How Swede It Is

Too young my ass you people just don't get it.

Axekick,

It amazes me that you could be so judgemental about me. You don't know me. And yes, I do get it. I probably get it a lot more than you do. I've seen first hand, and been appalled by the aftermath of racist acts. So yes. I do get it.

If you think about it, what she said could actually be a good sign that there is a generation, now moving on from the ugliness of the past. Problem is, there are always a handful of folks waiting to react to every little thing and dredge up painful issues from a day when things were quite different. A day when there was no way the presidetial race we have today would be possible.

Yes, what she said was offensive. Did she mean it to be? I doubt it. Until we all learn to let such things go and not wear our feelings on our sleeves, nothing ever will really change. In fact, making a big deal about things like this really trivializes the real problems in the world.

Take the chip off your shoulder. Turn the other cheek. Learn to love. Anger, resentment and hate, only destroys the heart of the one in which these poisons reside.

A wise old man once told me, it takes a friend to be a friend.

David I don't want to know you and that doesn't matter you made a dumb ass statement she was smart enough to land a job like that she knew better your excuse was lame end of story!

Axe...there you go. Yes, Axe, we do get it. Remembering the holocaust is a lot different than having Jews rub our noses in it when we didn't have anything to do with it. The Jenna 6? I would stand by them all the way because I don't think they were treated fairly! And, in spite or your own anger and resentment, I would stand by you if you were being wronged! Nobody is making excuses for the anchor. We're just saying that to make it a racial fight is wrong. She flubbed up...period! Think back, Axe. You strike me as the kind of person that would use racial slurs if the opportunity arose. Do you? If you do, you are part of the problem. Think hard...have you ever said things with racial overtones? I have seen numerous occasions on this blog where you have done so. But I do forgive you for it. I do not hate you for it. But I do hope that you can realize that perpetuating that behavior is the real problem.

Unfortunately, this type of discussion needs to be had and it is because of the misguided hatred that is rampant in society. I think you made very appropriate points David. Axe, we are trying to help you understand that the anger that you have is dangerous. We are not discounting what happened in history, but we must move past it. Just because we do not use it to fuel the fire of hatred does not mean that we do not acknowledge it or appreciate the darkness of those times. We understand...we really do. But we must fix now, we cannot fix history.

Well, Flatch, unfortunately there is a lot of hooey about the anchor's words. She made a mistake. It definitely was NOT a good thing to say. But, because she said it, the boiler of Al Sharpton gets to kicking and then the race card gets steamed up and everybody gets on the racist bandwagon. I don't know about you, but I am tired of racism! Give me a break! Put down the fingers and say to yourself "boy! that was a crummy thing to say" and GET OVER IT! When the citizens of this country stop looking for petty, time-wasting, rediculous "words" to spend their efforts on, we may actually become, once again, the great nation we used to be! I am taking up sign language...end of story! I don't need the "political correctness" police to knock on my door. I talk the way I talk and I can assure you that if I have something to say in malice...you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is intent in my words, but don't go putting words in my mouth. I can do the same to almost every single person on this planet...that's what makes this whole thing so rediculous! "Don't do as I do, do as the politically correct tell you to do"!

For this lady to use that term even to think it is truly reprehensible. I dont hear that word used much anymore except in books or films. And she was laughing when she said it. How does one joke about that? It goes beyond racism to human rights and decency. I do believe if this lady made this comment about a white person we would not have heard much less talk about it. That would be sad.

eholder1 We all say things sometimes without thinking. We are human after all. This however is not an excuse for what she said. I believe the word lynch comes from a man W.Lynch in Virginia 1780. He was a vigilante who began to hang people. In our history many people of all races have faced a lynch mob. Can you imagine the fear they would feel knowing what was happening to them. Sometimes there was no law but sometimes there was and let it happen. It is a very dark and inhuman part of our history. She knew the meaning of the word, we all do. She would not have used it if she didnt. It does not matter if Tiger Woods says its no big deal because its about her and what she said. Maybe a major history lesson with photos of people who have been lynched would teach her about this gruesome act and to think about what she said. Im sorry if I carried on a little in this comment but it concerns me. For me its not about racism but human decency

No problem, angbar. It was a very unfortunate choice of words, without a doubt, on behalf of the anchor. But it should be over by now...it's not. I think that is where a lot of this blogging is coming from. I haven't been blogging long, so I don't know what blogs have been out here before. I just felt so strongly about Al Sharpton getting involved and keeping this whole thing slanted as a racist thing that I just had to speak. The anchor made a mistake...does it have to turn into "As The World Turns" or something? Give me a break! That's where my frustration lies...with Al Sharpton. I wish the black community would realize that he is taking us backward, not forward. Instead of progressing race relations, he is destroying them. HE should be the target of a campaign to take him out of the limelight so that we can learn to live with each other without wearing our hearts on our sleeves. I think he, and people like him, are the source of "political correctness". That's why we all have to walk on eggshells in this country and be accountable...except for he and his followers, of course!

If every word that came out of this big mouth was bad or hurt someone I would be under the jail, but now that I am a minister guess what I still make a mistake, not as bad but it does happen, THANK GOD THAT HE FOR GIVES ME.