Was this a Racial Slur?

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my beloved town of Port Jefferson is out to ban bikes from the town. this "inc. village" down by the water which is a destination spot in summer has pressured the town police to ticket bikes for aftermarket pipes, relocated license plates, aftermarket tailights [undertails], and for the harley...
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RedBull said:

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my beloved town of Port Jefferson is out to ban bikes from the town. this "inc. village" down by the water which is a destination spot in summer has pressured the town police to ticket bikes for aftermarket pipes, relocated license plates, aftermarket tailights [undertails], and for the harley...
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What's crazy is police are under strict scrutiny pretty much at all times either by citizens, camera crews or their own body cameras....I really don't know what would inspire them to act like this knowing full well they are under the microscope at all times....
 
It only takes one person to enact change. Be the person. Never give in, never give up. If enough people would be the one person, eventually the racists would have no one left to fight and the healing can begin.

Of course this is just the ramblings of an old man. Take from it what you paid for it.

Pie
 
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Yellow09 said:
What's crazy is police are under strict scrutiny pretty much at all times either by citizens, camera crews or their own body cameras....I really don't know what would inspire them to act like this knowing full well they are under the microscope at all times....
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It's really quite simple, they know they're likely to get away with it. I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it: the few bad ones make the rest look bad as well. Until the good cops (which I truly believe most are) start standing up for what's right instead of aligning themselves with their bad fellow officers, this will continue.
 
Mr Brown said:
Reverse discrimination is a funny term, often used disparagingly by those on the right to refer to affirmative action policies with which they don't agree. However, it's very use implies acknowledgement of previous discrimination, and the need to set things right.
So, tell me, do you think that the 60 or so years of these policies, policies which have been vigorously fought against in just about every way, have been enough to return things to a state of equilibrium given the 400 years of discrimination prior? I don't. And I think that if you were on the short end of that exchange you wouldn't either.
So yes, I used the past tense in reference to the legal type of discrimination, but it continues today in extra-legal forms. For example, did you know that a white man with a felony conviction are twice as likely to get a callback for a job interview than a black man with a clean record? I think there a clear indication that work remains to be done, that racial discrimination is still alive and well.
It really doesn't matter whether you agree or not, your agreement is not needed to establish that racism still affects the US in many different ways. One could take the fact that racial discrimination is no longer the law of the land as progress I suppose, but I have a hard time feeling gratitude for work towards fixing something which should never have occurred to begin with, something that's existence is denied by many people (of which you are one), and which literally costs the lives and freedom of Americans. Every. Damn. Day.
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Again, you throw that BS Chip on your shoulder at me again. Have I once 'denied' that it didn't and still doesn't exist in some ways? If I did, SHOW ME. Again, don't put words in my mouth. You call it 'affirmative action', yet you and I both know that discrimination is discrimination. I'm sick and tired of people playing the race card all the time; again, it's what holds the black community back. To point back to the OP of this thread, I don't think ANYONE should be using derogatory language to ANYONE.

Also, someone in here again thru the Obama race card. Bovine Scatology. I didn't like Obama because of the color of his skin, I disliked him for his POLITICS.
 
skydivr said:
Also, someone in here again thru the Obama race card. Bovine Scatology. I didn't like Obama because of the color of his skin, I disliked him for his POLITICS.
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I wasn't talking about you specifically skydivr. I've seen and heard way to much and firmly believe that there is a portion of the population that disliked him because of his race and used his moderately liberal leaning politics as a smoke screen for their racism.
 
skydivr said:
Again, you throw that BS Chip on your shoulder at me again. Have I once 'denied' that it didn't and still doesn't exist in some ways? If I did, SHOW ME. Again, don't put words in my mouth. You call it 'affirmative action', yet you and I both know that discrimination is discrimination. I'm sick and tired of people playing the race card all the time; again, it's what holds the black community back. To point back to the OP of this thread, I don't think ANYONE should be using derogatory language to ANYONE.

Also, someone in here again thru the Obama race card. Bovine Scatology. I didn't like Obama because of the color of his skin, I disliked him for his POLITICS.
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Your logic only works if you think like an animal. Systematic racism is a documented and quantifiable reality. That's what is holding black people back. Minorities who grow up in better schools and conditions do as well or better than whites to a point, then they are stopped. Blacks who commit the same crimes as white people are far more likely to receive a heavier sentence than whites for the same crime with similar circumstances. Again all facts. I always laugh when the people who enslaved people for hundreds of years and then ran an oppression racket that is still at work today call "you played the race card"! Really?

I believe that there are 25% of the whites who are anti-American animals who want to take the country down. They are basically the confederates who have never gone away. Most people just want to live their lives and not have to deal with the complexities of everyone's complaints about what's fair or not. I get that but in that mode of thinking you can't allow yourself to become a facilitator for that 25% that really are the enemy of a civilized society.
 
I have done a little research and a few courses while serving and it was found racism is deep seated and generationally developed.

Racism is prevalent in these times and always near the surface-look at how fast it came to the surface in light of Covid 19 where blame went to China...even people who are multiple generations born in the US and have never been to China nor speak their language have suffered from racism as a result.

9/11 happened and all of a sudden, anyone of middle eastern decent were subjected to racism.

There were people of American ancestry who actively went to foreign lands, captured and chained people to bring back to the States to be used as slave labor. These people were abused and humiliated for generations upon generations and even after being freed were never really free. They fought and died in many wars wearing an American uniform and when they returned home they were subjected to more racism...even to this day, they are racially profiled by many.

When working with the military and spending time in the US, there were times when a noticeable change came over a place when one of our black soldiers walked into a restaurant or store, it was almost like we could feel the uneasiness of the staff and patrons...

Sadly it would be a pipe dream to think racism could ever be a thing of the past, there will always be some form of racism. I personally don't tolerate it but I am but one small voice among billions.
 
I think it will change and is changing. Young people are amazingly raceless. They are also amazingly socialists but nobody's perfect, Lol! I think that 25% works hard to whip people up and control the collective memory of history to weaponize hate. I have to tell black friends and family to remember that just 12 years ago white people put Obama in office, twice. If every Black voted for him it would not have been enough to win. So if you can keep people in their normal mode, they are generally very fair and open minded. What we see now is that a certain part of the population is working very hard to keep people thinking like animals, which is tribal, aggressive, possessive, and militant. Face it, if you are a minority, which White Supremacists in fact are, you have to get the majority to side with you even against their own best wishes. The bottom line is we will all be much better off without racism (including the racism of immigration), and much richer too.
 
skydivr said:
Again, you throw that BS Chip on your shoulder at me again. Have I once 'denied' that it didn't and still doesn't exist in some ways? If I did, SHOW ME. Again, don't put words in my mouth. You call it 'affirmative action', yet you and I both know that discrimination is discrimination. I'm sick and tired of people playing the race card all the time; again, it's what holds the black community back. To point back to the OP of this thread, I don't think ANYONE should be using derogatory language to ANYONE.

Also, someone in here again thru the Obama race card. Bovine Scatology. I didn't like Obama because of the color of his skin, I disliked him for his POLITICS.
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I think you're getting me confused with someone else. No chip on my shoulder, just an accounting of history. I asked a question, that's not putting words in your mouth.
I agreed that the word should be put to rest, I don't use it.
Of course affirmative action is discrimination, nothing reverse about it. It's discrimination put in place to right a wrong.
You're sick and tired of people (by which you mean black people, right?) playing the race card all the time? Well, imagine how sick and tired black people must be of the race card being played by white people. It's been happening since the 1600's, and you're sick and tired after 60 years? Am I supposed to feel sorry for you that after almost 400 years of legal discrimination by white people against blacks, you're upset about the shoe being on the other foot? Cry me an effing river.
Since you feel that affirmative action is not an acceptable means by which to try and overcome past Injustices, what do you suggest should be done?
There is obvious racial animus directed towards Obama, I wasn't speaking about you specifically, but since you brought up the fact that your dislike of him was political, what was the issue?
 
Watched a good documentary show on the "Red Tails" this morning...

In one part of it a bomber crash landed at the field where the Red Tails operated out of in Italy..they interviewed one of the surviving bomber crew and he said they were incredulous seeing all the black people running the airfield.

He was from somewhere in the northern states and this was the first encounter with a black person he ever had....he was delightfully surprised at how nice they all were and how they went out of their way to make sure the bomber crew was looked after.


Then saw this on the news....at least there was outrage over it...

 
Klutch556 said:
Getting butt hurt over words is ignorant and a waste of time and energy.
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Depends on the person and the words being used...some words can hurt as much as any weapon.

Look at how many people have committed suicide just from verbal bullying.
 
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