Posted on 04/25/2008 12:36:03 PM PDT by Renfield
Sorry, shouldn’t have said “lame comment.” Also, I guess even the title says “We Are Bitter.” For some reason, though, your comment just struck me the wrong way.
Bitter, angry white people and bitter, angry black people are BOTH PATHETIC!
Yup, I agree. Except that "15-20 years" may be too low an estimate...
Ljubo Sirc, Between Hitler and Tito. The author (b. 1920, now living in the UK), was a Partisan but made the mistake after the war of trying to organize a non-Communist party to compete in the supposedly free elections to be held, which led to him spending a number of years in a Communist prison.
John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar, Slovenia, 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II deals with Slovene refugees at the end of the war (those who escaped being handed over by the British to Tito for execution). Some of them eventually managed to be resettled in the US. There's an interesting bit near the end about how some of them went back to visit (after the fall of Communism, I think) and what a gulf there was between their attitudes and those of the Slovenes who had lived for decades under Communism in Tito's Yugoslavia.
Great post.
A very good read.
It is not yet clear just what B. Hussein Obama has started but it is beginning to look like it might become a substantial backlash against the reverse racism that has plagued this country for nearly 40 years. I see more and more that people are not only sick and tired of race being used as a weapon but are expressing rather candidly their abhorrence of this and doing so without a care for the reactions of the race baiters.
The last people who will become aware of this and begin to freely express their real thoughts will be the politicians - the “leaders” who wouldn’t dare take a step without first getting all the latest polling data and focus group input. But if the backlash is real eventually it will become safe for politicians to join in and then we will see real “change” and not the phony mush that B. Hussein Obama is peddling.
Both of those sound very interesting.
Slovenia is a beautiful country, and I’d love to visit one day. From pictures I’ve seen, it looks a lot like the Austrian or Italian Alps...but prices there are much lower. Supposedly a great vacation destination. Good trout fishing, too, apparently.
She’s a new one to me, too, but I think she’s a regular columnist for Townhall.com.
3rd generation Croatian off-the-boat bump.
Great article. I can sympathise with her kind of bitterness-she’s not asking for anything, just tired of being “damned if you do and damned if you don’t”. I can sympathise with people who only want what our great nation is historically supposed to be about-just freedom, to be left alone to make your way in life as you see fit. No handouts, no special privilege, no affirmative action at the expense of others etc. Just freedom, and rising based on your merit, character, and what goals you set for yourself.
Ping
The best-known Slovenian-American may have been Louis Adamic, who died in 1951. He could write in an interesting way, but had strong left-wing sympathies and was a noisy backer of Tito during and after WWII. He died under mysterious circumstances, perhaps murdered by agents of Stalin because of his support for Tito. His The Native's Return has interesting sketches of Yugoslavia in the early 1930s.
Guess my tag line still fits.
She is brilliant.
Barack and even his oldest black supporters did not endure the racism experienced by members of my family and many other European Jews. Those with Vietnamese and Albanian heritage too.
We’d do far better in giving socieconomic leg-ups if we give any at all, and becoming an ethnicity-free country. Let’s just all be American.
Ronald Reagan, 1964
BTTT
My family never owned any slaves.
But why am I and my children punished for slavery?
Barack Obama is a millionaire.
Is it fair that Obama’s daughters will receive the benefits of affirmative action?
Are they really more disadvantaged than a poor White or Asian child?
I love it how these “bitter” folks from former communist countries tell these lefties where to stuff their ivy league diplomas.
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