Posted on 02/13/2005 6:53:32 PM PST by neodanite
Ah, that explains it! Thanks...
The comments were ugly beyond description. I took the time to send her an E-Mail expressing my appreciation and support for her and her work. I also let her know that I found the article with the comments via a link from FreeRepublic.
bump
don't forget to freep the poll. Although you don't have many good options.
Moreover, I'm appalled at how the author so nonchalantly adopts the phony Bill O'Reilly meme of Jesse Jackson as a corporate shakedown artist.
Jesse a shakedown artist? Well, I never.
I never look because I just cannot stomach Kos..but this is worth a look see!
Anytime you see the word mime used like that, think of Noam Chomsky, the intellectual greasetrap of the left.
LOL!
LOL
LOLOLOL ... Not a smart move posting that thread
Has anyone figured out who actually wrote it?
I see that one guy, a hyper-sensitive white liberal, interpreted the letter in a bad way, and decided to go home. That's not a meltdown.
Kos published an anonymous email. I don't think he ever hid the fact that he posted the email, or that it's authorship was from a source who would remain anonymous.
There's not much in the email that's off-base, either. It correctly points out that Jesse Jackson is a shakedown artist, and that Brazile hasn't done any better. I probably would not have used the frying pan metaphors at the start (Are they just used because Southern food is often fried? Or does Donna Brazile use those metaphors when she speaks?), but I don't think they were racist.
I don't think it's racist to point out a situation in which a certain group of people have special privileges. Oakland boy's argument is basically that because there is a stereotype about blacks in general being lazy, you can't point out specific instances of lazy blacks without being a racist. I don't buy it.
If the criticisms in the email are true, then I don't think it's racist. I think powerful black Democrats should face the same scrutiny as powerful white Democrats. That's not racism. It's improving the party by weeding out unproductive members. If Brazile gets knocked out, if will make room for another black person to ascend.
If the criticisms in the email are false, then I think there's a good chance it's racist. Accusing non-lazy black people of being lazy could be racist (because you are accusing them of negative traits associated with negative stereotypes of their race). It would also be racist to single out blacks as lazy if everyone at the DNC is equally lazy. But I don't think that's the case.
Ummmm ... that email just cost the dems some of their base
They're going to have to ditch quite a bit of their base before they stand any chance of becoming a majority party again.
kos wrote it. he's confessed
Thanks .. I had not seen that part
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