Said the Jaberwocky.  Yes, any statement not cleared by Big Brother and the Newspeak people is now racist.  And all those evil rich people are so niggardly OMG!  There goes another banned word!

What horse hockey!  I guess saying "Black Hole" is racist too.  Never mind it is DESCRIPTIVE.

Just as the email is. "A car load of indeterminate people....."  Hello 1984 We are here!

Not with ya on this one Dr. Guy.  It was a racist statement.

Not sure what's going on with the thread - I can't see the source of the quote you included.

First, just to be clear, I do not see the statement as racist.  Just descriptive.

Second, my post was meant for think alouds stupidity.  Equating car load with cargo is just idiocy, but what we can expect in the next 4 years I guess.

I agree with that.  But the presumption of motive is racist, i.e. based on nothing but skin color.

If this were a news story, how would you report it?  Just the statement quoted, not the rest of the diatribe.

What 'rest of the diatribe'?

The rhetoric going along with the quoted part.  I am reading the statement just in itself as that was the quoted part, and trying to figure out how it would be reported in the news if the object was a republican getting support.

from a german perspective  that would qualify as racist because it reduces Obama to being black saying he has no other qualities than being black which is not true. It also ignores the fact that blacks always vote overwhelmingly democrat; but then there might be no need to be as sensitive in the USA as we are here because you never had a arier-supremacy dictatorship.

It made no such statement.  It is an assumption on your part.  It was descriptive, without being derogatory.

I was refering to that "After all, he is black - no experience or accomplishments - but he is black."

Sorry If I wasn't clear enough about that, never meant to attack you, because you indeed didn't wrote anything like that

I'm still trying to understand what part you consider diatribe.  Do you mean ID's lead-in paragraph?

This isn't a 'political party' thing to me.  The comments of the left stereotyping Palin supporters, for instance, are no more acceptable to me than the quoted statement.