Sounds like an opinion to me. The question is why did he forward it? It seems like today you can't even say "black" anymore without being labeled a racist. Blacks choose the word "black' to replace Negro as the term for describing persons of African descent. I guess they need to pick a new PC term and let everyone know what it is so feelings don't get hurt. Personally I despise the term "American (insert your ethnicity here)", we are all Americans, why label yourself that way at all, especially if you or your parents never lived in that country? I think it's safe to say most blacks have historical claims back to Africa, Asians to Asia, etc. Most people can figure that out for themselves. If that information is different close friends will know, and that's the extent of who it should matter to. Besides did we all come from Africa according to paleontologists? If so why should one group of people have ownership of the continent as their heritage?

Iguess it all depends on the reader. We all have freedom to believe what we want and some will see it as racist and others will see it as an opinion and maybe even truthful. Like Nitro, the questiojn is why did he forward it? I don't see the point in doing it, especially with everyone making any comment about Obama a racist one.

so thinkaloud, if you change words in the statement its not racist, lol.. very scientific of you.

I think its borderline racist primarily because of this line"After all, he is black - no experience or accomplishments - but he is black.""

And if your forwarding emails to people, even if you didn't author them, it generally means your endosring their seniment and want to share it with others (or that you think its completely ridiculous and want to share that ridiculouslness with others, but I don't understand that to be the defense)

It's not racist (in spite of what "thinkaloud" would have you believe).

Fact is, obamas black supporters have been screaming "racism" at nearly anyone who won't vote for obama.

I had an email sent to me with an audio clip from the howard stern show (of all places) in which one of his cronies went to Harlem, replaced obamas platform with McCains and the black people interviewed didn't notice the difference.

What's the point of this ? well, given that black people are screaming "racist" at those who oppose obama and they don't even know the difference between obamas platform and McCains? I say that yeah.... they are only voting for him because he's black.

I know where you're coming from, Shadow, but you're mixing apples & oranges.  Acknowledging what many blacks have admitted, that they will be voting for Barack because he is black, is not racist, even though casting a vote solely on the basis of a candidate's skin color is racist.  Commenting on polls revealing such behavior is not racist.

Claiming racism as a defense against every criticism of Obama is racist.  Assuming you know someone's motives simply because they are black (or white) is racist.

IMO yes. The person making the comment appears to be saying that the Obama supporters are only voting for Obama because he is black and so are they. Now for some supporters this is likely the case, but to apply it to all makes it racist. Of course this is assuming there isn't more context to the conent that goes against this initial implication (i.e. just after that the person making the comment said 'of course this is only the case for some of his supporters' or something along those lines). In other words, the person appears to be saying that because they are black, they don't care or know about Obama's policies.

As for the person forwarding the comment, by forwarding it (presumably without anything saying they disagreed with it's contents) they associated themself with those comments, and implicitely supported them. For someone in that position, they should have known better.

being a racist or not is a state of mind... is it not? ... and that is what an opinion is ... based on personal experience, cultural environment, education ... or whatever ... does not make any difference ....

it seems that many people think that a "racist" is the one who "acts" on his racist opinion ... that is not true.

if anyone acts on his/her bad or illegal feelings or opinions .. they become criminals ... no one is criminalized based on their feelings or opinions.....

it is a clear cop-out to say it is only an opinion ... opinions are important and count ... and if they are racist ... then that is what they are ....

if that statement is not racist ... i would like to know what else does it mean?

repeating what it says is not an acceptable answer .... what does it mean that "After all, he is black - no experience or accomplishments - but he is black."

Yes.  It is.

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.

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

What 'rest of the diatribe'?

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.

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