Comments on: Open Minded

By: Mark T

Mark T — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:40:00 +0000

Rush has made it a point, if you take him at face. He has broken barriers and reintroduced race into the mainstream dialogue. In the decades since the 70’s, people toned down the rhetoric, letting sleeping dogs lie. Rush deliberately woke them up with some very inflammatory comments. He’s no fool, he let some things go out over the radio that were overly racist.

Now he pays the piper. It’s a league where most of the labor is black, the ownership white, and other owners are afraid that having an overt racist might expose the sores. So they don’t want him around.

Don’t blame liberals. We have no dogs in this fight.

By: Craig Moore

Craig Moore — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:06:44 +0000

…or are merely employing Alinsky’s tactics as Swede discussed.

David, it is a school which is predominately white and private in a majority non-white area.

By: Gregg Smith

Gregg Smith — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:52:18 +0000

You’re right. Some people are just blinded by hatred.

By: David Crisp

David Crisp — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:50:43 +0000

Craig,
What is a “white private school”?
Gregg,
I freely acknowledge that racism is too often used as a knife. And no one does it more often than Rush Limbaugh: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-16/rush-the-race-baiter/

He deserves whatever happens to him (as long as it’s bad).

By: Ken Thornton

Ken Thornton — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:23:02 +0000

It’s funny that Limbaugh is protesting that quotes attributed to him that helped lead to his being denied ownership in the NFL are out of context. Thats what that pile of crap has built an empire on doing 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. You punch somebody in the nose , somebody will punch you back.

Limbaugh is an unamerican coward, When have you ever heard him attack someone to his face? Never. In my mind it has nothing to do with his ideas, it has eveerything to do with his cowardly attacks. If what he does is conaervatism ,I feel sorry for you , because it isn’t American.

By: Gregg Smith

Gregg Smith — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:33:11 +0000

David, I am not going to get into a debate with you about “racism,” other than to point out that, as Craig has demonstrated, it is often in the eye of the beholder. While racism obviously exists in our society, you cannot deny that it is far too often used as a knife with which to deflate the arguments of another.

What I see is that there are a number of theories about the causes of, and a number of potential solutions to, the economic disparities between various groups of human beings. I also see that it is often true that if one ’side’ chooses not to accept the other side’s version of cause or solution, racism is used as a justification. Maybe racism is the cause of these problems; maybe it is not. To believe the latter is not, in itself, automatically racism.

By: Craig Moore

Craig Moore — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:31:16 +0000

David, with all the “progressive” DC Dems sending their children to white private schools, I would look there for your answer.

By: David Crisp

David Crisp — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:10:07 +0000

So racism is conservative?

By: Craig Moore

Craig Moore — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:49 +0000

I think denying Limbaugh was a convenient excuse to keep the spotlight off the rest of the NFL owners. With this sacrifice to the PC gods, those owners can continue to operate in the shadows with the level of scrutiny they have come to enjoy.

By: wolfpack

wolfpack — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:52:15 +0000

What does Keith Olbermann think about keeping divisive political personalities out of the NFL?