Does that look like the woods to you? Is the Pope Italian? It looks like a trail to me!
Posted on 10/13/2012 2:12:59 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama.
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Does that look like the woods to you? Is the Pope Italian? It looks like a trail to me!
Obama phones, sidestep on the must look for work to get welfare law, Food Stamps,WIC, subsidized housing,every social program know to man.
DUH ! They fear Romney would make their fat butts work to eat.
No because he is a black democrat.
Does the sun rise in the east?
Nothing has changed.
I don’t recall black support for Alan Keyes when he ran for offices or for other conservative blacks. They might be proud of them but I don’t recall it ever translating into a real shift in votes.
double duhhh
Recall that he who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of the discussion.
In the context of Critical Race Theory, just what, exactly, is meant by “race” and thus “racism”, “racist” and even “black”? We have a prominent case of “race” in that BHO told us in his own autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity and finally chose to be ‘black”. However, he also tells us that his mother was Caucasian and his father was from Kenya but listed as part Arab. In 1988, none other than Bill Clinton was
called our “first black president” by Nobel poet Tony Morrison.
If a Caucasian man can be “black”, and a person with a Caucasian mother can decide to be black despite the fact
his biological father may be more Arab than black or something else, then what, exactly is meant by “black”?
When Bill Maher, during a panel discussion on HBO complains that Obama’s policies are “half-assed” “because he’s only half black.” and that “if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.”, and that “there’s a white man in him holding him back”, than what is “black”?
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien writes of a private meeting in 2007 with Jesse Jackson in her book, “The Next Big Story.” During the meeting, Jackson complained to O’Brien, whose mother is a black woman from Cuba, that there weren’t any black anchors on CNN. She wrote, “He looks me in the eye and reaches his fingers over to tap a spot of skin on my right hand. He shakes his head. “You don’t count,” he says.” She closed the section with “[t]he arbiter of blackness had weighed in. I had been measured and found wanting.”
Finally, Dr. Cornel West, whose official web site describes him as “a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual”, was the subject of an article in the May 18, 2011 Washington Post. Reporter Krissah Thompson opened with, “Scholar Cornel West’s scathing critique of President Obama’s liberal bona fides in a series of recent interviews has ignited a furious debate among African American bloggers and commentators.”
These are all facts that anyone can verify on Google in 0.8 seconds.
References to race, racism and especially to “black”, in all these contexts, is clearly not about “race”. It is about ideology, socialist ideology. The problem is not how black all these people may be, but how RED. With that in mind, to a person who equates “black” with socialist, then “racism” and “racist” is only about people who reject socialism and socialists.
Does it matter if the candidate is a socialist/communist who parties with the 1% while blathering about 47% (for whom he does nothing)? Does it matter if the candidate is a proponent of aborting black babies, no matter how far along in utero they are? Does it matter if the candidate supports gay marriage, defying religious and moral convictions of some of those voters? Apparently it didn't in 2008!
Snip: Fully 96 percent of black voters supported Obama and constituted 13 percent of the electorate, a 2-percentage-point rise in their national turnout.
I wonder if blacks have read history. The whites have been enslaved at one point too. It’s too bad color of skin is so important to them.
The real surprise is that the “RASIS” obsessed here on FR are not voting for the Kenyan themselves.
I remember reading Dick Gregory’s book N***** in high school. (Not as an assignment, don’t worry.) He was born in 1932, and he said that when he went to high school football game, he would cheer a little louder when a black player got the ball, he was, he admitted, prejudiced (he meant biased). But he was not a bigot.
Late one night his car won’t start and he, his wife and baby were stranded in the middle of nowhere. Along came a motorcycle and a huge white “cat with a million zippers” got out and asked what the problem was. Gregory is a small man, and he was afraid for his family’s safety, but told the biker that his car won’t start. The biker told him to pop the hood, and he tinkered with the engine for a bit, while other bikers, friends of his show up. They all got involved, pooled their knowledge and resources, and got him on his way.
So, his message was, don’t judge a person based on superficial appearance. Look, white NBA players tend to be overrated, and so are black politicians. Let it go.
Once again, thanks for the feedback.
(trying to promote balance)
Though I wonder whether there is likewise balance in return?
I’d say no.
They’re voting for Obama because he promised them free stuff. They’re voting for Obama because he demonized successful white people. They’re voting for Obama because Obama tells them that their stupidity, sloth, laziness and third world work ethic isn’t their fault - it’s someone else’s fault.
Blacks in the US vote, in the overwhelming majority, for whomever affirms their worldview -which is that a) they’re blameless, b) they’re incapable of doing anything about their condition by themselves, and c) whenever they don’t succeed, the cause is always someone else’s fault. Those who don’t toe this line are demonized within the black community, so this voting preference isn’t the result of mere sloth and indifference. This position is actively taken and protected, which means that blacks in the US like being seen as violent, mendacious grifters.
Sometimes, the person for whom they vote is a white person - but there’s always an element of that white person’s character that is consonant with the majority black viewpoint. If a white person is selling a viewpoint that has at it’s core hard work, thrift and self-restraint, then the vast majority of blacks will have none of that. These positions run against their very fiber of their being.
Well, didn't the previous pope meet with a Lutheran mufti and kissed a Lutheran Bible?
That’s only half right. If it were merely a black thing, black people would support conservative blacks also, but they don’t. Obama is a black man who is willing to plunder the wealth of America to squander it in race and class division schemes. Obama is a neo-soviet who talks their talk, and pretends to walk their walk. ...They also support Obama because he is gay. He is gay first, and black last.
At first I thought, well, of course!
But then, if it was Allan West running against, say, Nancy Pelosi or Bill Clinton, they’d vote white in a heart beat.
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