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Posted on 11/13/2003 4:51:59 AM PST by Jim Noble
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I do not like the Confederate flag. It excludes me, profoundly. And if many good people fought honorably to defend it, I still experience the sight of it as a little racial aggression against me. I imagine that whites feel this way at the sight of Louis Farrakhan--excluded, helpless to ever win his goodwill.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Yeah, those Republicans -- always playing identity politics! They are just like the Democrats, always appealing to blacks on the basis of blackness. Always appealing to gays on the basis of gayness. Always appealing to women on the basis of feminism.
Funny, I associate identity politics far more with Democrats than I do with Republicans. But Sheby Steele seems to see some commonality or equivalence between the parties on this point.
There are a lot of other reasons why I think this essay is a piece of junk, but I'll refrain.
But Steele sees race in everything. Often from a rational viewpoint, and I often agree with him. But here, he missed the boat completely.
Such 'strictures' only seem to impede caucasians; all other groups are allowed, nay encouraged, to be 'uncivilized' around race.
Tell that to the Jews in Crown Heights when then mayor David Dinkins decided to hold off on cracking down on black protestors who eventually wound up running through the streets shouting "Kill the Jews" and a few actually did kill one young Jewish man.
Because of this indifference to the threat posed by that black mob, New York will likely not have another black mayor unless they are a law-and-order Republican willing to crack down on black groups when they get out of hand.
It was also clueless and stupid. He seemed to leap from "some" to "all" with no justification or experience. Some pickup trucks in the South have confederate flags on windows?...so what, so do some everywhere else. But, to create a voting class of southerners with pickup trucks with confederate flags in the windshield is just not valid or part of his life experience.
It's extremely condescending, kind of "I come from Vermont and know what's good for you" and "I know how you think". I can't believe that voters aren't seeing his snobbery and lack of perspective. Give Al Sharpton some credit...he knows it when he sees it, this time.
Two of them go together to describe a toy that goes up and down on a string - or to describe a Democrat.
Searing.
What crap.
What's the deal on Steele, is he a black pundit trying to find dry ground?
People of color still practice slavery and exploit the caste system. People of color who raped Nanking have no regard for people of their own color to this very day.
On the other hand,
"Western whites" are the reason you are sitting in a sanitary, heated, illuminated, comfortable...(place to read this)
Western whites are the reason your mother lives into her dotage and your father went nuts over the Packers. Western whites brought you democracy, art, capitalism, Christianity, the scientific method and bubble gum.
Western whites make the world work. Yes, we aggresively "seized power." Pity for the rest of the world that our values could not have better prevailed.
But Steele sees race in everything. Often from a rational viewpoint, and I often agree with him. But here, he missed the boat completely.
Excellent points! Dean seems to me to be a typical snotty damnyankee know-it-all that looks down his nose at Southerners (he would not likely know what a "Southron" is.) However, the article's denunciation of the Confederate flag and Southern whites strikes me as blatant racism.
I have seen far too many "minorities" who see everything through race-colored glasses. My race (white) is not a characteristic I think of quickly when identifying myself, but it appears to be the defining characteristic used by members of other races.
True, but the whole notion of race in America is rapidly being blurred by interracial and interethnic marriage and the subsequent mixed-race children produced. For example, my children are half-white and half-Latino. Within a generation it will be impossible to maintain the neat categories that allow the Sharptons and Jacksons and Deans to flourish.
If that ain't the truth,,,what is???
Sorry, I've heard the expression my entire life (and use it fairly regularly myself). It is more of a "Hey" or a "Yeah" depending on the context.
Is it "proper English?" Probably not -- and I certainly don't use it in business situations.
But I use it nonetheless.
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