CNN: Americans all Racists Says Poll
For creating a story out of nothing and then finger pointing at US society and saying how evil it is, this Dec. 12th CNN story takes the cake. In “Poll: Most Americans see lingering racism — in others”, not only is a somewhat leading poll cited as evidence that America is still rife with racism, but CNN uses comments emailed to them by their viewers as some sort of follow up proof for it!
Very scientific, I know. After all, CNN used science via the Internet and phone lines to conduct this farcical poll, I suppose.
(CNN) — Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll.
But few Americans of either race — about one out of eight — consider themselves racist.
And experts say racism has evolved from the days of Jim Crow to the point that people may not even recognize it in themselves.
How convenient that those “experts” can see racism where no one else can. So, racism is everywhere, but we can’t see it, don’t understand it as racism, nor do we see any examples of it, but only “feel” it in others. The perfect “proof” to shore up Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for decades to come.
The “experts” that CNN dredged up really went to town on this “poll”, too.
University of Connecticut professor Jack Dovidio, who has researched racism for more than 30 years, estimates up to 80 percent of white Americans have racist feelings they may not even recognize.
“We’ve reached a point that racism is like a virus that has mutated into a new form that we don’t recognize,” Dovidio said.
He added that 21st-century racism is different from that of the past.
“Contemporary racism is not conscious, and it is not accompanied by dislike, so it gets expressed in indirect, subtle ways,” he said.
That “stealth” discrimination reveals itself in many different situations.
Curiously enough, “researchers” once thought that gold could be created from lead via alchemy, too! These “racism” experts are little different than the sooth-sayers and shamans who pranced around countless primitive campfires with their rattles shaking as they talk in tongues. All “saw” things no one else could and found gullible benefactors to pay them for their visions. The “social sciences” are barely better than cave paintings.
But, more amusing than these supposed experts telling us how we are all secret racists — so secret we don’t even realize it ourselves — is the interesting reliance on viewer’s emails that CNN used to add further “proof” to their shaman’s tale.
“Racism here is quite subtle,” e-mailed CNN.com reader Blair William, originally from Trinidad, who now lives in Lexington, South Carolina.
The scintillating expertise is overwhelming there.
“I am a firm believer that racism is rampant in the United States,” wrote another CNN.com reader, Mark Boyle, of Muncie, Indiana.
Mr. Boyle of Muncie, Indiana is no doubt a learned and well-known observer of American society.
And, not to be outdone by the common folk, CNN pulled in the trenchant commentary from New York Times writer Calvn Sims who, we are told, “recently wrote about his experiences in the city”.
“If a cab passes you by, obviously it is frustrating, it’s degrading and it’s just really confusing, because this is akin to being in the South and being refused service at a lunch counter, which is what happened in the ’60s and ’70s,” he said.
I hope not too many Americans fall for this tripe as serious commentary or scientific study of American society. I also hope that this kind of negative nonsense doesn’t turn too many away from the fact that ours is one of the most inclusive societies in the world and that people of every nationality and race can find more opportunity here in the USA than in any other nation.
… and I can find a LOT of emailers to back THAT up!
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December 13th, 2006 at 11:12 am
I am a white man, actually a cajun who had his heritage and language alienated from him, I married a white woman.
That must be where I am racist.
I guess the most racist thing that we ever did was we had … now stop the presses… white children!
I felt so bad about it (NOT!) that after the divorce I decided that all Itallian women are of the devil.
Now I love a Black Woman and an African American woman (her father is actually from Africa, but she has moved on). Anyway…
I suppose I am still a racist because I am an exploiter of black women if we do not have children.
If we do have children will I still be a racist?
Someone help me identify the solution to my problem (which is only imagined because someone has to fill the gap in these people’s numbers so why not me.)
Oh silly me. I see the error of my ways. I should have only let a black man impregnate my white wife.
If I marry the black woman I will do likewise just to make doubly sure I have not behaved in a racist manner.
Then I will definitely not be a racist.
Geeeez!
December 13th, 2006 at 11:30 am
The USA used to be a predominantly white country – resulting in labels of it being a “white supremicist” state. The majority of people (as claimed by the 2005 census update), 74.9%, are still white. And, remarkably, the majority of seats in congress are held by white people, the majority of top and upper level management positions held in business and academia are held by white people. Because of this “imbalance” (?) ALL AMERICANS are labeled as ‘racist’.
Diversity programs, which promote basically ANYTHING BUT white ‘normal’ people, in business and academia is driving the concept that there is something wrong with being white.
There isn’t. White people wrote the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, which, incidentally gives minority people their “right” to complain that whites are racist and there are too many of them.
If we could turn the clock back 200+ years and remove from history, these imaginative documents, where would we be today?
White people have NOTHING to be ashamed of.
December 13th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Can someone explain why a taxi driver from Asia passes up a black man in the city and it is because the white man is racist?
Please all you who think america is a racist country, go live somewhere else for a year or two and you will find that we are not a racist country at all.
Look at India with there chaste system, still existing and still dicriminatory. Go to africa and see black on black racism. Go to japan, see the japanese be very racist to koreans and chinese.
The only racist part of me is my hatred of those who hate my country so much they say these stupid things about us.
December 13th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Junk science at it’s best. Too bad the average moron buys it buy the bail and swallows by the pound. When will they recognize it’s never exited the other end?!
Research–even in the relatively firm sciences–at universities is corrupt. I know. I worked in cancer research for three years. In order to get the NIH moolah your research must seek to show how beneficial the billion-dollar a year poison (chemo) industry is (in the face of considerable evidence to the contraty) and include a description on how you will assure that your participants hail from the “undeserving” (of cancer) segments of society.
Yes, racism is alive and thriving in this country because it is largely sponsored by the government.
And idiots donate their time, money, and effort by the truckload to interlocking web of corrupt organizations.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:11 am
After seeing excepts from the Koran and the Talmud, one can see that racism isn’t just an American problem nor is it something new.
I grew up in the military and the black and white racism wasn’t nearly as discernable as the enlisted versus commissioned was. In fact, black and white differences were minimized in a society where everyone is making about the same amount of money.
Isn’t being leary of someone from a different culture a natural reaction based primarily on the need to feel safe and secure? It might not have been the case if it weren’t for the massive amounts of evidence that other cultures promote their culture as being superior and ours inferior. Some of these cultures equate us to being non-human and that our lives mean nothing. I guess I must be a racist because keeping an eye on people who don’t value my life seems like a safe, sane and sensible position.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Sheesh, Roger, a few more paragraghs and you may have really started to sound like a white supremacist. You have some real pent-up anger there, just below the surface, waiting to escape its restraints.
December 14th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Foghorn,
Did I write the truth?
“Diversity programs, which promote basically ANYTHING BUT white ‘normal’ people, in business and academia is DRIVING the concept that there is something wrong with being white.”
By giving money for education and other subsidies, and jobs to “ANYBODY BUT WHITE” people, I believe is wrong and fundamentally racist.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
You know, when the vast majority of the people in a society are being dicriminated against, it could be very bad for those who are the minority once the majority gets fed up. Just a thought…
December 14th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
“By giving money for education and other subsidies, and jobs to “ANYBODY BUT WHITE†people, I believe is wrong and fundamentally racist.”
Yep, it does indeed appear that our society is racist since it gives preferential treatment to certain segments of our society. I guess that CNN story was right after all…