Ok, so I asked one of my white lib buddies about what he saw there, what his perspective was. Here's the start of our exchange:
"Hey, Rusty! Been a while. Hope all is well. I didn't want to post this, but I would appreciate your thoughts on it. I see this as incredibly racist. What kind of furor would there be over a "Caucasians for (whomever)" site? What's your take?"
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"It is so interesting how people can see the same item so differently. I didn't take that as racist at all. No more so than Martin Luther King Day, or Black History Month. They are a minority after all, and they all share the horribly sad legacy of having been enslaved for 400 years, so I don't find it strange at all that they would tend to stick together and try to build their power base as a group. And the fact is, this President is, unbelievably, an African American. Even though he was brought up by his white parent, and his father never experienced overt racism such as we see here on a daily basis, he does share their genetic makeup..."
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"Now see, that's an interesting perspective. I see that as perpetuating racism, trying to stick together as a group. When my Grandparents came here from Italy, they were adamant about not being considered "Italian" or hyphenated in any way. They said we are AMERICANS now, and we must be that. The old "melting pot." These folks refuse to melt; I see that as a negative, segregist thought path that won't help anything."
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"Right, and I applaud them for that. BTW, I would have thought Douchette was a French name. There is one teeny little difference. Your ancestors had the choice to come here. These guys were chained naked like sardines into the hold of a ship where they had to live in their own excrement and vomit for several weeks. Many of them died on the way. In fact, the reason that so many of them today have high blood pressure problems is that the ones who survived were the ones who could store more salt in their bloodstream on the long journey. Try to put yourself in their shoes. Read about their experience. I've got a lot of sympathy for them. Besides, people who invented jazz and the blues can't be all bad..."
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lol... yeah, but NONE of those people are still alive. The ones here are here by choice. Don't think any of them were keelhauled...
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Wow. Now THAT'S racist... LOL
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No, that's a fact.