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Racism Double-Standards 101

Achilles3 Wrote: Jan 11, 2010 3:26 PM
..and, of course, the champions of using phony accents when needed, that part of the comment getting the attention on CNN at the moment, were Bill and Hillary. I miss those moments of comedy and ham acting.
What is so wrong with this,though,when we've had generations of UK people cultivating an upper crust accent and announcers in the U.S. hired because of their "cultivated" UK accent? Chritiane Amanpour has one.
In the end it is apparent and we are not duped but merely class the speakers as "not sincere".

These days, it’s difficult for normal people to determine what counts as a racist remark and what doesn’t. (For instance, the preferred PC term for a non-white individual is “person of color,” but if you accidentally transpose the words and say “colored person,” you’re racist.) Therefore, in the wake of the Harry Reid flap, I’ve decided to provide my readers with a handy racist vs. not-racist chart.

Not racist: Reid saying Barack Obama was an appealing black candidate because of his “light skin” and his lack of a “negro dialect.” Fellow Democrats have rallied around him, and Obama accepted Reid’s...

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