TJR,
As jusual, you have gotten way off subject. The poll you started asked was the picture of Obama as a witch doctor racist. I said that it was racially inflamitor. I also said that most white people would not consider it racist, but most blacks would.
Then you started with all your different assinine scenerios about Bill Cosby, etc that are not even close to the same situation.
Now you are switching gears to freedom of speech! Yes, you have the right to your freedom of speach and you have the right to vent about what you don't like about minorities. You are even welcome to go to Harlem, NY or the Watts districk of Los Angeles with your photo of witch doctor Obama and invoke your freedom of speach and feel free to tell the residence there about your freedom of spech
While I was in the military, I served as a race relationsw faciilitator (I did not want to do it, but I was volunteered by somone who out-ranked me). Part of our traning was just on how blacks view these seeming harmless cartoons, jokes ,etc. Blacks don't like the images portrated by many early showbusiness blacks like Amos & Andy, Buckwheat, or any images of blacks in a slavery or servant role. Most white people find that hard to understand and just think that blacks are being overly sensitive, or just using using those incients as excuses. As Bill Cosby pointed out, so do use that as an excuse and continue to play the victim. Others like Bill Cosby or Barak Obama don't make a big issue about it and know that white people are not to blame now/
///Rich
As jusual, you have gotten way off subject. The poll you started asked was the picture of Obama as a witch doctor racist. I said that it was racially inflamitor. I also said that most white people would not consider it racist, but most blacks would.
Then you started with all your different assinine scenerios about Bill Cosby, etc that are not even close to the same situation.
Now you are switching gears to freedom of speech! Yes, you have the right to your freedom of speach and you have the right to vent about what you don't like about minorities. You are even welcome to go to Harlem, NY or the Watts districk of Los Angeles with your photo of witch doctor Obama and invoke your freedom of speach and feel free to tell the residence there about your freedom of spech
While I was in the military, I served as a race relationsw faciilitator (I did not want to do it, but I was volunteered by somone who out-ranked me). Part of our traning was just on how blacks view these seeming harmless cartoons, jokes ,etc. Blacks don't like the images portrated by many early showbusiness blacks like Amos & Andy, Buckwheat, or any images of blacks in a slavery or servant role. Most white people find that hard to understand and just think that blacks are being overly sensitive, or just using using those incients as excuses. As Bill Cosby pointed out, so do use that as an excuse and continue to play the victim. Others like Bill Cosby or Barak Obama don't make a big issue about it and know that white people are not to blame now/
///Rich