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Reminds me of the joke, if you say "I'm not racist, I have a black friend". First off, he's not your friend and OF COURSE YOU'RE RACIST.
Not liking Herman Cain and Allen West makes me a human being with a central nervous system, not a racist.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)underpants
(182,988 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)But then I wouldn't attack them on the basis of their race, either, which is immaterial to their politics.
Not voting for someone whose ideology is diametrically opposed to yours doesn't make you a racist. Not voting for a candidate with a Kenyan father because you're convinced he's a "secret Muslim" and wasn't born in the US, though? That might make you a racist, yes.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)Pretty simple really.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)T.W. Shannon a biracial (black/american indian) candidate purely because of his race.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-tea-party-leaders-not-on-board-with-t.w.-shannon/article/4568631
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/29/Oklahoma-Grassroots-Leaders-Oppose-T-W-Shannon-in-GOP-Senate-Primary
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)so am i
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)However, there is a lot more to the racist claims than "has strong disagreements with President Obama."
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Someone here whined to me that they were called a racist, even provided links. They weren't to anyone calling him a racist though. Interesting!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)OK - she resigned in disgrace as Florida's Lt Governor. Which means she's worse than pRick Scott!!
Allen West - the man who couldn't win in a Republican Heavy district. Republicans voted against him
Mia Love couldn't win in Utah as a Republican. That's not Democrat's fault . . .
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)brush
(53,968 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 28, 2014, 10:56 AM - Edit history (2)
The thinking seems to be that "being different" will bring opportunities not so readily available in the Democratic party that already has many blacks 95% of blacks, btw, who prefer not to associate with a party that has many openly racist adherents and openly promotes policies damaging to African Americans even if talk show slots or appearances, book deals, funded candidacies or under-the-table-cash and other gewgaws are dangled in front of them.
Journeyman
(15,043 posts)If any one of them was running against, say, someone like California State Sen. Leland Yee (D), who had to drop out of his recent contest to become Secretary of State because he faces arms trafficking and corruption charges, then I would probably vote for any one of the people shown above (absent equally damaging criminal complaints against them).
And it would have nothing to do with race.
But that's probably too difficult for the person who made this silly "test" to comprehend.
Rex
(65,616 posts)has 19 African Americans...
FUNNY, I sure don't see any of them in these pictures of the Tea Party!
My goodness! Just LOOK at that sea of diversity!
But probably the next picture I find will have some of them
Squinting real hard, maybe there is one of them somewhere in all those people!
Okay last try...no doubt the Tea Party is open to ideas from them
THERE! NO...wait...THERE! NO...wait...dammit...no doubt the liberal media photoshopped these pics!
DAM U LIBRUL MEDA!
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Perhaps a minority was sitting there. We'll never know now will we.
ChazII
(6,206 posts)I recognize from newspaper articles and talk shows. JC Watts and Mia Love are two that I remember being speakers at the RNC.
RDANGELO
(3,435 posts)is is tribalism. They view society in terms of groups of people opposing one another. They are the good people; we are the bad people. That is the reason they are impossible to work with. They don't want to uplift society or help people; they want to punish people.
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)sarisataka
(18,883 posts)The tell tale was I'm white. I guess people are entitled to their opinion.
When voting I prefer to go on their stance on issues. It leads me into voting for several skin colors; but they are always Democrats. Go figure
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I thought it was a funny way to use the "both sides do it" argument to justify his racism.
He tried to equate his posting pictures of Obama with a bone through his nose to my not supporting any of these nut jobs as "see, you don't like black politicians either".