I wonder if Goldberg and Shepherd took pride in Clarence Thomas’s appointment, or Colin Powell’s or Condi Rice’s? Or is it safe to assume that their “dream” only applies to black Democrats. And if I get Goldberg’s logic, correctly, blacks will always feel discriminated against until a black man is elected president. Is the same true for Asians? Latinos? Arabs? How about Jews? We’ve only had one Catholic president and he was assassinated. Or is that just a “non-black” way of looking at it?

Spolitics on April 24, 2008 at 9:07 PM

Every time I hear Clinton, Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, Oprah, or thier cronies say, ” We’ve come a long way, but there’s still alot of work to do,” it makes me want to vomit. It’s such a defeatist statement. The play to the victim mentality… It makes me ask, “OK, when is enough?” Until all the white males are pushed into the sea?”

CynicalOptimist on April 24, 2008 at 9:14 PM

Stop trying to come up with these rational arguments. All you’re doing is proving that it’s all just a big hustle. They do it because it works, and it won’t end until they can’t get away with it anymore. When Whoopi makes a remark like that, and Hasselbeck’s knees (mmmm) don’t buckle one iota, and she just fires back without having to do any fast PC damage prevention calculations, “Don’t try that tired old race-hustling crap with me Goldie. You always try that whenever you don’t have a decent counter-argument,” when that day comes it will be a short while before we just don’t hear it anymore.

From Robert L. Harris Jr., associate professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. [not exactly a bastion of white bias.]

In November 1998, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank devoted to black economic and political participation in American society, reported that for the first time in its surveys of black opinion, more African Americans than whites responded favorably when asked whether they were better off financially than in the previous year.
This unprecedented optimism among African Americans reflects the growth of a strong black middle class, the lowest poverty rate since measurements were started in 1959, and unemployment below 10 percent. These are heady but fragile times for the newly emergent black middle class.
A post-1960s phenomenon.

This http://www.worldandi.com/public/1999/February/middle.cfm is from a long article, longer most readers here would care to read, but it is worth a fast skim. Even though he does his best to put a negative spin on things–blacks are totally advancing in all areas, but slower than whites–the picture is clear. In 10 years at the most, there will be sooo many middle/upper class blacks out there in the world, that all this bs is just going to stop provoking the intended effect. Just like after a few more cold winters like we’ve just had, and colder summers, all the Al Gore bloviating in the world won’t be able to make a convincing case for global warming. Seeing is believing, and when there are successful blacks everywhere you look, when Elizabeth makes the hypothetical rebuke that I created for her above, she’ll be the one getting the applause.

smellthecoffee on April 24, 2008 at 11:32 PM