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Leonard Pitts Jr.: How black is black enough?
The Daily Oklahoman ^ | 01-16-2013 | Leonard Pitts, Jr,

Posted on 01/17/2013 8:52:35 AM PST by Osage Orange

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1 posted on 01/17/2013 8:52:45 AM PST by Osage Orange
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Once in a while...Pitt’s swerves into some truth.


2 posted on 01/17/2013 8:53:49 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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Yeah, I was surprised to see this.


3 posted on 01/17/2013 8:56:33 AM PST by livius
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To: Osage Orange

Wow! Good post.


4 posted on 01/17/2013 8:57:06 AM PST by BipolarBob (Happy Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor.)
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To: Osage Orange
Pitt’s swerves into some truth.

I think in this case he swerved into it, plowed through it and burst out the other side. Hey, even Darth Vader had some good in him, so maybe Pitts has some logic in him?
5 posted on 01/17/2013 8:59:59 AM PST by lump in the melting pot (Communism - a social experiment which, for ethical reasons, should not be performed on live humans)
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To: livius

it amazes me that being “black” means a drop of black blood in your system.....we caucasians and asians don’t get to claim the vast number of mixed race celebrities/athletes/politicians out there.....then again, with the bammey boy and his ilk, who would want to...


6 posted on 01/17/2013 9:00:07 AM PST by cherry
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To: Osage Orange

Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican. I guess this means he wasn’t black, either.


7 posted on 01/17/2013 9:03:56 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Osage Orange

Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican. I guess this means he wasn’t black, either.


8 posted on 01/17/2013 9:04:09 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican. I guess this means he wasn’t black, either.


9 posted on 01/17/2013 9:04:13 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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Shocker coming from this guy.


10 posted on 01/17/2013 9:06:52 AM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Those who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: cherry

Yes, it’s strange. And the other thing is that being “black,” as he points out, is now based on behaving like part of the black underclass.

It would be like saying the “true” white person is the greasy-haired, tattooed thing out in the woods making meth while his girlfriend prostitutes herself at a gas station while her several children by unknown fathers are locked in the closet of her doublewide. Or maybe singlewide.


11 posted on 01/17/2013 9:07:19 AM PST by livius
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To: lump in the melting pot

A little.......


12 posted on 01/17/2013 9:07:48 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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“Phone call for Mr. Pitts, Justice Clarence Thomas on line 2.”


13 posted on 01/17/2013 9:12:23 AM PST by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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What I find interesting is that many of the most zealous “black-identity” race-mongers are the lightest-skinned black people one sees.

I am thinking of people like Jeremiah Wright, Julian Bond (first head of Southern Poverty Law Center), Ben Jealous (head of NAACP) or even media talking-heads like Melissa Perry on MSNBC or Soledad Obrien on CNN


14 posted on 01/17/2013 9:12:47 AM PST by PGR88
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It's all about how you look...not what color blood is coursing through our veins.

Heck...In the surfing culture in Hawaii...if you were brown/black skinned...you were pretty much accepted. Didn't matter if you were Mexican, Chinese, etc...IF you had darker skin you weren't haole.

American Indians...( of which I am one...) bag on those that aren't near full blood. Look down on them.

Black are/were the same way...calling light skinned blacks...Yellow ni""ers....

It's all useless B.S. But it's out there.......

15 posted on 01/17/2013 9:18:09 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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Good point.....


16 posted on 01/17/2013 9:19:16 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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Pretty much.....

About every 2-3 years he's writes something worthwhile.

17 posted on 01/17/2013 9:21:31 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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What's funny to me is....it's almost like Pitt's is bipolar.

On one hand...he's going after Parker. But then bags on all the Redskin's fans........He just can't control his inner Progressive.

18 posted on 01/17/2013 9:24:45 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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It gets worse. I have no natural rhythm, no criminal record and can correctly pronounce the word “ask.”

Funny...now if a white guy had wrote that...well, nevermind.


19 posted on 01/17/2013 9:27:15 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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“isuddenly find myself concerned about my blackness. it had
never occured to me before.”

LIE!


20 posted on 01/17/2013 9:28:19 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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