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And what about blacks that vote for Obama because he's black, or Jews that vote for Lieberman, or gals voting for Hillary, or q-tips voting for McCain. Is one form of discrimination worse then another.
Oh geez walden, hmmmm...seems to put a new spin on double standards at that bit of show of favoritism isn't it?
Good point.
Any one that votes for a candidate based solely on color, religion, or sexual orientation is a bigot.
If there was a candidate of your state who was openly gay do you think she'd get the gay vote?
I'm not saying it's right, in fact it's wrong. It's just interesting and got me to thinking. I bet it has to do with the fact that we (me, some of us, most of us)must assume that someone who looks like us, goes to the same church as us, eats the same food as us or whatever is concerned with the same things we are.
I'm sure prejudice is just as prevalent in San Francisco or Minneapolis as it is in West Virginia.
Damn right it is. Got interviewed to be a mechanic at United Airlines in the early 90's. As I was negotiating my salary, the interviewer said, "Why should you need more than 16 dollars an hour? You can get a place in Oakland being that your African American." Needless to say I walked out and never returned. One good thing about it was I got a free airline ticket and stayed in San Francisco and had quite a good time.
Watch how i worded my statement. "Any one that votes for a candidate based solely on color, religion, or sexual orientation is a bigot." The key word there is solely.
There's two race related threads going so I've been thinking about it all day.
You know what it seems to come down to - assumptions. We make assumptions about people based upon all kinds of irrelevant factors.
Put up a conversation with sexists, or people who vote Jewish because someone is Jewish, & I'll say the same thing. They're fools. I'm responding to this particular thread, with what the video showed.
Ahhh....not if it represents civil rights, which the blacks have as a valid issue, or Israel, which the Jews find important to them, or women's rights in the workplace etc..
Why, are whites struggling to prevent a ban on bad dancing
or whiskey?
These people are not voting FOR someone, they're voting AGAINST a black man, or is it against a Muslim?