Haubrich, FCD

MIke Haubrich, FCD — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:58:34 +0000

Mike H. I’ll make it clear. The white guy stole a sign of a civil rights hero, the person who had it stolen from her protested and got hustled out by the cops. CNN only showed her being hustled out by the cops, and then Sen. Claire talking about someone who broke the rules while other people had also broken the rules but weren’t treated so.

The cops and the white man made the assumption that since she is black she is a trouble maker and must be “dealt with.”

Get a fucking brain, Moron.