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originally posted by: ArtemisE
a reply to: snarky412
Using Uncle Tom isn't frowned upon in the black communities I grew up in... It's a negative term, but black people arnt offended the same way they are with n****r. Republicans have been trying to make Uncle Tom the same as the n word.
It's a negative... Like calling some one a sellout. But not the same. N*****r is a term to describe a race. Uncle Tom is a term to describe a sell out.
originally posted by: ArtemisE
a reply to: [post=17849805]TKDRL[/
A race traitor is a sell out to there race...
originally posted by: ArtemisE
a reply to: Grambler
No an Uncle Tom doesn't make any assumptions on how all black people feel. It makes the assumption that the single person in question is a sell out. It makes no assumption on anything else. Black people don't look at Uncle Tom as a racist statement.... conservatives do. Its a negative statement. It's like calling someone an @$$ hole or wait for it.....a sell out. An Uncle Tom could be any race or none. You could be an Uncle Tom in buisness or family life as well. If my white cousin were to snitch on me... I might call him an Uncle Tom. He sold out a family member.
Conservatives are desperate to prove their not racists... The left is..... So they throw everything at the wall to see what sticks.
originally posted by: snarky412
a reply to: anon72
Well....remember how the MSM edited Zimmerman's 911 call to make him sound racist??
They really need to sock it to these people who insist on editing clips and place a hefty fine on top of it!!
Not no slap on the wrist fine but a 'I'll never do it again' fine
originally posted by: ArtemisE
a reply to: Grambler
Just because your not a conservative doesn't mean you haven't bought into some of there propaganda.
I don't think bundy is a racist at all. I think he's a gullible old man who had a bunch of right wing idiots adopt his cause and start giving him advice. In there stratagy sessions it was all welfare queens and bs Fox News talking points. From these stratagy sessions he got all jacket up on right wing propaganda and told his followers exactly what he thought they wanted to hear. A right wing manifesto, only most of that you don't say in public....
I think the black guys backing him know he's a well meaning old coot. Who didn't really mean it the way it came out.
But the STATEMENT was still racist.