I guess…black is the new black. Or something.
Don Graves, the executive director of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, said at a nighttime forum at a black church in Miami that the president is “focused on every community across the country,” The Miami Herald reported.
Graves left out the word “destroying” before “every.”
But when he added that “certain communities have been hit harder than other communities,” Waters pushed him. “Let me hear you say ‘black,’” the California Democrat said.
As the crowd cheered, The Washington Post said in its report on the Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored event, Graves quietly said: “black, African-American, Latino — we’re going to focus on getting people back to work.”
Waters should have turned her ire to another in the audience rather than Mr. Graves. It was the Rev. Jesse Jackson who decided that we should swap “African-American” for “black.” It’s not like Jackson was hard to find. He was the one in the corner saying that the Rev. Martin Luther King fought against the tea party. Really.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, who West also described as an “overseer” said that the movement should be called the “Fort Sumter tea party that sought to maintain states’ rights and slavery,” the Herald reported.
“The tea party is a new name on an old game,” he said. “Dr. King fought a ‘tea party’ in Alabama. … He had no weapons, but he confronted the tea party.”
King George III fought a tea party and lost. Barack Obama is losing to a tea party now. Rev. King never battled a tea party. King did battle the Klan, though, which was the terrorist offshoot of the Democratic party. Jackson’s evident confusion is not at all understandable.
When are these imbeciles (Jackson, Waters, Sharpton, etc.) going to stop brainwashing those in the black community and instead, start doing something positive for them?! Absolutely pathetic.
When? They are con artists playing on a certain community’s bigotry.
I will tell you when; when you bring me a polaroid picture of people in hell having a snowball fight.
Mr. Preston;
I have one small critique about your article. In this sentence “Rev. Jesse Jackson, who West also described as an “overseer” said that….” , would that be Rep. Allen West?
Yes, but that’s in the original that I’m quoting.
“Let me hear you say ‘black’…”
How about, “President Obama’s policies have pushed the economy into a BLACK hole.”
OK?
– by the end of this decade, Asians and Hispanics will have surpassed them. Obamandias’, their low-water mark, statute will be buried in the sands: LOOK UPON MY WORKS YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR!
Get the book “American History in Black and White” out to all black children. They need to learn the truth! Actually, getting it out to all children would be better yet. It’s too bad we can’t make the ignorant dems read it too!
“American History in Black and White” — neo-Confederate nonsense. Not untrue, just downright limited in its scope giving only the information that suits his purpose. The discussion of Richard Allen was frankly so limited that this fiery activist was relegated to an individual I had never heard of. I was baptized at Allen Chapel and have studied Allen and his role in the church and the church’s role in the fight for equality. Barton made Allen a cartoon character.
One of the things I learned during my years active in politics, and one reason I’m no longer active in politics, is that we get the political leadership we want…not the one we say we want, but the one we really want.
People like Waters or for that matter most elected officials here in Detroit…the people vote for them and as Mencken once said, “In a democracy the people know what they want and deserve to get it–good and hard.”
And Maxine’s hoodoo tour continues. I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for the liberal media to come down on her for the dog whistle statements designed to incite violence against whites. Civility? Nope. Maxine is a hypocrite and, according to the standards she would undoubtedly apply to a white politician going around making these speeches about “the enemy,” a violent racist.
What if Maxine demanded more FROM her constituents and less FOR them? Just wondering. Oh—and as she did with past administrations, will she blame Obama and Holder for permitting cocaine to enter the country and hence, the black community?
Sustained black victimhood is a public and private funded jobs program.
The private sector funds Diversity and quota-based programs, employee education, and company-sponsored employee groups and the people who run them that highlight differences among people.
The public sector is entrenched throughout with an entire class of employee dedicated to highlighting differences among people.
If we stopped highlighting blackness and differences we might have to hold individuals equally accountable for achievement, outcomes, and results — from elementary school to executive-level hires. The victimhood industry would suffer huge job losses – not to mention the marginalization of academics who also feed the industry.
Waters has become a totally ridiculous figure…yes, even more than she was before.
http://righthereontheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2011/08/muddy-waters.html
The Waters tour continues…if the WH decides she is hurting them more than helping, suddenly that long delayed ethics investigation may get underway.
So the ethics felon said to the philanderer, “Stale Waters Run Dopes”.
And he said back to her, I have a dream…of a rainbow of one color.
It was a conversation to be missed.
What’s most pathetic is black people not understanding their own history and the history of slavery (which was universal and not a white/black issue).
Maybe they should reread Booker T Washington’s admonition:
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Thanks for reminding me why Booker T.’s always been a favorite of mine. Smart man.
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1 Slavery in America was not universal — it was a black-white thing. To see it as universal in the context of America is to be disingenuous.
2 Booker T. Washington, intellectually, has been rejected by many African Americans. See Dubois “The Souls of Black Folk”
3 Sometimes I fail to understand why we as African Americans re even bother conversing with white people on race. It simply is a waste of our time. Over the history of this country whites have always denied their racism. Neither slavery, Jim Crow, or the current Tea Party understood their racist attitudes.
White people seem to have the ability to fully justify racism as not racist. That is our history.
Tea Party, KKK, Klan, Nazis, neo-confederates. All the same thing. Jesse has it right.