Posted on 12/26/2005, 8:58:04 PM by summer
NYT Editorial Columnist, Bob Herbert
It will take a new movement to bring about the changes in values and behavior needed to halt the self-destruction that is consuming so many black lives.
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Bob mush of had an Epiphany (pardon the pun).
This is not the first column he has written like this; he just had another one the other day, criticizing hip hop and rap artists. Today he went off about how a black 17 year old drop out he met had no idea why school would be beneficial. herbert also criticized black men for having kids and abandoning them. Really, his column today was like something out of FR.
I just have to say it was worth the price of the NYT to read his column today. I would never usually say something like that. But it was worth it. I hope the people who most need to hear his message might somehow find out about it, too. Maybe Bill O'Reilly will invite him on as a guest or something. I don't think Oprah will.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Nope. No victim talk at all.
You should read it. It was quite a departure for him. I felt like I was reading a political ad for the GOP.
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I'd love to read it all, but I'm not subscribing to anything of The New York Times.
So true unless you call Jesse Hijackson, Al Shartongue, and Harry Belacommie leaders worthy of the name. Of course there are a significant number of black conservatives who could provide good leadership but who don't have the ear of the the average black person (largely thanks to the aforementioned) and who are thus never called upon.
Ala Bill Cosby, perhaps?
Well, maybe the next time you're in a public library, you can take a look at it. You'll be amazed at what he wrote.
This can't be from Bob "Official Spokesman of the Whiny Victim Culture" Herbert.
Invasion of the body snatchers, maybe? Another guy of the same name?
I really wish I could post the whole editorial. No one would ever guess it was written by Bob Herbert. No one.
The irony here is that NO ONE who needs to change their behavior will read this. It's behind the Times' price-discrimination "select" subscription wall. How funny is this?
It is pretty astonishing to see Herbert saying this and the Times printing it. The leftists have spent the past 70 or 80 years egging blacks on to behave as badly as possible so they can reap the advantages.
Nothing anyone else can do will straighten blacks out. They must do it themselves, like any other group of people. Which means, among other things, that they have to stop playing Democrat games and consider what is best for themselves.
The NY Times still s-cks. Thankfully, my father FINALLY canceled his subscription after 35 years.
I don't know. But being the eternal optimist that I am, maybe he's through the looking glass now. Time will tell.
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