Comments on: Obama reelection inspires racist election night rallies

By: C W

C W — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:16:00 +0000

“As a white male who worked in a company where more than 50% of the workers were black”

Gosh, you must really know exactly what they’re thinking.

By: C W

C W — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:13:00 +0000

“btw – is that phrase inherently racist?”

The way it’s used today? Exclusively.

By: C W

C W — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:12:00 +0000

Hate gets the good ol’ boys response, love/peace/justice gets the club.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:49:00 +0000

Unfortunately, bigotry is a seemingly unlimited renewable resource.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:43:00 +0000

Actually I might be inclined to pick the third option – they voted for a gay president because he was gay. Which, in my mind, was the direction of most of these early comments were heading.

I don’t really know why a person would vote for the people telling them they suck. But as a voter I have a tendency to actually look at what the candidates are proposing to do and base my decisions off that. Most people I know (black, white, latino, ect.) have a few key points they know and fall back on gut feelings.

From what I’ve seen and understand about the black community being part of the cohesive mass is very very important. Even if a black person voted Republican I highly doubt they’d go around telling all their black friends.

But frankly what do I know about the black community…not a whole hell of a lot. And unless there are some commenters in here that are black I’m guessing a lot of other people don’t know that much either.

By: Martijn Vos

Martijn Vos — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:38:00 +0000

Honestly, if the South truly wants to secede, I’d let them. It’d make the rest of the country wealthier and saner. Let them taste what their backward ideas eventually lead to.

By: travtastic

travtastic — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:35:00 +0000

Is it at all possible that we’ve finally hit Peak Bigot?

By: Felton / Moderator

Felton / Moderator — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:01:00 +0000

Good point. Also, assuming the barrel is completely full of crackers, they’d go stale months before you could finish them, especially in the Southern humidity.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:45:00 +0000

This. I was going to comment similarly regarding Alabama, but you got here first. Well said.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:23:00 +0000

More to the point, who the fuck would keep their crackers in a barrel? They would just be a mass of crumbs.

By: petertrepan

petertrepan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:15:00 +0000

That’s interesting! I suppose I should have asked myself why, if that sort of thing is possible, it hasn’t happened already. Just as well. It would be a fake fix for racism at the cost of all that variety.

By: Lupus_Yonderboy

Lupus_Yonderboy — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:52:00 +0000

I know that I’ve been trying to do my part.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:47:00 +0000

That theory has been deprecated. A very white person and a very black person won’t necessarily produce a bunch of medium brown children.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:43:00 +0000

Black people mostly voted for Obama for the same reason that women and LGBT people mostly voted for Obama, not because he’s the same gender or sexual orientation as us, but because he seems substantially more interested in assuring our human rights.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:37:00 +0000

Now I’m going to hear the rest of the comments in Slow Paula Deen voice.

By: erikistired

erikistired — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:35:00 +0000

when i moved out to college they were listed in the phone book. i grew up in georgia and that still shocked me. i always figured they were more of an underground organization.

By: erikistired

erikistired — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:27:00 +0000

eh. it’s not nearly as bad as the press makes it out to be, but it’s here. of course, it’s also in every state in the country in some form or another, but because of our past we tend to get the brunt of the news coverage. i don’t live in mississippi tho, so it could be worse there than in georgia.

i really couldn’t live without boiled peanuts tho.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:16:00 +0000

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/b0cfcd3af8/herman-cain-s-1986-sexual-harassment-training

No we ain’t

By: petertrepan

petertrepan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:03:00 +0000

Kentucky Fried Chicken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBFTKI-zIM

By: Felton / Moderator

Felton / Moderator — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:55:00 +0000

Chik-fil-A, Cracker Barrel… Wait, do we have any chains that aren’t associated with discrimination?

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:55:00 +0000

Check. And check.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:47:00 +0000

And the number of students at the racist riot who were pepper-sprayed and arrested is……?

Bueller?

Don’t be silly. They was just funnin.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:42:00 +0000

Seriously, it’s such a ridiculous argument. Blacks have voted in the majority for Democrats since the 40′s. Republican support declined steadily since FDR and for good reason. LBJ putting through The Civil Rights Act, and The Voting Rights Act and the switch of allegiance of racist Southern Democrats over to the GOP was the final nail in the coffin. As it should have been.

By: petertrepan

petertrepan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:39:00 +0000

Indeed. And we also have Chik-fil-A, of course.

I thought Cracker Barrel was especially stupid for discriminating against black people, given that everything on their menu is essentially soul food.

By: Felton / Moderator

Felton / Moderator — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:23:00 +0000

Good example.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:20:00 +0000

“Keep mixing the races until we’re all the same grayish color — then there’ll be no more racism, once we’re all the same shade, man. ‘Hey, gray!’ ‘Who you callin’ gray, gray?’ And then we’ll actually be able to hate someone for the person that they are.”
-Tom Rhodes

By: SamSam

SamSam — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:19:00 +0000

Oh please. What percentage of the Southern population is made up of "retired Northerners?" You can't just make up hypothetical questions and put them out there as if they had some weight behind them. Here, let's try it. Mississippi gets more than twice from the Federal Government what it gives in taxes. Meanwhile, Mississippi is near the very bottom of the states with immigration from other states, with a total of just 2.3% of it's population moving in from outside the state last year. These are certainly not all retirees, but even if they were, does this mean that these 2.3% are responsible for consuming the entire output of the state? Poverty, subsidies for agriculture and in-state retirees are guaranteed to each get more benefits from the Federal government than them damn Yankees coming down and retiring.

By: relawson

relawson — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:04:00 +0000

Yeah :(

By: petertrepan

petertrepan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:55:00 +0000

Are you kidding? One of our most popular regional restaurants has racial slurs right in the name: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2f/Cracker_Barrel_Old_Country_Store_logo.svg/220px-Cracker_Barrel_Old_Country_Store_logo.svg.png

By: petertrepan

petertrepan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:48:00 +0000

I’m glad to say they’re far outnumbered at Klan rallies as well.

(Oh, but sorry to say that we still have the occasional Klan rally.)