"I think myself an enlightened person but I catch myself doing it some times."
Leads me to wonder the value you bring to any alliance. Something you clearly believe passionately is racist language you catch yourself still using? Maybe more time in a mirror rather than preaching to those who may well be less guilty of overt transgressions than you admit to.
Not one person has defended using racist terms. NO ONE.
In fact, the discussion has been counterproductive to your cause. I used to dismiss Trump supporters who claim "the left" (meaning anyone who opposes Trump) find racism in every nook and cranny. I now think they have at least a partial point.
You are on the verge of asserting that every instance of a phrase that includes the word "black" in a negative connotation is by definition racist. Is that what you mean?
Not one person here has defended the use of racist language.
No the real problem is willful blindness and an attempt to defend the indefensible. When I see that I have wonder the value of such an alliance.
I started this with a "benefit of the doubt" thus the term fossil.
Now I wonder.
"I think myself an enlightened person but I catch myself doing it some times."
Leads me to wonder the value you bring to any alliance. Something you clearly believe passionately is racist language you catch yourself still using? Maybe more time in a mirror rather than preaching to those who may well be less guilty of overt transgressions than you admit to.
really? lol
As I have said else where I've been looking at that mirror since I was a child old enough to understand morality.
You and others want to defend using those terms go ahead, it is your soul.
Not one person has defended using racist terms. NO ONE.
In fact, the discussion has been counterproductive to your cause. I used to dismiss Trump supporters who claim "the left" (meaning anyone who opposes Trump) find racism in every nook and cranny. I now think they have at least a partial point.
You are on the verge of asserting that every instance of a phrase that includes the word "black" in a negative connotation is by definition racist. Is that what you mean?
Not one person here has defended the use of racist language.