Posted on 10/19/2009 6:34:50 PM PDT by presidio9
And what planet is this guy from?
It doesn’t matter if you think the White House policies are bad.
The only thing that matters is that if you disagree, you are racist.
This is a losing strategy. It worked at one time, and beating people over the head for 40+ years is no longer viable in the present.
Birth of a Nation
Was there a point to this?
This sounds like something written after two bongs and a half bottle of tequila.
Stanley Crouch
I once told a Black guy, who was selling advertising with me for the school paper:
“You know, sometimes I wish I was Black. Then when people tell me “no” on a sales call, or job interview, I would not have to blame it on my poor delivery, my bad attitude, my beer breath or the fact that someone else actually had a better product or a better resume!”
Honestly, the business folks I know bend over backwards when any young person, ESPECIALLY a minority, proves that they want to work.
Our President, and many of his supporters, often remind me of that co-worker, years ago.
“Race” only “cripples” those who insist on using race as a crutch.
That goes for Whites and Blacks and Hispanics and Asians.
If everyone reading this article got a genetic analysis of their ancestors, they would see how much of their DNA heritage comes from folks they didn’t expect. What was the statistic? If a branch of your family has been in the US for more than 150, you have a 25% of having African bloodlines, and a 10% chance of having Native American.
If you are presently classified as “black,” you know that you have “white” forbears back there somewhere. It’s just the way that history is in this nation - there’s at least 400 years of racial intermingling in this national endeavor.
Of course, ultimately it shouldn’t matter. We are all Americans.
Stanley Crouch (born December 14, 1945, Los Angeles) is an African-American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome?
Crouch was fired from JazzTimes following his controversial article “Putting the White Man in Charge”, in which he asserted that white critics elevate white jazz musicians beyond their abilities.
Crouch was invited to a panel of judges for the PEN/Newman’s Own Award, a $25,000 award designed to protect speech as it applies to the written word.
In 2005, he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows by the Fletcher Foundation, which awards annual fellowships to people working on issues of race and civil rights. The fellowship program is directed by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University.
So he’s saying it’s Mark Twain’s fault? LMAO!! Laughing at the idiot so hard I’m snorting.
I am sure there are some genuine white racists who hate Obama. How many times do we have to say that our opposition to Obama is not based on his Kenyan dad, but on his policies? How many times do we have to say it? Even Carville’s study indicated that the opposition to Obama was not based on his race.
This writer has engaged in nearly every negative black-on-black stereotype that I’m aware, except Uncle Tom.
From his writing, such as it is, I guess he’s rather more fond of pre-Civil War, condescending stereotypes penned by a black female author, than he is of the post-Civil War upending of those very stereotypes, penned by a white male author.
No doubt he considers himself enlightened. I’d hate to hear what he has to say outside of mixed company, though.
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Okay - glad it wasn’t just me. Reminded me of reading my kids’ book reports from years ago. Lots of detail but obscure if you did not know the book, meandering, and no real point to the whole thing.
Thank goodness you said that. I thought my mind had ceased to understand English. The only language I know.
“For good or for bad, for love or because of imposed power, something is inevitable: Men and women will get intimately involved. Whether their descendants get it all together is another issue. That is what we are learning right now.”
There is so much truth in that. Of course, the descendants would stand a better chance of getting it together if there were no agitators telling them what they should think or who they should hate.
I would also remark that while some liberals are able to get over the use of the "n-word" and say they appreciate Mark Twain, Conservatives seem to get him on a much deeper level.
Bear in mind, when liberals try to claim Twain as one of their own, that Twain was a Republican who voted for Lincoln. Lincoln quoted Twain in his second inaugural address, and Twain returned the praise in print. Shortly thereafter, Lincoln was assassinated.
Actually, if you accept the hypothesis that man came from Africa, that means that we all have “black” DNA.
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