On Jun 9, 5:58*am, wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:02:22 -0500, Ken Fortenberry

wrote:
wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
You described the President's interview on the Today show as
"Urkel goes gangsta". You're so casually and endemically racist
you can't even recognize it when you utter it on Usenet. Sad.

Well, Webster, I thought, ever so briefly, about "Lyle Alzado goes 'Swan Lake'"
but it didn't quite sound the same...again, explain how what I did say was
"racist"...if you can...

Like I said, sad.

Yeah, you SAID it, but apparently, you cannot EXPLAIN it...

HTH,
R

Many of your comments in question contain a sneering mockery of
African-Americans and the use of lightly coded deprecatory
comparisons, minimization and dehumanization of their experiences,
history and accomplishments.

For you it is cleaver humor, and to be fair it is pretty much how most
of us Whites talked about Blacks until a decade or two ago. Now your
kind of racist comments are pretty much restricted to informal
exchanges between male friends with a little booze for lubrication,
but even there this kind of talk is mostly unwelcome in educated White
circles, among military people, young people etc.. That kind of humor
is also considered archaic and boorish today in many White social
circles.

Why you do it? Who the hell knows. My own theory is it is an "edgy"
thing with you. For example, this "explain it to me" thing of yours,
etc.. Or maybe it's the set you travel with. I don't think it is a
particularly Southern thing, because I am old enough to know that
racism has been/is pretty heavy in the North (Less so in the West).
So, who knows why you do it. One thing is clear, you are certainly
smart enough to stop.

Dave