Racism is Alive and Well With the Left

From the Leftist corkboard I visit:

Mon Jun 13 15:26 ~ III writes "Michael Jackson Not guilty........" - 67 reaction(s)
Mon Jun 13 21:25 ~ - Subject: * - 0 reaction(s)

XXX said:

"Over at jury selection"? Yeah, the jury was mostly white, with NO African-Americans on it. We know how much white people LUUVVVE MJ!

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My comments:

Wow. What a racist thing to say. All you have to do is look at pictures of MJ's concerts, the area outside the courthouse, any bluddy picture of his fans waving and screaming and there will be a very diverse group with a slightly higher concentration of Caucasians. Especially Caucasian females.

As far as the jury goes, the majority of them had something to do with MJ in the past, either directly or through children or grandchildren. This is the community in which he lives and it is mainly Caucasian. The area is one of ranches and vineyards. Rich to semi-rich people. Their ages were from 20-something to 80-something with a chunk of 35-60 in the middle. MJ is 46 years old. The vast majority of the jury grew up listening to MJ. That can't hurt, either. This jury was a pretty rural one, for Santa Maria/Santa Ynez, and being star struck isn't completely out of the picture, either.

And who has purchased MJ's music for the last 30 years? All kinds of people.

Which brings me to this...

When the hell are people going to stop referring to one another based on color? It is not relevant to conversation at all. Example: Which guy is it? The guy in the red shirt or the guy in the blue baseball cap? How easy was that? Pretty damn easy.

Are you a good person? An honest person? A trustworthy person? A compassionate person? A respectful person? A person that believes in treating others as they themselves would like to be treated? Fine! That's what it's all about.

Whatever happened to the mantra, "people are people"?

Making constant references to race and/or color, especially with so much hate behind it as XXX has done, just irks the hell out of me and perpetuates the yoke of a label that is scribbled every time a mouth opens and utters the words which are meant to separate and classify people. Even more so when there is such obvious hate behind them.

Speaking in those terms only prolongs feelings of victimization and hinders anyone and everyone hearing or reading the divisionist words from making any headway into a world free of racial bias and prejudice. I had hoped we'd be there by now, but this kind of thinking and speaking will keep it from happening.

Classify, classify, classify. Why? That's a pretty "Big Brother" way of thinking. Frightening.

We're long past this kind of thing, Lefties. You always fall back on putting “race” in its “place” and then denying it up and down every time you’re held responsible, or, finding yet another way to move the goal posts to what you believe is your advantage. Want forward thinking? Want to be progressive? Remember to think before perpetuating racial hate and discrimination in your everyday speech and internet comments.

XXX has unwittingly provided a public service, just by being his hateful self, in proving no one is completely useless; they can always serve as a bad example.