Topic : 11/09 Debate Dr. Phil and the Bishop

Quote From: ladiehawke

..be examined by Dr. Phil? It is amazing how racist blacks are and they are NEVER called on it. They call whites all sorts of names including, but not limited to Cracker and Honkey. At the University of Delaware it is being taught that ALL whites are racist just by virtue of their skin color and there has been an ongoing program in the University to indoctrinate students into this belief. The truth of the matter is that blacks are far more racist against whites. Whites have been so politically corrected to the point that they are afraid to speak. Blacks have not been the target of political correctness so they say what they please when they want and what they say is as derogatory or worse than what whites say often times.

In reference to Dog, Dog was in his home in a private phone conversation. His privacy was invaded by his son and, I believe, his son broke the law by taping the conversation and making it public. I would like to know what has happened to the right of free speech in our own homes. This reminds me of what went in in Nazi Germany when children were recruited to turn in their parents for the views that they expressed in the privacy of their own homes. Luckily, so far. Dog hasn't been dragged out of his house and taken to a concentration camp. But, I have to ask, how long will it be before a parent becomes afraid to speak their mind in their own home? What has happened to Americans right to free speech? I don't care what a person says in the pprivacy of their own home, they have the right to say it. The constitution is supposed to guarantee people the right to say what they want in their home. Hell, the constitution guarantees the right of free speech outside the home, but it has been so infringed on by political correctness for one portion of society that it has come to the point that that part of society is angry, frustrated and yelling, "Hey, what about them? Why do they get to do the same thing and not be called on the carpet?"

Fianlly, justice would dictate that Dog should not lose his job for what he said in the privacy of his home in a private conversation. It is a slippery slope. You take a job now, what will be next? Really, how long will it be before that becomes internment into a concentration camp?

Quote From: cindyi

Interesting how you can assume you know another person's meaning when a word is used. That "N" word can and does mean different things to different people, one definition of which is simply as a synonymn for "African American" or "Black American", whichever you find least offensive, with no derogatory meaning intended. It is very confusing when you hear people saying something to others of their own skin color then being jacked out of shape when others use it. We don't have automatic understandings of each other. To avoid offense and misinterpretation of meaning maybe it SHOULD just be removed from everyone's vocabulary. Then we don't have to worry about all the semantics.

Quote From: jasonsgege

Dr Phil was saying racial statements himself today and didn't even know it.  I love Dr. Phil. I never miss a show. But he is predijudice against young women who live in trailers and become pregnant.  Who says all teenage mothers live n a trailers?  I lived in a trailer, does that make me less of a person than the next because I got pregnant?