tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28633811.post59240723147810263..comments2023-10-29T09:20:01.247-05:00Comments on In This Moment: It's a racist thing. It's time y'all understood.Diane Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134079095789524153noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28633811.post-75206647686964548772007-01-01T16:48:00.000-06:002007-01-01T16:48:00.000-06:00My dear you cannot divorce slavery from America pe...My dear you cannot divorce slavery from America period! Slavery is not just a Southern Thang! You need to further this education you say you have.<br /><br />According to Gordon Bakken: "I have a number of dictionaries for the purpose of researching the evolution of words. Some of their dates of publication are: 1755, 1788,1870,1884,1932,1937,1938,1947, 1967, 1976, etc.<br /> <br />The oldest of my dictionaries to have the word "racist'" (actually "racism") is the 1947 edition."<br /><br />From that time on the word racist or racism has been applied to everything and by everybody in the world under the sun, agenda driven zillions of times.<br /><br />So where did that word racist or racism come from? France and Germany about 1895. The agenda for Marxist and Communist was to use race in America to destroy Capitalism in the USA. <br /><br />Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader - Page 61 by Les ( Back, John Solomos - 2000 - 672 pages<br />Other perspectives If the meaning of the word race has changed in the way ...not surprising that there is no agreement upon a clear definition of racism. ...<br /><br />From Wikipedia: "The term racist, when used to describe someone who supports racism, has been a pejorative term since at least the 1940s, and the identification of a group or person as racist is nearly always controversial."<br /><br />You have fallen into the "Generalizations trap" and is very dangerous as they lead to a group “image” which further perpetuates a racist belief.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Definitions_of_racism<br /><br />http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=3910<br /><br />While you are about trashing your people, Try to be a good Southern descendant and at least stop adding hate and division to our Southern culture, of which you know so little about. Just google away and pick and choose from the racist, racism smorgasboard. <br /><br />Leave the man and his shirt alone, mind your own business and let him wear what he pleases - it is an American Right!JosephineSouthernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06436966995653407263noreply@blogger.com