Inaugural benediction: Pray that “white will embrace what is right”
posted at 1:55 pm on January 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Didn’t whites just do that by electing Jesus Christ president?
Welcome to the post-racial age. Exit question: Hey, that Rick Warren’s pretty controversial, huh?
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There are never victories on the field of victimhood.
The first affirmative action president is in place. What could possibly go wrong?
I would not plan on visiting Newark or Harlem and being welcome by the homies.
Hening on January 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM
My ancestors from from Italy about 50 years after slavery was abolished.
StatenItaly08 on January 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM
i acknowledge them, and correctly classify them as self-loathing
before turning 18? was it in florida by any chance? maybe we can still have that election overturned….
Noneya on January 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM
How about law? Once the initial conditions have passed and the initial victimizers and victims are dead, when has the statute of limitations run on the claims? One of the fundamental principles of Ango-American law is individual responsiblity. We don’t marry off a young girl to another family to pay a “blood debt” owed by her elders, as done in, for example, Ghana or Pakistan as recently as the Twentieth Century.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Oof.
LimeyGeek on January 20, 2009 at 3:28 PM
So blacks have the same opportunity (you claim) but don’t (objectively) get the same results. Hmmm … care to extend those remarks with a little bit of an explanation?
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
It seems pretty self-explanatory, Einstein.
Go find your own explanation to serve your agenda, just don’t blame the rest of us.
TexasJew on January 20, 2009 at 3:28 PM
America is the most self-critical nation in history. No one criticizes themselves more than America and the rest of the world happily joins in to avoid taking any responsibility for themselves.
Sadly, many people can’t stop taking the easy route of bitching and undermining instead of building and thinking of something besides people who look exactly the same as themselves.
Django on January 20, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Averaged over millions of individuals, it should be a heck of a lot closer than it is.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:29 PM
+1. The education issues are derived for the most part from family unit breakdown, but also because the NEA drives the donks to fight school vouchers and maintain the poor educational enviorment in inner schools. For that alone, I’ve never understood the black vote always going Democrat. They should be able to relate cause and effect. It isn’t money related. Look at the per pupil expenditures in DC.
a capella on January 20, 2009 at 3:31 PM
I fail to see how it is self-explanatory. People around here are contending that the opportunities for success are the same for black and white Americans. The data show that the results are very different. Given millions of individuals in each category, what specific reasons would you say account for this difference? I challenge you to find one that doesn’t either point to a difference in opportunity or some innate inferiority of one population.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Everyone has the same opportunity in this country. However, blacks don’t get the same rate of results because many of us don’t have the same support system: intact families. Leftists and their New Slavery policies (of which Noneya is a repreentative) have nearly destroyed black families. But the Left has not only perpetrated policy but ideology–one of bondage and of dependency. They have become the New Slave Masters. And when a few blacks break free, these new masters say that we hate ourselves and try to verbally beat us back into submission.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Based on what? You like to make statements without any rational argument backing them, whatsoever. Typical.
Try and make a rational argument, every once in a while, at least, … just to break up the monotony of your idiocy.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Maybe Barry will pass legislation that forces black children to do attend school and do their homework ?
DeweyWins on January 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM
As for all those people that have ancestors that owned slaves….so what? There’s no reason to feel guilt over that!
Regardless of our contemporary moral revulsion at the concept of slavery, at one point in time such morals were very much alien – ‘different’ people were considered as ‘lesser’. Slavery, up to a point, made good economic sense. It also had a shelf-life, determined by the progress of technology. It didn’t require a war to end it.
The greatest costs of slavery may well turn out to be the long-term whining and self-flagellation that motivates bad laws in the name of ‘equality’. If white people had been that far-sighted in the bad ol’ days, perhaps they wouldn’t have saddled themselves with such a legacy…?
LimeyGeek on January 20, 2009 at 3:34 PM
No longer than about 45 years, for sure.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM
So is your definition of “initial conditions” biological or something else?
btw – I did well in science.
Please define your terms a little more clearly.
TexasJew on January 20, 2009 at 3:34 PM
God love ya!
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:35 PM
They have become the New Slave Masters. And when a few blacks break free, these new masters say that we hate ourselves and try to verbally beat us back into submission.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Yeah, and we all know you’re Clarence Thomas in disguise, baldi. lolololol
Great points, and spot on!
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM Wrote:
“I fail to see how it is self-explanatory. People around here are contending that the opportunities for success are the same for black and white Americans. The data show that the results are very different. Given millions of individuals in each category, what specific reasons would you say account for this difference? I challenge you to find one that doesn’t either point to a difference in opportunity or some innate inferiority of one population.”
Perhaps a different strategy is in order then. Instead of adopting the knee-jerk racial blame philosophy of the past, people ought to start looking inward to see how they can better their own situation instead of looking to everyone else to make things easier for them…..legally that is.
Spiritk9 on January 20, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Why not?
We can walk this one all the way back if you want to. You blame “leftists”, but don’t most of the laws they enact either don’t take race into account, or do so to the minor benefit of black Americans. Shouldn’t that affect whites at least as much, if all else is equal?
Try again.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:37 PM
feel the unity
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 3:37 PM
I fail to understand how all that explains at all how bad is beneficial and I really don’t think that you understand it either. Maybe you could explain how good would be detrimental and we we could just put that up to a mirror and see the reverse image and it would make more sense.
Cheshire Cat on January 20, 2009 at 3:37 PM
No longer than about 45 years, for sure.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Then this would be your year to quit arguing about codified racism, wouldn’t it? I seem to remember the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.
theotherKate on January 20, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Why are you just talking about black and white, since the Revrund Lowery also mentioned red and brown?
If you read the Grutter or Gratz decisions on affirmative action that came out a few years ago, the U of Michigan had an undergraduate admission program in which they assigned points to different parts of the applications. Then they gave black, Hispanics and Native Americans 20 extra points. Whites and Asians got no extra points.
At the oral argument, the U’s lawyer had a hard time explaining that. He tapdanced around and basically, admitted that the Asian applicants didn’t “need” affirmative action. (But the Caucasian-Hispanics did, while the white, non-Hispanic Caucasians didn’t.)The Asians could compete on the same playing field as white.
Now why is that? Work ethic? Strong family ties (no 70% illegitimacy rate)? What did Whitey do to the blacks, Native Americans and Hispanics that he didn’t do to Asians?
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM
I meant after, though I do believe eligibility means that you turn 18 that year, not necessarily before Nov. 4th.
And no, I live in what was in 2000 and 2004 a very red state. Hard to call it more than fuchsia these days though.
Esthier on January 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM
What about prior to 45 years? What is special about this ‘initial’ point in time? Any point in time can be considered ‘initial’, hence any particular arbitrary choice is meaningless.
Your entire premise is incoherent drivel.
LimeyGeek on January 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Good thinking. Maybe when Lowery asked whites to “do what’s right” he was talking about paying more attention to the inequality of opportunity that -through no fault of their own – still exists. Maybe that’s not what he had in mind, but he left it open ended. Rather than pretending that all of this is in our past, maybe people should start to think of ways to actively address the problems that persist in our society. I’m sure you can come up with something.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM
I challenge you to find one that doesn’t either point to a difference in opportunity or some innate inferiority of one population.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Well, since the Supreme Court states that Affirmative Action is OK (resulting in C-average students from Hawaii getting into elite Ivy League universities when similar working class Anglos wind up in third- and fourth-tier schools), and you so narrowly defined the other option, I suppose the answer is behind Door #2, Monty.
TexasJew on January 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Thanks! :)
theotherKate on January 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Thank you very much. Those people are racists and they really dislike (or hate) blacks. More accurately, they hate the descendants of freed American slaves.
Their view is not my view of America.
platypus on January 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM
That’s what I was referring to, specifically. A lot of people around here assume that equality before the law is the same thing as equality of opportunity. My reference to initial conditions is meant to point out that some of the effects of our not-too-distant past reverberate still and prevent opportunity from being truly equal for all.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Why is Obama so racist?
liberals are so racist and hate white people.
VolMagic on January 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM
That was stupid… Can’t believe people in the crowd were saying AMEN… Isn’t that so NON-secular progressive???
reshas1 on January 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Your entire premise is incoherent drivel.
LimeyGeek on January 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM
It takes a lot of drivel to justify multitrillion-dollar theft in the name of “Social Justice” – ie, Marxism.
Otherwise, those greedy victims who bitterly cling to their guns and Bibles would actually wind up shooting the thieves in their butts..
TexasJew on January 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM
How about taking the lead of our new President and everyone take personal responsibility rather than plaing the race or victim (or both) cards.
You agree?
BacaDog on January 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM
That’s because, in your tiny little mind, blacks are slaves to Leftism/Democrats. Like slave masters the world over, Leftism/Democrats provide sustenance to their slaves and, in return, expect their slaves to do the party’s bidding.
Much like Arab Muslims, many Leftists/Democrats consider black/Negro as being synonymous with the word ’slave’–or rather the New Slavery as was implemented in the 1960s. Therefore, any black who refuses to be a slave of the Left/Democrat Party, is “not being himself” or “hates herself.”
Ain’t that right (former) Massa Noneya?
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM
“plaing ” = “playing”
must use preview………
BacaDog on January 20, 2009 at 3:45 PM
But Big S used the term “initial conditions” to show that he read some lay article on dynamical systems … Big S knows math and science! Just listen to him “… blah blah initial conditions blah blah …” What more evidence do you need?
My guess is that Big S is a sociologist, or some other soft science that’s been overrun with medicrity (and worse).
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 3:45 PM
In case you’re wondering, in Gratz and Grutter, SCOTUS stuck down the 20-point advantage plan. No basis in fact, and too much like a quota.
The law school, however, had a program in which they carefully reviewed every application (they got far fewer than the undergraduate school, so didn’t need a score to quickly cut out applications) and considered race or ethnicity as a “factor.” SCOTUS ok’d that, but Sandy O’Connor said that in 25 years we wouldn’t need any affirmative aciton.
No one know why she chose that number. Another generation will be enough? It was 26 years since the Bakke case, and she likes nice, balanced bookends? Thank God for Bush. He gave us Roberts and Alito.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 3:46 PM
White “dudes” can do it just as well if not better but you must not limit yourselves to just a little marxism if you want to achieve my level of success in getting things really on track.
PootyPoot on January 20, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Barry is only in this for one reason…..revenge and payback. Everything will go by the wayside until he is satisfied that the penalties have been paid by White Americans.
UnEasyRider on January 20, 2009 at 3:47 PM
That’s part of it, I agree.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Hmmm… how about self imposed segregation?
I live in the South Denver suburbs… and we have very few black folks who live here, but if you go 20 miles North, it turns into ethnic neighborhoods. Black neighborhoods, Chicano neighborhoods… even some Asian enclaves…
None of these people are forced to live in those neighborhoods, and even though the schools are often worse, and even though the cost of living is very close to the same (comparing Parker CO, to the city… rents and such), they CHOOSE to live there.
Why there is in human nature a desire to be with people like yourself? I can’t say, but it does seem to be there…
But if you seperate YOURSELF out, how can you expect the same outcome as another group? Start a business in a slum? You are not going to make the same money vice starting it in a better neighborhood.
Romeo13 on January 20, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM
You don’t get equality of opportunity in this life. If there is forced equality, everyone loses. Ever heard the phrase “Life isn’t fair”? It’s true. It’s just less true in America where you can improve your lot in life. You won’t convince me that some of the poorest and disadvantaged can’t make their life even a little better.
theotherKate on January 20, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Ph.D., chemistry.
And yes, I know a little bit about dynamical systems.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM
I told you why not.
I’m not going to try again because I can’t give you a history lesson here. Think back at the timing of the Great Society and think it trough.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Washington DC…chocolate city!!!
Now Obama, tell young black men to marry the women they get pregnant,
Strong families will bring equality, not welfare. Why do immigrants survive and thrive and blacks can’t?
rutgers2008 on January 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM
That old fool has his nasty old butt stuck in the 1960’s. He should have been dragged out of there with the hook like the Gong Show. He’s nothing but a racist fool and Barry was is a racist to allow that.
UnEasyRider on January 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM
I certainly can’t say it any better.
Esthier on January 20, 2009 at 3:51 PM
One problem: I’m not saying that “good is detrimental.”
Perhaps this will help: go back to the original comment and substitute the word ‘beneficiary’ for the word ‘heir.’
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM
it’s the economic policies of presidents like reagan and bush who kept blacks in the ghetto. which president did blacks prosper the most under? Clinton! yet you continue to lie and act like republicans have your community’s best interests at heart, gimme a break….
Noneya on January 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM
My reference to initial conditions is meant to point out that some of the effects of our not-too-distant past reverberate still and prevent opportunity from being truly equal for all.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM
That’s the old excuse and so passe. Who’s standing in your way or anyone else’s? Did you attend the TUCC with Barry?
I agree with Baldi that family structure or lack of it is a fundamental issue, for all people. It’s the foundation. I see similar situations in the white community, but those failures cannot be blamed on others.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Yes, it is true. But that’s for individuals, not for whole classes of millions of people. “Fairness” should average out given enough examples, and it doesn’t. Do you think it’s “fair” that race is such a good predictor of whether you have “good luck” or not?
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM
“A little bit” is correct – a first for you on this thread. I’m still waiting for you to directly address any of the points I made. Anytime you’re ready …
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Marxism fosters oppression, marxism fosters servitude, marxism fosters cruelty; more abominable is the fact that marxism fosters idiocy.
Tav on January 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Why is “family structure or lack of it” so different between black and white populations?
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Noneya:
I also cast my first vote at 18-it was for GHWB in 1988.
My son-soon to be fifteen-will be casting his first vote in 2012…he leans right already.
He wants to join the USMC-and wants a CIC that actually gives a damn about the men and women in uniform!
My parents encouraged me to think critically-as my ex(who voted for Obama!) are with our son.
The left doesn’t have a monopoly on the youth vote.
annoyinglittletwerp on January 20, 2009 at 3:55 PM
What points? I’m trying to tease a rational argument out of some of these comments, and you just sit back and call me stupid in every one of your posts.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Do you think it’s “fair” that race is such a good predictor of whether you have “good luck” or not?
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM
You’re so hung up on race. How about gender? Do you think women get a fair shake?
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Um…
i got my own …
“I wish blacks… would reject his hack , he is less qualified than my Nu….. sack?
Regardless, you know the one group of poeple who have had it 1000 times worse than the blacks? and not just in the last 3000 years, but in the last 100? no, not the Indians, though they also had it worse than the blacks
The Jews.
Yes the jews have been enslaved…. BY BLACKS IN EGYPT WHY DON’T E HAVE A RYHTM THAT SAYS “IF YOUR BROWN, DON’T ENSLAVE THE DAMN JEWS , YOU ASS CLOWNS”
The Jews have been murdered/ percecuted/ and stolen from every country (besides america). How many times did each country in Europe confinscate all jewish proptery and declared all debt to the jews null and void? happened in France, Germany, spain ….
regardless, Cry me a river
Donut on January 20, 2009 at 3:57 PM
When does the statute of limitations run in a dynamical system? In law, it’s generally two years.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Why is “family structure or lack of it” so different between black and white populations?
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Your reading comprehension is lacking. Read it again.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM
It applies to classes, too. What are classes made of but individuals making individual choices? Also, where is it written that it should average out over millions of examples? You cannot dictate the final outcome unless you are bringing some of the best down in interests of “fairness”. No, the race indicator is not fair at all. If you want fair, buck the system and improve yourself. I don’t have control over anyone else in my class, I have control over ME.
theotherKate on January 20, 2009 at 3:58 PM
There will never be racial harmony in this country and this knucklehead and his kind will see to it. They will always play the victim when they feel it is necessary to advance their agenda. A reverend, huh? BS.
godhelpus on January 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Maybe. I don’t have a lot of respect for the arguments about equal pay, etc. that a lot of activists like to use. Women are equally represented across pretty much all other demographic cross-sections, and are now getting better opportunities (this generation – see education statistics) than men. Also, there are reasons for certain patterns of promotion in the workplace that have nothing to do with discrimination, such as the tendency of women to have a lot more babies than men – which can influence their employment histories and decisions.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Verdict first, evidence later. Off with your head. If your white skin fits we must not acquit.
Cheshire Cat on January 20, 2009 at 4:01 PM
I know exactly what you’re trying to do. It’s intellectually dishonest. Why do whites do so poorly at sprint races? Why do Asians excel in certain areas and not in others? Why does everyone in the same classroom not score the same on every test? Or, are you just arguing that there are differences in individuals, but no differences in groups? Is that the really stupid point you are trying to make? Be explicit, please.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 4:01 PM
That’s a complex question but largely irrelevant in the current discussion unless your argument is that Reagan and the Bushes have something to do with it.
Esthier on January 20, 2009 at 4:02 PM
So we had an ass-hat rabble-rousing civil rights preacher ask God to teach whitey right from wrong, a Muslim woman who is the head of an outfit with ties to Hamas, a sodomist Episcopal bishop, and Rick Warren, who included Muslim verbiage in his prayer.
This is the Hussein I thought I knew.
Akzed on January 20, 2009 at 4:02 PM
The Republican Congress that ran most of the country’s economic agenda in the ’90’s is what improved the economy for EVERYONE, not just blacks, hispanics, etc.
Reagan and Bush “keeping blacks in the ghetto”? You sound like a bad blaxploitation movie from the ’70’s.
But it’s pointless to even attempt to debate with emotional ideologues like you. You don’t have a single rational, analytical, honest brain cell to work with. Your entire world view is racist (while claiming otherwise) and bereft of critical thinking.
Django on January 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM
It appears that the Rev is hoping that those deluded “whites’ will pay for all this stupid crap, but I wouldn’t bet on that capital formation staying in this country. The Chinese aren’t stupid enough to continue funding tens of millions of American losers, and they will eventually kick our dollar to the curb by pulling some of their 680 billion in US treasuries.
Where will all that kickback money come from then, I wonder.. Talk about Yellow not being mellow! That’ll be one bus where we all will be shoved to the back!
Unfortunately for even the densest race hustlers, like this tedious character with his singsong claptrap, Money talks, bullshit walks…
TexasJew on January 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM
We’ve been paying that for the last 50 years – It’s called WELFARE. And we didn’t incur the debt.
Blackhawk45 on January 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM
23 and horribly uncool. But I’m right, so to hell with them!
fiscallyconservative on January 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Your examples use small sample sizes or selections of individuals from one end of a statistical distribution. In both of these situations, one would expect to see deviations from the average across an entire population of millions. There may be differences in groups, with respect to ability, but any biologically-based ones have been shown to be fairly small – too small to account for the patterns of achievement seen in our society if opportunity were in fact equal.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 4:06 PM
I address every point you make in your post and then point out its stupidity. You can’t write stupid things and then complain about being called stupid.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM
fiscallyconservative on January 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM
It just means we never had to go through that embarassing, unwashed “hippie” phase. :)
theotherKate on January 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM
That’s not my argument. However, I think this “complex question” is relevant because it is the only actual response that I have received to my question about why we see inequality in result given approximate equality in ability and opportunity.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Now, name some and be explicit.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM
At least allahpundit can feel included by the new prez, who said:
Wonderful inclusive soul, that Obama!
clark smith on January 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM
FIFY.
platypus on January 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Very powerful post. Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Walter E Williams, Michael Steele, the dude from Ohio (Can’t think of his name), Condi, Powell (when he was a Neocon), Jesse Lee Petersen, Larry Elder, on and on…..
StatenItaly08 on January 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Uh, huh.
What do you think about women (who account for ~50% of the population) being referred to as, “ho’s and bitches” in pop culture? That seems pretty discriminatory to me. If you want to talk about attitudes that have existed and have been institutionalized, please don’t pretend that blacks have some sort of exclusive and deserve special treatment.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 4:11 PM
“I esteem myself a good, persistent hater of injustice and oppression, but my resentment ceases when they cease, and I have no heart to visit upon children the sins of their fathers.”
Frederick Douglass (1817 – 1895) quoted from his autobiography, “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”.
ricer1 on January 20, 2009 at 4:11 PM
which is why blacks did so well from 2000-2006? oh, wait….
facts are a funny thing aren’t they?
Noneya on January 20, 2009 at 4:12 PM
If so, you conceal it well.
semloh on January 20, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM
We don’t have “approximate equality in ability and opportunity.” There’s the short answer. Not everyone has even an average intellect, and not everyone has the same opportunity. To ascribe it all to racist policy (or residual policies of racism)ignores this.
theotherKate on January 20, 2009 at 4:13 PM
That’s so ghetto. As an American I’m offended!
Cpoy2 on January 20, 2009 at 4:13 PM
It is absolutely UNFAIR to inject facts into this.
platypus on January 20, 2009 at 4:14 PM
“He who does not improve himself by the motives and opportunities afforded by this world gives the best evidence that he would not improve in any other world.”
Frederick Douglass (1817 – 1895) also quoted from his autobiography, “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”.
ricer1 on January 20, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Touche!
fiscallyconservative on January 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Benediction: FAIL!
This is what happens when the times pass you by. Obama got caught trying to extend an homage to the civil rights leaders of the past — the real ones. Too bad so much of our civil rights leaders are so old. I don’t think this guy is a racist, but I believe his statement was racially divisive and extremely offensive.
Everybody on the hill is too friggin old.
The Race Card on January 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM
ricer1 on January 20, 2009 at 4:14 PM
I’ve always loved Frederick Douglass. What an intellect and drive!
theotherKate on January 20, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Says you, who more-than-likely voted for John McCain. The irony of it!
(…not that I wouldn’t have rather seen him sworn in today.)
fiscallyconservative on January 20, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Comment FAIL!
Let me get this straight. You go out of your way to avoid calling Rev. Lowery a bigot, even though he made a patently racist remark. Then you supplant racism with a call for age-based liquidation of “everybody on the hill.”
You stay classy TRC.
The Race Card on January 20, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Maybe, but if you accept that it’s true, the “why” doesn’t really matter unless you believe government intervention is responsible.
Esthier on January 20, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Does this help your understanding about what I said about this country’s legacies?
Example of such a policy, please.
Because of the economic actions taken by individuals–like getting an education.
It is you who is the liar. I never said one way or the other that Republicans have blacks’ best interests at heart because it does not matter as long as they get out of the way of self-betterment in all areas. I do contend that conservatives believe that freedom is for everyone, not just themselves. But my freedom means freedom from Leftist nanny-state policies designed to mentally enslave blacks (and, ultimately everyone else).
Try getting that through your pinhead, (former) Massa.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Yes they are. Be sure to let us know when you decide to spew one out…wouldn’t want to miss it.
And the idea that you call baldilocks ’self-loathing’ for not towing the line on your FU pathetic LibSpaz view of things is really telling.
BigWyo on January 20, 2009 at 4:22 PM
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