Please book Pastor C.L. Bryant onto a show the next time that one of your analysts declares that “we think your ideology is racism” to the fiscally-libertarian Tea Party:
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On CNN today, Joan Walsh of the JournoList-tained Salon blurted today to Howard Kurtz of the JournoList-tained Washington Post that because Shirley Sherrod’s father “was murdered by a white farmer, and there were witnesses. And the white justice system never found the murderer guilty. She’s entitled to talk about race any way she wants to.”
Walsh would extend the same Absolute Moral Authority card to Pastor Bryant, a former regional president of the NAACP as well, right?
I never met my paternal grandfather. He was murdered by a black man who was never brought to justice. Ergo, my First Amendment rights remain, unlike most of you guys.
And I’m gonna talk about race by letting Morgan Freeman pinch-hit for me:
http://wormme.com/2010/07/24/true-wisdom-from-a-black-er-african-um-from-a-mans-man-baby/
Yes, the revolution is coming. Don”t hand me government cheese and take my family’s future–no deal.
Only in your dreams, Octus, only in your dreams.
If only I could think of a way to use this in the US Government class I’ll be teaching this upcoming school year.
Isn’t God awesome!!!
Thanks for the link, that’s seriously inspiring. Makes me want to run away….
Where is the evidence that Shirley Sherrod’s father was murdered by a white man? This could very well be true. Such atrocities occurred numerous times in the Old South during those awful times. Still, what are the facts? Sherrod is a very strange woman. It is quite evident that the White House is concerned that she might once again say something absurd. Sherrod, for all practical purposes, is hiding from the public. I predict that she will soon retire—and receive a large some of money from the U.S. government as a “settlement”. Of course, that means the taxpayers will pick up the tab.
“because Shirley Sherrod’s father ‘was murdered by a white farmer, and there were witnesses. And the white justice system never found the murderer guilty. She’s entitled to talk about race any way she wants to.’”
This statement is the very essence of racism – some white men are murderers, therefore we can treat other men who have nothing in common with those men – except their skin color – as murderers.
Many years ago I caught a black guy trying to steal my tape deck (blast from the past – remember tape decks?). So I am justified in considering all black guys to be thieves. Except that I don’t, because I’m not a racist.
Ms. Sherrod obviously has a problem, one she can’t blame on whitey.
It’s all true. She told me so take my word for it.
If Sherrod’s entitled to blame all whites for murdering her father, then are we entitled to blame all Muslims for murdering 3000 people on 911?
So… if any of my family are murdered by a person of color, I’ll be allowed to talk about race any way I want?
Do they really think through these thoughts before they blurt them out? Or are they so enamored of their own brilliance, no need?
BTW I didn’t see the show but I’m sure that quote has to have been taken out of context.
In 1991, my wife of one year was carjacked, raped, shot in the head and shoved naked out of the car into the roadside snow to die.
Her killer is still in prison, fat and happy, his death sentence overturned by ACLU types who began their work immediately after his conviction. Literally had her blood on his hands when he was caught.
HE IS BLACK. I AM WHITE.. and so was my beautiful angel of a wife.
Shirley’s theory gives me the right not only to hate the man who did it BECAUSE he is black (and not just because he did it), but it gives me the right to hold a lifetime grudge against ALL black people.
I do not, of course. I have never even been remotely tempted to do so. Shirley is not so rational, not so circumspect, not so NORMAL as to be able to separate a person’s acts and deeds from a person’s race or culture. She is BELOW average in intellect, vision and humanity, not above it as the left keeps trying to assert.
Ask yourself why Shirley did not appear on any Sunday shows this week to ‘sum up’ this whole tawdry affair.
THE WHITE HOUSE DOES NOT WANT HER TO TALK IN PUBLIC. too risky. Too revealing. She is a HUGE negative and will be handsomely paid to disappear from public view. And since she’s on board, ideologically, taking that order will be no problem for her, in spite of her initial sense of outrage at having been abused by the regime. That outrage rapidly reformed itself into a spate of ‘racist’ name calling on her part, including of people she had not heard of three days before the incident. And of course Fox News was racist, in spite of the fact they had not aired the tape or spoken her name before her firing.
She’s a loose cannon that makes them look bad, and she’ll be paid for her silence from here on out.
Dave in dallas, I have no words. I’m so sorry for your terrible loss, and its aftermath.
I was listening to NPR yesterday; whichever “analyst” was talking about Breitbart, taking as her theme, “consider the source.” She said that when Tea Party members “hurled” racist epithets at members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Breitbart “refused to believe” the story, tweeting sarcastically about how somebody or other was shouting the N-word outside his house – trust him! You could almost see her cocked eyebrow and half-smile as she ended the story with: “Even Andrew Breitbart doesn’t expect you to trust him.” Utterly credulous about the claims of racist epithets’ having been shouted by Tea Party people. No corroboration. No support. Just… blind faith.
Sherrod is stupid. She thinks that opposition to ObamaCare(tm) is because he is black. You have to be living under a rock or see everything in a racial context to believe that. I point out that opposition to ObamaCare(tm) is the same as was towards HillaryCare(tm) and RomneyCare(tm).
interesting point about her father. No reason to doubt that it could be true, but interesting that we have not been provided the details non-stop 24/7 about the murder.
The White House and NAACP certainly jumped the gun in rushing to condem her. And they had the full context of the tapes when they did so, since the NAACP has the tapes. So one has to wonder why. There must be far more to this story than just Shirley Sherrod’s comments.
By the way, that video is very powerful. He is indeed a runaway slave. May God keep him safe.
Best video i’ve seen in a long time.
Dave in Dallas @ comment 12:
You inadvertently nailed it with your comment about Sherrod’s “normality”: it is that continuing infantilization of African Americans in this country by the enlightened class that excuses them from responsibility for their words/thoughts/actions in cases like Sherrod’s and others which is most frustrating. This is the underappreciated essence of how “the soft bigotry of low expectations” in the adult world, and it leads blacks who buy into it nowhere in most cases unless, like Sherrod, they make their careers in government where it seems to be reinforced from within. And like the guy in the video says, there’s nothing anyone outside “the communiteh” can say in that regard that won’t be slandered as racist talk.
Oh well. You can lead a horse to water but… etc.
p.s. I shudder to think of how your loss affected you, and for how long afterwards by its sheer brutality. Best wishes.