Posted on 08/25/2010 8:21:52 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
With President Barack Obama’s approval ratings dipping below 50%, members of his strongest voting bloc have also started to voice displeasure with the way he has chosen to govern.
Since Obama has taken office African Americans have faced a number of disproportionate “highs,” few of them good, such as an exceptionally high unemployment rate, a high foreclosure rate, and a high number of African-American political figures deprived of the president’s support or dismissed from his administration (such as former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, former Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod, South Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene, former green energy czar Van Jones, Democratic Illinois Sen. Roland Burris, Democratic New York Gov. David Patterson, would-be Democratic New York Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr., and Democratic Reps. Charlie Rangel of New York, Maxine Waters of California and Kendrick Meek of Florida).
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Some libtard famously introduced Nelson Mandela as that “great African-American” at some event. The twisting of language beyond recognition.
don’t try to tell me Cornel West or Eugene Robinson are intellectuals
lol
Cornel West made one of the five worst hip hop albums ever. He must be an intellectual.
They don't even know what their heritage really is, that's why they make up crap like Kwanzaa.
In reality,there is no such person as an African-American. The overwhelming numbers of Black folk in these United States of America are just plain Americans who can trace their lineage back to two or three hundred years ago right here on USA soil. The sooner Black folks grasp this, the better off they will be. As for Obama, he is pure poison for Black Americans. As is, the Democrat Party. No political party can do for Black Americans what they can do for themselves. Simple, ASSIMILATE into American society. If not, continue to follow Obama and the Democrat Party, get a few crumbs of handout every once and awhile and remain trapped forever in Democrat Party economic slavery, kept there by the Democrat Party and Barack Hussein Obama who could really care less about you, one way or the other. Wake up, fools!!!! The only Obama and the Democrat Party want you folk for is your vote. You have, and are being had from head to toe!!!
How did the white guy in the right rear crash that party?
You're contradicting your own point.
Although people from sub-Saharan Africa, the Andamanese of India and the aborigines of Australia all have very dark complexions, they are not part of the same ethnic group.
If you want to call them all "black" how do you differentiate between them? You call an African an African, an Andamanese an Andamanese and an Australian aborigine an aboriginal Australian.
Americans with an African ethnic background see Italian-Americans, and German-Americans Polish-Americans and Irish-Americans using such descriptions for themselves and so the common usage of "[ethnic background]-American" becomes "African-American."
If that's "the dumbest name imaginable", why is it that "Irish-American" is less dumb and "African-American" is indisputably, as you say, the dumbest?
When my PC acquaintances make the mistake of referring to them as African Americans, I ask what nationality that is? Typical response is a blank stare. Then the stammering starts as I explain to them that they are either Americans or Africans, they cannot be both.
Most have no idea. Thats why I suggested the trip to Africa. One of the reasons it is such a huge failure is its feudal kingdoms that still exist all over Africa that being all the chiefdoms...one for the night and one for the day. There? in backwoods Africa? The chief owns all and drives all. Anyone who gets more friends/power/success than the chief has a huge problem unless they pay unto the chief.
Societally? They are programmed to bring down the upstart, to bring down the progressive thinker. They call it PHD, or Crabs in a Bucket...PHD? Pull him down....crabs in a bucket? same stuff
It's an understandable impulse. It's not their fault they have no clear record of their heritage and culture - they have a need to fill that gap and hucksters like Ronnie Everett are more than happy to do it.
As a man of Irish ancestry I have seen my fellow Irish-Americans indulge in some similarly ridiculous mythmaking.
You’re exactly right.
Even if they received the “one big check”, it wouldn’t be enough, nor change their perpetual-victim worldview.
0bama gave a speech prior to becoming president
where he stated that he didn’t favor that “one big check”,
because it would “let America (ie, white people) off the hook” -
instead he preferred free education and healthcare,
because these would be in perpetuity.
Guess what was included in the healthcare bill?
Free education for minorities.
Yawn. - they will vote 105% for him again.
I agree. The bias of 0h0m0 to his black half is appalling. By appointing Erik Holder as AG, he gave blacks a pass to get away with murder. No DoJ investigations of blacks, no matter what they do or don't.
Sheikh Abu Bama put the race relations back decades. Until we see the formation of a "White Caucus" or the end of the Black and Hispanic Caucuses, I can't see anything to stop Abu Bama's Chicago thugs from precipitating another round late-sixties-type urban disasters. Only this time, it'll cause a civil war.
Maybe this is the communist plan after all. With mayhem and violence, the November elections would be postponed indefinitely by restricting the freedom of speech and assembly "to protect the people" from enticement and violence, respectively.
Time to get the minority rule in check then get the rest of them out in 2012. Moreover, 0b0z0 won't be running because of his ghostly status.
Watch the Glenn Beck crowd meet the Barack Panthers in 8/28. This could be very telling.
We shouldn't accomodate the thugs. We should use a lot of audio recorders; videos and phone cameras to document through pictures and audio of what happens.
Never met anyone at all who called himself an “Irish American” and that includes my ex wife’s rather large extended Irish family
Yep. Underneath all the rhetoric and racialist self-identification, American blacks are just Americans. All of the focus on linkage with Africa is a manufactured otherness which only seeks to individuate its adherents from their countrymen. Black sheeples fall for this, in the belief that it's somehow noble, when in fact, it's a diabolical plot to turn them into political slaves.
As for tracing their lineage back "two or three hundred years right here on USA soil", most of us can't trace our black roots back more than about 150 years, if that. Like most American blacks, I have no clue where my African ancestors actually came from, or what their tribes were.
The cultural, linguistic, and familial links to Africa were broken centuries ago, and lost to all time. All that remains is our American identity, which is all that really matters in the context of the present life.
Let's get real here. How much bearing does anyone's ancient family roots really have on their life? The answer, of course, is NONE. Therefore, the insistence on identifying oneself with a hyphenated appellation is an insistence on individuation only. That is destructive, and not the least bit noble.
Talk to the publishers of Irish American News or the staff at the Irish American Cultural Center.
It's very commonly used.
I'll point out that you probably never had a conversation with your wife's relatives that began: "So, tell me a little bit about your ethnic background. What are you?"
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