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YOu may be right, but we aren't parsing our words here as carefully as we should be if we were running for president. Tex is just some schlub that like you and me bangs out some psots between doing other things in ihis work day and probabyl, like you and me, doens't give much thought to the phrasing of all of his comments. Like I said, I suppose you can see rascism in the statement on its face, I just don't think it was intended.
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Tex, saying "I like blacks [Chinese, Hispanics, whatever, fill in the blank] who have high morals and are hard working" is one of the most infamous and cliched racist comments that can possibly be made, apart from just hurling an epithet at them. The fact that you are blind to it just reinforces my point. In this day and age this statement is most often made jokingly in parody of an ignoramus or bigot.
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But it is most emphaticallly wrong to say something that implies blacks or Hispanics or whatever race or ethnic group are by and large deficit relative to the rest of us. This has nothing to do with liberals or conservatives. Surely you are smart enough to see the distinction. Thanks for helping me to drive the point home.
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