PeterS wrote:
I was raised in a very racist household--even though I am half Hispanic--so all of us have elements of racism still in us but it's how we let it rule our lives. My son's girlfriend in high school was black and at first I was taken aback but all it took was giving her one ride home with my son and I knew he had a keeper. Then not long ago I was in Fair Park, which is a black part of Dallas, and my truck broke down at a stop light and suddenly several black teenagers came running over, and again I took a deep breath, but they quickly got behind me and pushed me out of traffic and into a vacant lot. They didn't even stick around long enough for me to offer them some money.
So if I am asked, some of the racism that I was taught as a child is still there, but I don't let it guide my life and I certainly never introduced it to my children. Now, are you a racist? You are the only one who can answer that but I do believe that there is a higher propensity amongst conservatives towards retaining and spreading racism than there is amongst us liberals. No, we haven't eradicated it but we don't let it fester and we certainly don't try to perpetuate it amongst our children.
Look how long it took you Republicans to condemn Rep. Steven King. At Charlottesville, you backed the Neo-Nazi's and opposed, vehemently, those who stood against them. When the call to take down the statues of southern generals and lower the stars and stripes was led conservatives stood with them and against those who were trying to take them down. And then there was your behavior towards Barack Hussain Obama and one would have thought that the end of days was suddenly upon us. So as I said, while the threads of racism still exist amongst us all, the highest propensity towards being a racist and perpetuating it leans most heavily towards you conservatives than it does is liberals.
I was raised in a very racist household--even thou... (
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If what you have posted is true, then why are the progressives and Democrats constantly calling all conservatives racists? I don't believe I ever had a thought about Obama being anything but a political pawn. I just didn't believe in his policies as being the right path for this country.