Chicago Tribune op ed statement

[ralph]

bump !!

[GFB]

Last sentences sum it up:
nd if you stayed silent, if you made excuses, if you tried to fool yourself into believing this is appropriate presidential behavior, if you let it slide because this presidency might somehow line your pocketbook, then you will be remembered as complicit, as one who stood by and let America’s decency get dragged through the mud.

And if you laughed, or if you smiled, or if you nodded your head in agreement, you will be remembered just as Trump will: as a racist, a fool and an absolute embarrassment.

This is really lame.

And pretty much anytime you find yourself calling everyone a racist that doesn't think
Ike you, or anytime someone criticizes a black person, or identifies a country as a complete toilet that happens to be the home of mostly black people...you're pretty much out to lunch..and putting yourself in a position that just because you're afraid YOU might get tagged a racist if you criticize a black person, you choose to tag others the same way.

Many others don't have those hang up.

[ralph]

Last sentences sum it up:
nd if you stayed silent, if you made excuses, if you tried to fool yourself into believing this is appropriate presidential behavior, if you let it slide because this presidency might somehow line your pocketbook, then you will be remembered as complicit, as one who stood by and let America’s decency get dragged through the mud.

And if you laughed, or if you smiled, or if you nodded your head in agreement, you will be remembered just as Trump will: as a racist, a fool and an absolute embarrassment.

This is really lame.

And pretty much anytime you find yourself calling everyone a racist that doesn't think
Ike you, or anytime someone criticizes a black person, or identifies a country as a complete toilet that happens to be the home of mostly black people...you're pretty much out to lunch..and putting yourself in a position that just because you're afraid YOU might get tagged a racist if you criticize a black person, you choose to tag others the same way.

Many others don't have those hang up.

------------------------------------ or are hopefully and thankfully growing out of those hangups .

[GFB]

Last sentences sum it up:
nd if you stayed silent, if you made excuses, if you tried to fool yourself into believing this is appropriate presidential behavior, if you let it slide because this presidency might somehow line your pocketbook, then you will be remembered as complicit, as one who stood by and let America’s decency get dragged through the mud.

And if you laughed, or if you smiled, or if you nodded your head in agreement, you will be remembered just as Trump will: as a racist, a fool and an absolute embarrassment.

This is really lame.

And pretty much anytime you find yourself calling everyone a racist that doesn't think
Ike you, or anytime someone criticizes a black person, or identifies a country as a complete toilet that happens to be the home of mostly black people...you're pretty much out to lunch..and putting yourself in a position that just because you're afraid YOU might get tagged a racist if you criticize a black person, you choose to tag others the same way.

Many others don't have those hang up.

------------------------------------ or are hopefully and thankfully growing out of those hangups .

I never had them.

If I believe someone is a scumbag, I call them a scumbag.

And if all the scumbags in the world happened to be black..that wouldn't change anything.

[rusty]

I personally don't care if he said it or not, other than setting a bad example for kids...and some adults.

But if you're going to say it, own it.
Don't wimp out when people call you on it. Chicken sh**t.

(Notice my well placed use of asterisks so nobody will know what I'm actually saying)