Posted on 05/25/2015 9:59:17 AM PDT by jazusamo
During the early years of the Reagan administration, a Washington news conference was held for me for my first book, "The State Against Blacks." Before making summary statements about the book, I offered the reporters assembled that they could treat me like a white person. They could ask me hard, pressing questions. They could demand proof of the arguments that I was making.
People such as former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and former Chairman Julian Bond and the Rev. Al Sharpton can make ludicrous statements. An intimidated news media just swallow the nonsense. They are probably afraid to challenge, lest they suffer guilt feelings of racism or be seen as racists for demanding that a black person back up his comments with facts.
You say, "Give us some examples of ludicrous statements." Sharpton, commenting on black history, said, "White folks was in caves while we was building empires." Mfume said of George W. Bush, "We have a president that's prepared to take us back to the days of Jim Crow segregation and dominance." Bond said, "The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side." When those statements were made — and after other utterances of nonsense — I did not hear of any reporters demanding evidence. Racial etiquette or politeness requires that no pressing questions be asked of liberal blacks.
A number of people have made angry responses to statements made in my column a fortnight ago, titled "Some Odds and Ends." I pointed out that liberal Democrats claim that conservative Republicans have launched a war on women as a part of their overall mean-spirited agenda. Assault, rape and murder are the worst things that can be done to a woman...
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“Far more important for me in all of this is that liberals unintentionally treat me like a white person. . . .For that, I thank them.” W.W.
I love it!
Me too. :)
No, Walter, they don’t.
They really, really don’t.
In your case, they use words like “Uncle Tom” and “Race Traitor”, and those are the kind ones.
Since you’re not a Leftist, what they REALLY want is you to be dead.
As always, another gem by Dr. Walter E. Williams.
Actually, not all that far off, depending on how you define your terms.
Afrocentrists define Egypt as a black civilization. Kind of stupid, IMO, but that's what they do.
When Egypt was a powerful empire, western and northern Europe were much farther behind, if not exactly living in caves.
For example, Egypt was unified for the first time around 3100 BC. Britain was still neolithic for a thousand years after that.
Walter E. Williams should have remained in Philadelphia and cleaned up that once bastion of freedom. Of course, that would be an impossible job for anyone.
“White folks was in caves while we was building empires.”
The logical question for Sharpton - So what happened and why?
A question I’ve asked before.
Also of some of the Indians hung up on the spaceships and jet planes of Vedic science.
“So why did you let yourself be conquered by a tiny island on the other side of the world?”
Just so I’m clear, Egyptians weren’t what we would today call “black,” though they were conquered and ruled for a while by Africans from Nubia. For the most part, Egyptians raided and traded to the south, for slaves among other valuable goods.
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