Posted on 07/25/2009 6:01:42 PM PDT by Dinah Lord
Edited on 07/25/2009 7:13:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
"...In achieving his goals, Gates is also trying to put an end to what he calls the One-****** Syndrome-the idea that the white world will make room only for one black icon at a time—be it a Nobel laureate, an army general, a Hollywood director, or a TV talk-show host...."
Or in the words of the esteemed professor, "I'll see yo mama on the porch!"
Guess that racist apple didn’t fall far from the tree. This is what affirmative action has done to the Harvard faculty. There was another Black Harvard professor on Fox this evening who was just as racist as Gates, so they have their own group of Whitey Haters within those ivy-covered walls.
And the hits keep on comin’!!
That a guy who believes things like this is a senior Harvard professor instead of a crackpot muttering to himself on a stool at the end of a bar shows how pathetic our higher education system is.
And the hits keep on comin’!!
This Thread won’t latst long
Having marinated for decades in a hermetically sealed leftist, anti-white academic environment, Gates has no way of knowing how smug, elitist and racist he comes across to ordinary people.
Holy c***!
I read most of the first page, and then noticed that there were at least seven more.
If the author intended to convey any message other than Gates’ being a narrow-minded, egotistical, mentally challenged bigot,
she failed.
And the hits keep on comin’!!
This article is the mother lode on fun facts about the Skipster.
How about this?
In 1969, he began his application to Yale: "My grandfather was colored, my father was Negro, and I am black." He concluded less eloquently but more feistily: "As always, whitey now sits in judgment of me, preparing to cast my fate. It is your decision either to let me blow with the wind as a nonentity or to encourage the development of self. Allow me to prove myself."
"Coming from Appalachia, from a tiny village in the Allegheny Mountains, eager to be accepted by this larger black world, Gates longed to "immerse himself in blackness," as a friend once described it. His plan was to admit that he didn't know a whole lot of things. But he would find out what it meant to be black, to be socially responsible to the larger African American community, and yet retain his own personal identity. He would rid himself of racist brainwashing like not finding kinky hair beautiful.
I think he is sad and disappointed that obama is President and that Americans regardless of their race voted for him. Poor ol' fool, so much harder to be a victim of your race in 2009 America than it used to be...unless you're a white cop who ironically was protecting a black man's property against what was reported as a theft in progress.
Oh dear, have I done something wrong?
So he’s been playing the race card from day one.
But if she hated whites, she disguised it well, both inside and outside her home. In 1957 she was elected the first black secretary of the Piedmont PTA. Two years later, however, when Skip was nine, he got a full glimpse of his mother’s antipathy toward whites. The family was watching a CBS News documentary about Black Muslims, “The Hate That Hate Produced.” To Skip, the Muslims were “just about the scariest black people I’d ever seen. Black people who talked right into the faces of white people, telling them off without even blinking.” He recounts the scene in Colored People: “While I sat cowering in our living room, I happened to glance over at my mother. A certain radiance was slowly transforming her soft brown face, as she listened to Malcolm X naming the white man the Devil. ‘Amen,’ she said, quietly at first. ‘All right now,’ she continued, much more heatedly.
“All this time, and I hadn’t known just how deeply my mother despised white people. It was like watching the Wicked Witch of the West emerge out of the transforming features of Dorothy. The revelation was both terrifying and thrilling.
“The same thing would happen several years later when the Martin Luther King riots were shown on television. The first colored secretary of the Piedmont PTA watched the flames with dancing eyes.”
Of course there is no such thing as Black Racism towards other races
Does Thomas Sowell require that his name be preceded by the title “Black Scholar’? Does Shelby Steele? Was Einstein a “white scholar”? Milton Friedman? You know what a “black scholar” is? Some clown black skinned who studies, yes, black scholarship, which itself is a study of black scholarship, get it?
You did nothing wrong. It looks like a long and interesting look at this guy I had never heard of a week ago.
I used to manage section 8 housing and welfare apartments i can tell you a few stories about smells and racism one story involves several people in a certain aprtment complex and my wife being surrounded by tenents with ball bats
I can tell you this my wife didn’t get a scratch but some walked away limping ....
Gates would be serving wienies were it not for affirmative action. For African Americans of achievement, it might be best to check such names as Condolisa Rice, Walter Williams, and others who actually have drive, superb IQ, and the ability to do something useful. (Harvard professor does not hack it - unless it is in Math, Physics, Engineering...)
No. But the title of that article sure is risqué ....
This chap is quite the middle of the road personal friend of Barry ..............
Did you read the article? OMG. Talk about racist! Oh, and you can throw elitist on the pile, too.
By 1996, the Gateses had moved into a $890,000 house on tony Francis Avenue. Coyly dubbed the Writer's Block, or Smart Street, it is home to Cambridge's haute literary intelligentsia. Among Gates's new neighbors were Julia Child, John Kenneth Galbraith, and historian Justin Kaplan and his wife, novelist Anne Bernays. Even within the privileged confines of Harvard, Gates was atop the crème de la crème brulee.
Gates's life had become more like that of a movie star than an academic. He earned his frequent flier miles on the Concorde and stayed at the exclusive and stately Berkeley Hotel when he was in London for the BBC. In Hollywood, it was lunch with Jodie Foster, his former student at Yale. Then, perhaps, it was off to Washington, D.C., for the premiere of Spielberg's Amistad, or to Chicago for the opening night of his friend Anthony Davis's operatic version of the Amistad story.
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