# Hello. I am a racist. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590 "2010-08-18T00:25:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/301 "2010-08-18T20:04:24Z")
> [@Ariovistus](#): > > …Homogenous societies are largely peaceful, when compared to mixed societies, as the racial/tribal element is not present to create conflict… Balderdash, sir! Tommyrot! “Racially” homogeneous cultures have brutal conflicts as well, the only difference being that they take place along clan/tribe lines rather than “racial”. The Japanese, for instance, are about as “racially” homogeneous a group as can be imagined, but they didn’t get good at making swords by accident. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/302 "2010-08-18T20:09:04Z")
Just a reminder, folks, that tempting as it is, calling another poster a “motherfucker,” and similar variations, is still against the rules in the Pit. Let’s try to avoid that, please. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/303 "2010-08-18T20:15:00Z")
> [@Ariovistus](#): > > > [@Pashnish\_Ewing](#): > > > > Are you saying that there would be no crime and no civil injustice if the ‘races’ would just stick to their own kind? Because that is really, really stupid. If not, then what are you trying to say? > > Of course not. Crime is a part of the human condition. If there is organized society, there will be crime by definition. > > Um, one thing: What exactly is “civil injustice”? I don’t want a textbook answer, I would prefer you explain it to me in your own words… because to me, ‘civil injustice’ sounds awfully made-up. A trendy word used as an excuse to explain away a certain groups’ failure in society. > > I AM saying that in all-white societies, at least in the industrialized world, which is the West by definition, when these societies were all-white or mostly (over 90%) white, crime wasn’t anywhere near what it is today. > > Of course, I know about the Mob, the Irish gangs, etc, but once things got settled, America was largely a peaceful place. Crime came in like gangbusters once the government meddled in the affairs of citizens. > > Example: Let’s take Prohibition. > > From time immemorial till the 1920’s, just about everything was legal as far as intoxicating substances go. Then the US Government, backed by do-gooder busybodies, was pressured to make certain substances illegal, most notably alcohol. I’m sure you know the story. > > INSTANTLY, a black market sprang up. Who ran the black market? Gangsters- most notably the Irish Mob, the Italian Mob and the Jews (that last one, look up “The Purple Gang” or “The Purples”… those guys were batshit insane). > > They stood to make shattering amounts of money, and they defended their turf with the weapons (totally legal weapons, by the way) of the day: grenades, Thompson submachineguns, handguns of various types, and explosives. The violence was largely directed at other gangs, but civillians were caught in the middle, not only in the violence, but also incarcerated for taking a simple drink. > > The government itself created an outlaw class of people simply for doing what people have been doing for thousands of years: taking a drink or smoking dope. Not only that, but AFTER prohibition was ended, and the violence dissipated, the Government sold a bill of goods to the US Taxpayers by outlawing certain classes of weapons that before were totally legal and could be bought mail-order from any Sears catalog. They didn’t come outright and outlaw certain classes of weapons, but they DID overtax them to the point where it was prohibitive to own them based on their cost, which created another class of outlaw. > > It is my position that crime exists not only in societies by definition, but is also created by governments for their own ends and means. > > Homogenous societies are largely peaceful, when compared to mixed societies, as the racial/tribal element is not present to create conflict. There will always be evil in the world, and people who prey upon others, but that amount of crime is small when compared to societies where the makeup of different populations dips below 70% of one type of majority. One only has to look at the Balkans to know what our future holds. Oh man, are you naive. I lived in the Balkans during the Yugoslavian Civil Wars. The majority of the population is WHITE and they did a damn good job at killing other WHITE people. The few non-white populations were classified along religious-ethnic lines and the allegiences of all were divided by religion. Race was completely a non-issue. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/304 "2010-08-18T20:15:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > > [@jsgoddess](#): > > > > _sob_ It’s true. I once had sex with a… LIBERTARIAN! > > Oh, thank God! I mis-read this as LIBRARIAN. :eek: In a former life, I was Professor Harold Hill. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/305 "2010-08-18T20:17:03Z")
Ariovistus: 1. Why do you call yourself a “warrior” and why does that matter in a day and age where a 90lb weakling can push some buttons and send a missile flying through the air and kill a bunch of sweaty muscular men on horseback? In almost all my dealings with racists, they hold their lineage as Vikings and Norsemen as some kind of badge of honor, forever living in the past. 2. Why does it matter if the human race isn’t perfect and all seperate? Your cousin that had kids with the black guy, why does that matter to you? Why shouldn’t races be mixed so that we wouldn’t have these divisions anymore? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/306 "2010-08-18T20:17:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Just a reminder, folks, that tempting as it is, calling another poster a “motherfucker,” and similar variations, is still against the rules in the Pit. Let’s try to avoid that, please. Guilty as charged. Throw myself on the mercy etc. ---
**Author:** ![Ariovistus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Ariovistus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ariovistus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/307 "2010-08-18T20:22:45Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > The ironic part is that if this thread was in GD, we’d all be falling over ourselves to thank the OP for coming out and admitting that he’s a racist up front. > > Oooh! While you’re here, **Ariovistus** , let me ask you this: how do you feel about the Tea Party movement? Hi. Thanks for asking a straight question. Tea Party Movement? Haven’t thought about them much. I’m an Independant. However, I will say that people will get very fed up once the government starts meddling in issues that it is not empowered by the Constitution to mess with, as well as blowing monumental amounts of money out their hindquarters with zero result. Example: When the whole “health care” thing was being debated, all I heard was ‘how will we pay for it’, blahbity blah.. NOT ONE PERSON with any authority ever stepped up and said: “Hey! Does the Constitution empower the US Government to establish socialized health care? No? Then back off.” Never heard it said. Fact is, the US Government overstepped their authority a long, long time ago… The Republic I believed in and fought for died to the sound of applause a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/308 "2010-08-18T20:29:38Z")
> [@Ariovistus](#): > > Crime came in like gangbusters once the government meddled in the affairs of citizens. Well, duh. There is no crime when there is no law. Governments create laws, which creates crime. Your argument is a tautology. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/309 "2010-08-18T20:30:41Z")
> [@Ariovistus](#): > > However, I will say that people will get very fed up once the government starts meddling in issues that it is not empowered by the Constitution to mess with, as well as blowing monumental amounts of money out their hindquarters with zero result. Yeah, Constitutional shit, like that stupid 13th Amendment and the even stupider 14th Amendment. Who needs that bullshit, amirite, brother? My country tis of theeeee. . . ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/310 "2010-08-18T20:31:42Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > In almost all my dealings with racists, they hold their lineage as Vikings and Norsemen as some kind of badge of honor, forever living in the past. > [@Ariovistus](#): > > The Republic I believed in and fought for died to the sound of applause a long time ago. It’s not just racists … a significant portion of the population derives its identity from belief in a halcyon past that exists entirely in the imaginations of these individuals. The idea that the United States is a _worse_ place now than it was 200 or 100 or 50 years ago is so clearly delusional that it amounts to deliberate self-deception. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/311 "2010-08-18T20:33:07Z")
Ariovistus, I just have one question so far. It’s been asked a few times (more or less) and you haven’t specifically addressed it: Why is it okay to judge people with the same skin color (ie, black people), but not okay to judge people who live in the same area (ie, southerners). You say that it’s not the ‘skin’ color, it’s based on your experience. Fine - if that’s the case, then if someone had negative experiences with southerners (all the ones they met fit the stereotypes you complained about) then by your reasoning that’s fine as well. Correct? Do you agree with this? If not, why not? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/312 "2010-08-18T20:42:33Z")
> [@Ariovistus](#): > > For those of you interested, I officially had no opinion of them for years. My parents taught me to investigate everything before forming an opinion, and were mum on the subject of other races. [Liar:](http://www.chimpout.com/forum/showpost.php?p=476361&postcount=4) (Boxed for length and for those who don’t wish to read a lot of racial profanity) Imagine a solid Norse/German family: at least 4 generations of Norsemen and Germans in America, by virtue of their brains and sweat, created a nice life for themselves. Then, all of a sudden, one goes rogue and decides to burn coal. The shame was unbearable for my Grandmother and Grandfather (the Matriarch and Patriarch, respectively, of our family). We’ll call her “Patty” (not her real name). I always remember my cousin as a chubby, fun-loving little girl when they would come to visit at our house… running and playing in the sun, we hadn’t a care in the world. Then I didn’t see her for a number of years (around my teens).\*\* Last time I heard anything about her, my father said very tersely: “She’s shacked up with some nigger and has a half-breed”. That was the last thing I ever heard about her… the look of shame and disgust on my father’s face told me volumes.\*\* She is the disgrace of our family. She was disowned, disinherited and forgotten. I haven’t seen her in almost 30 years. The last time I went to a family reunion, back in the early 80’s, I said to my father: “What the fuck are these niggers doing here?” There were about 3 or 4 niggers sitting off by themselves, looking down and grazing on the free feed, all of them sows. My father just shot me a dangerous look, and I let it go… shortly thereafter, my grandfather and father went over to the niggresses and said something. They left shortly afterwards. My father is/was a big guy… boxed in the Golden Gloves, studied Judo and lifted weights his whole life… I guess he made it clear that niggers weren’t welcome at such a hallowed event as the whole family coming together. His size, blonde-going-grey hair and grey eyes flashing fire were too much for the monkies. Bolding mine. I’ll let your words speak for themselves. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/313 "2010-08-18T20:45:36Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > > > As to the OP, I think **Princester** hit the nail on the head when he said that the OP was confusing behavior born of socio-economic circumstance with inherited genetic traits. I’d wager that the OP would be just as scornful of, and just as desirous of keeping his distance from, ‘white trash’ lowlife types as he is blacks who exhibit the same kind of behavior, but he just hasn’t thought of it in those terms yet. He also needs to realize that just as white trash types are a small subset of the white population, the types of blacks he’s seen and developed resentment toward are a small subset of the black population as well. For every black person he sees who exhibits the kind of behavior he’s complaining of, there are many, many more who are living lives that he would consider every bit as respectable as those lived by mainstream whites, they just aren’t as visible as the emotional, criminal or violent ones. > > I agree entirely. (Somewhere in the multiverse, an angel’s wings fall off.) > > The OP asked at one point why we rarely see working class Jews - plumbers, carpenters, etc. If we can accept this on a broad basis (I’m sure one could find Jewish handymen if one looked) the answer again is not some big racial conspiracy. Subcultures which have traditionally valued higher education and professional status (to pick two stereotypes within America, Jews and East Asians) tend to go into professional fields and are more likely to be successful in them - medicine, law, business. Study hard, value success in professional fields and demonize failure, and you get a disproportionate number of successful professionals (also a lot of neuroses, but we’ve all got those). For a less stereotypical and more personal example, on my side of my largely middle-class WASPish family we’ve got bankers, engineers, small business owners, landscape architects, accountants - everybody went to college because that’s what you did. Hell, all three of us siblings have Master’s degrees - academic achievement made my parents proud. > > OTOH, working class whites (as a generality) don’t tend to push their kids into higher education - in fact, based on the behavior of some of my poorer in-laws, many such parents see any ambition in this direction as their own kids belittling them or “getting ideas above their station” and actively discourage too much achievement (“If working in a factory was good enough for me, and my father, and my grandfather…”). So their kids stay in working class professions, and their kids’ kids and so on. > > And if the OP’s formative experience with black people is with those who joined the Army at the bottom, then I’m not really surprised by the description he gives of them. The Army, especially for blacks, is an option of last resort and the majority (not all, by any means, but most) will be the poorer, less educated and less articulate, sometimes with family and behavioral problems and/or criminal records. Moderated behavior is not going to be a characteristic of this group. > > But as pointed out, this is also true of many of the white people who join the Army, and much less true of the middle classes of any race. It’s a socio-economic thing. This thread is growing faster than I can read it, so I’ll just skip page 6 and most of page 7 and get to my post… You’re absolutely right. It’s the Army experience that made him this way, and it’s exactly for the reason you stated- the Army attracts poor black people. It’s not a last resort, though, it’s a first resort. It’s expected of a lot of country boys, especially minority country boys, to join the military. That’s why a lot (most?) of the black soldiers that I and the OP have encountered are of a poorer, less educated sort than the rest. But the difference is I’m smart enough to realize why those soldiers act that way. It’s because they’re of a certain socio-economic demographic. But for some reason, **OP** , you’re not smart enough to realize that that is not a product of race. The backwoods, corn-fed, white trash country boys from, say, Kentucky, are just as stupid, prone to violence, and irrational. They’re just as likely to have criminal records and have family/behavioral issues as the black soldiers, except they also tend to be racist and homophobic. Of course, I had prior (but limited) experience with black people. Unlike you, I didn’t lead “a blissfully nigger-free life” before the Army. I could easily see that these soldiers were entirely different than the black people I knew back home. It’s not really surprising that if you take a redneck Kentuckian and introduce him simultaneously to black people and soldiers, you’ll get a racist. In summary, you’re not special, **OP**. You’re a product of your environment and you dim-wittedness. And lest you go braggin to your dickwad friends about the beating you’re taking from “all these libs”, you should know I’m a white conservative. Now, if you’ll answer a question for me: I’m white. You’re white. What the fuck makes you think we’re on the same team? What the fuck makes you think all black people are on the same team? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/314 "2010-08-18T20:48:23Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > (Boxed for length and for those who don’t wish to read a lot of racial profanity) > > Imagine a solid Norse/German family: at least 4 generations of Norsemen and Germans in America, by virtue of their brains and sweat, created a nice life for themselves. Then, all of a sudden, one goes rogue and decides to burn coal. The shame was unbearable for my Grandmother and Grandfather (the Matriarch and Patriarch, respectively, of our family). > > We’ll call her “Patty” (not her real name). I always remember my cousin as a chubby, fun-loving little girl when they would come to visit at our house… running and playing in the sun, we hadn’t a care in the world. > > Then I didn’t see her for a number of years (around my teens).\*\* Last time I heard anything about her, my father said very tersely: “She’s shacked up with some nigger and has a half-breed”. That was the last thing I ever heard about her… the look of shame and disgust on my father’s face told me volumes.\*\* > > She is the disgrace of our family. She was disowned, disinherited and forgotten. I haven’t seen her in almost 30 years. The last time I went to a family reunion, back in the early 80’s, I said to my father: “What the fuck are these niggers doing here?” There were about 3 or 4 niggers sitting off by themselves, looking down and grazing on the free feed, all of them sows. My father just shot me a dangerous look, and I let it go… shortly thereafter, my grandfather and father went over to the niggresses and said something. They left shortly afterwards. My father is/was a big guy… boxed in the Golden Gloves, studied Judo and lifted weights his whole life… I guess he made it clear that niggers weren’t welcome at such a hallowed event as the whole family coming together. His size, blonde-going-grey hair and grey eyes flashing fire were too much for the monkies. > > Bolding mine. I’ll let your words speak for themselves. :dubious: First of all, next time I go on a date with a black guy, I’m texting my friends that I’m going to burn some coal. Secondly, if Patty was fat, of course she dated a black guy. Hello? God is kind! For every bee, a flower. For every sunrise, a sunset. For every fat white chick, a black guy. It’s how I get dates, so trust me , I know. Thirdly, am I the only one to get major homo-erotic undertones in the way he’s describing his dad and his “size”? He’s one “skin glimmering in the sun” description away from some Edward Cullen shit up in here. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/315 "2010-08-18T20:48:52Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > > [@silenus](#): > > > > Oh, thank God! I mis-read this as LIBRARIAN. :eek: > > In a former life, I was Professor Harold Hill. Would you believe, I’m a librarian shacking up with a libertarian? It’s like I tried to stay with my own kind but failed a spelling test. It’s cute how he keeps avoiding the Obama question. He even discussed all the other successful black people somebody brought up EXCEPT Obama. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/316 "2010-08-18T20:52:38Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > > [@jsgoddess](#): > > > > In a former life, I was Professor Harold Hill. > > Would you believe, I’m a librarian shacking up with a libertarian? It’s like I tried to stay with my own kind but failed a spelling test. > > It’s cute how he keeps avoiding the Obama question. He even discussed all the other successful black people somebody brought up EXCEPT Obama. Because as a good, Secret Squirrel soldier, he can’t readily admit that he thinks the Commander and Chief is nothing better than a common zoo monkey. Aww, isn’t it kind of endearing that he’d have to take a bullet for a dirty half breed if he was still in the service? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/317 "2010-08-18T20:53:14Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Just a reminder, folks, that tempting as it is, calling another poster a “motherfucker,” and similar variations, is still against the rules in the Pit. Let’s try to avoid that, please. > > [/Moderating] Sorry, I did it too. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/318 "2010-08-18T20:53:23Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] I think you meant “who think their sister is fuckable.” [/QUOTE] That’s pretty much how I translated ‘hilarious’, yes. > [@](#): > > Well, so long as she’s never gotten a chocolate dip. Ha! That’s what YOU think… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/319 "2010-08-18T20:54:45Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Because as a good, Secret Squirrel soldier, he can’t readily admit that he thinks the Commander and Chief is nothing better than a common zoo monkey. Porch. Porch monkey. Seriously, you can’t play if you don’t keep up with the lingo. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590/320 "2010-08-18T20:56:54Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > > [@Zsofia](#): > > > > Would you believe, I’m a librarian shacking up with a libertarian? It’s like I tried to stay with my own kind but failed a spelling test. > > > > It’s cute how he keeps avoiding the Obama question. He even discussed all the other successful black people somebody brought up EXCEPT Obama. > > Because as a good, Secret Squirrel soldier, he can’t readily admit that he thinks the Commander and Chief is nothing better than a common zoo monkey. Aww, isn’t it kind of endearing that he’d have to take a bullet for a dirty half breed if he was still in the service? Beautiful. Brings a tear to my eye, it does. Half-breed, though? There’s a comedian who had a bit like “If you saw Obama stealing your car, you wouldn’t yell ‘Somebody stop that mixed race man!’” I can’t tell whether our erstwhile OP is the kind of racist who thinks that a mixed race person is better than his darker parent or whether he’s worse because he’s a symbol of miscegnal shame. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-a-racist/550590.md?page=17)