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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDog whistles everywhere...
Here, there and everywhere.
Racism is alive and well in the 21st century.
Read between the lines, watch how people coach their words, notice the same old Boogie Men who are mentioned when the subject of race pops up.
I see and hear it....do you?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)It seems to me that bigotry and racism problem is getting worse rather than better.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)it's own reality.
Again.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Online and the media and real life are 2 different things. I notice it online more.
Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)views of much of America. They displace the anger onto minorities, the disabled, and Libruls! They keep their viewers so angry and afraid, as well as uninformed, that they will not believe the truth when they hear it!
We need to demand Publicly Funded Elections and end campaign contributions, Super PACs, and the Revolving Door! Once accomplished we can bust up the media and banking oligopolies!
Now, where can we find the millions of people it will take to do this and how do we motivate them? Bernie Sanders stands for what I have laid out so I think that would be a great start! Let's get cracking!
tblue
(16,350 posts)With you 100%! Let's do this thing!
2naSalit
(86,880 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)Here in the hindquarters of Central Florida, you can follow how it spreads from generation to generation. There is reason to their madness. If they truly believe they are a superior race, it would help explain how they act in consort with each other to deprive everyone else of their legal rights.
brer cat
(24,630 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)that makes you a racist, doesn't it?
sarge43
(28,946 posts)uponit7771
(90,370 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,022 posts)I sure do
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)and the alert really clarified some of what is wrong with the discussion around racism today. The alert seem to imply that the words white and black can be easily reversed. the reality is the context and history of whiteness and blackness are very different and we seem to want to move into a post racial society where one does not discuss race, because clearly everything is fine.
alert below
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bunch of white guys in this thread...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=989679
REASON FOR ALERT
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.
ALERTER'S COMMENTS
Just reverse the races - see if it's disruptive then.
Tired of this.
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Jan 16, 2015, 09:52 AM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.
Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
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Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: White privilege is a reality... Get over it and stop alert stalking!
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Races cannot be reversed quite that easily, unless there is a giant history of blacks oppressing whites that I am unaware of. LLP
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Truthy truth gets alerted...and the truth prevails.
A Fox nooz alert if I ever saw one.
tblue
(16,350 posts)including white children holding toys, to the point where all white parents, independently, decide to warn their children to be extremely careful how they conduct themselves, even all the many times each they get stopped & frisked by black cops who might well shoot them for no reason and who will for sure get away with it, while black cops circle their wagons and turn their backs on a mayor who suggested he fears for his innocent white son. Then have a white POTUS who black semiautomatic gun-toting crowds mock and accuse of being not-American, and therefore illegitimate, and who they call every unsubtle euphemism for the H word (honkey, forgive me for even typing that horrid word)...
Yes, reverse the races.
JustAnotherGen
(31,980 posts)Will never admit that the whistles exists.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And when the N word became a no no it gave them cover in a way because as long as they did not use it you could not accuse them of it...and if you did they would quote MLK...you know the quote, it is the only one they know, about character content.