Posted on 05/12/2014 4:58:19 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Typically, April showers bring May flowers. This year, however, April also delivered a torrent of racially charged issues to the national stage. In Michigan, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ban on university-admissions programs that use race as a criterion in college admissions. Clippers owner Donald Sterling ignited a firestorm when a recording surfaced in which he asked his mixed-race girlfriend not to post photos of herself with black people on Instagram or bring black people to NBA games. Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy garnered support from Senator Rand Paul and other prominent conservatives in the wake of his standoff with the federal government over cattle grazing rights. But most supporters hurried to distance themselves from Bundy when he offered these stunning remarks at a news conference:
I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro …. They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy?
The nearly unanimous denunciations of both Sterling and Bundy makes clear that as nation, we have moved beyond the point where blatantly racist statements are publicly acceptable, easily explained away, and carry no real consequences.
When did this happen? While cultural shifts are difficult to pin down, there is good evidence that the country reached a tipping point in attitudes about racism sometime in the mid-1990s. For example, the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and an anchor of southern culture, finally came around to offering a sober apology for its former defense of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and racism at its 1995 annual meeting in Atlanta.
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Democrat MEME Alert!
This is nothing that angry, violent mobs with machetes hacking up people they don’t agree with can’t solve.
What do Mayflowers bring?
Yet watch all of America bow down in admiration to Charles Barkely in his denunciation of a whole gender of people of a major city.
No one else can even get away with it, and rightly so.
He is admired for trash talk.
It is a disgusting display of stereotyping and trash talk and a refusal to accept responsibility for insult and offense, and he is admired for it.
It is not a first amendment tenet to trash talk. The spirit of the first amendment entails the betterment of society.
I’m capable of extremely trashy trash talk, but if I said what I really think of Charles Barkely, I’d probably be banned for life—even tho I’m a grrrrl.
“What do Mayflowers bring?”
Pilgrims :)
Though if you are talking about the plant named Trailing Arbutus aka Mayflower, state flower of Massachusetts, it brings delight scents to the air. One of my favorite flowers. :)
“What do Mayflowers bring?”
Pilgrims :)
Though if you are talking about the plant named Trailing Arbutus aka Mayflower, state flower of Massachusetts, it brings delight scents to the air. One of my favorite flowers. :)
Thanks Barry! United we stand, divided we fall. Right?
IMO it depends how this is to come about.. by the Winfrey method? I say hell no!
"There are still generations of older people who were born and breed and marinated in that prejudice and racism and they just have to die."- Oprah Winfrey.
Robert P. Jones is the author.
Sadly it doesn’t need to be...
Unless spoken by a black person, a hispanic or a muslim, of course - nothing wrong with that.
When will the Democratic party offer a sober apology for its former defense of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and racism?
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