Yahoo message boards filled with racists

[quinnox]

I was looking at the message board that was discussing the final episode of the apprentice, and I couldn't believe how many racists posts there were talking about Kwame and Omarosa. It is amazing how many people still think like this, I guess the internet is the only way they can freely express their sad and pitiful feelings on this matter.

[qanda]

1. You should read the thread about reparations in LBN

Right here on good old Liberal DU. The internet=the new white sheet.

[papau]

6. "reparations" in LBN - maybe not all agree on a money transfer? - and

maybe not agreeing does not imply "the new white sheet"?

:toast:

:-)

You did not link to the thread, so I could not read it - but if it did have a racist tone, those folks should be on some other board.

peace

:-)

[qanda]

7. I'm not talking about agreeing

We don't all agree on everything-- it would be a pretty boring board if we did. I'm talking about downright disrepect for black people and the thoughts, feelings and concerns of black people.

My comment about the new white sheet is that people seem to use the anonymity of the computer to get out the racist remarks that they would unlikely say out in the open.

[papau]

9. I agree as to the anonymity allowing the worst to come out - and we

agree as to disrespect being disgusting.

But a lot of the pretend God in the sky and other disrespect comes from some young grade school/high school posters (not everyone is as mature as our 16 year old JohnKleeb!) - and a lot comes from folks that I see as having low self esteem -

It does not stop it from being disgusting - but it keeps any hate in me from bubbling up!

peace

:-)

[skooooo]

12. examples???

point it out...

[Amerpie]

2. Oh no

"There is no more racism in America". I hear that lie all the time. Still, it freaks people out if you talk about the issue in any depth.

In my state (NC) the population is 80% white but the prison population is 80% African-American.

We also have a sizable achievement gap in the public school system.

If you start talking about either one of those topics, folks either get real racist, real fast or they start talking about fishing...

[angryinoville]

3. You should see it on AOL

[liberalhistorian]

4. Amen to that!

I remember after the space shuttle went down last February, I simply could NOT believe all the racist, bigoted bullshit, people posting on the aol message boards about how the black astronaut was at fault because affirmative action forced colleges to accept "naturally inferior" blacks who just couldn't hack it, and how the female Indian astronaut likely only made it as far as she did because she was an inferior immigrant and they have all the rights and privileges "true" Americans aren't granted, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

And then other people encouraging and agreeing with such posts, I felt like I'd entered a time warp or the fucking twilight zone or something, I just could not believe what I was reading. I cancelled aol and have never looked back.

[papau]

8. Ron McNair's tributes are few - after the Challenger blew up they put

up a small memorial at one of the entrance driveways to the National Life of Vermont Mutual Life Insurance Company's office in Montpelier, VT.

But Ron was a buddy for 3 years (while he went to MIT and dated Sharon Jackson who worked with me). But I have yet to see a challenger memorial in MIT or Cambridge. And then the media hire a tall black thin fellow to play Ron in the Challenger movie as a very serious fellow - this is guy that was my height and build (not tall and real thin - albeit much better looking and younger) and who enjoyed helping me tease the neighbors by having a watermelon seed spitting contest on my lawn as we played R&B for background of our outdoor picnic in a nearly all white area of Mass.

Mass does not have many statues to blacks.

[liberalhistorian]

11. You knew Ron McNair?

Wow! And you're right, it seemed that far more attention was paid, and continues to be paid, to other crew members such as Judith Resnick and Christa McAuliffe, and the white male crew, rather than McNair and Ellison Onizuka.

How heartbreaking it must have been for you and everyone who knew him to lose him like that.

[papau]

13. It was a blow - but our relationship was an in the past thing - he and

Sharon broke up in the early 70's, he got his degree from MIT, got married, etc. and I was at neither (so much for my being real close to him in the late 70's and early 80's! - :-) - but for 3 years we were close)

and his death was a shock - as my wife and I had just lifted a glass of wine to the TV screen to wish a good journey to the one fellow we knew on the flight -

God, I was angry then.

But now he is a hero in my memory - perhaps MIT will put something up in the future.

peace

:-)

[liberalhistorian]

14. MIT damn well

should put up something, I'm amazed they haven't done anything and it's been eighteen years already.

[Tomee450]

15. There is a lot

of racism in this country yet if blacks complain about it they are said to be whining and told to get over it. Of course black people know this is an attempt to get them to remain silent and accept injustice.

[rumguy]

5. remember all the racist attacks on Margaret Cho?

A lot of right-wingers who would never speak their racism in public feel free to spew it all over the internet...it's fucking sick.

[linazelle]

10. Yahoo is rife with racism...I tend to attribute it to lots of youngsters

being the idiots they can be really as I see instances of name-calling (the dread N-word) frequently in the game rooms. Even when talk of Iraq comes up the idiots use the term "sand niggers".

While I am not stupid enough to let one word drive me crazy every time I see it, it is offensive. I think that it's not the word so much as it is the attitude behind the use of the N-word by racists that's so sickening. They think they can automatically put a whole race in its proverbial place by uttering such a word. These idiots need to make themselves feel better by making others feel worse and to try to perpetuate the fallacy that they are better than the offended group. If they weren't so despicable, I'd feel sorry for them.