Where's Waldo?

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Where's Waldo? And by that I mean, find the black people at Glen Beck's Rally.



It's a fun game and you can play it with all the photos I found on http://dc.about.com/od/protestsandrallies/ss/Glen-Beck-Rally-Pictures.htm

In case you need a clue, there is one gentleman in the upper left-center wearing a badge, presumably telling the white woman where to find the restroom.

[Edited for the benefit of Htpcl]

Comments

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

No it isn't, except under the most naive and sophomoric definition of racism.

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

My bad. You're not a racist, you're a racialist.

racialist - An emphasis on race or racial considerations, as in determining policy or interpreting events. [Source] (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/racialist)

Your argument is that because there weren't as many people of color at Beck's event as were at Sharpton's, then Beck is a racist.

The transcript for the ENTIRE Beck rally is here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295231-1
If you could go through it and point out specific points of clear racism, your argument would be valid. Otherwise, you're just talking out of your ass.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

I never said anything about Sharpton's event. Please read some of my other responses to get a whiff of the actual point.

This is a group of almost exclusively white people saying "We want to take our country back." Suppose it had been a group of almost exclusively native American people saying "We want to take America back."

[whoasksfinds.livejournal.com]

Suppose it had been a group of almost exclusively native American people saying "We want to take America back."

if they carried the same message as Beck's rally, what difference would it make?

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

What is the message behind the statement? You took something from me and I'm now getting it back from you.

[whoasksfinds.livejournal.com]

you apparently don't understand the message of beck's rally. did you even watch it?

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Some. I didn't want to waste three hours of my life in church.

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

Some being what? 5 minutes?

It's ignorant to speak about something you know little to nothing about.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Yeah, whatever.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

BTW, I am not a racialist either. The freedictionary definition is incomplete.

[If you could go through it and point out specific points of clear racism, your argument would be valid.]

Racism is much more than what people say. The fact that you think a nearly exclusively white crowd with a leader who talks of reclaiming the civil rights movement (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0826/glenn-beck-dc-rally-reclaim-civil-rights-movement/) has nothing to do with race, for example.

And no thanks, I won't read the full transcript, if I wanted to go to church, I'd have gone to church today.

[whoasksfinds.livejournal.com]

funny that MLK's niece, also spoke at the rally. OMG RACISM!!!!

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Oh really? MLK's niece spoke at the rally? And they had black performers? I guess that because a black family moved into my neighborhood two blocks away it proves that I live in an integrated neighborhood. I can't be racist, I like gospel music.

[whoasksfinds.livejournal.com]

a bunch of people get together to talk about white unity, and their guest speakers include MLK's niece, a black preacher, and an athlete from the Domincan Republic. They also include snippets from MLK's famous speech in the rally.

yes, you are incredibly ignorant and desperate.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

I bet some of your best friends are black. Amirite?

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are being a racialist. You're trying to point out the lack of people of color at Beck's rally somehow speaks about the race relations of the entire group in attendance - putting emphasis on race to interpret the event.

One of the great points Glenn Beck made is that MLK said people should be judged by their character and not the color of their skin. That's what he means when he talks about "reclaiming civil rights". Look up the definition of term. It's not even about color! It's the right to equal treatment of ALL people.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Equal treatment certainly is not practiced now. Ignoring race perpetuates unequal treatment.

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

Actually, ignoring race means treating people for who they are and what they do, not the color of their skin. Should we forget how people have been treated in the past? Absolutely not! But we need to move to a point where people are colorblind to race. Continually pointing it out doesn't do that.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Being colorblind is perhaps a worthy future goal but is absolutely the wrong way to go when you have a rigged system in place. You can afford to be colorblind only if you aren't on the business end of that system. So I would agree with you if racism were not presently pernicious. Until then, being colorblind is just a rationalization for doing nothing.

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

Agreed. And I already made the point clear that color should be ignored but not actions. I'm glad we see eye to eye.