(February 20, 2009 at 5:26 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(February 20, 2009 at 3:26 pm)bozo Wrote: It seems likely that Obama wil be subject to racist attack. He is black and a lot of Americans don't like blacks and certainly don't like a black president. Nothing imaginary about it.Yes, Bush being compared to a chimp was to do with his intellect, but the fact is that as soon as you compare Obama to a chimp, it becomes about racism. As far as I am aware, despite the level of accusation, the chimp reference is there to portray Obama as "crazy", likening him to the "crazy" chimp who attacked a woman (not just chimps in general).
As regards BUSH being likened to a chimp in the uk,surely that was more to do with his underdevelopment rather than being racist.
In any country, racism is racism and needs to be both recognised and confronted. If we don't stamp out racism, how will we ever get equality?
Racism does indeed need to be recognised, but the anti-racist movement sees racism where there isn't any, and in doing so becomes a hypocritical and racist movement itself. We shoud stamp out racism by teaching people why everyone is equal, not by saying "people are different colours and you shouldn't attack that". Discussion of colour shouldn't come into it (if we are talking about equality).
Well you can interpret the nyp cartoon as you want....you choose non-racist, others will differ and see it as racist, given the history involved.
Whether something is racist is again your perception.
Leaving colour aside, people are clearly born unequal, so how are you going to convince the poorest on the planet that they are the equal of Bill Gates?
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
