Think BET will air it? hehehehe

(I’m just saying, BET is racist. That guy is racist. I have no interest in what he says.)

Mark V. on January 14, 2008 at 1:09 PM

I wouldn’t mind you using it if you knew what the hell you were saying.

Here’s a tip:
Despite the formulaic rap videos and liberal advocacy race-baiting mainstream press, black culture really is deeper than a few catchy phrases.

But people presume to know me intimately because they heard a Katt Williams comedy routine or because they know the difference between nigga and nigger.

Uncle Tom is socially arcane and really not used as much as most people think. It’s the linguistic equivalent to a word like britches. Per my assessment, it is now used out of laziness mostly by whites describing some social dynamic about blacks that they now understand so clearly thanks to ABC after-school specials and Jerry Springer.

Robert Johnson is an Uncle Tom.

Mark V. on January 14, 2008 at 1:09 PM

He can’t be. He’s not a Republican. /s

the prospects of this November’s election being a “healing” one are evaporating by the minute. It’s going to be ugly, divisive and nasty.

If you can heal anything with Molotov cocktails maybe.

What concerns me about this election cycle is the similarity in the amount of hate directed towards the sitting President like there was when Gerald Ford ran against Jimmie Carter.

Ford was three times the candidate Carter was, Carter’s catch phrase was “trust me”.

Americans took out their media amplified anger at Nixon on Ford by giving us the worst President in a century.

An incumbent may not be running but the projection and the angst is certainly there.

Good place to start the attack.

Here in this country’s context, not in a tribal war of another country. Ever heard of Saul Alinsky?

And Baldilocks, one of my best friends has been in Kenya, all over the country, not just the capital (Nairobi, BTW) for many years working as a missionary.

funky chicken on January 14, 2008 at 12:43 PM

Since we want to play that card, my father is Philip Ochieng, a prominent Kenyan Luo journalist. He’s there right now.

If somebody [Odinga]names their first son Fidel, for Castro, I don’t even have to be related to them to kinda figure out their political leanings, and to guess that they are not a fan of Western style capitalism or the United States.

funky chicken on January 14, 2008 at 12:49 PM

Quite. No one is saying that Odinga is a small-l liberal. He went to school in East Germany for Heavens sake. My father is a socialist also.

For that matter so is Obama. Good place to start the attack.

Questioning his connections to the wrong side over there would not be allowed without getting the RACISM label applied.

It’s a valid assumption. However, those who made it would be guilty of commenting on something of which they had superficial knowledge also.

It’s a real shame, and it’s bad for America.

Maybe. But let’s envision it: a prominent American politician visits his African relatives. One relative is a prominent politician also (and probably the big cheese in the family). What should the American have done? (Don’t forget that this was well before the Kenyan elections.)

This what I meant.

If somebody names their first son Fidel, for Castro, I don’t even have to be related to them to kinda figure out their political leanings, and to guess that they are not a fan of Western style capitalism or the United States.

Don’t make assumptions.

I didn’t call you a liberal. I said you were playing a stupid liberal trick. I’ve seen and enjoyed your comments on many different blogs for a few years.

The Kenya connection is something Obama’s supporters have put forward as evidence of his special knowledge of the world. But questioning his connections to the wrong side over there would not be allowed without getting the RACISM label applied.

It’s a real shame, and it’s bad for America. That’s the sum total of my point.

I think any underhanded attack by the Clintons (thats all they know) will backfire.

funky chicken on January 14, 2008 at 12:25 PM

You didn’t know that they were related.

Don’t play the stupid human game of labeling someone you disagree with as an ideological opponent.