Reply #49: Yeah Joan Walsh meant to say, I have black friends so I am not a racist?

[boston bean]

She never said that, nor implied they were close friends.

I guess what Melissa is saying is that no white person could really be a friend to a black person, unless said white person totally and 100% agrees with you 100% on what political viewpoints are racism and what are not. We are just to accept that if there is a difference of opinion, that there is racism involved? Then we can remain friends.

Joan Walsh offered a counter point of view. Bill Clinton was IMPEACHED and he was white for goodness sakes.

Seeing racism in every shadow is non productive. One must also look to see if there are other reasons for peoples viewpoints. If someone really wants to have a conversation about race, leave off calling them a racist until you have fully pondered and examined the reasons for their feeling a certain way. Calling or itimating someone is a racist is a sure fire way to end the conversation that people say they want to have.

Intimating someone like Joan Walsh a racist is completely out of bounds.