Im not sure these things are comparable on any plane. I'd imagine owners base most of their public opinions on the ability to make money. They bend their views based on whats good for the bottom line and I'm not sure they should be a measuring stick for what is right/wrong. Kinda like LeBron James shouldn't be making fun of people for being uneducated.
Can't say I like anyone being called an Uncle Tom, but nothing I'd get worked up over.
Those sound like some examples of some terrible people doing terrible things and are condemnable by all rational americans. I don't think any celebration or reprehensible action should be b/c of someones skin color.So it's the "left" that advocates identity politics? And I guess people only disliked Obama over his policies? No racist element at all- that's how you remember History?
Man he must have instituted a huge amount of "policies" in his first month. In fact some of them just days before and after the 2008 election...From Feb 2009...
"Even as many celebrated, the election of America's first black president provoked a furious backlash from some angry whites
Barack Obama campaign volunteer Kaylon Johnson was one of the millions of people around the world who celebrated the historic election of the nation's first African-American president. He even opened a shop to sell Obama memorabilia in Shreveport, La., where he lives. But then Johnson learned better than most that racists were anything but euphoric over the president-elect.
Nearly a month after the election, on the night of Dec. 6, Johnson, 33, pulled into a Shreveport gas station behind the wheel of his GMC Yukon adorned with Obama bumper stickers. Wearing an Obama T-shirt, Johnson purchased a soft drink and was returning to his vehicle when he was jumped by three white men shouting "**** Obama!" and "****** president!" The pummeling left Johnson with a broken nose and a fractured eye socket that required surgery.
The attack on Johnson was just one of what likely was hundreds of racially charged incidents around the United States related to Obama's campaign and ultimate victory. Some may qualify as hate crimes, others as offensive pranks and protests. Many involved students — from grade school through college. The incidents began in the days leading up to the Nov. 4 election. A sampling:
A life-sized likeness of Obama was found hanging from a noose in a tree at the University of Kentucky.
The co-owner of a Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant wrote "White Power" on staff memos taped to the eatery's kitchen walls. She told her black employees they would be fired if they voted for Obama.
Even as Barack Obama spoke of the need for the country to pull together, some Americans were doing their best to tear it apart.
The incidents continued on the night of the election. A black Muslim teenager in Staten Island, N.Y., said he was assaulted by four white men who yelled "Obama." That same restaurant owner in Palm Beach wrote "KKK" on employee timecards. After newspaper reports of her behavior, she blamed her actions on "watching too much Fox News" and "my hot Italian blood."
The day after Obama's victory, rhetoric about history, healing and hope soared. But so did racial rancor.
In Snellville, Ga., a boy on a school bus told a 9-year-old girl that he hoped Obama would be assassinated. That night, also in Snellville, a vandalized Obama sign and two pizza boxes filled with human feces were left on a black family's lawn. Small black effigies were found hanging from nooses in trees in two Maine towns. In Midland, Mich., a pistol-packing member of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan wore his Klan uniform and carried an American flag on a city sidewalk.
"Obama" was spray-painted on a black man's car, which was then torched, in Otter Creek Pa. Racist graffiti and an apparent reference to Obama's win were spray-painted on a high school gym and at a local skate park in Kilgore, Texas. At North Carolina State University, four students spray-painted racist and threatening graffiti aimed at Obama, sparking an anti-racist rally attended by 500 people.Township,
In the following days and weeks, reports of incidents continued to pour in. Among them:
Only hours after Obama's election, a predominantly black church in Springfield, Mass., was torched. Three white men were arrested just days before Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration and charged with conspiring to deprive church congregants of their civil rights.
Obama enthusiast Kaylon Johnson was beaten by men screaming "****** president!"
A sign was placed inside a general store in Standish, Maine, that read, "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when the new president would be assassinated. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the sign somebody had written, "Let's hope someone wins."
An employee of a gun-and-lock shop in Traverse City, Mich., flew the American flag upside down because, he said, it symbolized "an international signal for distress and we feel our country is in distress because the ****** got it."
The husband-and-wife owners of a motel in Huntsville, Ark., replaced the American flag flying outside their inn with a Confederate battle flag, saying they did so not because of Obama's race, but rather to protest voters' decision to put a "Marxist in the White House."
A dark-skinned doll labeled "Obama" was hung in a high-school stairwell east of Tacoma, Wash. Five students were expelled.
A biracial student at a high school north of Pittsburgh complained that a teacher's aide said to a student sitting near her that Obama would be killed, that the American flag would be changed to the KFC chicken chain's emblem, and the national anthem would become "Movin' on Up" — the theme song of "The Jeffersons," a sitcom about a black family. The aide also berated her for supporting Obama, the student said. The aide was suspended.
Second-and-third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted, "Assassinate Obama."
A University of Alabama professor reported that an Obama poster was ripped off her office door. When she put up another one, somebody wrote a death threat against Obama and a racial slur on it.
Federal authorities arrested a Wisconsin man in Brookhaven, Miss., four days before Obama's inauguration for threatening to assassinate Obama in a posting to an Internet site about UFOs and extraterrestrial aliens. Steven Joseph Christopher, 42, allegedly wrote that he "can no longer allow the Jewish parasites to bully their way into making the American people submit to their evil ways."
Neo-Nazi radio show host Hal Turner wrote on his blog that his "inauguration dream" was for somebody to send an explosives-laden aerial unmanned drone or chemical-filled balloons into inaugural crowds. In a follow-up posting, Turner maintained that Obama and congressmen and senators attending the inauguration deserved to die, as did African Americans ("sub-human simians") and liberals ("mentally-ill Whites") in the crowd.
Incidents like these and his own beating go to show "we have a lot of work to do still," said Kaylon Johnson, the Louisiana entrepreneur. Even so, he's not discouraged. He remained elated about the election outcome and the fact that Obama carried his home parish of Shreveport in a state won by John McCain. "We're still on the same high, the same energy level as during the campaign," Johnson said.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-...racist-backlash-greets-president-barack-obama
YikesSo it's the "left" that advocates identity politics? And I guess people only disliked Obama over his policies? No racist element at all- that's how you remember History?
Man he must have instituted a huge amount of "policies" in his first month. In fact some of them just days before and after the 2008 election...From Feb 2009...
"Even as many celebrated, the election of America's first black president provoked a furious backlash from some angry whites
Barack Obama campaign volunteer Kaylon Johnson was one of the millions of people around the world who celebrated the historic election of the nation's first African-American president. He even opened a shop to sell Obama memorabilia in Shreveport, La., where he lives. But then Johnson learned better than most that racists were anything but euphoric over the president-elect.
Nearly a month after the election, on the night of Dec. 6, Johnson, 33, pulled into a Shreveport gas station behind the wheel of his GMC Yukon adorned with Obama bumper stickers. Wearing an Obama T-shirt, Johnson purchased a soft drink and was returning to his vehicle when he was jumped by three white men shouting "**** Obama!" and "****** president!" The pummeling left Johnson with a broken nose and a fractured eye socket that required surgery.
The attack on Johnson was just one of what likely was hundreds of racially charged incidents around the United States related to Obama's campaign and ultimate victory. Some may qualify as hate crimes, others as offensive pranks and protests. Many involved students — from grade school through college. The incidents began in the days leading up to the Nov. 4 election. A sampling:
A life-sized likeness of Obama was found hanging from a noose in a tree at the University of Kentucky.
The co-owner of a Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant wrote "White Power" on staff memos taped to the eatery's kitchen walls. She told her black employees they would be fired if they voted for Obama.
Even as Barack Obama spoke of the need for the country to pull together, some Americans were doing their best to tear it apart.
The incidents continued on the night of the election. A black Muslim teenager in Staten Island, N.Y., said he was assaulted by four white men who yelled "Obama." That same restaurant owner in Palm Beach wrote "KKK" on employee timecards. After newspaper reports of her behavior, she blamed her actions on "watching too much Fox News" and "my hot Italian blood."
The day after Obama's victory, rhetoric about history, healing and hope soared. But so did racial rancor.
In Snellville, Ga., a boy on a school bus told a 9-year-old girl that he hoped Obama would be assassinated. That night, also in Snellville, a vandalized Obama sign and two pizza boxes filled with human feces were left on a black family's lawn. Small black effigies were found hanging from nooses in trees in two Maine towns. In Midland, Mich., a pistol-packing member of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan wore his Klan uniform and carried an American flag on a city sidewalk.
"Obama" was spray-painted on a black man's car, which was then torched, in Otter Creek Pa. Racist graffiti and an apparent reference to Obama's win were spray-painted on a high school gym and at a local skate park in Kilgore, Texas. At North Carolina State University, four students spray-painted racist and threatening graffiti aimed at Obama, sparking an anti-racist rally attended by 500 people.Township,
In the following days and weeks, reports of incidents continued to pour in. Among them:
Only hours after Obama's election, a predominantly black church in Springfield, Mass., was torched. Three white men were arrested just days before Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration and charged with conspiring to deprive church congregants of their civil rights.
Obama enthusiast Kaylon Johnson was beaten by men screaming "****** president!"
A sign was placed inside a general store in Standish, Maine, that read, "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when the new president would be assassinated. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the sign somebody had written, "Let's hope someone wins."
An employee of a gun-and-lock shop in Traverse City, Mich., flew the American flag upside down because, he said, it symbolized "an international signal for distress and we feel our country is in distress because the ****** got it."
The husband-and-wife owners of a motel in Huntsville, Ark., replaced the American flag flying outside their inn with a Confederate battle flag, saying they did so not because of Obama's race, but rather to protest voters' decision to put a "Marxist in the White House."
A dark-skinned doll labeled "Obama" was hung in a high-school stairwell east of Tacoma, Wash. Five students were expelled.
A biracial student at a high school north of Pittsburgh complained that a teacher's aide said to a student sitting near her that Obama would be killed, that the American flag would be changed to the KFC chicken chain's emblem, and the national anthem would become "Movin' on Up" — the theme song of "The Jeffersons," a sitcom about a black family. The aide also berated her for supporting Obama, the student said. The aide was suspended.
Second-and-third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted, "Assassinate Obama."
A University of Alabama professor reported that an Obama poster was ripped off her office door. When she put up another one, somebody wrote a death threat against Obama and a racial slur on it.
Federal authorities arrested a Wisconsin man in Brookhaven, Miss., four days before Obama's inauguration for threatening to assassinate Obama in a posting to an Internet site about UFOs and extraterrestrial aliens. Steven Joseph Christopher, 42, allegedly wrote that he "can no longer allow the Jewish parasites to bully their way into making the American people submit to their evil ways."
Neo-Nazi radio show host Hal Turner wrote on his blog that his "inauguration dream" was for somebody to send an explosives-laden aerial unmanned drone or chemical-filled balloons into inaugural crowds. In a follow-up posting, Turner maintained that Obama and congressmen and senators attending the inauguration deserved to die, as did African Americans ("sub-human simians") and liberals ("mentally-ill Whites") in the crowd.
Incidents like these and his own beating go to show "we have a lot of work to do still," said Kaylon Johnson, the Louisiana entrepreneur. Even so, he's not discouraged. He remained elated about the election outcome and the fact that Obama carried his home parish of Shreveport in a state won by John McCain. "We're still on the same high, the same energy level as during the campaign," Johnson said.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-...racist-backlash-greets-president-barack-obama
He has a lot of rational posts....then he gets wrapped up in being right all the time, so he takes positions i don't think he actually would in a general sense. He feels like if he gives an inch it will invalidate all his views---when in fact, by not just conceding the rational points of others makes him seem extreme. I could be wrong, bc he comes off as a zealot on racial issues---like to an extent that it almost makes it looks like he has an agenda against people of....no color???? I think most people are biased against shitheads---all races. Its b/c they are in general POS. Some see that as a color issue----i don't. F them all
Did you alter your meme on Obama’s Iran deal. Pretty soon you’re gonna feel like you’re on repeat.Baffling?
The president had a chance on foreign soil in front of a world audience to "stand up" to an enemy on behalf of real American patriots and he pissed down his leg.
Your blind as a bat my man. There were things I sure didn’t like about trumps meeting but you’re too agenda driven to see both sides. I’ve been vocal about trumps many deficiencies, yet you come on full half inch boner. Gotta step up your big boi game if you want to be taken seriously.
Oh if you mean General respect that every generation of my family was taught to uphold ...yes. Straighten the **** up and show some respect. Every guy that paved the way thought differently than I did....but I still understand the concept. You mention the term submissive. My stance does nothing but honor our country and those that sacrificed before me....it’s called humility and recognizing my problems aren’t greater than the whole. You’ve jumped on the progressive bandwagon my man. And you’ve got no real teeth behind your stance.
Oh, we're talking specifically and only about Trayvon Martin's death? Eyeroll
I'm not spinning a thing. Now you're defending the time it takes for the anthem b/c it's "spoken for." Nobody owns time. You don't get to reserve that time for evermore.
When I snagged that video, I didn't read the tweet. Kind of just thought it was a video. I didn't notice it mentioned black Trump supporters. That's not necessary. I just got a kick out of the cnn sucks chant.
Yes. He was Obama's hypothetical son, right? The ONE example we were talking about?????? The reason for this conversation?
And it's about the intricate details of that case, too, huh? Write 3 more paragraphs.
Manipulation is not exclusive to one party or person. Look how hard the left manipulates people into believing that everything revolves around race.
You are incorrect. It is 100% about old fashioned respect. It’s like observing a moment of silence for somebody you didn’t really know. It’s bowing your head during a prayer of your denomination or someone else’s.
The left doesn’t worry about stuff like moments of silence and bowing your head in prayer. I’m not one bit religious but if anyone is praying I respect that and bow my head and give them their time
Its an example of common courtesy and having manners.
I credit all the ass whippings I had as a child. Something that is being sorely missed in this time.
If you haven't had your "protest" ended by your dad grabbing your arm so hard his fingers touched the bone---you weren't raised right lol. He could do it so incognito that you couldn't tell he was putting any effort into it at all. The pain was so paralyzing you couldn't even scream in pain.
So it's the "left" that advocates identity politics? And I guess people only disliked Obama over his policies? No racist element at all- that's how you remember History?
Man he must have instituted a huge amount of "policies" in his first month. In fact some of them just days before and after the 2008 election...From Feb 2009...
"Even as many celebrated, the election of America's first black president provoked a furious backlash from some angry whites
Barack Obama campaign volunteer Kaylon Johnson was one of the millions of people around the world who celebrated the historic election of the nation's first African-American president. He even opened a shop to sell Obama memorabilia in Shreveport, La., where he lives. But then Johnson learned better than most that racists were anything but euphoric over the president-elect.
Nearly a month after the election, on the night of Dec. 6, Johnson, 33, pulled into a Shreveport gas station behind the wheel of his GMC Yukon adorned with Obama bumper stickers. Wearing an Obama T-shirt, Johnson purchased a soft drink and was returning to his vehicle when he was jumped by three white men shouting "**** Obama!" and "****** president!" The pummeling left Johnson with a broken nose and a fractured eye socket that required surgery.
The attack on Johnson was just one of what likely was hundreds of racially charged incidents around the United States related to Obama's campaign and ultimate victory. Some may qualify as hate crimes, others as offensive pranks and protests. Many involved students — from grade school through college. The incidents began in the days leading up to the Nov. 4 election. A sampling:
A life-sized likeness of Obama was found hanging from a noose in a tree at the University of Kentucky.
The co-owner of a Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant wrote "White Power" on staff memos taped to the eatery's kitchen walls. She told her black employees they would be fired if they voted for Obama.
Even as Barack Obama spoke of the need for the country to pull together, some Americans were doing their best to tear it apart.
The incidents continued on the night of the election. A black Muslim teenager in Staten Island, N.Y., said he was assaulted by four white men who yelled "Obama." That same restaurant owner in Palm Beach wrote "KKK" on employee timecards. After newspaper reports of her behavior, she blamed her actions on "watching too much Fox News" and "my hot Italian blood."
The day after Obama's victory, rhetoric about history, healing and hope soared. But so did racial rancor.
In Snellville, Ga., a boy on a school bus told a 9-year-old girl that he hoped Obama would be assassinated. That night, also in Snellville, a vandalized Obama sign and two pizza boxes filled with human feces were left on a black family's lawn. Small black effigies were found hanging from nooses in trees in two Maine towns. In Midland, Mich., a pistol-packing member of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan wore his Klan uniform and carried an American flag on a city sidewalk.
"Obama" was spray-painted on a black man's car, which was then torched, in Otter Creek Pa. Racist graffiti and an apparent reference to Obama's win were spray-painted on a high school gym and at a local skate park in Kilgore, Texas. At North Carolina State University, four students spray-painted racist and threatening graffiti aimed at Obama, sparking an anti-racist rally attended by 500 people.Township,
In the following days and weeks, reports of incidents continued to pour in. Among them:
Only hours after Obama's election, a predominantly black church in Springfield, Mass., was torched. Three white men were arrested just days before Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration and charged with conspiring to deprive church congregants of their civil rights.
Obama enthusiast Kaylon Johnson was beaten by men screaming "****** president!"
A sign was placed inside a general store in Standish, Maine, that read, "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when the new president would be assassinated. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the sign somebody had written, "Let's hope someone wins."
An employee of a gun-and-lock shop in Traverse City, Mich., flew the American flag upside down because, he said, it symbolized "an international signal for distress and we feel our country is in distress because the ****** got it."
The husband-and-wife owners of a motel in Huntsville, Ark., replaced the American flag flying outside their inn with a Confederate battle flag, saying they did so not because of Obama's race, but rather to protest voters' decision to put a "Marxist in the White House."
A dark-skinned doll labeled "Obama" was hung in a high-school stairwell east of Tacoma, Wash. Five students were expelled.
A biracial student at a high school north of Pittsburgh complained that a teacher's aide said to a student sitting near her that Obama would be killed, that the American flag would be changed to the KFC chicken chain's emblem, and the national anthem would become "Movin' on Up" — the theme song of "The Jeffersons," a sitcom about a black family. The aide also berated her for supporting Obama, the student said. The aide was suspended.
Second-and-third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted, "Assassinate Obama."
A University of Alabama professor reported that an Obama poster was ripped off her office door. When she put up another one, somebody wrote a death threat against Obama and a racial slur on it.
Federal authorities arrested a Wisconsin man in Brookhaven, Miss., four days before Obama's inauguration for threatening to assassinate Obama in a posting to an Internet site about UFOs and extraterrestrial aliens. Steven Joseph Christopher, 42, allegedly wrote that he "can no longer allow the Jewish parasites to bully their way into making the American people submit to their evil ways."
Neo-Nazi radio show host Hal Turner wrote on his blog that his "inauguration dream" was for somebody to send an explosives-laden aerial unmanned drone or chemical-filled balloons into inaugural crowds. In a follow-up posting, Turner maintained that Obama and congressmen and senators attending the inauguration deserved to die, as did African Americans ("sub-human simians") and liberals ("mentally-ill Whites") in the crowd.
Incidents like these and his own beating go to show "we have a lot of work to do still," said Kaylon Johnson, the Louisiana entrepreneur. Even so, he's not discouraged. He remained elated about the election outcome and the fact that Obama carried his home parish of Shreveport in a state won by John McCain. "We're still on the same high, the same energy level as during the campaign," Johnson said.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-...racist-backlash-greets-president-barack-obama
You don't get to define what it means for everyone else, and for the umpteenth time, PROTEST IS INHERENTLY ABRASIVE.
