Oprah "OLD WHITE FOLKS MUST DIE!" quote

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Racism is a big money industry for people like the Reverend Al Sharpton, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, etal. As long as they make money and people are willing to remain uneducated about the world. The problem of racism will tend to exacerbate itself. I do not deny that it exist and there are bad people in the world but as long as we give stage to the KKK, Nazi and the aforementioned Reverends this problem will grow. Ignore them all because they are all too lazy to get a job and this is how they all get rich

Racism isn't alive because of extremists, pundits, or activists. It is alive because there are ordinary people who make decisions about who to hire, who to pull over, and who to rent to based on skin color. And those people are not doing it to get back at Jesse Jackson or because the Klan told them to do it.

Martin Luther King Said

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a `more convenient season.'

… I had … hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: `An Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth.‘ Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely rational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail was a letter not about extremists but about the threat of moderates. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen Oprah's feet?

Yes. And she will crush old racists with her feet so that they DIE!

Yay! Oprah!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Racism is a big money industry for people like the Reverend Al Sharpton, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, etal. As long as they make money and people are willing to remain uneducated about the world. The problem of racism will tend to exacerbate itself. I do not deny that it exist and there are bad people in the world but as long as we give stage to the KKK, Nazi and the aforementioned Reverends this problem will grow. Ignore them all because they are all too lazy to get a job and this is how they all get rich

Only the KKK are prejudiced -- you cannot be that dumb!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First, can we PLEASE stop hanging on every word Oprah says?

Second, she is wrong. Racism won't just "go away" when the old, racist farts die. I would think she would know better.

I don't think I was ever racist, but I was a typical white, suburban kid who didn't know any better. I ended up teaching in a school that was 3% white for 15 years. Two years in I didn't see kids as a color, but as WHO they were and I know that came from my experience with kids from other cultures and ethnicities.

I just learned. Simple as that.

We are fortunate in the DC area that we are so diverse so a lot of us aren't racists, but you would be surprised when you step out of the DC area how much that changes. So, while Oprah can live in La-La land and point the finger at old white dudes (and ladies) she is an idiot for doing so because racism goes much deeper than that.

OP here. No, racism won't die, but I do believe it will lessen as this generation dies off.

In my own family, racism has been diluted through the generations. my grandparents were racist. They lived their entire lives in small, midwestern towns where it was incredibly rare to see anyone who wasn't white. Their only exposure to other races was from the evening news. My own parents have never considered themselves to be racist, but they used to oppose interracial marriage because it's "too hard on the kids". As a teenager, I guess I agreed with them. Then I grew up, left my small town, met people from all different backgrounds, and any inkling of racism eventually died. Now our family, our social circle, our church, and our school are all diverse. As a result, I really don't think my kids see color at all. Not even a little bit. Our world is much bigger than our grandparents' world.

You are correct that the DC mindset regarding race is VASTLY different than the rest of the country. You don't find this diversity anywhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“As long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem is not solved,” she said, adding,“There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it – in that prejudice and racism – and they just have to die.”

What do you think of this quote? Obviously, the RW has gone bananas over it...and trying to make it seem like she got the Medal of Freedom because of this quote.

Personally, I don't care for the way she phrased it, but I get what she's saying. I think she's right. Most people I've known who are now, or would be, over the age of 80 are racist. Yet, I don't know anyone under the age of 30 who seems to give race a second thought. Obviously, this is a huge generalization based on my experience alone. But clearly, racism has been diluted through the generations. So sure, racism will be less of as issue as those older racists die off.

Lol...you can dilute toilet water a thousand times over and it'll still taste like shyt.
Huh?
Racism is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Why not?
Because people are different.
So?
So unless the democracy collapses and the government suddenly gives way to military rule and armed troops begin an aggressive attempt to reorganize society, going from house to house mandating that every home be comprised of a person of every race and color, racism will endure.
Huh?
Let me put it this way - what do you know about Koreans?
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Exactly. You don't live with any Koreans and you don't know the intricacies and eccentricities of their culture and experience so what are you going to rely on in order to accurately and appropriately assess Koreans?
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Exactly - you have nothing to rely on in order to accurately and appropriately assess Koreans so you'll be forced to rely on stereotypes and generalizations - which are the root causes of racism. Doesn't matter if you hate Koreans. Doesn't matter if you mean no disrespect in your assumptions of them and in your comments about them - racism isn't about hate its about ignorance.
[i]Oh.
Yeah...oh.

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Exactly. So since you don't live with em