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Is this racism? If so, why?
This can't be racism, everybody else does it, right?
Quote:HOPE MILLS, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Fourth of July parade float is coming under fire after residents believe the message was offensive at a family oriented event.
People lined the streets of Hope Mills Thursday for the community's annual July 4th parade.
A picture snapped by a parade-goer shows a man on a tractor flying a confederate flag and pulling a wagon loaded with watermelons. A sign on the trailer read: "White History Month. Hug WTE PPL."
Town officials told ABC11 that farmer Donnie Spell applied for and received a parade permit. However, officials said Spell told them he would be pulling an antique tractor with a sign that read: "Watermelons for sale" at a nearby bank parking lot.
When ABC11 went to Spell's home, his gate was locked. A neighbor said he didn't think the man was trying to be vicious or funny.
But people that saw the float thought otherwise.
"This should be over, all that stuff should be over. I don't understand why people are still living like this," Hope Mills resident Suzanne Singletary said.
Town officials said they are considering making changes to the registration process so that this does not happen again.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
I would call it racist.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
Well, I don't see how...considering the liberal media loves to point out that whites will be a minority group in about 30 years.
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07-07-2013 07:28 PM |
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
(07-07-2013 07:26 PM)Ninerfan1 Wrote: I would call it racist.
Niner, why? Other groups have months and Walmart sells watermelons.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
Was he being deliberately inflammatory? I think yes.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
It's like taking a stick and poking someone's eye or adding gasoline on a flame. What is the point exactly of this?
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
(07-07-2013 07:31 PM)Smaug Wrote: Was he being deliberately inflammatory? I think yes.
Not sure there's enough info to make that conclusion.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
(07-07-2013 07:29 PM)smn1256 Wrote: (07-07-2013 07:26 PM)Ninerfan1 Wrote: I would call it racist.
Niner, why? Other groups have months and Walmart sells watermelons.
I suppose there is a chance it was just a coincidence that he was advocating white history month, which doesn't exist, and selling watermelons at the same time and was not attempting to make any connection between the two. Having been to Hope Mills I can say there is an equally plausible chance it was ignorance or racism.
But my general feeling is it was intended to be racially inflammatory.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
I am new here, and I don't want to step on any toes, but how is this any more racist than having a Black history month, or Hispanic History month? How about politicians that openly talk about advancing their race?
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
Had he left it at the Confederate flag maybe not. If there is a Black history month why can't white's have one? The watermelons pushed beyond the boundary. I think Democrats dreamed up Black history month, Hispanic heritage month to slice up the population into demographic groups they can say Republicans don't support.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
He is in the parade with watermelons every year. This is the first year he has put a sign like that up. I don't think he was being racist, but I think he was trying to get attention. I imagine he was thinking something along the lines of what someone posted earlier, that blacks have a month, Native Americans have a month why shouldn't white people have a month. Its just kind of stupid, not much else.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
Black history month - October
Asian history month - May
Hispanic history month - Sept 15 to Oct 15
American Indian history month - August
LGBT history month - June
Women's history month - March
Anglo history month - doesn't exist
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
(07-07-2013 07:42 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: Had he left it at the Confederate flag maybe not. If there is a Black history month why can't white's have one? The watermelons pushed beyond the boundary. I think Democrats dreamed up Black history month, Hispanic heritage month to slice up the population into demographic groups they can say Republicans don't support.
Very well put.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
(07-07-2013 07:42 PM)smn1256 Wrote: Black history month - October
Asian history month - May
Hispanic history month - Sept 15 to Oct 15
American Indian history month - August
LGBT history month - June
Women's history month - March
Anglo history month - doesn't exist
All of these are encouraged by the creators of the politics of division, aka the DEMOCRATS.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
(07-07-2013 07:42 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: Had he left it at the Confederate flag maybe not. If there is a Black history month why can't white's have one? The watermelons pushed beyond the boundary. I think Democrats dreamed up Black history month, Hispanic heritage month to slice up the population into demographic groups they can say Republicans don't support.
Maybe he grows watermelons. Why the automatic association with racism?
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
White people have the other 10 months. More specifically, landed white men.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
(07-07-2013 07:39 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: I am new here, and I don't want to step on any toes, but how is this any more racist than having a Black history month, or Hispanic History month? How about politicians that openly talk about advancing their race?
Black history month isn't racist in my opinion. Seeing as the majority of history is white history given the role blacks had in society until after the civil war. Black history calls attention to accomplishments blacks have made that would not otherwise make it into a history lesson.
Frederick Douglas, MLK and Rosa Parks will make it into most any general history curriculum. But there are specifics about slavery and the civil rights movement that ought to be taught. Having a month dedicated to that ensures those contributions are known.
Talk about the revolution and it's George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and others. The civil war Abe Lincoln, REL, USG and others. WWI is Woodrow Wilson, The Kaiser, Black Jack Pershing. WWII is FDR, Eisenhower, Patton, Marshall, Bradley and Truman and others. Whites have dominated society, and as a result history, throughout the centuries. So most every aspect of history will be dominated by whites. Having black history month in recognition of those blacks who also made major contributions to our history is a good thing in my opinion. The intent isn't to elevate blacks over whites. Then it would be racist.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
(07-07-2013 07:46 PM)Smaug Wrote: White people have the other 10 months. More specifically, landed white men.
July isn't taken.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
Such political correctness on this board. Not used to it.
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RE: Is this racism? If so, why?
(07-07-2013 07:39 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: I am new here, and I don't want to step on any toes, but how is this any more racist than having a Black history month, or Hispanic History month? How about politicians that openly talk about advancing their race?
I can't see it being racist having a "_______ history month". The reason for such is that over the years history has been taught primarily from the point of view of the group of people that dominate that society. So the idea of a "white" history month is kind of redundant. Designating a month to highlight a minority group is just a way to honor the accomplishments and contributions of a portion of the population that is often touched on only superficially if at all.
That said, as a history teacher I don't particularly like, and don't go out of my way to do anything different on the months. I teach all the history I can all year long. I consider it shortchanging the role of those groups to just learn about them at that time. I think most history teachers feel the same. I can't teach American or state history without teaching about the role of African Americans, Native Americans, and in the modern era Hispanics. It is all interwoven.
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2013 08:03 PM by dawgitall.)
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