Notice how the right-wing will almost ALWAYS take the case of a white person versus a black person

[Hugabear]

If there is a racial issue, you can bet that the right-wing in this country will take the side of the white person. It's like its in their DNA or something. They just can't help themselves, even when they know the person they are siding with is in the wrong. When they know that their person is in the wrong, they'll invariably throw out some unrelated, irrelevant example - "Well what about this case over here, how come you guys aren't talking about that?"

[dkf]

1. Zimmerman is Hispanic.

[NewEngland4Obama]

2. Right wingers prefer Hispanic over blacks. Also in the Trayvon murder its about protecting a gun law

"Stand your ground"..

[SteveABG]

11. Actually...

Right wingers will argue that Hispanic isn't a race.

Until they want to argue that a man couldn't possibly be racist because he's Hispanic.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. The OP doesn't mention Zimmerman

[dkf]

5. Oh so this has nothing to do with the Martin case huh ? My bad.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. BTW, Hispanic is not a race

white is a race, black is a race....

Hispanic NOT a race. There are white Hispanics...there are black Hispanics.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Oh my, neither is a race

I know science, but we need to move away from early 20th century thinking.

[greyl]

13. The word 'race' has no coherent biological meaning.

http://newsreel.org/guides/race/pressreleasecredit.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/does-race-exist.html

[Bucky]

16. Yeah, but given the policies they advocate today...

the word "conservative" has no coherent political meaning.

[sudopod]

8. LOL

at least you didn't shout "FIRST POST."

[slampoet]

19. Hispanic is a CULTURE. Not a race. I learned this when i was 7 years old!

King Juan Carlos of Spain is a White Hispanic.

Baseball player David Ortiz is a Black Hispanic.

[dballance]

4. Only "almost always?"

Help me out here. Other than Alan West and Herman Cain I'm having some trouble remembering when Limbaugh, Colter, Malkin, FOX and others stood up for an African American.

If there are more examples please post and prove me wrong. I'm a Democrat. If I'm wrong I'll admit it - no need for an "Etch-a-Sketch."

[hughee99]

14. If I remember right, Michael Steele, Clarence Thomas and Alan Keyes

were also defended by the repuke talking heads against various criticisms. The repukes are usually fine to defend anyone who has their ideology, there's just so few African-Americans that do.

[Bucky]

15. This

There is certainly a racial element present in much of the right wing hysteria we see in the news. But class and ideology are much more reliable indicators when publicly prominent persons are in the middle of controversy. It's often African Americans as a group, as a surrogate for the primal fear of the Other, that conservatives instinctively turn on. It's more intense, but not all that much different from, their instinctive fears of hippies, professors, and Hollywood executives. And yet when they get to know a hippie or professor by name and find out they're Republican, they get all cuddly just as they did for Alan Keyes.

[Speck Tater]

6. And this surprises us? nt

[Ecumenist]

10. Which is why I don't understand why ANY person of color OR WOMAN would ever

be a member of their herd.

[chnoutte]

17. To help you understand

Self-hatred ( also called self-loathing) refers to an extreme dislike and hatred of oneself, or being angry at or even prejudiced towards oneself. The term is also used to designate a dislike or hatred of a group, family, social class, mental illness, or stereotype to which one belongs and/or has. For instance, "ethnic self-hatred" is the extreme dislike of one's ethnic group or cultural classification. It may be associated with aspects of Autophobia.

The term "self-hatred" is used infrequently by psychologists and psychiatrists, who would usually describe people who hate themselves as "persons with low self-esteem".Self-hatred and shame are important factors in some or many mental disorders, especially disorders that involve a perceived defect of oneself (e.g. body dysmorphic disorder). Self-hatred is also a prime feature of many personality disorders. It can also be linked to guilt for something a person did that he or she views as a wrongful action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hatred

[Ecumenist]

18. As a black WOMAN, this goes MUCH deeper than self hatred because it threatens

then entire notion of existence for people of color AND women. This is such a deep pathology that I'm not sure it's definable using your wikipaedia entry. I don't need to know what self loathing is about because I've seen it ALL my life in some people of African descent who display more hatred for others that look like them than white racist couple ever display.

[greyl]

12. Unless it's a white woman vs Herman Cain. ;)

But otherwise, definitely.

[slampoet]

20. THanks i was trying to think of a specific case...