Steve King: Obama Has 'Default Mechanism' That 'Favors The Black Person'

big business,just like obama. this isn't a black/white thing despite their efforts to paint it as such. it's called divide and conquer and we the people need to wake up to that fact.

Halliburton?

Chimpanzees...

in the end, it seemed no one but cheney

your feet icon is freaking me out. good comment though!

+^d

Say it again!!

I'd hate to say many indigenous tribes all over the world, have got you on the, "most endangered species on earth" thing...

Of course only one of these groups would be absolutely correct, a few of them would be correct in the sense that they are far more endangered.

Then there is the fact the scientists still speculate on colors of dinosaurs, and although I don't think the original pair were "white" they could have easily fallen into any color variation in between... but you're right racism knows no bounds...

hey just remember your minority brothers in solidarity when you guys amass power and influence, help a jew.sure we are white,but we think jesus was black and were totaly stoked on civil rights.

is this the same zichi who was so upset at one line adgitations?
as you and i have danced the perverbial semetic dance on here a number of times you know full well i am aware of jewish ethnicities, so i can only surmise you are compelled to type that comment to fullfill the desire to instigate.
but ill play along
i was refering to jews within the context of this story, wich is about the united states of america.and the jewish population in the untited states of america is overwhelmingly caucasian.so as a characterization of jews, within the context of the united states, generalizing them as white is not perfect but accurate.
being as we are a country of primarily anglo people, the falasha, and sephardim neednt be mentioned as they are already seen as minorities regardless of religion.

Now that I got THAT outta my system: These guys get offended every time the other side cries "racism!" and then do the same thing? WTF?

And as for the argument that white people aren't cowards when it comes to racism... really. How many white politicians honestly address race in any forward-thinking way?

lol...you modelled that great handiwork of yours on this pic...and I thought it was Homer, just guessin'...clever...

I'm nothing if not a Trekkie and sci-fi freak. Although I have done Homer ASCII stuff.

we are all so shy with racism we still think it simply means whitey hates darkie.we ignore it is inherent in human understanding and can be positive too, like ethnic pride.pride based on your race.the italian heritage club in my town is racist, but thats ok cuz its not a bad thing that they exist only for italians.no harm no foul.except for whitey, whitey dont get to have his race presented as a matter of pride due to a really bad first run at it.

Well yeah, Freecrack. If you're known for centuries as a race of ignorance and oppression you kinda get labeled. I don't condone it, but...eh. We shouldn't have been stupid for the past few hundred years. We'd get far more respect as a culture.

Racism can never be positive. I for one would argue it is a rational outcome based on cultural and perhaps biological factors that are almost universal, but racial pride isn't merely liking how you look. When one is oppressed based on their appearance, it generally emerges as a sense of subhumanness in comparison to other groups. Cultivating a sense of pride around one's maligned identity is a way to combat oppression in all its forms. Ideally, no one should have to express collective pride over who they are to find some self-acceptance. But that's just the world we're in.

racism can never be positive?so racial pride isnt positive?proud of ones racial heritage isnt positive?dave chappels show wasnt positive(cuz it sure was racist)?
you are speaking from a contemperary perspective where psa's tech us that racism is wrong, wich as an ism can be, just as it can also be good.depending on the user.
example:
the middle east is uncivilized-
this is racist as it makes a statement about a terrirtory that is overwhelmingly arab, so middle east serves as a psuedonym for arab.and to state that they are catagoricaly uncivilized is a racist statement pigeon holing all of them for the ills of the few of them.
the middle east is the cradle of civilization-
this is also a racist comment as it still is a broad generalization using a region as psuedonym for arabs, but this time the broad characterization is used to promote them, as not only being civilized, but so much so they are the creators of such a notion.

we as americans have a unique perspective on this as a result of our shamefull history.the lessons we learn arent really about the basis of hate speech, but the basis of hate speech against those we have wronged.
if you notice black jokes are the sole property of black people (and some how lisa lampaneli) while everyone else is fair game.its not so much about true equality fo us as it is dont fuck up where we fucked up in the past, wich is bias based on skin color.as long as its not about skin color go nuts.
tv shows that even elude to a black person liking watermelon will get killed, but cheap jew jokes still alive and well.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVS4Zgjm8HE&feature=related
notice no one jumps in on this video

Racism and racial pride aren't inherently interlocked.

I don't see how your examples show racism being a good thing. The use of the middle east in your two statements aren't remotely equitable. The first suggests people, the people of the middle east, are uncivilized, as a piece of land can't be civil or uncivil, it just is. The second implies the geographic region, regardless of who currently resides there, was where civilization as we know it started. Your interpretation of the second comment isn't racist so much as an attempt of accuracy.

And to be accurate, when you say "we as americans," I feel you mean "we as white americans," since you focus on black people, and for the overwhelming majority of U.S. History, it was white men who made the decisions of who was subhuman and who had to be liberated by our superior ways (from Communists, terrorists, ect...)

And yes, as long as things aren't about skin color people are going nuts. Which I agree, is ridiculous. People all all religions and lackthereofs have way too much liberty to attack one another with limited social consequence. I personally try to be fair on this point, but from what I see Islam is most inequitably attacked. There are more images of hyperwesternized muslims than of the culturally diverse members of other religions, equating all hints of nonwestern Islam as the enemy. When governments start thinking that banning headdresses is an act of liberation, shit is ridiculous. When there is no incentive to understand or humanize the peoples of a region we are trying to take over, it's ridiculous. But all of that is something reserved for another place..

racism is having a belief about people based on race no? the crime of racism is always that it discounts the element of individuality and is negative in that regard, but if the assertion is a positive one, its still racist but positive racism.
all asians are smart.
its racist, and its not bad.
all indians are kind.
or whatever positive attribute you want to brand a race with. its a form of racism, on the positive end of the spectrum

racism isn't mere generalization, it's when one dominant group of people belief and behave as if they are superior to another. calling all Asians smart is a stereotype, like saying all black people are good at sports and Jewish people are all rich. Even if these stereotypes can be turned to hurt people (Asians then seen as physically weak, black people seen as dumb, Jewish people greedy), the 'positive' generalizations themselves aren't racist. At least that's what everyone I've read on it has concluded..

interesting, we just have different ideas of what racism is. to me racism is simply a matter of creating generalizations of a people based on race.i dont see it being a matter of dominance as black people can be racist to whites, and (believe me) jews can be the equivalent to christians.wether or not the racist ideas come with any authority (dominant versus minority) it doesnt change the nature of the racist idea.
i still maintain that racism is just a tool and it all depends on how it is held that dictates weather or not it is also a weapon.

but i do agree it is a product of ignorance, as believing any statement about any people, fails to recognize the individuality we all posses as every person is different.

This, perfectly!

Just because we don't want a white guy ONLY in office somehow makes us racist. No matter that the system has favored white guys for centuries and somehow it wasn't racist at all then.

i say lets really do it.make it a coalition government with every race electing its own president, and then compete(as all politicians do) for who gets the best results over theyre 4 yr term.except for jews, no jewish president, thats just asking for a spike in antisemetism.

What? No. Let's NOT pit people against each other based on race, as if race factually matters.

well on the left it wont matter, but it would be a hoot watching the right try to figure out who to support at any given moment.

Maybe it's fair though, after several hundred years of "white" rule.

Then again about the only real way it would be fair is if we had a Native American president...

at the very least we could then discuss immigration with an authority.

They should change it from 'Native' to 'Original'....after electing an 'Original' American president. Then let's see the white, rich, male republicans in government talk shit.