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The press discovers 'unconscious racism'
American Thinker ^
| September 23, 2008
| James Lewis
Posted on 09/23/2008 4:58:18 AM PDT by vietvet67
The Associated Press has discovered racism, and it's in you --- yes, you, the ones who have doubts about Obama.
How was the AP able to read your ugly racist mind? By looking at word association, a method that was pioneered a hundred years ago by psychologist Carl Jung. It turns out that for almost half of the voters blacks are associated with words like "violent" and "lazy." AP along with psychologists at Stanford University found that "40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents."
Well, I could have told them that. How many people walk into a black inner city neighborhood at night without fear? Including black people?
Let's suppose the AP's results are true, just for the sake of argument. The next question should be: Do negative attitudes toward blacks reflect reality or prejudice? As Alan Keyes often says, is it just adult judgment to be critical of many blacks (especially those who blindly follow Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright) or is it irrational race hatred?
Can you think of any reason why the word "black" might be associated with "violent" in America? Well, P Diddy can. He was recently
quoted as saying in regard to Sarah Palin:
""Alaska, M*****F*****? ... There's not even no crackheads in Alaska. There's not even no blacks in Alaska. There's not even no crime."
Now Mr. P Diddy is a gangster rapper. Violence, anybody? Gangster rap is the music of gang bangers that has been popularized and celebrated by white and black media. No matter how many blacks and white get hurt in the process.
Even Louis Farrakhan is critical of black crime and social pathology. The only black leaders who are not critical of bad stuff like that are Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson -- and they are cynically profiting from black suffering in order to blame it all on whitey.
So are 40 percent of whites wrong to be critical of black crime, when P Diddy associates blacks with crime? "There's not even no crime" in Alaska, said the gentleman.
Well, let's try this other "sophisticated" psychological test.
What are your first word associations with:
1. Clarence Thomas
2. Condoleezza Rice
3. Thomas Sowell
4. Rosa Parks
5. Bill Cosby
6. New Orleans Jazz
7. Duke Ellington
8. J.C. Watts
9. Col. Alan West
10. Colin Powell
I can tell you some of mine. Clarence Thomas: warmth, courage, admiration. Condi Rice: Guts, achievement, grace, beauty. Rosa Parks: Heroism. New Orleans Jazz: happiness. Col. Alan West: guts, heroism, spine, morality.
You see, what's happened here is that blacks as a group have been screwed by the media, white and black, which has elevated gangster rappers over heroes. That has only been true since the rise of the Politically Correct culture, the rise of the Black and White Left.
What has happened since the Civil Rights revolution is a lethal failure of leadership in much of the black community -- not all of it, thank heavens. But the courageous people who have taken a stand against social pathology in the black inner city neighborhoods are often attacked and abused for it. Even Barack Obama was attacked by Jesse Jackson after being critical of black rates of social pathology.
This is another reason why Barack Obama should not be elected. Obama may have the capacity to grow to a mature and positive leader of the black community, one who can help lead his people out of their self-imposed slavery -- to drugs, to violence, to glorification of music that celebrates women as "hos" and "bitches," and men as "n words." The media, black and white, and the music industry, have done a terrible, terrible disservice to black people ever since the rise of Politically Correct politics. Before that the music industry was one of the great symbols of black creativity and achievement. Just think"gospel," "jazz," "soul music," "Motown," "rhythm and blues."
That is why I have the greatest admiration for Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Thomas Sowell and other heroic black conservatives. These are the people who should be the most admired: Not P Diddy, not Louis Farrakhan, not Jesse Jackson. Those are the bad guys who have surrendered and profited from social pathology, not fought it. And they know that very well.
When whites are critical of blacks they are said to be racists. When blacks are critical of whites they are said to be righteous angry. But it doesn't matter what you call it: The real question is, is it good for people? Black rage against whites is an instrument for the Jeremiah Wrights of this world, the exploitative demagogues who make a fat living off black despair.
That is why I believe that the time has not yet come for someone like Barack Obama to be elected president. Why? Because Obama would bring in 2,700 liberal appointees, people who have grown fat and rich and powerful from the suffering and media degradation of blacks. These are not people who ever solve problems. All they know is how to make them worse.
When America gets its first black president, he or she should be someone who can bring out the positive leaders, not the demagogues, not the exploiters, not the modern slave-holders -- because you enslave people through selling and celebrating drugs, through glorifying unsafe and irresponsible sex, by violent crime, by denigrating education as "acting white" -- in sum, by denying black responsibility for black actions. The destructive people should be shunned for the harm they do. No responsible politician - black or white -- would then associate with them.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mccainpalin; obamabiden; propagandawingofdnc; racism
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posted on
09/23/2008 4:58:18 AM PDT
by
vietvet67
To: vietvet67
I cannot believe it (well maybe I can)
The VERY ones who created him, are now orchestrating his demise.
These people are inhuman and have no sense of moral decency.
2
posted on
09/23/2008 5:01:39 AM PDT
by
BornToBeAmerican
(What came first? Ignorance or Dems)
To: vietvet67
How about blacks views towards whites? I sure the same thing can be said.
3
posted on
09/23/2008 5:03:25 AM PDT
by
Archon of the East
(Universal Executive Power of the Law of Nature)
To: vietvet67
I just hope to Hell that when Obama loses and the Collective Guilt Trip is laid on the non-black community, we all just shrug it off instead of assuming the fetal position (as so many of our "leaders" do) and start whining that we really, Really, REALLY aren't.
4
posted on
09/23/2008 5:05:27 AM PDT
by
Oatka
(A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: vietvet67
5
posted on
09/23/2008 5:05:51 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: vietvet67
Of course, when 90% of blacks vote Obama, that won’t be because he’s black.
6
posted on
09/23/2008 5:09:28 AM PDT
by
Humble Servant
(SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!)
To: vietvet67
If Obama loses, liberal rage about our racism toward blacks is going to cause some very ugly messes.
7
posted on
09/23/2008 5:14:00 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(On 11/4, remember 9/11...)
To: Humble Servant
Liberals are so married to their policies and agenda that they think the only reason someone would vote against Obama is because of his race.
They simply cannot fathom anyone not agreeing with his policies.
Their elitist view of the world is that only idiots and racists disagree with them.
8
posted on
09/23/2008 5:16:02 AM PDT
by
arjay
(I would rather be right than consistent.)
To: vietvet67
Wouldn’t have anything to do with the facts, would it?
Blacks are a minority, but make up the majority of inmates in our prisons. Of course, I’m sure the AP knows that this is due to every single cop, judge, and jury member in America being a racist... right?
Ditto how human beings handle economic responsibilities. For example, there is a much lower level of debt among whites and Asians in the $31-35,000/yr income bracket than there is among blacks in the $66-70,000/yr income bracket. But, my guess is that the AP has made up its mind that money itself can be subtly racist if it wants to.
Of course, these two statistics have more to do with the liberal ethos regarding responsibility and moral code that has been hammered into ethnic cultures here in the US for generations. Witness the responses to natural disasters in the US: in NO, a liberal enclave for decades, there was widespread looting and rioting by blacks, whites, and hispanics, with strident public demands for government handouts and economic assistance. In the midwest and Texas, looting was almost nonexistent, there was no violence, and no public outcry that the government take care of the individual. Instead, people pitched in and took care of themselves as best they could without stealing from their neighbors. It didn’t matter whether you were black, white, Asian, or martian.
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posted on
09/23/2008 5:16:39 AM PDT
by
snowrip
(Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
To: vietvet67
92% of blacks will vote Obama, and that is NOT racism?
10
posted on
09/23/2008 5:18:26 AM PDT
by
SouthWall
(I'm concerned about McCain. I'm scared of Obama. 6/4/08)
To: vietvet67
That is why I believe that the time has not yet come for someone like Barack Obama to be elected president. IMHO the MSM has gleefully piled on the race issue so the can conveniently ignore the fact that the candidate that they are so desperate to elect is nothing more than an empty suited community agitator and will never be qualified for the position of POTUS!
They continue to make themselves look like the fools they are by getting on their high horse with the the race issue. I will not be shamed into voting for someone, whether they be black or white, male or female, who lacks the qualifications and moral fortitude to lead the country!
To: SouthWall
"92% of blacks will vote Obama, and that is NOT racism?" It would be racist if the candidate were a black conservative Republican. Since he is a liberal Democrat, racism is not possible. /sarc
12
posted on
09/23/2008 5:20:39 AM PDT
by
CASchack
To: arjay
Liberals are so married to their policies and agenda that they think the only reason someone would vote against Obama is because of his race.They simply cannot fathom anyone not agreeing with his policies.
Their elitist view of the world is that only idiots and racists disagree with them.
And that's why they're always so surprised when REALITY sneeks up and bites them in their collective arses!
Anyone can fill the silence in the air with words.......speaking them doesn't make it real, actions do.
I wonder what they're going to call their new Medical Malady if they lose this election too.......?
13
posted on
09/23/2008 5:26:23 AM PDT
by
thingumbob
(McGenius-Palin beats Obomber-Hide'n (Remember, dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!))
To: vietvet67
Really starting to believe that liberalism is a mental disorder. They refuse to believe that the reason someone will not vote for the “chosen one” is because of the failed policies his party has come to represent and not his skin color. They have hijacked their own party and driven it so far left that their policies border on socialism.
I suppose the easy answer to this accusation is to bring up Manbearpig and the “haughty” John Kerry. Suppose that being white is the reason that these two were not elected. All I can say is let the press keep pushing this angle because it really is turning a lot of people off.
14
posted on
09/23/2008 5:28:47 AM PDT
by
RU88
(The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
To: thingumbob
That’s another thing about libs
talking about a problem = doing something about the problem
15
posted on
09/23/2008 5:33:09 AM PDT
by
MrB
(0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
To: vietvet67
They can find conscious racism on BET any day.
16
posted on
09/23/2008 5:36:12 AM PDT
by
billhilly
(I was republican when republican wasn't cool. (With an apology to Barbara Mandrell.))
To: MrB
Agreed. Words are cheap. Actions speak loader than words.....their going to find that out on Nov.4th.
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posted on
09/23/2008 5:36:32 AM PDT
by
thingumbob
(McGenius-Palin beats Obomber-Hide'n (Remember, dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!))
To: thingumbob
18
posted on
09/23/2008 5:37:09 AM PDT
by
thingumbob
(McGenius-Palin beats Obomber-Hide'n (Remember, dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!))
To: vietvet67
lazy, uneducated, violent
all key words to describe the common man and his lifestyle
.... might help explain their disproportionate representation in the jails
... let alone first time offenders, repeat offeners
but thats racist too, isn’t it?
To: billhilly
“They can find conscious racism on BET any day.”
LOL!
good post - absolutely correct.
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