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‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’
Atlantic Monthly ^ | May 2008 | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted on 04/10/2008 11:48:52 AM PDT by george76

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To: PzLdr

I know those are supposed to be wings on her helmet, but they look more like Yoda ears.


61 posted on 04/10/2008 4:08:21 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: When do we get liberated?; Right Cal Gal

“Great idea, tommorow I will come to work drunk and put an O’ in front of my last name! It’s really a shame I hate potatos.....”

Hey most of us paddies have self control and don’t go to work drunk! OK maybe a beer or two, but what else am I suppose to use with my cereal? Then again I am a Mc not an O’.


62 posted on 04/10/2008 4:57:59 PM PDT by neb52
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To: Doohickey

Market Street in San Francisco.
Look for me - I’ll be the one in a drindl skirt with the big.......braids.


63 posted on 04/10/2008 5:00:04 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: MrB
They have so many built in, government enforced advantages, that all they have to do is actually WANT to try, and they’ll be two legs up on the next person.

It can't happen that way. One cannot have the "on the dole" mentality and WANT to do anything. You cannot be both a gamer-of-the-system and a real contributor. You're one or the other.

64 posted on 04/10/2008 5:25:24 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (can u feel the unity?)
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To: neb52

I am a Fortune, no Mc or O but from county cook for certain


65 posted on 04/10/2008 9:19:03 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? ((Ok, Im the official Pit Bull Defender/If you can't stand behind our troops, stand in front of them.)
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To: george76

As is sometimes the case, when I see something which is alleged to be “racism”, I substitute the opposite, and see if it still sounds out of bounds.

In reverse, this works thusly:

“La Raza”. That oft-cited Latino group. Translates literally as “The Race”. Suddenly, doesn’t seem quite so innocent.

There’s a quote in the article - a good article worth reading if you’ve just skimmed it until now, where listeners start getting miffed and walking out on Cosby. This seemed like a good place for the “opposite test”. Here’s my take:

(in opposite)

“Then he attacked White naming traditions, and the style of dress among young whites: “Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people. They are showing you what’s wrong … What part of Germany did this come from? We are not Germans. Those people are not Germans. They don’t know a damned thing about Germany— with names like Wilhelm, Kaiser, Adolph, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail.” About then, people began to walk out of the auditorium and cluster in the lobby.”

In opposite, the speaker would be railing against... skinheads.

Rightly so.

So, what’s so offensive about what Cosby was saying?

I agreed rather strongly. America needs to get over the multicultural racism. Rapidly.

Or we risk, becoming history’s biggest Bosnia.


66 posted on 04/10/2008 9:35:24 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Riverman94610

Could you have a tranlator put that in english?
Thanks.


67 posted on 04/10/2008 10:17:54 PM PDT by RGRX
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To: Riverman94610

Could you have a translator put that in english?
Thanks.


68 posted on 04/10/2008 10:18:12 PM PDT by RGRX
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To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Instead of waiting for handouts or outside help, Cosby argues, disadvantaged blacks should start by purging their own culture of noxious elements like gangsta rap
Good luck with that Bill.
69 posted on 04/10/2008 10:28:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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To: neb52
"Then again I am a Mc not an O’."

Me too! :-)

70 posted on 04/11/2008 8:20:28 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly (Proud member of the largest 'Hate Group' in the USA...The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy")
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To: george76
They likely do not know who Booker T. Washington is either ?

That's old stuff. I always enjoyed Booker T. Washington and the MGs.

71 posted on 04/11/2008 8:24:46 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: okie01

Then he needs to hire better writers.


72 posted on 04/11/2008 10:00:47 AM PDT by Appleby
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To: RGRX

What up,G?You ain’t with the Ebonics”
OK,seriously,what the young man was saying is that he has a very poor image of black females because even his own mom had street habits that made her lose respect in his eyes.He thus transforms that anger and pain onto black women as a group and that their music relects this pain.Therefore the trend to label women”bitches and hos”and condoning violence toward them.


73 posted on 04/11/2008 10:14:51 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: lesser_satan; george76
Please do not bypass Free Republic's copyright rules by continuing an excerpted article in a response again.

Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints
74 posted on 04/13/2008 3:04:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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