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In reply to the discussion: So... how did YOU become a racist? [View all]Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)I looked at the facts in a certain murder case and concluded a certain celebrity defendant was guilty. Having said that that was what I thought, I instantly became a racist. Being a fellow with Korean children, Japanese nephews, Mexican cousins and a distant relative who's black, that hurt.
More recently, like you, I read the Fourth Amendment. Of course, I read the Fourth Amendment and memorized it with the rest of the Constitution when I was in eighth grade, which was even before that certain celebrity murder defendant played running back at USC. Now when a couple of dippy white presidents acted like they either hadn't read or didn't understand it (in fact one of them I was pretty sure couldn't read at all, in spite of getting a BA from Yale and an MBA from Harvard), I cried bloody murder and demanded that their heads roll. That almost happened to one of those two dippy white presidents, but he chickened out and resigned; the illiterate one got off free for no good reason except that Congress chickened out.
Now that we have a black president, I am suddenly a racist when I scream bloody murder about him acting like he's never read or understood the Fourth Amendment (and I am even absolutely certain that this fellow can read). Nevertheless, I've screamed bloody murder because he is collecting information of all us Americans, regardless of whether any particular one of us is suspected of doing anything wrong, just as I did when those two dippy white Republican jack asses did it. So, I guess I am a racist because I make no distinction between a white Republican or a black Democrat who violates the Fourth Amendment.