I don't remember Foghorn calling a black man boy.

Does it strike you as even remotely plauseable that if the guy were the screaming racist you'd apparently like to cast him, that we'd not have heard the screaming and wailing from the Ambulance chasers before now?

I don't know whether or not he is a racist and, I suspect, neither do you. I have been clear that his apology is sufficient barring a pattern of conduct that has not materialized at this point.

I doubt that he regularly screams his racism, if it is present, or we would have heard it before.

but he’s no racist, whatever the racial ambulance chasers have to say about it.

How well do you know him?

Does it strike you as even remotely plauseable that if the guy were the screaming racist you'd apparently like to cast him, that we'd not have heard the screaming and wailing from the Ambulance chasers before now?

but he’s no racist, whatever the racial ambulance chasers have to say about it.

How well do you know him?

gives far too much control to the race huxters over our very means of expression, thus worsening the situation surrounding REAL racism.

and we all know what you consider the REAL race problem in America.

Rep. Davis could have easily said whatever he said without Calling a Black man 3 years his junior boy. This isn't in the LEAST about political correctness. This is about the fact that white men can't go around saying whateverthehell they want about folk, which clearly annoys some of you.

Very similar situation on this end other than i'm in Michigan. I guess i've just never come across the term/meaning in person and if I saw it on TV or in a movie it didn't click.

"Google 'boy racist slur' and get over being sheltered."

I didn't know I was hung up on being sheltered. Pound sand Sam.

The bigger question is how cleverly we are manipulated into not speaking our minds freely and truthfully because of this irrational politically contrived fear (pride)through the foolishness of political correctness (censorship by the left)

Exactly so. As I said elsewhere, yesterday, to too strongly credit Davis’ comments as racism, gives far too much control to the race huxters over our very means of expression, thus worsening the situation surrounding REAL racism.

And control is what this little storm is all about.

Alex, Mark this date and time down; We agree. No question that the guy is a bit of a jerk, but he’s no racist, whatever the racial ambulance chasers have to say about it. And in reality that’s what’s going on here… It’s not racism, but what the responses are, though, is opportunism. More than granted the guy shouldn’t have said it. But WHY? nt because he’s a racist… he isn’t. Not even close. The problem is the opportunistic reaction to it. And I guess frankly, I’m wondering, of the two, which is the larger problem for society… that such statements are still made, however innocently, or that there’s a bunch of racial ambulance chasers out there ready to leap into the frey screaming ’racist’ wherever there’s the slightest chance of gaining any political ground for themselves in the screaming sessions afterward. We have a group of people out there… seeking legitimacy and thereby, power, by way of searching out and reacting to keywords, regardless of the context in which they’re spoken.That way, for example, lies Jeremiah Wright, Julian Bond, and Jessee Jackson, Al Sharpton, and so on.

I'm not saying that I reject the idea that there's genuine racism ut there... it does occasionally pop up. But how many times are we going to kneel on the altar of "I'm Offended"?

I can honestly say I have never heard that calling anybody "boy", regardless of the color of their skin, is racist or could be considered racist. Is it a "southern thing" or am I sheltered??.

Google 'boy racist slur' and get over being sheltered.

This may not 'definitively' prove that Davis is racial, but it is a strong indicator in that direction. If Davis truly did not know that this statement was racial charged, though his apology seems to indicate that he knew, then he is either very ignorant or somewhat stupid.

I was a little surprised to see all the semantic arguements that 'boy' can have none racial meanings, as endearment for example. In Davis' case this was specifically in a disparaging or derogatory remark, calling attention to a concern that Obama may not be fit, and this was directed toward a grown black man. This meets all needed criteria to be considered to be a racist comment.

Now Davis could've said 'man' or 'person' in this context and some of the left would still undoubtedly claim racism, but at least in that case Davis wouldn't be providing his own sword to fall on.

I can honestly say I have never heard that calling anybody "boy", regardless of the color of their skin, is racist or could be considered racist. Is it a "southern thing" or am I sheltered??.

The bigger question is how cleverly we are manipulated into not speaking our minds freely and truthfully because of this irrational politically contrived fear (pride)through the foolishness of political correctness (censorship by the left)

Why can't a white man speak of what is hurting the black community (liberal plantation)without the racism guilt?
Because he has long ago lost his courage and cowardly submitted it to the power of the left.