Real Americans have no trouble deciding what is American. As for Obama voters, they go with what feels good or whatever gives them personally the most loot.
Posted on 04/04/2010 2:15:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He must have gotten the idea for this article due to the blatantly UN AMERICAN occupant of the White house.
Ah, someone ought to tell this person that because the Black Panthers stand in front of polling places with nightsticks and intimidate voters, doesn’t make it any less wrong than when Klansmen did it back in the day.
Where's the evidence?
Did that include the murders of members accused of being police or FBI informants?
Like the case that young Hillary was so solicitous about, that she attended the trial herself?
Violence against Panthers like that?
Obama recited the "Azaan", the Call to Prayer, in a New York Times interview with Nicholas Kristof in 2007.
The "Azaan" contains within it the profession of faith called the "Shehada", the recital of which makes one a Moslem in the eyes of the entire Moslem world. Obama knew that from his years in Jakarta with his stepfather and uncle, and his visits to the mosque there.
He recited that Moslem Confiteor with his eyes wide open.
That creates "doubt", Al.
What is a "white nationalist" in your lexicon?
The original Black Panthers were mostly criminal sociopaths who used black berets and politics to mask their illegal activities. They tortured and murdered some of their own members suspected of being police informants. Their spokesman, Eldridge Cleaver, was a convicted rapist.
Malcolm X was murdered by the Black Muslim leadership when he publicly embraced mainstream Islam and rejected the hate philosophy of Elijah Muhammad and his crackpot followers.
There are at least six serious historical errors in this single sentence, any one of which would condemn the utterer as a dunce:
1. The British did not "quell" the Boston Tea Party (1773) by firing on its "leaders".
2. Crispus Attucks was not a leader of the Boston Tea Party.
3. Crispus Attucks was dead at the time of the Boston Tea Party, having been killed at the "Boston Massacre" in 1770.
4. As far as I know there is no infomation as to who was "first to fall" at the Boston Massacre in 1770. Samuel Gray and James Caldwell were also hit in the first volley.
5. Crispus Attucks could not have been the "first to fall" when "the British decided to quell the Boston Tea Party (1773) by firing on its leaders" because he was already dead (1770).
6. The American revolution is generally considered to have started in 1775, with the attacks at Lexington and Concord, and was in no soese at all caused by the killing of Crispus Attucks.
If you ignore the rest of the article, this is actually a very good question.
What does "being American" mean?
What should it mean?
I suspect much of the anger between right and left is based on using the same words with different unexamined meanings applied. Which means both sides assume the other is lying when it uses the words. If people were aware of the different definitions they would have at least the possibility of an intelligent conversation.
It would be a very good idea if anyone who wants to talk about "un-American" behavior be required to provide his definition of "American."
Poor writing on the authors part!
C’mon, you know the drill. In the words of Fat Teddy, “It’s not the evidence, it’s the seriousness of the charge.”
“when it is clear that he is a Christian.”
And exactly where will he be worshiping this Easter Sunday?
He's not only stupid, he's ignorant. At least it can't be said of him that he's educated beyond his intelligence.
Al Calloway - squeaky wheel looking for more grease, so what else is new?
It appears to me that the ultimate “data” for his thesis that the Tea Party people are evil “White nationalists” is the following quote, “(they) called black congressmen everything but the children of God, including the N-word, and even spat on one last week as members of the U. S. House of Representatives were about to enter the Capitol Building”.
It is shocking to think that I now live in a country in which such utterly fabricated Agiprop can be used by one side to drive the public debate. Germany in the 1930’s must have felt like.
For the most part, the great-unwashed masses of society do not decide what is un-American; we have been conditioned to allow the Corporate owned mass media to tell us what is un-American.
Bottom line: Corporations decide what is un-American.
I think it is all about wanting Blacks to dominate America. They only have one card to play.
Real Americans have no trouble deciding what is American. As for Obama voters, they go with what feels good or whatever gives them personally the most loot.
“If people were aware of the different definitions they would have at least the possibility of an intelligent conversation.”
You project an innocence upon the other side of which they are in no way possessed. There is a REASON simple words and historical concepts have meaning other than they deserve in their minds.
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