"Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will." ~Mark Twain~
I wish my man Herman Cain well, I really do. I heard that he was in Iowa last week giving em his I am black but I am just like you speeches. I wonder how he is playing down there? It looks like they [the republicans] are going social again and forgetting the economy now that O and his peeps have the Dow over *12,000 and the unemployment numbers heading South and not North. Anyway, Herman might have some work to do before he can convince the rest of you Negroes that he means well.
"Listen, all token black conservative presidential candidates who Republicans keep trying to push on us colored folk; I really don’t have a problem with your decision to throw your hat in the ring. Why not, right? Everyone is entitled, and if you feel like you’re qualified then do your thing and show us just that – your qualifications. Do not, however, use the same tired and insulting tactics year after year in an effort to court a political base that has little interest in you by embarrassing the rest of your community.
First, This Year’s Black Conservative Herman Cain tried to get attention for his pending presidential campaign by telling anyone who would listen: “Don’t condemn me because the first black one was bad.” Yes, of course, the go-to sleaze tactic to use when you are eager to prove to some white people that you dislike President Obama as much as them is to say something attention grabbing like that.
Now, right on schedule, he has busted out the second in what I’m sure will be a series of cliché tactics to appeal to his conservative base: Christianity. Cain appeared on the Christian Broadcast Network and told the interviewer that he believed God brought him through cancer so that he could maybe become president, Politico reports. Stop it, dude. And I say that as a Christian. We know that professed religion is pretty much a requirement for all conservative candidates, but to take advantage of that moment in your life and twist it for political gain is really sleazy." [Source]
Now now Mr. Smith, don't be so hard on Herman. Maybe he means well. Why don't we give him a chance before we call him a house dwelling hypocrite?
Carry on Herman.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 222 of 222I am at a loss to describe the break from reality required to be white, live in America, and type the following:
"Only one group is discriminated against legally."
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"Gee I don't know Field, I'm not 100 years old."
I give you the benefit of the doubt that you believe the first. But, you do not strike me as the simpleton required to believe that you do NOT stand on the blood, ashes, and tears of those who came before you. While I cannot hold you culpable, I do recognize that you will serve as a constant reminder to me that white, conservative racists are the more foolish for trying to erase the taint of slavery / Jim Crow / institutionalized racism from the permanence that is history, instead of working towards overcoming it.
You, 'Rev', are an embarrassment to whatever God you claim supports such hypocrisy.
Interesting that in the years I spent at G'town, I NEVER once came across a person like Rev. Right.
I guess what they say is true, white folks with money/power ain't studin' black folks, LOL!!!
OTOH, I met more than I could count in the early 80's at a certain deep SOUTH university, LOL!!!
"I guess what they say is true, white folks with money/power ain't studin' black folks, LOL!!!
OTOH, I met more than I could count in the early 80's at a certain deep SOUTH university, LOL!!!
Usually the most vocal racists are those who come from working class environs. They're the ones who suck up all the propaganda created by their wealthier counterparts about blacks and their "inherent inferiority". It's all a ruse to keep poor whites and poor blacks as enemies so they'll never be able to come together and work against the wealthy interests that exercise vast amounts of control over this country.
Wealthy people usually don't give a shit about race, since they have enough money to pick and choose who they surround themselves with and where. They'll never let it consume them as it had their lesser counterparts.
"It's all a ruse to keep poor whites and poor blacks as enemies so they'll never be able to come together and work against the wealthy interests that exercise vast amounts of control over this country"
Isn't is profound that the biggest "enemy" of a poor/middle class white man, is a rich/powerful WHITE man?
Isn't it! D*mn, LOL!
Only one group is discriminated against legally.
Only one group benefitted from legal discrimination for centuries at the expense of all others. You didn't answer the second question. Did these past injustices affect these groups? If so how would you recommend we make ammends for this past discrimination? Or do we just say "my bad" and move on and accept inequality?
"You mean like forcing companies/colleges to hire/promote/accept lower proforming blacks and hispanics over more qualified whites doesn't come at the expense of whites?"
I totally agree, no one race or culture should be promoted above any other but that's not what affirmative action is. Any good head hunter charged with "diversifying" a company would simply do things such as recruit at Black colleges and enlicit the help of Black/Latino/Women ect professional groups to make sure that QUALIFIED applicants send their resumes to said company. Some places may take it to the extreme but that's bad but so is avoiding hiring certain people because they don't like diversity.
"That's a cop-out a lot of people use. That was their father's/grandfather's/great-grandfather's time, and since the sins of the father are not the sins of the son, they're not responsible for the current mess that we're dealing with today"
Or they didn't benefit from it.
cryovet: "But, you do not strike me as the simpleton required to believe that you do NOT stand on the blood, ashes, and tears of those who came before you"
I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors, not on the blood, ashes and tears of yours.
"Institutional" racism is an attempt by those who have never faced true discrimination to wear the mantle of oppression. It's a joke. If you have to find evidence of discrimination by using a microscope, guess what? It's not that big a deal.
"You mean like forcing companies/colleges to hire/promote/accept lower proforming blacks and hispanics over more qualified whites doesn't come at the expense of whites?"
That is bad and that is not what true affirmative action is all about. A good recruiter that is charged with "diversifying" the company would simply recruit at places where qualified candidates exist. For example, my company lost a lawsuit because it was shown they discrimoinated against women and people of color in the 80's so they did what any smart company would do, they went to where QUALIFIED applicants are. A company could go to a HBCU or a Latino college and recruit as well as enlist the help of Black/Latino/ Women's professional organizations to make sure a wide variety of applicants send resumes to be considered. That is what AA and diversity is all about and should be, it's not about making the white man pay but giving everyone a fair shot. If you disagree with that then we don't see eye to eye but if you agree then.........And I know the next question and yes, if there was a profession I was associated with and there was a quantifiable lack of white males sure I would work with an organization dedicated to promoting more white males but in the fields I am involved I haven't seen that problem pop up, yet. I'm all about fairness.
Sorry about that guys, I didn't know we hit the moderated time limit. Like I said ignore the second post that said the same shit.
Lawd I see SPC is still here farting all over the board.
"Didn't affirmative action,racial quotes, leftist special treatment for certian racial groups solve the left behinds problem?"
White women were the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action.
We'll wait till Herman Cain is elected President before SPC can name a company that employs racial quotes or detals exactly was is "special treatment for certain racial groups."
Besides police profiling that is.
BTW, I had VCU going to the Final Four!
"I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors, not on the blood, ashes and tears of yours."
Then you are willfully ignorant of your history and deserve to be on the garbage heap of history alongside such detritus, such as 'Flat Earther's', those who believed that the Sun rotated around the Earth, and Sovereign Citizens.
Today, you are laughed at. Tomorrow, at best, you will be a footnote, and, in time, you will be forgotten. But, in this moment, I will just consider you to be intellectually dishonest and an ethical coward, a scurrying insect to be ignored on the road to greater things.
Well, been a pleasure to join this discussion. Dinner calls. Good night, all.
Isn't this Cain guy really a real-life version of Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks TV show?
Or is he trying to channel Alan Keyes? I haven't seen Keyes since his money scandal last year, Field.
He placed 4th in the straw poll so he has no chance. Ah well- it would have been fun to see him try to debate and lose to Gingrich and Obama.
hc is a black neocon
but that blackish hoax neocon repub hobama and his banksters will make him look like malcolm x...
bet!!!
mareally a clueless repulsive ahisttorical adoring wigga:
no one who is aware of how blacks were abused and despised in 1950
would doubt that latinos are being abused the very same way in 2011
ditto for gays who are allowed to be legal corpses but never legal spouses and widows
hatred is always real/the same...and all of the -isms are already hated
the fact that slaves were kidnapped african chattel/property rather than voluntary illegal aliens does not change the fact that ALL are hated and legally lynched in amerikkka
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://themilwaukeedrum.com/frederick-alexander-meade-audio/&sa=U&ei=HeCRTaqzN-fI0QHGyZTNBw&ved=0CBEQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNHMD7_x34X0OanJZjc3nfqohyq31A
you are a complete idiot!!!
you spew bs to woo stupid black men
wtfu
shame!!!!!!
"Institutional" racism is an attempt by those who have never faced true discrimination to wear the mantle of oppression. It's a joke. If you have to find evidence of discrimination by using a microscope, guess what? It's not that big a deal.
Kind of like claiming white men are being discriminated against?
That is the biggest joke of all time.
BTW, I love the whole conservatives are colorblind meme. I am colorblind but I see injustice heaped upon white men and we as a society won't be equal until those damned darkies stop oppressing white men. These guys are a riot.
pnt:
ditto!!!
rich whites do not have to fret over ANY poor peeople black or white....
they keep all poor people too busy fretting over each other as we feud for our places under their boots!!!
the rich of all races have perfected the art of divide and conquer...historically and globally as they conquer poor people via chaos and distractions by design...
shame!!!
http://www.amazon.com/Chamber-Chris-ODonnell/dp/0783226942/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1301406338&sr=1-1
Oh yeah, and nevermind those years of discrimination may have had lasting effects. Get over it! If only Rev.'s father and grandfather had been colorblind we wouldn't be in the situation we are in now huh?
He and SPC only see racism when people of color do it other than that it doesn't exist.
CryoVet said...
"Today, you are laughed at. "
Perhaps, but I can't hear you from all the way up here at the top of the heap. And I'll bet it will be the same tomorrow.
Maybe you should try laughing a little louder, or better yet, get a job and start doing a little climbing yourself.
You don't know my history, and judging from your sputtering foolishness, you don't really know your own. This makes your assessment of the future somewhat suspect. I would suggest perhaps broadening your sources. Good luck. I will try not to laugh.
Hey field I consulted the expert (a bonifide Chicago space cadet) on the use of that spelling. The Chicago set (black space folks) who transcended house and field, respelled two words: America and Chicago. A-meri-ka (Ka = Egyptian for soul) meaning a merry soul. And Chi-Ka-go meaning energy souls go from this place, or reside in this place.
our leader was Sun Ra "Space is the place" remember him? We knew ourselves to be the brothers who evacuated Atlantis, or caused it to blow, for Egypt, and later A-meri-Ka.
So, it was no surprise to us that the first black prez should come from Chi-Ka-go. Although he is not A-meri-Kan he is African and that's even better.
Cheers
Heloise
Herman Cain is just another Cream of Wheat man, who is monkey shinning for the man. I wonder how he feels when he hears how the heavy weights feel about people that look like him? Didn't he learn from Alan Keyes? Oh well, I'd love to see him debate 44 on national television, along with the Caribou Twist and bat shit crazy Michelle Bachman
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