Posted on 12/24/2006 6:00:25 AM PST by Raebie
The local community can say anything they want...but Nifong being disbared by the state...which is the mostly likely event to occur next (my bet is a special state bar association meeting by March to discuss the matter and give him a chance to explain)...will shift this all around.
You can't have a district attorney who has been disbared running this episode. So some junior lawyer (probably 3 years out of Duke law school), who was the cheap help that the city hired...will suddenly be in charge of the DA's office. He will sit there for two weeks and then announce the end of the whole case.
As for Nifong...after being disbared...it'll be tough to find real work so I'm betting he gets a six-month contract with CNN as their legal expert. And as for the tramp who started all of this? I'm betting she shows up by 2010...in bed with some local church minister.
It would be foolish to underestimate the power of Big Journalism to float absurd ideas and to repeat them with a straight face until they become received wisdom. The whole Katrina thing is little else but that. Bush called Katrina as well as he could have, and if Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin had picked up the ball and done what they were elected to do, there would have been an order of magnitude fewer deaths. Yet Big Journalism assigns responsibility as if Bush was the only person with any authority at all.But there's still one guy (Frank Fuster) rotting in a Flori-duh prison for imaginary crimes on account of that, years after the entire business has been totally discredited. Id like to think a republican governor like Jeb Bush might have done something about that by now.And in the aftermath of the storm the coverage was all about the victims and not at all about the National Guard. No reporter followed their progress and their difficulties. But rumors of horrors in the superdome were uncritically reported as fact - and those "facts" are still taken seriously today.
Big Journalism got McCain-Feingold passed, and soon they will be beating the drum for revival of the "fairness" doctrine to suppress dissent from their "objectivity" - which is merely the perspective which begins and ends with the financial interests of Big Journalism and (what is the same thing) the predillections of the journalists who work for Big Journalism. When that assault on the First Amendment resumes, there will be no recourse but to ask the Supreme Court to accept that the government does not have legitimate authority to define "objectivity" under the First Amendment - and therefore journalismp is presumptively a partisan activity - and legitimate as such. Recognition of that fact would delegitimate "campaign finance reform" as being legally indistinguishable from regulation of journalism. Further, it would delegitimate broadcast journalism as a activiity which is presumed to be "objective" when it mirrors and amplifies what The New York Times et al claim is "objectivity."
Ouch. What does the fact that he did not do it tell you?
BTTT
It is truly tragic what happened to the Age of Aquarius folks.They just blew it horribly.
To be perfectly honest with you,it was their blatant betrayals of their ideals and in your face hypocrisy that made me seek out places like Free Republic.I'm not always in accord with the politics of some of our members but I find them refreshingly honest and willing to look at issues way more open mindedly than most liberals.
I have a funny story for you,Frank.
A few years ago I was sitting in the locker room "chopping it up"with a group of"brothers"in my work area.It was sort of a free form roundtable where everyone chipped in their ten cents worth.Let me paraphrase the conversation:
"Two GUYS getting married?Man,thats F'ed up.The reason these kids are acting so bad is cause they took God out of the schools.A lot of these n----- want to sit on their asses waiting for the welfare check.Hell,you BETTER have a gun in your house with all those fools out there now.Abortion is sick,man.You gonna KILL your own baby?"
You get the drift.So I said,"hey,y'all sound like Republicans.So you voting for Bush in 2004?"
The loudest of the group looked at me like I was crazy and said with a serious face,"Hell,no.I vote straight Democrat.Republicans are racist"
What can one say to THAT?
To be a good liberal all you have to do is go for the cheap laugh. People who have to get things done have to do unpopular things. They can't pay more money than they take in, and they have to charge for the things they do. But any fool can criticize, and make themselves seem smart. Refuse to accept talk in lieu of action, and you are a conservative.
The reaction at Howard University to the O.J. Simpson verdict of the "best and brightest" of the black community only confirmed that an unusually large percentage of blacks view whites as the enemy and have been brainwashed into the media matrix belief that the U.S. isn't so great and they aren't welcome as a part of it.
What a shame that 40 years of propaganda has turned American citizens against the best place in the world they could possibly live in, flaws and all.
Without guilty whites, the shakedown will not succeed.
The words for what you describe is cognitive dissonance. I encounter it all the time in my debates with my black brothers and sisters. When I point out that the Democratic Party is the party that had as part of it's Party PLATFORM from 1840-1860 the defense of slavery, or that they are the party of Jim Crow, the KKK, lynchings, poll taxes, Black Codes, and opposition to Reconstruction, the Great Society Welfare State that destroyed the 2 parent black family and that the GOP WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 134TH, 14TH, AND 15TH AMENDMENTS, the first black US congressmen, senators and southern state legislators, every peice of foundational civil rights legislation from 1863-1973, and that MLK was a registered Republican they often find such truth so cotravenes their former indoctrination that they cannot process it and just tune it out.
It is an endlessly frustrating and maddening reality. The black community MUST start accepting responsibility for most of that which is negative about it's contemporary plight.
I understand perfectly. They are self-righteous, hypocritical, racist bigots. It doesn't matter how you try to justify bigotry, it is bigotry.
Good history lesson,Frank.
I think what turned the black community away from the GOP was the Goldwater fiasco of 1964 and the fact that he voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.That unwise action allowed Johnson and the big government Democrats to claim the high moral ground and to self-righteously point to the GOP as"racists".
Goldwater himself was not a white supremist.Unfortunately,many white Southerners were attracted to him mistakenly believing that he was a pro-segregationist so his whole campaign was tainted by these people.
I think blacks then jumped to the conclusion that Republican=Bigot and that distorted image stuck in the black collective consciousness.
B.S.
It is a politician pandering to racist bigots who choose to be racist bigots, no different than Lester Maddox in his prime.
Blacks are humans, with free will, no different from any other human. To excuse this group of "leader's" brand of racist bigotry as "ensnared" is condescending, and excuses their active and willing participation. Either they are equal adults, including being responsible for their own prejudices, or they aren't. Either they can be discerning voters who recognize manipulation by politicians, or they aren't worthy of the franchise. I cut them zero slack.
Anyway. . .I don't disagree with what you said, at all. . its just not the whole story. ..there is more to be discussed when we talk about obstacles to racial understanding. ..for example. ..one of the problems is that we have such a dearth of descriptive, accurate language to describe our struggles to eclipse the racial divide. The term "racism" is mostly, on both sides, misused. Not everything that divides whites and blacks can be described as "racism." However, that which divides whites and blacks needs to be understood and resolved.
You won't get there, though, snorting about African-Americans in Durham supporting Nifong being comparable to Lestor Maddox's crimes. They are both bad and maybe even, equally bad. . .but they are definately not the same thing (although they are related, for sure).
Careful with the "not listening" accusation. I said Nifong was the same as Maddox: a politician manipulating voter's racist bigotries. I did not say the Blacks in the community were. In Maddox's case, he was playing on the racist whites for votes. Nifong is doing the same with racist blacks.
And the only people in this country who should be called "African-American" are those who are naturalized immigrants from Africa. The average Black American has as little to do with Africa as I do with Antarctica. I have a White friend who was born and raised in South Africa who is far more authentically African-American than Jesse Jackson could ever hope to be. I know another lady from the Ivory Coast who gets downright indignant with the phrase: she feels she EARNED the right to be called an American, period. Catering to the hyphenated-American BS just furthers the cause of the dividers who thrive on racial and ethnic separations.
The term "racism" is mostly, on both sides, misused. Not everything that divides whites and blacks can be described as "racism."
I have a very clear definition. A racist is one who believes that one particular physical ethnicity carries a natural superiority over others. This supposed superiority can be mental, physical, cultural and/or moral. A bigot is one who prejudges things without any evidence and sticks to that judgment despite counter evidence. A racist bigot will assume the circumstances in a situation can be determined by the racial makeup of the participants, and persist in that fallacy despite the clear evidence.
The disgusting thing to me is that Blacks in America seem to tolerate, even encourage, the same behaviors from their own that has caused them so much damage when directed at them. You would think they would be the last to tolerate racists among them.
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