Comments on: The “racist” angle, going forward http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/ Thu, 24 May 2012 06:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: ACPD http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124634 ACPD Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:44:02 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124634 I learned about "polite racism," as I call what many of my white, liberal friends demonstrate, many years ago when I was visiting a Black Panther who was being held as a political prisoner in the 70's. Several of us had come to support the release of this gifted man, because we believed he was receiving unfair treatment by our justice system. We made plans to visit him in prison one weekend. I had never been to a prison and really had had no firsthand experience with "militant blacks," but I had corresponded with this person and had come to feel he was not being treated fairly. I had no fear of him; he was a person I had come to respect. (This all occurred around the time of the prison revolt at Attica, when people in our government were anxious.) We arrived at the prison and were shown into the visitors' area. No outside food was allowed, so we bought pre-packaged meals for us and for the guy we were visiting. We took our meals to any outdoors picnic table and sat around eating and talking. I was sitting to the right of the guy in prison. At one point he reached over and took my coke and drank it. Without hesitating and to the discomfort of my companions, I called our friend on his rudeness, by saying, "That's my coke. You didn't ask me to have any." There was a moment of tense silence and then the guy merely smiled. It was the broadest and happiest smile I ever saw on his face. He looked at me and said, "OK, Granny." I was very young then; the name had nothing to do with my age. Some time later I learned that he was raised by his grandmother who was the only one he ever felt who cared enough about him to set limits for him. For as long as I knew him, he called me Granny and we had a profound trust and understanding we shared--as equals. He taught me that holding a person to a lesser standard is as much as put-down as holding them to higher standard. I have seen and heard this polite racism all through this year. It is in many ways more difficult to uproot than hatred, because those who practice it have convinced themselves they are doing the right thing and are good people for making excuses and letting people get away with inappropriate and dishonest conduct. Racism doesn't exist when people treat each other as equals.... I learned about “polite racism,” as I call what many of my white, liberal friends demonstrate, many years ago when I was visiting a Black Panther who was being held as a political prisoner in the 70′s. Several of us had come to support the release of this gifted man, because we believed he was receiving unfair treatment by our justice system.

We made plans to visit him in prison one weekend. I had never been to a prison and really had had no firsthand experience with “militant blacks,” but I had corresponded with this person and had come to feel he was not being treated fairly. I had no fear of him; he was a person I had come to respect. (This all occurred around the time of the prison revolt at Attica, when people in our government were anxious.)

We arrived at the prison and were shown into the visitors’ area. No outside food was allowed, so we bought pre-packaged meals for us and for the guy we were visiting. We took our meals to any outdoors picnic table and sat around eating and talking. I was sitting to the right of the guy in prison.

At one point he reached over and took my coke and drank it. Without hesitating and to the discomfort of my companions, I called our friend on his rudeness, by saying, “That’s my coke. You didn’t ask me to have any.” There was a moment of tense silence and then the guy merely smiled. It was the broadest and happiest smile I ever saw on his face.

He looked at me and said, “OK, Granny.” I was very young then; the name had nothing to do with my age. Some time later I learned that he was raised by his grandmother who was the only one he ever felt who cared enough about him to set limits for him.

For as long as I knew him, he called me Granny and we had a profound trust and understanding we shared–as equals. He taught me that holding a person to a lesser standard is as much as put-down as holding them to higher standard. I have seen and heard this polite racism all through this year. It is in many ways more difficult to uproot than hatred, because those who practice it have convinced themselves they are doing the right thing and are good people for making excuses and letting people get away with inappropriate and dishonest conduct. Racism doesn’t exist when people treat each other as equals….

]]> By: JozefAL http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124112 JozefAL Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:49:56 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124112 His self-identification doesn't matter. The fact IS Obama's mother was WHITE, and his father was Black. Ergo, Obama is HALF-WHITE. He can identify however the hell he wants, but when all is said and done, he's HALF-WHITE. (His daughters are actually "blacker" than he is.) The AA community has bought into Obama's "black" self-identification racket but they only prove their own self-delusion. Many AAs have also spent the last decade or so trying to minimize the white contribution to the civil rights struggle (the simple fact is that what happened to whites during the struggle provoked more reaction from Northerners--black AND white). Hillary was attacked (by African-Americans, even those who fought in the Civil Rights struggle) for RIGHTLY pointing out that it took LBJ as President to sign the Civil Rights Orders into law. King could NOT have done it by himself; he NEEDED LBJ's help. There was once a law (not merely in the South, but nationally) which defined anyone as Black if they had even "one drop of Negro blood" (strictly speaking, however, this was impossible to prove, but the practical effect was that one was considered Black if one had a "Negro" great-grandparent). In New Orleans, the highest-paid brothel-workers were those who could "prove" their status as octaroons ("pure" white women and "pure" black women were less-desirable, even thought of as little better than common trash, but the octaroons were viewed as "exotic" and there were many white women who tried to pass as octaroons, with many being thrown out when their deceptions were discovered). I've seen how racism works from both directions. When Showtime aired the US version of "Queer as Folk", the network was bombarded with complaints by AA gays that the show had no African-Americans in any lead roles despite the show's being set in Pittsburgh and many threats of boycotts emerged throughout the show's airing. Then, comes "Noah's Arc", a show featuring gay "men of color" with a similar lack of Caucasians in any lead roles, but did any complaints come from the AA gay community over THAT disparity? Nope. Not a one. "Friends" (set in NYC) was continually barraged with complaints that there were no AAs, even in background scenes, despite the setting. OTOH, "Living Single" (also set in NYC) rarely got complaints over the scarcity of white faces, even in background scenes. "The Cosby Show", very popular with people of all colors, rarely showed any whites in speaking roles (Rudy's best friend was a little white boy but he NEVER spoke; one episode revolved around Theo's discomfort over the fact that one of his "best friends" was in the hospital with cancer or leukemia--this "best friend" was a white guy who'd NEVER been seen, or even mentioned, before or after; Cliff was an ob/gyn but he didn't seem to have any white patients, and Claire the attorney never seemed to have any white clients but faced whites as legal opponents), yet none of this "anti-white" action prevented whites from flocking to their TV sets and enjoying the series (and much of the same criticism could be directed towards "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", especially in many of the "message" episodes where whites were routinely showed as suspicious of Black men driving expensive cars or being in "white" neighborhoods; no one ever brought up things like how whites go to Black neighborhoods solely for "criminal activity"). Older shows like "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" routinely showed how Blacks could be just as racist as whites (with the former, young Michael was depicted as so militant--the family even called him "the militant midget"--with Florida and James often pointing out that everyone has their bad points, regardless of their skin color; with the latter, there were the frequent "honky" comments from George, directed at Tom Willis and Mr Bentley, even one episode featuring one of Louise's uncles who'd been a servant to a white man in Massachusetts where Lionel refused to respect the man for his being an "Uncle Tom", to say nothing of the reaction from George when his mother started up a romantic friendship with one of Tom Willis's uncles--at their first encounter, Mother Jefferson had been appalled at the man's roguish behavior and never mentioned his skin color to George but when he's introduced officially to George and Louise, George goes virtually apoplectic at the thought of his mother being hit on by a white man, and freaks out even more when, at the end of the show, his mother admits she's smitten with the man). A bit of irony I saw on the news the night of the inauguration: An African-American woman was being interviewed and, at one point, she mentioned that now her daughter can truly believe that she CAN become President, solely because Obama was elected. I noted to a co-worker the irony that her daughter had no greater chance of being elected President since no WOMAN has yet made it to that point. If the woman's daughter is judged on her gender and her skin tone, she'll lose out because of her gender, especially if her opponent is a "brutha". His self-identification doesn’t matter. The fact IS Obama’s mother was WHITE, and his father was Black. Ergo, Obama is HALF-WHITE. He can identify however the hell he wants, but when all is said and done, he’s HALF-WHITE. (His daughters are actually “blacker” than he is.)
The AA community has bought into Obama’s “black” self-identification racket but they only prove their own self-delusion. Many AAs have also spent the last decade or so trying to minimize the white contribution to the civil rights struggle (the simple fact is that what happened to whites during the struggle provoked more reaction from Northerners–black AND white). Hillary was attacked (by African-Americans, even those who fought in the Civil Rights struggle) for RIGHTLY pointing out that it took LBJ as President to sign the Civil Rights Orders into law. King could NOT have done it by himself; he NEEDED LBJ’s help. There was once a law (not merely in the South, but nationally) which defined anyone as Black if they had even “one drop of Negro blood” (strictly speaking, however, this was impossible to prove, but the practical effect was that one was considered Black if one had a “Negro” great-grandparent). In New Orleans, the highest-paid brothel-workers were those who could “prove” their status as octaroons (“pure” white women and “pure” black women were less-desirable, even thought of as little better than common trash, but the octaroons were viewed as “exotic” and there were many white women who tried to pass as octaroons, with many being thrown out when their deceptions were discovered).
I’ve seen how racism works from both directions. When Showtime aired the US version of “Queer as Folk”, the network was bombarded with complaints by AA gays that the show had no African-Americans in any lead roles despite the show’s being set in Pittsburgh and many threats of boycotts emerged throughout the show’s airing. Then, comes “Noah’s Arc”, a show featuring gay “men of color” with a similar lack of Caucasians in any lead roles, but did any complaints come from the AA gay community over THAT disparity? Nope. Not a one. “Friends” (set in NYC) was continually barraged with complaints that there were no AAs, even in background scenes, despite the setting. OTOH, “Living Single” (also set in NYC) rarely got complaints over the scarcity of white faces, even in background scenes. “The Cosby Show”, very popular with people of all colors, rarely showed any whites in speaking roles (Rudy’s best friend was a little white boy but he NEVER spoke; one episode revolved around Theo’s discomfort over the fact that one of his “best friends” was in the hospital with cancer or leukemia–this “best friend” was a white guy who’d NEVER been seen, or even mentioned, before or after; Cliff was an ob/gyn but he didn’t seem to have any white patients, and Claire the attorney never seemed to have any white clients but faced whites as legal opponents), yet none of this “anti-white” action prevented whites from flocking to their TV sets and enjoying the series (and much of the same criticism could be directed towards “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”, especially in many of the “message” episodes where whites were routinely showed as suspicious of Black men driving expensive cars or being in “white” neighborhoods; no one ever brought up things like how whites go to Black neighborhoods solely for “criminal activity”). Older shows like “Good Times” and “The Jeffersons” routinely showed how Blacks could be just as racist as whites (with the former, young Michael was depicted as so militant–the family even called him “the militant midget”–with Florida and James often pointing out that everyone has their bad points, regardless of their skin color; with the latter, there were the frequent “honky” comments from George, directed at Tom Willis and Mr Bentley, even one episode featuring one of Louise’s uncles who’d been a servant to a white man in Massachusetts where Lionel refused to respect the man for his being an “Uncle Tom”, to say nothing of the reaction from George when his mother started up a romantic friendship with one of Tom Willis’s uncles–at their first encounter, Mother Jefferson had been appalled at the man’s roguish behavior and never mentioned his skin color to George but when he’s introduced officially to George and Louise, George goes virtually apoplectic at the thought of his mother being hit on by a white man, and freaks out even more when, at the end of the show, his mother admits she’s smitten with the man).
A bit of irony I saw on the news the night of the inauguration: An African-American woman was being interviewed and, at one point, she mentioned that now her daughter can truly believe that she CAN become President, solely because Obama was elected. I noted to a co-worker the irony that her daughter had no greater chance of being elected President since no WOMAN has yet made it to that point. If the woman’s daughter is judged on her gender and her skin tone, she’ll lose out because of her gender, especially if her opponent is a “brutha”.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124108 Elizabeth Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:47:32 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124108 Way back in June, Mr. Williams said: Mr. Obama needs to declare that he will refrain from playing the racial victim, because he understands such tactics will paralyze political debate and damage race relations. _______________________________________________________' Why the hell did he vote for him then ? Obama obviously does take on a larger responsibility to African-Americans to be successful and to be a good steward while he is president. A failure could have dire consequences for African Americans. Jackie Robinson, for instance, was chosen as the first black allowed in the major leagues not only surrounding his talent for the game but to a good and strong leadership ability. Yet these concerns about Obama hardly surfaced from pundits or the electorate during the primaries. AA shoved him down our throats and they're going to be left holding the back-without an ounce of my personal sympathy. Way back in June, Mr. Williams said:

Mr. Obama needs to declare that he will refrain from playing the racial victim, because he understands such tactics will paralyze political debate and damage race relations.

_______________________________________________________’
Why the hell did he vote for him then ?

Obama obviously does take on a larger responsibility to African-Americans to be successful and to be a good steward while he is president. A failure could have dire consequences for African Americans. Jackie Robinson, for instance, was chosen as the first black allowed in the major leagues not only surrounding his talent for the game but to a good and strong leadership ability. Yet these concerns about Obama hardly surfaced from pundits or the electorate during the primaries.

AA shoved him down our throats and they’re going to be left holding the back-without an ounce of my personal sympathy.

]]> By: Northwest rain http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124078 Northwest rain Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:16:00 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124078 The caucus system is basically unAmerican. There is no secret vote -- and so the Obama thugs were able to use intimidation. ANYONE who voted for Hillary -- and stood up to give a short speech FOR Hillary was labeled a racist. In small rural communities all over this caucus state the Obama thugs were on hand to call us all racists. There was NO civility -- it was all out intimidation -- and in my opinion camp Obama planned from the very beginning to play the race card. Anyway recently I was nearly run down by a black guy who was at the caucus -- he had a look of pure contempt as he passed me. (I managed to barely get out of his way as he stepped on the gas. I could see pure hate coming from this man.) Everyone speaking for Senator's Clinton's candidacy spoke very positively about Clinton -- and if comparing the RECORD of both Senators -- each person mentioned Obama's LACK of accomplishments and LACK of experience. Yet we Clinton supporters were called racists -- and that was enough for several Clinton supporters to change their vote. Ironically it was the three WHITE males who I identified as most likely having training at one of the Obama training camps that leveled the RACIST charge at Hillary Clinton supporters. These thugs were using techniques and tactics that are well known by professional facilitators. The three Obama thugs were working together -- but in such a way that unless you were trained in these specific techniques you wouldn't notice a thing. -------------- What I'm saying is that Obama planned from the very beginning to put the race card into play. I and others refused to be bullied -- but many whites were easily bullied and changed their vote. CAUCASUS need to go the way of the dodo bird -- extinct. The caucus system is basically unAmerican.

There is no secret vote — and so the Obama thugs were able to use intimidation. ANYONE who voted for Hillary — and stood up to give a short speech FOR Hillary was labeled a racist.

In small rural communities all over this caucus state the Obama thugs were on hand to call us all racists. There was NO civility — it was all out intimidation — and in my opinion camp Obama planned from the very beginning to play the race card.

Anyway recently I was nearly run down by a black guy who was at the caucus — he had a look of pure contempt as he passed me. (I managed to barely get out of his way as he stepped on the gas. I could see pure hate coming from this man.)

Everyone speaking for Senator’s Clinton’s candidacy spoke very positively about Clinton — and if comparing the RECORD of both Senators — each person mentioned Obama’s LACK of accomplishments and LACK of experience.

Yet we Clinton supporters were called racists — and that was enough for several Clinton supporters to change their vote.

Ironically it was the three WHITE males who I identified as most likely having training at one of the Obama training camps that leveled the RACIST charge at Hillary Clinton supporters. These thugs were using techniques and tactics that are well known by professional facilitators. The three Obama thugs were working together — but in such a way that unless you were trained in these specific techniques you wouldn’t notice a thing.

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What I’m saying is that Obama planned from the very beginning to put the race card into play. I and others refused to be bullied — but many whites were easily bullied and changed their vote.

CAUCASUS need to go the way of the dodo bird — extinct.

]]> By: whoframedrudy http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124075 whoframedrudy Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:11:57 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124075 "What makes blacks suffering worse than women’s suffering, if we are all equal, bots?" That's easy. Some people are more equal than others. “What makes blacks suffering worse than women’s suffering, if we are all equal, bots?”

That’s easy. Some people are more equal than others.

]]> By: AnnieCollier http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124059 AnnieCollier Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:57:51 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124059 sorry, don't know how this posted 2x. It's still supposed to be "choked". sorry, don’t know how this posted 2x. It’s still supposed to be “choked”.

]]> By: AnnieCollier http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124056 AnnieCollier Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:55:09 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124056 make that choked... make that choked…

]]> By: AnnieCollier http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124054 AnnieCollier Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:50:59 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124054 Yes, and later Juan chocked up, barely able to talk, over Rev (Racist) Lowery's little reminder that whites need to embrace right...unclear on the concept apparently...although I'd hardly call it "right" to elect an unqualified candidate with no character. Yes, and later Juan chocked up, barely able to talk, over Rev (Racist) Lowery’s little reminder that whites need to embrace right…unclear on the concept apparently…although I’d hardly call it “right” to elect an unqualified candidate with no character.

]]> By: AnnieCollier http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124052 AnnieCollier Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:50:29 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124052 Yes, and later Juan chocked up, barely able to talk, over Rev (Racist) Lowery's little reminder that whites need to embrace right...unclear on the concept apparenly...although I'd hardly call it "right" to elect an unqualified candidate with no character. Yes, and later Juan chocked up, barely able to talk, over Rev (Racist) Lowery’s little reminder that whites need to embrace right…unclear on the concept apparenly…although I’d hardly call it “right” to elect an unqualified candidate with no character.

]]> By: JozefAL http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1124026 JozefAL Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:24:21 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1124026 Hmm, I wish someone could find out the EXACT racial statistics with regards to the Presidential election and how everyone actually voted. I'm a Southern White (gay) guy who wrote in my vote for President (I voted for the REAL African-American anti-Dubya liberal in the contest--Green Party candidate, Cynthia McKinney). My vote for Senator went to the (African-American female) Democratic candidate, Vivian Figures. My vote for 2nd Congress Distict was another write-in vote (White, female, openly liberal, pro-union, pro-choice, and who lost in the Democratic Primary), Cheryl Sabel. I'd like to know how many African-Americans voted for Cynthia McKinney and how many Whites voted for Bob Barr (the former would obviously have taken votes from The One while the latter would have taken votes from McCain). How many whites voted for OTHER non-Obama candidates (such as Nader)? And why is it that whites who didn't vote for Obama would necessarily be "more" racist than those who did vote for Obama? Wouldn't a white voting for Obama out of "guilt" be a direct admission of being a racist (whether you knew it or not)? How do white Democrats vote when their only candidates are African-American but their district is largely a "white" district? How should a white Democrat vote when faced with a White candidate and an African-American candidate in a majority-white area? Should the person vote strictly from "white guilt" even if the African-American is more conservative than the white guy? (I faced that a few years ago. A white candidate was more liberal, and more in line with my own political viewpoints, than an African-American candidate. The AA was more liberal than the GOP candidate, but, in the South, that doesn't take much--virtually every Southern Democrat, even African-American, is far more conservative than the "average" Democrat, if not on fiscal and civil rights issues, then on other social issues.) Someday, the African-American community will produce a leader who TRULY fulfills Dr King's dream that his "children" will be judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. Obama's win proved that people (especially African-Americans) will STILL judge on the color of skin rather than content of character. (By the by, exactly HOW did Obama win his Senate seat in 2004 when he ran against Alan Keyes? It had to be hard to "guilt" whites into voting for him when his opponent's skin was actually Blacker.) Hmm, I wish someone could find out the EXACT racial statistics with regards to the Presidential election and how everyone actually voted.
I’m a Southern White (gay) guy who wrote in my vote for President (I voted for the REAL African-American anti-Dubya liberal in the contest–Green Party candidate, Cynthia McKinney). My vote for Senator went to the (African-American female) Democratic candidate, Vivian Figures. My vote for 2nd Congress Distict was another write-in vote (White, female, openly liberal, pro-union, pro-choice, and who lost in the Democratic Primary), Cheryl Sabel.
I’d like to know how many African-Americans voted for Cynthia McKinney and how many Whites voted for Bob Barr (the former would obviously have taken votes from The One while the latter would have taken votes from McCain). How many whites voted for OTHER non-Obama candidates (such as Nader)?
And why is it that whites who didn’t vote for Obama would necessarily be “more” racist than those who did vote for Obama? Wouldn’t a white voting for Obama out of “guilt” be a direct admission of being a racist (whether you knew it or not)? How do white Democrats vote when their only candidates are African-American but their district is largely a “white” district? How should a white Democrat vote when faced with a White candidate and an African-American candidate in a majority-white area? Should the person vote strictly from “white guilt” even if the African-American is more conservative than the white guy? (I faced that a few years ago. A white candidate was more liberal, and more in line with my own political viewpoints, than an African-American candidate. The AA was more liberal than the GOP candidate, but, in the South, that doesn’t take much–virtually every Southern Democrat, even African-American, is far more conservative than the “average” Democrat, if not on fiscal and civil rights issues, then on other social issues.)
Someday, the African-American community will produce a leader who TRULY fulfills Dr King’s dream that his “children” will be judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. Obama’s win proved that people (especially African-Americans) will STILL judge on the color of skin rather than content of character.
(By the by, exactly HOW did Obama win his Senate seat in 2004 when he ran against Alan Keyes? It had to be hard to “guilt” whites into voting for him when his opponent’s skin was actually Blacker.)

]]> By: Dave http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1123910 Dave Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:58:13 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1123910 I would encourage those who haven't already to read Tarpley's Obama biography. Chapter 3, "Foundation funded racism" offers a provocative history of the politics of racial preferences. <code>http://siob.eu/evidence/Webster%20Griffin%20Tarpley%20-%20Barack%20H%20Obama%20-%20The%20Unauthorized%20Biography.pdf</code> I would encourage those who haven’t already to read Tarpley’s Obama biography. Chapter 3, “Foundation funded racism” offers a provocative history of the politics of racial preferences.
http://siob.eu/evidence/Webster%20Griffin%20Tarpley%20-%20Barack%20H%20Obama%20-%20The%20Unauthorized%20Biography.pdf

]]> By: Make Them Accountable / Media & Politics (one section only today) http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1123827 Make Them Accountable / Media & Politics (one section only today) Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:15:14 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1123827 [...] Obama on Performance Alone (by Juan Williams, an African American conservative, thanks to LisaB at No Quarter) If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like [...] [...] Obama on Performance Alone (by Juan Williams, an African American conservative, thanks to LisaB at No Quarter) If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like [...]

]]> By: socalannie http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1123809 socalannie Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:47:32 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1123809 Great post LisaB. I always stop & watch Faux News if Williams is on. His opinions are usually interesting and on target. There are very few left in the msm that I will listen to anymore. Great post LisaB. I always stop & watch Faux News if Williams is on. His opinions are usually interesting and on target. There are very few left in the msm that I will listen to anymore.

]]> By: helenk http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1123784 helenk Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:26:03 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1123784 Backtrack does know about it and promotes it. It got him office and will be used to cover up any of his failures. Your just picking on me because I am part black, Will be heard loudly and often during the next four years. The sad part is that it hurts the AA community much more than the whites. Think about it jobs will be scarce and the economy is tanking. You have a choice to hire a AA with the attitude that they are owed or a person of another race that just wants to do a job and get paid for it. Which will you hire. That may sound cold but it is fact. WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE, MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE Backtrack does know about it and promotes it.
It got him office and will be used to cover up any of his failures.
Your just picking on me because I am part black,
Will be heard loudly and often during the next four years.
The sad part is that it hurts the AA community much more than the whites.
Think about it jobs will be scarce and the economy is tanking. You have a choice to hire a AA with the attitude that they are owed or a person of another race that just wants to do a job and get paid for it. Which will you hire.
That may sound cold but it is fact.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE, MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

]]> By: alabamian http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/11849/the-racist-angle-going-forward/#comment-1123768 alabamian Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:13:51 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=11849#comment-1123768 As a black woman (never been to Africa so I don't consider myself African American), I agree whole heartedly with Juan Williams. He and I feel the same way. Of course, my friends and family call me racist! I did not vote for Barack for all of the reasons that have been explained: inexperience, misogony, race baiting, coersion of voters, esp the caucus voters. The final straw was when he allowed the South Carolina congressman and others to say that Bill Clinton was "playing the race card". I have not/will not forgotten/forget that he allowed this for this was the turning point in the campaign. I also think that BO was selected! As a black woman (never been to Africa so I don’t consider myself African American), I agree whole heartedly with Juan Williams. He and I feel the same way. Of course, my friends and family call me racist! I did not vote for Barack for all of the reasons that have been explained: inexperience, misogony, race baiting, coersion of voters, esp the caucus voters. The final straw was when he allowed the South Carolina congressman and others to say that Bill Clinton was “playing the race card”. I have not/will not forgotten/forget that he allowed this for this was the turning point in the campaign. I also think that BO was selected!

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