Yup. Some morons are unable to distinguish between prejudice and racism. There's an important difference. One requires power.

RE: FOX clip- It's hilarious until you remember not everyone knows how ridiculous these fucking idiots are. The sad thing is many "typical white people" think these jackass believe the shit they spew. I hate white people.

Sounds like Obama's Grandmother had a lot in common with my own. I adored her, she walked on water as far as I am concerned.

In spite of her prejudices she was amazing with her staff, which included some black people who clearly loved her too...I was at her retirement party and one would never have known.

Obama's defense of his Pastor and honest use of his Grandmother as exemplar really spoke to me like nothing else he has said or done thus far.

I can't believe Chris Wallace had to come on and take the two cheese doodles to task. Well, at first I didn't. Then I remember that the morning show is really the equivalent of Morning Drive Radio, so you can't really expect deep thought out of any of them.

But what was really telling was how trivially they treated the opinion and concerns of their cohost. Even if employed by Fox News on a Fox News program, you're opinion is laughable and deserves disrespect and derision if it supports an opposing viewpoint. I'm just glad this guy had the integrity to walk out. I really hope he makes a hobby out of hammering these two on their bullshit everyday now.

It was certainly an historic day on Fox. Although Steve Doocy is a douche of the highest order, the bimbo he had sitting next to him was worse. It took her about 3 minutes to come up with a response to Chris Wallace (while Steve Doocy struggled to prove he was a stand-up guy) and then, when she did, she came off as a second-rate wannnabe not fit to run with the big dogs.

You know, if by big dogs, you're talking about Steve "The Douchebag" Doocy...

Bob, I'm with you on a lot of things, but it's not correct to believe that a minority can't be racist against the majority. It happens all the time; you're old enough to remember apartheid in South Africa, right? African Americans are no more immune to bigotry than any other variety of people. I have black friends who are unapologetically prejudiced against homosexuals and middle-easterners, actually.

That said, I'd agree that it's pretty much always BS when a prominent white person plays the victim-of-racism card. For one thing, there probably are few black racists in this nation who are in a position to express their prejudices from the high ground of power over white people. And I have too many white friends and neighbors who think any racially motivated criticism from a black person is the equivalent of racism. But that's not necessarily so if the criticism is valid (or even believed in good faith) and it is not generalized to stereotype the entirety of the Caucasian community.

Just one guy's opinion, though. Peace to everyone.

"That said, I'd agree that it's pretty much always BS when a prominent white person plays the victim-of-racism card. For one thing, there probably are few black racists in this nation who are in a position to express their prejudices from the high ground of power over white people."

Oh, really? Maybe that's true for a "prominent" white person, but it's a whole other thing when you're not a "prominent" white person. I worked for the postal service for 11 years. For the last 5 of those years, I worked in an office that had a black, racist postmaster. In the entire time I was there, not a single person who was not black was ever promoted to a supervisory position. And, believe me, some (most) of the blacks who were promoted were dumb as a box of rocks. Of course, it could have been the old "don't promote anybody who's smarter than you are" scheme, too; who knows? All I know is that there were plenty of qualified whiteys who were passed over, and some really stupid, unqualified blacks who were chosen.

Now, before you start flinging the racism accusations, for the whole time I worked there, I was married to a black (very black) woman.

stupormundi and bajasteve,

What is the one ingredient necessary to allow that "reverse" racism to flourish? Power.

In South Africa, the whites were the minority, but they held all the power.

In that post office, the postmaster held the power.

I agree wholeheartedly, Mr Furious. That's just my point. It's not really a racial thing at all. All races contain members who will discriminate and denigrate those of other races, provided they have the power to do so. That they don't do it against members of their own race is driven more by the need for support of their power base, than by any love for their own kind.

And I really don't use the term "reverse racism". All racism is simply racism, nothing more, nothing less.

The notion that blacks aren't capable of racism against whites, simply because whites are, more often than not, in the position of power, is ridiculous. Look at the hatred for Asians among the black community.

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