Hey, kareem, the answer is "No", he didn't say that. What he did was ask the question about which was worse; picking cotton, or living under current liberal policies. Of course, when you wear race colored glasses, anything you see looks like a race problem. Don't hurt your finger wagging it, or your neck with all that head shaking you noted.
There’s an aspect of this I haven’t seen stressed.
Sterling, Bundy and Deen committed no crimes. Nobody has even claimed they were harmed by their actions.
They are to be destroyed because they are Bad People, and everybody knows we demonstrate our own Goodness most effectively by destroying Bad People.
The whole thing reminds me of Athenian or Roman Republican “justice.” In these trials no “evidence” was excluded, so trials tended to degenerate into both sides enthusiastically throwing dirt to show that the other side are Bad People.
The jury’s verdict was by definition not so much on whether the defendant had committed the particular crime of which he was accused, but as to whether the jurymen thought him a Bad Person who should be punished for being Bad.
That’s more or less why Socrates got it in the neck.
While we no longer hold criminal trials of this sort, the Court of Public Opinion is being used to destroy lives every bit as effectively as a criminal conviction.
BTW, insofar as the Bundy case goes, I’ve posted a (partial) defense of his most egregious comments on a number of fora, including FR. Nobody has yet attempted to debate the point with me.
BTW, those leading the charge in these cases are exactly the same people who a few years ago were claiming “dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
So where is it written that Bundy’s dissent doesn’t qualify?
Good bye Harry Reid if that was the case.
We don’t have all the facts. Are you a racist if you like some blacks but dislike others? Is he a racist if he disapproves of his girlfriend hanging out with black athletes but has no problem if she hangs out with black attorneys or physicians?
His association with his non-white girlfriend and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar suggests he might have no problem with some blacks and problems with other blacks...
Then why should those ramblings define who Sterling is?
Interesting article from my old Milwaukee neighbor! He makes some interesting points.
“Shouldn’t we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didn’t we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizen’s privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romney’s comments that were secretly taped, the difference is that Romney was giving a public speech. The making and release of this tape is so sleazy that just listening to it makes me feel like an accomplice to the crime. We didn’t steal the cake but we’re all gorging ourselves on it.”
I met him, as Lew, on the day he came to Milwaukee. He moved in across the street. He always struck me as a very nice guy. He’s a Jazz fanatic, and I’m a musician. We mostly talked about music. He had a Jazz show on the radio.