Posted on 12/08/2003 5:55:17 AM PST by SJackson
As our society becomes more and more racially splintered, there is a stark reality...white people can't speak or register their thoughts about race nor can they have an open dialog without being considered racist.
When football player, Junior Seau was asked how to stop San Diego Charger star running back LaDainian Tomlinson, he said: "Put a couple of buckets of chicken and some watermelon in front of him and maybe that would stop him." The Miami Dolphin's Seau, who is himself a minority, was wearing a Tomlinson jersey at the time. He later said Tomlinson, a former teammate, was one of his best friends and that there was no issue. Tomlinson later agreed and said he didn't know what all the fuss was about.
Yet a few years ago, Fuzzy Zoeller, a white pro golfer, was asked what he thought Black Pro Golfer Tiger Woods was going to serve at the Masters dinner, Zoeller replied, "Chicken, watermelon, or whatever those people eat." Zoeller was called a racist, had to apologize to Tiger, and the Masters Tournament. He quickly lost his gig as a K-Mart pitchman.
Gambler Jimmy " The Greek" said Blacks were better athletes because they were bred to be that way by their slave owners. He was promptly fired.
Yet Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker, who happens to be Black, was asked about his players playing in the extreme heat. He said: " That is no problem for my players, because that's what we were brought over here for, wasn't it?" Baker never backed down from his comment, stating that's what his mother told him.
HBO had a special where personal letters of slaves were read aloud by Black celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg, Ruby Dee, and Don Cheadle. In one of the letters, a slave girl wrote: "I'm a teenage girl and my master married me to a slave from another plantation because he was strong, big, and healthy. He wanted good, strong workers for his fields and big healthy slaves that he could sell."
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ouch!
This PC thing is reminding me of the gay marriage thing for some reason.
Oh, really? Every example in the article above -- the section here, that is; since the only good reason not to post JWR it in its entirety is that the point is already made, I'll go on what's here -- is either black-on-black (which, like family, gets a pass), or white-on-black (which doesn't). If Seau isn't black, it's still friend-on-friend, which also gets a pass (except, perhaps, from the PC crowd, if it's white-on-black, but I digress).
Therefore, I'll stand by my analogy. If there had been mentioned a case of black-on-white which got a pass, you'd have a point. But, in regard to this article, it doesn't apply. Just like my analogy, there is no unacceptable double standard in the cases mentioned here.
Thus, if the author was trying to make a point of an unacceptable double standard with this article, he should have done so in the first few paragraphs and, in my opinion, he failed.
The first line of the whole article was incorrect. Despite all the propaganda to the contrary, our society is slowly but surely becoming less splintered (racially). Not fast enough, but going in the right direction.
{sigh} If I haven't yet made myself clear, I was critiquing this article, not the broader issue.
This principle, while applied to most classes and associations of people, does not apply if the statement arises from a white individual.
"Fantasyland"? Where did I say it doesn't get a pass? (Certainly not in my post to which you replied.) The real question here is, why didn't the author cite an example of it? If he had, his article would have made a valid point about an unacceptable double standard.
One last time, folks. My point from the beginning was that this article fails to make a valid point. We all know the double standard exists. But, this article doesn't show it.
Sheesh. Must be a Monday morning thing.
The slaves that wound up in America originated in Africa - where they were the losers, the strategically weaker of the tribal warriors. The winners were the slave masters, whose tribes are still alive and still enslaving their inferiors in Africa. None of the winners were on the slave ships as cargo, only the defeated. Those people are the foundation of much of Black America as it is today. Not all, of course, but much of it.
There are other segments of Black society in America founded of emigres from some of the more successful tribes - and those Blacks are the ones who regularly achieve great success in business and intellectual fields, such as Dr. Walter Williams and the inestimable Thomas Sowell. But the other segments, directly descended from those tribes that were so inferior as to allow themselves to be subjugated and shipped here as chattels - those are the ones with little hope other than to once again exist as chattels of the government. They are useful as benign slugs in government jobs and reliable, mindless voters. A minor element descended from the old tribes persists in criminal pursuits without regard for consequence - a distinct remnant of the inferior intellect that was partially responsible for the tribes' original subjugation into slavery in the first place.
The tribes of old have simply morphed into classes and gangs of today. And the politically-correct atmosphere of ignoring the problem is only deepening it.
Michael
The foods cited were chicken and collard greens. The article's author isn't even correct about a simple detail of fact.
The Negroid racial type is specially designed for hot weather, maximizing surface area wherever possible. Combine that with the profound natural selection that occurred during the slave transports and you've got a physically hardy group of people who can withstand high temperatures. I think, however, that with the interbreeding that's been going on for the past several hundred years (especially in the last thirty) that advantage will soon disappear.
The article mentioned several instances of double standards, although the Sister Souljah incidents about wanting to kill whites aren't even mentioned (Sistah Souljah speech)
Here's some of the article that you didn't read (oh, BTW, your analogy is still wrong):
Gambler Jimmy " The Greek" said Blacks were better athletes because they were bred to be that way by their slave owners. He was promptly fired.
Trent Lott said the country would have been much better off if known segregationist Strom Thumond had been elected President in 1948. There was a national outcry and he was soon stripped of his Majority Chairmanship, lost a number of his other privileges, and, of course, was forced to make a public apology.
Yet Black Muslin leader Louis Farrakhan, calls Caucasian people the "White Devil". Throughout the world there are Muslims of all colors, as Malcolm X describes in the Alex Haley bio. But in America, we have a group called the "Black Muslims."
And when presidential candidate Howard Dean said he wanted to represent guys who drive pick-up trucks with Confederate flags on them, he was called arrogant and some have called him a racist.
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