How come you're the only one who seems upset over this?
-Rudey
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Originally posted by xo_kathy
Please don't chastise me for mis-interpreting words when you did the exact same thing. I never called Bush a racist. I simply said the President of the United States should know enough not to make sweeping generalizations about people of a certain skin color.
Also, President Bush did not marry a Hispanic woman. Nor did he have any choice in the matter that his brother did or that he would gain Hispanic nieces and nephews from the situation. Personally, your justification doesn't work for me because he didn't choose for them to be part of his family. And I say that because I'm sure there are members of my very Caucasian family who have said a not so nice thing or two about Latins before I ever brought home my fiance. Just because I'm not a racist doesn't mean members of my family can't be.
Of course not! Again, thank you for completely misconstruing my words. As I said, I was pointing out that your idea that Bush couldn't say something racially insensitive because he has Hispanic family members holds about as much truth to me as completely closed-minded people who think it's ok to use the N-word or other such racially insensitive phrases simply because they "have a close friend whose black". It's an excuse that doesn't fly.
Again, what I said had NOTHING to do with the well-educated Southern members of this board. What I said was in reference to the President of the United States using the term "brown-skinned" - it's simply inappropriate.
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