Posted on 05/26/2009 12:07:31 PM PDT by Graybeard58
So how do a couple of ex-radical anti-war activists spend Memorial Day?
Former "Weather Underground" activists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn held a discussion about whether President Obama's election moved America past racism -- far from it they say -- at the Hyde Park Arts Center.
“On Memorial Day, we hear that the anti-war movement just pisses people off and makes them pro-war and that’s insane,” Ayers told the crowd of 24 white, black and Hispanic men and women. Ayers and Dohrn wore blue jeans and black tops and Ayers drank iced coffee from a plastic Starbucks cup.
During the presidential campaign, conservative talk show hosts branded the married couple "domestic terrorists" -- charged but never convicted of setting bombs in the '60s -- and tried unsuccessfully to hang Ayers around Obama's neck as a campaign issue. Obama's camp said Ayers and Obama were not all that close, despite both living in the Hyde Park/Kenwood area and sitting on boards together.
Ayers said the same conservative talk-show hosts that tried to make him a boogeyman tried to caricature Michelle Obama.
“Michelle Obama has become the queen, not just of America, but of the world,” Ayers said. “Just a few months ago, she was being dragged through the media in what one New York Times person called ‘Round Two of the sulfurous national game of Kill the Witch.’ She was the 'Black Nationalist' who was 'dangerous' and 'frightening, unlike her husband who was cool.'”
Ayers found himself in the news again this weekend because he was one of 60 college professors to sign a letter to Obama asking him not to send a wreath to be laid at the graves of Confederate soldiers. Obama compromised and sent one to the graves of African-American soldiers, too.
"I just signed it because I sign any petition that comes across my computer," Ayers said. "I've gotten in the last two days, more hate mail on that than I've gotten on anything else, from people who say the Confederacy was a great time in American history."
Ayers and Dohrn declined to give Obama a grade on his first 100-plus days, saying it will all depend on whether activists in the streets push him to do great things. "The election of Obama was an astonishing moment. We were in Grant Park dancing in the streets," Ayers said.
Ayers' only indirect criticism came when he spoke of Obama's appointment of Arne Duncan as education secretary. Duncan and the other finalists ran "failed" school systems, Ayers said.
"He's moderate, like Obama. He's a pragmatist, like Obama. He's not going to piss off the right wing, like Obama. So in many ways, he's Obama's ideological soul mate," Ayers said.
"Fifty-seven percent of white voters did not vote for Obama," Dohrn said. Referring to hers and Ayers new book, Race Course: Against White Supremacy, she said, "That was the impetus for writing this book. We've got a big job to do to change those numbers."
And it will never be dead, as long as there is money to be made in perpetuating it.
Ayers drank iced coffee from a plastic Starbucks cup.-—
$25 to any starbucks employee who fixes a special yellow latte for this POS.
Limbaugh on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court: "So, here you have a racist. You might want to soften that and you might wanna say a reverse racist. And the libs of course say that minorities cannot be racists because they don't have the power to implement their racism. Well, those days are gone because reverse racists certainly do have the power to implement their power. Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist and now he's appointed one."
They sure have that right.
A good number of blacks in this country are racist bigots who hate white people and blame them for everything wrong in the world.
Of course it isn’t. Not when we use racism to decide who gets the job, who gets the promotion, who gets the Supreme Court nomination, etc. Those who supposedly decry racism practice it every day.
I guess racism won't be dead till 100% of white people vote for the black guy.
So many stories to be told on this day and they choose this.
Reason no. 487 on the "Why the Media is Hated" List: They insist on handing out megaphones to the kids that root against the home team.
There are some who like to keep it going for their own benefit. What we've known for some time, and Rush echos this.
We have reverse racism.
They would know, they hate whites more than anyone else.
57%?
What about the 95+% of blacks who voted FOR Obama?
Obviously racist.
According to them. They don’t want it to be dead because it is the only thing that allows them to exist.
Let’s not call it “reverse” racism.
Let’s call it “anti-white” racism.
Pure and simple: Racism is hate. Hate comes from the heart no matter what the color of the skin. Period
AHAHAHAHA!
Well, I hate to admit it, but 75% of Whites had better judgment than the majority of Blacks and Hispanics did. That’s just a cold hard fact.
The words of a domestic terrorist who provided moral support to the enemy in a time of war.
Bill Ayers was not ANTI-WAR, he was PRO-COMMUNIST VICTORY in war.
Ayers just thought that we should have been fighting alongside the Viet Cong.
Egads... don’t they ever get tired of playing this broken record?
You can tell they are getting worried about the growing dissent in this country. They usually play this card when they’re getting desperate.
In a just world, those two would have been swinging from the gallows a long time ago.
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