the racist is the one that can’t tell the difference?

as i say above – “racist” is now a weasel word – doublespeak in many mouths

it’s so slippery most people are afraid to go anywhere near it other than to use it like a cudgel when they think it appropriate or useful or it slips out when they are angry

Zionists, who’s nation is apartheid, and very many Jews call anyone who sides with Palestine an anti-Semite – the worst of the racists

if that’s not the world turned upside down

what is?

p

What is the difference between making a statement that is racial in nature, vs making a statement that is racist in nature?

yeh but then he would have had to negotiate with all the leaders of the black community

maybe he was just not up to such a challenge

i’d have no idea how to approach it other than suggest a black guy take over the job

but then maybe all the black community leaders were begging for a white dude to come in and tell them how to grow their economy

🙂

and a bunch of red-neck gun-toten sheriffs to back him up

ho hum

p

Exactly, and it sort of is his job as it is the job of community leaders and such. Not a job for one person, but for an association of business owners and other stakeholders. Such things almost certainly exist in the neighborhood already.

he’s not so much racist as defeatist

he could not ramp up the teams income

so he found the easiest logical explanation

the best way out might have been to grow the surrounding economy so that blacks filled the same demograph that rich whites fill

but that wasn’t his job

you can’t really call him racist – you can only respect him for being big enough to resign for not knowing how to tackle a problem bigger than the team

p

#4 and #5 – Mal, you may be surprised to find that I agree with you, and am not going to say what you perhaps thought I would say.

No, I do not think what Levenson implies is progress. I was commenting only on the repeated phrases shown in the blog.

I do not think that if a white person avoids a football game because he does not enjoy the half time music, that equates to racism. If I were a football fan, and they played nothing but country music or acid rock at half time, which I find execrable generally, I might not go either. Having said that, if I actually enjoyed football, I’d watch anybody play as long as they’re decent.

I do think that there *may be* a deeply entrenched racism in America among the whites, bubbling just under the surface. It may not be overt in many cases, but may be a simple vague mistrust. I wish that it is not so.

On the flip side, I wish more people of color would come to national parks and etc. Nature is racially blind, and the beauty of mountains and rivers and forests knows no cultural boundaries. Only in recent years do I even see a trickle of African-Americans coming to the parks and wilderness areas, and I wish it could be a far greater percentage – everybody needs this beauty, I believe, to have the proper perspective. I do see multitudes of people from other nations – but so few Black Americans. It is depressing. Parks are found everywhere, and are not especially expensive, so cost is not always the reason why they do not come to the parks. There could be many reasons, but I wonder if one of them could be a perception that a park is a White Man’s legacy…again, I wish it is not so.

I do not lament the lack of white history month. In school, that is the GREAT majority of what we learn, and there is no need to pound it home with a “boo hoo” holiday (holimonth?) of white people feeling sorry for themselves.

Maybe there should be a white history month. It would be instructive, but perhaps a bit uncomfortable!

#1, do you call this progress?

But at least I can say, no he is not Donald Sterling.