Posted on 02/16/2008 4:53:50 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
Tavis Smiley, the bestselling author of the "Covenant With Black America," is in a world turned upside down. He said he's being "hammered," "barbecued," and is "catching hell" from black Americans for suggesting that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) made a major mistake by declining to speak at the State of the Black Union event that Smiley plans to host next week in New Orleans.
"There's all this talk of hater, sellout and traitor," Smiley said to me in a telephone interview. Smiley even mentioned getting death threats, but wouldn't elaborate. He said his office has been flooded with angry e-mails. "I have family in Indianapolis. They are harassing my momma, harassing my brother. It's getting to be crazy," Smiley said.
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Welcome to a faint shadow of the world that Clarence Thomas has been living in for years, Tavis. How’s it feel, jerk?
LMAO, “Barak, the Magic Negro”. Still laughing.
Tell all your dopey white friends who are “inspired” by Obama about this to bring them back to earth: he is the Black candidate, and nothing more.
Obama is pretty smart to avoid this. Despite him winning only states with a 49% Black electorate, and rigged caucuses, Obama is trying to keep alive the fiction that he is anything other than the Black fringe cadidiate.
Written by a liberal columnist in the DNC Times of Los Angeles.
Imagine if a bunch of white people got together for a “White State of the Union.” How pathetic would that be? Doesn’t the word “union” imply we are all in it together? Who is forcing whom to segregate here, anyway, Tavis?
You’ll have to do better than that, they already call us all those things. :^)
or being pimped out...
Hmmmm ..?? wrong guess - you better keep your day job.
Larry speaks the truth.
You need to see the video on youtube that’s has the audio of the Paul Shanklin song.
The song:
Barack the magic negro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXz2xaLNMQ
Rush gives the background to the appellation, which originated from a black L.A. Times editorialist:
“Barack The Magic Negro” The History Of The Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0HCXpbxh9s
Tavis Smiley suckles at the teat of PBS...when Bill Moyers isn’t working it.
In fact I’ve already heard of such accusations from “friends” over a evening dinner engagement. After a bit of bashing I simply sat quiet, in utter amazement! I leaned over and told my date I was going to ask the waitress for some tinfoil.
And all I could think of was the line from Atlas Shrugged about making things into a highly intellectual virtue...
Why, he’s an Uncle Bill.
Who cares? When HRC steals it at the Convention, all the air goes out of the D balloon, leaving the presidency for the taking. He’s the Rs best friend; may he keep going and keep dividing their base.
Smiley is reflecting a common trait among race pimps — they can’t stand any black candidate who would seek white votes.
Too non-polarizing, which is what they are really all about.
Obama would be a fool to appear. He is running to be the President of all America.
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