Posted on 07/06/2014 7:14:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Doctor Roy wrote: If you are going to make voting contingent on paying taxes I don't know what else you could call it [but a poll tax]. I still don't know what you guys are talking about with this " white guilt" malarkey. Obama came along at exactly the right time. Hell I'm an agnostic and I might have gottten elected if I got to follow Dubya's train wreck. - Equality! Obama's the Worst!
Dear Comrade Doctor,
I always have trouble understanding if you are as dumb as you pretend to be. I’d like to give you the benefit of the doubt and say, “yes, he really is that dumb.” But then I remember that: 1) you’re Illinois and 2) you’re union.
By the way: How does it feel to be a part of the movement that will finally send Illinois in bankruptcy, this ensuring the Land of Lincoln will become the first failed state in the history of the United States, even worse than California?
Last week the Illinois Supreme Court decided that union benefits are protected under the Illinois constitution and can’t be cut during the lifetime of a union member.
And so continues the descent into hell. At least that what the Chicago Tribune thinks.
Now all you have to do is worry about a joint invasion from Iran and Russia that Obama will condemn but privately sanction because he has a tee time conflict.
As to the white guilt, you know what people are talking about.
It’s the phenomenon that allows a thug like Michael Vick to become a STAR in professional football because there are some white people who don’t think it’s fair that there are few black quarterback stars.
It’s the phenomenon that allows the most unqualified of men to beat out the most unqualified of women for the Democrat presidential nomination simply because he’s black. It’s the phenomenon that allows a blond haired, blue eyed Nordic community to bestow upon Obama a Nobel Peace Prize simply for running and winning an election. It’s the phenomenon that allows Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama, who each enjoy a certain celebrity because of their race, to say that opposition to Obama is only just racism.
It allows a guy like Harold Washington—the black mayor of Chicago—to be treated as a minor saint, even though he presided over one of the worst administrations in the city’s history.
It allows Rev Al Sharpton, the Grand Dragon of the Black Klux Klan, to be the public face of MSNBC, that bastion of white liberalism. And it allows for Marion Berry to be, well, Marion Berry.
You’re right that Obama benefited from the trend away from Bush in 2008. But the election was a lot closer that it would have been if someone with some verifiable experience doing something would have been the Democrat nominee.
That Obama won was a testament to the heavy guilt many white people have regarding the plight of blacks in America.
To our credit we want so very desperately for race not to matter at all, that we are willing to overlook deficiencies in people like Obama. Then we can at least say that race had NOTHING to do with anything.
Unfortunately the exact opposite happens with white guilt. Because race is everything, psychologically speaking, we end up with a guy like Obama who makes everything racial.
No to poll tax, but can we at least ask for IDs?
It’s easier in this country to 1) vote and 2) buy pot than it is to do most anything. We should just get rid of IDs altogether. If we can’t ask for IDs to vote, we shouldn’t be able to ask for IDs for any reason.
M.A. Harris wrote: John - When did Obama lecture the black community? When did he stand up, look blacks in the eye, and tell them to get off their duffs, quit thinking of themselves and victims, and pick themselves up by their bootstraps and MAKE something of themselves? When did Obama lecture all of those gangsta' kids and thugs and tell them that a life of crime and drug use is a dead end? When did Obama stand up and tell black (and white, of course) teenage girls that having sex before marriage or before adulthood will ruin their lives? - Equality! Obama's the Worst!
Dear MA,
I can remember him taking on these issues in 2008 when campaigning. But now we know that he was just doing the white guilt dance. That was how he reassured the white guilt crowd that he was one of them.
The white guilt crowd believes in the historic wrongs done the black community. They just think those wrongs have nothing to do with them today.
I think that America continues to degrade black people institutionally. AAnd were I a candidate, I would use the most damning language about both parties’ use of invisible slavery to keep black people in poverty.
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It’s the phenomenon that allows a thug like Michael Vick to become a STAR in professional football because there are some white people who don’t think it’s fair that there are few black quarterback stars.
It’s the phenomenon that allows the most unqualified of men to beat out the most unqualified of women for the Democrat presidential nomination simply because he’s black. It’s the phenomenon that allows a blond haired, blue eyed Nordic community to bestow upon Obama a Nobel Peace Prize simply for running and winning an election. It’s the phenomenon that allows Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama, who each enjoy a certain celebrity because of their race, to say that opposition to Obama is only just racism.
It allows a guy like Harold Washington—the black mayor of Chicago—to be treated as a minor saint, even though he presided over one of the worst administrations in the city’s history.
The race discussion slowly starting with the dysfunction and evil of white guilt. White guilt as enabler, crutch, and benefactor of evil. Reality? White liberal guilt supports violence and thuggery in the black community.
Al Sharpton: “Jew them down...”
How this man still has a job at any commercially sponsored network amazes me.
What do you expect from PMSNBC?
It wasn’t even an issue raised by the MSM when Al Sharpton sat onstage during the DNC presidential debates as a candidate.
“For the first time since President Richard M. Nixon’s divisive ‘Southern strategy’ that sent whites to the Republican Party and blacks to the Democrats …” began a New York Times story last week.
Thus has one of the big lies of U.S. political history morphed into a cliche – that Richard Nixon used racist politics to steal the South from a Democratic Party battling heroically for civil rights.
A brief stroll through Bruce Bartlett’s “Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past” might better enlighten us.
Where Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner, Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the U.S. government and had the pro-Klan film “Birth of a Nation” screened in his White House.
Wilson and FDR carried all 11 states of the Old Confederacy all six times they ran, when Southern blacks had no vote. Disfranchised black folks did not seem to bother these greatest of liberal icons.
As vice president, FDR chose “Cactus Jack” Garner of Texas who played a major role in imposing a poll tax to keep blacks from voting.
Among FDR’s Supreme Court appointments was Hugo Black, a Klansman who claimed FDR knew this when he named him in 1937 and that FDR told him that “some of his best friends” in Georgia were Klansmen.
Black’s great achievement as a lawyer was in winning acquittal of a man who shot to death the Catholic priest who had presided over his daughter’s marriage to a Puerto Rican.
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In 1941 FDR named South Carolina Sen. “Jimmy” Byrnes to the Supreme Court. Byrnes had led filibusters in 1935 and 1938 that killed anti-lynching bills, arguing that lynching was necessary “to hold in check the Negro in the South.”
FDR refused to back the 1938 anti-lynching law.
“This is a white man’s country and will always remain a white man’s country,” said Jimmy. Harry Truman, who paid $10 to join the Klan, then quit, named Byrnes secretary of state, putting him first in line of succession to the presidency, as Harry then had no V.P.
During the civil rights struggles of the ’50s and ’60s, Gov. Orval Faubus used the National Guard to keep black students out of Little Rock High. Gov. Ross Barnett refused to let James Meredith into Ole Miss. Gov. George Wallace stood in the door at the University of Alabama, to block two black students from entering.
KKK’s first targets were Republicans – read how Democrats started the group in “Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White”
All three governors were Democrats. All acted in accord with the “Dixie Manifesto” of 1956, which was signed by 19 senators, all Democrats, and 80 Democratic congressmen.
Among the signers of the manifesto, which called for massive resistance to the Brown decision desegregating public schools, was the vice presidential nominee on Adlai Stevenson’s ticket in 1952, Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama.
Though crushed by Eisenhower, Adlai swept the Deep South, winning both Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Do you suppose those Southerners thought Adlai would be tougher than Ike on Stalin? Or did they think Adlai would maintain the unholy alliance of Southern segregationists and Northern liberals that enabled Democrats to rule from 1932 to 1952?
The Democratic Party was the party of slavery, secession and segregation, of “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman and the KKK. “Bull” Connor, who turned the dogs loose on black demonstrators in Birmingham, was the Democratic National Committeeman from Alabama.
And Nixon?
In 1956, as vice president, Nixon went to Harlem to declare, “America can’t afford the cost of segregation.” The following year, Nixon got a personal letter from Dr. King thanking him for helping to persuade the Senate to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Nixon supported the civil rights acts of 1964, 1965 and 1968.
In the 1966 campaign, as related in my new book, “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority,” out July 8, Nixon blasted Dixiecrats “seeking to squeeze the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice.”
Nixon called out segregationist candidates in ’66 and called on LBJ, Hubert Humphrey and Bobby Kennedy to join him in repudiating them. None did. Hubert, an arm around Lester Maddox, called him a “good Democrat.” And so were they all – good Democrats.
While Adlai chose Sparkman, Nixon chose Spiro Agnew, the first governor south of the Mason Dixon Line to enact an open-housing law.
In Nixon’s presidency, the civil rights enforcement budget rose 800 percent. Record numbers of blacks were appointed to federal office. An Office of Minority Business Enterprise was created. SBA loans to minorities soared 1,000 percent. Aid to black colleges doubled.
Nixon won the South not because he agreed with them on civil rights – he never did – but because he shared the patriotic values of the South and its antipathy to liberal hypocrisy.
When Johnson left office, 10 percent of Southern schools were desegregated. When Nixon left, the figure was 70 percent.
Richard Nixon desegregated the Southern schools, something you won’t learn in today’s public schools.
For history is a pack of lies agreed upon.
In 1995 a black Pentecostal Church, the United House of Prayer, which owned a retail property on 125th Street, asked Fred Harari, a Jewish tenant who operated Freddie's Fashion Mart, to evict his longtime subtenant, a black-owned record store called The Record Shack. [The Rev. Al] Sharpton led a protest in Harlem against the planned eviction of The Record Shack. Sharpton told the protesters, "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business."
On December 8, 1995 Roland J. Smith Jr., one of the protesters, entered Harari's store with a gun and flammable liquid, shot several customers and set the store on fire. The gunman fatally shot himself, and seven store employees died of smoke inhalation. Fire Department officials discovered that the store's sprinkler had been shut down, in violation of the local fire code. Sharpton claimed that the perpetrator was an open critic of himself and his nonviolent tactics. Sharpton later expressed regret for making the racial remark, "white interloper," and denied responsibility for inflaming or provoking the violence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton#Freddie.27s_Fashion_Mart
This bastard should have been killed when he was fat.
I like that better than the Jesse Jackson rhyming stuff.
“Last week the Illinois Supreme Court decided that union benefits are protected under the Illinois constitution and can’t be cut during the lifetime of a union member.”
Meanwhile, all of us forced to donate to Social Security at gunpoint will be lucky if the government doesn’t tell us to go take a flying leap when the time comes to collect.
“It allows Rev Al Sharpton, the Grand Dragon of the Black Klux Klan, to be the public face of MSNBC, that bastion of white liberalism.”
Ironically, nothing disgusts non-wealthy liberal whites more then Al $harpton; he is a great tool to DESTROY “white guilt” (second only to Obama himself).
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