Black people rush to the polls to vote McCainFollow

First off I am a lazy minority.

And so if you are a lazy minority like me and take offense to what I say, don't. Take pride in it. I love my cardboard box and enjoy spending my cup of pennies from David Blaine to buy time at the internet cafe and surf more ****. If you're not lazy, then this isn't about or for you. I have 'taken back' the name of "lazy minority" that the white man giveth me and am using it as an emotional crutch shield light to describe my own people.

That out of the way, let me explain why all wait-till-the-last-day-of-voting minorities should vote for McCain:

You know when Obama becomes president...most people will think of it as a 'win' for African-Americans in general. Of course, right? But you DO realize that if you think about it, underprivileged black people will have something taken away from them that they've had since the days of slavery:

the right to complain.

...poor black people can't complain anymore. No more 'the white man has kept me down', 'I'm underprivileged', or 'man, you don't know how rough I've had it'. Though a black person actually MAY live in a difficult economic situation, all an ******* politican now has to say is "Obama is president so you have nothing to complain about now."

...So if you are black and were used as Operation Human Shield in Iraq...
...if you are forced into low paying jobs though you have a college degree...
...or if you drowned in New Orleans....Congratulations, you still beat the white man. And have no more right to complain about a single damn thing :)


So I bring to you the perfect End-Of-Campaign 2008 McCain-Palin bumper sticker:

"Want to complain? Vote for McCain"

The whointhewhatnow?

American ideology and hegemony won't change overnight no matter who is elected president.

Personally, I'd rather be complaining about President Obama than McCain.

Or God help us all, Palin.

There are two different types of racism:

1. Those who believe someone must be X because they are Y race.
"Barack Obama must be bad because he's black."
Pretty much KKK members and other relics exhibit this.


2. Those who believe a person of Y race is probably X.
"That black person is on welfare because he's lazy."
"That mexican is probably an illegal immigrant."
This is the much, much more common type. Pretty much everyone exhibits this to a certain degree.


If Obama is elected, it means he has only overcome Type 1. There are still pleny of Type 2 racist people who don't necessarily hate every black person. You know, the people who have "black friends" but still hold prejudices against other blacks. This will still continue to exist.

Forget that blacks are racist too. Racism is more prevalent in black society than any other. You can never be against anything they say or your racist. No one plays race cards anymore, except blacks. Everything we do is racism. The only people who can't move forward are blacks. Remember, your only a black if your a democrat.

PS Are you telling me it isn't racism for black people to vote purely for Barry because he is also black? And not on the issues?

Edited, Nov 3rd 2008 11:27pm by AmorTonight

Edited, Nov 3rd 2008 11:29pm by AmorTonight

Yeah I should have included that in my Type 2. They are basically the same thing, although one is conscious and the other may be subconscious. Both involve negative first reactions based on prejudices, which may be overcome by "getting to know" the person in question.




Edited, Nov 3rd 2008 11:23pm by trickybeck

I know you're not going to not going to vote for McCain because of this, but come on 'turnoff'? I think thats a poor choice of words...You didn't just meet him on match.com.

Besides, many people (if not everyone ) can give into vices, I think cigg smoking is possibly one of the least offensive, it has barely any mind altering effects. The imagery that a president should be vice free is a concept that we could do without in todays world. I just quit, and I don't really fault him, attempting to lead the free world through a rough, expensive battle that spans for 9+ months has to be one of the most stressful endeavors....

I thought catwho was criticizing obama for his vice (smoking), but not in retort to the friend who is voting for him because hes a smoker. Regardless, I think we're all in agreement that that is a silly reason to cast your vote.

Edited, Nov 4th 2008 12:52am by TWA

While I definitely do not disagree with the concept of averse racism, I must take issue with this example. As a rule I don't pick up hitchhikers, period, but I have done so in the past and (speaking from personal experience) race has never played an issue. However I would still be biased towards the little old chinese lady in this case, not because she's chinese as opposed to black, but because she's a little old lady, and the other guy is dressed in a considerably more threatening manner.

I don't care if you're black, white, asian or purple, if you're standing on the side of the road in gold chains and thuglife clothes with your thumb out it is highly unlikely that anyone is going to pick you up.

On the other side of that same coin, if you're dressed respectably, whether it be normal leisure clothes or some sort of suit, people are going to be more receptive to you.

Further, people are more likely to pick up an elderly person, particularly a female, than they are to pick up a young person(particularly males). This is, to some extent, a combination of sexism, respect and plain old good sense.

It's sexist because people automatically believe that a woman is less likely to do harm than a man (not necessarily untrue, I wouldn't dispute the veracity of this opinion). Good sense also plays into this for the exact same above reasons.

It's respectful because the elderly person has a much higher probability of collapsing and dieing on the side of the road, their need is greater(I'd feel bad if I drove by an old guy or woman who, oddly enough, was hitch hiking, and found out s/he died later).