President Carter on Racism

[squirt]

I knew I shoulda' said purple! lol

[hortysir]

Originally Posted by Flynn

Hortysir

Your accusation that Carters claims of racist attitudes toward Obama by those that politically disagree with him,............ does not hold water, as there are Blacks and Hispanics who disagree with Obama's policies.

From the link provided in your opening post


Carter’s Racism Charge Sparks War of Words

By Kate Phillips

Former President Jimmy Carter’s view that some of the recent protests against President Obama, including the “You Lie!” outburst by Representative Joe Wilson last week, are “based on racism,” has fueled a new war of words over this already charged issue.




It is Carter's claim that does not hold water....s'not my claim whatsoever.....

[hortysir]

Love this article!!!

Race and the Opposition to Obama by Steve Chapman on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent


Race and the Opposition to Obama

A new president, pursuing policies well within the political mainstream, evokes weirdly angry and intense denunciations from opponents — a reaction hard to explain in terms of anything he has actually done. Does that suggest, as Jimmy Carter insists, that their true motivation lies in racism?

No, it doesn't, because I'm not talking about Barack Obama. I'm talking about George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — both of whom, from the day they took office, managed to convince a minority of Americans that they were not just wrong but illegitimate, dangerous and thoroughly evil. Obama's troubles are not exactly unprecedented.

It's generally forgotten that on Inauguration Day in 2001, Bush was greeted by thousands of protesters who threw eggs and bottles, made obscene gestures and carried signs jeering, "Hail to the thief" — a reference to the legal fight needed to settle the outcome of the election. To the protesters, he was a corrupt enemy of democracy.

[squirt]

IF Jimmy Carter has witnessed racism all his life, then in my opinion, he SHOULD have been speaking out about it all along! he's from Georgia, and like most politicians, doesn't have much contact with the common man, I went to school in Georgia, my sisters and I were the only white students in the entire elementary, they had to let us arrive to school late and let us out early because the other kids felt it necessary to hurt us lol 4 little girls who had never done anything to anybody in all their little lives, betcha Carter never witnessed things like that *either*

[Flynn]

Sometimes it takes the racist attitudes of the present to make you aware of what happened in the past.

A BLACK President was the catalyst that brought those memories back to Carter.

[Flynn]

Squirt

It tells me a lot more about your personal life that you and your sisters were the only White Girls in your school.

and

I totally believe you harbour no resentment after being bullied by Black people in your own school enviroment.


Sure I do.

[squirt]

not my school, a school, one grade, and I was in 2nd, and only there for a few months, I think, in all honesty, that's all I remember, so nice of you to turn it around and make it about me *and my sisters, one of whom I lost a little over a year ago* you can't even begin to know anything about me Flynn cuz you paint me with the colors you'd like to see, not reality ... the point is and was that Jimmy Carter is clueless about what's going on around him much less across the country

[hortysir]

Originally Posted by Flynn

Sometimes it takes the racist attitudes of the present to make you aware of what happened in the past.

A BLACK President was the catalyst that brought those memories back to Carter.

Now if he could remember how to be a statesman....

[hortysir]

Originally Posted by Flynn

I totally believe you harbour no resentment after being bullied by Black people in your own school enviroment.


Sure I do.

Though it's obviously not the case for you, Flynn, it is quite common for people to not hold ill- feelings against an entire group of people based on the actions of a few.

[Flynn]

I don't keep up with your family history, if you didn't want me to comment on your family members you should not have used them as an example.