Posted on 02/17/2008 8:03:54 PM PST by neverdem
Practically every Democrat I know is a racist. They all hate Bush, but they’re huge haters of minorities too.
Bruce Bartlett sets the record straight in 'Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past', in which he observes to the contrary that "virtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat."Thanks neverdem.
“Grivence politics is a mental illness.”
I hear THAT. I see it most acutely amongst some of my family members, who, of all people should know better, given that we were raised in a safe and sane military environment.
I will also add that aberration in contagious. I have witnessed my beloved (and intelligent) siblings become infected with the degraded mindset of “blame-America-first” liberalism.
Thank God that I’m the black sheep of the family, and have always preferred to think with my own noggin. I pity my kinfolk who have chosen to follow the herd over the cliff.
“Submitting oneself to slavery is the ultimate expression of racism. I would die a free man rather than submit to slavery.”
Penetrating a lifetime of liberal brainwashing is tough work, but still I persist with my family, where, and when I can.
I find that they can only ingest small doses of truth, covered in a sugar pill, for it to stay down. Doing things like encouraging them to support (and take pride in) our troops has led to a heightened tolerance level on their part to at least listen quietly to small tidbits of conservative truth.
I know for a fact that my brothers and sisters never willingly submitted to the slavery they defend today. It took many decades of constant left-liberal reinforcement to dilute, then supplant the solid moral foundations with which they were raised.
In fact, I have stymied their arguments many times by pointing out the conflicts between their political stance and the imperatives of their upbringing.
That usually produces an angry sibling (see my tag).
The bottom line is, that until a person takes the personal responsibility to honestly inform themselves of ALL the data, they will remain ensnared in the chains of their brainwashing.
One of the central and unspoken tenets of liberal doctrine, is that one must never examine the enemy’s data. To do so would expose liberalism for the lie that it is, and rapidly convert the observer.
But that is the price of freedom. One must be willing to LOOK.
“...we all know the modern liberal definition of a racist: anyone that they cannot compete with in a rational debate.”
Ain’t that the truth?
As to blacks and the Republican party... When I was a kid, all of the elder members of my family were Republicans. They were all born in the deep South in the early years of the 20th century, and knew hard racism, firsthand.
Yet, I can’t recall ever hearing any of my grandparents voicing a racist thought. Sure, they may have said to me openly that “You’re going to have to be twice as good to get half as far”, and things of that nature, but they never expressed hostility toward the majority culture.
I once asked my grandfather why he was a Republican, and he told me, “Well, that’s the party of Lincoln”, as if it should be plain as the nose on my face.
My father’s generation, on the other hand, were practically all Democrats. Mom once explained to me that blacks had shifted to the Democrat side because of their allegiance to FDR. I’ve since discovered that to be the true point at which it happened.
Still, the fact that so many blacks could move to the party of Jim Crow and solid racism is a testament to how deep their love for FDR was. Once the shift had occurred, the Democrat party set about exploiting that population with all of the marxist slavecraft they could muster.
And so today, you find a black population that is nearly completely left-marxist in its thinking and agreements. Among blacks, the Republican party has been so thoroughly vilified, that most blacks would run screaming if you tried to even explain the simple tenets of Republican political philosophy to them.
I know it firsthand, because I suffered that indoctrination and its effects for decades before I escaped the plantation.
You manifest a generosity of spirit born of obvious love for family and community. That is the essential character of truth. It does not need to be brash or violent, angry or spiteful. Truth is always the source of light in the midst of darkness.
The fire and brimstone preacher makes clear the suffering in sin that plague his listeners. He shines the light of truth in the darkest corners of their lives.
A sweet spirit is the most powerful tool in the service of truth. It is confident, gentle and filled with assurance that the way out of fear and ignorance is in the direction of love.
“A sweet spirit is the most powerful tool in the service of truth. It is confident, gentle and filled with assurance that the way out of fear and ignorance is in the direction of love.”
Wow. Thank you for the kind words and validation. If my family could look past their stimulus-response programming, they would see that I’m only trying to show them the light. Thanks for noticing.
John McWhorter:
What’s Holding Blacks Back?
Source: city-journal.org
Published: Winter 2001 Author: John H. McWhorter
Posted on 03/28/2001 08:25:59 PST by Pokey78
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ac210974cb9.htm
Against Reparations
Source: The New Republic
Published: 12 July 2001 Author: John McWhorter
Posted on 07/18/2001 08:37:51 PDT by BufordP
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b55ad4f04bf.htm
The Color of His Skin:
Would Barack Obama be even considered for President if he were white ?
New York Sun | 09/22/2006 | John McWhorter
Posted on 09/22/2006 12:58:09 PM EDT by SirLinksalot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1706416/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/561839/posts?page=17#17
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/561839/posts?page=19#19
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/561839/posts?page=56#56
Ebonics Slang No Substitute for Standard English
Project 21 | 8.23.02 | Michael King
Posted on 08/23/2002 12:22:20 PM EDT by mhking
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/738223/posts
“Anyone who wants to find out more about the Ebonics debate should read the book by University of California-Berkeley Linguistics Professor John McWhorter, Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of ‘Pure’ Standard English. He closely examines the argument for Ebonics. He also touches on it in his book Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. In the latter book, McWhorter argues that educators who rely on Ebonics as a crutch for students to learn ‘the Queen’s English’ accomplish nothing more than leaving young minds further behind.”
No Qualifiers Needed (Turning down the ironic insult of racial preference)
World Magazine | 2/1/2003 | Prisca Shrewsbury
Posted on 01/30/2003 11:16:47 PM EST by Otta B Sleepin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/833000/posts
“The common belief that all black people, regardless of class, suffer from racism to such an extent that it hampers academic achievement cannot be fully confirmed or denied using simple statistics, but minority author John McWhorter in Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in the Black Community (Perennial, 2000) challenges the view that systemic racism still pervades American society... Mr. McWhorter notes that the black students populating his classes at the University of California-Berkeley were from the middle class and not from the ranks of the poor, whose plight is often invoked in support of affirmative action... As Mr. McWhorter asks, are black people so weak that we cannot achieve in any but ideal circumstances?”
Rich, Black, Flunking (Education Study)
East Bay Express | Susan Goldsmith
Posted on 05/23/2003 10:06:51 AM EDT by rattrap
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/916557/posts
“John McWhorter, the author of Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, says Ogbu’s book roiled the waters of academia, which he believes is too invested in blaming whites for the problems plaguing black America. ‘There’s a shibboleth in the academic world and that is that the only culture that has any negative traits is the white, middle-class West,’ says McWhorter, a UC Berkeley professor of linguistics who is currently serving as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a New York think tank. McWhorter’s own book, based largely on the author’s experiences as a black man and professor, blames a mentality of victimhood as the primary reason for most of the problems in black communities — including educational underachievement. ‘There’s an idea in black culture that says Plato and hypotenuses are for other people,’ he says. ‘There is an element of black identity today that sees doing well in school as being outside of the core of black identity. It’s a tacit sentiment, but powerful. As a result of that, some of what we see in the reluctance of many parents, administrators, and black academics to quite confront the ‘acting white’ syndrome is that deep down many of them harbor a feeling that it would be unhealthy for black kids to embrace school culture too wholeheartedly.’”
Minister: Blacks’ Loyalty to Democratic Party ‘Unfounded’
NewsMax.com | 6/22/04 | Jon E. Dougherty
Posted on 06/22/2004 5:35:10 PM EDT by kattracks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1158186/posts
“Syndicated columnist Robert Tracinski says liberal orthodoxy espoused by Democrats has failed, and the ‘ideological momentum has shifted to the right.’ He says the gauntlet of conservatism has been picked up by ‘new black intellectuals’ like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and John McWhorter.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1207851/posts?page=35#35
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1207851/posts?page=73#73
Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum
AP | July 09, 2006 | Erin Texeira
Posted on 07/09/2006 2:16:25 PM EDT by TomServo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1662800/posts
“Reparations opponents insist that no living American should have to pay for a practice that ended more than 140 years ago. Plus, programs such as affirmative action and welfare already have compensated for past injustices, said John H. McWhorter, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute. ‘The reparations movement is based on a fallacy that cripples the thinking on race - the fallacy that what ails black America is a cash problem,’ said McWhorter, who is black. ‘Giving people money will not solve the problems that we have.’”
Barack Obama: white America’s candidate (guilt ridden white liberals)
spiked-online.com | 22 January 2008 | John Browne
Posted on 01/30/2008 3:14:38 AM EST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1961854/posts
“A significant majority of people do look far beyond a candidate’s race or gender when deciding whether to vote for him or her. But Obama’s candidacy reflects a lot more than that. Many white liberals feel that his success in coming this far - and especially if he wins - tells us so much about how the United States feels about itself. David Greenberg called him the ‘great white hope’, and quoted social critic John McWhorter as saying: ‘What gives people a jolt in their gut about the idea of President Obama is the idea that it would be a ringing symbol that racism no longer rules our land.’”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=mcwhorter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=johnmcwhorter
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