EUGENE ROBINSON is an IDIOT!!
Lol...tool.
So she’s “black”...she’s a RACIST. Also, she hates America, hates non-”black” Americans but loves our money. She probably felt a tingle go down her leg (shudder!) each Sunday when the racist “Reverend” Wright spouted his racist drivel for the 20+ years she attended his “church”.
As always, Robinson’s race-mongering fails on this point - wasn’t Obama black when the voters elected him?
I read the article and it deserves the barf alert. However, it was written by Richard Cohen, not Eugene Robinson. Not saying Eugene would disagree, but...
How come I am reading “eugene robinson” as “richard cohen”?
Someone should inform Cohen that the people who did all those things to the blacks, post civil war, were democrats.
What she MEANT was as in my tagline.
Hey, dummy. Do you know who was responsible for those “Colored” and “White Only” signs? Your beloved Democratic Party.
There's no reason it couldn't be both. But come'on she was residing at the epicenter of liberal academia; this is what they discuss, race, race, race, race. Sometimes they break from the monotony to discuss gender or sexual identification. How can you fail to be aware of something when everyone in your circle is discussing it - constantly.
Even after they were freed they were consigned to peonage, second-class citizens, forbidden to vote in much of the South, dissuaded from doing so in some of the North, relegated to separate schools, restaurants, churches, hotels, waiting rooms of train stations, the back of the bus, and the other side of the tracks, the mortuary, the cemetery and, if whites could manage it, heaven itself.
Yes, Little Richie, we all know of and understand that. We conservatives, perhaps, even moreso -- as the white liberal elite would prefer to ghettoize us, as well.
But the fact is, all of these despicable things were done to blacks by WHO? The Democrat Party, that's WHO. So, don't go all holy and self-righteous on us, Little Richie.
If you really, really want to make amends for the terrible wrongs done to the blacks by the Democrat party, you could start by following Frederick Douglass' advice: "just leave us alone...for a hundred years."
But, no, in trying to compensate, instead you've destroyed the black family, devastated their schools and consigned them to second-class citizenship -- wards of the party, milked for their vote.
Don't give us your misguided racist bullshit, Richie.
I am so sick of this b...sh.t. Michelle went to Princeton and Harvard. Barack went to Harvard. Where the f... is the racism? Are these not people who grew up in the 60’s and matriculated to the highest level of US education? Were they held back by their race or their families economics?
My grandfather was an alcoholic and my grandmother an American Indian. The other set of grandparents were Irish immigrants. Each were manual laborers who didn’t have a pot to p... in. My mom and dad worked their tails off so my brother and I could go to school. I wish I had thanked them more before they both passed.
My brother and I are both very well off having lived the American dream. Not because of anything from the generations before us but because of the hard work of my parents and ourselves. We made choices in life...and quite frankly that is why we are where we are today. Not everyone will succeed financially in life...but everyone can make good choices or bad choices and those decisions will impact your life much more than a government. It’s time, no it’s past time, for individuals to take responsibility for their lives.
It’s well past time to put this racial cr.. behind us. I’ll hire anyone who can enhance my business. It is as simple as that. Make a choice and grow your opportunities or make a choice and kill your opportunities.
I interpret this to mean that he didn't bother to read Palin's book, but is writing his comment based on some other pundit's comment. The number of people who feel free to comment on things they don't actually have knowledge of is huge.
President George W Bush gave many terrific speeches, but most people heard only one tiny non-representative sound bite over and over, leading them to be sure he couldn't speak.
OK ... let's see what else brings back Eugene's apartheid memories:
1. Seeing a bus brings back apartheid memories, poor, poor Rosa Parks.
2. Watching a documentary on Mark Twain ... Eugene felt muddy.
3. A dollar bill with Geo. Washington is somewhat hard to handle since he owned slaves.
4. Knitting needles because his beloved great aunt was belittled back in the day. She knitted.
5. Golf and baseball sadden Eugene, too. You know it took a long, long time to break the color barrier.
6. Contractor licensing was enacted because black workers would work for less and were taking good jobs away from whites. Eugene doesn't really like it, but he's such a liberal he can live with it.
7. Peaches are famous in Georgia, a state in the formerly confederate south.
Eugene Robinson is a zealot by definition. His answer to any question posed is always the same, i.e. racism.
Since 1933 Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats.
In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.
LINK http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/13/194350.shtml http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/3/82.03.04.x.html
Michelle Obama meant exactly what she said. It’s representative of the fact that many blacks can’t find anything in this country to be proud of. If you’re told constantly that everything in American society is oppressive, that’s how you’re going to feel.
For Robinson, quoting someone’s actual words, in context, is a cheap shot.
The irrational altruist-collectivist ideas of the intellectuals cause them to feel like displaced persons, alienated by the basic premises of the country, and hostile to the essential character of its institutions, its tradition, and its people.