I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

IMO, folks of color were beginning to do a little to much thinking for themselves. That should be seen as a great thing; however, the D's can't let that catch on. So, we are seeing what we see. It's also the reason the border is now in a crises. If one can't be reined back in might as well have Plan B ready to go.

I grew up in a NYC suburb in the '60's and '70's, where we all thought ourselves unquestionably superior to those benighted goobers living down in the former Confederate states.

I moved to Virginia in the '80's, where I brought my smug northern attitude with me - - only to quickly realize that I was encountering far fewer outright racists among my new set of friends/neighbors than those who I grew up with back in N.Y.

What began as a learning (and sometimes humbling) experience became something closer to anger as I started to encounter on my return visits to N.Y. the same nasty assumptions. Today's progressives will happily lecture others on race relations without any recognition of far worse levels of racial animus coming from their own midst. There are ignorant scum everywhere. But they are the exception in most conservative/moderate regions. They are more the rule in the liberal/progressive regions.

(04-26-2021 02:00 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  I grew up in a NYC suburb in the '60's and '70's, where we all thought ourselves unquestionably superior to those benighted goobers living down in the former Confederate states.

I moved to Virginia in the '80's, where I brought my smug northern attitude with me - - only to quickly realize that I was encountering far fewer outright racists among my new set of friends/neighbors than those who I grew up with back in N.Y.

What began as a learning (and sometimes humbling) experience became something closer to anger as I started to encounter on my return visits to N.Y. the same nasty assumptions. Today's progressives will happily lecture others on race relations without any recognition of far worse levels of racial animus coming from their own midst. There are ignorant scum everywhere. But they are the exception in most conservative/moderate regions. They are more the rule in the liberal/progressive regions.

I grew up in a lower middle class area in Memphis in the 60's and 70's literally surrounded by poor black neighborhoods. We probably thought less of them but never hated the blacks we routinely engaged with. The n word was just part of the local vernacular and it took me well into my adulthood to figure out how much hurt and anger the word causes and I became much more aware of my usage of it.

I still have acquaintances and friends who most would consider racists but there isn't an element of hate involved, not intentional anyway. Most of it is simply the product of upbringing and maybe a lack of empathy.

I firmly believe that until 2008 we had seen a great improvement in race relations in this country. Since then the agitators have increasingly used racism to keep the masses inflamed and the races divided.

2008 was most definitely a turning point in our nation's race relations - - and paradoxically not for the better.

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

(04-26-2021 03:25 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

What reaction was that? Did the right and its MSM minions relentlessly persecute him? Did they spend 4 years trying to have him ousted over made up events? Did they steal an election from him? Did they hamstring his every effort?

Your Lord Zero had a unique opportunity to be a unifier and he either ignorantly squandered it or did so with forethought as part of a broader agenda, the results of - either case - which we see all around us today as the left loses any claim to rational and reasonable thought and actions.

Yours is an evil and tyrannical party now, one based solely on Marxist principles, when will you realize it?

(04-26-2021 02:58 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  2008 was most definitely a turning point in our nation's race relations - - and paradoxically not for the better.

Right, it wasn't supposed to go down like that. Obama had an opportunity to unite the country and did the exact opposite, we are seeing the results of that now.

Race relations in the US today has nothing to do Color of skin, but rather the Content of Character.

There's a huge amount of racism that's alive today.. and it's towards white people.

(04-26-2021 03:25 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

Sure, there wereidiots but that's not anywhere to the point you are trying to make. I was hopeful the first black POTUS could be a unifying force. Unfortunatley, party before country carried on and we continue to see the results. Racism will never be wiped out completley. No matter what anyone tells you everyone is a little racist as we are all human. It's how we choose to react to that that is the main component of people either coming together or acting the fool.

(04-26-2021 03:25 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

Sorry, Obama was elected by white people (primarily). I never had an issue with his color, but his governance sucked.

(04-26-2021 03:25 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

No, you are wrong.......

At least half the population thought Obama’s policies were trash, if they said his policies sucked, the media and Dems immediately accused that person of being racist.......no one was allowed to disagree with him.

......that’s how Obama and minions politicized race.

It was and still is despicable.

As has been said, Obama had an unbelievable opportunity to be a unifier, but instead chose to be a typical Chicago politician and be the great divider.....all for politics.

History will not look favorably on him.......

(04-26-2021 03:41 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 03:25 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

What reaction was that? Did the right and its MSM minions relentlessly persecute him? Did they spend 4 years trying to have him ousted over made up events? Did they steal an election from him? Did they hamstring his every effort?

Your Lord Zero had a unique opportunity to be a unifier and he either ignorantly squandered it or did so with forethought as part of a broader agenda, the results of - either case - which we see all around us today as the left loses any claim to rational and reasonable thought and actions.

Yours is an evil and tyrannical party now, one based solely on Marxist principles, when will you realize it?

The bolded part is the sole reason. Divide and conquer. The only difference for the Marxists in the USA is that they chose the low hanging fruit - racism. It's relatively easy to rile folks up here using that. In other countries, there are other issues to use to divide people, in order to facilitate a Marxist/Communist takeover.

(04-26-2021 03:54 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 03:25 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

Sure, there wereidiots but that's not anywhere to the point you are trying to make. I was hopeful the first black POTUS could be a unifying force. Unfortunatley, party before country carried on and we continue to see the results. Racism will never be wiped out completley. No matter what anyone tells you everyone is a little racist as we are all human. It's how we choose to react to that that is the main component of people either coming together or acting the fool.

When I was a kid, in social studies we were taught at some point that ALL people have a little bit of "whatever I am is the best", I cannot remember the name of it, but it plays upon self-confidence. If you are a green tree-frog you should think "there is nothing in the world I would rather be than a green tree-frog because green tree-frogs are the best"

now, you have to balance that by understanding it and understanding everyone and everything (including a tree-frog) thinks that whatever they are is the best, and they should. So in essence, you have to know you are no better than the tree-frog.


now we are running into white people who wish they were black and boys who wish they were girls and so on and so forth. Now they are teaching some people to be ashamed of what they are.

(04-26-2021 08:54 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 03:54 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 03:25 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

Sure, there wereidiots but that's not anywhere to the point you are trying to make. I was hopeful the first black POTUS could be a unifying force. Unfortunatley, party before country carried on and we continue to see the results. Racism will never be wiped out completley. No matter what anyone tells you everyone is a little racist as we are all human. It's how we choose to react to that that is the main component of people either coming together or acting the fool.

When I was a kid, in social studies we were taught at some point that ALL people have a little bit of "whatever I am is the best", I cannot remember the name of it, but it plays upon self-confidence. If you are a green tree-frog you should think "there is nothing in the world I would rather be than a green tree-frog because green tree-frogs are the best"

now, you have to balance that by understanding it and understanding everyone and everything (including a tree-frog) thinks that whatever they are is the best, and they should. So in essence, you have to know you are no better than the tree-frog.


now we are running into white people who wish they were black and boys who wish they were girls and so on and so forth. Now they are teaching some people to be ashamed of what they are.

None of this bullshite is happening in my world. There is a lot of this crap on tv though. Then again, I avoid idiots.

(04-26-2021 09:35 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 08:54 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 03:54 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 03:25 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

Sure, there wereidiots but that's not anywhere to the point you are trying to make. I was hopeful the first black POTUS could be a unifying force. Unfortunatley, party before country carried on and we continue to see the results. Racism will never be wiped out completley. No matter what anyone tells you everyone is a little racist as we are all human. It's how we choose to react to that that is the main component of people either coming together or acting the fool.

When I was a kid, in social studies we were taught at some point that ALL people have a little bit of "whatever I am is the best", I cannot remember the name of it, but it plays upon self-confidence. If you are a green tree-frog you should think "there is nothing in the world I would rather be than a green tree-frog because green tree-frogs are the best"

now, you have to balance that by understanding it and understanding everyone and everything (including a tree-frog) thinks that whatever they are is the best, and they should. So in essence, you have to know you are no better than the tree-frog.


now we are running into white people who wish they were black and boys who wish they were girls and so on and so forth. Now they are teaching some people to be ashamed of what they are.

None of this bullshite is happening in my world. There is a lot of this crap on tv though. Then again, I avoid idiots.

Not happening in my world either, but the pot stirrers are absolutely doing it in whatever leftist place that allows it to go on.

Charles Mason's race war doesn't seem so impossible anymore.

(04-26-2021 09:35 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 08:54 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 03:54 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 03:25 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(04-26-2021 01:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I’m 56 years old, born just after the passing of the civil rights act. I live in Appalachia. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Point being that I’ve seen my fair share of racism in practice and still know some fairly racist people.

Racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago when my neighbor would stand on his porch and yell vulgarities at a black friend of mine when he would walk down the street with his white girlfriend or my mom would automatically lock the car doors and roll up the windows when we drove through certain parts of Huntington.

So I got thinking - why do liberals act like it’s 1950 instead of 2021? My hypothesis is that the last generation that grew up under segregation and true “systematic racism” is dying off. They have used race as a wedge for decades and they are running out of racist to support their argument.

So what do they do? The redefine what it means to be racist so that they can label new generations as racist and perpetuate their grift. That’s about the only reason I can think of.

I think you have it completely backwards. Racism resurfaced again soon after the election of Obama.

After the election of the first black President, it would have been impossible for democrats to claim that the United States was racist had it not been for the reaction of his election.

Sure, there wereidiots but that's not anywhere to the point you are trying to make. I was hopeful the first black POTUS could be a unifying force. Unfortunatley, party before country carried on and we continue to see the results. Racism will never be wiped out completley. No matter what anyone tells you everyone is a little racist as we are all human. It's how we choose to react to that that is the main component of people either coming together or acting the fool.

When I was a kid, in social studies we were taught at some point that ALL people have a little bit of "whatever I am is the best", I cannot remember the name of it, but it plays upon self-confidence. If you are a green tree-frog you should think "there is nothing in the world I would rather be than a green tree-frog because green tree-frogs are the best"

now, you have to balance that by understanding it and understanding everyone and everything (including a tree-frog) thinks that whatever they are is the best, and they should. So in essence, you have to know you are no better than the tree-frog.


now we are running into white people who wish they were black and boys who wish they were girls and so on and so forth. Now they are teaching some people to be ashamed of what they are.

None of this bullshite is happening in my world. There is a lot of this crap on tv though. Then again, I avoid idiots.

Let them try that crap in my little town and things wont go so well for them. There's a pickup in every driveway and very likely at least one gun in almost every home out here. In my entire neighborhood there was one Biden sign in the yard of some very confused people. The driveway has multiple jeeps and 4 wheel drive trucks in the driveway and there look to be at least two families living in the house. Oh, and they don't use a weed control service! Effin lazy democrats only cut their grass when it gets close to someone calling code enforcement on them again.