Disband the Congressional Black Caucus
How right he was. Too bad the failure of the Obama presidency has prompted the great actor to think otherwise. If there were one thing I could tell all black people, it would be not to take Obama’s failure personally. It is failure of ideas, not remotely of race.
Yes, I understand these things happen. I cringed when Bernard Madoff, a fellow Jew, was accused and then convicted of heinous crimes. But I shouldn’t have. And Obama — no criminal — is light years from Madoff.
The time has come to get beyond such identifications. Not only are they specious, they reinforce stereotypes that too often become self-fulfilling prophecies. They define us in ways we cannot even understand, let alone easily escape from. They warp our unconscious.
In that way, affirmative action may have hurt more people than it helped, lowering that most crucial of all “liberal” pieties, self-esteem. In any case, like the Black Caucus itself, it is outdated now.
No wonder this group is so angry. Herman Cain has shown up their tired ideologies, not to mention Rep. Allen West, who accused some of their leaders of being modern day plantation overseers. Now Dennis Miller has jumped in with an endorsement of Cain and a campaign slogan: “Cain Versus Not Able.”
Cain himself was on Greta tonight, arguing that his candidacy was post-racial. America had already had its first black president.
Well, not quite. Nothing is that perfect. More precisely, Cain’s candidacy is a reminder to always be post-racial, because that’s what we should be.
And that, my friends on the Black Caucus, is the message. Stop being nostalgic for racism. You can take it from this ex-civil rights worker. Get over yourselves and disband. That will be a real contribution to civil rights.
Racism ain’t going anywhere as long as it’s useful as a political strategy. History DOES repeat itself, the first time as reality and the next as a political catch-phrase. As long as the Demogogues, er, Democrats win elections with it, they’ll revivify the old dead horse even if they have to hire a donkey and rent a costume to do it.
I agree with your post, Bucky. I’ve agreed with other posts you’ve put up here at Pajamas.
But “Buck Fush” was a new and tasteless low for the culture. Your little payback is no more tasteful, and I hope you consider changing your handle.
Thanks, and have a nice day.
I like the name just fine, it is fitting. I am actually jealous that I didnt think of it first.
Keep it up Buck.
Give up your veiled racism, dude; the days of NINA are over.
Nina who?
What does this handle have to do with racism, other than between your ears? Bucky has the same opinion of Dumbo in OUR White House as the majority of us. As the old saying goes: Get your mind out of the gutter.
Connie, I fail to see how the complaint about the name had anything to do with racism, except between your ears.
The poster was just expressing an opinion that he would prefer we don’t resort to the same gutter-ball tactics as the democrats do. It was just a polite suggestion and I second it.
Hey BOFman, why not shorten it to Buck, Bucky, Bucko or OFama and we could all have the same knowing chuckle without debasing these nice digs. No offense or anything. Just a thought.
Thanks, Becky.
History ONLY repeats itself if we refuse to learn from it and make different, better decisions. Both sides of the political arena have a very bad track record on this.
One should not find this surprising given the track record people in general have concerning the same issue. They’re too busy, history’s boring, no one care about (insert item here). They continue to make the same bad decisions over and over again, refusing to learn from the mistakes of others.
Insanity- doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome. We need new orderlies in charge at the asylum.
Thanks for this post. I can’t really watch Tom Hanks any more, and I used to enjoy his performances. Freeman’s better than Hanks at acting, and I don’t want to avoid him.
Pipe dream, though. We’re likely to see the end of the EPA and the Ed. Dept. before the Black Caucus folds its tents. What else has Maxine got?
Um. Don’t google “Morgan Freeman” and “granddaughter”, then. You won’t like it.
What happens to these people? I have never really followed Morgan Freeman so I can’t judge him, but sometimes I can’t help but wonder if guys like Charles Johnson just got stuffed into a trunk during a long a bike ride, never to be seen again, where upon an evil twin steps in and fills their shoes. Just being silly, but what is it with these people?
The way I am constantly reminded of past cultural sins (as if I was there committing them or something) it just makes me say “Why should I bother?” We change things, and bygone acts are continually dredged up and shoved at us – in both the political arena and in endless “Can you believe the world used to be this way?” moives. So really: if some “oppressed minority” wants some change, why should I bother? It won’t be actual change. They won’t let it be.
Minorities are like really annoying wives. You say you’re sorry and it doesn’t do a damned bit of good. Let’s just get a divorce.
Quit thinking of others as minorities just because they don’t look exactly like you and your problem will go away.
Not that easy, Chris. The left adopted a divide-and-conquer campaign against the country and culture back in the ‘Sixties, slicing the polity into ever smaller slices and turning them against the majority populace, “the oppressor.” What followed was the rise of the racial and grievance mongering industry. What was the melting pot became the salad bowl with everyone in a race to victimhood in order to claim a bigger share of government largesse. Forty acres and a mule isn’t dead, it’s merely waiting for the right Chavez-like figure to arise.
Which Chavez? Cesar or Hugo? There’s a great difference between them. Cesar was a decent man. Hugo is a tyrant.
The slicing and dicing started way before the 1960s. Check out this blog: http://clarespark.com/2011/02/10/multiculturalism-cui-bono/. The assault upon the melting pot was an invention of the social democrats/progressives who made race and ethnicity the division that mattered. The next blog has found hundreds of PJM readers: http://clarespark.com/2011/02/11/undoing-multiculturalism/. The whole website is about racism and antisemitism–and we have made little progress on the latter front, thanks to the Left and leftover genteel reactionaries.
Very well put, RK. That’s exactly how it is.
And I’ll thank Chris in CA for you. He illustrated your point perfectly.
Great ‘sarc’ Chris! Keep ‘em coming!!
Divorce? I don’t notice any members of the Congressional Black Caucus wanting to leave the US and go back to Africa. Maybe that’s because socialism (together with Islam) has already made a ruin of Africa, and they’ve long since run out of other people’s money over there. Here, there’s still some remnants of a white middle class left to expropriate.
A-freaking-men!
Let’s not perpetuate racial thinking; it’s not healthy
Today, he said, “hundreds of cable channels, blogs and other electronic media” have given wide dissemination to “every point of view, including the most extreme.” The result, according to Gates, though more democratic, “has fueled the coarsening and, I believe, the dumbing down of the national political dialogue.”
He described these two trends, along with some other factors, as polarizing the country at a time when the need is for “more bipartisanship, and more compromise to deal with our most serious problems.”
What you are describing is what is called the Post Modern World. That is a world that is over saturated with information to the point where there are so many points of view that what is relative is lost. The result is confusion and inability to act on what is truly relevant. If you look at the current Libyan conflict you see a perfect example of this. The propaganda of Arab Spring sweeps the world. The EU jumps in to aid the democratic forces. America is drawn in and leads from behind. The whole world cheers the downfall of Gadafi. In reality the Moslem Brotherhood just conquered another nation with the help of the US and NATO.
Well,some sportswriter once opined that racism in Major League Baseball didn’t end the day they hired Frank Robinson as a manager….it ended the day they fired him for the same reason that his white predecessors has always been fired before him…not willing enough ball games….the CBC hasn’t been winning too many either as of late.
Odd that you should choose a baseball analogy. I have been thinking about Jackie Robinson lately. According to the story the way I heard it, the Dodgers were careful to pick the right black ballplayer – one with both the right temperament and the talent. Reportedly, there was a real fear that if Jackie Robinson failed, no other black player would ever have a chance.
Well, Obama strikes me as the Jackie Robinson who failed. He can’t run, throw, field, or hit. That in no way means there isn’t an Aaron, Mays, Stargell, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, etc. out there that could succeed. However, I suspect there are people who truly fear that the failure of the Obama version of the Jackie Robinson story (in this case, presidential politics rather than baseball) will prevent others from having a real chance in the future.
The really sad part is Obama’s failures are purely a result of his misguided ideology. He actually thinks he can over-rule the law of supply & demand. It is also really sad that the majority of blacks probably won’t support Herman Cain or anyone else who actually understands that every time Government suppresses the willingness of one individual it causes the opportunities of other people to go away.
I don’t have a problem with people belonging to racist organizations, but I have a big, big problem with government subsidizing racist organizations.
The CBC is now, and always has been a blatantly racist organization…and it shouldn’t recieve one cent of taxpayer money.
If you want to have an organization that discriminates on the basis of skin color, fine. Just don’t do it on my dime.
I agree with Dave Surls 10:59 above.
He is perfectly right on the money in pointing out government should not pay for nor sponsor
the Congressional Black Caucus.
The 1st Amendment protects freedom of assembly and association. It does not
say government shall subsidize such activity. To me it’s like all of our freedoms,
freedoms of the individual(s) to believe as they chose, and to act in keeping with the constitution.
These rights impose the duty on Government to not pick and pay
for certain associations nor pick and punish other associations.
If freedom is to mean anything it must mean freedom from government involvement.
And this constitutional prohibition needs to be applied to the Congressional Black Caucus.
And likewise it needs to be applied to the public sector as well.
Post by D. Senate, Private Sector
agree.
Congratulations, Roger, on saying what needed to be said.
Since the 1965 Moynihan Report http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/webid-meynihan.htm and the 1966 Coleman Report http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0400web/18.html, we have known that the single most important predictor of accomplishment at school, and economic success later in life is the family life during the early pre-school years: parental interactions with their own children, vocabulary-building and reading together, well before a child sets foot in any classroom.
Rather than emphasize the critical importance of these early years of learning to learn English vocabulary, the CBC and the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons and now unto the Jesse Jackson Juniors have lived off their insistence that black under-achievement in this country is solely the fault of the majority white population.
The entire affirmative action movement has resulted in stigmatized students who never knew whether they’d been admitted to Ivy League universities such as transcript-free Columbia for our president and Princeton for Mrs. Obama, whose “honors thesis” speaks for itself, followed by transcriptless studies at the Harvard Law School for them both, and Yale College and the University of Virginia Law School for Representative Sheila Jackson Lee: were they admitted because of their color or their academic achievements?
The entire Maxine Waters-Jesse Jackson-Al Sharpton approach to public discourse — ranting at anyone who would listen that blacks continue to kept down by white racism is, indeed, becoming less persuasive and more shrill and senseless. It is long past the time to disband the CBC. Bill Cosby, Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele have stood up for education as the path out of poverty and out of the many pathologies of the black community. Blaming honkeys is so 20th century. MLK Jr. wanted his children to be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their characters. But the CBC is clinging to wishing to be judged solely by the color of their skins. It’s over.
Congratulations, Roger, on saying what needed to be said.
Since the 1965 Moynihan Report http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/webid-meynihan.htm and the 1966 Coleman Report http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0400web/18.html, we have known that the single most important predictor of accomplishment at school, and economic success later in life is the family life during the early pre-school years: parental interactions with their own children, vocabulary-building and reading together, well before a child sets foot in any classroom.
Rather than emphasize the critical importance of these early years of learning to learn English vocabulary, the CBC and the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons and now even unto the Jesse Jackson Juniors have lived off their insistence that black under-achievement in this country is solely the fault of the majority white population.
The entire affirmative action movement has resulted in stigmatized students who never knew whether they’d been admitted to Ivy League universities such as transcript-free Columbia for our president and Princeton for Mrs. Obama, whose “honors thesis” speaks for itself, followed by transcriptless studies at the Harvard Law School for them both, and Yale College and the University of Virginia Law School for Representative Sheila Jackson Lee: were they admitted because of their color or their academic achievements?
The entire Maxine Waters-Jesse Jackson-Al Sharpton approach to public discourse — ranting at anyone who would listen that blacks continue to kept down by white racism is, indeed, becoming less persuasive and more shrill and senseless. It is long past the time to disband the CBC. Bill Cosby, Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele have stood up for education as the path out of poverty and out of the many pathologies of the black community. Blaming honkeys is so 20th century. MLK Jr. wanted his children to be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their characters. But the CBC is clinging to to being judged solely by the color of their skins. It’s over. Time to pay attention to reality. Hard, but essential.
Some white congressperson should ask to join and when s/he is turned down, s/he should file a complaint with whoever a congressperson files racist complaints with and if nothing is done, they should take it to Federal court and have a some poor federal judge ORDER the CBC to disband or, at least, order the Federal government to stop whatever funding these people might be getting.
I bet they’ll scream racism if and when it happens.
Part of your scenario already took place. A Jewish Dem won a mostly black Congressional district in Tennessee, and he tried to join – for his constituents’ sake, supposedly. (This was within the last six years. The same guy, a real lefty, made news because his black primary opponent’s campaign got all anti-Semitic.)
Got turned down. The CBC isn’t about REPRESENTING blacks, you see.
Racism as we knew it is over, unless for reasons of nostalgia or personal or political gain, you want to keep it alive.
The clues are always there, if you are willing to grasp them.
The Left is not, and never has been, “anti-racist”.
You’re right, Roger. Time to move past these old relics of grievance. Time to raise up those like Herman who have become success through grit and determination.
I agree. Excellent column by Mr Simon.
I would only ask that at the same time the CBC is disbanded, that the CWC (Congressional White Caucus) is also disbanded, a relic that exists well beyond its need. Same for the White History Month–get rid of it.
America needs a Congressional American Caucus and perhaps a American History Month; it seems that too many of the elected leaders have forgotten (or perhaps never learned) American History.
OMG-ABO,
Sandy
In about 30 years, we’re going to be so intermixed, that nobody can decide what race they are anymore. Much sooner, those of mixed race are going to get pretty tired of not getting into Harvard because they can’t define their race accurately for the ‘race police’. I hope I live to see the revolt.
Keep dreaming. Most people WANT to marry someone of the same race-it is their choice.
Genetics studies in some areas of the country (Kentucky and Tennessee, I think, among others) has shown that 25% or more of people who self-identify as Caucasian have a significant proportion of African and Native American genes. This is because of mulattos “passing” as white before the 1960s, among other things.
Conclusion? We’re all pretty well mixed up, race is meaningless, and it is ENTIRELY, at this point, about how you look, not what your genes actually say. (I have been mistaken for about six different ethnicities – I’m just a freakin’ hillbilly, srsly! – because I have so much mutt in my family tree.)
I really don’t understand why anyone makes an issue of it at this point. It’s just dumb.
“Black History is AMERICAN History.”
Yes, Mr. Freeman. God bless you for saying that.
Time to tell the hyphonettas, the carpetbaggers and the federal phrenologists to go get a life and shut they ignorant face.
C’mon Michele, you be educated about race science. Tell us about the gene what makes us be a color and the one what makes us be a race. Give us the science about how many drops of what blood make us what color?
C’mon, girl. Busta move on the Pantone chart and lay it down for the nation — how the shade that we be made gotsta equal the aid that we be paid.
The chilren need to know how many drops of black blood mean they black and how many drops of white blood mean they white. They got to know what blood they spose to be gettin so they don’t lose out on Obama’s money.
Do they need Injun blood? Jew blood? Yellow blood? Brown blood? Arab blood? And how about that Educated blood?
Please, Mrs. Obama. Tell us so we don’t miss out on gettin our social justice, human rights and affirmative actions. I got to have my race science together so I can finish my Ivy Doctorate in Diversity Studies, get me my federal grant and write social justice legislation bout who gonna po-lice who got what drops of what blood who be getting money from the federal program what makes us all equal.
Racism will ALWAYS be on the front burner for the unremarkable/falling far short of one’s expectations types.
Why blame one’s self when you can blame one with a different pigment?
For every book, movie or documentary regarding racism being for the most part in the rear view mirror, the CBC and their useful idiots hit back threefold with fictitious books, movies ‘interviews’ etc.,
As for Morgan Freeman and the other “I know the plight, desperation and YES solutions needed to fix all facets of our troubled world’.
These Hollywood types consider their job of make-believe puts them in higher standing! Hahahaha
Even though Freeman & company live in a completely myopic, self-centered and morally void universe. Where his neighbors are the same hypocrites/hedonistic assholes who lack the education, reasoning and moral fiber to have ANY type of reasoned, lucid conclusions.
Freeman and his other moronic minions who to be honest are about as interesting as burlap outside their movie persona, should STFU, take out his stupid ‘hipster’ earring and come to an epiphany. 99% + of he and his Hollywood ‘colleagues’ are too stupid, out of touch to provide ANy kind of sensible ‘help’ with any financial, social, gender etc, events of any magnitude.
Yikes, Roger, it’s Tavis Smiley. Peace.
As for the CBC.. the CBC means never having to say you’re sorry nor be held accountable for anything you say, do or enact. In the process furthering the obtainable goals of U.S. Blacks.
It’s D.C.’s version of ‘Hollywood’ instead using taxpayer’s cash for their extravagance, vitriol and counterproductive ways.
I now put “American” on all applications/forms in the “race” box. I suggest everyone do the same.
That’s exactly what I put during the ’08 Census. I also asked why there wasn’t more, you know for PC’s sake, more nationalities mentioned for the Caribbean, South Pacific, Aleutians peoples etc.,
I put Native American – on account of my having been born here.
I’ve heard the census people say that if you put American or Native American (their box actually says Indian now to distinquish) they mark you down as white.
Yes they do.
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity
AGENCY: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Topics for further research:
There are two areas where OMB accepts the Interagency Committee’s recommendations but believes that further research is needed: (1) multiple responses to the Hispanic origin question and (2) an ethnic category for Arabs/Middle Easterners.
Research on an Arab/Middle Easterner category.–During the public comment process, OMB received a number of requests to add an ethnic category for Arabs/Middle Easterners so that data could be obtained that could be useful in monitoring discrimination.
In cases where individuals do not self-identify, the U.S. census parameters for race give each national origin a racial value.
Additionally, people who reported Muslim , Jewish, Zoroastrian, or Caucasian as their “race” in the “Some other race” section, without noting a country of origin, are automatically tallied as white.
The US Census considers the write-in response of “Caucasian” or “Aryan” to be a synonym for white in their ancestry code listing.
The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those “having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, and within the Middle East, or North Africa”, presumably referring to Ethnic groups of Europe, Ethnic groups of the Middle East and Ethnic groups of North Africa, respectively.
Like all official U.S. racial categories, “White” has a “Not Hispanic or Latino” and a “Hispanic or Latino” component, the latter consisting mostly of White Mexican Americans and white Cuban Americans.
Self-identifying break down.
German Americans (14.5%) , Sub-Saharan African Americans (13.6%) , Non-White Hispanic American (11.4) , Irish Americans (10.3%) , English Americans (9.0%) , Italian Americans (6.2%) , Polish Americans (3.1%) , Scottish American (2.7%) , Multiracial (2.6%) , Chinese Americans (2.4%) , French Americans (2.1%) , Dutch Americans (1.9%) , Hispanic-White Americans (1.8%) , Norwegian Americans (1.6%) , Swedish Americans (1.5%) , Arab Americans (1.2%) , Native Indian American,Inuit,Aluetian (1.2%) , Vietnamese Americans (1.1%) , West Indian,Haiti,Jamaica (1.1%) , Russian Americans (0.93%) , Cuban Americans (0.81%) , India American (0.73%) ,Iranian Americans (0.66%) , Latin Americans (0.62%) , Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Americans (0.51%) ,Philipino American (0.45%) , Japanese Americans (.41%) , Greek Americans (0.38%) , Welsh Americans (0.31%) ,Danish Americans (0.22%) , Thai American (0.17%) , Turkish Americans (0.9%) ,Latvia-Lithuanian-Estonian Americans (0.7%) , Romanian (0.6%) , Lebanese Americans (0.4%) , Portuguese Americans (0.4%) , Serbian-Bosnian Americans (0.3%) and Armenian Americans (0.2%)
Idk how accurate the report is but African – Americans are not, and have not been a minority for a long time,neither are Hispanics.
I’ve been writing “Human” since I was first asked to fill out such a questionnaire in 1966 — to cross the border from Uganda into Kenya, as it happened.
me too
As the first poster said, the racism gambit is rhetorically, and therefore politically useful, and will last as long as that condition persists. Therefore, to make it vanish, it must be made politically harmful to those who wield it.
Tony Katz had an approach (“Racers”) which seems to have puddled out. Perhaps ridicule will work. If not that, then simple indifference. But I have a feeling that nothing will work swiftly, and that the cooperation of so-called “moderates” will be required to make anything work at all.
Roger,
I have a confession to make. About six months ago I stopped reading PJM articles. I thought I could grab what I wanted to contribute from the headlines and subheads. It reminded me of my Albany Law School days when I believed that getting the general idea of cases without drilling down to the most specific issues would get me through class if I were called on. Which only succeeded a small part of the time. If I got called on, the professor would have be squirming like a small mouth bass trying to figure out what some hundred year old property case was really about. I hated those hook in the mouth days.
Tonight, though, I decided to read most of Roger’s article on the Black Caucus and racism.
Racism, now there’s a topic I’ve got down pat.
The Peepers position on Racism coalesced when Holder decided to let the Panther voter intimidators get off scot free. To wit: that decision effectively killed racism as a leftist bomb throwing tactic. Calling me a racist from that moment on become no more worrisome than having to adjust the volume with the remote control in your hand.
Of course, not all conservative Republicans got my message because I think I was only writing on a couple of blogs at the time, one of them with the alligator arm reach of a Giants receiver going over the middle to catch an Eli Manning pass.
These days, yelling racism is like taking ambien for 25 years. Its effectiveness reaches absolute zero. In fact, you start to remember more and eat less.
An aside, for anyone not as conversant with drugs as myself. Did you know how they named Ambien? Bien is French for good. And A.M. is the universal symbol for morning. Hence, good morning.
Aside II, tonight I heard some TV commentator say nobody should count Obama out. The news guy should be checked for a pulse. The fat lady sang for Obama as soon as the ink was wet on ObamaCare. Obama had no more feel for America than an empty bottle of Stella Artois. Obama’s political instincts remind me of Hitler’s strategic military instincts; like invading the Soviets.
If Hitler were smart, he’d have massed an invasion of England in June 1944 at Calais, France. If the allies invaded Calais, Hitler could have driven them to the sea. If the allies invaded Normandy, Germany could have left Calais and invaded England easily. But I don’t want to get you all bound up in military strategy. I just like pointing out what a dumb military strategist Hitler was, and correspondingly, what a dirt dumb politician Obama is. Obama’s doubled and tripled down on losing strategies. That’s why Mrs. Peepers and Phoebe, two of my feral cats, could beat Obama in 2012. When Obama hits the 17 trillion deficit, what’s he gonna say?
Obama’s objective since day one was to destroy every ideal America stands for. He knew he’d be a one term president by day two of his Presidency. His handling of the Black Panthers and his directing Holder to announce that America was a nation of white male cowards dug a deep hole for himself. Even Sotomayer, the Himmler lookalike can’t help him. It took 7 years for Hitler’s evil American-hating machinations to catch up to him, and make him a physical wreck. I predict Obama develops strange conditions that precludes him from running for a second term. He wants to bow out gracefully: 75 million dollars richer.
Look, Germany survived a sign painter who hated the jews. This country can survive a president with a girlie golf swing that hates the Jews.
America’s about to give Zero the beating of his life. If he wins Ca. and New York in 2012, he can consider himself lucky.
Rachel;
“America’s about to give Zero the beating of his life. If he wins Ca. and New York in 2012, he can consider himself lucky.”
From your lips, or keyboard, to God’s ear
he will only win california if he gets the national total vote; jerry brown and the other statists looking to undo the electoral college still think we are living in the “florida chad” days
If the allies invaded Normandy, Germany could have left Calais and invaded England easily.
He didn’t have a navy — or a competitive one anyway.
According to you:
If Hitler were smart, he’d have massed an invasion of England in June 1944 at Calais, France. If the allies invaded Calais, Hitler could have driven them to the sea. If the allies invaded Normandy, Germany could have left Calais and invaded England easily. But I don’t want to get you all bound up in military strategy. I just like pointing out what a dumb military strategist Hitler was, and correspondingly, what a dirt dumb politician Obama is. Obama’s doubled and tripled down on losing strategies. That’s why Mrs. Peepers and Phoebe, two of my feral cats, could beat Obama in 2012. When Obama hits the 17 trillion deficit, what’s he gonna say?
Obama’s objective since day one was to destroy every ideal America stands for. He knew he’d be a one term president by day two of his Presidency. His handling of the Black Panthers and his directing Holder to announce that America was a nation of white male cowards dug a deep hole for himself. Even Sotomayer, the Himmler lookalike can’t help him. It took 7 years for Hitler’s evil American-hating machinations to catch up to him, and make him a physical wreck. I predict Obama develops strange conditions that precludes him from running for a second term. He wants to bow out gracefully: 75 million dollars richer.
Look, Germany survived a sign painter who hated the jews. This country can survive a president with a girlie golf swing that hates the Jews.
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Hitler DID mass a large force at Calais in June 1944. This was inspired by an intricate Allied plan to convince him that this is where they’d land at D-Day, rather than Normandy. The Allied plan was so effective that even after the Normandy invasion, Hitler and his generals considered Normandy a feint and left troops at Calais in preparation for the “real” attack which they were convinced was about to happen. However, Hitler’s forces in Calais were not intended to invade Britain. Hitler gave up on that in 1940 after failing to win the Battle of Britain. Had he realized that the Royal Air Force was on its last legs while the Luftwaffe was still very strong, he might well have launched Sea Lion, the seaborne invasion of Britain. It probably still wouldn’t have been successful though. Churchill confided after the war that an invasion of Britain would have stood almost no chance and represented the least of his worries at the time. Invading Britain in 1944 was way, WAY too late and would have done Hitler very little good. You’d know that if you were at all conversant with the history of WW II.
By the same token, if you were really familiar with WW II, you’d know that while Hitler was indeed concerned about America’s possible contributions to the Allied war effort, his hatred was reserved primarily for the Soviets. They were the people he sent 299 divisions against in June 1941, not the Americans. He aimed to conquer the Soviet Union, or at least the part west of the Urals, and came very close to doing so for a time. Something on the order of 27 million Soviet citizens died as a result of Hitler’s invasion, 11 million of those being Soviet soldiers and the rest being civilians. The Western Allies between them lost less than 1 million soldiers and civilians. That number alone should show you where Hitler’s primary focus was.
It certainly didn’t take 7 years for Hitler’s American-hating machinations to catch up with him. Hitler was elected at the beginning of 1933. He died by his own hand in 1945. Simple arithmetic reveals that this was 12 years, not 7.
As for being a sign-painter, that is just Allied propaganda. Hitler was an aspiring painter of landscapes, not signs. He had applied for art school as a young man but was turned down. A collection of his paintings was sold recently at one of the big auction houses. The modern concensus is similar to the concensus of those who ruled on his admission to art school as a young man: he simply wasn’t very good. But he wasn’t a sign painter. This website displays a sampling of his work: http://www.snyderstreasures.com/pages/hartworks.htm
STick to current affairs, Rachel. Your knowledge of history is feeble at best.
From the “The Vagabond” – 1909-1913,,, a history of Adolph Hitler (http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/biography-of-adolf-hitler/49-hitler-bio-part-2)
“in 1909, he moved to Vienna in the hope of somehow earning a living. Within a year he was living in homeless shelters and eating at charity soup-kitchens. He had declined to take regular employment and took occasional menial jobs and sold some of his paintings or advertising posters whenever he could to provide sustenance.”
Hitler did do advertising jobs, ie., paint posters and signs. So Rachel isn’t too far off the mark when she said he was a sign painter.
‘Sway it is, Rachel isn’t rewriting history,,, you are.
Thanks for the link to H’s paintings. They’re interesting – sort of competent for an advanced amateur, but there’s always something “off” about them. Static, muted colors, and sometimes the lines and perspective seem out of skew.
Tiny shadowy people, big buildings – often disproportionately large buildings in relation to the human figures. That says a lot, I think.
I believe Rachel is speaking of 1938 to 1945, the locus of his power. 7 years.
It appears that your knowledge of history is not much dipper.
H. didn’t hate Russians. His hate was reserved strictly for Jews. He attacked Russia, because he did not have a choice(at least in his mind). His intelligence apparatus reported that Stalin was massing for the war. He tried to Blitz Crick and we know what happened. That is from documents released from Russia.
Minor Change,
This country can survive a president with a girlie golf swing that hates Americans and American culture
Rachel Peepers is right about this:
Re: Holder;s decision effectively killed racism as a leftist bomb throwing tactic.
Not so sure that I agree that Obama will step down. I noted way back months ago that I thought that “they” wanted to replace Obama. It was obvious because they allowed their dogs to be unleashed. Those dogs are very well trained to sit and are never allowed to wander off and pee anywhere except where they are trained to pee. So when even one or two of the pets from the kennel began to have an oft thought without being instantly whistled back, it was clear that something was amiss.
I think there is division in the ranks and thus we see get to raise an eyebrow when politico and the atlantic and the all of the others are allowed to have rouge thoughts bubble up from their swamp of conformity.
Maybe “they” want Obama to step down and he is too narcisstic to do so. Who knows. Rachel P. may be right and Obama will feel a sudden need to spend more time with the family, but one thing is clear, their dogs are being allowed a bit more freedom to roam and sniff about the park. And as of lately, they can even jump Obama’s leg without getting a swift kick. So clearly, it not set in stone that Obama will be the nominee.
Obama not run again? with HIS ego? if you think that then you don’t understand the narcissicm of the man. he is the center of the universe; just ask him.
and I don’t see Hillary or any other Dem pushing him out either, without endangering the black vote. altho it never does to count a Clinton out…
I concur. Obama has already said that he would not mind being a one term president so long as he accomplished his most important goals in four years. It might be prudent of him to skip the election in which he will be defeated as he would then be able to keep all of the BILLION dollars his campaign has already collected. What a scam!!
“…what a dirt dumb politician Obama is.”
I’m not so sure. I only say that because his handling of the birth cert. was masterful in that he marginalized a whole group of his opponents and the topic can never be brought up again. Having said that, you might be right – to do that he had to continue to have the whole of the MSM behind him, which he still seems to have (and it must have been his handlers who thought up the strategy). As dumb as Barry Soetero may or may not be, I think, unfortunately, it speaks volumes re. the American public that they voted him in. That decades of public “education” has made it impossible for the majority of Americans (of any colour) to think (i.e., discern) is a sad state of affairs.
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A California students’ group plans to go ahead with a bake sale where Asian- and African-Americans will be charged less than whites today, despite triggering a racism row.
And ofcourse, nothing could be more racist than pointing out that liberals are racist. That’s why moonbats’ heads are exploding over the Berkeley College Republicans “Increase Diversity Bake Sale,” which offers a pricing structure that reflects race-based admission preferences.
http://moonbattery.com/?p=2713
Great link! Gotta love the response from guy who said “it doesn’t require discrimination, it only allows it”. (I keep thinking about that scene from “Reanimator” where the guys head starts vibrating, then explodes) This kind of inanity is hard to wrap my brain around.
Equally funny was Obama’s chastisement of the CBC the other day, and the predictably boorish response from the so called black leadership like rep Waters…”march with me people!”. Where? Off a cliff?
Racism is alive and well and flourishes in the “black community”. Of course, no one knows who is this ‘black community’, because those who live in the oldstyle Black culture, churchgoing, two parent, careing and hard working are the victims, while the “new style” gangbanger, baby factory, drug abusing seem to be the majority.
When I grew up, in the (very) racist St. Louis, it would have been impossible to have a Obama as a viable politician. Not because the white majority (then) would have opposed it, but because the Black community would never have permitted a mullato to attempt it. Black was Black, anything else was white. And mullatos’ ranked somewhere around “poor white trash”.
The Democratic Party fought against Civil Rights legislation until they realized it was an absolute loser. The integration of the armed forces helped drive the issue, because it proved that black or white didn’t matter, it was how you fought. But that same Democratic Party now puts itself forward as the “protecter” of the ‘disadvantaged’ person of color, and it really does not matter what color so long as he/she can vote, and so long as he/she is willing to follow blindly.
Once upon a time, the Democrats had some giants in politics, one that readily comes to mind was Barbra Jordan of Texas. Now there is Maxine Waters, what a waste. Andrew Young had potential, but wasted it. Instead we have the Cleavers, Sharptons, Jacksons and their ilk who rely on something they may have done 50 years ago as pertinent to today. To have marched at Selma was important then, and for about 20 years thereafter, but has no significance now.
Now, it appears we have some new ‘stars’ rising, but they seem to be in the Republican horizen. Mr. Cain is an excellent candidate. Will he win? I doubt it, because he will not get the support of the black community. He likely will get the support of the Black minority but who knows. Col. West is the future, as is the gentleman from South Carolina.
We have to believe, and desire this to be a truely color blind society and to stop thinking about it. People are people, we need to promote the good ones, and fire or de-rail the bad ones, skin color has nothing to do with it.
The wind has been well and truly sown over the last four decades …
Maybe Morgan Freeman didn’t need racism back when he said he didn’t want a Black History Month. But maybe now that he’s getting ready to marry his step-daughter (or is it his step-grand daughter?) after divorcing his wife of 26 years he may feel he needs a little extra line of defense. Hey, it seems to work for Obama. If you’re against him you must be a racist. So if you want to censure Morgan Freeman for his grab-whatever-low-hanging-fruit-you-can, incestuous doings with his step-daughter then you’d better just watch out because the chances are pretty good that you’re a racist, isn’t that right Morgan?
Glad to see that someone else besides me figured this out.
Can I just say, “GROOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSS”?
YUCK!
Blech!
Morgan is a nasty, nasty man.
Step-granddaughter that he and his wife raised from about the age of 6.
Classy.
Equal opportunity DEMANDS that there be a proportionate number of Whites, Hispanics, Jews and Asians in the black caucus and they should be forced to accept members other than black until such time as those ratios are corrected.
They should be forced to actively recruit those other members in the name of diversity!
The greatest tragedy of “affirmative action” is its virtual nullification of real achievement. It sows suspicion among those who are its victims, so to speak (not-in-vogue groups like whites, Asians, etc.) and, ironies of ironies, puts an even greater burden on its beneficiaries to prove their inherent worth, regardless of the latters’ actual achievements.
It’s a classic in the “unexpected consequences” genre and kudos to Mr. Simon for grabbing the third rail of racial politics firmly with both hands. Methinks he won’t get the fatal shock that many on the Left hopes he does.
Ever since becoming interested in politics many decades ago, I have consistently asked why the CBC (and now the Latinos also) got funding from my/our taxes. I can understand and even support it if the CBC wants to ‘network’ on their own time and their own dime.
But when they do it on my time, my dime and for their own race (a mere 12% of the population), they are doing a disservice to the other 88% of the public. Any honest statesman would see this from the outset and prohibit such a public embarrassment – if not an illegal action. Unfortunately, we have few (if any) statesmen left in this country … mores the pity!
A few moments ago I received an email that really tells it like it is and should be used over and over again in the run-up to 2012 elections:
A young black man had just been told by his supervisor that he was being fired.
The young man immediately came back with the charge that he “was being fired because he was black”.
The supervisor retorted “no, you were hired because you are black, you are being fired because you are useless”.
The Fed is LOUSY with those useless workers. You can’t fire them for anything – no matter how much documentation the gov’t provides they lose the lawsuits. It’s just cheaper to latterly move them into positions where they can do the least harm.
Fat chance Roger, there is to much money & political power at stake. The courts did this country no favors when it deemed race could be taken into consideration on job promotion, school admission, etc. all in the name of “diversity”.
Equal Opportunity is racial discrimination in the worst two places in the real world: the work place and college admissions. We should never have allowed it.
I almost forgot the judicial system. Has anyone ever heard of any DA office prosecuting a hate crime against a White? Then there’s Holder’s Dept. of Injustice with “no interest in pursuing voter intimidation against Whites.” Lord, discrimination against Whites has reached epic proportions while we’ve been sleeping. If Obamacare isn’t tossed out, the Death Panels will no doubt find less value in prolonging an elderly White’s life than a minority voter’s.
“And that, my friends on the Black Caucus, is the message. Stop being nostalgic for racism. You can take it from this ex-civil rights worker. Get over yourselves and disband. That will be a real contribution to civil rights.”
Actually, the people the CBC HATE most is Congressman (former Army Lt. Colonel) Allen West. THIS is the man.
If Herman Cain fails to become president, Allen West could become America’s real first black president. He is like the anti-Christ to the CBC. He tells blacks to stop whining, stop asking for handouts, and to become indipendent and to stand on their own two feet. He is always saying that the Democrats have created a “plantation” for blacks to stay on. So long as the vote Democratic, they will be rewarded by the Democratic party with money and laws the keep them dependent on this plantation, but doesn’t allow them to stand on their own two feet. You really need to listen to this man, a former Army officer, combat leader, and great patriotic speaker. This man NEEDS to be listened to by every black child in America. He is the true voice of independence and he is a great leader. He should be the future of black America, if they want it. Not race baiters like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, people who have turned racism into a business and need it to hang around in order for them to STAY in business.
“Black people are the most conservative people in America – on Sunday. But Monday through Saturday, liberals are able to give them free stuff and turn them around.” – LTC. ALLEN WEST, in June 2010 when he was still a congressional candidate.
The man is smart, brave, eloquent, competent and deadly honest. In short, the anti-Obama.
Palin-West ’12
I’d like to see what would happen if a Congressional White Caucus were formed. And for that matter, White Mayors, White Police Officers, White Entertainment TV, Miss White America, and so on. Can you imagine? Probably not. And that indeed proves a very frightening reality.
Ya think they’d allow a Straight White Guy Day Parade (“guy” is not gender specific) in ANY city in the US?
The reactions amongst liberals would be awesome to watch and most likely so hypocritical as to point out their own failings so intensely that they would become a laughing stock. I’d love to see someone do it.
I wonder, if there were a Congressional White Caucus, wouldn’t that be called a racist organization; so why isn’t the Congressional Black Caucus called a racist organization. Also why is there a Black American Bar Association; I’m sure if there where a White American Bar Association, it would be called a racist organization.
Expat in Warsaw
As many of the comments have said race conciousness is yesterdays thinking. I also notice from these very same posts that it still is not. There will always be the race hustlers. Unfortunately for all of us it is still the law of the land because of protected classes. Until the Supreme Court abolishes it or the Congress has the courage to legislate against it the Race business will not go away.
We should demand of our legislators that the entire concept of protected classes be abolished. It simply is not needed and never was. This nation has been divided, and sub divided and Balkinized until our National Identity is meaningless.
The only cure for racism is to not allow it and that includes all the well intentioned cures for it that pit one against the other. You simply cannot cure one bad act with another bad act.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. But it sure can create resentment. My lofty pro Civil Rights attitude of the 60s was replaced a few decades ago when the (dis)honorable Sheila Jackson Lee could not be fired from our mutual place of employment despite a ridiculous number of absences and poor job performance.
Worse, blacks are the most racist demographic in America. Check FBI Hate Crime stats.
“Worse, blacks are the most racist demographic in America. Check FBI Hate Crime stats.”
Wait! The FBI keeps statistics on Black Hate Crimes?? Isn’t that raaaaaacist?
“And while we’re at it, all other caucuses based on race, religion, creed, or national origin should be put out to pasture along with it.”
You left out ones based on sex or sexual orientation. They are corrosive too.
Many people are intuitively against organizations that seem to be groupings of others against them. For instance, whites are (understandably) uneasy about groups that exclude them and seem to oppose them. But many people belong to some kind of special interest group.
When someone talks about getting rid of groups that discriminate AGAINST them, it’s not hard to get their support in opposing those groups. It’s harder though to get their support for opposing groups that discriminate FOR them.
Therefore, a straight white woman, for instance, may be willing to oppose a group of blacks or men or GLBTs (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered) which look like they will oppose her but she’ll have a lot more hesitation in opposing a group that looks like it will make her life easier, such as a feminist group.
I learned this during a dinner conversation with an old university friend, a woman, who was racing up the corporate ladder at a time when companies were making major efforts to hire and promote women. While she was smart and may well have climbed the ladder on merit alone, I think she had enough doubt about that to be insecure. She certainly didn’t look happy when I speculated about the possibility of other groups of ethnic or sexual minorities like the GLBTs also leapfrogging ahead because of similar programs. I had the distinct impression that she hadn’t realized that those groups would also start demanding a bigger piece of the pie and that this might work against her.
FIRST, I get very tired of hearing non-southerners talk of racism having been over since their youth in the 50s-60s.
I was raised in the South back then and received the worst whipping of my life for innocently reciting the N-word as part of a renowned nursery rhyme from the British Raj. Good society did not use that word. Good society was defined as anybody not white trash. At that time up north your oh-so-fine unions all blocked coloreds from membership (no, not everyone is black) and called them the N-word regularly in speech and print.
Racism got “over”, as much as it ever can be (lingualism, regionalism, etc.) several times in American cultural history but it got revived repetitively by Democratic Party movements such as Reconsruction, Jim Crow and, with mass broadcast media, more sophisticated vote-matipulating propaganda epochs such as the New Deal and the Great Society. Again — ALL from the Demagogic Party.
Freeman’s earlier statement, “stop talking about it”, was the cure. I’ll add, “stop remembering an era that never was — you’re only displaying your ignorance of cultural history, you’re demonstrating your susceptibilitly to fraud for the masses”.
SECONDLY, Freeman, a paid actor, read his latest comment from Obama’s handlers’ script for the 2012 election. Like FDR and LBJ did, they will launch a race war for the ‘long hot summer’ of 2012 to spin the election in the fall.
Comments here and there by agent provocateurs of the hoi polloi such as celebrities like Freeman and pseudo leaders from the Waters-Sharpton-Jackson axis, as keyed from time to time by the president himself, will lead to increasing mob attacks as we see now being reported in the co-opted press (i.e., Muslim, Hispanic and Black mobs are called ‘youths’, white kids are called ‘whites’).
Each of these incidents is no more convincing to me than the Nazi faux attack on the radio station in Gleiwitz, Poland, that launched WWII should have been convincing to Euopeans. But each one successfully inflames the mouth breathing Guidos and Guidettes of the northern and western American barrios.
The Bolsheviks of the Demagogic Party are brutally conscienceless. They are sending an avalanche of Newark/Watts/Detroit-like violence your way.
I seriously believe these “flash mobs” are practices for just what you’ve said. It’s the democrats testing the technology and sending out the troops to stir the pot. What they want to see is how “white” America responds to the attacks.
You nailed it, lolly.
This is a ‘practice how whitey responds to mayhem’ move.
We need another Martin Luther King! I am distressed over the silence of the Congressional Black Caucus regarding the GENOCIDE of BLACKS in Libya by the U.S. backed Libyan rebels.
The Obama-supported rebels left in charge are now conducting a “large
scale cleaning in the areas under their control with the extermination
of all blacks in the capital”, according to The Independent.
Barbaric atrocities, kidnappings and ruthless genocide of blacks in Libya by US/France/NATO backed Al-Qaeda linked rebels has been going on for months. US/FRANCE/NATO who have waged war for months for the Al-Qaeda linked rebels-who murder our troops in Iraq-are RESPONSIBLE for stopping the genocide.
US/NATO are also responsible for
rescuing the many terrified blacks kidnapped by the rebels, including the
kidnapped black children who have been horrendously abused by the
black-hater Muslim rebels.
Human rights for Blacks!
STOP THE GENOCIDE!
linda, noble thoughts, but surely you don’t think that the black caucus is about helping people who are black? It is about the black caucus helping themselves… silly girl.
Someone left their brain in la-la land.
So just create another MLK media figure. Plagiarism worked fine for him, the next should be even easier to make.
Y’all aren’t being fair to Ms. Rivera. She’s right – they are hypocrites.
Big part of what made me go conservative from being a flamin’ liberal was realizing that liberals, at least those in power, don’t really care about these human rights issues. Instead, they are concerned with putting the most money possible into their pockets with the least possible trouble. When I started paying attention to conservatives, I learned that for the most part, they really DO care. They also know they can’t save the world from itself. It’s a smart compassion.
CBC Your Credit Is No Good Here.
I’m Afraid Your Race Card Is All Maxed Out.
For a suitable allegory you might want to read the story about ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’.
Sadly, there’s too much political graft in perpetuating racism. That’s what the folks in the Black Caucus have built their careers on and they’re the last people who ‘dream’ of moving into a fully post-racial society, it would be a career killer for them. As I’ve always said, the democrats are the most racist people that I know and they rely on propaganda and hateful rhetoric to energize their base.
Racism will die a little more when people of our age are dead.
There seems to be some confusion about Mr. Freeman. The clip from 60 Minutes shows a different attitude to his of today. Some paranoid aspect of racism has affected him, too. The sad fact is that Obama suffers slightly from an identity problem as many folks of mixed race parents do. He has revealed some racist attitudes of his own. This is not surprising. You can’t spend twenty years with Rev. Wright and not be infected. True black racists have come out of the woodwork because of his presence with an attitude of ‘Now it’s our turn.” Obama’s performance coupled with Holder’s performance, coupled with years of affirmative action, have set race relations back by at least four decades. It’s sad but it is a fact and it will be more difficult in the next decade or two for a black American to win an election even when he or she is perfectly qualified.
“It’s sad but it is a fact and it will be more difficult in the next decade or two for a black American to win an election even when he or she is perfectly qualified.”
Not buying that statement. Herman Cain just won the Florida (last time I looked we were in the “racist” South) Republican Party Straw Poll. I just voted for a Black Democrat for Mayor here in Jacksonville, FL and he won. The Republican in the Mayoral race was a straight-up RINO, bought and paid for by the public employee unions here. The new Mayor’s first act was to balance the city budget, with no tax increases, just as he promised.
Skin color is not the issue, it’s IDEALOGY. Freedom versus Slavery.
The CBC and the national Democratic party are the racists. The MSM is their propaganda arm.
Buckle your seat-belt. They are not going away quietly.
Exactly right, TommyT.
Col. West is very likely the best person for the job of POTUS currently in the public sphere. Mr. Cain, is likely the best of the announced candidates. The folks who vote conservative took Dr. King literally on “erasing the color line”.
What I find most ‘ironic’ about the “Black Caucus” or multitudinous other segregating crap like “Ebony magazine”…is the purposeful self-segregation.
People fought and died for ‘segregation’ to end, only to…what? Decide that ‘segregation’ and ‘special interest by ‘color’ of one’s skin’ is now ‘okay’? Well, yippee kay yay! Who’da thunk a whole generation of Negroids would decide they don’t want to ‘integrate’ into a predominantly ‘white’ society and GOD FORBID they actually learn anything [like proper English] because that would be “acting white”.
And, any black person who is actually educated by their own merits and abilities is shunned by the vaunted “Black Community” because he’s an “uncle Tom” if he dares leave the Democrat Plantation.
It simply amazes me that blacks put up with this crap.
Unfreakingbelievable.
White on the other-hand are supposed to bend over backwards to ingratiate themselves to ‘the other’ and yet ‘the other’ doesn’t want to have to play by the same rules?
Absolute bull pucky.
I give the eff up. Call me a racist all ya freakin’ want…I’m tired of pandering to people who want ‘special’ rules for themselves. Eff ‘em all.
The groups that are fighting the busing laws today are surprisingly well integrated. Blacks want their kids to be able to go to neighborhood (predominantly black) schools.
I don’t think they’re being nostalgic. I could be wrong, of course, but I think they’re looking as hard as they can to find racism, or black discrimination.
If there isn’t one to be found, they make one (several, actually), like every criticism aimed at Obama and his admin.
If they won’t find any, they’ll have no right to exist as a group. Not unlike tyrants, they aim the attention outside – to non black that is.
I like how when a black teacher or a cop is being investigated for wrong doing a noose is usually found on their door or locker and the investigation goes away.
Roger, you are on fire.
After the ‘flap’ between Rep. Allen West (R-FL) and Rep. Andre Carson, a liberal Democrat from Indiana, I wanted to see who belongs to the Black Caucus. Here is a comparison between members of the CBC and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Please read my commentary at http://who-sez.net/wordpress/?p=398. I think you’ll find my list-matching exercise rather illuminating, particularly after Maxine Waters’ latest tirade. Roger Simon’s call for disbanding the CBC is right-on!
– eerily quiet for a week or more, but all segments of PJM are under attack again, Roger.
What the hell! On the 24th I wrote a scathing commentary (I thought it scathing) on Morgan Freeman and his calling the Tea Party “racist.” Here he is, “a few years ago,” in this Mike Wallace interview expressing the exact attitude, in the simplest of terms by effectively putting the shoe on Wallace’s politically correct foot, that would render the issue of racism dead and buried. He absolutely had it correct. This little video should be shown to all who profess to understand the racism issue and demonstrate their “understanding” by creating and celebrating events that do nothing if not cement racism into the collective consciousness.
How is racism ended by the continuation of the patronization of race in observance of the racist perception of their “inherent inferiority.” Affirmative action, Black History month, Kwanzaa, the Black Panthers, the CBC, etc. all serve to either assuage white guilt, confirm black “inferiority” or reaffirm black separatism; racism in reverse. Freeman basically says don’t patronize me or call me a hyphenated American; call me an American. He’s emerged from the soup of collective guilt and lingering racial resentment that was perhaps an inevitable prelude to his release from the trauma of the sixties to reach this catharsis. Bravo!
So how, what and who changed his mind? Apparently he’s caught up in the idea that there can be no other cause for disapproving of Obama than racism. That, Mr. Freeman is the racism you once professed to abhor. Those who hold this view need to take a long, hard, piercing look in the mirror and ask themselves, what is the root of their obsession with Obama? Since when is a black man or a man of any color rendered immune from all criticism because of it? Viscous, venomous ad hominem attacks against George W. Bush were O.K., fair game, free speech, enlightened, liberal intellectualism and all that but expressing any negative opinion of Obama is “racism, straight up”? All you enthralled Obama supporters need to get your heads out of that very dark, odorous place and smell reality.
▲THIS!▲
I do not have a problem with the Congressional Black Caucus. Congress is supposed to represent the people. Everyone gets a voice. The CBC exactly reflects Black America. Lots and lots of rent-seekers, and one Conservative guy. The rhetoric they spew is exactly representative. When Black America changes, so will the CBC.
In fact, our government exactly reflects America as it is today. People get the kind of government they deserve. We are never going to have better government, until we get better people IN government. We are never going to get better people IN government, until we, ourselves, become better people.
The last election saw better people get elected, enough to put on some brakes, but not enough to change direction. The next election will tell the tale of what kind of people we are. I am fairly confident, but not completely certain.
DERP! DERP! DERP!
You’re missing the point, Marc…!
I do not have a problem with the Congressional Black Caucus. Congress is supposed to represent the people. Everyone gets a voice.
Oh give me a mother effing break. Are you being SERIOUS? For realz, homey? Good gawd! You actually believe that people can’t be ‘represented’ without ‘special representation’? Really?
*slaps you with a cold trout*
Where is the Caucus for ‘ugly people’? Where is the Caucus for ‘Cripples’? Where is the Caucus for ‘People who can’t dance’?
Where does it END?
Are we the UNITED stated of AMERICA or the UN-United colors of Benetton?
“Stated” er “States”…
hehe
No, Angel, I am serious. I love that the CBC reveals Black America for what it is. I love that the Left reveals itself through all the stupid things they do and say. The more they do, the more those of us on the right cling bitterly to our guns and Bibles. Yes, what they do is very wrong, but that very wrongness generates enormous pushback. It is what is going to enable us to fix things.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled is to convince people he does not exist. If these folks were innocuous, we would have less cause to be alarmed, and people would not wake up to the danger until it was too late. If the stupid Left had not grossly over-reached, they could well have won permanently. All they had to do was continue to boil the frog. Now, everything they do generates outrage.
The CBC is wonderfully offensive. It is destroying the cause of rent-seekers, race-hustlers, and grievance-mongers everywhere. The Left is just destroying itself, because the mask is off. They stand revealed. I love it. Nothing is more motivating to righteous people.
Look at all the things on the Left that are under assault: stimulus; ObamaCare; Unions; NPR; Planned Parenthood; Green Energy; and now, the CBC, because of West. More is sure to follow. The Left is just collapsing, and 2012 will be a slaughter.
Yep, I have no problem with the CBC. They reveal Black America. We will see changes, as we begin to have the conversations.
If your not sure what exactly the CBC stands for check out Tavis Smiley’s interview with Shelia Jackson Lee on 9/26/11. If you’re not sure what the goal of the CBC is, familiarize yourself with “The Poor People’s Campaign”, also known as “The Economic Bill Of Rights, promoted by Martin Luther King Jr. Once you fully understand both of these things, what 0bama is doing will make perfect sense.
Better yet, get rid of the provisions in the Voting Rights Act which make this organization possible. Empowering black seperatists racists, by drawing racist districts designed to empower people based on their skin color and disempower others based on their skin color, gives rise to exactly this type organization.
But alas…
The GOP controlled Congress gave us 25 more years of this crap, because they are too cowardly to stand up to racist demagogery.
According to the Daily Rash, several members of the Congressional Black Caucus appeared on the Maury Povich show and argued that it should be a hate crime when Tea Party members of congress hang a black person. http://www.thedailyrash.com/congressional-black-caucus-to-make-tea-party-hangings-a-hate-crime
MTV Turns Down Obama
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/bummer_mtv_tunes_out_prez_campaign_qWhWvs5wajz7IXAGl0xGzM
“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”
George Washington
The black caucus was started and run by whites it`s first ten years. Now after the whites gave the black caucus to the black`s. The blacks will not allow any white members. So who are the racist?
And Obama — no criminal — is light years from Madoff
Really? You’re way too polite Roger.
Roger,
I agree 100%. As a former civil rights attorney, law clerk to an AA federal judge and now a public defender in S.GA., it is time to put the race card to bed. Now its time to bring out of poverty and ignorance the black and white people that have suffered from the nanny state!
Congressional Black Caucus Ignores the Damage Illegal Immigration Does to Blacks
http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/09/27/congressional-black-caucus-ignores-the-damage-illegal-immigration-does-to-blacks/
What a fabulous blog! I agreed with every single word pajamas wrote. I have made many of his points to all of my former liberal friends. Just talking to liberals has become too unbearable for me since Barry was elected. Thank you for such a thoughtful and entertaining commentary.
Roger thank you,
The post-racism world of today, means that writing about white-racism gets posted and writing about the success of black Americans gets ignored. Your exasperation is apparent and a very welcome statement of fact.
Americans who happen to be black are very successful in all walks of life, and are happy with themselves while improving on their success. I live in a 70% Black County which is full of them. However those remaining self-incarcerated separatists will never be happy with themselves because they can’t work for and accept success without retribution from those current Americans who owe them none. These self-incarcerated separatists exist in a nether-world that empties into the pit of the inconsequential.
I think you have just said that the Black Caw-Cuss is an obsolete bird and should succumb to Congressional integration. Now that you are fired up Roger, give some more straight talk to any of us intent on causing damage to America, rather than building a better future.
As good as it gets-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXjG6DkFk6o
I believe that Obama IS a criminal who is far worse than Madoff, along with his thugocracy.
For years I thought of Morgan Freeman as a fine actor never as a fine Black
actor. From now on my first thought will be how good an actor that Black man was.
Maybe it’s time for a countering White club? How would the CBC like an equivalent CWC?
Seems fair to me. We’re all “racists” anyhow no matter what we truly believe.
“Maybe it’s time for a countering White club?”
Count me out. I don’t play that way.
Amen – Before he was against it he was for it! It is Americans first. We are all the human race – with different cultures and heritages! We do need reforms all over our great nation, but we do not need to make villains out of tea party folks. They are more on the side of prosperity and equality than any of the Democrats or liberals or marxists or communists trying to harm our nation! Amen to that!
Actors are just that ACTORS. Aimless, vacuous pieces of clay. Each, molded by an entertainment industry in decline.
Before an actor goes anywhere, talk show, interview, etc. they must first clear it with SAG and second, his Agent. Then HIS/HER Agent discusses it with the actor, reviewing the pros and cons of what that individual will say or do towards furthering or damaging that actors career.
Everything is then carefully scripted, choreographed once the “go” signal is given. Some exceptions exist.
The cadre of actors appearing at benefits, show, entertainment venues spouting off vacuous nothings, hurts nobody but the entertainment industry and actors in particular. Keep it up SAG and Hollywood agents and you will have gored the very cow that gave you your lavish lifestyle.
Solution? Vote massively in 2012. God Bless America.