Posted on 12/11/2009 9:24:52 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
A new addition to the New York Times annual Holiday Gift Guide has sparked a minor uproar after a blog devoted to critiquing the paper termed it "racist." Included in this year's guide, which was published in November, is a page titled "Of Color/Stylish Gifts." This first-time feature is described by the paper as "gifts created for and by people of color." After going virtually unnoticed by critics for a month, the guide's been widely slammed in the past week as a collection of "backhanded insults" which are "bordering on offensive" and "out of touch."
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This is one I don’t blame the NYT for. There IS a ‘color’ subculture in the US, and promoting items made by/for a given ethnic group should be a good thing.
For years my sainted hub bought “FUBU” t-shirts and sweatshirts at Marshalls, delighted with his ‘deals.’ Eventually someone told him it meant “For Us By Us.” It was a line of clothes designed by and made especially for black men. The designers/manufacturers probably wouldn’t have liked his most WASPy self wearing their duds.
(This is the same fashionista who years ago saw so many Tommy Hilfiger shirts in DC around the courthouse and DC government buildings that he thought Tommy Hilfiger was a Democrat candidate for office in DC)
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Man that is the BEST site on Al Gore's new contraption the World Wide intro thingy.
Thank you for posting this link. I wet there and read one article. #108 Appearing to Enjoy Classical Music.
Dude I am still crying. i picked it at random and hope the other articles are half as funny.
Actually, even the sight of the NYSlimes raises my blood pressure to dangerous levels.
That said, my next door neighbor who always has the paper in the blue plastic bag delivered......has moved and I will be spared that hideous sight for a while.
I believe it is as simple as the white liberal promoted ascension of the so called black leaders (fuehrers) such as Spit in Whitey's food Jackson, Al (the convicted liar) Sharpton, Mildred Gaddis, Marc Lamont Hill, and a host of africanhyphenamerican politicians to identify a few. In the so called hispanic community there are people like the "Wise Latina Woman". By being led, minorities can excuse themselves from being proactive in their own well being and can thank the fuehrers for everything they think and have. Their convenient scapegoat is always the caucasian. They can always react negatively to the scapegoat without harming the fuehrer.
As you and most people know, your accurately identified racist white liberals can exist in their insulated world away from the masses of any color without having much worry about the intrusion of those masses into that existence (West Ann Arbor, the Hamptons, the Upper East Side, the Gross Pointes, Malibu). And, they can make everyone join in paying their guilt or cynicism driven reparations.
about the same time Jewish people stop voting for National Socialists and Muslims.
That's really funny.
BTW how do you have a hubby if your name is Ed?
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
And, they can make everyone join in paying their guilt or cynicism driven reparations.
Øbama is The Reparations President. All those government jobs being created? "Free" healthcare? Federally-funded ACORN? Those are reparations, ultimately designed to enslave the wealth producers. Øbama's job is to turn America into a Marxist plantation; our politically-correct environment was like rich soil and ready for planting a new ideology.
Damn New York Times! :-)
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