Politics and religion.

[lizbud]

I am living on another effing planet.

That was a effing racist statement.

Just like people that tell me that I speak 'good English' because after they hear me speak Spanish they are stunned that I do not have an accent.

Child Please.

Reid is an old tyme racist and that's all there is to it.

If I said something like "white people are white because they live in the snow and don't get sun" would that get me a pass?

If that is the case, BO, NP and all their ilk are liars, cheats and effups to the nth degree.

If Harry Reid is quilty of anything, it's being an old white geezer using
a old white geezer dialect.

[RICHARD]

If Harry Reid is quilty of anything, it's being an old white geezer using
a old white geezer dialect.

LOLOLOLOL,
Love you!

Before anything happens I would like to apologize to everyone who may have taken offense to what I said in the previous post.
You women out there will recognize the story.
You aren’t as strong as men, you are moody, cry at the drop of a hat, you want to stop for directions all the time…..
Reverse that. Now make yourself a woman construction worker working with mostly men?

I worked for YEARS with women who were ‘anti-man’…Imagine taking a position at work and having women walk up to you and say a male doctor ‘prefers to work/deal with women’ because now, he can’t bulldoze a gal, then bring her to tears because they didn’t make out a schedule that favors him.

I have been threatened, pushed around and humiliated because I was male……and that does not cover the idiots who would walk up to me and start telling ‘mexican’ jokes because they heard a knee slapper.

I love a great Mexican joke, but do not bring it by looking over your shoulder and whispering it to me because you are afraid of looking like you are racist.
I am 100% prejudiced against stupid people who think that racism, prejudice and hate are all hunky dory (Sorry David Bowie!) because we have a Mexican Supreme Court Justice, a Black president and a white moron named Harry Reid who blurt s out a racist comment while in the midst of a spasm of Alzheimer’s/senility.

Give him a pass because he’s a Democrat, but keep his statement close to the vest.
Say stupid things, apologize for them …..your mind was taken over by a space alien that made you do it.

No space alien makes me talk.
But, I can admit to being stupid and flawed. Yelling out that someone “Lies” is not as terrible as accusing someone of using “street jive”.

LOLOLOLOL,
Barbara Billingsley was fantastic speaking to the brothers in the movie AIRPLANE and no one called the old white woman on the carpet for making fun of the way black people talk.
I forgot, she was make believe, Harry Reid is a real life mofo, that votes on laws for the people elected him!

Ai! Dios de mi alma!

[Medusa]

Oh yeah, Reid's statement was racist alright. It matters not his party affiliation. Racists come in all parties and they're running their mouths w/abandon. If any one of us here had made that statement, we would've been called on the carpet immediately and rightly so. We need to remove our ear plugs and actually HEAR what these politicians say. And I don't make that charge of racism lightly. It's a serious thing to say about someone.

[RICHARD]

Gotta tell this story, again!

I went to a 'sensitivity meeting' for work and took my customary spot at the back of the room.

The woman who chaired the meeting asked the question, "Who isn't prejudiced in this room?" the three women who sat in the front row had no hesitation raising their hands and proclaiming that there were not.

Two seconds later I spoke up and said that I "loved racism".

I watched spines stiffen and they turned around in time to hear me say, "I love sit at home on Sunday's and watch the cars go round the track!"

One person's perception is another's motorsport?

[blue]

True that there are racists on both sides. The difference is in how they are treated.

Reids statement is from last year and it was swept under the rug until now. If any GOP representative had made that statement, well..... I think we all know the media and DEM carpstorm that would have erupted.

Gotta tell this story, again!...

One person's perception is another's motorsport?

Thanks for brining the funnay!

[RICHARD]

Here's another story that will put HR's comment into perspective.

lol, you may think that I am siding with him?

I worked at night in a hospital and had to deal with the admitting office.

I walked in one night and the clerk was trying to get some info from a Mexican couple who were expecting a child.

From around the corner I was listening to the conversation and heard the clerk ask the couple, "Que es el nombre de telephone?"

She was asking them for the name of their telephone!
I was laughing because of her frustration and her question.

With that, she walked around corner and said something about Mexicans and them not learning English.

I got effing indignant and went to translate for them. When I finished I was really ticked off and left the office.

BTW, She was about 6 foot, as Germanic as they come and had a really hard attitude when she was there-it would have been a good fight had we locked up!

I hated her with a pink and purple passion for a long time afterwards.

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Hmmm, is she really racist?

Setup? A small admitting office, desk in the middle, with chairs front and back.

Same scenario, but with a caucasian couple who were expecting.

The woman was heavy duty into the Lamaze thing. She was sucking air and kept chanting, "I am going to have my baby here!"

Ann stood up at the desk, put her closed fists on it, leaned over and hissed at the woman, "YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT BABY IN MY OFFICE!"

The woman stopped breathing and went quiet.
She had her baby in the OB ward.

Now I am thinking that this beeyotch is crazy! She hates everyone!

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As time went by, I found out that she wanted kids very badly and was unable to conceive!

AHA! She hated everyone with serviceable uterus!


Years later I told her about the "nombre" incident and we had a wonderful laugh about it.

She wasn't a racist, she was crazy!

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How crazy?

The day admitting clerk was a black woman who was just as mentally ill.

She was pregnant with her first child and the same night clerk told her that she was going to have a white baby.

Black babies are born pale and their skin gradually darkness at time goes on.

When the baby was delivered the woman freaked out! I could only imagine the scene from "Alien". That didn't come out of me!!!!!


We worked together for a few years and I learned about people, race and culture from them both. It was wonderful and always will think kindly of those two people.

We were a true rainbow coalition that never, ever hestiated to help each other out. We laughed about ourselves, our backgrounds and the color of our skin.

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Maybe HR has a problem with ebonics. I sometimes I listen to a rap song and cannot make heads or tails of the lyrics.

Does that make me racist?

[lizbud]

Here's another story that will put HR's comment into perspective.



BTW, She was about 6 foot, as Germanic as they come

Just curious Richard, but do you see that statement as being racist ?
Lumping all Germans into a specific catagory could be called racist.

[RICHARD]

Just curious Richard, but do you see that statement as being racist ?
Lumping all Germans into a specific catagory could be called racist.

It's part of a joke.

It's from the perspective of always wanting to wrestle with a tall German woman. The ones I have met are shorter than I am.

I was trying to be pornographic, not political.

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Seriously,

I was being racist-that's the point.

How can people ever get over themselves if they cannot be honest?

I looked at this woman and iommediately labeled her a bigot-that she looked the way she did and the tele-fono-name-o deal surely didn't help.

So, I was being racist, judgemental and probably a little sexist too.

What happens now?

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The part of racism that is blunt and kinda stupid? When people run around pointing at others about racism.

I will take anyone to task about racism and prejudice.

Here's the rub to the "Sunday/racism" story.

The class continued and the woman who headed it-she was a danged sexy Mid Eastern woman -there I go again!-looked at the three woman who had raised their hand and asked them this.....


Have you ever been behind a car with an elderly person driving?

The room laughed.

And have you ever cursed at them for driving slow?


Tee Hee!

So we were all prejudiced, at that moment, against elderly drivers.

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I worked with this guy that would stop in the office and BS for a minute.

He soon came to call me 'his n-----'.

No tension, no harm-one day I asked him, "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

I prefaced the question by saying I wasn't trying to be insulting-

I said, "Aren't we all n------?"

He grinned and said something like "you got it" and the funniest part about it is that he would see me in the HALLWAY and say, "how's my n-----?" like it was nothing.

I didn't mention that he was black. Could THAT be construed as racism?


Now that we got that out the way, I did call my two co-workers 'crazy'. I hope I didn't offend anyone that suffers from mental problems, with that statement!