Paul Ryan’s Black Ex and the Art of Race Baiting
Congressman Paul Ryan's ex-girlfriend Deneeta Pope
At the top of our list of “8 Ways Blacks Perpetuate Racism” was a particularly devious trick which black identity activists employ. That is the elevation of civil rights above individual rights.
Contrary to its sacrosanct place in our political lexicon, the term “civil rights” does not refer to an inherent good. A civil right is granted by the state, as opposed to individual rights which are derived objectively from the facts of reality. There is nothing preventing civil rights from conflicting with individual rights. When they do, it is immoral. Civil rights are only proper when they serve to protect individual rights. That fundamental ethical truth is all but absent from our political discourse.
Helping obscure it is The Root’s political correspondent Keli Goff, whose job entails processing news through the distorting prism of race. Upon learning that Representative Paul Ryan was the presumptive GOP nominee for vice president, Goff crafted a piece titled “What We Know About Paul Ryan and Blacks.” What we know, as Goff presents it, isn’t much. But we do learn quite a bit about how Goff and her ideological allies perceive both race and racism.
In an effort to process the fact that Paul Ryan once dated a black woman, Goff asks “the million-dollar question”:
Is the fact that Ryan has dated interracially a noteworthy detail to consider when analyzing his politics and policies?
This is a tactful way of framing an unsaid question: Is the fact that Ryan has dated interracially a noteworthy detail to consider when judging whether he is a racist? We know that this is the question Goff is implying because of the context she provides. Of what possible relevance could Ryan’s premarital dating habits be to his policy positions? Goff tells us:
Here’s a well-known phrase that has virtually become a punch line: When someone finds himself on the ropes facing an allegation of racism, the go-to reflex defense is usually something along the lines of “But some of my best friends are black!” Translation: “I can’t possibly be racist or racially insensitive because there are black people I like and they like me. So there.”
This is the context in which Goff asks us to consider whether Ryan’s black ex-girlfriend matters. Does that former relationship immunize him from allegations of racism?
Thank you Mr. Hudson for further excellent analysis of the politics of liberals and hypocrites (I apologize for the redundancy).
ask not what you can do for your country, ask what can your country do for you! we sure have turned the corner haven’t we. i pose the question if Michele having a half white husband can she still hate white people?
Short answer is yes.
Didn’t Michelle Robinson in her college thesis promote the idea that Blacks that have to many white friends are turning their backs on the Black community? Yikes! Isn’t racism basing decisions about the worth of a person on color of their skin? If that is true isn’t Michelle’s thesis nothing but rank racism?
If that is true isn’t Michelle’s thesis nothing but rank racism?
And badly-written rank racism at that. Have you read it? It was basically a B-minus 11th-grade effort masquerading as a thesis.
Michelle’s Affirmative Action Princeton thesis bascially boils down to “I hate Whitey”.
FYI – she was not “under-privileged. She attended a top drawer prep school.
Affirmative Action is hideously corrosive.
If Barack and Michelle are truly examples of their best and brightest, you really do have to wonder….
“But most of the civil rights efforts ongoing today are campaigns to violate individual rights, to take from some in order to give to others…….By admission, today’s civil rights movement is a different beast than its 1960s predecessor, seeking different ends by different means while attempting to retain the sense that it seeks equal treatment for blacks. It does not. It seeks to handicap some while nursemaiding the rest.”
Excellent analysis, right on the money Mr. Hudson. I have thought for years that one of the necessary focal points we on the libertarian right should stump is the language of the left and “civil rights”, and how it has been completely co-opted.
Start with executive Order 11246 and the language:
“to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin.”
“without regard” is the key words there. What does affirmative action mean now to most leftists and “civil rights” activists? It means paying special attention to race (and gender,color, etc…) Now we can add sexual orientation to the list.
I have asked my leftist friends for years to define words like “justice”, than to add the qualifier of “social” or “racial” to it. It turns them on their heads, it really does.
A dictionary of redefined words in leftist speak would be a great boon to us that exist in the correct and common sense parts of the political spectrum.
There can be no Libertarian Right. Either Libs are on their own, or they are a sub-group of the Left. Rightists are realists. They understand that sub-Saharan Africans are genetically distinct from Europeans (i.e., white people). One may judge individuals and races, but must apply the appropriate criteria. The problem is that the criteria for judging a race are well-known, while to judge an individual, you have to know quite a bit about that specific individual. E.g., a young African-in-America male is 10 times more likely that a young white male to be a violent criminal; he’s also 50 times more likely to target a white victim that a white criminal is to target a black. If you run into this guy some dark night, you have to know him as an individual to know what the danger is from him in particular. If you don’t know him, then you have to play the odds, which means that you run like hell. Africans-in-America, as a race, have low IQs, poor impulse-control, and a short time-horizon. As, I believe, another article today points out, these characteristics alone pretty well guarantee a life in poverty. And they are genetic traits, which cannot be changed. Libertarians ignore these facts; Leftists deny them. This is why I consider Libs to be an offshoot of Leftism, and incompatible with any form of Rightism.
Please don’t associate this garbage with “the Right.” The political spectrum is not defined by attitudes on race. Stand by your own sentiments. Don’t conflate them with the general attitude of “the Right.”
This has to be one of the DUMBEST things ever posted on PJ Media! There is nothing “genetic” about the fall of black culture in America! It is the product of almost 60 years of deliberate Leftist actions DESIGNED to create a dependant underclass targeting minorities! For instance, crimial behavior among a given racial population can be accounted for by single parent homes across the board. As blacks in America have a higher percentage of single parent homes, they suffer the predictable outcome! Blacks have been the specific target of the abortion lobby, the welfare state, and socialist education engineering. I’m both enraged and heart broken at the plight of blacks in America, and do not blame their DNA for the prdictable results of a continued Leftist racist campaign against them!
Wrong.
Culture and behavior are expressions of genetics. There is a rock solid, depressingly 100% consistent history of What Happens when Negroes are introduced into a Caucasian eco-system.Haiti, South Africa, Rhodesia, the Belgian Congo – and now the USA. Whites found a Nation (Yes dear. All these countries were created by Whites), Blacks are brought in, or allowed in, Whites begin to feel sorry for Blacks, and accord them legal status, Blacks accrue power, Blacks slaughter off Whites, and pretty much destroy everything. Haiti is the world’s first Free Black Republic. Whites have been pouring money into Haiti for over 200 years – and it’s still Haiti.
We are witnessing the Haitification of countless American cities – Birmingham, AL, Philadelphia, PA, Elizabeth, NJ, Baltimore, MD, East St Louis, MO, and of course,the Grand Mal Horror Dee-tro’.
It’s not money. It’s genes.
For some reason I cannot fathom, Whites have been, and failing, to bring the Negro Race up to speed for centuries. My Race is literally destroying ourselves, attempting to tbe the Do Gooders of the world. If we wish to continue to exist, my White Race must expend all of our energies and time and resources on ourselves.
Whits don’t owe Blacks one single thing. QUITE the opposite. Whites don’t any member of any other Race a single thing. We must refuse to be conned into thinking we do. Never again!
Don’t ever forget this.
Do you go by Denise over at Stormfront.org also?
This is absolutely Trash. Please do a little more research. You clearly only read whats supports your opinions. How about the fact that after Haiti fought the French an gained there freedom. They were exiled by the entire world. There was no country that would trade with them. That is what caused their demise. Along with the reparations demanded by France enforced by the USA an Woodrow Wilson.Your not intellectually honest. As far as blacks in the USA. How could blacks be social equal after Jim Crow an reconstruction? An now the prison industrial complex. I agree a large percentage of all blacks are really messed up. Due to circumstance.. Whats the problem in Eastern Europe?
Reaper – When Haiti was run by the French, the plantations of Haiti provided 80% of all the wealth of the French Empire. Haiti was richer than all the 13 American colonies put together. Black slavesd rose up, slaughtered a black pig, in sacrifice to Satan, drank it’s blood, and promised to serve Satan for 200 years, is Satan would hel pthem drive the White Devils from the island.
This is ON RECORD. Haitians know about this.
America has been pouring money into Haiti for 200 years.
Haitians are DESTROYING Southern Florida, now, as they are being allowed to infest American soil. Haitians are raw African genetics, distilled.
It’s THEM.
Stop making excuses.
Mikey bubbelah – want to answer why Israeli Jews are heaving African Negroes out of Israel?
Denise, I have taught school for many years and find my Hatian students to be better behaved than many other minority children in my classes. The problem is these parents seldom are on welfre and work, often at two jobs. The parents usually have little or no education to help their children. These parents are seldom confrontational If I speak to a Hatian parent about the child’s behavior, it usually improves. Do you have daily contact with Hatian people or do you simply believe these things without any knowledge of these people?
Well said.
Great comment
Jacobite,
Your comments on genetics and poor judgement/actions of an entire race/group are appalling. Are you really that shallow? It is viewpoints like yours that actually lend credibility to the more strident leftist types. They loft folks like you up as an example, “See! SEE! THIS is why we need more government mandated racialist centric policies!”
As for the term libertarian right, I choose that to define myself as differnt than the semi low information centrist conservatives, who like to make statements such as “I am fiscally conservative, but socially very liberal”. When I ask friends that make such a statement if they believe people should get “special” consideration under the law simply due to their gender/race/orientation, they usually say “No, everybody should get equal footing under the law”. I then point out social liberals want exactly that, special treatment due to identity politics.
Mike in Tel Aviv,
Could you please explain why Israelis are hurling OUT the Black African workers (de facto slaves), faster than they brought them in? There hasn’t bene a lot of reporting in the kosher American press, on this devlopment. The riots, and all, where Isrealis were attacking and protesting the presence of large number of Black Africans, and the havoc these Africans wrought.
The Israeli Government ser up internment camps post haste, and are practically catapulting the Negroes back into Africa. Please enlighten.
Thanks.
retarded.
So the NAACP says that if you don’t support it’s socialist determinations as to what Blacks in America need to get ahead your a racist?
Their theme is that Blacks in America are permanently disadvantaged and down trodden due to their permanent percieved 2nd class status which is determined solely by their color and history. Because of this permanent condition, they have to have the socialist things on the NAACP list in order to get more equal treatment in our country.
If we follow that logic, there will never be a day when these conditions are ameliorated. If we follow the logic there are no alternative ways for people to overcome past discrimination, say like Condolezza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Snoop Dog or millions of Black entreprneur, professional, or business people have done.
Nope, the condition is permanent. It looks like it is genetic and immutable. There’s only one prescription for fixing it and thats what the NAACP determines.
Bull Cookies. Based on what facts? And what proof does the NAACP have that socialism fixes it? Say the experience the western Europeans have with the benefits of socialism? The Spanish and Greek socialists are eating out of dumpsters now. How’s that working out for them?
What we have here is an organization that pursues “corrective” policies that have no track record of working, but instead perpetuate victum status for its targeted constituency. Pretty damn cynical and pernicious, if you ask me.
If the NAACP wanted to enhance its credibility it might look at proven alternative ways to empower its constituents. The accumulation of wealth empowers people and creates conditions that enrich others, thus creating further opportunity. That dynamic would permanently advance Blacks in America.
Something tells me that the NAACP isn’t really interested in what works. Its much more comfortable perpetuating a perception and living off of it.
And save yourself the effort of calling me a racist for expressing this. If you think disseminating an alternative, nondiscriminatory, rational point of view is racist, you’re proving my point.
No, actually the NAACP says if you are WHITE, then you are a racist.
This is a well-reasoned article, and deserves media-wide publication.
I have to assume that Goff copied the NAACP “list” without giving it a thought and then attempting to stick it to Mr. Ryan. The last time I looked, members of the House of Representatives do not get to vote to confirm the nomination of senior political appointees, such as a Secretary of State or a Justice of the Supreme Court.
I guess the article puts the lie to “once you go black you can’t go back.”
My guess is that Goff did not include the list, the author Mr. Hudson did. Leftist like Goff do not want to provide details, because that would usually (always) prove them to be wrong. Goff, no doubt simply stated Ryan was graded “F”, and that was all she needed for those on the left to believe. It’s feelings not facts which get the left’s attention.
If nobody gets upset about a charge of “racism” anymore it’s all the fault of the Obama administration. They cheapened that phrase so much over the last four years that nobody believes it. To the Obama administration, if you disagreed with Obama over ANYTHING, then you’re a racist. And if in 2008 you thought he was not qualified to be president, even though he never accomplished anything, then you just HAD to be a racist. The term is so worn out that people are fed up with it. And for the first supposedly “post-racial” president, Obama has done more to set back race relations than any other president in modern history, especially with his remarks concerning class warfare. Maybe that’s why people just don’t care about the charge of “racism” anymore in this election. They’re tired of it. And Obama and his minions don’t understand how much harm they’ve really done, because people now refuse to believe or address real examples of racism because they just don’t believe it anymore. Just another reason to hate this president for what he did to this country.
To be blunt–I humbly submit that a nation that gives a veto power over essentially everything to its most under-performing group, that allows that group be the main determiner of what should be done, is not a nation long destined for greatness.
If one wishes to lead, one has to show one has ability and competence. One may perfectly well understand the reasons why large parts of the black inner-urban community may not have the ability and competence that would cause others to automatically defer to what they consider wisdom–but to then nevertheless put them in the national driver seat (as the group that is to have the final veto) is asinine.
Excellent point.
Everyone has a proper place in the world. Helping each to find that place should be the personal goal of all humanity. That is the path to personal happiness and contentment.
Government and Unions, instead, use extortion and coercion, to place people where THEY want them to be, to further their own ends, one’s personal welfare be damned.
Knocking the achievers down to the floor so the incompetents can run the show is what we have now.
Not working out too well, is it?
Let’s be clear–we should desire that everyone be able to rise to the levels of their talents.
The trouble is, contra Jefferson, we are still quite ways from the point where the farmer comes home from the fields to read Homer on the original Greek, by candlelight, and probably always will be to some extent. I simply am not enthusiastic about taking things away from one group and giving them to another when no appreciable progress is made that would allow for self-sufficiency and self-generation of wealth.
I got my bachelor’s degree–finally–when the money spigot got turned off. I submit there is a lesson there.
Basically, to sum up our two points–the issue seems to be that while what one group is asking for is “opportunity”, it appears that “sinecure” is perhaps the better term.
Basically, it is wisdom, and not racism, that causes many Americans to reject that which the activist black community desires–and I reject the notion that the majority of that community has any sort of track record of *independent* success which demands that they be automatically be given credibility because of it.
Mr. Hudson,
I agree with everything you wrote; I also believe you wasted your time responding to something that reasonable people gave no credence to.
Wasting resources was/is their goal and you fell for it. Maybe reflect
on what you might have otherwise written about, that is what they didn’t
want your attention on.
Regards
I disagree with you, Shirley. Enumerating the actual voting positions favored by the NAACP was a real eye-opener for me. I’d always assumed that the NAACP would support legislation that was focussed primarily on blacks and their issues. Seeing that their “shopping list” is actually much more about Leftist politics than helping blacks was very useful for me to know. I wouldn’t have known it unless someone came forward with this information.
I’ve long felt that encouraging blacks – in fact, ALL people – to achieve rather than wallowing in past injustices would be a better way to go.
I don’t think it does any good to ask whether leftist politics is “really” the answer to racism. Remember, it’s a political coalition. NAACP needs guilty white leftists and guilty white leftists need the NAACP – for votes, money, connections, influence, and sheer numbers. For power, basically.
Rush had it right long ago; the NAACP should be the NAALCP and is the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.
My goal was not to refute Goff in particular, but the commonly accepted notion that being for any given civil right is being for blacks. Unfortunately, that notion is taken seriously, and is not challenged often enough.
And the other side of the “some of my best friends” argument is that if you’re colorblind or don’t have any black friends, white privilege enters the fray and guilt is still assured. In other words, whites can never escape the dismal views and circular, self-sealing arguments of the world entertained by the black academic and political Left.
My view of the NAACP is: screw ‘em. They’re not what they used to be and neither is the Dem Party. Along with sites like The Root and more race-baiters than you can count, the drum of what would be considered hate speech never stops and they have made more enemies than friends the last 10 years in my view.
Aside from that, the black Left has given up any credibility when it comes to race. When a baseball umpire calls strikes 100% of the time, that’s the end of that. The idea that Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, Michael Eric Dyson or Melissa Harris-Perry have any balance when it comes to race is laughable. They are corrupt and racist to the core and in academic and rhetorical terms that speak to larger generalities, have never seen a black person they didn’t like or a white person they didn’t have disdain for.
We’ve had cultures like this before in history; thankfully very few. They exist to detach and attach morality and talent by race. They self-contradict by asserting content of character when that suits them so they don’t get profiled, and believe in generational guilt by DNA when that suits them, the better to profile. I spit on the KKK, neo-Nazis and the black Left in America.
From all this we, apparently, learn that Obama’s mother was likely a racist and his father a sellout who turned his back on his people. Go figure.
“Says what the states can’t do to you.”
This, from a guy who was allegedly a Constitutional Law professor?
I’m not even going to address the “to” vs. “for” argument that statement begs. And, as a preemptive strike, I’ll allow that the 10th Amendment (posted below) is also the most ignored Amendment we have in the Bill of Rights.
BUT:
I’m astounded as to the idiocy of that statement, even if it is from our President. The 10th Amendment reads, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
In other words, the Federal Government is ruled by the confines of the US Constitution, and EVERYTHING else is governed by the States. In essence, the Bill of Rights tells us what the Federal Government CAN’T do. How he’s transferred this idea to the States, I have no idea.
A whole slew of Supreme Court rulings extended the protections of the 14th Amendment and the Bill of Rights to the states and even to the cities.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka(1954) was one of the most famous. There, the Supreme Court overturned segregated schools as unconstitutional, even though (as you can tell by the name of the case) it involved decisions by local school boards to segregate their schools by race.
Most of the race baiting groups today are, as the author suggested, nothing more than shills for the far left. They use race as a weapon, and are only concerned with real racial discrimination when it suits their collectivist purposes.
One line from the opening paragraph of Miss Goff’s article says it all:
“We also know that he has no problem attacking President Obama.”
Aaaaaaand that’s why she think he’s racist.
She’s pretty – that’s mostly what I see. What does a liberal see? A specimen of the victim class? A race traitor? A complication? That’s kind of sad.
Excellent article once again, Mr. Hudson.
Unfortunately, for every one of you, I can show you a hundred black grievance hustlers. We won’t have an honest dialogue in this country about race until blacks start to admitting some honest and immutable truths.
I’ve been called racist for pointing the duplicity of standards, for not using “African- American” but black when discussing demographic, opining 3 out of 4 black children born out of wedlock the core problem of the black community (I’m about to add voting Democratic to that list as 1A), even called racist for noting black babies are five times more likely to be aborted than white babies.
The final straw for me was when Barack Obama suddenly switch his preference for definition of marriage, and all of the sudden, a majority of black churches somehow found that palatable too – because, well Barack said it and he’s black. Now Barack substitutes as acceptable gospel.
I’m not catering or pandering to a bunch of world class hypocrites any longer – not one second. And for all you pandering “pinkies” somehow believing yourselves morally superior for genuflecting to the race hustlers? I’ve heard your dialogue when it’s only us “white” guys. You’re the absolute phoniest of the phony.
Does anybody really give a damn anymore to be called racist? I sure don’t.
Well the fact he broke up with her must mean he is a racist. I just talked with Harry Reid about this and he was telling me that his friend’s friend’s brother was phoned by a mysterious person who told him that Paul Ryan broke up with her BECAUSE SHE IS BLACK. He’s practically in the klan.
The constant reflex to racialize *every* issue has pretty much put me off ever voting for Dems again.
So Ms. Goff deliberately draws an equivalency between Paul Ryan having previously dated a black woman, and Strom Thurmond having previously fathered a child with a black woman.
Aren’t these the same liberals always telling us the importance of context? As if there is no difference between dating and sexual predation? By all accounts, Paul Ryan and his black girlfriend mutually entered into a personal relationship with all that entails. Strom Thurmond took advantage of his family’s black domestic help and used her as, essentially, a masturbatory aid.
The Left will have us all believe one case is no different from the other? They are truly pathetic.
The difference between Paul Ryan and the Strom Thurmond example is that Paul Ryan felt free to give his heart to a woman of color, openly and candidly and he didn’t give a damn what anybody else thought about it.
The small c communists believe they “own” blacks and if they throw them a crust of bread in the form of entitlements, they can get an entire race of people to act like trained seals. A pat on the head and a promise to be “taken care of”, is the soft slavery of co-dependency.
Food stamps as shackles and unemployment checks as chains, the small c communists have “community organized” the handout plantation. Keeping the black community down and in permanent underclass/grievance position, scuffling along on bare essentials, on lockdown from upward mobility due to motivation killing bromides and a conspiratorial media telling false tales and creating phony slights, in a country that harbors none of the ill will the small c communists slanders it with.
Paul Ryan is clarity in the face of intentional chaos. He loves America and its citizens so much that he won’t allow them to be lied to with impunity and kept down with indignity. Opposing small c communism isn’t racism. It is the cure for racism.
Published on Sep 25, 2012 by Ben Swann Reality Check sits down 1 on 1 with Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan to talk about defense cuts and whether President Obama is really trying to gut the military.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al2HAxRTJRU&feature=plcp
Ask me if I care. Blackness, or whatever name it’s called this week is not my problem. I marched in Civil Rights marches in college and was always supportive of programs to improve the lives of blacks. I do not care anymore. They can help themselves or not.
But a cursory review of the legislation scored by the NAACP reveals that it has nothing whatsoever to do with either race or equality under the law. Here is an abbreviated list of the group’s supposedly pro-black positions:
Voting to confirm Hillary Clinton’s nomination to the office of Secretary of State
How on earth does voting to confirm a white woman to an office whose last two incumbents were black translate into a “pro-black” position?
The world truly has gone crazy.
I think Barack Hussein Obama should be impeached for failure to live up to his Oath of Office by not reducing Benghazi to a pile of rubble for the attack on the US Consulate there. Attacks on Embassies and Consulates are acts of war. he has Failed to ‘protect the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic’ as the Oath so states.
Unfortunately, BHO does not view those ‘attackers’ as HIS enemy.
whoa
Compare the dating choices of Paul Ryan to:
1. Barrack Obama… not even close
2. Bill Clinton… I don’t even want to think about it.
3. Jimmy Carter… nope
4. LBJ… hehehehehehehe
5. JFK… yes, we have parity
” The NAACP, which is the oldest civil rights organization in the country…. ”
The above statement is completely false. In fact the oldest civil rights organization in the country is The Jewish War Veterans of The United States of America, which was founded in 1896.
Black Americans are not the only group that has had to fight for civil rights.
Oh, please give it a rest.
Nobody helped my Scottish/Irish/German great-grandparents when they emigrated here over a century ago. They did not have to have a “civil rights” grouping to make here in America. So you (the aggrieved Jews), blacks, hispanics and the rest of you America-loathing, cry-baby groups can shove it. I detest with all my heart “civil rights.”
Your “civil rights” and hyphen-American, cry-babies have helped ruin this once proud nation.
Personally, I oppose every item on the list provided. If that makes me a “racist”,so be it! I’ll wear the label with pride!
You can’t win with the liberal mind because it doesn’t exist. They have no brain. They say that anything ‘good’ a conservative does is entirely for purposes of deception, to hide their real evil core. Mr. Ryan could save a baby from a burning car and the left would say he must have set the car on fire to stage the rescue.. and he dated a black girl to hide his intense racism, and made charity donations to hide his disdain for the poor, and on and on.. In other words the left and all it’s variants are brainless, human-less droids from HELL. STOP trying to analyze the eternally wicked. I stopped 40 years ago when the drug addicts around me rebelled against broccoli, milk, beef, work, morality, decency, self control, self respect and the United States.
“Here’s a well-known phrase that has virtually become a punch line: When someone finds himself on the ropes facing an allegation of racism, the go-to reflex defense is usually something along the lines of “But some of my best friends are black!” Translation: “I can’t possibly be racist or racially insensitive because there are black people I like and they like me. So there.””
Keli Goef could truthfully say the same thing – and She would be and probably is just as racist. But in addition to probably being a racist – from her own words she is definately a bigot. One who is intolerantly devoted to her own opinions and prejudices.
Did the NAACP used their “scoring” method to influence other politicians?
Just wondering.
I believe one of the unfortunate legacies Barack Obama will leave behind is that the next black American to run for President will be faced with the humiliating proposition of having to prove to everyone that he or she is not another Barack Obama. That’s why I root for politicians like Allen West and Mia Love because I think they can achieve sufficient stature and public trust to mitigate such a possibility. I wish more black Americans (and white liberals) could see past the NCAAP-inspired rhetoric and realize that their goals are only for the common good of us all.
Equating Strom Thurmond fathering a child with an employee over whom he had considerable power with Paul Ryan dating a black woman of her own free will strikes me as a formulation by someone who hasn’t been reading their own material about the “war on women”. Of course, she also easily forgives the serial infidelities of those who score higher than 60% on the NAACP list.
I have heard and read the opinings of many who have made the claim that the election of obama to the presidency is proof that this nation is not a racist nation. I wonder. Doesn’t it prove the opposite? obama has no life accomplishments, his school work is of such low quality that he, at great personal expense, must hide it from public dissemination, and his performance in the 3 and one half years of his term of office have showcased his inadequacy in virtually EVERY aspect of performing as the president of a great nation. It would seem that his election is more the result of voters who DID NOT WANT TO BE ACCUSED OF RACISM, than it is of voters pleased with his curriculum vitae (a CV that was anemically sparse).
As it turns out, this president is SPECTACULARLY incompetent. Some will disagree with this and say that he is moving apace with his goal of turning the constitutional republic into a socialist/facist European clone. I, however, believe that, though this changeover is what he desires, his failure is so massive and obvious because of the aspects of running a country in a world full of other countries. obama has absolutely no clue about small business, blue collar working people, family unity, foreign relations (every kid in a school yard knows about negotiating from weakness, and how it guarantees that one will be bullied forever), and tamping down the urge to wax arrogant.
in his own words PROOF positive that Obama does not intend to uphold the Constitution, and does not think he needs to- is hellbent upon changing it-Someone should tell his Odumbass that the Supreme Court justices are not allowed to CHANGE the Constitution and are bound to rule on it the way it was written- we are supposed to believe this was his major area of study? ###FAIL a scholar? His emphasis on redistribution and “group rights’ proves his is a socialist and a person who thinks we OWE minority groups some kind of payback and that MOB rule, protests en masse are a substitute for the Legislatures?
really this statement alone is enough to realize what this man stands for and it’s is not the Republic
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But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. … It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.
And that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.
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it’s not a tragedy- it’s the beauty of the whole system we have, and he hates it
It appears to me the article is fatally flawed, because it mistakes “human rights” for civil rights, when the two are actually antithetical.
The Constitution is designed to safeguard liberty, the greatest possible amount of personal freedom. To do this, the Constitution, primarily in the Bill of Rights, has set forth a number of civil rights. These civil rights are held by the individual against the government—that is, the civil rights embodied in the Constitution are means by which the individual can slap the government on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper, as one would a misbehaving dog, when the government oversteps the limited powers it is permitted under the Constitution.
“Human rights” are something quite different. They are not rights held by the individual against the government, but special indulgences granted by the government to favored groups. Entitlements are “human rights”; “hate crime laws” are “human rights”; “anti-bullying laws” are “human rights.” None of these are “rights” as the Constitution understands them; all of them, and more, are special privileges, “gimme”-giveaways, and the like.
The Civil Rights Movement degenerated from a true civil rights movement to a human-rights movement after the passage of the Voting Rights Act; it went from demanding protection for the civil rights that are the birthright of every citizen to the special giveaways and set-asides of affirmative action. While affirmative action giveaways and adjustments and set-asides have been sold for nearly half a century as “civil rights law,” they are, without exception human rights special privileges. The black civil rights movement is not alone in this, of course; the “women’s movement” and the gay-rights movement are overwhelmingly human-rights movements, though they work to cloak their seeking of human-rights special privileges in the tattered remnants of Civil Rights Movement rhetoric, and to pass off their special privilege demands as “civil rights.”
The gradual acceptance in general discourse of “human rights” as being the same as civil rights is both pernicious and perilous. It undermines understanding of what the Constitution is and how it was designed to function, and—worse—it fosters the belief that “civil rights” are something Americans hold from the government rather than realizing that civil rights are rights we hold against the government.
Whenever you hear someone talking about “civil rights,” look to see if they are talking about a right against the government, or merely demanding a benefit or concession from the government and/or some segment of society based upon a particular status. If the latter—and it usually is the latter—it is not a civil right but a “human right” that is being demanded.
There is no place in America for “human rights.” A robust Constitution and a robust understanding of civil rights makes “human rights” wholly unnecessary.
Want to make certain I have this right. If I’m black I’m not a racist. If I’m white I am……. Hummm…. someone get that little boy and have him plug this hole.
PS: After watching the DNC I’m concerned. How could that many villages be bereft of their idiots for that long?
I am a former black activist. I no longer participate. Several reasons developed over the years that lead me to this decision.
1. I ended my NAACP membership for their support of abortion when about 40% of children being aborted are black. The NAACP never addresses this disparate impact.
2. The calling of a white person racist and black people uncle toms became the prevalent method of refuting the arguments of people that “civil rights” activist disagreed with. Every position consisted of or included ad hominem attacks. When I saw this habitual response, I assume that consistent attacks on a person’s character is evidence that their opponent could not refute their argument.
(When I started to be called uncle tom whenever I would suggest in meeting that the group pursue a course of action other than labeling all our problems the result of white racism, and seeking some government solution, being the sensitive guy I am, I reached the conclusion that it’s exit time)
3. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I am 70 years old and I grew up in a cohesive, moral orientated, and functioning all black community on the west coast. As we left the GOD of the Bible for the god of Government, (baited by the Anti Poverty Program) our communities and our family structure began toto disintegrate and the end point that appears to be total collapse of the inner city Black Community. But the self-designated Black leadership talking heads solely and merely call for redoubling of efforts to get more of the same asserting that with enough Government handouts and laws, our problems will be solved. Insanity!
I cannot tell you the number of times where I have had my political convictions questioned by my fellow blacks because I wasn’t in lockstep with them on certain issues. As good consumers we’d never think about blindly purchasing a product without first checking to see if there were any worthwhile alternatives/competitors. It’s kind of like sticking with a Sony when the Toshiba across the aisle got better reviews and costs much less. With blacks and politics, that’s exactly what happens. Black leaders (and their liberal cheering section on the sidelines) know this and play it for all it’s worth. Any attempt to remove the blinders is met with stinging rebukes, criticism, and of course the obligatory attempts at character assassination.
The only ‘advice’ or words of encouragement is continue in a lucid, respectful and fact-filled manner with your aforementioned friends, colleagues etc.,
Truth and a cool head is all we as people have, pursue.
What I find truly fascinating in this day and age is EVERY form of entertainment and the entertainer(s) who participate in said methods to be known & heard, their lives are brought to our psyche via t.v., blogs, web programs, radio, pictures etc.,
Yet the most powerful job in the world, POTUS whereas our CiC is a person whose life is most times an open book. OR should be of claiming to be ‘the most transparent..’ and is anything but.
Yet the same ‘news’ affiliates who dig and dig into reality t.v. participants and other 15 minutes of fame seekers do NADA, actually COVER for our leader’s checkered, often times unsavory past.
As well as glazing over or saying NOTHING altogether of his failings, failures.
I don’t understand their willing dereliction of duty to cover for this empty suited ideologue. Is it to receive a sickening-like ‘praise’ from our CIC-grifter? Caring all the more for a pat on their obedient heads so to speak from Uhbama rather than providing essential news which GLARINGLY shows our country’s economic, employable and defensive demise?
Judging individuals by the content of their character precludes herding them into racial voting blocs. Dr. King dreamt of harmony, not animosity, brotherly love, not class division. For him as for us, civil rights are a means to that end, not the Marxist end of redistributive change advocated by the NAACP and President Barack Obama. We prefer the current oligarchic wealth transfer Our Lord Ronnie instituted in the year of our Lord 0 (1980 C.E.)
It’s sad when people attempting satire can only produce flat-tire.
It’s not poverty. American Africans control more wealth in the USA, as a group, than they have anywhere, ever. American Africans have had legally implemented PREFERENTIAL treatment, for nigh on 60 years. The more they are given – the worse they get.
The continent of Africa is wildly rich in natural resources, and possesses half the BEST farmland in the world. Only Black Africans could find a way to starve, in such a place.
It’s THEM.
It’s genes.
Hey do you know there are trade agreements that keep African countries from farming their land an exporting.. These are regimes propped up by western countries.. Its not as simple as you state.. Do more research than what feeds your bigotry needs.
Balls. Are trade agreements responsible for the slaughtered White farmers in Rhodesia, who tan farms for 200 years? Functioning farms. Do you know how long it takes to ghet farmland up to speed? Do you know what it takes to tun a successful farm? Why didn’t Mugabe’s Black thugs and murderers just take over those farms, and run thme successfully right off the bat?
Stop making EXCUSES. I care about MY Race. That means segregation. Blacks can return to their traditonal African diets of hunting and xonsuming each other. And are doing so.
Whites don’t owe Blacks a THING.
Again. I guess your conveniently forgetting all the blood that spilled all over Rhodesia/Zimbabwe an all of colonized Africa to gain those lands. Nobody said “Whites” owe “Blacks” anything. The Governments who exploited Africa do. No matter what the color. Regardless of how simple Africans lived until colonization does not give others the right to exploit their humanity. Africa was thriving while you cave dwellers were just discovering fire. If you care so much about your race. Go preach to the “White” world about there declining birthrates… You are the reason the GOP has no chance going forward. Its not about liberalism or entitlements. Its the intolerance an ignorance you breed. Your party is full of people like you. People who people of color see through an it taints your entire political agenda. When the GOP an its supporters strongly separate from types like you. Then an only then will people of color share their conservatism with the GOP. Until then Dems will get the votes an continue to pass a liberal agendas… To all real conservatives for every Denise you coddle for votes. You lose 100 people of color. It really is that simple.. Imagine her as a teacher, police officer, doctor, judge, politician. Instead of night manager at the bowling alley..
Yep! Here we are, America in early 21st century.
And what exercises us more than any other subject? Whether someone – anyone – is, has had, or thought of having a companion, a lover, a friend, a parent of another race. In this instance one with skin hue different from the caucausian pink/white. Whatever that means.
Playing into the hands of the game contrived and engineered for the past half century by the destructive multicultural America hating and feel your pain compassionate “liberals”. Among their gambits this ploy to distract the populace from their aim to “fundamentally transform” read destroy these United States via their commentariate, punditry, intelligentsia, congressmen, lawyers/judges collaboators.
We the people, play the game by their rules. To avoid facing their insinuating a person of questionable constitutional, lawful, eligibility into the Office of President of the USA.
If unilateral, one-Party, CHANGE to the Constitution on the chance that no one with the clout to examine will or dare do so does not “secretly and unknown in the night …undermine the pillars of the city” what does?
Is there any more crucial matter than possible relegation of the law on which the nation rests? No, we get our knickers in a twist about that most crucial subject of personal relationships of people we hardly know.
Instead of examining and requiring facts FACTS as against narrative about the personal life and trajectory of the man who sits in the White House and determines what happens to us – Americans – now and into the far future.
The question is Are Americans citizens of a Constitutional Republic or not? If not then why continue the pretence by citing the Constitution when convenient to sound grand and purposeful, or whatever. Stop the pretence and say openly we’re just another group of people ruled by gangs, even criminals, gangsters.
And we could care less as long as our fave soap isn’t interrupted.
Do any of you take in consideration the history of this country or the west policies in general? Its not at all as simple as most of you state. Blacks were forced into poverty. And poverty breeds crime.
It’s not poverty.
The continent of Africa is wildly rich in natural resources, and possesses half the BEST farmland in the world. Only Black Africans could find a way to starve, in such a place.
It’s THEM.
Ben Swann Reality Check sits down 1 on 1 with Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan to talk about defense cuts and whether President Obama is really trying to gut the military
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al2HAxRTJRU&feature=plcp
I always enjoy reading Mr Hudson’s columns. He is definitely in the upper echelon of writers. They are always well reasoned and I usually find things in them that I hadn’t thought about before.
I am a Catholic. I have always admired and liked the Jewish people. When I first moved to my predomantly Jewish neighborhood and heard the Friday night syrines , I was scared we were being attacked by the Mohammadians. I now find the call to prayer comforting, as I know people are praying. I now pray also.I will remember to include Israel in my prayers. I already pray for America. I think God is on both our sides as we believe in freedom and the capacity to respect all people.