Posted on 03/01/2009 1:50:49 PM PST by lewisglad
I do not have a problem with what Holder said. I do have a problem, however, with what is not being publicly talked about: On matters of race, blacks are cowards, too. We may be the worst cowards of all. First, we have perfected the crude art of controlling the terms of race talk. Second, we have developed various ways of avoiding and squashing the truth about our complicity in matters of race that are self-destructive.
Although black attacks against whites are harsh, our attacks against other blacks who tell the truth are downright vicious. I know from personal experience. You are tar-brushed with the stain of Uncle Tomism, and it sticks to you forever.
You are ostracized and given the silent treatment. Your mistake is not that you told the truth but that you told the truth in public, thereby giving the enemy valuable ammunition. (Here, think of comedian Bill Cosby, who is castigated for saying that too many low-income blacks have not held up their end of the nation's civil rights gains.) In short, you committed the unforgivable sin of "airing dirty laundry."
Your achievements and good deeds are never recognized. You simply do not exist, unless you put yourself in people's faces to have your say
I cannot count the times I have participated in or attended events on race that devolved into acrimony and shouting because blacks attacked whites who said "insensitive things," often meaning that the whites expressed their true feelings and thoughts about blacks.
Seeing themselves as victims of racism, most blacks reject raw race talk from whites. After all, whites are viewed as being the perpetrators of racism. The perpetrator, therefore, should confess, shut up and listen. Because of this dynamic, far too many whites have learned to avoid direct matters of race.
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Thomas Sowell is black, as are Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas, Alan Keyes, Ward Connerly, Jesse Lee Peterson, etc. Therefore, there is nothing about the factual status of being descended, partly or totally, from sub-Saharan Africans that requires a person to be a fool. Being a fool is a choice, no matter what one looks like.
Here, Here!!!
Not a chance.
He's not about to dis' his Bro's and Ho's.
Pour yourself a Guinness.
Naw...I know too many chronic fools...to believe it's purely a choice anymore.
I didn’t say “purely” a choice. Nothing is “purely.” Nonetheless, a person can decide to make the effort to overcome social conditioning, bad habits, and resentments legitimate or illegitimate and become a responsible person. Many, of all races and ethnicities, do.
LBJ kept them on the plantation by keep them dependent. Yet they love the Dems.
The Repubs tell them they can succeed, but they buy the Dems' rhetoric because the Dems have always been their slave-masters.
Holder’s comments were about power—giving himself latitude to do whatever he wants, and putting whites on the defensive so they won’t try to resist. He wasn’t speaking in good faith.
They will continue to be fools....until they reach room temperature.
Personally I don't even think it's a choice for many....they have been dumbed down and/or brain washed so long...they simply can't see, what we can clearly see.
You too dear!
I guess it’s a philosophical disposition.
40, 60 years later, you'd think they could figure it out for themselves,
It's no different from what I would call white trash.
(not, PC, I know)
Point is, anyone can succeed, and we all have challenges.
They choose to whine, and cry, and AFAIC, people who think they are the only ones in pain, well, they piss me off.
;-)
Oh, me too, unless it's something truly disastrous that just happened. I often tell the children, "I don't want to hear, 'I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm hot, I'm cold.' It's exactly the same temperature for everyone in this room. It's been the same length of time since everyone's last meal. So just shut up!"
LOL, exactly.
Put on a sweater, or take one off.
Get a glass of water, and then wash the glass.
(Wash the glass? You cruel mom!)
Wait for dinner, it will be ready soon!
You are doing a good job of preparing your children for the real world, where nobody gives a flying...
black denial os their worst enemy
I am sorry, but old Bill came out and endorsed Obama last election. He's as racist as Jesse Jackson. Bill Coaby, racist. Write it down. Bastard.
A dialogue on race is always a bad idea. Few people in real life from any background really want to pick this scab. This is prudence and decency, not cowardice.
Hardcore liberals disagree — they think therapy can help us “cope” with anything. Unfortunately, the past is written in stone. And since we have a black president, racism obviously isn’t one of great problems facing today’s America.
But, some people are just stuck, frozen in time in a 1960s time warp; nothing can be done for them.
LOL! That’s the funniest Michelle Obama photo yet.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Quote of the day!
LOL
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