46% Young Americans Believe USA Is Racist, 44% believe Obama greater than George Washington

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  1. BuckyBadger

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    Where in Japan? Why were you there?

    Obviously you have no idea that Japanese people can be racist, sexist and that stretches across Asian demographics as well as across the entire spectrum. Do you have any idea what they refer to Korean people as? Or White people?

    Japanese people are no better/no worse than any other race when it comes to racial attitudes.

    Racism exists everywhere and in every culture, period. It's human nature and you somehow pointing out that "white people" are somehow more racist than others simply disgusting and part of the very problems America has.
     
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    I don't look at Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Kamala Harris, Loretta Lynch or even Eric Holder being black but Mulatto who are made men/women of the Mulatto Mafia.

    The DNC ran Barack Obama for President as being a black man.

    If they ran Obama as being Mulatto he would have never won.

    If Obama was white he would have never won.
     
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    BuckyBadger Well-Known Member

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    Exactly.
     
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    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Young Americans have little or no experience in life in general. They have been brainwashes by teachers in school and usually at home both parents are working and have little or no interaction with their kids. As they mature and are exposed to the need to work for food one of two things will happen. They will start to realize their government is too big and their taxes are wasted on no-essentials and duplicity, or they will vote in socialists and each day they will don their black robes and march off to the government run broom factory.
    I fear the latter is the future as the work ethic is waning and the desire for freeshit is growing.
     
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    I didn't bring race into it--that was the topic. And Hillary?? Seriously...that comment seems to suggest that I suggested not voting for Obama meant you were a racist. Not even close. I don't know where you came up with that. And just for the record, I hated Clinton, and Obama's term was just an extension of Bush's term. I didn't care for either one of them. So please take me out of whatever stereotype category you have me in, and read what I said, not interpret according to that stereotype.

    The whole notion of "identity politics" is just another example of our racial attitudes. Why does non-White identity bother people?

    As far as the propaganda in education, please enlighten me. I think I disagree with you, but I'm not sure what you consider improper in the classroom.
     
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    And after we Americans have descended headlong into our ongoing nightmare of political civil war and even more hatred, along with the alarming growth of an ever-increasing segment of our society that is functionally worthless and parasitic, who will take our place?

    Russia and China. The European Union (led by Germany) will have increased ties with both Russia and China. Those three entities will take over everything of significance in the entire Eastern Hemisphere. Japan, both Korea's, Australia, and Taiwan will fall under the Sino-Russian dominance.

    We Americans will barely remain in 'control' of the Western Hemisphere, shrinking further into our insanely self-destructive, but oh-so 'politically-correct' little world of weakness and sputtering futility.... Look for this happy situation to blossom fully in about another 10 - 15 years.... With any luck, I won't be alive to endure it.
     
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    I remember hearing the same argument 40 years ago. 40 years ago, when we were brainwashed by a culture and educational system that created a myth about who we are. I was a military brat. I sat through all the propaganda. I remember it clearly.
     
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    Mulatto = non-White = identity politics = racial attitudes.
     
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    There may be hope for the US after all...
     
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    Forty years age you WERE brainwashed by liberal teachers. They just had a bit more disciplinary power.
    Seventy years ago if you screwed up in class you woke up on the floor and when you got home you had it worse.
     
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    In some ways he did.

    Certainly a far greater president.
     
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    Like Bigfoot, "global socialist Democrats" don't exist.

    With all due respect to Bigfoot...

    :)
     
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    Wow, such a low number, considering the reality of the situation.
    Because at least 40% of the country are racist. How did they not know that?
     
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    Yes, you did. Here is just one of your quotes:

    When Obama ran and during his time in office, there was a lot of resistance to him and much of that took on racist tones.

    How is that not racial? In fact, there was little to no racial resistance to Obama who had almost the full support of the people, the news media and the government agencies. He did whatever he wanted to and rarely got called out. Now fast forward to Trump who is white and he is under constant harassment for somehow being racist when his only alleged crime is winning an election he was never supposed to win. You have it completely backwards. The liberals and Democrats have been screaming racist remarks and sexist remarks since the day he took office. Instead of supporting the President, they do everything in their power to bring him down. Despite the fact that most of his policies are just a continuation of policies that Democrats initially supported.

    Non-White identity doesn't bother most white people. White identity seems to bother other white people and non-white people. Being white seems to bother liberal white people and non-white people. Your posts in this thread are exactly what I am talking about. You manufacture alleged racist tones when none really existed. None as far as no more/no less than what was already there.

    In fact, Obama being elected seemed to ease racial tension at the outset, then diminished at the end of his term. African Americans should have been outraged that a another African American President basically sentenced them to poverty and put more of them on food stamps than any other President. The fact that Obama had failed policies angered people and Democrats immediately shift to the racism debate to explain away how much he is currently loathed.

    Conservatives and Republicans focus on policy, Democrats/liberal/progressives focus on feelings and identity. Big difference.
     
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    Yep on the obama part.
    Racism was alive and well but kept quiet for the most part.
    Then upon the election of a black skinned prez, the came out of the woodwork to be vocal about their inherent racism.

    We just had a closet racist elected in Ky, a female racist at that.
    I'd gladly join someone at a public hanging, she touts. And doesn't even understand the racist tone of that statement. That's how inherent racism still is in the USA. Especially down in redneck country.
     
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    I have always considered mixed-race people mixed-race, but in Obama's case the answer to your question is simple - politics.

    Even though he is no more black than he is white, Obama's portrayal as a black man enabled him and his supporters to claim that racism was responsible for the opposition and criticism he encountered. This also helped shield their bad "progressive" ideas, agenda and policies from opposition and criticism, as well.
     
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    My father was Air Force--we were stationed at Yokota 66-69.
    If you're talking about race, Asian is a race, Japanese is nationality or ethnicity. Genetically speaking, the Japanese appear to have migrated from Korea, except for the Ainu of Hokkaido. Race is a very broad term that people use without thinking about the meaning, so when you say the Japanese were racist, you're actually just saying they didn't like anyone who wasn't Asian.
    When we were there, they referred to us with the term 'yanki,' which was a pejorative (as in "Yanki go home"). There were other names they had for 'half-breeds' and none of them were polite. I'm well aware that it was a very paternal society.
     
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    I think if you look at the issue a little closer, that half-ness put him in the non-White category early in his life. In his book, he talked about how society made him aware that he wasn't all that welcome in the White community. People saw him as something other than White, and treated him as such. The inability of Whites to understand how we segregate people in our minds underscores the deep racial attitudes of our culture.

    Someone has pointed out that such attitudes are common across all cultures and throughout time. That's true, but doesn't negate anything.
     
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    Actually, that was 40 years ago as well. My brother smarted off to a teacher and got a black eye. My mother worked in the same school district and heard about what happened. She met with the teacher and concluded that my brother deserved what he got. But that has nothing to do with the mythologized history or the brainwashing we got.
     
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    Cool. I'm sure everyone adjusts in time with the cut backs and delays. As long as it feels kind of free, it must be awesome.
     
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    Same with America loving patriotic Democrats

    Or Democrats that don't blame white people for everything wrong on earrh.
     
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    How old were you when you were there? How much could you have actually seen and digested of the Japanese culture back in the 60's? Unless you were actually immersed in the culture and lived off-base you had a very limited view of Japan, period. Especially being so young.

    I am saying racism exists in every culture and in every country and the Japanese are far from exempt. Go back and read what I wrote because the 2nd bold/underline portion is NOT what I said at all. Here it is again:

    Obviously you have no idea that Japanese people can be racist, sexist and that stretches across Asian demographics as well as across the entire spectrum. Do you have any idea what they refer to Korean people as? Or White people?

    I love Japan and most of Asia and they have great culture and some of the friendliest best people I have ever met. But don't portray them as above racist reproach for 1 minute. They have their faults and their beliefs and their staunch haters of other cultures and races as well. You are acting as if they are above such things and passing it off as "Nationalists".
     
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    No. If you look at the part you didn't bold, it says that's what the topic of the original post was.

    I have to assume that your memory of the past suffers from the same problem you have when you only bolded the words that supported your view. You're only remembering what supports your view.
    Have you been elected spokesperson for most Whites, or are you assuming that most think the same way you do?
    Let me point out something. You mentioned how bad Obama was, then pointed out something from a very racial perspective. This is the sort of thing we as Whites don't see as racial, yet it stinks of race. This idea of Blacks and social programs gets so entangled politically that we can't see how Blacks are being stereotyped as lazy, ignorant, and dependent on social welfare. Why didn't you mention how Whites were affected in the same way under Obama's plan?

    I questioned earlier why the topic of racism makes people so uncomfortable. The issue of White Identity becomes an issue when people use it to suggest superiority, and that's been happening a lot in the past two years. It's also an issue when it's used to support stereotypes and discrimination. It happens, and people aren't always aware they're doing it. And part of that White identity includes a history of violence and repression against minorities, but when that's brought up, people don't want to hear about it. It's part of who we are. We need to accept it and not deflect the issue.
     
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    Mulatto
    MULAT'TO, noun [Latin mulus, a mule.] A person that is the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro.
     
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    There are in facts parts of our history that we shouldn't be proud of. As a matter of fact the current government is making that kind of history.

    I think we've done some good, really good as well. That should be our template for making history.

    Opinion. Who's to say what's great?

    But I would be interested in learning why they have no hope that we can make this country great. Is it because of Trump, the Republicans, the conservatives, the Christians, or something else?

    More racist than some, but also less racist than some.

    More funding for schools.

    Again I'm interested in learning why they feel this way.


    It's not at all surprising to me that some people think presidents in their lives have more impact than presidents from 100 or 200 years ago.

    If you ask people who has the biggest impact in their lives, many would not say their mother, especially if their mother's not around when they were young.

    Overall, I don't find these results to be a serious issue.
     

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