"The president recently asked, 'Is our children learning?' Well in this budget, they is not." said Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Washington.

-- Dumbya (they don't need to learn @ look. at me!), May 10, 2001

Answers

Racist, he is speaking ebonics.

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), May 10, 2001.

Are you implying that black people as a race are as ignorant as Dumbya?

Sure sounds like it, and that makes YOU a racist.

-- (parasleezus is @ narrow-minded. conservative bigot), May 11, 2001.

I thought Bush said he knew what the definition of "is" is.

-- (bush@lied.again), May 11, 2001.

You be da racist, mofo. You wants to rap wit me, you rap ebonics. Dubya do.

-- (Blacks@White.House), May 11, 2001.

I've never considered myself a racist. Prejudice, absolutely. Don't we all prejudge? So, what "sane" reasoning could I use claim that a racist is an asshole and I'm not, when I display the same judmental attitude? Isn't racism something we have been taught is somehow a "worse" form of prejudice...even if it isn't acted upon?

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), May 11, 2001.

I have long thought that there are two categories of prejudice.

There is the prejudice of ignorance. Almost everyone has this to some extent. Whites probably have it more than blacks because it is easier for a minority to know a majority than vice versa. The good news about ignorance is that it can be overcome in time. In my lifetime, the visibility of Black America has skyrocketed. Blacks are no longer Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

A second form of prejudice that humankind seems stuck with is the prejudice of malice. That is the prejudice that kills out of blind hate. That is the prejudice of irrational terror.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), May 11, 2001.

"I thought Bush said he knew what the definition of "is" is."

BWAAAHAAAHAHAAHAAAAHAAA!!!!

-- (hee hee hee @ hee. hee hee), May 11, 2001.