Posted on 09/30/2010 12:09:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
I don't think I ever want to meet Steven Thrasher in person. Aside from the fact that the NPR and Village Voice contributor has an ominously violent last name, this dude is p!ssed. Despite this, I'll admit that while reading his recent Voice cover essay on the insanity of white America, I occasionally pictured myself giving Mr. Thrasher a hug. Don't worry, Steven, I'd whisper: Christine O'Donnell is down 15 percent in Delaware. The Islamic community center near Ground Zero will soon be a reality. A single tweet from Sarah Palin doesn't signal the end of white American sanity. (In fact, there is no such thing as collective white American sanity, or collective black American or Jewish American sanity, for that matter.) It's alright. Everything is going to be alright.
Sadly, it appears that Thrasher is suffering from the same genus of derangement as many of the people he slams, something no amount of hugging will fix. Sample insanity:
Sarah Palin then rushed to [Dr. Laura] Schlessinger's side, Tweeting in her inimitable style, "Don't retreat . . . reload!" Palin, we can only assume, wanted Schlessinger to utter "n!**er" as often as she wanted.
Perhaps the two of them, having both quit their jobs, can get together and put on a road show, opening with "Zip Coon" and finishing with a rousing rendition of "Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny"?
Read the whole thing to experience the full flowering of Thrasher's madness.
Regardless of the validity of Thrasher's conclusion—that whites have literally been driven insane by the realization that they'll soon be a minority in their "own" country—his sneering, hysterical, furious treatment of a potentially important phenomenon lumps Thrasher squarely in the category with the people he criticizes.
He is seeing the Golden child and his minions unravel. He is the crazy one.
As for his assessment of what troubles white folk, I simply couldn't care less what a writer for Village Voice and NPR thinks about anything.
That’s right libruls...we’uns white folk done gone crazy. We’s also gots the guns, pickup trucks, cammies, and those crazy women that make you pee in your pants so you better get back to your big city and hunker down. If you stay real quiet, we might not notice you. Now, shush!
Just... wow.
And the "it" that wrote that gets a paycheck?
You know, what is more frightening is there are a lot of people that pay money on a regular basis to read it.
They also believe it to be correct!
Mass delusions, I suppose.
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[ the following text is from www.virginiastatesong.com ] -
"James Bland was born in 1854. He was a Black entertainer and composer, born in Flushing, New York.
He was one of the best-known Black composers for the theatrical entertainment called the minstrel show.
Bland was educated in Washington, D. C., where he graduated from Howard University in 1873. He went on to become a performer in minstrel shows, achieving his greatest success in Britain between 1882 and 1901.
James Bland composed more than 700 songs, mostly for minstrel shows, among them "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," chosen in 1940 as the state song of Virginia, "In the Evening by the Moonlight," and "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers." He spent the latter years of his life in poverty and obscurity, and died in 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.*"
Wonder if Steven Thrasher belonged to Journolist as well as NPR and Village Voice.
That margin was down to 11 last I saw. 4% change in about a week.
I believe I just saw that Russ Feingold was behind by more than the margin of error...
makes you feel real good... right here.
He was not taken to task.
I'm not a Laura Schelssinger fan but from what I gather, she was just denouncing the use of the word that is "acceptable" by some segments of America and was willing to use the word she was denouncing rather than using a euphemism for the pejorative.
Then again doesn't Bill Maher have a Time-Life-Warner-Turner-CNN program on HBO? So sister network CNN isn't going to be the one to take him down?
In my very blue state of WA, Patty Murray...the dumbest person in the Senate, is up by 1%, which is within the margin of error. She has been running nothing but attack ads in state...obviously, her handlers figured out that her record wasn’t anything to run on.
At the Voice as I type. Will get back to you.
Zip Coon, etc. ... I see they’ve found a new outlet for their own racist comments. Put it in the mouths of conservatives who did NOT issue it. Use quote marks whenever possible to maximize the number of readers misled.
They are an ugly lot of liberals who savage those they seek to demonize.
Racist? You bet they are. Identity politics only matter when you AGREE with them.
Steven Thrasher is a free-lance writer and media producer based in New York City. He recently spent a year traveling the United States conducting interviews for the archives of StoryCorps, an independent oral history project that collects stories of Americans, in conjunction with National Public Radio, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian.
http://www.steventhrasher.com/
So he got our tax money to tell “stories” about “the common man”?
The libtards are trying to create a new anti-concept. The real meaning of insane is the state of being out of touch with reality. But the new alleged meaning the libtards are trying to create is: insanity = nonconformity with libtard thought.With this new alleged meaning, libtards are able to use the new anti-concept to smear and demonize anyone who doesn't agree with them, as being insane.
But it is white America who are the sane ones because they are the ones who are in touch with reality. Libtards are so out of touch with reality that they have delusions of grandeur and think that their thought is the standard of truth, sanity, and moral value, while it is actually irrational because it is based on emotionalism, and false and unsound philosophy and economics.
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