Is it fair to call Rick Perry a racist for his long participation at this hunting camp? He didn’t own it, he did bring fellow Texas lawmakers there from time to time, and he claims that his father painted over the offensive term. Is it fair to paint HIM as a racist? Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance. “Niggerhead,” it read. http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...charged-name/2011/10/01/gIQAOhY5DL_story.html
I do not think he is a racist. I think he sees things more as class structure. The caste system does exist in some peoples minds and I think he is one of them.
I don't know if he is racist or not. The whole blow up seems racially insensitive, at the least. Do you think that it will cost him the black vote?
I think it'll cost him a lot of primary votes except for the Tea Party voters. That'll probably double. OUCH!!!
I think Stu was kidding or at least being facetious. I don't think Perry is a racist but there is just a certain amount of racism that comes with being from Texas. I have relatives that live in Galveston and they say that there is no way they'd live in West Texas and they are white. Apparently it's pretty bad in that half of the state. Like most rural areas in this country, racism is just part and parcel of the small town experience. The less contact they actually have with nonwhites, the more they seem to hate them. I think even if Perry isn't racist, he has to play along with those that are racist with a nod and a wink. That doesn't make him a racist, just a racist enabler. It's kind of like that twist on the old commercial, "I'm not a racist but I play one on TV."
I have lived in cities from 4k to 1 million and the larger cities were pretty darn racist and a lot more segregated...whites lived in their neighborhoods and the 'non-whites' lived in their neighborhoods usually broken up by race. Now once you get into the less than 500 or so range, I would imagine there are no minorities at all so that might be a different story but I don;t have any experience in towns that small.
Now let me get this straight. If you are from a small town, you are a racist. I personally think that is insulting especially by the person who calls Cain the Republican token black. For someone who feigns to be upset at the Republican mention of race, you are by far the most racist person on this panel and maybe that I have ever had the displeasure to talk to. And, BTW, I can back up a lot of your racist statements if you need a reminder. I guess that is the mentality you get when you don't listen to any news and you have to assume that the propaganda from mediamatters is valid. I think you owe me and the rest of America from small towns a big apology along with Mr. Cain.
What in the world are you talking about? I don't think you really have a clue. You owe Texas an apology. So you have a couple of family members who told you that. That may be their experience, but when you demean half of a state AND most rural areas, well, that's just ignorance on your part. Please define the term non-white. How do you know they hate anyone at all? He has to "play along with" them? Are you joking? How is he playing along with them? You haven't done a good job of explaining your accusation...
Boys! Boys! You're both holier than thou. I thought I was being rather nice to old Mr. Perry considering. As a person that grew up in rural areas, I can tell you from Minnesota to Texas, racism and prejudice is alive and well and very tolerated in rural America. I don't care whether you believe me or not. The further you get from a city, the less racially tolerant the population becomes. Period!! As far as your demands for apologies, let me quote this, "It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them." Guess which sort you guys are!
Spoken by a true highly educated expert from the northern big cities who only gets his news from Mr. Soros. I think one of your quotes is quite apropos here;
I come from a very very small place in rural wales and there the only type of racism I came across was a dislike for the English Since then I have lived in a number of cities and racism abounds and not only from whites One shoudn't tar a entire community simply by there experience as a yout as things can and do alter over time I dont know about the US but here in the UK the youth of today shows a lot less antagonism towards those of a diffrent culture than they did in my youth I dont deny that you will still find pockets of it in some places but today it seems to be much more of a religious intolerance rather than a racial one
Actually, I don't live in a big city or even the suburbs of one but I do live in the north and I have no idea what Mr. Soros has to say about anything. However, when you get your news from the likes of Rupert Murdoch, you really don't have much room to criticize anyone else's news source. BTW the only people that use “highly educated” as a pejorative are usually not.
Another prejudice to add to you collection. Keep it up like this and I am going to run out of room to keep them all.
IMO, painting over the offensive word is a start, but it takes a generation or two (or more) for a community to learn how to be more tolerant. This specific issue hasn't convinced me Rick Perry is a racist, but I wonder how far removed from those past beliefs he is.
Locking one's car doors when one drives through 'that part of town' in the Big City doesn't really count as having 'contact with nonwhites'.
