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Can you be more ambiguous? And, am I obligated to comment on every subject to your satisfaction, whether it captures my attention or not?

I am forced to stand up to your ass hattery and present you with facts.

"My side" is the right, specifically the libertarians. Any more insinuation that I'm part of the left and I may have to throw one of your unsavory quotes into my signature, the unofficial USC FightOn247 wall of shame.

You say:

"the mainstream right is by and large bereft of racism and does an excellent job of policing its own"

Really?

"At a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa on Sunday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum singled out blacks as being recipients of assistance through federal benefit programs, telling a mostly-white audience he doesn't want to "make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money."

Don't believe me? Lib media conspiracy? Link included below, with video on that page.

Santorum then went on to win the state and watch his campaign surge to the top of national polls.

You then have Newt Gingrich telling blacks to "demand paychecks not food stamps." Legitimate point? Sure. Phrased wrong? Absolutely

Alongside both of the candidates above standing by as Obama is called a Muslim in questions from their audience, it really doesnt look good. When the man vying for the position to be the leader of the free world says things like "it is not my place to correct her that Obama is not a Muslim" it shows no spine in the face of an ugly, supposed fringe.

As far as the mainstream left goes, no, only you believe they are overflowing with racism. I will say redistribution of wealth is an ugly policy that hurts blacks, but that isn't their intent and calling it racist is wildly partisan.

I think you are throwing around the term racism far too loosely. Racism is not an issue on the right.

I'm really upset, because the young man below could look like my son if I had one.

One could say the same about the right and voting rights.

I consider this a good definition of racism: Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief.

I consider racism a problem for both sides. I believe that there is less tolerance for it on the left though. When there is a racist remark from someone on the left, I expect people on the left to speak out. When I hear a racist comment on the right, I expect those on the right to defend the comment instead of denouncing it. It is usually indirectly (e.g. [insert famous perons on the left] once said: "[insert racist comment]."

Look at the National Review. It finally did the right thing and fired Derbyshire. Why did it take so long? He admitted that he is a racist in 2003. Why wait for the outrageous article to be published?

What hypocrisy? You keep accusing me of things, but you fail continually to point out precisely what I've done that would ever remotely qualify as such. You seem to be long on accusations but extremely short on facts or examples.

Keyser, this is Morethanafan, Morethanafan, meet Keyser...

O.K. that's three!

You are out!

First Obama's statements related to how the situation personally effected him. Looking at his children Martin would likely look like his child.

The second issue comes about in relationship to the disposability of young black males and their treatment within this culture. As I have often stated that if there is any moment when Obama would forget he was black, you can be Goddamn Sure he will be reminded of it quickly!

Santorum's claim that he used the word "Bla" is bullshit. People know where he was going with this and Gingrich was doing the same thing with his "Food Stamp" President remark. (There were more people on Food stamps under GWB then Obama!)

“If the NAACP invites me, I’ll go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.”

Really Newt?

Since more whites are on food stamps then blacks and since more people who think like him are on welfare I would suggest he take his narrow ass out and talk to his own constituent base first and tell them to go to work.

Stephen Colbert did a beautiful job of dealing with Santorum's Bla problem.

"Since Rick Santorum’s photo finish in Iowa, Republican voters are finally starting to listen to him bring the “true, hot and heavy and strictly missionary,” Stephen Colbert said Monday.

Like this line: Santorum a little more than a week ago said he doesn’t want to make “bla- people’s” lives better by giving them someone else’s money. Hmm, what was that? Santorum is “pretty confident” he didn’t say black. He says he started to say a word and then “blah” came out.

Colbert totally understands. “Sometimes the tongue gets lazy,” he said. “Probably because it’s Meixca … people.” And don’t trust the media, he added, because it’s controlled by the “jewwwwws … people.”

“Now that might seem anti-semitic, but I’m pretty confident I didn’t say Jews,” Colbert said."

Well maybe you can explain it to me.

He provided a snippet of a quote with no context that any libertarian, which is what he purports to be, would agree with. Since every other declaration of racism he has provided has been bogus, one must assume the same for that quote and give Santorum the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully he can fill me in... but he seems so busy accusing everyone of being a racist that he probably won't have time.