Posted on 03/14/2012 1:37:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
Thomas Sowell BUMP!!!!!
I think Obama hated hwitey all along, and in this “professor” he found someonee who validated his views, and hey- it was froma teacher! so it must be so.
Obama was never taught HOW to think, only WHAT to think
Obama was never taught HOW to think, only WHAT to think
I believe you’re right on the money.
So, essentially, when confronted with his own lack of superlative academic prowess, Mr. Bell decided to embark on the fall-back position for most when ability can’t rise to the top - develop cockamamy ‘whitey is racist’ theories...
It sure looks like it to me, Dr. Sowell nails it again.
Dr. Sowell is far more charitable to ObaMao than I would be. BO wasn't an impressionable young black. BO was a hate-filled street thug in search of a position of authority to put others under his boot.
I far have more respect for Rev. J. Wright. At one time in Wright's life, he had a respectable military career. He tried to start a legitimate church when he got out of the military, but couldn't find a market for it. He did, however, find a great market for a hate-whitey black liberation church and Obama was one of many customer which eagerly sought him out. Rev. Wright was merely the whore who sold Obama what he wanted.
But Dr. Sowell is a gentleman and I respect him for writing like a gentleman even if he sugar coats, just a little, Obama's immersion into radical racism.
I’m in the middle of Booker T. Washington’s autobiography, “Up From Slavery”. Today’s black culture could take quite a few lessons from that man. What a story! And he never made excuses for why he couldn’t do something, he just put one foot in front of the other and made sure his work ethic spoke for him.
On a national level our institutions have become like parents who write kids’ reports, or prepare their science fair projects. Cheaters. And not doing the ‘beneficiary’ any favors at all.
The Founders of Harvard must be astounded to look down on their University's most recent contributions to the decline of leadership for America and lack of respect for its Constitutional limits on power.
It was Justice Joseph Story (1779-1845), who was appointed to the Court by President James Madison. According to this essay:
"Story is considered the founder of Harvard Law School and authored the three-volume classic Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833). In his 34 years on the Court, Story authored opinions in 286 cases, of which 269 were reported as the majority opinion or the opinion of the Court 31 and his many contributions to American law have caused him to be called a “Father of American Jurisprudence.”
What must he now be thinking!
From Justice Story's final paragraph of the "Commentaries . . . :
§ 1907. If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of fife, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."
America's Founders framed a Constitution whose protections would expand liberty for all individuals for all time, with appropriate amendments in accordance with its own provisions. Those who would use the coercive power of the government it structured to divide and "classify" groups are simply, in the words of Story, "flatter(ing) the people, in order to betray them."
"Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or even knowledge of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives [the executive, judiciary, or legislature]; in a departure from it prior to such an act." - Alexander Hamilton
The fallout of affirmative action hiring will cripple this country for as much as a century, IMO.
I saw a TV interview (likely some PBS tripe) with this asshole. He essentially said that white racism is PERMANENT -in the DNA, and that blacks needed perpetual preference to combat it.
This is Obama, this is Holder, this is Donna Brazille, this is Michelle, this is Valerie Jarrett, this will likely be his children (if the Clintons and whatsherface are any indicator), this is even his defective white liberal henchmen and Democrats that surround him. Nothing one of them does is not prefaced with some kind of racism claim.
Dr. Sowell is a treasure.
Excellent post, and so appropriate. Thank you!
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