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Schultz says 'break' is a 'southern racist term'

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-15 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 As usreal - excellent inline commentary Fred.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-10-15 00:37|| 2011-10-15 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Black or white. That's all the left seems to be able to see.

I couldn't care less. I notice if someone is black about as soon as I notice if someone is short, tall, male, female, old, young, whatever.

Herman's got a pair, he's not stupid, and he seems to be looking for a solution rather than an angle, which is better than I can say for 90% of Obean and his Conveniently Clueless Clique.

And unless Romney does something better than just try to look like Mr. Average Conservative, Cain's got my vote.

Unless Sarah runs, of course. Said only partly in jest . . . .

Posted by gorb 2011-10-15 01:59|| 2011-10-15 01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 A trail balloon for focus anti-Cain campaign: "He's uncle Tom".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-15 06:15|| 2011-10-15 06:15|| Front Page Top

#4 A spy novel from the '60s had a great line about race. "The only thing race can help is in identification."

That's it. If there are two guys with the same name and one is black, the other white, knowing the race of the guy you're looking for helps other than that, not so much.

Posted by AlanC 2011-10-15 09:01|| 2011-10-15 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 They might get better ratings if they changed the name to the Mr. Ed Show. That's a sign of respect in the south.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-10-15 09:39|| 2011-10-15 09:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Desperation is in the air.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-10-15 09:43|| 2011-10-15 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 it's a "dog-whistle"!

Posted by Frank G 2011-10-15 09:56|| 2011-10-15 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Yep, gr(o)m. Uncle Tom, oreo, race traitor, etc. He's making the race hustlers and the perpetual-victim class look bad, because he's living proof that it doesn't have to be that way. I was wondering why we haven't heard the usual slurs yet, but now that he's looking like a contender I've no doubt his critics react to the threat he represents in the most bilious and disgusting terms.

I've also no doubt that he's used to it, and can't wait to hear him fire back.

Posted by RandomJD 2011-10-15 11:32|| 2011-10-15 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 They might get better ratings if they changed the name to the Mr. Ed Show
If memory serves, there was a previous show with a similiar name, centered around a talking horse. but in THAT show the words came out the head end, unlike the current rendition.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2011-10-15 12:32|| 2011-10-15 12:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe a similar creature? A talking Ass?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-10-15 12:33|| 2011-10-15 12:33|| Front Page Top

#11 ROFL, #9 USN, Ret,! :-D

Too true.

Posted by Barbara 2011-10-15 13:26|| 2011-10-15 13:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Dr. James Peterson, director of Africana studies at Lehigh University, explained that "break" is a racist verb, "a term that was used to destroy, mentally and physically, slaves."
So what would happen if Cain were to say "When I run against Obama, I will BEAT him"? After all, slave owners used to beat their slaves,so isn't that racist?
On the other hand, it is likely that Cain is in fact the descendant of actual slaves, unlike Obama.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-10-15 13:36|| 2011-10-15 13:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Had not even heard of this show.
.break.
USN, thats good stuff there.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-15 15:06|| 2011-10-15 15:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Mind you. You (Americans) should remember Condi.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-15 15:41|| 2011-10-15 15:41|| Front Page Top

#15 There was a great line in the movie Undercover Brother in which the hero asked 'conspiracy brother' if he had a list of the words that sent him into these rants so he could avoid them in the future. I think someone should come up with such a list because it feels like any term used throughout history, if used during the times of slavery is now forbidden. Even words that sound too similar like niggardly are considered racist by morons and race-baiters.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-10-15 19:23|| 2011-10-15 19:23|| Front Page Top

#16 post-intentional racism

Yjcmtsu. On second thought, I suppose he has.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2011-10-15 19:48|| 2011-10-15 19:48|| Front Page Top

#17 If Schultz sees racism everywhere and others don't, he ought to take a serious look at himself; maybe it's him that is the racist.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-10-15 20:45|| 2011-10-15 20:45|| Front Page Top

#18 Just for shits, I looked this word up in my actual two volume made of paper dictionary...the various definitions of this word filled two pages and its ancestory goes waaaay back.

This type of rhetoric is well and good for the back dive bars of the intertubes but for a TV head or other self called news agency it is malpractice.

Sorry, tired of the shitbirds, need a break.

The cricket team needs to break the duck.

Every time this show's theme song plays, an angel breaks wind.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-15 21:07|| 2011-10-15 21:07|| Front Page Top

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