(12-17-2020, 06:33 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

Quote:"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Apparently the lesson of that quote is lost and not taught in today's government schools.  It is more apparent on the left side of the political spectrum, not just the "far left".  It really has little to do with race (in some cases) and everything to do with "identity politics".

A very good example of this is when Joe Biden announced that his VP selection would be a woman.  Here is his direct quote.

Quote:"If I'm elected president, my Cabinet, my administration will look like the country, and I commit that I will, in fact, appoint a, pick a woman to be vice president," Biden said at the CNN-Univision debate in Washington, DC.

So is that "racist"?  Not really by definition, but he immediately disqualified possible candidates that might have been better suited for the job based on gender.  However, he doubled down on that claim by saying it would be a "woman of color".  Of course it was egged on by the left leaning press.

Is there "racism" on the right?  Certainly.  But it's not as open and "accepted" as it is on the left.  The PC left crowd are the ones that put people into "groups" or "categories" and somehow make it "acceptable".  Where did labels such as "african-american" instead of "black" come from when describing a black person.  What about "hispanic-american" or "aisian-american" or any of the other hyphened categories that we have now?

I have more to say about this, but duty calls...

Whenever I hear a phase like 'the first woman' or 'the first person of color' or 'first native american' etc etc to do something or to hold some sort of position, I immediately think both, "this is an inspiring moment for people of similar gender or race", and also, "this is racist because we are emphasizing race/gender over/or along side of the accomplishment". I agree with an earlier poster, that I wouldn't want that sort of thing posted next to my accomplishment at all, I would I want my position or achievement to be because of my qualifications, not because I was born a particular sex or color. God bless Charley Pride, he had it right. He was just himself, and people loved him because of how he sounded and the quality of his work, not because of his skin color. Unfortunately, we are a long way from the character of that man as a society.

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