Top Ten Racist Incidents of the Week
Obama’s “post-racial America” has not materialized. Instead, the nation has gone in the opposite direction and become race-obsessed America.
No, that’s not quite right either. We’re not obsessed with race — we’ve become obsessed with accusations of racism. Some of the accusations are true; some, not so much. But what used to be a last-ditch smear tactic used only by the most desperate political operatives, or something which as a society we’d try to ignore in the hopes that it would go away, has instead become a daily occurrence, a standard category in the 24-hour news cycle:
Politics • Sports • Business • Accusations of Racism • Weather
Just a few years ago, shortly before Obama appeared on the political landscape, I wrote this satirical dictionary definition of the word “racist”:
racist – A statement of surrender during an argument. When two people or disputants are engaged in an acrimonious debate, the side that first says “Racist!” has conceded defeat. Synonymous with saying “Resign” during a chess game, or “Uncle” during a schoolyard fight. Originally, the term was meant to indicate that one side was accusing the other of being racist, but once it was noticed that people only resorted to this tactic when all other arguments had been exhausted, it acquired its new meaning of “indicating one’s own concession of defeat.”
Oh, how times have changed, and how quickly. Not only do people now reach for the race card first in almost any political, social, or personal dispute, but sometimes the accusations are even true (or partly true), as public exhibition of racism has become more commonplace. No matter how you slice it — an increase of racism and of false accusations of racism — I see this as a huge step backward for our nation.
The Week in Racism
So many accusations of racism battle for space in your morning headlines, it’s easy to get them all confused. So I’ve created the following scorecard to help you sort it all out.
Here are the Top Ten Accusations of Racism for the last week, along with a handy “Level of Actual Racism” accuracy rating (on a 1-to-10 scale, with 10 being the most racist) to help determine to what extent each accusation is true, or if the accuser is just crying “Uncle” in a losing argument.
1. Mel Gibson “Pack of Ni@@ers” Meltdown
| Accuser: Oksana Grigorieva |
Purported Racist: Mel Gibson |
Level of Actual Racism: 8.5 |
As everyone on Earth has heard by now, actor Mel Gibson destroyed his own career when he unleashed a series of abusive rants at his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva — which she secretly recorded and then leaked to the gossip site RadarOnline. Amidst all his rage and hate and hyperventilating threats, Gibson clearly says at one point, “If you get raped by a pack of ni@@ers, it’ll be your fault.”
Now, merely saying “the N-word” is enough to endanger any white celebrity’s career, but to say so in a derogatory sense is curtains. Gibson is finished in Hollywood. Yet what’s interesting about Mel Gibson’s rant is that it’s not racist in the “normal” way but rather at a deeper level.
If you calmly analyze the offending sentence “If you get raped by a pack of ni@@ers, it’ll be your fault,” you can see that Gibson never overtly says he dislikes or has a low opinion of black people. In fact, they’re not the subject of his vitriol but rather side characters in a hate-fantasy directed at his ex-girlfriend, who is the person he’s trying to insult. But this unconscious offhand reference to black people reveals his racism in four different ways:
b. By implying that black men will rape any provocatively dressed woman, Gibson is trafficking in the stereotype of blacks as sexually insatiable and violent.
c. He dehumanizes black people by using the concept of “a pack of ni@@ers” as an all-purpose bogeyman, some menacing evil force which lurks in the background waiting to pounce.
d. And of course, he uses the ultimately derogatory term “ni@@er” (so derogatory it’s no longer acceptable to even spell it out fully in a news report).
So, despite never consciously expressing an opinion about black people in his rant, Mel Gibson accidentally revealed his real attitudes about blacks, and so earns an Actual Racism rating of 8.5 out of 10.
2. The Brown Berets Tell Whites to “Go back to Europe!”
| Accuser: Reality |
Purported Racist: Brown Berets |
Level of Actual Racism: 8.0 |
As discussed at Gateway Pundit, the race-based Hispanic paramilitary militia known as the Brown Berets showed up to counter-protest a Tea Party rally in Anaheim and started spouting mind-boggling anti-white racist rants. Here’s the video:
The action starts at 1:47 into the video, when the Brown Beret woman begins shouting through her bullhorn,
“You’re white! You don’t belong here! Back to Europe! Back to Europe! This was Mexican land! It’s still Mexican land! … Go back to Germany! Go back to Europe! The whites don’t belong here! This is America, the whites don’t belong here!”
For all the people accusing the Tea Party of being a racist organization: This video shows what a real racist organization is like. There is no need to ascribe racist thoughts to the minds of real racists, because their racism is self-evident. You will never find a performance like this at a Tea Party rally, because the Tea Party is not about race.
What makes the Brown Beret philosophy so totally absurd is that of course Hispanics are themselves also descended from Europeans. After all, isn’t Spain part of Europe too? Somewhere between 70% and 90% of Mexicans are of European heritage. And yet in the Brown Beret fantasy world, only certain Euro-Americans have to “go back,” while the rest get to stay. What we see on display here is racism combined with astounding stupidity, and so earns an Actual Racism rating of 8.0 out of 10.
3. Journolist False Racism Smear Campaign Ploy
| Accuser: Liberal media members |
Purported Racist: “Obama’s conservative critics” |
Level of Actual Racism: 0.0 |
In the most eye-opening scandal so far this year, the elite liberal email bulletin board known as “Journolist” was exposed as one vast brainstorming session on how to unfairly demonize conservatives. As reported at HotAir, the Daily Caller got ahold of the Journolist archives and discovered leading liberal pundits and mainstream reporters scheming during the 2008 presidential election about how to defuse the Jeremiah Wright scandal around then-candidate Barack Obama. Their solution?
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
As HotAir’s Ed Morrissey incisively notes,
Ackerman wasn’t talking about a strategy to expose real racists, in the media or anywhere else. The Washington Independent reporter wanted to conduct a campaign against any figure on the Right, including journalists like Fred Barnes, to smear him as a racist for the political purposes of electing a Democrat to the White House. Notice that Ackerman doesn’t even bother to ask people to look for actual evidence of racism, but just suggests to pick a conservative name out of a hat.
Sound familiar? This tactic is now Standard Operating Procedure used against any and all critics of Obama. Endlessly fling out baseless accusations of racism, and let your opponents waste their time trying to disprove the allegations. The problem for the Democrats and the Left in general is that the number of people dissatisfied with Obama has grown so large, that his dwindling cadre of followers lashes out with “You’re all racists! All of you!” on a nearly daily basis these days. And as a consequence, the accusation has not only lost its sting, but has become counter-productive, as average Americans are sick and tired of being continuously slandered by their President’s own operatives.
Actual Racism: 0.0
4. NAACP Charges the Tea Party with Racism
| Accuser: NAACP |
Purported Racist: The Tea Party |
Level of Actual Racism: 2.0 |
The NAACP set off a political firestorm this week when it charged “The Tea Party” of being “racist,” an accusation which has dominated the headlines all week and led to a series of denials and counter-charges (see below).
Lost in the flurry of finger-pointing is any evidence by the NAACP to support its claim. The media seems to be still operating on the principle that the accusation of racism is the only evidence required to prove racism. But where is the NAACP’s actual evidence? Maybe I missed it, but I have the feeling there was no proof offered in conjunction with the accusation, only a statement of political opinion about what goes on in other people’s heads.
Here’s why I’m dubious about the charges of racism against the “Tea Party”:
a. First and foremost, the “Tea Party” is a frame of mind, not an organization. There is no central leader or committee which controls the Tea Party, nor is there a unified platform. The term “Tea Party” is just a shorthand way to refer to the large and ever-growing contingent of people who feel dismayed at the direction the country has taken under the Obama administration, especially in regard to fiscal matters. Yes, there are local Tea Party associations, and there are populist politicians and pundits who want to anoint themselves self-declared leaders of a leaderless movement, but the closer you peer at “the Tea Party” itself, the more vague and loosely defined it becomes. It’s not an official political party, it’s not a crisply defined ideology, it’s not a corporation, it’s not anything at all, really, except millions of people who sorta kinda have an overlap of opinion concerning American economic policy and cultural values. Because of all this, it’s impossible to declare that “the Tea Party” as a unified whole possesses some identifiable but hidden trait (such as racism).
b. Opponents of the Tea Party have made no secret of their intent to destroy the movement with infiltrators and agents provocateurs who purposely display flagrantly racist comments or signs, which are then highlighted by their colleagues in the media and used to impugn the entire anti-Obama mindset. So any individual documented example of “racism” within the Tea Party should be treated with suspicion.
c. Does racism still exist in America? Unfortunately yes. I have the feeling it’s not nearly as prevalent as it was in the 19th century or even in the 1950s, but it still lingers here and there. Because of this, if you get any large group of people together, you’re likely to find some people in the crowd with racist feelings. So: Are there racists in the Tea Party? Probably. But there are also racists in the AFL-CIO, in the audience at a Taylor Swift concert, in the National Ping Pong League, and even in the Democratic Party. Since there seems to be a simmering low-level endemic racism in the human heart (something which may be impossible to ever fully eradicate), you can find racists (or crypto-racists) at every level of society and in every large organization. So pointing out individual racists here and there proves nothing really about whatever organizations they belong to — especially if the organization has no official membership and is as loosely defined as the Tea Party is.
d. Considering everything in point “c” above, one must then look at the stated goals or ideology of any organization accused of racism. There are racists in the KKK, but is the KKK a racist organization? Yes, because its self-declared ideology prominently features racist sentiments and goals. There are racists in the National Ping Pong League, but is the National Ping Pong League a racist organization? No, because its self-declared purpose is to organize Ping Pong tournaments, and race is nowhere mentioned. There are racists in the Tea Party, but is the Tea Party racist? No, because nowhere in the ideologies associated with the Tea Party are there any racist sentiments, nor are there any mentions of race at all, except perhaps a sweeping dedication to racial equality. Are black people or other minorities excluded from the Tea Party? No. In fact, they’re eagerly embraced.
e. Some on the left have attempted to make the following argument: that the fiscal policies advocated by the Tea Party are themselves a form of crypto-racism, because lower taxes and lower government spending means fewer government entitlement programs which means fewer benefits for those at the bottom of the economic scale, which tends to have a higher proportion of minorities. So the argument runs: If you want to lower the deficit by decreasing government spending, then you’re essentially taking money away from minorities, which proves your racist intent. To that I say (and many analysts agree): Encouraging people to free themselves from dependence on public handouts is not malicious or racist, but rather a form of “tough love,” an acknowledgement of each person’s independence and potential and self-worth. I would argue that overly lavish social welfare programs are a kind of “soft slavery,” whereby the beneficiaries are essentially owned by the state. So, if anything, it is the welfare state advocated by the left which hurts minorities in the long run; whereas the fiscal responsibility advocated by the Tea Party leads to a robust economy which helps everyone, including minorities.
This is easily the most contentious and impossible-to-quantify of all the “Actual Racism” ratings in this list, but I see no hard evidence of racism as a fundamental belief guiding those people who identify as “Tea Partiers,” and at worst maybe a real racist or two showed up at some Tea Party rally somewhere and were not as quickly identified and chased away as they could have been. So, I’ll assign an “Actual Racism” rating of 2.0 out of 10 for this entry, much as I’d probably assign a 2.0 racism rating to humanity in general.
Ihegboro’s look like a happy family. I wish them the best of luck in ignoring the folks who will attempt to make something out of nothing.
#11 College Freshman orientation taking place this summer all over America
Accuser: Lester
Purported Racist: College Presidents, Faculty, Administrators
Level of actual racism: 10
Affirmative action and race based “diversity” admissions policies. The exception UC – thank God for Ward Connerly, Time to end all racism in all forms.
Exactly! And the group who is charged with keeping score is FIRE (www.thefire.org).
Mmmm… sweet delicious baby…
Their older kids are amazingly cute too.
I am incredibly curious about how the genetics work out to produce such a pale skinned baby, though. I know there’s some variation– being in a mixed-race marriage myself and seeing our kids have different skin tones– but this I’ve never seen before and it piques my scientific curiosity.
Oh my God, Zombie, you crack me up!!! This is pure genius! I particularly like this part: “[it] has instead become a daily occurrence, a standard category in the 24-hour news cycle: Politics • Sports • Business • Accusations of Racism • Weather
Lenin: Class-based International Socialism
Hitler: Race-based National Socialism
Obama: Class- and Race-based Post-National Socialism
Unless the Brown Berets are 100% Indian who are they to cast stones. If they speak Spanish maybe they should return to Spain. In an honest society we would let the KKK and the New Crap Panther Party fight to the death, then we can jail the winner.
even the so called native americans are not native, scientific theory posits that they arrived in america via the land bridge from asia.
It’s not a theory. There’s DNA and artifact evidence. All of the peoples in the New World when the Europeans got here were descended from Siberians, who wiped out earlier settlers from Polynesia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. The Siberian-Americans had superior military technology, an advanced spear point, and they overwhelmed the inhabitants.
A scientific theory is a collection of observable, demonstrable and testable facts. So yes, it is a theory.
OK so the Brown Berets were replaced by a superior military. My point is still valid I just didn’t think I needed to back to the first two cavemen that fought over a dead animal. I just hope we are strong enough and smart enough to hold the South West.
Even though they are mostly a Spaniard Indian mix very few Mexicans have Aztec blood but that is what most Mexican Americans of the La MEChA ilk fantasize their ethnicity is. In any case the stupidity lies in the belief that because Spain took the land from the Navajo, Apache, Hopi, Pueblo, and other Southwestern tribes, and the US took it from the Mexicans, (and in some cases bought it), we should give back to the Aztecs when the Aztecs themselves were never strong enough to take it.
Of all the cultures that did not survive contact with Europeans, the Aztecs go to the top of the “good riddance” list. Remember it wasn’t just the Spaniards who did them in, every Indian tribe within reach signed up against the Aztecs.
But if it gives people solace to imagine themselves heirs to the most hated, violently imperialist slave holding mass murdering empire of the New World, good luck to them. They can take their place next to the neo-Nazis.
The word Mexican comes from the word “mestizo.” Zombie didn’t assign Ms. Bocagrande enough points for stupid. Her actual racism might break 9.0.
Actually, the word “Mexican” comes from the Nahuatl proper noun Mexica, the name of the Azteca-Mexica people of precolumbian Mesoamerica.
“Meztiso” or “mestiso” is “from the Romance / Latin word mixticius, meaning mixed.” (“mestizo”. Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. 2008. “a person of mixed blood; specifically: a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry”)
Race war coming? It certainly seems like some people would love to see minorities begin mass murders of pigmentally-challenged Americans. Mr. King Shabazz needs to realize what such a horror would release on his people, and upon the hispanics even if they were to join forces (which I doubt could last due to raical animosity between blacks and hispanics). That AK Shabazz is so proud of isn’t going to do him much good beyond a hundred meters, especially when you consider that this country has plenty of white people who have been hunting their whole lives, and for whom a two hundred yard shot with a .308 would be like throwing a basketball at the side of a barn from 10 feet away. Mr. Shabazz, the cities may be full of black people, but the rural areas are where the food is. Please come back to reality before this becomes even more tragic.
Some of these “latino” activists are nearly as white as my Northern European DNAed self. WTH are they talking about? With the mentality we have today, someone would have radicalized all the Italian kids I went to school with by drilling into their heads that they were a different race and that the rest of the world owed them something.
Boy, am I glad Bush is gone and we can put all that divisiveness behind us.
“Can Obama unite us?” Remember that one? We almost owe Journolist a thank you. But do the morons of the left realize that they have been led by the nose?
Inasmuch as no one else is likely to come forward and say so, allow me to be the first:
– I am Caucasian — that is, both my parents are Caucasian, all four of theirs were Caucasian, and all eight of theirs were Caucasian.
– I’m an American citizen of libertarian-conservative politics.
– By the standards prevalent today, I am a racist.
And damned proud of it, baby.
Why? You want to know why? Well, in actual fact, with no consideration for anyone’s tender feelings, it’s like this:
There are demonstrable statistical differences among the three recognized races. Just as there are between the sexes, and among nationalities, and creeds, et cetera ad nauseam infinitam.
Today, merely acknowledging that reality — the reality of differences in physique, of intelligence distributions, of divergent preferences in religious practice, of differences in family feeling, and of divergent propensities for aggression and lawbreaking — is enough to get you called a racist.
When Eric Holder decided to slander American Caucasians en masse, he opened the floodgates. We’d been putting up begrudgingly with that sort of slander from the Left for decades, but this was the first time it had ever come from a high federal official.
So I decided to embrace the term — to detoxify it by adopting it.
Time was, a racist was someone who believed his race was innately entitled to rule over persons of other, “lesser” races. That use of the term had political significance; it made sense as a criticism in political cut-and-thrust. But in those halcyon days of yore, no one was foolish enough to accept that races visually distinct from one another could not possibly differ in any other way, even statistically.
“Racist” became all too useful a slander to racialist grievance-mongers and conscience-free political operatives. So the original meaning was downplayed, and ultimately lost. Nowadays, we have Congressmen imputing racism to their adversaries on the basis of their desire for reduced taxes.
There will be consequences, especially given that the Legacy Media are determined not to allow us to learn anything that “might fuel white racism.”
Embrace it, friends. Wear the label with pride, and laugh in the face of anyone who tries to cow you with it. All it takes is a little courage.
If we all speak our minds like Francis here does, we can prove Holder wrong.
Embrace the label of “racist”?
I couldn’t think of a more mind-numbingly stupid idea.
Good grief, Frank…I think rather you might consider embracing the label of “idiot”, as your suggestion is utterly idiotic.
Excuse me. My reply was to Francis, not Frank.
Sorry, Frank.
Sir, you lack the courage of your convictions — unless, that is, you sincerely believe that, except for their visible differences, the races of Man are statistically identical in every respect. But if you do believe thus, that marks you as uninformed at best.
I go by my full and correct name in every venue, so that whatever I say or write will attach to me irreversibly. I’ve been writing for the Web for thirteen years, first at the old Palace of Reason,, and since 2004 at Eternity Road. I’ve never reversed a position on any subject, until I’ve been shown incontrovertible proof that I was wrong — at which point I’ve publicly admitted that I’d been wrong. I walk it like I talk it; it’s my proudest boast.
Can you say the same, Mr…what did you say your name was?
Francis, I couldn’t care less what your name is, or how long you’ve been muttering stupidity on the internet. If you actually think that embracing the label of “racist” would be helpful in any way to the conservative cause then you’re an idiot.
And no, there are no groups of people that are “statistically identical in every respect”…So what?
Funny how it’s always the dumbest of white people who are the most likely to claim that whites are superior.
And with that, we’ve established who the idiot in this exchange really is, Mr. “Ringo.” Daring to acknowledge that there are statistical differences among the races will get you labeled a “racist” by the racial hate-mongers even faster than proclaiming yourself a conservative.
There’s only one way to detoxify a slur like “racist.” We must embrace it. We must insist that to be called a “racist.” is no big deal. In this as in many other things, Chris Muir has ponted the way.
Some wag recently said that it seems that everyone is a racist, by prevailing standards for the use of that term. But if everyone is a racist, then it’s just a general characteristic of Mankind, and no big deal. Did you get that? Or, in acknowledgement of your apparently inferior reading comprehension, should I have used shorter words?
Well, I don’t know if it’s stupid or not, Ringo, but I do know this, I’m not a racist, and I’m not going to claim to be something I’m not, so I’ll have to take a pass on Francis’ plan.
Good idea, Dave. While Francis and Delia “embrace their racism” the rest of us embrace our sanity.
I think I understand what Francis is saying. It is like Gringo was a slur against the Americans by the Latin Americans and Mexicans.
Now the Americans use it proudly…
I was accused as a racist in controversial discussions…and I am not white either…
In response to Francis. W. Porretto: ~~ I am a Caucasian.
It has become my practice to find one outstanding blog, each day — then, copy, paste and circulate it on my email list.. with the strong suggestion that my friends join me in reading PJM. Today’s winner is Francis W.
It takes courage to stand against the tide of parasites who want the rewards of someone else’s labors.. Possibly, they outnumber us, but we have Character and Conviction, and as your letter indicates, intelligence. You are correct, Francis –we can do it; if we stand together! We must stop allowing Progressives to PC us into submission. We must retake our Nation from these thugs who now inhabit our Capitol. Together we can, and will, return it to its once great stature and relight its beacon of freedom! ps: please don’t let the rambling of Ringo/Dingo, or whatever it was, bother you… there will always be those who criticize what they don’t comprehend. h
In Canada, there seems to be parades, accolades and preference given to EVERY SINGLE GROUP EXCEPT WHITE MALES. When do we get a parade? A gala? A television special highlighting our strengths and contributions?
The drip of the bucket from MSM only fuels my cynicism, the feeling that there’s no place for me under the CURRENT STRUCTURE.
So I too say ‘stick it up your a$$’ and keep out of the spotlight.
Dept of Energy Human Genome project.
“DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans. While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair color can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another. There also is no genetic basis for divisions of human ethnicity. People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other. ”
The race protectors know the worst racists are those who deny races exits , those who search for un-biased knowledge and scientific advancement and those who think justice is blind to race. The DoE is racist and the Holder and Obama regime are ignoring this obvious republican/Bush/Cheney plot to engineer the human genome.
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Tell me again how many barrels of oil that Dept. of Energy project added to U.S. reserves.
hey francis
dont you mean Family Circus
or maybe thr Boondocks is more your speed?
as cartoons of racial purity instead of smearing with your dribble the excellent Day by Day?
Your analysis of the Sherrod incident makes more sense than a lot of stuff I’ve read. Thanks for keeping it sane.
Today Beck did a time line on the Sharrod incident….seems the lady was fired long before FOX ever said anything….So, who exactly is out to cause race problems???
The NAACP had the tape and knew the whole story..never said a word. Racism at it’s best..by experts in Obama adm.
I love the attitude of the Ihegboro dad, exactly how I think a dad should respond.
Sound like we have a lot of Helen Thomas’ out there.
I disagree with most representations of the complete Shirley Sherrod tape, including that on Fox News where O’Reilly and Beck are playing defense. I added a postscript to my blog http://clarespark.com/2010/07/18/white-elite-enabling-of-black-power/. And also provided a link to Andy McCarthy’s similar and excellent account of the ideology Sherrod is representing. Sherrod presented an amazing and fictitious story about the invention of slavery and racism in colonial America in order to assert a golden age of black-white unity of the poor against the rich, and that was her very black nationalist subtext. She is not an integrationist in the mode of MLK, but a proponent of reparations. And underneath the egalitarian rhetoric there was more than a whiff of black supremacy, not to speak of hatred for Republicans and Bush, notwithstanding her appeals to the God of Love.
that the fiscal policies advocated by the Tea Party are themselves a form of crypto-racism, because lower taxes and lower government spending means fewer government entitlement programs which means fewer benefits for those at the bottom of the economic scale, which tends to have a higher proportion of minorities.
But lower government spending also could lead to lower employment of ‘ruling party’ fonctionnaires, which might also hurt the employment of politically-correctly-colored individuals to sit in the fonctionnaire-chairs and make (mostly) race-neutral decision on Disposition of other people’s Funds.
Bad Tea Party! Bad!
You left out Israel convicting an Arab man of “rape” because he pretended to be a Jew in order to seduce a Jewish woman.
It’s interesting to see someone complaining that Israel is adjudicating a rape accusation which is pretty much in line with most of the “sexual harassment codes” in force on American college campuses, and with most of today’s feminist orthodoxy.
Sorry, but, that ‘oopsy’ white baby is friggin’ FUG. lol
I’ve NEVER had a bad experience with blacks in my lifetime. Every (and I mean, EVERY) encounter I’ve had with black folks has been GOOD. I’ve had best friends who happened to be black (and I ‘happened’ to be white) when I was growing up. We never made no big ‘thang’ about our ‘shade’ of melanin.
The thing that brought racism ‘home’ for me was when I saw the O.J. Simpson verdict and the black people cheering for a black man who murdered his ‘white’ wife and got off Scott free. THAT shook me to my core and saddened me deeply.
When I was growing up, the ‘n-word’ was like the ‘f-word’ in my household. NOBODY swore or used profanity and racist remarks were considered PROFANE (which they are).
So, now we have blacks who want to be the new racists now? Now, we have blacks who have had it pretty good with the ‘victim’ mentality and the obesity rates sky-rocketing in their poor ‘hoods’ and now that they have some ‘power’ what do they do? They ABUSE it. Hmmmm.
Sound familiar?
Name me ONE (just ONE) successfully run ALL BLACK country and yet, so many of them they HATE ‘whitey’ even when they know as soon as they drive the ‘whites’ out, their country goes to SH*T.
Oh. But, I’m an effin’ ‘OPTIMIST’:
“What it’s Like to Teach Black Students?”
Yes, there should be some white shame (but, historical ONLY) because SOME white men killed off the ‘smart’ blacks and bred only the ‘dumb muscular’ blacks.
Then again, were there ANY smart blacks ‘captured’ by their own black brethren from other tribes? Or were ALL of the blacks inferior to their tribal brethren whom they warred with and LOST and were ‘sold’ into slavery (a fate worse than death? I think not).
What in the hell are you talking about? You are rambling and are not making sense at all. Sounds like you are filled with hatred so much so that you can’t even organize your thoughts in a logical way.
You are a racist point blank. Yeah, I said it. If the shoe fits wear it. You have allowed your fear to cloud your judgement about Blacks, believing that because some exhibit negative behaviors and characteristic, there is something essentially wrong with the whole group. You are no better than the New Black Panther Party, Nation of Islam, or the KKK. These groups have justified their bigotry the way you have justified yours. Your words are hurtful and unhelpful. Delia, I truly hope that you judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, but some how I doubt it.
Black are a MINORITY and yet commit the MAJORITY of crime.
How many white men rape black women? 3%
How many black men rape white women?
GOOGLE this phrase:
“In the United States in 2005, 37,460 white females were sexually assaulted or raped by a black man, while between zero and ten black females were sexually assaulted or raped by a white man.”
Yes, I’m a raaaaaaaaaacist.
Phuck you.
Actually, the fact that you believe the statistics you presented say anything about ALL black males, proves that you are a racist.
for 13. Delia
One all-black country that’s successful: BOTSWANA. All black, and successful. But, I’ll grant you it’s the only successful such country in all of Africa.
BOTSWANA is not as you think ALL Black there is a very sizeable White and Indian population that has lived there in harmony with the Locals for many years. How do I know well my first wife was from Botswana the daughter of a White Rancher who settled there in the late 1890′s just after the Boer War and a Portuguese/BUSHMAN(SAN) mother. WE lived there together in the 70/80′s and both my WHITE sons were born there. She still owns a huge estate there which my sons will inherit. But it has always been peaceful largely due to the fact that the population is small and the State income is huge, diamonds, coal , copper and cattle. Of course it helped that the first President on Independence was Sir Seretse Khama the hereditary Chief of the largest Tribe the Bamangwato and that his wife Ruth was ENGLISH , His son Ian half back/ half white and also just like Obambi is now President . Except of course Ian is not a RACIST Socialist bigot like Obama which is another reason why Botswana is so peaceful.
And Weasel Zippers is reporting on the phoney Tea-Party-chanting-”N*gger”-On-Capitol-Steps/I-Was-Spat-Upon Democrat congressmen is repeating his unfounded, lying accusations. So maybe add that to your list, too?
The little boy’s expression in the final photo is excellent. Makes me smile just to see it.
That misspelling of racist on the sign should be taken up as the new correct form, because it includes the underlying additional slur – “RASCIST” – cf fascist
Good points…couple of aspects missed:
#4 – Subpoint A invalidates Subpoint D. You can’t say that the TP isn’t an organization but then claim they aren’t racist because their organization’s “idealogy” isn’t racist. That the TP originates from concerns over fiscal values is also a bit of revisionist history. GWB ran (at the time) record deficits for most of his presidency but there wasn’t this outcry from the right. The origins of the TP movement was the “birthers”, those who were opposed to Obama for miriad of excuses most of those at least felt subjective to who Obama was (his religion, his race, his parents, his nationality, his friends, etc.) rather than what his ideas or policies were. The bones in the nose pictures and the “go back to Kenya” slogans were there LONG before Obama was elected or proposed anything. Granted, the TP party’s goals have “evolved” into focusing on other concerns but you can still see the “birther” mentality in their recycled pictures of the president and the terms they use to describe or comment on his policies now that they used to describe him back then. For an organization to “get past” its origins, there has to be a collective recognition that what brought them together intially isn’t valid anymore. They wouldn’t be the first organization to do this. Many have declared the values of their organization have changed from what was the original intent. Southern Baptist and Planned Parenthood come to mind.
#5 – Racebaiting reporting ignored. All this blather about holding MSM accountable yet here is the same pass being given to a conservative “media”. Breibart took a 38 second clip from a 43 minute speech of 1 woman talking to 200 people as an “example” of how the NCAAP (an org with millions of people in it) is “racist” and everyone believes him when he says that his focus was the audience not the speaker (even though she isn’t grayed out to protect her identity or a disclaimer is ran over the clip explaining the context). Is Breibart racist? No. Was he attempting to divert focus from a racism allegations? Yes.
#6 – Missing in this “racism” list is the “racist” accusations made by the conservative media. Every major Fox anchor went on TV the day (or day after) after the first clip aired and declared her a racist in the Obama organization with a racist agenda. You can’t stir up the pot without all the facts and then later not claim no fault for the resulting drama that gets played out. The conservative media was looking for any example of racism to counter charge the NCAAP and when this was presented, their assumptions about the organization lead them to run with it rather than do due diligence. The assumption by many conservatives is that the NCAAP is a racist organization. The willingness of conservatives to cry “racist” at any shred of evidence is no different than the NCAAP crying “racist” at the tea party. Both organizations have origins based in racial tensions thus both are going to be at some level “racist” by those opposed to them.
Breitbart was giving them a taste of their own medicine, showing them how their slimey tactics work, not trying to impugn the ENTIRE NAACP (the same organization that had JUST used these same tactics against him). He was showing them how it feels, and that’s it, and he admitted as much, so stop misrepresenting him like the media.
Your statement that “the right” didn’t object to the GOP/Bush spending is dead wrong. I, and most conservatives I know, were appalled by it and deeply opposed to such programs as NoChildLB and the prescription drug benefit. In fact, I didn’t bother to vote in 2006 because I had reached the conclusion that, at least in domestic policy, there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two statist parties. (Okay. I was dead wrong about that. The GOP Congress was bad, but the Democrat one has been beyond horrific.)
I think the impulse for the Tea Party actually started with TARP, which as you know, was a bipartisan boondoggle. So cheer up, my friend! You can stay in your mental comfort zone and just blame it all on Bush!
Athena,
The left always forgets or ignores. As Reagan said, it’s not that they’re wrong, it’s that they know so much that just isn’t so.
Anyone listening to Talk Radio in 2006 will remember the phrase, “The Republicans DESERVE to loose!”
But the right never objected to the spending.
matt a,considering your guy, The O, spent twenty years in a black racist church it takes some imagination to accuse others of what was a 20 yr habit for him.
Then there’s Eric Holder & the Panthers!
I did get a kick out of the “every Fox” crack, they ALL called this lady a racist? Damn, what would you do if there were two channels that didn’t hew to the Left party line.
Take your pills, get some sleep, and scrub your brain.
Matt a,
What organization is the NCAAP? Are you trying to be funny? You’re not very good at it.
Two days ago I watched out my window as a band of African-American kids broke into the school next door and smashed all the windows. While I was on hold with the local police department (and then eventually disconnected), I watched the frenzy at my leisure through my binoculars. By the time I was able to get the police here, the kids were still loitering, and so were all taken into custody after I positively identified them.
Now there are members of the “other” community outside my house, banging on my door and shouting things in an indecipherable accent to my ears (I am white, but I insist that we maintain ourselves as a single community).
I have been told to my face that I am “framing these kids because of the color of their skin.” I explain that I know what I saw, and that justice should at least strive to be blind. I tell them that they are engaging in the tactics of witness intimidation.
But when I go online to learn more about the sorts of rights that victims of criminals can expect in my state, I only discover that the NY State Assembly is now too poor to post the state’s laws online, as they have done for as long as I can remember. (Make sure to follow the link offered as the alternative; there don’t seem to be any other sources of NY State laws online.)
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?cl=114
I just love this hope and change!
For the record, the second, private link to NY State laws has been restored. Thanks.
Obama is the 2008-2012 version of Jackie Robinson. Hoepfully he can do what Jackie got to once Branch Rickie released him from his pact….give it better than he gets once reelected in 2012.
Obana is more like Rodchester but not as smart as Rodchester. I have seen no similarities between Robinson and Obama other than color.
Of course not.
Response to Ed #19 above: “Obama is the 2008-2012 version of Jackie Robinson. Hoepfully he can do what Jackie got to once Branch Rickie released him from his pact….give it better than he gets once reelected in 2012.”
If you are hoping Obama is re-elected in 2012 and you have a decent current life style, I have two words of advice for you: K-Y Gel.
Are you asking me out or just hung up on your insecurities?
much simpler than that–laughing at your ignorance;
Ok. I was wrong you don’t have insecurities. I just was feeling hopeful.
Gee, I never knew that the only reason Robinson was hired was because of his race.
Over at Ed Driscoll’s blog I posed the question: how far back do you have to go to find an administration as racist/racially divisive as Obama’s? Ed replied with Woodrow Wilson’s, which, to be fair, was far more racist than Obama’s. I can’t think of another more recent administration, though I’ll admit I’m no historian. Still, if you have to go back as far as Woodrow Wilson, that’s pretty damnable of the current administration. Maybe in another 30 years or so we can once again dream of a post-racial society. 2012 can’t come soon enough.
Zombie, please. A internet site (Journolist) where a scrum of Jewish journalist meet and greet to (conspire?), to undermine honest??? political discourse. Why is it impossible or should I say distasteful to accuse Jewish journalist of plying the ground of racist or racially motivated venality? Must you carry a truncheon at a polling place to get a pass? Oh my yes!!! My opine, Journolist rate a 9.9.
Regarding #9. Pro-Johannes Mehserle Rally in Walnut Creek, I think there might be something more going on there. As the San Francisco Chronicle reported it, the African-American counter protesters were making the claim that Oscar Grant was lying face down with both hands behind his back available to be handcuffed. The Chronicle reported as a fact that this was how Grant was positioned. But, all the actual evidence in the case, including the videos and even the prosecutors statements as previously reported in the same newspaper by the same reporter, contradicts this. See here. So, if someone of one race lies to make the claim someone else of another race acted out of racial malice, isn’t that racism?
I think all knee-jerk charges of racism should be quickly and loudly answered with “your mother is a whore.” It’s just as ad hominem and is based on the same amount of factual knowledge. Plus, you’ll get beat up by a bunch of union “workers” and have a nice lawsuit on your hands.
I [personally] prefer “Your Father smelt of elderberries”.
Just me.
I suupose that means your mother is a hamster:)
Xactly! X))
Hi Zombie,
I like the concept though I would take contention with your scoring of the NAACP allegations. As far as the tea party is concerned, I would probably ascribe about 0.005 or roughly 1 out of 2,000 Tea Party attendees as possibly being racist. How do I reach that conclusion? From my own personal observations at Tea Party events. Is the organization racist? That’s hard for me to ascertain because the Tea Party is a loose association of individuals rather than a united party.
Now, contrast that with the New Black Panthers, to whom I would ascribe a 99.5 and the NAACP which I would give a rating of 90+ in terms of racism.
What kind of society do we live in that we must have a “racism meter”? Where every disagreement is considered “racist” depending on the outward appearance of the purveyor? Labeling everything “racism” cheapens the debate, serves to limit discussion, and demeans true racist events.
Having witnessed, and experienced true racism – both personal and institutional – since my involvement in the 1960′s, I can tell you that although as a whole America has made great strides in addressing racism there is a segment of society that has a vested interest in continuing to promote racist agendas for political purposes. These are namely, the Democrat party, New Black Panther Party, Nation of Islam, NAACP, people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al.
While all racism is rooted in ignorance, not all ignorance is necssarily racism. People like the aforementioned groups capitalize on ignorance to paint everyone as racists to achive their own personal goals.
Thanks you Zombie — We should send all racism charges through Zombie for analysis and vetting. Only after we have the Zombie rating can we run around with hair on fire yelling racism. It’s surely better than what we get from the journOlists.
Wasn’t this all supposed to be settled at the ‘Beer Summit’?
There is a difference between a seemingly racist system and conscious racism. Some systems look racist on the surface. For instance, the number of Black students stuck in low performing schools. The effect of a poor education results in fewer opportunities. In essence, the system is stacked against poor Blacks stuck in those poor performing school as a result of the bad luck of birth. When those students grow up and have their own kids, a cycle is created in which poverty and poor education breeds more poor and poorly educated individuals who happen to Black. Thus this system could be seen as “racist.” The same can be said for sexism, classism, and ableism. The system, by the nature of its design, works against a group of people.
There is also the case of subconscious racism. My Grandfather grew up in the segregated south. He saw things that I will never see, experienced things I will never experience, and survived hardship I will never know. As Black man who was subjected to KKK style racism from most (if not all) of the white people he interacted with as a young man, developed a bit of a distrust for white people in general. As a result, he was known to make some assumptions about white people and say some fairly ignorant things about white people even though he treated all people as well as he hoped to be treated. People are bombarded with messages that paint groups in negative lights or have legitimate negative experience with members of specific groups that color how they view those groups. As a result they can come across as intolerant when really they are ignorant or not fully aware.
In the end, if we see ourselves as one America, we should try to work to solve the problems of our great nation as citizens. Affirmative action, for example, is a touchy subject, not because the idea behind it is flawed, but because the implementation of it is flawed. The problem is that many black (and other minority) students lack the skills necessary to go to college or enter the work force. To solve the problem, the government created race based acceptance practices to increase diversity. Rather than setting up quotas and preferences, perhaps education programs need to be created by local governments and or civilian action groups to ensure that every student learns what he or she needs to learn, so he or she will be viable candidates for higher education and the job market. In other words, develop systems that address the education and lack of skills problem and offer opportunities that truly level the playing field instead of artificially leveling it through less than fair shortcuts.
The last piece of the puzzle is how to dislodge long held prejudices and stereotypes so that each individual is judged by his or her own merit instead of as “one of those people.” The only thing I can think of to solve this is true dialogue in which people get to know each other, accept each other’s differences, and understand that in the end humans ultimately are more similar than they are different.
As a final thought, the NAACP and other similar organizations need to address the problems in the Black community directly and work toward teaching disadvantage people to lift themselves up. Welfare, quotas, etc. will not solve the issues of under-representation. Old fashioned hard work is the only way to do that.
Very well put, Eli.
I’m a white male Canadian so I surely have a different life experience than you but I agree with all the points you make.
You are absolutely right in stating the importance of eliminating the stereotypes and prejudices that people have about one another and I think you want to go about it the right way, through personal experience. While there are many ways to influence people’s thoughts – lectures from schoolteachers, pamphlets, TV commercials, statements by community leaders, and many more – I truly believe that the most CONVINCING one is personal experience.
For example, where I grew up, I had very little contact with blacks or Asians. I simply had not met any and most of the people around me were in the same position. Did we have stereotypes? You bet! But it was amazing how quickly those stereotypes vanished when we actually MET blacks and Asians.
I still remember a day in the 10th grade when a rumour made the rounds that we were going to get a black student in our class the next day. I don’t think there were any other black students in our school that year. This was in the very late 60s and many of us had seen occasional violence over civil rights issues in the media, such as blacks being shot by white racists or riots in the inner cities. I remember some people using racist language in reference to the black student that we were expecting, particularly from one guy who talked about “coons” and made KKKish remarks. I began worrying that our new classmate might be harassed and bullied from the moment he arrived.
The reality turned out to be completely different. Our new student appeared the next day and soon charmed everyone! He was from the Caribbean and told us boys naughty stories about whore houses on his native islands. In very little time, everyone seems to have independently decided that he was “cool” and no one ever gave him a bit of trouble, including the guy who made the racist remarks. I never saw any sign of a group of cool kids getting together and using peer pressure to change attitudes; it truly seemed to be a decision that everyone came to individually in his own heart.
All it took was a direct contact with a member of the group that we had prejudices about to neutralize those prejudices!
(Of course, if the student had turned out to be a very different kind of person, perhaps very racist against us or someone who was violent to us, things might well have turned out the exact opposite way! Unfortunately, especially when we are young, we tend to assume that the first representative we meet of a given group is typical of ALL members of the group and that can be VERY VERY wrong. Personally, as someone who is no longer a kid, I subscribe to a 95/5 rule: 95% of all people you meet in a given group are just fine and 5% of them are jerks. But those people aren’t jerks BECAUSE they belong to that group, they’re jerks because they’ve had bad upbringing our bad experiences or are just plain nasty.)
I think it is normal and natural for people to have preconceptions about other groups but a decent person will understand that those preconceptions are there and will have an open mind. Then, when they meet members of the group that they thought were “bad” in some way and find that they aren’t, all their preconceptions will vanish.
Just in the way that you might think that a certain food is disgusting when you see it or hear about it but then realize it is delicious when you actually taste it, I think we can get past our prejudices, assuming we have some semblance of an open heart.
Here’s hoping we all get a chance to get past our prejudices!
Eli,
I agree with the majority of your post. However, your definition of a racist system has a large hole in it. Black majority schools that are low performing could only be defined to be in a racist system if they were given less resources than comparable income, non black schools, by a non black government. Since that is not what is happening (it is illegal, and all h*ll would break loose), these low performing, black majority schools are low performing for a reason other than racism.
Please note that I said seems and appears when I described the schools. Also, you should read a book called Savage Inequalities. The book examines the inequities that exist across the country in low income communities. In theory all schools are funded equally but practice is all together different. The appearance of racism occurs because there are a disproportionate number of poor black people, leaving an impression of racism. In the end it is more about have not. If a school has parents who are educated and well off, parents will be able to offest low funding.
In my childrens’ school, we have an active PTA and several stay at home moms who volunteer as room moms, office aides, and various other capacities. While this school get the same funding as the one down the street, by virtue of the affluence of the parents who send their kids to that school, my kids educational experiences are quite different from the one of the school in the poor neighbohood just down the street.
Please forgive any typos in this reply as I wrote it on my phone.
So you read a book by Jonathan Kozol. Try a little reality (and a little more) instead. The Washington, D.C. schools, the Gates Foundation, Kansas City, and the Ted Kennedy written No Child Left Behind law’s data prove Kozol wrong, wrong, wrong. Savagely wrong.
Compare/contrast how the White House “handled” two cases it had no business touching: Shirley Sharrod and James Crowley.
For Shirley Sharrod, the WH threw her under the bus, then couldn’t back-pedal fast enough when it turned out they were wrong about her. The latest is that she got a “go get ‘em, tiger!” call from O’Bambi, after making some middle manager take the fall for her wrongful termination.
Sgt. James Crowley, on the other hand, was publicly slandered by The Anointed One. Then, when (predictably) he turned out to be wrong, and Crowley had not engaged in the behavior alleged by Henry Louis Gates, was there a public apology? No, Gates and Crowley were summoned to the WH, so that Supreme Leader could blur the lines between the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch.
Level of actual racism: 6.5, with gusts up to 7.5 or even 8.
I have to disagree on the NAACPs score. The act of denouncing the “racist element” of the tea party is not, in and of itself, racist at all. The racism only comes into play in the selection of the group to accuse. It ignores racism within its own ranks (ranks that are exclusive to a certain skin pigmentation in the first place) but levels charges at only white racists. Or maybe a non-racist act that only comes into being by racist motivations deserves a different category – maybe hypocrisy? Or maybe “nodding and laughing with approval” by the NAACP crowd at the discrimination of a white person should have been up for a vote by itself. Otherwise, very well done.
I agree, #4 is half-true at best. The wording of the resolution was to “condemn extremist elements within the Tea Parties, calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.” (Source: http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/naacp-delegates-vote-to-repudiate-racist-elements-within-the-tea-pary/) Nothing exists in that language to suggest that the Parties are racist. Further, at the end of the press release, the author explicitly denies that the resolution was referring to the movement in its entirety. If the field were narrowed to include only the “extremist elements,” the score would be much higher.
I agree, #4 is half-true at best. The wording of the resolution was to “condemn extremist elements within the Tea Parties, calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.” (Source: NAACP Delegates Vote to Repudiate Racist Elements Within Tea Party, NAACP Press Release) Nothing exists in that language to suggest that the Parties are racist. Further, at the end of the press release, the author explicitly denies that the resolution was referring to the movement in its entirety. If the field were narrowed to include only the “extremist elements,” the score would be much higher.
“Further, at the end of the press release, the author explicitly denies that the resolution was referring to the movement in its entirety.”
I guess it depends if one judges him favorably or not. Maybe the author really meant it, or maybe he meant it in the way Farrakhan might say, “Oh, um, I don’t mean all Jews.”
… but remember (at the summit) our fearless leader drank a very pale ‘light’ beer — pinky sipped — didn’t even finish it.
See? all settled. Everything changed and hopeful. Joe B. said so.
CapnMerka, I like your style!
I give you a 3.0 out of 10 for your statement, “As a result, I give this incident an Actual Racism rating of 1.0 out of 10, mostly because it just didn’t look good having a mostly white-attended protest facing off against a mostly black-attended counter-protest.” because you are one of those who, “won’t stop focusing on race”.
I cannot believe so many people still pay attention to accusations of racism. It should be treated as ridiculous as the fact that 11% of Americans still believe Elvis is alive (that’s 16 million Americans, folks!!).
Elvis is dead? WTF?
Thanks Zombie. I always love the way your analytical mind sorts, measures and breaks it all down without emotion or agenda. You think like an engineer and I mean that as a compliment.
Only a 9.5 for KSS? It is hard to imagine any racism more 100%, absolute than, “I hate white people. All of them. Every last iota of a cracker, I hate him.” But I can understand always reserving a higher number b/c just when you think they’ve hit bottom, someone gets worse.
Good job, Zombie!
I’d quarrel with your giving a higher rating to Mel Gibson than to the Brown Berets, though. I don’t doubt that Mel holds deep-seated, ugly prejudices that pop to the surface with apparent ease when he is drunk or angry.
But there is in my mind a difference between that kind of bigot and the one who actually joins the Aryan Nation, the KKK, or the Black Panthers. In the one case you’re talking about an ancillary defect of character, a defect which may cause the bigot at least a tiny bit of shame. In the other case you’re talking about a fully conscious, nurtured preoccupation that is geared toward deliberate, public expression.
As an eighty-something coot in the Carolina hills once told me, “Yeah, I reckon I was right prejudiced when I was younger, but I didn’t make it no hobby.” There’s a difference.
Zombie, you rock! Excellent piece!
Of course in a lib newspaper the “racism” category would appear with the crossword or in the classifieds.
The key point to remember here is Breitbart said he was posting the video not to impugn the speaker, USDA official Shirley Sherrod, but rather the audience, composed of NAACP officials and members at a banquet.
A statement so false that it begs questions about your readers for not insulting their intelligence with it. From Breitbart’s own website:
In this piece you will see video evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee and NAACP award recipient…We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions. Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates…Sherrod’s racist tale…
Yes, he mentionns the audience, just once, vaguely and at the end. But only someone uninterested in the truth would be able to deny his OWN STATED MOTIVE for showing the video.
My only criticism of Zombie’s amazing essay is this seemingly valid find from Gould’s Ghost, and that I think I would’ve multiplied ≠⅝.Π by the imaginary number, i.
Pack of media fear mongers.
what if Mel simply used that because it is part of his vocabulary? and there is really just nothing wrong with it…I am sure he has black friends that simply overlook it because they know, he does not “mean it” in a bad way. Had he said “a pack of rednecks” it would have caused f*ckall problems, because the rednecks already know that “you tease the ones you love”.
just like the word f*ck. I use f*ck quite often. Today people read too much between the lines, trying to find a money making opportunity out of “racism”. Hey I am a white boy, and I am bullied when I got play ball with a bunch of blacks, I know they hate me, I see it, and they look at me weird and keep telling me that “white boys can’t jump”, I don’t give a f*ck and keep playing, and ignore their racist comments.
The second every “supposed” minority out there will just stop crying “racism” at every 2nd word they use (like I use the word f*ck) then the world will be a better place. You cannot call a Jew a Jew anymore, you cannot call a gipsy a Gipsy anymore…wtf.
Zombie: I like your previous definition…are you black?
I hope you are all amused by this
I thought it supremely ironic that the Brown Beret Bigot kept screaming: “This is America! This is America!” while seemingly unaware that North and South America took their names from Amerigo Vespucci… an Italian.
‘The NAACP set off a political firestorm this week when it charged “The Tea Party” of being “racist,”’
The irony of an organization that is explicitly and blatantly racist calling an informal group that has nothing to do with racism racist is beyond ironic.
Only a liberal could be dense enough to take this kind of stuff seriously.
It makes all the sense in the world when you realize it is just a small part of an organized effort to demonize the Tea Partiers. Once the Tea Party has been completely demonized, any candidate endorse by the “Tea Party” is automatically suspect. It remains to be seen whether the “racist” charge carries any weight at all anymore.
Now that I think about it, the neutralization of the term “racist” may be the only positive result of the election of The Obama.
You forgot the independent candidate from Wisconsin who wanted to be known as “not the whiteman’s b*tch”.
I may have missed the reference; but what about Obama calling out AlQaeda on their obvious worldly racism.
“Branch Rickie”
A great American hero. Branch Rickey probably did more to get rid of systematic segregation in this country than any other single American, and unless you’re a baseball fan, you probably never even heard his name.
You want to make a holiday honoring someone who made civil rights, and equal opportunity a reality for everyone in America, that’s probably the guy you want to honor. He was really something else, and what he got done, which is to destroy the so-called color line in major league baseball, basically is what made segregation go bye-bye. Once there was a institutionalized profession where black men could excel and get paid just as much as white men could, and once there was a generation of white kids (like me) who grew up thinking that black men, like Willie Mays, were the same thing as God (practically), then segregation was doomed. And Branch Rickey is the guy who killed it.
A great, great man.
I wonder what Holder would think of Zombie’s post and our comments? Along with PJ, a nation of “cowards” are discussing race at all levels of discourse. We seem to be finding that racism in varying amounts reflects racial makeup. Hmm.
Mexicans are racists to the the tenth power, but, you’ll never ‘hear’ of that ‘victim’ group’s racism because they are the right ‘shade’ of ‘beige’.
So hilarious.
Delia. What I love about people who post here is that you don’t actually seem to know the definition of racism. What you dislike most about being called racist is the fact that people are calling you racist; I can see why you don’t like being called racist. But when you say things like:
Mexicans are racists to the the tenth power, but, you’ll never ‘hear’ of that ‘victim’ group’s racism because they are the right ’shade’ of ‘beige’.
…there’s no other conclusion. You’re a total racist; it’s so obvious, that that’s what you must have meant when you called your comment racist. It’s like an obese person complaining how fat other people are.
The fact that you’re EFFING BLIND to ‘other than white’ racism is proof positive that you are skunk drunk on the KOOL-AID.
Get back to me when you’ve been robbed/raped by a black man.
Looks like the Cesspool has withstood the RID-X spill.
“…there’s no other conclusion.”
What do we have here? Check this line out –
“What I love about people who post here is that you don’t actually seem to know the definition of racism.”
Bigotry proving racism. “Totally” totally” bigoted in it’s own words! All people, all people, it means ALL people “don’t actually seem to know the definition of racism”. Except it. Bigot.
A blend of plural and singular that brings forth the “you people” tick which is a favorite of The Principal Liar sleazits Persons Galore consortium.
Right on cue, sleazits is disappeared, and Mr. Gee Toast takes over as the dominant personality. Note the familiarity with the line “people who post here”. Check out the cadence, the use of bolding, italics, and above all the absolute belief that when Mr. Gee Toast’s Modern Liberal Racism Monitor goes off, racism is everywhere. Beyond ’50s commies no less.
Kyber barks!
“…there’s no other conclusion. You’re a total racist;”
“…there’s no other conclusion.” “…there’s no other conclusion.” “…there’s no other conclusion.”
So the Principal Liar Mr. Gee Toast Persons Galore has surfaced, the funhouse mirror is reflecting, and it’s finding racists whereever it casts raw sewage from its bigoted tongue.
How about that 5 on 2? Was Van there? Anita?
You made your bigotry. Love it or leave it.
Whatever.
La Raza is a drinking club? NO? Maybe it is a cousin if the KKK.
BLACK PANTHERS TO
Humorous cartoon titled “Cream of Racism Soup” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/obama/
We’ll NEVER have an honest to goodness discussion about ‘race’ until we have a no-holds-barred convo about:
A. Crime
B. Poverty
C. The bell curve and how intelligence relates to crime and poverty
D. Racism knows NO ‘color’
‘D’ is especially lucid. People of ALL ‘color’ have ENSLAVED people. Let’s get over hating ‘whitey’ on that subject. Blacks/Browns/Asians/Indians/et al have racism in their backgrounds.
Tribal warring? Was that racism?
Get REAL, people. ANYONE of ANY shade of melanin can be a RACIST.
Ask yourself this:
“Am I more comfortable around people of my own ‘shade’?”
Be honest.
If you are a black person in a room full of white folks you probably feel ‘safe’ but not necessarily ‘welcome’.
If you are a white person in a room full of blacks you probably feel ‘threatened’ and not necessarily ‘welcome’.
Ahhhhhh racism.
Delia, If you are attempting to prove to everyone that you’re racist, then you’ve succeeded. But just because you’re racist does not mean that everyone else is racist. I am often the only white person in my own home and I don’t feel “threatened” or uncomfortable.
You speak only for yourself.
So, ‘RINGO’, you feel perfectly comfortable walking down the street of an all black neighborhood late at night?
REALLY?
REALLY
Did you ‘cheer’ for the O.J. Simpson ‘verdict’ too, white boi?
If the neighborhood was known to be dangerous, then I wouldn’t feel safe – just as I wouldn’t feel safe if I were a lone black person walking, late at night, through a white neighborhood that was known to be dangerous.
Besides, your original question was not about walking through a neighborhood late at night, it was about being in a room full of “blacks”.
I used to live in a neighborhood adjacent to an area known as “Hobo Jungle”. It was an overgrown river gorge at the edge of town where vagrants and homeless people lived. They were virtually all white. I never felt safe walking near that place at night. Does that make racist against white people? It’s possible to have reasonable – or even unreasonable – fears without being racist.
What’s bizarre about you (and people like you) is how you delude yourself that everyone else is just as racist as you are, but are simply to cowardly to acknowledge it. You try to convince yourself that your racism is a virtue, that it somehow makes you brave. You may fool yourself, but I doubt you’re fooling anyone else.
Fear of the ‘other’ is not ‘cowardly’. It’s ‘avoidance’ at best and ‘fear’ at worst.
Google “Black high testosterone”
Men who take ‘roids’ are also prone to violence.
You’re kidding yourself if you purposely remove all scientific evidence that blacks/mexicans have higher testosterone than whites/Asians and their violent/rapist behavior is correlative.
*Talk to the hand*
There is no point trying to reason with Delia. She has made up her mind about the inferiority of blacks and now Hispanics, and as he comment, “talk to the hand,” indicate, she will not listen. I wonder if she is even willing to judge any black person based on the content of his or her character. It is interesting to compare her comments and quoted statistics to those I found on an Aryan Nation site while googleing some the “facts” is fond of rattling off. I’m left wondering what her true motivation is.
BTW, I have also felt uncomfortable in a room full of white people. My wife and I got lost in predominately white southern town while headed to Disney. I went into a restuarant or bar or something. When I entered I was faced with a room full of white men with shaved heads wearing camoflauge. A confederate ag was haning on the wall and when I walked in everyone literally stopped and stared. The service workers ignored me, i asked directions, got a gruff response, and I got the heck out as fast as I could. Maybey they were just wondering who he stranger was, but I definately felt unsafe in that environment. I have so felt afraid in a room full of people who look like me as well. In the end it was the type of people i was around, the color of their skin was secondary as the blacks I was surrounded by were dressed like Crips.
If Delia found herself in a room full if black lawyers who speak and act like her, would she fear for her safety? She probably would because her fear makes her irrational.
Please forgive typos as this was written on my iPhone.
A. Crime
B. Poverty
C. The bell curve and how intelligence relates to crime and poverty
Most of this is related to the Baby Mama family structure, which is vastly more prevalent in some groups than others.
Sghetti monst,
Can I have ten of yo behbes? I’m feeling ‘specially ‘ripe’ today.
*grinds her loins against yours desperately*
THE stunned black dad of a newborn, WHITE, baby girl declared yesterday — “I’m sure she’s my kid
If you say so…
If he says so, it is true enough—and good for him.
‘monkey’ is racist. You are banned for life. Don’t ‘axe’ me how I knowz dis.
NEXT!
Whew, the mother of all Zombie posts!
Re: your “tough love” remarks, here is Frederick Douglass in his own words:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us… I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! … And if the negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! … your interference is doing him positive injury.
“What the Black Man Wants” — speech in Boston, Massachusetts (1865-01-26)
I agree ” leave him alone”.
No public housing for anyone that is convicted of any crime.
No welfare for fatherless babies until the “baby daddy” is forced to pay child support or is in jail for non-support.
No social benefits for anyone that has money for drugs, booze, tobacco, cell phones, cable TV or anyone with car payments.
Notice I didn’t say black, white, Mexican or Canadian.
Lyndon Johnson and his bad idea of a “Great Society” destroyed the black family. and current social service programs will destroy all “poor” families.
Eminently forgettable remarks, man. Your vengeful desire to force and jail is inconsistent with the “leave him alone” policy you claim to endorse.
Let go of your foolishly chauvinistic wish to marry females to the a hugely polygynous government and habit of excusing reckless female breeding behavior by blaming it on some man or other. Just look around you. If a female is an unwed mother of bastard babies (see, I said it), in almost every case she wanted it that way and put her efforts into making that happen.
Or you can continue to believe, like so many feminists do, that the masculine will has great power over weak female minds.
Note in previous message: I did not bowdlerize the 1865 speech to replace “negro” (then considered a polite word for black person) by words considered acceptable in 2010. If being respectful to the original language of a black orator makes me raaaaacist, then I may as well give up.
Another apropos quote, hat-tipped to “Fenway Nation”
http://notanothernewenglandsportsblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/jealous-much-naacp-chief-backpedals.html
I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
- Booker T Washington; My Larger Education, Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
[see also: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington ]
Another apropos quote, hat-tipped to “Fenway Nation”
http://notanothernewenglandsportsblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/jealous-much-naacp-chief-backpedals.html
I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
- Booker T Washington; My Larger Education, Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
Margaret Sanger ring a bell?
Let’s see now…….I hate to be a cynical skeptic but has Mr. Ihegboro had no thoughts at all about him being the father of this little guy? No secret attempt for some DNA testing? I’m trying to imagine a negative, in the photographic sense, of this image, white parents producing a brown offspring, make that dark brown, and what the reaction of the white father would be. Sorry……just random thoughts from an old guy disturbed by the fact that he continues to harbor unsubstantiated suspicions about “petty” stuff like this.
As for the racism thing, yes, it continues unabated and on the rise since Obama was elected President. To play the race card requires that any criticism of Obama must be racist since that crowd remains firmly entrenched in the ditch of racism, considers Obama the hope of the world, beyond criticism except on the basis of his half blackness.
Ironically this is the same crowd that will denigrate any black person with a conservative view and the number of the latter is growing despite the formers best but feckless efforts to position themselves as the great hope and benefactor for the black race who they truly believe are inferior and in dire need of the special attention that only they, the superior, intellectual elites can provide. Unfortunately too many in the black community have been long ago taken in with the same underclass, under achiever mentality and continue to cling to the racial pimps who are totally dependent on keeping their fellow blacks in that frame of mind. You’re dumb, poor, ignorant, incapable of competing for a job, worthless and set upon because you’re black. Perhaps they don’t see it that way but that’s what it amounts to.
All of you black Americans firmly in the Democrats camp ask yourselves what have they really done for you since the beginning of the civil rights movement in the sixties? Stop listening to the likes of the Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons, Louis Farrakhans, Maxine Waters, the NAACP, the New Black Panther Party, etc. They are not the voice of the great Martin Luther King. They do not have your best interest at heart. Start getting yourselves familiar with the likes of Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Retired Lt. Col. Alan West, Herman Cain…….there are many, many others. If you can shed the cloak of victimhood and open your mind to some alternate viewpoints you may conclude that you’re not victims of overt or covert white oppression but prisoners in a cage built and perpetually padlocked by those you currently look to for leadership and inspiration; but take heart; you’re also Americans in a land of opportunity unless we all allow ourselves to be convinced that someone, whoever that is in your mind, is holding us back. If you truly want to get a look at who’s holding you back, tomorrow morning take a long hard look in the mirror. In America your fate is still in your hands. Get a grip and take control of your own destiny. You and all of us, of whatever color, will be a whole lot better off.
The tea party movement gets a 2?
Maybe on a board upon which the “administration,” by its record; the “Democratic” party, by definition and the Goebbelsesque propaganda “press,” when measured, probably, by way of its pathological projections, all get 400s plus.
“Black are a MINORITY and yet commit the MAJORITY of crime.”
That could be true, I haven’t looked at overall crime rates.
However, Russia has a homicide rate about four time higher than the United States does.
Must be because of all the Black Russians (I know…bad pun). Right?
Or…maybe there are factors involved in crime rates that have nothing to do with skin color per se.
“Must be because of all the Black Russians (I know…bad pun). Right?”
Actually it wasn’t. All the hard drinking the Ruskies do just might explain it. Or the fact that there’s 200 million of them.
Blacks however….seem to have a propensity for mindless murder. Such as being “dissed” or certain “colors” or certain incursions into their territories.
Or…just because they revel in it and it gives them “cred” among their other illiterate, mindless peers.
Wow! I’d been following along — but somehow hadn’t put the extent of it all together — so much in so short a period of time.
Could a good deal of this, by any chance, have something to do with forthcoming elections?
Notice that the NAACP accusation took place just after the Massive Financial (and all other business – personal and otherwise) Takeover Bill was passed — and basically stopped all discussion of the disasterous meaning and dreadful consequences of that bill — because the conversation became all about the Tea Party defending itself from false accusations. Odd coincidence, huh?
And then of course, the Shirley Story completely took over and extended it.
Thank you for defending Andrew Breitbart.
He did nothing wrong — he made it clear it wasn’t about Shirley, but was about the NAACP’s hypocrisy in demanding the Tea Party “Denounce The Racists Among Them” — Andrew’s point was that it’s the NAACP that was being totally hypocritical and chock full of racists — Not the Tea Party — and he owes no apology to Shirley. She’s no innocent — especially with her “it IS about white and black” — and you didn’t see her disapproving of the laughter and approval when she mentioned that she wasn’t going to give the “white person” the help she could — which was her job! She should apologize for not speaking up or objecting to that laughter!
And sadly, the MSM has had its way — the story became about her instead of the racism of the NAACP — and really about Andrew who has been undeservedly cast in the role of villain. He’s getting unjustly punished and abandoned. Just what the MSM and the Left wanted — The Right is throwing HIM under the bus! Cowards!
No one I’ve seen — who ought to — has defended him — all are jumping in on the gang bang to protect themselves — especially those at Fox News. They’re doing to him what he’s accused of doing to Shirley — and worse. As for some others (i.e., Ron Radosh), instead of thinking it through they demand he “apologize.” Wrong. It was the W.H. and NAACP who acted so rashly to immediately protect themselves — they didn’t even read or “get” all of what Andrew was saying — which was that it wasn’t about Shirley. They are the villains. (Has the Left EVER demanded apologies from their own for anything — even what they clearly should apologize for — i.e., outright schemes of knowing false racist accusations — and plots to kill stories using diversionary “tactics” and/or thuggish pressure — to mention just a few?)
Andrew is a hero. One of the very best. He’ll go down in history. Outnumbered — fighting off a horrific well-armed and organized scourge on our national integrity. They’ve wounded him. But I know he’s clever and strong enough to rebound with a clearly stated vision of the truth to bring back to the fight — and more.
Actually, if one thinks about it — the reason the NAACP didn’t bother to watch the video or have any doubt that it contained racist remarks — before they condemned her –
was because they know very well that racist speeches and racism are usual at the NAACP.
It would probably be better for the NAACP and others to drop their “Racism” attacks on the Tea Party and others whose ideas about government differ from their own — it’s turning out to be counter productive for them and for the Leftist administration.
P.S. Ed Driscoll called your post “This Week in Racism.” I think it’s a good idea to call it that if it continues. Brings out the absurdity, ya know.
“Blacks however….seem to have a propensity for mindless murder.”
Well, of course they do, and this is an explantion for:
The mass murder carried out by black Nazis in Europe
The mass murder carried out by black communists in the Soviet Union
The mass murder carried out by the black Japanese, the black KMT and the black communists in China
The mass murder carried out by the black fascists in Italy, Ethiopia, etc.
The mass murder carried out by the black phalangists, communists et al in Spain
The mass murder carried out by the black Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
The mass murder carried out by the black Portugese, black Belgians, and other black Europeans in their various colonial possessions
The mass murder carried out by the black Baathists in Iraq
The mass murder carried out by the black Turks in Armenia
The mass murder carried out by the black communists in North Korea
The mass murder carried out by the black Vietnamese communists in southeast Asia
Etc., etc., etc.
Shoot, if only it wasn’t for those dratted blacks and their propensity for mindless killing, the world would be a peaceful place, and nobody would ever get killed.
All of your examples are of political systems or causes and have very little to do with personal behavior. I agree that calling black people as a group murders is not based in reality.
That said if you take the color out of the equation and just consider 2od and 3rd generation welfare “families” you might just find a much higher number of murders than you would find in say a population of rural High School grads.
“All of your examples are of political systems…”
That’s because governments, especially those composed of whites and yellows, kill more people in a bad day than small groups of blacks (like a group of black gangbangers, for example) or individual blacks do in a century.
And, this statement…
“Blacks however….seem to have a propensity for mindless murder.”
…is a lot of blithering hogwash. It only “seems” that way if you refuse to compare the amount of killing done by people with black skins to the amount of killing done by people with other colored skins.
On Mel Gibson, Give me a freaking break. The man is being lynched for things he’s said while either in a screaming fight with his ex, or while drunk, that people in Congress and the White House have said while perfectly calm and stone cold sober. Chop that score in HALF, at best.
Then cut it in half AGAIN for using words that black people themselves use when talking about their community’s no-accounts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui6-Wc0PDc4
On another level, the journolist people may not have felt it necessary to look for evidence of racism before accusing conservatives of being racist because they have already convinced themselves that all conservatives are, by their nature, racist.
Thus to them it doesn’t matter which conservative you pick to accuse of racism, because they are all racists.
Which goes to show you how bigotted the average liberal has become.
One person brought up the OJ trial and how blacks were shown on TV celebrating the verdict. There were white people who celebrated as well and there were black people such as me who were disgusted that he got off because we knew he did it. I had a friend who was killed by an abusive husband (she was white and he was not black) and the OJ trial incensed me. I found myself arguing with my black friends and family members over the verdict and I called them out when they defended OJ. When he got busted this last time, I was relieved.
There are white people who think blacks get off all the time. I would like to remind people that blacks do make up a disproportionate number of inmates in US prisons, meaning that they are sent to jail for their crimes frequently. I would also like to point out that when two criminals are accused of similar crimes and have similar criminal records, the black criminal is handed a stiffer sentence more often. This most likely due to economic status, as most of the sources I have found would say. I don’t have a problem with stiff sentencing so long as said sentencing is color blind. OJ got off because he had money and influence. Blacks who cheered for them were misguided and thought that this was turn about fair play. In the end the wrong OJ did and the subsequent verdict was wrong and cannot make up for historical wrongs committed against the ancestors of blacks by white racist in the past.
While times are better for black people in general, there are still some inequities. While blacks have benefitted from affirmative action (myself included, keep in mind that very few blacks born after 1969 if any can say that affirmative action has not worked for them) it is not poor blacks who benefit. “White men with a criminal record are more likely to be called back for a job interview than black men with no record, even when their education and experience are the same.” (Pager, Devah. 2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology. Volume 108: 5, March: 937-75.) I believe affirmative action as it exists now is not a good answer to inequities because it creates an unfair playing field that gives some individuals advantage over other individuals. Giving me a job because I am black to meet a government quota, does not solve the problem. In some ways it cripples me, because whites have an excuse to doubt my ability. Learning to judge each person on his or her merit is the only way to solve the problem. I wish I knew how to get people to do this.
One final thought, I am amazed at how courageous people are in posting hurtful bigoted comments online from the safety of their homes. While I despise the NBPP, KKK, Aryan Nation, and the Nation of Islam for their idiotic racist views, at least they wear their bigotry “on their sleeves” where all can see it. The cowards who talk tough online and then probably smile to my face when they interact with me are cowards. If this comment does not apply to you personally, please disregard. If it does, I’m sure I will be hearing from you. In the words of Delia, a particularly virulent poster on PJM comments pages, “Talk to the hand.”
Dear ‘What the…”,
How refreshing to find here among the flying hash, a comment from a well balanced and fair minded person.
I once was forced to vote for a known and accomplished crook. It was before said crook went to jail; when he was running for governor of Louisiana AGAIN.
His ‘worthy’ opponent was none other than a well known KKK member, David Duke. I could not believe that the people of my home state could be so ignorant
as to have brought this ‘rock and a hard place’ about. I mean, talk about having to choose ‘the lesser of two evils’. OMG!
So, instead of doing what I wanted to do, and not vote at all; I was compelled to vote AGAINST this evil known racist. I believed it was my duty as a christian human being.
It killed me to pull the lever next to the name Edwin Edwards. Before that, I never would have believed such a dark thing possible.
I had grown up hearing the n word every day; in my home and throughout my mostly white world. I was a rather pious child; and, my very soul cringed at that foul word every time.
Was I ever racist? Am I now racist? What does that even mean today?
To sober minds, the meaning of the word racist is fixed. To corrupt minds with a selfish agenda, the meaning of the word is wantonly distorted and purposely illusive. To careless minds, the meaning of the word is lost. A lie can not transform truth.
It has been argued that God created a world of diverse languages to keep one nation from corrupting another when it corrupted itself. This rightly presupposed that nations would become corrupt. It does seem wise to devise such an inoculation to protect righteous nations; and therefore, preserve ‘a remnant’ of God’s faithful. Could be.
I do know this. We, the people, can not on our own solve the truth of racism. In all matters we are called to ‘do our part’. If we serve God, ‘our part’ will always be that of healing; serving righteousness and truth. If we are motivated by our own fallible will; acting out ‘our part’ will always be that of every kind of plague and corruption. Only God can fix this and every ill of the world.
You said, “I wish I knew how to get people to do this”. Do not make yourself crazy with unrealistic expectations. You already know your part; all you have to do is to get that part right; and, KNOW that God will do the rest.
Eternity is “I AM”, it is now, this very moment. You can not live anywhere but where you are right now. And trust, later is in good hands.
Oliver,
Thank you for your words. You have reminded me of the importance of my faith and my need to give somethings over to a higher power. It’s funny, just as I am ready to throw my hands up in disgust, a person like you comes along and renews my faith that maybe we will figure this out. May God be with you in all you do.
WT…
WHERE did you see ‘white’ people ‘celebrating’ the ‘OJ verdict’?
Answer me this, dear heart:
Would blacks have ‘celebrated’ a famous black athlete who abused and killed his ‘black’ wife?
Reconcile yourself with that ‘thought’ and get back to me.
God bless ya, but, you need to get your head out of the sand when it comes to ‘BLACK’ racism/hatred. Blacks don’t just ‘hate’ on whites either. They hate on Hispanics and visa versa. There is plenty of ‘racism’ of all ‘shades’ to go around.
*sigh*
I, for one, saw a bunch of white students at my high school celebrating the OJ verdict.
PROVE IT.
LIAR
Delia,
Your reply sounds like that of a 12 year old’s. Cactus Magnus, I believe you because I witnessed the same behavior from some whites and sadly many more blacks. I too lacked a video phone so I can’t prove it either. I guess I
a liar too.
You ask where did I see whites celebrate? In a class room at my school. There were no cameras to record them so I can provide media proof. There were also no cell phones so…. While I know the number was small, it was not zero.
You asked would blacks celebrate the verdict if the woman was black? If you mean a majority, no. But the problem with your statement is that it is all encompassing. I still do not see the point though. I was trying to stress that there were blacks who were not pleased with the verdict and some whites who were, thus all encompassing accusations are not fair.
I don’t deny that there is bigotry in the black community. I have seen it and been victim of it first hand. It ticks me off when is see bigotry first hand and when I can do so, I confront it. What I don’t do is quote distorted statistics, close my ears to oher arguements, and do my best to alienate those I disagree with.
You need to wrap you head around the fact that it is racist to judge an individual based on your assumption about his race no matter how much justification you think you have to support your stereotypes. Malcolm X even realized this toward the end of his life saying he wished he could take back his “white devil” insults because in the end, he may have turned off well meaning whites to his cause. Delia, have no doubt that you are passionte about what you speak about, but until you get your heard around the despicable nature of your words and inability to see the bigger picture, you will be a detriment to your own cause, assuming racial harmony is your goal. My point is racism is racism no matter who is guilty. You seem content to tell me how horrible I am and seem to revel in it. Other than that what is your purpose? Nevermind, I really don’t want to read yet another string of stats and snide remarks. I’ll just read your earlier posts and save you some time.
*SIGH* right back at you.
Again,
Nobody (black OR white) would have CELEBRATED a black man abusing and KILLING a ‘black’ woman. Period. It was all about bullshit ‘justice’ because of ONE retarded cop who used the term ‘nigger’.
Expensive Italian shoes that were UBER rare and EXPENSIVE and in PONTOON size of O.J.? Sure, IGNORE those prints…just ‘evidence’ worthy of IGNORING.
You and your ILK who IGNORE black on BLACK and BLACK on WHITE crime are retarded.
Grow the eff up. I watched the O.J. trial from beginning to end (including Marcia Clark’s retarded hair changes) and, there was NO WAY in HELL that O.J. was ‘innocent’.
And, I’ll also add, that verdict had a LOT of racial hatred towards white women by black women who have a narrow ‘pool’ of black men and all of the ‘successful’ men who actually move UP also MOVE ON from their black sisters and procreate with white women which makes black women EXTRA pissed off (can’t blame ‘em).
Is it ‘racist’ that black women hate white women who make beige babies with black men?
Well, is it?
I wanted to say one last thing before I let this drop. Delia, have you consider that a fair number of blacks thought OJ was innocent, hence the celebrations?
Delia,
Look at what you wrote about the white baby born to black parents, “Sorry, but, that ‘oopsy’ white baby is friggin’ FUG. lol” Not lol in my opinion. That is just plain rude.
Listen to yourself. “You and your ILK who IGNORE black on BLACK and BLACK on WHITE crime are retarded.” I never said I ignore crime of any kind. There you go with your all encompassing statements.
Again with the OJ stuff. Well I made it clear that I, was not happy with the verdict, but I guess that does not matter. So let me say it more clearly. OJ WAS GUILTY AND SHOULD HAVE GONE to JAIL ON MURDER 1 CHARGES!!!! Clear enough for you?
You also state, “Nobody (black OR white) would have CELEBRATED a black man abusing and KILLING a ‘black’ woman. Period.” Well I try to avoid all encompassing statements. I would hope no one would celebrate but there are still sickos, racist groups, and racist individuals out there of all hues who probably would not have much problem with the situation you describe. That is why I said a majority, not all. By the way, I’m sure that the KKK and the Aryan Nation who would celebrate news of any black person dieing, especially if it was black on black crime.
You point out that black women hate black women for taking their men. Okay, sadly, there are a lot of black women with these issues. Being married to a white woman, I have seen this first hand. But I have know several black women who could careless. Mown mother had issue with my relationship at first, but she evolved and is now ready and willing to put her black female friends in their place. My wife has had several black female friends over the year. Again your implication that every black woman in this country has issues is wrong. By the way, my wife has had to deal with the disapproving looks of white men and even had to endure the issults from more than one uncle as a result of her being married to me.
Delia, in the end it seems you are looking for a fight. I am sorry if you suffered some great wrong at a black person’s hands. Oh but you said, “I’ve NEVER had a bad experience with blacks in my lifetime. Every (and I mean, EVERY) encounter I’ve had with black folks has been GOOD. I’ve had best friends who happened to be black (and I ‘happened’ to be white) when I was growing up. We never made no big ‘thang’ about our ’shade’ of melanin.” I love the way you mock black venacular “thang.” The question is do you have black friends now?
I can tell you that I have been victim of white racism, bullying etc. I have also been targeted by Mexicans, Asians, and other blacks for various reasons. The difference between you and I is that I have managed to learn how to see people. You seem content to see color and the assumptions that come with it. Am I outraged and concerned about bigotry? You bet. I have kids whom I would like to see grow up in a peaceful world. I kills me that I have to teach them about racism and give them stratefies to deal with it. It kills me that there are people who wil judge them on sight without gettign to know them. And it chaps my hide that people like you with an ax to grind will be part of the problem.
One final thought. My grandmother adores my wife. She has more reason to hate whites than aanyone I know. Her father was murdered in his own home after being humilated because he dared to own land and run a more succesful farm than his white neighbors. She is 80 years old and was raised in the segregated deep south. She some how has mangaged to get over it and learned to see people for who they are.
I was in no way implying that OJ was innocent. It made me sick to my stomach when I saw those people cheering when he was found not guilty. I wrote a editorial for the school paper about the injustice of it all. But sorry, I can’t prove it to you. Video phones weren’t available back then.
It seems that It is either racism or Bush did it. It must be tough to live in such a shallow world.
Zombie, you did a great job on this one!! I did not hear the Breitbart video motive the way you described it before. Gould’s Ghost’s post does merit some answers…