tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post2923228388906733184..comments2023-11-05T03:20:46.695-05:00Comments on The Ostroy Report: Thank You Jimmy CarterThe Ostroy Reporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-38432458756033297642009-09-21T09:38:56.349-04:002009-09-21T09:38:56.349-04:00Ostroy Your examples are not racial slurs. Any m...Ostroy Your examples are not racial slurs. Any man (or woman) can be a Muslim, a socialist, a fascist, a communist etc. Bush was called a fascist. <br /><br />Only a woman, for example, can be made fun of for her clevage Usually only a woman irons shirts for a man. Usually only a woman is held accountable for her appearance.<br /><br />To be racial it has to be something that can only be said about that race. <br /><br />Dowd got to racism when she added "boy" to "You lie." Only blacks in our country have been humiliated by a man being called "boy".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-24746345678719221372009-09-18T11:57:27.866-04:002009-09-18T11:57:27.866-04:00Yeah, you're right, Anon 1024. Good thing no o...Yeah, you're right, Anon 1024. Good thing no one's ever called Obama a terrorist, a Muslim radical, a socialist, a fascist, a communist...or called him an illegal alien and questioned his ctizenship....or kept their school kids away from him. Because, as you say, those kinds of personal attacks sure would be racism.....The Ostroy Reporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-23529339178220005852009-09-18T10:24:29.628-04:002009-09-18T10:24:29.628-04:00Disagreeing with the President is not racism. Rac...Disagreeing with the President is not racism. Racism is manifested in degrading personal remarks. Remember when sexism was evident when the man screamed at Hillary: Iron my shirt? Remember when they criticized her laugh, cleavage, etc. There have been no such racial slurs to or about Obama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-30848793872805813552009-09-17T20:46:36.347-04:002009-09-17T20:46:36.347-04:00As anonymous 4:59 relates, I have also heard such ...As anonymous 4:59 relates, I have also heard such comments. Sadly, some of these utterances are themselves emanating from non-black minorities.<br /><br />Regarding Jimmy Carter, I say this with a great deal of respect and not snark: he's made a much better ex-president than he did a president. He took his celebrity and used it to expand the coverage of so many difficult topics and bring them to the attention of the world that no other ex-president can even stand near the Carter spotlight. He continues to strive to improve life on this planet, which is more than too many other national leaders can hint at.<br /><br />Laying out the truth about America's deep-seated racism is yet another such difficult topic, and I hope he continues to speak out about this. In doing so, he does allow Obama some breathing room (which I hope he decides to use productively!) to maybe do the right things regarding American's future. Obama has an opportunity to alter his heading, and I hope he does so. If he chooses the course that Carter would now take, then he will also improve life in America, and he will have a lot of support to fend off the scurrilous attacks of the Great White Hate Party. He will have earned it.Realisthttp://blogcritics.org/writers/realistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-29007168542361991702009-09-17T16:59:29.336-04:002009-09-17T16:59:29.336-04:00Some of the above posters must be blind. My husba...Some of the above posters must be blind. My husband hears daily how the white guys he works with hate the N in the White House.<br /><br />That's reality folks!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-40147874867993055332009-09-17T14:21:10.189-04:002009-09-17T14:21:10.189-04:00President Jimmy Carter is a much respected and lov...President Jimmy Carter is a much respected and loved human being who has the moral standing to call it as he, and most of us from the reality-based community, sees it. It has been a rather strange time since Barack Obama became our 44th President. The throwbacks were besides themselves with rage from the get go. They were planning to attack any Democrat elected as president with as much viciousness as was necessary to destroy them. With Obama they had this huge trump card of racism available and were not afraid to use it when they could find little else to attack him with. It's 24/7 racism directed at Obama by Fox Noise; I'm wondering what the FCC can do about this fascist network of liars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-59066654336329963102009-09-17T13:43:58.523-04:002009-09-17T13:43:58.523-04:00The indiscriminate use of the charge of racism und...The indiscriminate use of the charge of racism undermines its potency in cases where racism truly is to be found.<br /><br />Shame on Carter. Shame on people who conveniently throw out the charge just because it suits their immediate political convenience.<br /><br />Don't you realize the damage you do to generations of effort to bridge the gap between the races? Don't you care enough about the country to look past the immediate goal you have in mind?<br /><br />Shame shame shameAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-15826509465190429882009-09-17T13:26:10.247-04:002009-09-17T13:26:10.247-04:00It seems like no matter what happens, there will a...It seems like no matter what happens, there will always be an issue of racism to some degree.Amyhttp://www.vacationrentalsad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-12544950838659676852009-09-17T12:01:54.396-04:002009-09-17T12:01:54.396-04:00Memo to Carter: I was just getting to like you aft...Memo to Carter: I was just getting to like you after your book exposed what Israel has been doing for 60yrs. Then you make a statement like this. BTW Jimmy, Obama couldn't be elected w/o the white vote. He didn't get my vote...but neither did McSame. The last time I voted was for Perot...then I realized it doesn't make a difference.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-73938923715386000122009-09-17T11:32:26.970-04:002009-09-17T11:32:26.970-04:00Nobody knows what other people are thinking. The ...Nobody knows what other people are thinking. The GOP did the same sort of nonsense to Bill Clinton: Black Helicopters, UN takeovers, Whitewater criminality, Secret killings... etc... etc...<br /><br />The GOP media machine throws this stuff until something sticks. <br /><br />They'll turn this "Jimmy Carter racist" stuff into "they keep calling us poor old Freedom lovers racists" by the end of the week.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410864482680280393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-81741718680623750202009-09-17T08:16:48.598-04:002009-09-17T08:16:48.598-04:00As soon as it came out what President Carter said,...As soon as it came out what President Carter said, I wrote his Carter Center (carterweb@emory.edu) to thank him before all the crazies start flapping their jaws. President Carter did not say all those against President Obama's policies are racist, but there are many who are. Just read their posters. You don't only have to use the N word to be considered a racist. Many of those signs use code words to get their ideas out. <br />Do those folks really think we are stupid? They will not accept a black (even a half black) man and his family living in the White House. We who know better must continue to speak out loud and clear. I applaud President Carter for saying what needed to be said and I applaud President Obama for being above it all. The righties want President Obama to get into the subject of race, but he is too smart to fall for that. So again, thank you President Carter. You certainly know from where you speak!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-46673458809974793262009-09-17T03:02:32.075-04:002009-09-17T03:02:32.075-04:00Unfortunately anything to do with race relations i...Unfortunately anything to do with race relations in America causes people to shut down and scream, "I'm not racist!" But Jimmy Carter spoke about it from a place of "unbiased opinion"; and that's something black people can't do these days. Our accounts of racism are "foggy", "clouded", "biased", or "manipulative", and sometimes it takes a guy who looks like Jimmy Carter, someone who has achieved what he has, to make such a statement and be taken seriously.vibakuhttp://www.vibaku.comnoreply@blogger.com