Comments on: What an amazing country!

By: Randy Brown

Randy Brown — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:36:37 +0000

Substitute “HorseShit” for “SaveFarris.”

‘Nuf said.

By: Duros Hussein 62

Duros Hussein 62 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:40:16 +0000

Correction:

She: Wow. You’re a running pig-dog capitalist tool.

By: megamoze

megamoze — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:09:33 +0000

“Substitute “George Will” or “David Brooks” for Nick Kristof and this post would have been labeled Conservative Columnist has Racist Friend.”

As long as we’re pulling speculation out of our butts, I imagine the conversation with George Will would have gone somewhat differently:

” The other day I had a conversation with a Commie Chinese woman and I mentioned that Barack Obama was leading in the presidential race according to the cheerleading liberal media elite:

She: Obama? But he’s the black man, isn’t he?

Me: Yes, exactly. And probably a Muslim.

She: But surely a black man couldn’t become president of the United States?

Me: I had hoped not. But sadly yes.

She: But president? That’s such an important job! In America, I thought blacks were janitors and laborers.

Me: Only if Republicans had their way. And they are only voting for Obama because he’s black. They’re too stupid to do otherwise.

She: What do white people think about that, about getting a black president? Are they upset? Are they angry?

Me: Yes.

[Long pause.]

She: Wow. You’re a tool.

Me: Yep.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:52:47 +0000

It’s just a bit sad for so many people to just now come to that realization.

Aren’t you people ever satisfied?!?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:32:39 +0000

Yes, it is an amazing country. It always has been. It’s just a bit sad for so many people to just now come to that realization.

By: metricpenny

metricpenny — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:23:20 +0000

“But president? That’s such an important job! In America, I thought blacks were janitors and laborers.”

I’m not disturbed by this response from a citizen of China.

I’m disturbed that many citizens in “Real America” think the same.

By: ArC

ArC — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:43:25 +0000

Kristof talked to an friend of his in Beijing? I don’t think this can possibly be as plausible as if he’d talked to a cabdriver from Beijing…

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:31:56 +0000

Substitute “George Will” or “David Brooks” for Nick Kristof and this post would have been labeled Conservative Columnist has Racist Friend.

By: z_adura

z_adura — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:06:27 +0000

I can remember being in Moscow almost 20 years ago with an African friend who was studying at the polytechnic university. People on the subway were worried about standing too close to him – and it was hard not to on the Metro – because they thought his skin would smudge their clothes.

Obama will change the world.

By: SFAW

SFAW — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:03:52 +0000

It’s more than just misconceptions. It has been my experience that there’s a fair amount of racism in too many Asian countries – the Japanese think the Koreans (among others) are inferior (as in “an inferior race”), the Chinese harbor similar feelings about non-Chinese, and so forth. Comparisons are iffy, at best, but my sense is that the US is now less racist than much of Asia.

(No scientific studies to support this, just my observations from numerous trips to various places there.)

By: Duros Hussein 62

Duros Hussein 62 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:49:00 +0000

Those folks need to get out more.

By: Bijan C. Bayne

Bijan C. Bayne — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:42:34 +0000

Misconceptions abound. On C-SPAN’s “Q & A”, Lynnette Clemetson of TheRoot.com recounted a train ride in Hong Kong w/ a Chinese woman who asked her how many guns she owned. The passenger thought and had heard all Black Americans have guns.

Maybe a little diversity in leadership will do us a World of good.