Anyone think racism doesn't exist among bu$h supporters?

[buff2]

Think again. I got this in my e-mail from this lady I know. She is one of these so called "christians".She has never revealed to me on what her politics are,but judgeing from the shit I get that she passes around you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know the answer. It's a shame,too. She is such a nice person,great personality and sense of humor.I am sick over this.How can anyone feel this way after watching all the suffering and deaths on our TV screens?I give up.It's too late,the rightwing have poisoned this country so much I don't think we can ever turn it around.I wish to God I had the money to leave this country.:puke: :cry:





Results of the hurricane



Things I have learned from watching the news on TV during the last eight
days:


The hurricane only hit black family's property

New Orleans was devastated and no other city was affected by the
hurricane

Mississippi is reported to have a tree blown down

New Orleans has no white people

The hurricane blew a limb off a tree in the yard of an Alabama resident

When you are hungry after a hurricane steal a big screen TV

The hurricane did 23 billion dollars in improvements to New Orleans: now
the city is welfare, looters and gang free and they are in your city.

White folks don't make good news stories

Don't give thanks to the thousands that came to help rescue you, instead
bitch because the government hasn't given you a debit card yet

Only black family members got separated in the hurricane rescue efforts

Ignore warnings to evacuate and the white folks will come get you and
give you money for being stupid



(sidebar from me)
Notice how whoever wrote this didn't put a period at the end of their sentences? And they call black people stupid???? :grr:

[Liberal Veteran]

1. And I'd lay odds the person who wrote it and the people who forwarded it..

....think they are not racist.

[wryter2000]

5. I'm sure you're right

Which makes it even sicker.

[buff2]

7. Yeah.....

Like "well,I have a friend who is black". How many times have we heard that?

[Liberal Veteran]

12. I remember one a tv public service announcement from when I was kid....

Where this kid and his grandfather are fishing and the kid asks his grandfather what prejudice is. He tries to explain it, and the kid says "Billy" or someone called him prejudice. The grandfather asked who the kid was and the kid answered that he was "my Jewish friend". And then the grandfather was explaining that thinking of people with labels instead of just "my friend" is how prejudice starts.

Wonder whatever happened those kinds of commercials? And the "Words for Unity" PSA's?

[buff2]

21. Gone with the good old days

Sad,but true.

[wryter2000]

2. I always knew they were racist

I must admit, though, that I had no idea how close to the surface the racism is. I thought at least they'd try to hide it. Nope.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. It's kinda like homophobia....

People pretend they aren't homophobic or racist, yet pounce on any opportunity to trash the objects of their hatred.

Hatred has a way of bubbling up to the surface and breaking through with only the slightest "provocation".

[Finder]

3. Racism exists regardless of politics...

many anti-Bush types are not necessarily tolerant. I do believe racism is more prevailing in the South which happens to be where most of the Bush supporters are.

[blossomstar]

4. Got the same racist email from supposedly Christian friend...

except this one also stated that the NAACP was not seen helping anyone in LA or Jesse Jackson had not been seen helping! It made me feel SICK! Here is the response that I emailed my (used to be) friend:

This is one of the most white supremist, racist statements I've ever seen in my life. What in the world are people doing blaming the victims in this national tragedy? I'll admit, it is covered in a warped sort of way in Right Wing Christianity and false statements of love... true christianity does not discriminate... what I HAVE seen: The President of this once great country eating cake and playing a guitar while dead bodies float in the streets in NO..., Cheney buying a new mansion and Condi Rice purchasing a $1,000 pair of shoes while the waters rose and people died, The Red Cross being held out of NO by our FEMA representatives, People stuck on bridges and underpasses for 5 days without food or water being supplied to them. If it were me and I had a baby that was dehydrated, I'd steal whatever was needed to keep my child alive.... The thugs that were stealing and robbing people were drug addicts that were out of their heads... that would not have happened if the National Guard was in full force in LA instead of being in Iraq. Don't think for a moment that there aren't drug addicts in our neighborhoods too! Our President doesn't believe in protecting our borders and illegal drugs are thriving in this country as a result,. Our schools have been bankrupted due to the No Child Left Behind Act and high school drop out rates and teenage pregnancies are soaring as a result! And, the NAACP has been very busy helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina, they just aren't out hindering progress of real workers by having "photo ops" done to fool the few remaining people in this country that think that this administration of ours is even competent enough to manage a horse show... the composer of this email should send it to Rush Limbaugh, his listeners thrive on this kind of racist hate stuff

[Child_Of_Isis]

8. I think this proved your point:

what I HAVE seen: The President of this once great country eating cake and playing a guitar while dead bodies float in the streets in NO..., Cheney buying a new mansion and Condi Rice purchasing a $1,000 pair of shoes while the waters rose and people died,



What else do they need to know? You have to keep it really short for republicans. They lose consciousness after a paragraph.

[buff2]

13. I hope you don't mind,but I just sent this

to the lady who sent me that racist e-mail.Shame on her for passing that around. I posted it here for all to see what we decent Americans are up against,not because I approved it's message. I am very upset right now.

[blossomstar]

25. I am flattered.

[RagingInMiami]

9. What's funny is that you can come up with your own list under the title

"Things I have learned from watching the news on TV during the last eight days:"

1. George W. Bush really doesn't care about black people.
2. George W. Bush really didn't learn a thing from 9/11.
3. We are not safer under George W. Bush.
4. The Bush Administration really doesn't care how unethical it appears when it hands out no-bid billion dollar contracts to Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton.

And you can go on and on and on and on.

[buff2]

14. Oh,they wouldn't dare pass anything around that

criticized their Jesus Bu$h. Hell would freeze over first.

[progressivebydesign]

10. She's not a "nice" person. You'll need to acknowledge that first.

There is a great saying, 'the man that is not nice to the waiter is NOT a nice person'. She is nice to people, apparently. But someone who would send something like this around is not a "nice" person. No "nice" person I know would send that. People can be "nice" as a verb, to people around there, but the adjective, "nice" has an entirely different meaning and higher standard.

If it were my friend, I would reply to her and call her on it politely. I would say that I was really surprised and disappointed to see the email she was sending out, as I really didn't think it seemed like something I had been accustomed to seeing from her, as her being a Christian it seemed so out of character. I would also add something innocent like, 'that seemed kind of racist, and I know you're not that type of a person, so maybe you didn't realize people would take it that way when you sent it'.

You're a good person for being so upset and aghast at the email. Remember, someone can be nice to some people and still be an awful human being, and that woman is a great example.

[buff2]

16. I'm really surprised

I've never known her to say an unkind word about anyone.I thought she was nice because we were friends. Not anymore.

[MsConduct]

11. It's much more than racism. It's more like classism.

If you're not rich, healthy OR white, you're of no use to the
'others'.

[buff2]

18. This lady is not rich

She is white and "religous". Go figure.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. If a person I knew sent this to me, I would write them back and ask

them why they thought I would be entertained by reading such racist crap. I would comment on the fact that they call themselves a Christian while spreading such hateful shit and tell them they should be ashamed of themself

[wryter2000]

22. And...

I were a Christian (of the real sort), I'd add a few of the things Jesus said about taking care of the poor.

[bluedog]

17. GOP=Equal Opportunity Racists

they don't really care if you're black yellow, purple or white.........if you are the hard middle working class they are against you and all your values of what you think this country should stand for.......

Remember they care only about their "elite" base and the mega-companies that donate to their GOP party.......

so yes, they are raceist...against anyone who is not a millionaire.

[ET Awful]

19. White folk don't make good news stories? Tell that to the family of

Latoyia Figueroa, who vanished while the networks were obsessing about Natalee Holloway and went, for the most part, completely ignored while the entire corporate media storm descended on Aruba.

[buff2]

20. That's right......

and while channel surfing last night I ran across Greta and who was on there? You guessed it. Natalie Holloway's mother. It's like watching reruns.

[Igel]

23. Anyone think racism doesn't exist among Kerry and Dean

supporters?

If so, I'll put you in touch with my mother.

Laintos? Fine. Vey staunchly pro-women's rights. Hasn't voted anything but dem since the '40s, ene when she thought them too conservative. Worked on various political campaigns.

But don't get her started on Arabs, blacks, Jews, Polish-Americans, or Italian-Americans.

Remember: Stormfront, a white supremacist group, supported Cindy Sheehan (at least in part).

As though it mattered.

[Balbus]

24. Good observation. It's definitely not confined to a single party. eom