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How My High School Report on Malcolm X Turned Me Republican
Dignitas News Service ^ | June 24, 2014 | Gary Youngston

Posted on 06/24/2014 1:16:12 PM PDT by dignitasnews

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To: research99
Why not support a preference for philosophies by people who lived lives that are worthy of admiration?

Why not just read the philosophy?

Otherwise you might make the mistakes you're making like throwing in race murders and collectivist hatred and agitprop against a man who was killed precisely for rejecting such methods.

Tell me, is exhilarating to be so shameless, or is out just a job?

61 posted on 06/24/2014 2:29:02 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker
Well other than being irrelevant, annoying and distracting, I can't think of a thing.

Well, to be honest, your posts don't really add to my enjoyment of threads either.
So there's that.

Oh yes, there's is that little, tiny fact that the US Supreme Court has ruled that bloggers ARE legitimate

You let those wankers decide for you what is legitimate and what is not?

Just damn.

62 posted on 06/24/2014 2:30:05 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: SunTzuWu
Every post you make that I see, drives a click to a blog.

I am powerful.

63 posted on 06/24/2014 2:31:33 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Talisker

Actually it wasn’t until his last couple years that Malcolm X shifted his views. Most of his life he repeated lines which viewed people based on the color of their skin as “devils”. His rhetoric has lived on for decades after his death, when you hear Obama speak to black audiences to inform them they have been “bamboozled” and “hoodwinked,” that is the confrontational philosophy of the “early” Malcolm speaking.

Informing his audiences upfront that they are hearing the words of a cocaine-abusing gay prostitute would provide a necessary context for understanding, however that isn’t being done unless someone points it out which is what I am doing here.


64 posted on 06/24/2014 2:32:23 PM PDT by research99
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To: dignitasnews

GREAT article! I dont think its as tough to be a Latino Republican (as I am) as it is for someone who is black, but I can relate to some of the things in this article. When I came “out of the closet” I took some heat. But when you break it down to people, their is only one truth, liberals are evil.


65 posted on 06/24/2014 2:34:49 PM PDT by dagooz88
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To: dignitasnews; humblegunner

Well done, sir. Needs a little proofreading, but your guest columnist did well. And please tell him for me, “Welcome to the conservative side”.

You have met the neighborhood grump in humblegunner. But he does help to keep blog pimps honest.

Gunner, I think you are being a little too hard on our young friend. He did, afterall, post the entire piece.


66 posted on 06/24/2014 2:35:47 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: dignitasnews

I turned against public relations after watching Malcolm’ s 100% rhetoric / 0% dialectic (logic), as I saw in a video: He had nothing to say, but sure was good at saying it.

It wasn’t until I saw that the Vitae Caring Foundation http://www.vitaefoundation.org/ad-portfolio could reduce abortion rates by up to 38% by using sophisticated Madison Avenue consumer marketing psychological studies and carefully crafted ad campaigns.

(Woman firefighter handing a child she just saved to the Mom. “Being alive today has special meaning–for both of us. There have been times when I almost didn’t make it. But the one time I had the most to lose, was before I was even born. My Mom was young, single, no money. I’m sure it wasn’t easy for her to give me a chance. But today, I know she’d be very proud, that her decision saved more than one life.”—”Lifesaver”.)

Now I admit the value of dialectically informed rhetoric.


67 posted on 06/24/2014 2:35:50 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: humblegunner
You let those wankers decide for you what is legitimate and what is not? Just damn.

When the alternative is YOUR assessment of legitimacy?

In a heartbeat.

68 posted on 06/24/2014 2:36:08 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker
When the alternative is YOUR assessment of legitimacy?

You could do a lot worse.

69 posted on 06/24/2014 2:38:51 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: dignitasnews

Thank-you for the only bright spot on the political front today. God Bless this young man. I hope his voice grows stronger and louder. Gary Youngston’s perspective is needed.


70 posted on 06/24/2014 2:40:45 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: dignitasnews

Excellent article! Thanks for posting it here.


71 posted on 06/24/2014 2:41:24 PM PDT by upsdriver (Palin/West '16)
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To: Talisker

Do you require the opinions of a “wise latina” to interpret the laws of a nation? Because if that’s what you’re backing up, that’s what you will get.


72 posted on 06/24/2014 2:41:34 PM PDT by research99
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To: dignitasnews

As editor, thats my ultimate responsibility.

((
There are quite a few more, believe me. But I did not want to go snarky on the youngster or on you. (Psst! You meant to say, “that’s” and not “thats”.)


73 posted on 06/24/2014 2:42:10 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: research99

Nonsense. Your sole purpose is to hide what Malcolm X stood for and the fact that was murdered for going off the plantation. You invoke “earlier years” to hide this simple fact. The Left was fine with his earlier years, and he was just one of many. What made him ride to prominence was exactly the fact that he broke from the collective. That burns in them still today, and it marks the keystone of his life.

You? Your just throwing crap for money, the third oldest profession in the world.


74 posted on 06/24/2014 2:42:31 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

Or do you concur with Justice Roberts, that a statute originating in the Senate yet originating a new “tax” is valid constitutionally?


75 posted on 06/24/2014 2:43:20 PM PDT by research99
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To: Talisker
"Your just throwing crap for money, the third oldest profession in the world."

As a gay prostitute, that's presumably what Malcolm X did! (and that's why I reject his "philosophies")

76 posted on 06/24/2014 2:45:05 PM PDT by research99
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To: humblegunner
You could do a lot worse.

In, of course, your humble opinion.

LOL

77 posted on 06/24/2014 2:45:07 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: dignitasnews; humblegunner

Don’t mind the hazing by humblegunner, your piece was complete and worth reading, and you got humblegunner to click on your blog without excerpting!

Since your new writer is likely only recently out of high school, I wanted to let you know that I was thoroughly impressed with his developed writing style.


78 posted on 06/24/2014 2:46:35 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: Talisker
In, of course, your humble opinion.

Indeed.

79 posted on 06/24/2014 2:46:38 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

It is an excellent essay, did you read it? BTW, not only did I click on the link, I posted the story to my Facebook page. It needs all the circulation it can get. Truth is power.


80 posted on 06/24/2014 2:49:14 PM PDT by upsdriver (Palin/West '16)
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