almifkhar said:
bush a racist? you bet he is. lets count the ways
1. refused to speak at the naacp event
2. systemic killing of iraqis
3. systemic killings of afghans
3. finanically supports and speaks for white jews, yet villifies arabs
4. the shafting of the u.s. population
5. when he comes to michigan is seems to make it a point to avoid detroit and goes straight for the burbs. (detroit being a 85% black community where as the burbs are 85%+ white)
6. and lets not forget venezuella and the woes going on there. (by the way yet another place where white is not the majority)
The question you must ask yourself tho' is there a reason for this other than race? If you can find any other reason then the likelihood is that it isn't racism. For instance id it based on social status, economics, politics, snobbery, elitism, there's a whole long list of categories and sub categories of which is he also certainly guilty of then its not by default, racism.
For him to be racist say when he goes to Detroit he'd have to think something like...
'These scum bag negroes in Detroit, all they can do is play Basketball, Rap, and sell Crack, its in their blood, I ain't gonna go and see them'
that's racist as it attributes their characteristics to their biological 'race'
if however he thinks
'These African Americans in Detroit seem to have more chances to advance than they are utilising, they all see more interested in adhering to social stereotypes than advancing themselves like my hard working friend Condi, ahh well most of them don't vote anyway, so who cares'
so long as he does not believe that this behavious is biological it is not racist, it might be a lot of things, but for it to be racist it MUST have a biological foundation. Saying that you don't like cultures/behaviours etc if biological, and thus attributed by race and not socialisation, is RACISM: once it becomes more complex it usually ceases to be.
