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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (801032)8/12/2014 1:31:15 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1572448
 
George Wallace was a segregationist. That does not mean he was a racist. At that point in time, almost everyone in the South was segregationist. They are two different things, which was my point.

>> Go call a black man the "N-word", then ask HIM if it's racist

Some would surely claim that it is, just as the OJ jury believed Mark Fuhrman's use of the term somehow justified letting OJ off with slashing the throats, almost beheading, two white people.

Yet, the acquittal of OJ was a far more racist act than use of that language. That was REAL racism, not merely a poor choice of a hurtful word.
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