Posted on 11/30/2008 6:04:19 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
The Associated Press is worried that Americans might accidentally imagine that the elevation of Barack Obama to the presidency could make people think that blacks in America really can get ahead. The AP is so worried that it sought out a race hustler to deny that blacks can make it here no matter what happened on November 4.
As the AP reports it, apparently young Kari Fulton "cringed" when Barack Obama won the past election. She "cringed" because she heard a white guy say that Obama's election put a dent in the charge of racism in America. And why did she "cringe"? Why, it's because "racism is still very much alive and well" she told the AP.
And how does young Kari know this? At 23 she never lived through Jim Crow. She doesn't remember the days when there were few blacks on TV and blacks in music were segregated to separate genres, not mixing with white singers. She wasn't around when black CEOs didn't exist and no blacks roamed the halls of Congress or the White House without pushing a broom. So, how does this 23-year-old girl know that "racism is alive and well"? Because she is a black activist, that's why..
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Hey! They found a use for all those tar baby dolls that people stopped buying when it became racist.
Throw a suit on it and sell that baby!
Capitalism rocks!
They cling to the race card. They have not been denied advancement in the society for decades. They have abused their children for decades by telling them not to trust white people, that white people look down on them and conspire against them. “It takes a nation of millions to hold us back”. No. Your own people shackle you with an inferiority complex. They have abused you and held you back.
An abused woman may be suspicious of the motives of all men, but all men should not change the way they discuss an issue to be sure not to freak her out. She is the one who should seek psychological counseling to deal with her own issues of trust.
LOL doesn’t look like him.
There are millions of folks who believe that 60” TV sets and Lincoln limos are going to fall from the sky when Obama takes office. When it doesn’t happen, look out !!
The article said — “She “cringed” because she heard a white guy say that Obama’s election put a dent in the charge of racism in America.”
Well, I would agree with that white guy... I think that if anyone wants to tell me that there is some kind of racial equality that must be “corrected” by legislation, I’ll just tell them to stop telling me *garbage* like that when you see a black President in office...
The gravy train of victimhood can’t be derailed by Obama’s election. Too many fat cats with many more waiting to clamber on the baggage car. Obama: “Reparations not just money, but power and access all across the board.”
I knew the race industry wouldn’t admit that its time is over and slink away quietly like a decent person would.
This was totally predictable. I think that one of the very few potential positives of this election is the opportunity to end affirmative action. Of course the usual suspects will fight tooth and nail to preserve the current system of racial preferences. However, their arguments may be shown to be completely absurd. This is a winnable fight now. But it will require a willingness to fight.
Affirmative action will have a rebirth in an Obama administration and will probably be expanded. These race hustlers have everything to gain in this kind of atmosphere. They've been riding on a gravy train of quotas and set asides for the last 30-40 years and see no reason why it should stop now, nor will it.
I have never understood the concept of Affirmative Action because it benefits one group at the expense of another. Instead of picking the winners and losers the government should be in the business of promoting an increase in everyone’s standard of living. A rising tide raises all boats.
That being said there are some things that the government can do little about like being born in a single parent household with little to no emphasis on education. Government can not be all things to all people, nor should it. I'm unaware of any country in the world with the level of upward social mobility that takes place here in the United States. It's there for the taking. All it takes is determination and hard word. Two things that are unfortunately in short supply for many people because they are taught from the time they are knee high that they are “owed” something.
she may have a point ...
she IS black
and I don’t like HER
There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs…
There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
-Booker T. Washington
Only one question: What took so long?
Well to be honest he didn’t get where he is by the sweat of his own brow. He got there in large part because of the media and their unwillingness or inability to do their jobs.
The real B-HO wouldn’t wear a flag pin, tho.
Too dark and the ears are not big enough.
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