It turns out George W. Bush doesn't hate black people after all. He hates white people. Hurricane Katrina killed New Orleans whites at a rate disproportionately higher than their percentage of the city's population. Blacks, on the other hand, didn't fare as poorly: African Americans constitute two-thirds of the Big Easy's population but just three-fifths of the hurricane's fatalities. "George Bush doesn't care about white people!" "[T]he world saw the effects of American-style anti-white racism in the drama as it was outplayed by the Katrina survivors." Bush blew up the levee "to destroy the white part of town and keep the black part dry." White people in Charleston, Miami, Houston, and other storm targets: Beware! Next time George Bush utilizes his super-secret White House hurricane-making machine (with the aid of his nefarious sidekick Dick Cheney), he may be coming for you!

Morgan Freeman's got the right idea. He recently said he doesn't believe in "Black Hitstory Month" and that if we would stop talking in terms of black and white then we'd move beyond racism.

Jeremiah, whence came this quote by Morgan Freeman? The reason I ask is I have heard numerous common-sense sayings supposedly attributable to Hollywood celebs that turned out to be wishful thinking. I would love to know where you saw it and verify the content.

Regardless, I agree with the sentiment. But if we did that the Reverends Al & Jesse, along with most of the NAACP would file for unemployment, jobless claims would increase dramatically, and it would again by Bush's fault!

Hey Flynn, you are living a big fat lie of a life and everybody including yourself knows this. You are societal scum. Wake up

When will we be through with the reparation mentality that still seems to be prevalent in this country?

Now, it's "because my great, great grandfather was a slave". 100 years from now, it will be "because my great, great, great, great grandfather was a slave".

Will it ever end?!

I've heard that the Lord helps those who help themselves.

Kanye can kiss my grits.

Jeremiah, Thom McKee, here is the source.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/14/60minutes/main1127684.shtml

“I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history…”

The notion of a special month for black history may be hurting rather than helping efforts for racial equality, Freeman believes. When Wallace wonders whether racist attitudes may be harder to eradicate without the education that Black History Month provides, Freeman retorts: “How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!”

Morgan Freeman: Black History Month is “ridiculous”

I'm guessing Freeman is Left politically, if only because he narrated a recent documentary that was extgremely critical about the campaign to impeach Clinton.

But remember The Shawshank Redemption?
Andy [Tim Robbins]: Why do they call you "Red"?
Red [Freeman]: 'Cause I'm Irish.
On screen it comes across like a brush-off in the prison yard and up to that point is the movie's comic-ironic high point. But Steven King did not create that character as an African-American. Freeman happened to land the role, which became one of the most memorable of his career.

Hey Dan, you should be proud to ellicit such well-reasoned responses from intelligent, glib and quick-witted debaters like Knownee; unless of course Knownee's post was in jest!

If not, and this was a serious attempt at discussion, Knownee must be either a tenured Ivy League professor or a Democratic candidate for President in 2008. Knownee, can we hear a scream!?!

I think I have a developed a fairly good understanding of the left wing/celebrity conspiracy theory, paranoid, factless style of blaming the president up to this point. However, I could not have predicted that people were going to call the president racist because of a hurricaine.

Also, "knownee" I have to say that your scathing remarks are quite typical of someone posting on a non-liberal board. There is always a converstation based on factual evidence, and someone like yourself contributes a suprisingly mean spirited response. Just admit that you don't have any objective, counterclaims or insightful evidence to offer and keep the, "you waste of life, piece of garbage, sellout...etc." to yourself.

Back to the matter at hand. Freeman is partially correct. If you stop talking about it, it will lessen. It will not, however, go away, as racism is taught in the home. I don't care what color you are, if your parents hate, there's a good chance you will too.

Wm. Clement, I agree that racism is "learned", and certainly a genetic trait. However, no government program or activity will ever change that. Indeed, I believe in many cases the emphasis on affirmative action and the constant mis-use of race by individuals such as the Reverend Charlatans gives life to what otherwise might have been dormant racail prejudice.

Hence, I believe Freeman to be correct that an important means to finishing off racism once and for all is to stop emphasizing it. Unfortunately, too many individuals and groups (need we name them?) depend not only on the continued existence of racism, but, like the environmentalists in Michael Crichton's 'State of Fear', rely on it being front and center in the Liberal consciousness every day.

I do agree with McKee that if rascism is taught in the home, chances are pretty good it will become ingrained in the occupants of that home and will continue to flourish.

However, as with everything, there are exceptions to this and it's oft times life experiences that dictate how a person's opinions are molded regardless of what's learned at home.

Hating a group or race is definately something that is learned and it's a natural tendency in thinking humans to let opinions and experiences rule emotions.

If a person has had overall bad experiences with, say eskimos, and their one on one experiences with eskimos, their observations of eskimo behavior are negative ones, if eskimos continued to cry and complain and constantly tell everybody how oppressed they are without working to pull themselves up, it might be that people start viewing eskimos as a having some issues as a group are to taken with caution.

And let's not forget that eskimos can be rascist as well.

Interesting that even the right buys into the leftist definition of racism. See The Racist Definition of Racism

If the right bought into the misguided leftist notion of racism and Katrina then they would actually claim Bush is a racist for letting an inordinate number of whites die.

They don't. If they did, I would hope the stupidity of the "Bush is a racist" claims would be apparent even to the those who believed it before the numbers came out.

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Those who blame "white people"- or any other people,for that matter- for all of their problems are, by definition, racists. Slavery is over.
Let's move on folks. Jesse, Al, Kanye and their
ilk are doing more to promote racism than the KKK. Rappers are using the "n-word" ad nauseum,
while "White America" is buying most of their records. Affirmative action is legalized discrimination. I'm sorry, two wrongs don't make a right.

The media's liberal slant and social agendas pushed in public education have worked along with their need to think that they are now more civilized and sensitive to the plight of the oppressed to convince many "white people" that they have a burden to bear with regards to slavery. Many have developed a collective guilt about it thus providing numerous social passes given and truly discriminatory laws such as Affirmative Action as payback for past wrongs.

Many in the minority community use this like a crutch as it works most of the time. (See Bush shoveling billions of OUR money into N.O.)