America is now producing more nice white people

[LiberalArkie]

http://www.dailykos.com

Chris Rock:

There’s always going to be people that don’t know that the war’s over. I’m more optimistic than you, but maybe it’s because I live the way I do. I just have a great life, so it’s easier for me to say things are great. But not even me. My brothers drive trucks and stock shelves. They live in a much better world than my father did. My mother tells stories of growing up in Andrews, South Carolina, and the black people had to go to the vet to get their teeth pulled out. And you still had to go to the back door, because if the white people knew the vet had used his instruments on black people, they wouldn’t take their pets to the vet. This is not some person I read about. This is my mother. [...]
Here’s the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. [...] The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

[cyberswede]

1. Here's a long thread about this

From earlier this week:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025894391

[alarimer]

2. I actually don't know too many "nice" white people

Maybe in LA and New York, but not in the vase cesspool that is middle and southern US.

Most are not too afraid to say the worst possible things, believing that I must agree with them since I am white also.

[ileus]

3. I most all the whites I know are nice, here in the South.

Of course it's because most of us were raised to be polite.

I can surely see how much nicer folks are becoming since the 70's...

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I know I owe a lot to Liberals because they were the "white people" who

were most supportive during the Civil Rights Era.

It has happened before, and will happen again. We will have a moment where all of us will come together to push back the hordes of racists and their Anglicized agendas. And once we get there I suggest that our leaders take a page from Obama's book and live as exemplary a personal life as possible so you don't give them something to undermine all the good we can do in the world.

[heaven05]

5. Yeah, chrissiebaby

kinder, gentler.........

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. I don't see color/race ...

when thinking about "Nice."

[raging moderate]

7. We also had a tradition of being nice and polite in the North.

Now, it's as if demonic forces have invaded and taken hold here.

[raging moderate]

8. Or maybe they have just become more obvious.

Maybe they have just become bolder, or multiplied, or something. It's like snakes crawling out of the woodwork. Or that Ionesco play in which the whole town, one by one, turns into raging rhinos trampling everything.