Today’s Breitbart.com has announced a video to be released, showing Harvard law student Barack Obama defending Professor Derrick Bell Jr. in a protest. According to Breitbart.com, the original video has been heavily edited and more will be shown on Hannity tonight.
In the meantime, I thought it might be interesting to have a few fun facts about the late Professor in advance of the show.
This obituary, written upon his death, had some interesting points to make:
Bell was credited with developing “critical race theory,” which suggested that the U.S. legal system was inherently biased against African Americans and other minorities because it was built on an ingrained white point of view. He argued in his many books and lectures that the life experiences of black people and other minorities should be considered in hiring decisions and in applying the law.
Bell maintained that the standards for promotion and tenure at law schools – and Harvard, in particular – were inherently discriminatory and excluded a broad group of minorities. By hiring only graduates of top-tier law schools who had clerked at the Supreme Court, he argued, academia was populated by a uniform group of standard-issue professors, most of them white men.
Some scholars, both black and white, challenged Bell’s ideas, as well as his strong support of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Nonetheless, Bell remained one of the country’s most outspoken public intellectuals until his death.
That’s Derek Bell’s bottom line: if it comforts whites, it’s bad; if it comforts blacks–i.e., Farrakhan–it’s good. Bell, along with Farrakhan and so many others, offers victimization as a consolation.
Barry is a racist. How very…..unsurprising.
Some have said that Obama’s administration is “Carter’s second term”. In reality, Obamas administration is “Louis Farrakhan’s first term”.
How could we have known?! It’s not like he spent years and years listening to racist rants of a “preacher” more familiar with racist cant than Christianity, is it?!
Wait, what? He did?!
And that “preacher” was given a prominent role in his campaign until the contents of his “sermons” came to the attention of the public?
And Baraka took the title of one of his books from one of these “sermons”? And that very same “sermon” included BS about “white man’s greed”?
Huh. Weird how the press missed all that.
Not only the MSM missed it, so did most of the American people. What’s up with that?
I suppose it was reverse racialism – the powerful desire to put a dark-skinned man in the White House to show the world (and ourselves)that we Americans had overcome racism – and a profound ignorance of the radical Left worldview and program.
Mommy issues.
Obozo definitly has Mommy issues. She was anarchist and a whaco! If you have ever seen her she looks like 9 miles of bad road! Obozo was given a mentor by his marxist grandparents, Frank marshall Davis a black man, head of the American Communist party and a convicted pedophile. Just Imagine!!!
Someone claimed that the legal system and elite institutions were biased against blacks in the 1960s? This is radical instead of duh?
I think his comments and writings over the years clearly went far beyond that.
What have you ever read that he wrote?
Clearly, he had a lot more to say over the years than that.
Can you give an example?
It’s not that he is saying they were biased. It’s about the bias he claims. Were they biased against skin color? Absolutely. He’s saying they were biased against black culture, deeming it to be inferior to white culture. He was saying they should not have that outlook.
My response is, why not? Black culture is decidedly inferior. It is distinctly tribalistic, primitive.
Besides, blacks can stand up for their culture and promote it, but whites cannot stand up for theirs and promote it? Does anyone honestly think that if blacks became the majority, that whites would not be completely oppressed? I refer you to SecDoJ Holder’s comments about his people. Oh, and his actions. Black Panther thugs at polling stations do not get prosecuted when the case is already a win? How is that not exactly like what whites did to blacks back when?
Blacks do not want justice. They want revenge. “You gonna find out what it’s like to be ruled by the black man!” Yep. He was right.
Stated perfectly, that is why you can never corner a Liberal to fully explain their point of view, they immediatly morph into babbling idiots who attack the other person instead of answering the damn question!
What arrogance. I think you just made Bell’s point. We have a bill of rights and writings upon historical writings that espouse individual liberty and freedom, yet the statistics don’t support that the playing field is level, and it’s not. Why? Because arrogant asses like you deem yourself culturally superior. Even a 3rd grader understands apples and oranges aren’t the same and can’t be fairly compared. Why should one be more like the other or vice versa? It’s the complete lack of acceptance of anything different than yourself that indicates the smallness of your character and the abject fear you live your life in. You and those like you are the ones that should leave this country. You turn the concepts of freedom and liberty into stains that are mocked by those of truly superior cultures. You stand on the same lofty hilltop to look down on the rest of the world that the Hitlers, Bin Ladens and Talibans of the world occupy.
Gary M’s point!
I hope Mark Malone is a Pseudonym.
Otherwise Mr. Mallone will feel the wrath of a vicious and weapon.
Probably the IRS.
I know.
God it’s embarrassing to have people like you in my party. The “black culture” is not throwing spears at people, gangsters, or jungle people. Black people were completely different before all the hoods came out to play and made rap popular. They were different before the people started giving out handouts feeling sorry for them. The decent, church going, people of black society are decent, normal, and nice. They don’t say vulgarities and run around saying racist insults and hurting other people. In fact, many of their relatives WERE Republicans any Kennedy faked wanted to be on their side so he could get elected.
Black Americans are just Americans like you and I. Honestly, I don’t blame a “black culture” for holding many down or giving them attitudes. I blame the progressives and people like you for treating them like they’re not worthy of being everything they can be. It’s what is inside a person that matters.
Get rid of socialism, welfare, etc and we’ll see who the hard workers are. It won’t be just one color. Those without food, stealing, etc will be the ones who don’t care about themselves or other people or are too lazy to work. It runs across all races, religions, and gender.
And if any money goes to Americans with African ancestors that can be proven their ancestors were slaves then as an American with Irish ancestors I can claim the same. But I don’t. I’m above all that crap. We are who we are today. Stop being a racist pig just because someone has a different skin color.
and that comment about people without food etc means the people without food etc who are too lazy to go out and make money or to do work in exchange…not poor people in general. i wasn’t clear on my comment.
You said it right. Racism is disgusting, and that is why Obama is disgusting. People here labeling all blacks as primitive are just the flip side of an Obama or Holder claiming that all whites are racist oppressors.
Did Obama ever say that? I would like a quote, otherwise a blunt statement on a topic clearly beyond your scope of understanding is just a waste of time. FYI: If there were actual academics here you would know that in the world of academia blacks cannot be racist. Do I agree with this statement, no. However, racism is defined as prejudice mixed with institutionalized oppression. Currently the ability to do both is still in the hands of rich white men. Black people can be prejudice. But as someone who is both white and black, as someone who experienced more prejudice from blacks then from whites growing up, I can tell ALL of you, that as I have gotten older it becomes clearer by day that no one who generalizes will understand what Bell had to say. He had numerous white friends and colleagues who adored him and whom he adored. He had a concept about a macro not a micro. The system not the individual. Before reading Bell (clearly too complex)maybe some of you should read some other “race” books to get a background on what he is saying. And oh yea, one last thing, someone said they can’t celebrate their culture, what exactly is white culture? Sorry buddy, it doesn’t exist. If you wanted to celebrate American white culture it would be the KKK, the genocide of Native Americans, etc. Italian culture, Irish culture etc etc people celebrate that, it’s called individuality. Black people can be distinguished more readily than any other ethnicity because of the color of their skin, diminishing the capacity for people to recognize individuality. That is why it is such an issue, that is why it always will be. I have to make another quick comment. Significantly, and I mean significantly more white people are on welfare than black people. Black people don’t fall into the quota because they are making too much money with their 2 jobs or because of pride. So before anyone gets on their high horse, know some facts. I’m not saying I’m for Obama, I don’t think he’s amazing, but what I do think is that he’s half white so we’re making typical american strides. Stop grasping at straws to say he’s some kind of radical crazy person…if he was we would have seen it by now based on his actions towards the white and black communities. Proof is not in a hug or a preacher, proof is in the pudding and pudding is something we just don’t have yet.
That stuff is all in the past. Obama hangs out with much better people nowadays.
Why, take a look at the African Americans for Obama commercial cut by Michael Eric Dyson. I took the liberty of showing Mr. Dyson’s new commercial interspersed with Mr. Dyson’s comments in 2010 in a round table with Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Cornel West.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6B4LV8d2_g&feature=g-upl&context=G28d38d3AUAAAAAAAEAA
http://blog.revdrpaulsmith.org/2008/03/23/from-derrick-bell-barack-obama-and-the-rev-jeremiah-wright-issue.aspx
I’m confused. The professor says everything is tainted because it is all inherently white and thus does not mean anything to blacks because they are somehow different, just because of the color of their skin. Then, he complains about being judged by whites simply based on the color of his skin. He seems to present the opinion that blacks and whites are completely different only because of their color as if this makes reconciliation impossible. How can you hold both opinions at the same time?
Hannity is the only one who wanted to vet Obama in 2008. The press wouldn’t get near it. Now this should show why Obama has spent a fortune to hide this information.Also, information coming out on why border patrol agents hate Obama with a passion,as does alot of the military. The press will continue to try and hide all this info., but when you have a record like he does,the truth has to come out no matter how much the press tries to suppress it!
I was glad to find your post and linked to it on my FB. I’ve also done a post on some reviews of his books that I found which are very telling about what he thought about race relations. I have one question…why was a photo of Louis Farrakhan used for this post? Maybe because Bell was a Farrakhan supporter? Just wondering.
Yes, just to illustrate that relationship.
its not possible for you to read his writings yourself and make up your own damn mind? you need to read someone else’s _reviews_ ?
Mr. Wee Wee sez “yOu gO girl” and STAND FIRM BEHIND Barack~~~~~~~~— — – -
LET IT FLY~~~~~~~~~~~~— —— — – - – - — — – — -……,
Why were we not informed of his extremist background before he was elected President? Someone in the media should be apologizing to the country.
UHHHHH. I think Mr. Hannity of the TV show of the same name on FOX did just that, but only a few heard.
for #9 Henry Knox
Henry – Do NOT wait for the media to apologize. What to do instead, is praise those who are now vetting this man and bringing these facts to light. Once we start getting this information, we can also start putting it on Facebook, e-mailing it to our friends, etc.
All of this information can and will be viral by the time of the election. If nothing else, people will have to stop and think about who and what they are voting for.
Praises to Breitbart – what a genius. m
henry, wake up man. why didn’t you take the bull by the butt & look up his background yourself. the MSM will NEVER tell us anything about the marxist obama. they are now trying to silence anything abour sheriff arpeio’s (sic) posse looking into obama’s creds to be president. his father was NOT born here. problem is constitution says BOTH parents must be born here…..we have a manchurian president. i knew about his radical past because i looked into it.
Shame on you for waiting for the “media” to tell you about Obama. It was all on the internet to read for yourself.
Sorry, Henry, but blaming the media is just silly. Most of the media has chosen sides. They are not credible and neutral brokers of information for all. They are (for the most part) partisan players. That means YOU have to do the work that you’d rather not do.
Most of this stuff about Obama’s radicalism was available prior to the election. The hijacking of the Democratic party by the far left has been an ongoing process, which takes short opportunistic respites at times.
If you prefer to vote based on shallow and easy, then just remember to vote for Republicans (NOT 3rd parties or Libertarians), because the Republican coalition will be served if a Republican (even a soft one like Romney) is elected.
Yes, Obama did go to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 to 21 years. That is long enough to become indoctrinated and brain washed.
Brainwashed? His mind was set long before that, as was Michelle’s If Obama manages to steal another 4 years we will either be destroyed as a nation and culture or we will have to resort to 1776 political action.It will be interesting to see what action triggers the response from the citizens who want freedom.
Obama was at that church for the association with all the other influential members of that church community. He didn’t find that church all by himself. And, I will never forget Michelle in a speach say, “I have never been proud of America” Self edited, “until now”. He didn’t get elected to office by a majority of blacks, it was the white liberal voter.
Romney has the money and he has bought this election. He is not a heavy hitter.
Obama was taught from childhood the leftist ideas. When he left Hawaii he sought out radicals to surround himself. This is his world by choice, radicals in college, radicals elsewhere, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Valerie Jarret, and on and on…
You don’t have to see these videos to know that Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro)hates whites. You just have to read his books. If you do, you will learn that he hated his white grandparents because they were white; his mentor while in high school was a radical CPUSA member with whom he smoked dope and used other drugs; he attended Muslim schools in Indonesia and often went to mosque to pray with his step-father. The books are very enlightening. Obama isn’t the kind of person who should be leading a Halloween parade, let alone the United States of America. He scares the heck out of me!!! If he can have American citizens killed in Yemen without charges and a trial (due process under the constitution), then he can have you killed in your living room. Watch your back!!!
I read user comments such as found on this page and I weep for America.
Here’s a hankie, weepy dude. You can also use it as an Occupy mask if needed.
This is ridiculous. It’s lamer even than guilt by association, because it’s guilt by association by association. You guys have fun with your little game of “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon,” but I doubt anyone other than the perpetually outraged will even care.
not only that. guilt by association of someone who isn’t even guilty. strategy: find someone who nobody heard of, and who just died and can’t defend themselves, then relabel them as radical, but don’t bother to explain WHY they were radical. then associate away…..
Why did Professor Brookings say “Of course WE hid this during 08″ if there’s nothing to see here? It’s not guilt by association. It’s another piece of information about who Barak Obama is and what he believes. You don’t get the support and 30 years of friendship out of crazy people who hate the US without sharing their views. Obama believes white America is somehow responsible for most of the world’s woes. He believes white America has amassed it’s wealth on the backs of all people of color and that wealth should be taken from them and distributed around the world. His father wrote papers about American Colonialism (while attending college in America for free)and Barak admits he shares those views in Dreams From My Father. He has such contempt for all white people that he threw his grandmother under the bus. The women in his life most responsible for his success. Who throws their own grandmother under the bus? An admitted racist like Barry Soetoro, that’s who.
Wow, another radical associate of Barack Hussein Obama, the list just keeps growing, add the name Derrick Bell to go along with Rev. Jeremiah Wright William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn just to name a few. The real issue here is the media’s willingness to over look every one and refuse to report on them or if they get dragged into reporting on them they downplay it every time.
Why doesn’t anyone ever start with his childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis, a know card carrying member of the American Communist Party…just say’in.
WOW!!! Obama is tied to more radicals that hate America. That means even more democrats will vote for him now. This video will secure his base.
Re effect of video. After living here in CA I would not doubt that you may be correct.
That 1993 TNR article accuses Bell of playing the race card to facilitate his exit from a disastrous tenure at Oregon State. Yeesh.
I love how precepts such as all men are created equal and government is not infringe or impair an individual’s pursuit of life, liberty and happiness are just an ingrained white points of view.
A very under-qualified Obama came to the Presidency in large part due to white guilt. It seems clear that Derrick Bell dedicated his scholarly life to cultivating that guilt day in and day out. Obama has men like Derrick Bell to thank.
So do we.
Thanks Derrick.
Thanks Jeremiah.
Also.
Thanks Couric and Matthews and Lauer and Schieffer.
Williams and Stephie and Sawyer and Blitzer.
(talking to myself again) One of Bell’s core beliefs was that “whites would not support efforts to improve the position of blacks unless it was in their interest.” That’s what 2008 was. Whites felt the need to elevate a black man to assuage decades of guilt that they were taught they should feel. Qualifications and experience be damned! I don’t know if Obama will get the same guilted push from White voters this time around.
My ancestors fought on the Union side during the US Civil war. My ancestors fought in the Spanish American war. My ancestors fought in WWI. My ancestors fought in WWII. I avoided the Vietnam undeclared war because I didn’t believe the yarn about stopping the spread of Communism. Now Barack and Michelle are in the White House and clearly are Communists. Maybe I should have gone to Vietnam. I hate having Communists in the White House. How did that happen? My constitutional Bill of rights are going to be erased. I may find myself in a prisoner camp in line to a gas chamber. What the hell went wrong?
You stopped taking your meds…
Be easy attacking this guy.
The man was black and born in 1930. He knew real racism. Do I agree with his politics? No. I don’t agree with MLK’s socialist policies, either. But I understand where they came from.
We can reject “critical race theory” without getting ad hominem on a man who had legitimate reasons to dislike America.
If they dislike America … they can always go some place else.
I do get your point here, but Obama’s embracing of his teachings is quite another matter.
I think what really drove Derrick Bell nuts was that he had enough talent to realize how incredibly inadequate he was to the requirements of being a high-status professor of law. Hence he argued that somehow the standards by which legal excellence had customarily been judged were all wrong and biased against blacks like him. The true answer, which was too painful for him to acknowledge, was that rabid affirmative action policies had ruined his career by placing him in academic positions for which he was so unfit that it was impossible for him to contribute constructively. His colleagues who had earned their positions on merit knew it, and Derrick Bell knew that they knew it. Being unable to contribute constructively, he decided to contribute destructively with his cockamamie legal and social theories — very sad.
Obama was given the Nobel peace prize, because his hatred for isreal is the false profit the bible speaks of he has attended Muslim schools, missed the national day of prayer, covered stautes of Jesus at Georgetown univ prevented Franklin graham from speaking at 9/11 ceremonies , no proclamation. Of Easter , yet celabrates Muslim holidays , PLO flag flys over D.C asks forgiveness for Koran burning, but steps on churches, he is a evil evil thing from the gates of hell.
What is a GOP contender grew up attending a kkk club and was mentored by Nazi’s..might we pay attention?
Clearly, discrimination is a two way street. We don’t have a Miss White America or an American White College or a National Association for the Advancement of White People. But we do have a lot of tax money going to support the thousands of black babies being born out of wedlock (and white ones too).
He sounds like some White people I have heard over the years… What’s the big deal?
“critical race theory,”… inherently biased against African Americans and other minorities because it was built on an ingrained white point of view.”
It’s not ‘white’ to be honest, just, or peaceful. All humans appreciate and demand those aspects of character – individually and collectively. Yet, Bell proposed that those aspects of character are “inherently biased against African Americans??”
Tell me again who is the racist??
ocrick,
The big deal is that he is the leader of our country – a country based equality. Can you imagine the outrage and media firestorm that would occur if a KKK member was elected president? The only difference here is that Obama is black and is a liberal, so you’ll never hear the mainstream media say a thing about his radical views.
Hi,
White people can be subject to bigotry and prejudice. However, we can not be subject to racism because society heavily favors white people. Being critical about race, like Professor Bell was, is super important because the underlying biases against people of color in this country are still festering. The violence has subsided, but just because it’s not the Klan’s hay-day doesn’t mean we “beat” racism.
When a person of color informs me that something I said was racist, I try to think about how they’re right, the systemic issues that led me to believe what I was saying wasn’t racist, and how I can change instead of immediately rolling my eyes because there’s no way *I* could be racist, some of my best friends are black!
I’m decently aware that you, the person reading this, believe you’re completely educated on race and that you don’t need any perspective other than what you already have. That being said, you’re all just as bad as Democrats and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Combat Liberalism,
A white male.
Keep it real folks! Everyone regardless of race, creed, color or politics can be, and likely is, biased. We all tend to be proud of ourselves, proud of our heritage, proud of our way of life,and proud of who and what we are. I was rasied a died-in-the-wool FDR Democrat, I voted for JFK and Humphrey. But I became a Republican when I saw that entitlements, handouts,and big government do not build our country.
In my opinion (and I’m biased) a)English should be our official language, and fluency in English should be required for all licenses, and permits, b) the Executive branch of government should be limited to creating agencies only with the advice and consent of the Senate. c) illegal aliens (call them “undocumented” if you want) should be required to leave our country or register to apply for citizenship and accept that they shall not be entitled to free healthcare, social security benefits, or any other entitlement until sworn in as citizens, d) that our constitution should be admended to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. of illegal aliens, e) that our debt limit should never be increased and f) that corporate taxes should be reduced to no more than 15%. Would that bring hardship on some folks? The answer is, “yes”! Would it help our overall economy? I hope so. Would it eliminate government waste? Some of it, “Yes”. Would it be a cure-all? “No”, but in my opinion it would certainly help.
You have been brainwashed by the Left. Being in power or being the dominant race in a country is not a determining factor of Racism. According to Websters dictionary Racism is “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” Anyone can be racist just like anyone can be stupid.
I just retired at age 74 from teaching in a fine middle school. I am not a nut or alarmist. Just reporting that all my friends from my many social groups and my email friends have confessed that it may not be a bad thing to be our age and have limited time left! We can see the downfall of our American values and hate it with a passion. Perhaps our children are the last ones to remember what we stood for and what we expected from our efforts, not from the government.
Certainly we all are astute enough to know that Obama showed us what he was before the election…a Muslim socialist…I do not blame him…that is how he was raised.
God Save America!
God please wake up the American voters
I fully agree Mary. These uppity coons were much easier to deal with back then. We need to make a return to the Jim Crow values that made this country great.
Mary,
Isn’t it amazing that these republican idiots keep calling Obama a socialist for wanting taxes to go back to where they were during the Clinton years, 39%.
We can both remember the real America in the fifties when tax rates went all the way up to 91%. You remember that, right?
Good thing you’ve retired Mary. I hate the idea of misinformed teachers influencing our youth….referring to our President as a “Muslim Socialist”–you’ve got to be kidding!!!!!
Obama admitted to wanting to spread the wealth. He was caught saying how he wanted universal health care. He’s already been caught saying these things. The collective the American people were just too dumb to listen. They don’t care anymore. They just want their handouts. Patriotism isn’t taught anymore. Ever since the liberals got control of the schools and colleges and started teaching that McCarthyism is wrong and political correctness is right and that we should all feel sorry for our neighbor and help them not through our own kindness but through the government is when our country started failing. It happened around the 60s. Unfortunately, the Republicans have played right along with it even though they pretend not to.
Yeah you sound like a fatalistic nostalgist. It must’ve been traumatic to see people with slightly different views from yours ascending to higher office. And I bet rock and roll really gave you the vapors.
Don’t worry, you’re nearing average life expectancy. You won’t have to hate other people for much longer. If you think Obama is a communist, then I agree with you: you should’ve gone to Vietnam. Maybe then you would know the difference between actual communists and constitutional republicans with slightly liberal stances on small issues.
I think the odds are that Sterling Archer, Sally, HoosierMama and ematched will live long enough to enjoy the fruits of the policies and politicians they support. I hope you all like living with flickering lights and the maddening rumble of near-by wind turbines while vicious savages that your grandparents proudly called fellow citizens prowl outside your walled enclave.
You folks are very very sad.
Why dredge up the past? This was 20+ years ago, folks. When in college, we are exposed to many ideas and are challenged by new thought and new knowledge. A youthful Obama was influenced by a professor back then. It does not mean he continues to be influenced by the man now. Why do you hate Obama so much? He shows much more reason and compassion than any of you do here.
It’s normal to be infatuated with ideas that are new to you when you’re young. It’s not alwaays a good idea to adopt them uncritically but it happens. When we’re young and inexperienced and have a positive outlook, we tend to give the benefit of the doubt to ideas that may be controversial or extreme to others but we want to believe they will all turn out for the best.
The problem comes in when you see those ideas implemented and find that they don’t have the positive effect promised for them and even find them doing unexpected harm. Affirmative Action is an example of such an idea. It was supposed to remove the barriers to minorities and give them equal opportunities to get jobs and education without discriminating on the basis of the applicants skin color, religion, etc.
The reality has been somewhat unexpected to most of us who bought into the laudable goals that Affirmative Action promised. While some people who might previously have been blocked from advancing their educations or careers have been helped past those obstacles with good results for all, a great number of hugely incompetent people have been allowed to advance simply because of their minority status. Minority people who were far less qualified than their majority counterparts have been promoted over and over again while better qualified members of the majority have had their careers stalled or even lost their jobs altogether. Incompetent people from minority groups have steadily advanced but competent people from majority groups have been shunted aside. Or at least that is the widespread perception. Incompetent minority people have been surrounded by assistants to do their jobs for them so that there would be no proof that minority hires themselves were less competent. Tax dollars then end up paying several people to do the work of one. Poor performers though, are rarely if ever challenged let alone dismissed. Ironclad union agreements make it almost impossible to remove the incompetent and the lazy, regardless of whether they belong to a minority, but being part of a minority is an especially protected place to be because you can always scream that you are being discriminated against on the basis of your ethnic background, skin color, religion, sexual orientation or whatever.
When these sorts of things happen, a serious person will stop, re-evaluate and then discard the ideas that are doing more harm than good. At least, that’s what SHOULD happen. But if you look at the policies of Obama and the rest of the Left, you find that they not only won’t acknowledge the harm done by their ideas, they want to try even worse ideas in ever more misguided attempts to accomplish vague goals like “social justice” or “fairness”.
That’s when things get surreal. Bad policies that aren’t working get reinforced rather than replaced. The system works increasingly poorly and starts spiralling toward a collapse.
It seems to me that we could construct systems that don’t discriminate on the basis of ethnic background, gender and so forth without automatically promoting minorities in preference to majorities. Let’s do things the way they were SUPPOSED to be done by the people who promised to end discrimination: hire people (or grant scholarships) without regard to inconsequential things like race or gender and only the basis of competence or the potential to do the job well and promote only on the same basis. Let’s stop the practice of automatically promoting the minority member before the majority member regardless of competence just to prove that we aren’t discriminating. Let’s stop providing incompetents (minority or majority) with staff that do their work for them to hide their incompetence. Promote competence and don’t worry if the numbers show that a disproportionate number of promotees are majority or minority. As long as the measures of competence truly are fair, then promotions will be fair too: the best person for the job will get it regardless of their membership (or lack of membership) in a minority.
That is ultimately what conservatives want. Despite the claims of the Left, we are not interested in pushing the minorities back into a position of subservience. We simply want to see people treated equally and fairly the way the visionaries promised when they sold us programs like Affirmative Action.
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I’ve focused on Affirmative Action in these remarks but conservativism has a much broader scope than that one issue. I’ll leave it for others to explain the reasoning behind our views on other issues.
Being critical of Obama’s ideology is not “hating” Obama. I do not wish him or his family ill, but when i feel he is making choices that i feel are harmful to our country, I feel a responsibility to say something. Being labeled for it is unfair.
Yes, we do often change our views after college. The problem here is that Obama has a lifelong pattern of such associations and no indication of a change in his ideology.
Wow, another conservative article bandied about as if it proves something when all it is is more baseless speculation about someone.
According to conservative logic, a black person had no right to feel oppressed or agree with pro-black politics.
Yeah, you guys will do anything just to hate the half-black President including portraying respected professors who happened to believe that racism had infiltrated our bureaucratic institutions.
Racism was inflicted on our domestic institutions by Democrats. Wilson resegregated the federal government. Roosevelt paid white land owners to not grow crops, thus starving black sharecroppers, and drafted Japanese Americans out of concentration camps to serve in special units. Truman resegregated the Army after black soldiers were introduced into front line infantry units during a shortage of men during the Battle of the Bulge, though later, during the Korean war he was able to learn, and corrected himself.
DonM, you are the problem. You want to make this again about Democrats and Republicans. And you are making a ton of things about. First of all back then Democrats were conservative and Republicans were liberal. So the people pushing slavery and segregation and racism were conservatives who just so happen to control the Democratic Party. The Democrats were conservatives and the Republicans were liberal.
Wilson wasn’t racist. Segregated military’s and congress’s existed before Wilson and Wilson continued it to avoid a racial conflict, he did it to protect minorities. Roosevelt never paid white land owners to not grow crops. He pushed through tons of civil rights policies. And Harry Truman pushed through desegregating schools.
There’s a long list of people who had been odious communists in their youth who later became conservative. So, I don’t think it’s beyond credibility that a person who was an odious communist in college could change to become a moderate liberal. Four years ago it might have made sense to wonder what this man would do. Now we know; in many ways much of what he has done is not so very different from what Bush was doing.
So let’s be glad. It could have been much worse.
Moderate liberal? National Journal ranked then Sen. Barack Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate for 2007. Also, it’s his first term, and the need to seek re-election always makes moderates of liberals. But sometimes, the mask drops (Obamacare, HHS mandate), and we see what National Journal meant.
Obama was never extreme. There are 100 members in the Senate and in 2007, there were 49 Democrats including Obama in 2007. So Obama is the most liberal one year and he’s competing against 48 other people? That is nothing.
And healthcare reform is in the hands of the private sector health industry, how is that socialist or extreme especially when Gingrich, Romney, and Huntsman all proposed a healthcare mandate. And the HHS mandate is extreme? So supply contraceptives which has always happened is somehow now considered extreme and communist? What is wrong with you people. The democrats and left haven’t changed, you conservatives have gone so far to the right, its absurd.
Ho/mama – the dude is a ‘commu-cate’ or communist-democrat !
And he is terrible at his job – my he be voted out or dragged out – what ever!
It would be wonderful if all you conservatives and racists would just agree to live completely in the South. This time, we will be THRILLED to have you secede!
We will not turn the country over to Democrats, Socialists, Communists or Racists. We worked for this country, we own it by blood and toil, and we will win.
The Democrats wanted to embrace slavery as the cornerstone of their existence in 1860. They tried to inflict it on black and white, north and south, east and west. They failed then. They will fail again. Once again Republicans are the party of freedom, of justic, of law, and of prosperity.
DonM, you don’t have the slightest clue with what you are talking about. I can’t believe your propaganda. First of all, you once again are living in the past. Your ideology is the ideology of racism. The Democratic party of 1860 is not the Democratic Party of today and the Republican party of 1860 is not the Republican party of today.
The Democratic Party used to be the conservative party, and the Republican Party used to be the liberal party. This is an undeniable fact, look at the history. The Democratic Party was conservative and the Republican Party was liberal.
In fact the republican was founded on by Democrats. It was founded on by a mixture of Abolitionists, Free-Soil Democrats, and Whigs which was founded on by The Democratic-Republican Party.
Don’t try to mix this into a Democrat and republican issue, you are preaching typical partisan politics. This is about liberalism and conservatism and the conservatives have always embraced and pushed through racism and the liberals have fought against it and to end it. The Democrats were conservative and the Republicans were liberal. Republicans started the progressive movement and look up the exchange of letters Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx had with one another.
And even during that 1800s, many Republicans were still racist. Many Republicans still supported slavery and others favored forced colonization of Africans and deporting them once they are free.
Get with the modern times, the conservative ideology switched parties and is now part of the Republican Party and the Republicans today are preaching racism and Democrats are fighting against it.
There is no socialist and communist threat and Democrats have done a better job with the economy than Republicans have, and have always improved this country and economy since the 1930s.
Unfortunately, liberals won’t give a damn. They only think racism brews in white people. They’re a sad group of people who will never be happy until their butts are wiped for them and their dinner is served forcing people on welfare to “learn” how to work by serving them. In reality, liberals are the most racist people of them all.
I watched the video and LMAO, where was the huge surprise, even Hannity looked disappointed? I guess when you’re in the party of “No” you have to grasp at any straw…..no matter how small or insignificant it is.
It’s fine that some people look at the video and say “so what?” and that it means nothing. They are perfectly within their right to belive so. What’s not right is that willing accomplaces in the media chose to edit or hide it in it’s entirety when Obama was a candidate in ’08. And this is just one of a myriad of dirty little secrets that Obama’s key associates and the MSM does not want the public to know about. The role of the media is to vet a candidate, not run interference for one. What happened in ’08 and what continues to happen today is nothing short of journalistic malfeasance. It threatens the integrity of our electoral system by not letting the facts, good or bad, be put out for everyone to draw their own conclusions. For three plus years now, the MSM has undeniably shown itself as being nothing short of the propaganda arm of the Democratic party. Hiding the truth and attempting to silence anyone who disagrees with Obama as being racists…it’s all so tired and so completely transparent.
“Bell, like other so-called “critical racial theorists” such as Richard Delgado and Mari Matsuda…” (James Traub, TNR, 1993)
Folks, critical race theory isn’t just a black/white thing. I think anyone, regardless of race, who subscribes to CRT should be opposed.
Here’s another little known fun fact: Bell was an unflinching idiot. When it comes to actual “critical” thinking, Bell’s photo should be next to the some Wiki explanation for the failure of the black American community in the last half-century. A fourth-rate intellect convinced he sees the “real” truth. I’m surprised he didn’t hold court in a bowling alley.
If the only question is, do black people have reason to feel oppressed, I think the answer is an unequivocal yes.
If the question expands to, will we ever leave racism in the past, if the law builds in exceptions based on skin color, I think the answer is a clear NO.
Most members of the rightist coalition generally want the black subculture to adopt the traditional American values of individual freedom, taking responsibility for one’s own well-being, and an even playing field established by the rule of law. Whereas the leftist coalition generally seeks to madate a tie score, via built in exceptions and racial preferences, continuing ad infinitum. They don’t share with me, the notion that their leftist desires virtually guarantees a racially divided population. The left wants blacks to be maintained by government largess, which infantalizes them, and makes them dependent, and so then they become dependable leftist voters.
When more blacks wake up to the hopelessness of racial identity collectivism, more of them will leave the Democratic party, and start to vote on the side of individual freedoms. It’s happening already, albeit slowly. I really look forward to the day when it becomes a flood.
WOW!!! cinemafreak1. Obviously you have been smoking the same whacky weed your misinformed cinema friends have been using. Since Abe Lincoln died in 1865 and Karl Marx was BORN in 1918 I find it very hard to believe they wrote letters to each other unless Capt. James T. Kirk was transporting Marx back to 1865 to converse with Mr. Lincoln. Now I don’t know what college you went to but you obviously didn’t pay attention in your English classes because your letter writing skills are horrendous. My 17 year old Grandaughter can express herself much better than you can. I think you should go back to school and take remedial courses in english composition and especially in American and European history.