Posted on 04/17/2010 7:51:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell asked Darryl Postell, a black man at a tea party rally held Thursday in Washington: "There aren't a lot of African-Americans at these events. Have you ever felt... uncomfortable?" Postell replied, "No, no, these are my people, Americans."
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O'Donnell's question wasn't the only one addressing race at tea parties. Politico asked one white tea party protester about how she could spot an "infiltrator" -- a liberal posing as a tea party protester -- and she said that more "racially-oriented signs" were a giveaway. "This movement is not about race. My husband and I are an interracial copuple. He's African American. We don't make this party about race, we make it about principles." Video below:
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It didn't occur to me, by the way, to ask Richard if he felt uncomfortable. But maybe that's because he was right at home:
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Yep. I'm one of the 8 percenters (conservative blacks). Out there on the bleeding edge of cultural evolution.
My liberal sis called my Mom and I "brain washed" some years ago upon hearing that we listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Pretty standard babble from liberal family members, in my experience. I've endured much worse. I'm a "race traitor" and an "Uncle Tom" don'cha know. A "bamboozled, hypnotized pawn of the evil right-wing, etc".
Thing is, a person can't un-know what they know, and I've come to know quite a lot since I escaped the liberal mind control plantation. My certainty in what I know about the truth of America goes right down to the core of my being, and can't be shaken by insipid liberal barking.
Like any conservative, my allegiance to the right isn't about my belief in its principles, but in the knowledge of them. That certainty is maddening to liberal family members, whose positions are based on feelings and indoctrination, alone.
O’Donnell (”reporter”): Do you feel uncomfortable being
a black man among all these whites?
Postell: No, I don’t feel a bit uncomfortable. As a low
down lying scum sucking member of the left wing biased
main stream media do you feel uncomfortable being in the
middle of all of these honest hard working Americans?
Yep. That's what passes for intelligent reasoning among liberals.
As you said, it never occurs to liberals that such "reasoning" pre-supposes that blacks are incapable of running their own lives, or succeeding in life without some sort of government crutch.
It's utterly demeaning - especially when you consider that there are so many fine examples of black people who've achieved the American Dream through their own efforts.
Liberals like to bask in the glow of struggle to get where they are and rarely stop to think if they arrived in the right place.
I think of the accomplishments of some of the kids that came out of Dunbar High in DC, back in the bad old segregation days, and just shake my head. All the upheaval and sacrifice to undo all that, and look what so many are doing with it. It’s sad. You, and people like you, are the only ones who can speak out and alter the trajectory. Everyone else gets branded racist.
That latent responsibility is something that's in the back of every black conservative's mind. I didn't ask for the job, but I've got to admit that me and others like me are best equipped to take the conservative message to the black community.
I've had people urge me on more than one occasion to take up that task. I'm still rolling it around. Right now, I'm just trying to do my bit for America.
It can’t be espeically easy, but please continue. It’s very much needed.
I went to a Tea Party here in California this year. As I stood there with my sign, a very nice black man came up to me and said, “Thank you! Thank you!” and shook my hand because of what I had on my sign. It said: “MARCH 2010: CONGRESS SHOVED OBAMACARE DOWN OUR THROATS. NOVEMBER 2010: WE WILL SHOVE IT BACK.”
Libs kill me. They don’t understand that it is about priciples, not color.
Proper response:
“That’s an incredibly racist assumption you are making just to ask that question of me. Why did you pick me out of the entire population gathered here? Is it because I am black or because I may have an answer you are looking for?”
Plan for attacks like this:
1. Reject the preconditions of the questions.
2. Answer the outrageous question with another question proposing they need to answer.
Think about the question:
“How long have you stopped beating your wife?”
It assumes the precondition that you have beaten somebody.
These people should not be allowed to set up conditions where protesting is OK for one group and not another. Especially when you see the violence and damage the left imposes upon others.
You've nailed that down tight. Once you know something all the emotional spin and propaganda dissipates like morning dew. It is really tough when the conflict is with family. People who should know you well enough to know you aren't a racist, traitor, brain washed, and on and on. But when you know the truth it does transcend even the closest ties.
It so happens I've got a book about Oscar Micheaux on my To Read stack. He's an example of how, in racist times, simply DID what no one else was doing in his field (in his case, directing movies for black audiences in the early part of the 20th century).
That America has shameful events in its past isn't evidence of evil; that it created the environment for those who were oppressed to not only TRY but THRIVE until the country could come around is proof of its greatness.
Or as I asked someone in heated conversation about Micheaux, "Where are the great Soviet black filmmakers--unheralded in their time or otherwise?" :P
No, it's not easy. We black conservatives are mostly vilified in the black community. We've got a forty-year wall of leftist indoctrination to penetrate, which is tough to do.
I don't have a ready answer for what black conservatives can do, or will do to change this. I'm really hoping that the resurgent patriotism on the right, and the crumbling facade of leftist institutions will go a long way to educating the general black population about the truth of America.
The key is the church, imho. I’ve attended church with black friends many times, and the sheer vibrancy of it all ... there’s a core there with the majority, unlike the nearly soulless leftism of other groups, who refuse to even recognize that there actually is such a thing as right and wrong, let alone that the government they seek will tyrannize them just as surely as us.
What a great way to say it. Belief is one thing, and it can change on a whim. But one doesn't believe that 1 + 1 = 2, one knows it. To say we "believe" in conservative principle is actually misleading. We know the proven rightness of conservative principle, and we know -- not believe, but know -- the proven failure and slavery of communism, facism, socialism.
Quite true. I love my liberal family members, but my emotional bond to them isn't powerful enough to make me compromise my personal integrity.
Having rock-solid certainty on timeless truths also tends to invigorate and energize new relationships with others who know what you know.
I think this is where the black Tea Partier was coming from when he said, "these are my people. They're Americans."
Well said. I've had that thought many times, but have never expressed it with quite that clarity.
Blacks who have looked around themselves and noted the truth of what you said, are the same ones who usually wind up escaping the liberal mind control plantation.
I know what you speak of. I've experienced that myself. It totally transcends race.
And this is, in my opinion, the fundamental superiority of conservatism over liberalism.
Conservatism is a set of proven, workable principles, learned over hundreds of generations of trial and experiment by humankind. We "conserve" those practices which have been shown to lead to greater survival for the individual, and the group.
Liberals, on the other hand, can't make the same claim. If they're honest enough to consult the history of trial and experiment with their practices, it's one long train of failure and degradation. In that wise, they have to resort to belief to bolster their position, because what they know of liberalism is not easy to confront.
They literally have to deny all knowledge of the real effects of left-wing practices to remain true to liberalism. In place of empirical evidence, they substitute dogma and theory, because the truth just hurts too much to look at.
No wonder they're all nuts.
You might enjoy the article and FReeper commentary on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2495359/posts
Don’t be too put off by the title, it’s somewhat misleading and the author’s answer clearly is “no.”
Thanks. I’ve seen the thread, and commented several times.
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