Posted on 11/20/2004 2:51:36 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
BILL COSBY'S Wednesday visit to Baltimore did nothing for me but bring back a bad memory, one only a week old.
None of this was Cosby's fault, mind you. My experience occurred in Cambridge, Mass., during my three days at a liberal re-education camp. You know it better as the college formerly called Harvard University.
OK, so I'm kidding.
A little.
I spent three days in Cambridge, where members of the Trotter Group, an organization of black columnists, held their annual meeting. There were several symposiums held with liberal cognoscenti in the Charles Hotel and at several places on the Harvard campus. One was in the Nieman Foundation's Knight Center, where Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint led a discussion called "How Right Was Bill Cosby?"
After admitting that Cosby had erred in his assertion that teen pregnancy was rising and clarifying the comedian's data about the drop-out rate among black teens (it is as high as Cosby said) Poussaint, apparently assuming that all black columnists have liberal DNA, asserted that "You wouldn't expect [Justice] Clarence Thomas to love black people. You wouldn't expect black conservatives to love black people."
I felt compelled to mention to Poussaint that, as a conservative who loves black people, I had a problem with his assertion. At any rate, I didn't know there was a contest going on. Will all the winners of the "We Love Black Folks Contest" please raise their hands?
I don't know who started this nonsense about who loves black folks the most, but I do know this: People who don't give a tinker's damn about you will tell you what you want to hear, or what they think you want to hear. People who love you will tell you what you need to hear.
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Great article. Thanks for posting it. It should be required reading in every institution of higher learning and every MSM newsroom.
Interesting story told by one of my daughter's teachers in her mostly white private school. During class, a black boy was asked to do his homework. He said I dont have to do it bacause "I am Black, you know." The teacher said my black daughter swiveled her head around, glared daggers at him and under her breath said "loser."
The teacher said that some of the I love Black Folks teachers at the school have been giving this boy "a pass."
Upscale school revives a satire about race Student actors confront their fear of offending people, as they depict a 1960s Southern town that can't function when all the black folk disappear
LIBERALS are so conflicted.
Get around more.
1. Quit trolling on FreeRepublic.
2. Run for U.S. Senator from West Virginia.
The term is 'tinker's dam'. Cosby is right.
"People who don't give a tinker's damn about you will tell you what you want to hear, or what they think you want to hear. People who love you will tell you what you need to hear."
Truer words were never spoken.
Sign up on a "white nationalist" site. Cuz this ain't the place for you.
That is tragic. After the Civil War, there were cases where white supremacist terrorists killed black people for owning books. The old K.K.K. was an enforcer, very much like the Taliban. Long after the Civil War there were "Whites Only" signs at libraries and schools. I suppose the child was told by adults that because he is black, he was unable to or didn't need to study. These adults are guilty of spiritual lynching.
Um, is that a joke or a reference to Jay Wolfe? I forgot his Freeper name. Oh, but his campaign manager is still around, EternalVigilance.
Salute. I'm not the smartest man on the planet, but I am a Lit major. My inner Lit child tells me that "dam" is proper.
It is "Tinker's Damn", as in the alternative expression "I don't give a Tinker's Cuss"
It is here that I demand a cite.
I always wondered about the origin of that phrase. Thanks for the clarification.
How can I read it without giving them my email address?
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