Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:42 PM

So... how did YOU become a racist?

I think it's time for some personal stories. Cautionary tales.

In my case, I read the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, and am told that I immediately flew into a rage against African-Americans.

How about you?

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356 replies	Author	Time	Post
So... how did YOU become a racist? (Original post)	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	OP
I learned mine from my Hispanic grandfather	Arctic Dave	Jun 2013	#1
Or possibly bread to be a loaf	pscot	Jun 2013	#6
I was thinking more of a biscuit.	Arctic Dave	Jun 2013	#39
Dirty Frenchman. nt	DRoseDARs	Jun 2013	#70
Can I steal that Romney sign?	ctsnowman	Jun 2013	#238
Are you possibly a Saltine-American??	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2013	#92
I hope not. They're crackers!	merrily	Jun 2013	#96
I stole that term from a FARK comments thread.	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2013	#97
Who could blame you?	merrily	Jun 2013	#100
DUzy! n/t	eridani	Jun 2013	#112
Biscuit or cracker? nt	awoke_in_2003	Jun 2013	#210
Cracker, please!	Arctic Dave	Jun 2013	#217
That's what I figured...	awoke_in_2003	Jun 2013	#338
Posting while baked? Well, if that doesn't take the cake!	merrily	Jun 2013	#95
The crust of some people, a crumby thing to do.	marble falls	Jun 2013	#190
Any way you slice it,	kurtzapril4	Jun 2013	#261
That's because it is only half-baked	Art_from_Ark	Jun 2013	#288
Only because it kneads to be.	kurtzapril4	Jun 2013	#353
Better to be bread a loaf,	chervilant	Jun 2013	#278
FAIL	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#2
"Epic Fail" is my middle name (nm)	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#14
.	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#19
I am more of a	carla	Jun 2013	#215
LOL, you appear defensive! Hit a nerve? n-t	Logical	Jun 2013	#36
Huh?	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#38
How's that?	Hissyspit	Jun 2013	#71
It's the latest desperate attempt to distract from the fact that there is a massive surveillance	sabrina 1	Jun 2013	#77
good grief	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#113
Wow. You sure told Manny Goldstein.	merrily	Jun 2013	#81
Lol!	sabrina 1	Jun 2013	#104
Did you just join	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#114
I'm trying to join the team	East Coast Pirate	Jun 2013	#276
LMAO	L0oniX	Jun 2013	#178
you are aptly describing your own response	Skittles	Jun 2013	#106
Accusing anyone of racism simply because they disagree with president is "Fail of the epic variety"	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#128
Simplistic, tone deaf interpretation	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#145
You are getting better and better with your descriptions of those who can't stand the very idea of	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#149
Projection. 'swats' or 'swarms' or 'what is on deck for next week'.	sabrina 1	Jun 2013	#232
LOL!	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#246
Didn't think so, and I kept it short too, just for you!	sabrina 1	Jun 2013	#289
would you like ranch, bleu cheese, or a lovely vinagrette with that word salad?	frylock	Jun 2013	#243
I just asked your teammate the	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#248
well let's hope they get on board, tout de suite!	frylock	Jun 2013	#251
Projection!!11!	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#257
you're outta your league here..	frylock	Jun 2013	#260
I'm a social worker	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#266
thanks for schooling me on how teh interwebs works..	frylock	Jun 2013	#277
Okay	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#284
Girl, that was no swarm that was a Flock of Foolishness	Number23	Jun 2013	#294
Social workers have the lowest	sulphurdunn	Jun 2013	#304
OMG	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#305
Do I get a trophy?	sulphurdunn	Jun 2013	#321
Thanks professor	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#307
Why bother?	Just Saying	Jun 2013	#312
Manny and the professor	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#313
A lot of Recs on this post! n-t	Logical	Jun 2013	#319
Yes,	sulphurdunn	Jun 2013	#320
320 replies in this asinine thread	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2013	#322
322 actually.	sulphurdunn	Jun 2013	#324
I could not agree more!!	SkyDaddy7	Jun 2013	#216
For me it was looking at children mutilated and slaughtered by drone strikes...	Demo_Chris	Jun 2013	#3
So you hate our freedoms, as well as hating African-Americans	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#22
So I have been told. nt	Demo_Chris	Jun 2013	#42
Yes, you're obviously a racist.	kurtzapril4	Jun 2013	#262
By other people's standards, that is when I became one, too.	loudsue	Jun 2013	#280
Only speaking for our dog. He noticed that some folk don't look like me and my wife.	onehandle	Jun 2013	#4
Apparently, for me,	TDale313	Jun 2013	#5
LMAO!	SammyWinstonJack	Jun 2013	#179
I believed a 1960s Utopian dream...	Recursion	Jun 2013	#7
+10000000000	pkdu	Jun 2013	#11
Great post. nt	raccoon	Jun 2013	#117
Good post!!!	xoom	Jun 2013	#130
Living your beliefs is the hard work.	Zorra	Jun 2013	#236
X1000	bvar22	Jun 2013	#264
Being around folks that mangaled the English lang	HipChick	Jun 2013	#8
That's gotta rally suck. (Nm)	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#17
Can't we all just get a log?	DRoseDARs	Jun 2013	#75
No. We're members of a splinter group.	marble falls	Jun 2013	#191
And now they want us to leaf.	kurtzapril4	Jun 2013	#354
I think your barque is worse than your bight.	Jackpine Radical	Jun 2013	#213
There'll be a board of inquiry.	marble falls	Jun 2013	#356
It is pretty mangaled...	awoke_in_2003	Jun 2013	#212
DUzed!	unblock	Jun 2013	#186
I admit it, I've always been a closet racist.	progressoid	Jun 2013	#9
Spoke out for LGBT equality.	Prism	Jun 2013	#10
That's rough.	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#13
I became self-aware.	Prism	Jun 2013	#23
lol.	TDale313	Jun 2013	#25
LOL :) nt	Mojorabbit	Jun 2013	#41
LOL!	reusrename	Jun 2013	#119
Duzy!	Viva_La_Revolution	Jun 2013	#209
I thought the people who crashed the world economy should	QC	Jun 2013	#12
Didn't your parents raise you better than that?	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#16
Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied. n/t	QC	Jun 2013	#20
Go TARP yourself.	merrily	Jun 2013	#79
I dared to disagree with the President's education agenda.	liberal_at_heart	Jun 2013	#15
.	QC	Jun 2013	#18
I think it was when I was born, like the President, the child of one white parent...	The Link	Jun 2013	#21
Did you become racist against your white parent, or racist against your minority parent? Or both?	merrily	Jun 2013	#67
You CANT be racist against the WHITE parent!!	7962	Jun 2013	#323
Nope, but ever since the BOGer types did some desperate dumpster diving	quinnox	Jun 2013	#24
Acceptance is the first step in healing.	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#26
I hear ya	quinnox	Jun 2013	#28
Speaking of kool-aid ...	AtomicKitten	Jun 2013	#311
After getting coal for Christmas many years in a row, I hate elves. Especially dark and wood elves.	Dash87	Jun 2013	#27
You got actual coal? Lucky! I only got a picture of coal. nm	rhett o rick	Jun 2013	#199
Racist or ratfucker?	KittyWampus	Jun 2013	#29
Were they the same cause? (nm)	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#34
you make the call!	frylock	Jun 2013	#244
Well...something similar to you	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2013	#30
Hmm...	Fearless	Jun 2013	#31
Geez. You could be a Grand Kleagle in the Klan!	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#32
Kleagle.	DeSwiss	Jun 2013	#57
They wear hats. Special hats.	Enthusiast	Jun 2013	#84
You single issue voters really frost me.	merrily	Jun 2013	#61
Obama's "clean" coal was epic stupid.	L0oniX	Jun 2013	#180
Damn. You were expecting a whole herd of ponies	Doctor_J	Jun 2013	#332
Rick Warren. I've learned my lesson. Standing up against bigots is racist.	Luminous Animal	Jun 2013	#33
I will not forget some of the things that the LGBT community had to read during that time.	NCTraveler	Jun 2013	#164
Those who spoke ill of the Warren inclusion...	awoke_in_2003	Jun 2013	#214
I think I became an raesist	Hydra	Jun 2013	#35
Well, he did promise to fix that after we elected him President.	merrily	Jun 2013	#63
Extending the patriot act made me a racist! n-t	Logical	Jun 2013	#37
There was once an OP...	xocet	Jun 2013	#40
"But it was all right, everything was all right,	Hydra	Jun 2013	#43
This is too cool. May I quote you (and attribute) you when appropriate?	Luminous Animal	Jun 2013	#50
You noticed that pattern too?	LondonReign2	Jun 2013	#218
You certainly may: I am glad that you enjoyed the piece! n/t	xocet	Jun 2013	#345
stop yer lyin!	merrily	Jun 2013	#99
"My God, it's full of links..." [n/t]	Maedhros	Jun 2013	#201
You are in a maze of twisty little blue links, all alike...	Pholus	Jun 2013	#158
Indeed! n/t	xocet	Jun 2013	#174
...	SammyWinstonJack	Jun 2013	#181
I did a few bong hits and decided in my paranoia	backwoodsbob	Jun 2013	#44
I was seduced into a mixed race marriage, lol. nt	BootinUp	Jun 2013	#45
When you demanded of a Dem black president that all would go your way	treestar	Jun 2013	#46
"All" Yeah, that''s it.	merrily	Jun 2013	#64
Context for readers! A post by treestar from her rant 'gays have plenty of rights'	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2013	#148
This has nothing to do with gay issues.	treestar	Jun 2013	#150
It is about bigotry on DU.	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2013	#155
Do you care about racism at all?	treestar	Jun 2013	#163
You don't know a thing about me, my family, my life, background or works. Yet you judge. Why?	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2013	#169
So what about racism?	treestar	Jun 2013	#173
Actual racism is a pernicious evil on the face of humanity. Don't you agree?	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2013	#175
You can quote me all day if you want	treestar	Jun 2013	#200
"You are spamming threads with unrelated subjects" - !!!	sibelian	Jun 2013	#221
How can anyone not realise that racism, homophobia and bigotry are related issues and all	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#267
People ARE bigots when they insist that only they know what members of one of the most	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#252
This post is so very revealing for me.	stillwaiting	Jun 2013	#296
No, it was when Rush Limbaugh told me that all Liberals are hypocritical racists who con	sabrina 1	Jun 2013	#153
Yep-there you go!	Boomerproud	Jun 2013	#286
When Bill Clinton pushed for NAFTA and the Clipper Chip	toddaa	Jun 2013	#47
Toni Morrison did call Bill the first black President.	merrily	Jun 2013	#65
Oddly I just found out I may be a gay closet racist, petulant and complaining...	Safetykitten	Jun 2013	#48
I believe the word you may be looking for is "poutrage."	merrily	Jun 2013	#66
The Pom Pom Crowd Loves The Poutrage Thingy	HangOnKids	Jun 2013	#83
To be fair	merrily	Jun 2013	#89
Those "original thoughts" would have died from lonliness	HangOnKids	Jun 2013	#93
Don't sell them sort they also have 'hair on fire' and emoticons to express how funny they think	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2013	#154
You are only saying that because you aren't part of the	LondonReign2	Jun 2013	#220
Don't forget Emo-Prog	TDale313	Jun 2013	#328
i still had the same opinions even after Obama became president.	Enrique	Jun 2013	#49
Not only are you racist, but you are a Republican racist.	merrily	Jun 2013	#69
What the board needs is an investigation comity to ferret out the racist among us.	zeemike	Jun 2013	#51
Well I had a dream night before	kitt6	Jun 2013	#52
Those smoke signals would have told you where to go.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jun 2013	#55
I thought cutting Social Security was a bad idea	Corruption Inc	Jun 2013	#53
There are a few nutty radicals out there that I've read about......	AverageJoe90	Jun 2013	#54
protesting the invasion of iraq did it to me.	HiPointDem	Jun 2013	#56
I was born in the South so I didn't have a choice.	Uncle Joe	Jun 2013	#58
I was born in Philadelphia, PA, but grew up in South Florida	RebelOne	Jun 2013	#256
Actually	Uncle Joe	Jun 2013	#342
I defended someone who was being accused of being a racist	Puzzledtraveller	Jun 2013	#59
Fellow traveler, defending someone accused of being a racist. You're the worst kind of racist!	merrily	Jun 2013	#74
I know, it was Cali too	Puzzledtraveller	Jun 2013	#120
Well, about 20 years ago . . .	Jack Rabbit	Jun 2013	#60
I opposed the billion dollar giveaway to private health insurers known as the ACA...	OrwellwasRight	Jun 2013	#62
+1000000	liberal_at_heart	Jun 2013	#68
+1	leftstreet	Jun 2013	#187
+1 n-t	Logical	Jun 2013	#344
I discovered I was a racist when the president put Social Security on the table	Marr	Jun 2013	#72
So, January 16, 2009?	merrily	Jun 2013	#76
Wow! What took him so long?	SammyWinstonJack	Jun 2013	#184
It is racism to hate people who refuse to eat catfood	jsr	Jun 2013	#254
I supported Kucinich.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jun 2013	#73
Good thing I started reading this thread at the beginning and worked my way down.	merrily	Jun 2013	#78
Now yer gettin' it!	Spitfire of ATJ	Jun 2013	#87
So, you are pro good looking WASPs? I rest my case.	merrily	Jun 2013	#91
Swamp Rat shows how it should be.	Octafish	Jun 2013	#348
Under Clinton the spam porn was bjs and "barely legal teens"...	Spitfire of ATJ	Jun 2013	#349
Great! Now, where do I send the invoice for the computer screen?	Octafish	Jun 2013	#350
I bit the apple, and was banned from Eden.	HooptieWagon	Jun 2013	#80
The fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.	merrily	Jun 2013	#82
My observation of "reality-based democrats"...	HooptieWagon	Jun 2013	#90
Well, now you harshed my mellow. And I was having such fun, too.	merrily	Jun 2013	#94
It was intended as a barb.	HooptieWagon	Jun 2013	#102
Thanks for the thread. I had a lot of fun with it	merrily	Jun 2013	#85
When I decided universal health care was more important than one individual.	kiva	Jun 2013	#86
I became a racist when I objected to rappers using the "n"-bomb, arguing it was a word	Nanjing to Seoul	Jun 2013	#88
People on DU have kneejerk reactions	davidpdx	Jun 2013	#98
I became a racist 35 years ago	MurrayDelph	Jun 2013	#101
Wow. Did that really happen?	Brigid	Jun 2013	#157
Sure did.	MurrayDelph	Jun 2013	#301
Omg, Manny, stop reading that stuff! You don't know what it could do to you.	sabrina 1	Jun 2013	#103
When I was silly enough to think war crimes should be prosecuted.	JoeyT	Jun 2013	#105
No, Manny, as far as I can see you are the following	intaglio	Jun 2013	#107
Attention whore.	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#118
Wrong thread. Deleted and moved to the right place.	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#135
I love leftists who want social revolution.	LWolf	Jun 2013	#206
Manny, this really and truly isn't very funny.	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#108
I really don't think it's supposed to be funny, ucrdem.	sibelian	Jun 2013	#110
Misguided satire, at best, and that is being generous.	Skidmore	Jun 2013	#111
I was responding to a specific post	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#116
I hope you and others take those points to heart and realize	Skidmore	Jun 2013	#122
And I'll ask you to consider this response to the current accusations of racism.	Ms. Toad	Jun 2013	#156
A post yesterday had many DU members calling me a racist! Where...	Logical	Jun 2013	#126
I read the post you are talking about and	Skidmore	Jun 2013	#127
When you denigrate principled opposition as "Right Wing memes"	Maedhros	Jun 2013	#204
I am on the receiving end and I don't have a single problem with Manny's post. I do have a damn	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#139
Nice hit and run.	Skidmore	Jun 2013	#143
You are welcome to re-read your posts in this thread. They are full of hypocrisy, IMNSHO.	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#146
I did.	Skidmore	Jun 2013	#151
Who on the left is 'adopting the RW usage of racism'? Do you have an example?	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#159
Hold on	LondonReign2	Jun 2013	#227
Manny's 'satire' has been misguided from the begining	grantcart	Jun 2013	#189
Thanks grantcart	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#197
Thanks Grant....	jaysunb	Jun 2013	#334
The problem with that logic is that when I say that I strongly oppose his	SlimJimmy	Jun 2013	#195
Thank you skidmore	JustAnotherGen	Jun 2013	#226
Please check your PM. Thank you for this post.	Number23	Jun 2013	#297
We racists need a little space of our own right now	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#115
You actually made it all the way through	Puglover	Jun 2013	#162
Mock racism that looks like real racism and isn't meant to be funny	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#168
You actually read that????	Autumn	Jun 2013	#224
Wow, you again, are you an admin or something? How about you...	Logical	Jun 2013	#124
It wasn't meant to be funny.	sabrina 1	Jun 2013	#141
What gave you an idea this OP was intended to be 'funny'?	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#144
If it isn't funny, it's serious, and that would mean the OP is seriously racist,	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#223
Is there anything that ISN'T racist?	sibelian	Jun 2013	#225
If real racism looks the same as "mock" racism, maybe posting mock racism isn't such a good idea.	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#228
.... so... is there anything that ISN'T racist?	sibelian	Jun 2013	#233
Yes of course. Why?	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#235
bbl nt	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#239
Stupid ideas need to be mocked. Rush Limbaugh garbage doesn't belong here on DU, and no one	sabrina 1	Jun 2013	#291
What are you talking about specifically?	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#292
Don't worry about it, everyone else knows.	sabrina 1	Jun 2013	#300
Thanks for your deep thoughts then. nt	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#302
I am trying to tell you that 'not funny' means 'OP is seriously racist'? Are you OK?	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#240
Yes I am and yes you are. nt	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#241
Are you familiar with a concept of 'sarcasm'? Your posts make it clear you are not.	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#245
There's no indication of sarcasm visible to me or to the NYT	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#250
Yes, I know you didn't realise OP was sarcastic. That's OK. This is why I suggested you read	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#259
Topical humor is best left to professionals.	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#263
No, I don't. It takes a very... lets say 'special' kind of very convoluted thinking to conjure	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#265
It just takes a little decency and common sense.	ucrdem	Jun 2013	#306
Judging by the content and quality of your posts... they are indeed. Points fo admiting your	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#347
I thought I didn't like drones.	sibelian	Jun 2013	#109
My girlfriend of two years	Flying Squirrel	Jun 2013	#121
I criticized the policies of the federal government of the United States.	Iggo	Jun 2013	#123
I Was on the Racist	RobinA	Jun 2013	#125
I realized I wasn't going to compromise my principles. nt	DLevine	Jun 2013	#129
When I voted for Obama twice?	forestpath	Jun 2013	#131
Me too! Which really shocked my interracial family...	usGovOwesUs3Trillion	Jun 2013	#132
you racist, you nt	markiv	Jun 2013	#133
When I wasn't getting a unicorn...	99Forever	Jun 2013	#134
I read some really awful stuff like Universal Declaration of Human Rights. :(	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#136
I dared to suggest the NSA was breaking the law!	backscatter712	Jun 2013	#137
I own firearms.	oneshooter	Jun 2013	#138
Good gawd. Every slight imagined or not leads to a woe is me I'm a victim OP by you.	great white snark	Jun 2013	#140
Opposing Keystone XL and TPP, the coming merger with China....	Junkdrawer	Jun 2013	#142
For me it was supporting an African American Candidate in 2008	n2doc	Jun 2013	#147
As an African-American, I became racist against myself a few weeks ago	Apophis	Jun 2013	#152
My racism has evolved greatly over the last couple of years.	NCTraveler	Jun 2013	#160
It happened to me after I worked my ass off to elect Obama in 2008.	Bonobo	Jun 2013	#161
I must have been a racist all along.	LuvNewcastle	Jun 2013	#165
apparently ive always been a racist misogynist who humps guns ?! things you learn here! nt	galileoreloaded	Jun 2013	#166
It's easier to be tolerant of those kinds of people when they deliver the promised pony.	lumberjack_jeff	Jun 2013	#167
I was born here, on Planet Terra.	kentauros	Jun 2013	#170
I'm Irish/American: It seems we don't even like each other	byeya	Jun 2013	#171
It looks like a direct hit on those raw nerves.	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2013	#172
It was a very large bulls eye.	L0oniX	Jun 2013	#182
I don't know when or how it happened.	Democracyinkind	Jun 2013	#176
I criticized Obama ...so according to the authoritarians & worshippers ...I am a racist.	L0oniX	Jun 2013	#177
"I Was Really Drunk At The Time..."	WillyT	Jun 2013	#183
It was a short leap from admiring Elizabeth Warren's to hating anyone who didn't look like her. n/t	Orsino	Jun 2013	#185
I think, therefore I am, I guess.....	NRaleighLiberal	Jun 2013	#188
So... how did YOU become a racist?	The CCC	Jun 2013	#192
I was in a sociology class in the 70s. Our Prof said that everyone has some class or race of people	jwirr	Jun 2013	#193
Trust me. Anyone that disagrees with President Obama is a racist.	SlimJimmy	Jun 2013	#194
I suppose	NOLALady	Jun 2013	#196
But I'm a Cheerleader	Babel_17	Jun 2013	#198
Back in 2008, I said something nice about Hillary Clinton and her campaign during the primaries.	hughee99	Jun 2013	#202
200 replies, but none of you guys bother to write letters to newspapers or to Congress	Kolesar	Jun 2013	#203
Are you an NSA plant?	LWolf	Jun 2013	#207
Are you a HS grad?	Kolesar	Jun 2013	#303
Oh, the irony.	LWolf	Jun 2013	#351
No, the NSA hires contractors for their astroturfing operations.	backscatter712	Jun 2013	#329
(1) make shit up	Kolesar	Jun 2013	#352
And you would be wrong and talking out of ignorance.	Autumn	Jun 2013	#230
You assume much, and assume it wrongly. nt	Zorra	Jun 2013	#237
Your posts don't make much sense.	OrwellwasRight	Jun 2013	#249
where do we log those hours?	frylock	Jun 2013	#253
When, in '08, before being elected,	LWolf	Jun 2013	#205
I just generally dislike the Portuguese.	EOTE	Jun 2013	#208
When I shed my slavish devotion to the party n/t	whatchamacallit	Jun 2013	#211
I was born this way. I got my dark skinned mixed race female LGBT Yellowdog	Zorra	Jun 2013	#219
I guess it was when I realized that health care was a right due to all citizens of the US	kenny blankenship	Jun 2013	#222
Perhaps when I didn't condemn Joe Biden for...	WorseBeforeBetter	Jun 2013	#229
when I didn't get a pony....	mike_c	Jun 2013	#231
Call me a racist? Just leave, and here- Let me hold the door open for you...	richmwill	Jun 2013	#234
i think it was after the second time i voted for obama that i realized i was a racist..	frylock	Jun 2013	#242
During the Bush Administration	Aerows	Jun 2013	#247
I was raised that way. I got over it.	Bake	Jun 2013	#255
I read articles by Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, and Charles Blow...all critical of President Obama	DisgustipatedinCA	Jun 2013	#258
My parents always taught me better and my Grandparents lived in an all black neighborhood	xtraxritical	Jun 2013	#268
N/s	JustAnotherGen	Jun 2013	#281
Whatever. lameo	xtraxritical	Jun 2013	#295
You're Easy Breezy and I am Japaneezy	AsahinaKimi	Jun 2013	#269
now that is funny......	madrchsod	Jun 2013	#273
I love that song and Utada Hikaru ..	AsahinaKimi	Jun 2013	#275
when i went through mississippi when i was a kid in the 50`s	madrchsod	Jun 2013	#270
When I decided to enter a half marathon.	mwooldri	Jun 2013	#271
I'm a proud racist!	Fuddnik	Jun 2013	#274
damn races! n/t	warrprayer	Jun 2013	#282
It was when I acknowledged the fact that I am an unwilling participant in the race to the bottom.	bluesbassman	Jun 2013	#272
I can't be!	Lady Freedom Returns	Jun 2013	#279
You are self hating racist mongrel, just like me. It's a very sad, sad case. :(	idwiyo	Jun 2013	#283
When I realized due to my multi racial heritage	janlyn	Jun 2013	#285
I had sex with a racist without a condom. nt	Incitatus	Jun 2013	#287
Ever since a bunch of white kids kicked my ass because of my black girlfriend...	stlsaxman	Jun 2013	#290
Are you serious?	One of the 99	Jun 2013	#293
Yep. With him and judging by the posts, several others as well	Number23	Jun 2013	#299
Look down thread	JustAnotherGen	Jun 2013	#310
Do I have to? Upthread was bad enough.	Number23	Jun 2013	#327
he was also dismissive of FDR and internment camps	JI7	Jun 2013	#343
I was born white	KamaAina	Jun 2013	#298
When Paula Deen French-kissed me	derby378	Jun 2013	#308
I was 19	JustAnotherGen	Jun 2013	#309
Ah, this is the "down thread" post. Thanks goodness!	Number23	Jun 2013	#330
I think a lot of us became racists the same way we became anti-semites	yurbud	Jun 2013	#314
Some of us	DonCoquixote	Jun 2013	#315
I grew up in the state in which the electorate recalled an outstanding US Senator for having had the	indepat	Jun 2013	#316
Humans are miserable know-it-alls.	Kablooie	Jun 2013	#317
by summary judgement and declaration by fellow DUers	stupidicus	Jun 2013	#318
I Haven Given This Some Serious Thought	Liberal_Dog	Jun 2013	#325
I will let you know as soon as it happens..	fadedrose	Jun 2013	#326
I think it was when Van Jones was asked to fall on his sword	Doctor_J	Jun 2013	#331
It must have started	Jakes Progress	Jun 2013	#333
The first time I watched 2001 A Space Odyssey .......	chknltl	Jun 2013	#335
I enjoyed it until I found out what it was supposed to mean.	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#337
Extraterrestrial Xenophobianism? Well there's a good reason for that!	chknltl	Jun 2013	#355
I saw Halle Berry in "The Last Boy Scout", thought "She is FINE!", and I knew I was a racist.	Kennah	Jun 2013	#336
Weird. I was not a racist about the Bengazi or the IRS scandal. But the NSA one made me racist! n-t	Logical	Jun 2013	#339
Many of us.	MannyGoldstein	Jun 2013	#341
Got out of bed this morning.	westerebus	Jun 2013	#340
I'm not, never was.	In_The_Wind	Jun 2013	#346

Response to MannyGoldstein (Original post)

Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:52 PM

Arctic Dave (13,812 posts)

1. I learned mine from my Hispanic grandfather

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and African American grandmother.

Or maybe my Northern European mother.

Or quite possibly my indigenous American wife.

Apperantly I was bread to be a racist.

I remember them all saying, judge a person by their skin color and not by what they do.

So... how did YOU become a racist?

1. I learned mine from my Hispanic grandfather

6. Or possibly bread to be a loaf

39. I was thinking more of a biscuit.

70. Dirty Frenchman. nt

238. Can I steal that Romney sign?

92. Are you possibly a Saltine-American??

96. I hope not. They're crackers!

97. I stole that term from a FARK comments thread.

100. Who could blame you?

112. DUzy! n/t

210. Biscuit or cracker? nt

217. Cracker, please!

338. That's what I figured...

95. Posting while baked? Well, if that doesn't take the cake!

190. The crust of some people, a crumby thing to do.

261. Any way you slice it,

288. That's because it is only half-baked

353. Only because it kneads to be.

278. Better to be bread a loaf,

2. FAIL

14. "Epic Fail" is my middle name (nm)

19. .

215. I am more of a

36. LOL, you appear defensive! Hit a nerve? n-t

38. Huh?

71. How's that?

77. It's the latest desperate attempt to distract from the fact that there is a massive surveillance

113. good grief

81. Wow. You sure told Manny Goldstein.

104. Lol!

114. Did you just join

276. I'm trying to join the team

178. LMAO

106. you are aptly describing your own response

128. Accusing anyone of racism simply because they disagree with president is "Fail of the epic variety"

145. Simplistic, tone deaf interpretation

149. You are getting better and better with your descriptions of those who can't stand the very idea of

232. Projection. 'swats' or 'swarms' or 'what is on deck for next week'.

246. LOL!

289. Didn't think so, and I kept it short too, just for you!

243. would you like ranch, bleu cheese, or a lovely vinagrette with that word salad?

248. I just asked your teammate the

251. well let's hope they get on board, tout de suite!

257. Projection!!11!

260. you're outta your league here..

266. I'm a social worker

277. thanks for schooling me on how teh interwebs works..

284. Okay

294. Girl, that was no swarm that was a Flock of Foolishness

304. Social workers have the lowest

305. OMG

321. Do I get a trophy?

307. Thanks professor

312. Why bother?

313. Manny and the professor

319. A lot of Recs on this post! n-t

320. Yes,

322. 320 replies in this asinine thread

324. 322 actually.

216. I could not agree more!!

3. For me it was looking at children mutilated and slaughtered by drone strikes...

22. So you hate our freedoms, as well as hating African-Americans

42. So I have been told. nt

262. Yes, you're obviously a racist.

280. By other people's standards, that is when I became one, too.

4. Only speaking for our dog. He noticed that some folk don't look like me and my wife.

5. Apparently, for me,

179. LMAO!

7. I believed a 1960s Utopian dream...

11. +10000000000

117. Great post. nt

130. Good post!!!

236. Living your beliefs is the hard work.

264. X1000

8. Being around folks that mangaled the English lang

17. That's gotta rally suck. (Nm)

75. Can't we all just get a log?

191. No. We're members of a splinter group.

354. And now they want us to leaf.