Rosie's ching-chong comments

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Originally Posted by michelle2677

that post was in direct response to the original post of this thread. The "ching chong" comment. I know this thread has gotten pretty heated, and I am absolutely against locking any innocent person up just because of the color of their skin. I am also against slavery and all other heinous things that have been mentioned in this thread. But saying "ching chong" is not even remotely close to being in a category with those events. So yeah, I think I can say with a clear conscious someone calling me an "inbred, hillbilly, redneck, idiot who married my cousin" just because I am from kentucky-right up there with a "ching chong" comment. And I'm not meaning that snarky at all. But I wasn't comparing the prejudices against Kentuckians (or where someone is from) to locking someone up, or concentration camps etc.

and I get how some people take offense to the comment because of things that happened in their life. Ha. I guess everyone I grew up with was Kentuckian, so they couldn't make fun of me for that!! But even now it doesn't bother me. Even I joke about it sometimes. But I'm pretty hard to offend

I'm hard to offend too. I didn't think there was anything wrong with what you said. I just wanted to make a point that people who've been persecuted because of their race are more sensitive to "jokes" and with good reason. And you do NOT fit the Kentuckian stereotype you hottie with a great smile.