The stories white guys tell themselves

St. Petersburg - Tampa Bay Times ^ | August 12, 2012 | Robyn E. Blumner,

[MarkL]

The unflattering flip side of this is that failure is a character flaw. If you don't succeed, you didn't work hard enough. As the story goes, anyone who takes government help falls into this category.

Robyn is a moron. Nevermind the blind repetition of the class-warfare mantras, the above statement is refuted by ANYONE who have ever had any sort of success. Just ask anyone who has tried to succeed, and you'll find that they failed often. They used those failures as learning experiences. And the only character flaw they saw as being tied to failure would be to give up and stop trying. I would suggest Robyn read a book on Thomas Edison.

My guess is that Robyn hasn't ever really succeeded at anything, and needed support (affirmative action, etc...) to accomplish anything in her worthless life.

Mark

[CSM]

Guilty beyond any concievable reasonable doubt!

[MarkL]

I thought I'd take a look at the comments on her article, and after reading the incredible stupidity of many of them, I now understand how Robyn manages to get away with writing her tripe. It's like watching "Idiocracy," something I've never been able to sit through for more than about 3 minutes at a time.

Mark

[BobL]

Notice that there are two themes that NEVER come up:

1) Perhaps white voters care about the country they leave to their children.

2) Perhaps white voters see the country changing in a way that scares the hell out of them.

So it’s sure fun to watch the liberals try to figure them out...

[American in Israel]

While I may not quite believe that working hard will automaticly make me a rich man, I firmly believe that sitting on my arse and trying to live on welfare does not lead to independence and wealth.

So I guess that makes me a foolish whitey.

[kcvl]

Blumner is a graduate of Cornell University and NYU School of Law. After working as a labor lawyer in New York, she became executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. In 1989, she took over the directorship of the ACLU of Florida, where she worked until joining the staff of the Times.