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Re: Xeno-x, by Glennb
has nothing to do with economic status -- has to to with the same blindness toward the rest of the world as toward many of our citizens here at home.
this is harmful
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 4, 2008 at 6:23 AM
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Xeno-x,
I don't know your ethnic background but your view of the human race is a bit clouded. In every one of these so called "Third World" Societies there is opulence and wealth. Governments that care nothing about the "voice" of its people. Are we better off?
posted by
Glennb
on June 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM
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THE BLACK POPULATION WILL "GET ON WITH THEIR LIVES"
when more attention is paid to getting them out of the morass so many of them are in.
You just don;'t get it.
but you might when it's more than Rev. Wright shouting angry words from the pulpit -- when it's angry actions aimed at the White population.
Of course you don't get it with the Arab world either. Same story. Looks like I'll h ave to blog on this.
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 3, 2008 at 11:40 AM
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Justi,
When you agree with the words of another, you become it's surrogate!
posted by
Glennb
on June 3, 2008 at 7:28 AM
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Justi,
Are you from this Planet? You introduced "racism" into your post! Or do you read what you write?
posted by
Glennb
on June 3, 2008 at 7:25 AM
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Corbin Dallas,
You are a whinny little white person! You found a Negro who has written garbage that you agree with. You repeating it does not give it credibility! Sowell has long been discredited as off the "real" World in economic theory! By the way those "trillions of dollars" that you cite? Can you tell us who's pocket it lined? I know this ole "Mascot" didn't see a penny!
posted by
Glennb
on June 3, 2008 at 7:22 AM
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Glennb
i have never called you or any black person or white person backward because of their color only because of their behavior and I can't remember having even done that. You put words into my statement that I did not make. You know you do and that is your right but it is not helpful to any issues.
posted by
Justi
on June 3, 2008 at 7:20 AM
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TAPS
Thank you for responding. Thank you for clearing that. I am very touchy almost as much as Glennb because I am often accused simply because of where I am from. You are the most honest person I know. You will tell me when I am off track. Love,
posted by
Justi
on June 3, 2008 at 7:18 AM
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Justi,
It seems you take critique quite seriously and allow for improvement from another White person. Now take that a bit further to your objections to my comments! Now expand that a bit further to understand how I feel having you "white folk" tell me how backwards we "Negroes" are! Its all about the "power"!
posted by
Glennb
on June 3, 2008 at 7:15 AM
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I was speaking of myself, Justi, not of you.
posted by
TAPS.
on June 3, 2008 at 7:10 AM
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Re: TAPS
It could be that some people assume because one is from another part of the country they have to 'feel' this or that way. I love you and believe your statement says something you are assuming that is not the case. You have decided how I feel it appears and you are giving me acceptance as a human because of the environment, childhood training etc., in short maybe I have not looked at it nor could help it. My family was in this state before it was a state, we never got involved in the race issues we had no slaves, knew no one who did and were busy making our little clay pots. I was taught to be fair and just not only to blacks but to Indians, Chinese and anyone different than I. I was taught they were descendants of Noah just as I was and I have not changed that. I do expect the same from them as I am to afford them. That is my problem I am not going to accept rude behavior as okay simply because a person is black. That is harmful to both the black and me. I care about you and if you feel I am way off base, please show me the way back.
posted by
Justi
on June 2, 2008 at 9:02 PM
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Glennb
Yes you know I forgot that since it is non existent. I am against any who have attitudes like you be they what ever color, religion or creed..... You are so bitter, ugly, sad and insecure. I am sorry for you.
posted by
Justi
on June 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM
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Glennb
This is an incredibly arrogant comment. This is not about you unless you feel you are the only black person alive? How did you get that it was. What do you call the term "you people" except a racist remark? If anything I am sorry for you.
posted by
Justi
on June 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM
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Corbin Dallas
Good One.
posted by
Justi
on June 2, 2008 at 8:46 PM
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Nautikos
I do hear what you are saying but the concept is as stupid as God deciding one man (Adam) sinned so everybody is going to hell! When will the Black population get on with their lives without bitterness, do they think the rest of us have no pain, horrors, sadnesses?
posted by
Justi
on June 2, 2008 at 8:46 PM
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Justi, I think it may simply be that everyone has their own conception of what racism is and how to deal with it. These conceptions are entrenched, rooted, and not easily altered. They are formed from childhood and usually follow in the pattern of the seeds that were sown by parents, environment, etc. I have a feeling that even though you and I are both caucasion, we might have quite a little discrepancy in our definitions of racism. One person talks "apples" and the other talks "oranges" and we come up with fruit salad.
posted by
TAPS.
on June 2, 2008 at 1:11 PM
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Xeno....
If you had bothered to pay attention you would have seen the excerpts were from Thomas Sowell, noted BLACK (capitalization added so you won't miss the point) economist. You and your ilk since the mid sixties have poured trillions of dollars into programs that were designed to further enslave America's black people......keep em on the dole and they'll be a solid voting block.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 2, 2008 at 11:54 AM
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Justi...
My daddy used to tell me around hog killing time......"The louder they squeal, the harder you know you've stuck them!" He sure was right.........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 2, 2008 at 11:49 AM
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no. 1 -- it ain't in the past
white people don't understand because they are not affected
live as a black person in any one of the multitude of ghettoized neighborhoods throughout the country -- then you would know that it is not in the past.
and CORBIN_DALLAS -- you either misconstrue or it just ain't true.
you make several statements that are blatantly false.
"Liberals all across the country have not hesitated to destroy black neighborhoods in the name of "urban renewal," often replacing working-class neighborhoods with upscale homes and pricey businesses-- neither of which the former residents can afford"
This is not liberals -- it's the Construction Industry and Chambers of Commerce, which are notoriously NOT liberal.
"For people on the left, however, blacks are trophies or mascots, and must therefore be put on display. Nowhere is that more true than in politics."
You are making allegations that you cannot support in this entire tirade regarding liberals and Black trophies or mascots."
But your rhetoric is in the finest tradition of Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Mc whatsisname and many conservative pundits -- make a blanket statement and make it seem plausible and place the air of authority behind it, even if it is entirely untrue -- and this goes over as the greatest stuff since the stuffed tomato.
it's just TOO stuffed -- full of stuff.
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 2, 2008 at 11:42 AM
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Justi,
You raised the issue of your "racism"! Or did you forget that as well!
posted by
Glennb
on June 2, 2008 at 9:44 AM
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Corbin_Dallas,
I am here to remind you and all who subscribe to your stealth injustice that it ain't funny! We must oppose you as violently as you endorse your madness! By the way you people are always on my radar.
posted by
Glennb
on June 2, 2008 at 9:43 AM
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Justi, my friend......
It appears that we are on someone's mind these days......do not succumb to this blatant form of race baiting.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 2, 2008 at 7:14 AM
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Justi,
Reading this and the comments leaves me with a question! Who do you people think you are? And how did I get to be the subject of this great debate between you White folk? (well two questions)!
posted by
Glennb
on June 2, 2008 at 6:44 AM
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Corbin Dallas
I understand I have never seen anything like it now. No matter what I say someone is calling it racist. That is totally crazy.... Thank you for the post nice one.
posted by
Justi
on June 2, 2008 at 5:59 AM
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Nautikos
It is time to put the past to rest!
posted by
Justi
on June 2, 2008 at 5:58 AM
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Justi......
Please forgive me as I post some of an article by Thomas Sowell, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Years ago, when Jack Greenberg left the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to become a professor at Columbia University, he announced that he was going to make it a point to hire a black secretary at Columbia.
This would of course make whomever he hired be seen as a token black, rather than as someone selected on the basis of competence.
This reminded me of the first time I went to Milton Friedman's office when I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago back in 1960, and I noticed that he had a black secretary. This was four years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and there was no such thing as affirmative action.
It so happened that Milton Friedman had another black secretary decades later, at the Hoover Institution-- and she was respected as one of the best secretaries around.
When I mentioned to someone at the Hoover Institution that I was having a hard time finding a secretary who could handle a tough job in my absence, I was told that I needed someone like Milton Friedman's secretary-- and that there were not many like her.
At no time in all these years did I hear Milton Friedman say, either publicly or privately, that he had a black secretary.
William F. Buckley's wife once mentioned in passing, at dinner in her home, that she had been involved for years in working with a school in Harlem. But I never heard her or Bill Buckley ever say that publicly.
Nor do conservatives who were in the civil rights marches in the South, back when that was dangerous, make that a big deal.
For people on the left, however, blacks are trophies or mascots, and must therefore be put on display. Nowhere is that more true than in politics.
The problem with being a mascot is that you are a symbol of someone else's significance or virtue. The actual well-being of a mascot is not the point.
Liberals all across the country have not hesitated to destroy black neighborhoods in the name of "urban renewal," often replacing working-class neighborhoods with upscale homes and pricey businesses-- neither of which the former residents can afford.
In academia, lower admissions standards for black students is about having them as a visible presence, even if mismatching them with the particular college or university produces high dropout rates.
The black students who don't make it are replaced by others, and when many of them don't make it, there are still more others.
The point is to have black faces on campus, as mascots symbolizing what great people there are running the college or university.
Leaping to the defense of black criminals is another common practice among liberals who need black mascots. Most of the crimes committed by black criminals are committed against other blacks. But, again, the actual well-being of mascots is not the point.
Politicians who use blacks as mascots do not hesitate to throw blacks to the wolves for the benefit of the teachers' unions, the green zealots whose restrictions make housing unaffordable, or people who keep low-price stores like Wal-Mart out of their cities.
Using human beings as mascots is not idealism. It is self-aggrandizement that is ugly in both its concept and its consequences.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 2, 2008 at 5:40 AM
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Justi
Because of the sins of the past, Black racism is still considered acceptable by many...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 2, 2008 at 4:58 AM
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