Maybe he is not racist. But I can certainly understand why some would hold him suspect. Here is an exchange between Ken and I that I think is but one example of why some might think he at least privately harbors racist sentiments:
From Ken: The cost of a reparations debate will be the emergence of a new racism aimed at blacks, and, most likely, a race war, which the blacks will lose, by a very wide margin.
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My Response: This is old, conventional thought and it is just such thought that signals the end of the American Empire. Americans are not supple enough in mind to address the reality of our times. Notions such as "race wars" against blacks where blacks "lose" and whites "win" are foolishness and even five years from now it will be even more apparent how foolish such notions are.
The minute we turn against blacks, we signal to the world, to Indians, Asians, Hispanics, Whites, Blacks and a host of others, that we are the enemy. And all our weaponry will be worthless because we'd have to kill ourselves to get anything done.
Either we are Americans or not, and if not then it is just over. Better to work for real reparations than persist in an "us against them" nation while our enemies infiltrate us with bombs and bioweapons.
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From Ken: Don't fool yourself thinking that PC has changed ANYTHING, much less human nature:
A serious, as opposed to a marginal, movement by the left to promote reparations would, first of all, destroy what was remaining of the left. If a large majority of blacks were seen to be fanatically committed to reparations, the rise in various white factions would be very rapid, and result in either a race war or a new oppression far worse than Jim Crow.
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My Response: And don't fool yourself into thinking that blacks ain't us. If a race war ensues here in America, there will be no America.
From Ken: Very well then. There will never be trust and peace as long as that is the general belief, and as long as the elephant exists. Increasingly those who are not the elephant will despairingly wish to bring all of the crap down. No amount of weaponry will protect the elephant. It is just a matter of time, but that elephant is as good as nuked already. It cannot live comfortably while actually sleeping with a hostile bedmate.
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From Ken: Sorry again. The relationship is blacks and everyone else. It's the elephant that gets bigger-and more diverse. And, politically, the black influence is waning.
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Now that last statement is true concerning the growing diversity of the elephant. But what Ken had earlier in the exchange maintained by implication is that the elephant is really comprised of “various white factions” who, should blacks intensely lobby for reparations, would join hands to completely eliminate all blacks from America or at the very least oppress them worse than during Jim Crow. And the idea does not repulse him. He seems to present this as a legitimate state of affairs for blacks.
Well it is by no means legitimate and blacks know it. Heck, I don’t even agree with monetary reparations and yet I know it is illegitimate. Blacks constantly maintain that they must live in this illegitimate status and we really don’t listen to them. Ken further supports that they indeed do live under an un-American sword of Damocles. It is because of this status that these folks want reparations. They claim that no matter what happens, they will never get a fair shake in America as a group, that while whites will allow a relative few blacks to find success as a way to prove blacks are free, should blacks engage in any legitimate enterprise to raise the entire group whites will seek to eliminate all blacks. Perhaps this is true because Jews have come to America and raised themselves by legitimate means and we are hearing not a few whites now spitting hatred against them, even here on these forums. If it is true, then yall can just count me out. I am not one of you and I no longer love America. When the time comes I will actually help take her down if I get the chance because she does not deserve to exist.
I don’t agree with monetary reparations for slavery, but should blacks petition our system for them and convince America that they are due, then as an American I could never agree to kill the blacks in response. Their effort of petition would be legitimate and most American. If anything, I would petition government to overthrow the reparations.
The idea that some Americans cannot lobby in our country as others do, but must live under the severe threat of other Americans repulses me. It should repulse all real Americans because that is what our ideals are all about. Our ideals and government system are what makes us one people out of many. But Ken seems to have lost this fact and it does not seem to matter to him that some 40 million Americans live amongst such vipers that they can be literally killed merely for advancing an idea via legitimate means.
Maybe he is not a racist. I really don’t know. But his ideas, including his fantasy that slave-owners are better than liberals and his apparent wish to have liberals extinguished with the blacks, cause me serious doubt. His ideas are definitely just not American.
They are calling me for dinner. But I hafta say to the liberal Americans here that though I do not agree with your ideas, I am glad you are here. I will fight against you as best I can. But I hope you folks keep fighting too. Never give up! Do not allow the political right to take away your right to press for your beliefs. And we can never allow you to take away our right to press for ours. It very well may be the case that we have many barbarians here who would slaughter an entire group of people merely for exercising their American right. I am glad you liberals exist to keep us in check. Keep at it and never ever give up – ever. We depend upon you fokes.
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