Paul would be OK with the hospital providing emergency contraceptives -- unless it's a private run hospital that doesn't treat harlots. Or if the woman is mixed race and the private hospital doesn't treat products of miscegenation. Or the woman is black and the private run clinic doesn't treat coons. Or......

"I'm sure that there were some private institutions that did more than inconvenience minorities before the 1960s because they discriminated, but guess what? That's not applicable today. If Taco Bell says no more white people allowed, the white people will go next door! Barely even an inconvenience."


I, as you may infer, am not white. I find it is futile to argue with many white people about overt discrimination, because they have never encountered it. Also to the credit of many households and parents, many white kids don't grow up around overt racists. As a result, they only see discrimination as an intellectual problem.

I have only seen two instances where previously disagreeing white people start to appreciate my point of view:

1) Experience direct discrimination in a non-white majority country: I live in China, and have visited Japan, Asian Pacific countries and African countries for business and pleasure. I often travel with friends and colleagues, many of whom are white westerners. I can tell you that often when white people are denied doing something very ordinary, like visiting a restaurant, solely because they are white (or rather non-Chinese, non-Japanese, etc), a usual response is them completely losing their minds. At that moment, when they are directly denied entry into a private establishment for something incidental as their race, they feel the humiliation and the anger associated with the experience. After such a personal experience, a productive conversation can happen about discrimination in the States. There still may not be agreement, but at least the discussion will have more depth than "Save the Country!!!".

2) Experience an openly American racist culture firsthand. A white buddy of mine would have sworn on a stack of bibles that the attitudes that are behind discrimination are past us all---until she visited her cousins in Louisiana. She later recounted to me that she was in shock at the free use of the word "nigger", and the half-joking fantasies about shooting and killing 'coons', among other things. I think she gets it now; at least she understands why I would not want to let these people out of the proverbial asylum by repealing the 64 Act, or its derivatives.

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Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)
Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Roy Blunt (R-MO)
John Boozman (R-AR)
Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Christopher Coons (D-DE)
Bob Corker (R-TN)
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Al Franken (D-MN)
Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Kay Hagan (D-NC)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Herb Kohl (D-WI)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Joseph Lieberman (I-CT)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Tom Udall (D-NM)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

This is a list of the clueless idiots and corporate shills who are bringing us this abomination.

>> ^messenger:

All tabby cats have those M marks, I believe.>> ^Chaucer:
in case people are wondering, that is some kind of forrest cat (maine coon, siberian forrest, norwegian forrest). they have that distinctive M pattern in their fur above the eyes.



That's a negative ghost rider.

All tabby cats have those M marks, I believe.>> ^Chaucer:

in case people are wondering, that is some kind of forrest cat (maine coon, siberian forrest, norwegian forrest). they have that distinctive M pattern in their fur above the eyes.

in case people are wondering, that is some kind of forrest cat (maine coon, siberian forrest, norwegian forrest). they have that distinctive M pattern in their fur above the eyes.

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^MaxWilder:
>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^MaxWilder:
The word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.
I think you're really stretching for this one. The slur "coon" is thought to come from the Portuguese "barracão" ("shed") which is what they called slave quarters. It's got nothing to do with raccoons.

Yes, there is some debate about the etymology of the racial slur. But that does not change the FACT that the word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.

"Coon" is a racial slur when it refers to black people, not when it refers to raccoons. Just like "cracker" is a racial slur when it refers to white people but not when it refers to saltines.
You seem desperate to call this guy a racist.

If I was to show a video of a bunch of white southern law enforcement officers, then make a dumb joke about them eating crackers, one might legitimately infer that I was referencing the insult "cracker".
This man made a reference to a raccoon (who eats raccoons??) while talking about a black person. And you think it's a stretch? I'm really giving him the benefit of the doubt when I say he just might be oblivious.


Yeah, a huge stretch. Also, "who eats raccoons??" Funny enough, crackers do.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^MaxWilder:
>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^MaxWilder:
The word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.
I think you're really stretching for this one. The slur "coon" is thought to come from the Portuguese "barracão" ("shed") which is what they called slave quarters. It's got nothing to do with raccoons.

Yes, there is some debate about the etymology of the racial slur. But that does not change the FACT that the word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.

"Coon" is a racial slur when it refers to black people, not when it refers to raccoons. Just like "cracker" is a racial slur when it refers to white people but not when it refers to saltines.
You seem desperate to call this guy a racist.


If I was to show a video of a bunch of white southern law enforcement officers, then make a dumb joke about them eating crackers, one might legitimately infer that I was referencing the insult "cracker".

This man made a reference to a raccoon (who eats raccoons??) while talking about a black person. And you think it's a stretch? I'm really giving him the benefit of the doubt when I say he just might be oblivious.

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^MaxWilder:
The word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.
I think you're really stretching for this one. The slur "coon" is thought to come from the Portuguese "barracão" ("shed") which is what they called slave quarters. It's got nothing to do with raccoons.

Yes, there is some debate about the etymology of the racial slur. But that does not change the FACT that the word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.


"Coon" is a racial slur when it refers to black people, not when it refers to raccoons. Just like "cracker" is a racial slur when it refers to white people but not when it refers to saltines.

You seem desperate to call this guy a racist.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^MaxWilder:
The word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.
I think you're really stretching for this one. The slur "coon" is thought to come from the Portuguese "barracão" ("shed") which is what they called slave quarters. It's got nothing to do with raccoons.


Yes, there is some debate about the etymology of the racial slur. But that does not change the FACT that the word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.

I'm sure you are correct, but do you think this guy knows the etymology of a racial slur?

It's just dang weird and that surely is not up for debate, is it?

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^MaxWilder:
The word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.
I think you're really stretching for this one. The slur "coon" is thought to come from the Portuguese "barracão" ("shed") which is what they called slave quarters. It's got nothing to do with raccoons.

>> ^MaxWilder:

The word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.

I think you're really stretching for this one. The slur "coon" is thought to come from the Portuguese "barracão" ("shed") which is what they called slave quarters. It's got nothing to do with raccoons.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/MaxWilder" title="member since November 7th, 2007" class="profilelink">MaxWilder: How is this a racism issue? Is there a stereotype about blacks eating live raccoons that I don't know about?


The word Raccoon is sometimes shortened to Coon, which is a fairly nasty racial slur.

Taken to an interpretive extreme, one could make the argument that he was stating that Michelle was eating herself metaphorically, since such an unhealthy meal went against what she has been promoting for children. However, I don't think the speaker is intelligent enough to have consciously intended that meaning.

can I come instead? >> ^peggedbea:

wtf? no texas sift up???? you don't want to smoke a joint with me and choggie and listen to our beautiful coon ass poetry and eat our delicious baked goods??? also, we give amazing hugs.