John Shore

Archive for March 20th, 2008

Top 5 Things Modern Racists Say

In Politics on March 20, 2008 at 11:05 am

5.  Why don’t blacks just get over it already, and move on? Nobody who’s alive today had anything to do with slavery. When are blacks going to stop living in the past, and start taking care of the present?

4.  If making it as a black person in America is so hard, how do you explain people like Colin Powell and Clarence Thomas?

3.  All kinds of foreigners, of every color, come to this country and make it. Why do so many blacks fail, when so many Asians and Latinos succeed?

2.  God forbid we should ever do or say anything that’s not “politically correct.”

1.  When I look at a person, I don’t see the color of their skin: I just see a person. Why do we have to be so hung up on color  all the time?

And here’s a bonus one, via comment #2 below: “What about reverse discrimination against white people?”