Posted on 07/28/2010 2:02:11 AM PDT by Nickname
An opinion article by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., advocating an end to government diversity programs is drawing fire from the head of the Virginia chapter of the NAACP.
"We vehemently disagree with your analysis and wonder if serving in the elite, rich, United States Senate has skewed your vision of the world in which we live," wrote executive director King Salim Khalfani.
"Your opponent then and coming, George Allen, would not have had the gall to write about the 'myth of white privilege' even though I am sure he feels that way."
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Webb can defend himself by pointing out that he's voted in support of all of the government "diversity" programs he's now complaining about.
More ‘crap’ from the racist NAACP!
Is it just me who thinks that ‘political correctness’, ‘affirmative action’ and .. ‘kissing minority a$$’ has run it’s course and caused more damage than we can ever overcome.
SUCCEED ON YOUR OWN DAMN QUALIFICATIONS and stop using ‘WHITEY’ as your excuse for failing!
I agree. He fell into the Apology Trap.
Allen’s is the only name I’ve heard mentioned as a possible challenger to Webb tho. McDonnell is polling well in VA but his term isn’t up until.... 2014?
King Salim Khalfani - sounds like a deli Sandwich.
Oh noes!!! Grifters getting nervous that their race extortion racket might be drying up. You can thank the Big Zero for helping to wake a lot of people up.
King Salim Khalfani - Oh no you din’t white boy. The reparations are just getting started so just STFU.
ha ha. Democrats called other Democrats racist.
But King Salim Khalfani is just another race baiting pimp from the NAACP!
More like a concoction Jesse Jackson would spit on before serving it to a white person.
Perhaps Allen learned a thing or two from this incident. But how should he have dealt with it?
“Your opponent then and coming, George Allen, would not have had the gall to write about the ‘myth of white privilege’ even though I am sure he feels that way.”
So now, they can read minds? Wake up and smell the coffee, stupid. When are you going to realize that the RATS don’t give a tinker’s damn about you, your organization or any black person? RATs have NEVER done a single, solitary thing FOR the blacks. But they have done plenty TO you!
A few things come to mind like supporting slavery, against voting rights, enacting Jim Crow laws, forming the KKK, etc.
Allen should have shut down the Washington comPost who went after him every single day until election day.
That would have ‘handled’ the incident well.
Allen’s family apparently spent several years in Indonesia (?) or somewhere, at any rate, where the term “macaca” simply meant “some jerk” or “some guy,” that is, a dismissive way of referring to an annoying person. His mother used to use the term and it didn’t have anything to do with color.
I think he should simply have explained it and then taken an aggressive stance by asking people why they were seeking racism where there was none or why they were so desperate they were trying to play the race card; and then he should simply have moved on.
Perhaps now he would do something like that. The incident happened a couple of years ago, before Obama had turned the country into a seething pot of race hatreds and the race-card strategy had become so overt that a candidate would feel comfortable in rebutting it aggressively. So that may be one good thing about Obama’s racially divisive strategy: it’s getting so overused that it’s losing its effectiveness.
This is stupid on so many levels. First of all, deal with what Webb wrote, don’t try to read Allen’s mind.
Second of all the NAACP should SUPPORT Webb in the ideas he put forth in his article, at least to a certain extent. He made the case that “affirmative action” is hurting poor white Americans, but also poor black Americans as many AA spots are going to foreigners or the descendants of foreigners and not the descendants of black American slaves as was the original intent.
However, I must say this, I read that article and it struck me that Webb completely overlooked the long, legal, and cruel discrimination against Asians in the US. And now many Asians have AA used AGAINST them, because, you know, they don’t need the help.
The whole AA boondoggle is just more life control by our betters.
“executive director King Salim Khalfani.”
These folks sure have a high and almighty opinion of themselves.
Khalfani means “Male. Shall rule” in Egyptian. He should change his middle name to “Salami” to tone down the egomaniacal hubris.
“King Salami Khalifani” sounds like the refrain of a 30s patter song.
King Salim Khalfani
Not just a little pretentious, are we ? Shoulda gone for Emperor Salim Khalfani III.
Granted it was all poorly managed, but Allen got bad advice from a consultant who did not know Allen OR Virginia. Ultimately, it was his fault and he readily addresses that. There’s more inside baseball as to why the response was effed up.
But the reality is “macaca” was a manufactured scandal by a couple of Virginia bloggers and the Washington Post beat him up relentlessly for it. Even so on a night where Republicans were being slaughtered nationwide, he lost by less than 1%. And I will continue to set that story straight as long as I’m here on FreeRepublic.
If he decides to run for anything, I’ll be the first on the bandwagon.
Responded clearly and forcefully once or twice, including identifying the enemy plant who started the issue, but not apologized countless times so that it became a daily repetition that made him look weak. Many of his supporters were screaming for him to just stop apologizing. He sapped the enthusiasm for his side and made us all believe that he was not up to the job of a tough campaign and Democrat dirty tricks.
He’s got my vote if he wants to return to the senate.
"Your opponent then and coming, George Allen, would not have had the gall to write about the 'myth of white privilege' even though I am sure he feels that way."
Anyone who is so insecure about himself that he "feels" the need to call himself "King" has no business assigning "feelings" to others.
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