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]
Well am I disappointed.............
Reading the headline, I sure thought I was being singled out like Jim Thompson.
Gates is a fake, there can be only one HNIC, the real HNIC is nobama and they better not forget it!!
That tells me all I need to know about Haavaad.
It seems BARAK OBAMA doesn't have any FRIENDS who AREN'T RACIST!
I probably read something by Waugh instead. I'd like to think Black Mischief or Waugh in Abyssinia or something similarly seditious.
Unfortunately, Skippy is taken all too seriously - by our president.
By exploiting people just like Jerry Springer.
From Wikipedia:
"The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism is a work of literary criticism and theory by American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. first published in 1988. The book traces the folkloric origins of the African-American cultural practice of “signifying” and uses the concept of Signifyin(g) to analyze the interplay between texts of prominent African American writers, specifically Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and Ishmael Reed.
Signifyin(g) is closely related to double-talk and trickery of the type used by the Monkey of these narratives, but, as Gates himself admits, “It is difficult to arrive at a consensus of definitions of signifyin(g).”[1] Bernard W. Bell defines it as an “elaborate, indirect form of goading or insult generally making use of profanity.”[2] Roger D. Abrahams writes that to signify is “to imply, goad, beg, boast by indirect verbal or gestural means.”[3] Signifyin(g) is a homonym with the concept of signification put forth by Semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure wherein the signifier (sound image) interacts with the signified (concept) to form one whole linguistic sign.[4] Gates plays off this homonym and incorporates the linguistic concept of signifier and signified with the vernacular concept of signifyin(g).
Gates defines two main types of literary Signifyin(g): oppositional (or motivated) and cooperative (or unmotivated).[5] Unmotivated Signifyin(g) takes the form of the repetition and alteration of another text, which “encode admiration and respect” and are evidence “not the absence of a profound intention but the absence of a negative critique.”[6] Gates more thoroughly focuses on oppositional or motivated Signifyin(g) and how it "functions as a metaphor for formal revision, or intertextuality, within the Afro-American literary tradition."[7] Authors reuse motifs from previous works but alter them and “signify” upon them so as to create their own meanings. Ralph Ellison revises or “signifies” upon Richard Wright’s work just as Ishmael Reed goes onto signify upon both authors’ work and so forth.[8]
Stop it, please!!! I’m having Po-Mo flashbacks!
If I put a K in front of the so called N-word... Is it still the N-word?
Gates, has done a lot, and a lot of it has merit; but his ambitious quest for elitism really can't compare to the career of Booker T. Washington, who was a real educator and uplifter of his people.
This basically '60s idea of continuing to cherish the sacred wound of slavery in one's bosom and drawing a bright line around skin color and African culture in order to bash others and make oneself seem morally superior is anti-Christian, as well as tired and outdated. Racism is collectivism is fascism.
Even Oprah, after her various travels to Africa, said on her show that she is grateful when all is said and done for the circumstances that made it possible for her to be here now — which did include slavery of her ancestors.
The civil rights struggle was a huge victory; yet Gates casually throwing out there his mother's unreconstructed remarks that whites are trash and smell bad does not begin to touch the hem of MLK's garment. Would Gates like to pick up a newspaper and read the kind of things our forebearers said about black people -- no. The majority of white Americans don't repeat those things we heard our pre-civil rights relatives said; and he should know by now the difference between an academic documentation and a chatty interview aimed at the general public. No one in America is above it all. As he will soon come to realize, not even Obama.
In other words, "Yo mama!"
or,
"If the glove don't fit, you must acquit!"
What's the word that describes Barack Hussein Obama II? It's one thing to call Racist Bigot Obama that word,
but it's quite another ... to PROVE HIM that.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (pronounced doo-BOYSS) (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. At the age of 95, in 1963, he became a naturalized citizen of Ghana.
Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism— scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity..."In 1895, Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University....
While prominent white scholars denied African-American cultural, political and social relevance to American history and civic life, in his epic work Black Reconstruction, Du Bois documented how black people were central figures in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and also showed how they made alliances with white politicians. He provided evidence to disprove the Dunning School theories of Reconstruction, showing the coalition governments established public education in the South, as well as many needed social service programs. He demonstrated the ways in which Black emancipation— the crux of Reconstruction — promoted a radical restructuring of United States society, as well as how and why the country failed to continue support for civil rights for blacks in the aftermath of Reconstruction....
Du Bois was the most prominent intellectual leader and political activist on behalf of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century...Believing that [whites] should [be included], in 1909 Du Bois with a group of like-minded supporters founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)....
In 1934, Du Bois left the [editorship of the NAACP] magazine to return to teaching at Atlanta University, after writing two essays published in the Crisis suggesting that black separatism could be a useful economic strategy.... .
..In 1950, at the age of 82, Du Bois ran for U.S. Senator from New York on the American Labor Party ticket and polled a little over 200,000 votes, about 4 % of the total. Although he lost, Du Bois remained committed to the progressive labor cause. In 1958, he would join with Trotskyists, ex-Communists and independent radicals in proposing the creation of a united left-wing coalition to challenge for seats in elections for the New York State Senate and Assembly....
He was questioned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) about his alleged communist sympathies. He was indicted in the United States under the Foreign Agents Registration Act and acquitted for lack of evidence.
In 1959, Du Bois received the Lenin Peace Prize. In 1961, at the age of 93, he joined the Communist Party USA, at a time when it was long past its peak of support....
Du Bois wrote and published more than 4,000 articles, essays, and books over the course of his 95-year life.
Click to read the full Wikipedia biography of W. E. B. Du Bois
One of the songs that stood out was “The Signifying Monkey”
It was quite funny, that song.
He had a lot of good songs with meaning and was an excellent performer.
In effect, Gates is saying... 
"Only one in the woodpile!"
Hey, Brother Gates and Reverend Wright taught me... 
all I know about race
Both the black leaders and culture have a liking for communist ideas. Primarily because of the collective concept of “what’s your’s is our’s”. Naturally in realality communism does not work this way as the intellectuals and leaders get the priviledge and the masses get whatever is left behind unwanted, the “crumbs”.
It is such a foreign concept why these people that choise to blindly accept this theory in disregard of history and still support collectivism is a puzzle and somehow accept the bait of effortlessly sharing in the fruits of someone elses hard work.
Some ethnic groups seem to be more predisposed to this “what’s your’s is mine” concept. When the shoe comes to the other foot however, they are not as eager for “what’s theirs also being your’s”.
This mindset could explain why blacks continue to support democrats, as the Pubbies promote self reliance and self determination and actual equality more.
Amen!
Blacks can fly airplanes, be doctors or even run countries.But thanks to liberals and affirmative action, all that they do like that is tainted.
And if you want to see how blacks rule countries, look at Africa. Almost everyone have been driven into the ground since the whites left.
I don't think it's ethnicity per se; I think it is that vulnerable cultural groups are easier targets for socialists; however, socialists target every ethnicity to try to bring our system down. When you think of the founding of this country, you would think that the most conservative Christian values would be in New England -- just the opposite is now true. That's the place of the lowest church attendance in the nation; and gays have made a concerted effort to take over New England's state governments, as the rash of "gay marriage" suits has shown. They have captured major cities, such as San Francisco and Philadelphia.
Whatever is free, working well, reflects Christian values and is and self-reliant, Democrats and socialists zero in. They and their mouthpiece the ACLU now have "programs" to take down the heartland cities and towns, the "red" state areas that went for Bush, as well as a program to install liberal Democrats in every Secretary of State position in the 50 state governments -- who control voting -- you will see more FrankenFraud. They are fascists, they are organized, and they are evil.
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