President Obama

[Philly Mike]

My approach to stuff like this is simple.

Am I offended by the statement? No. What I'm offended by is the hypocrisy. If I said something similar about a black man, I'd be labeled. If I said something about a Democrat, I'd be called out on it.

I'm not insulted by the statement, I'm insulted by the lack of any response.

i guess i just don't understand the point of...
...not being offended personally...
...but being offended...
...that nobody else was offended personally.

that's the only reason someone would say something to begin with, right? and the lack of that is what you're riled up about? you're mad that no one else is mad, but if a bunch of other people were mad, you'd be fine?

HZ I agree with you 100%.

However I am also a bit offended. He said he prays for the day when blacks will not be asked to get in back ... um, hellooo? We just inaugurated our first Halfrican American, and you're still waiting for blacks to not be asked to get in back? And it's time for whites to start acting right? Really? How about everybody starts acting right, because in my humble opinion whites have been trying extremely hard to make up for what their ancestors may or may not have done.

/rant

you just solved hotzester's problem, but if i took what he (the old man) said as serious as you, i'd have stroked out by now. i honestly think it was supposed to be half-joking. he's a harmless babbling old man.

call me uncool, i just don't care enough to be mad over something some guy said about different skin colors. i don't hear "white" and think "me." i didn't grow up in an environment where that identity was drilled into my head. but i can't tell other people what they can and can't be offended by.

my approach is even simpler: if it doesn't affect me, i let it go. it's a lot easier on the blood pressure.

...i've already stopped caring.

I have to say i pretty much agree with dingdong here.

I am not black, but everyone is seriously trying to act like racism doesn't exist anymore but just the fact that this conversation is even happening shoots down the very point you are trying to make. I am only 27 and throughout my teens in high school and after, I have seen plenty of situations where racism against blacks has happened. I have grown up in a very mixed neighborhood and have seen it.

Only 2 years ago by were a friend lives I have seen 1 black family move into a neighborhood that was all white. In a matter of months I started to see a bunch of for sale signs, and heard neighbors complaining about them, when they were actually decent people.

I don't want to hear people speaking as if blacks aren't treated differently because a lot of times they still are.

The same goes for women, the very stats of women in the workplace and male equals making more money or the fact that there are few women higher up in companies, and things like this.

There is discrimination everywhere, weather it be for your race, age, sex, religion or sexual preference.