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Melissa Harris-Perry brags about her sixth sense for knowing when stuff is racist
The Daily Caller ^ | January 31, 2014 | Robby Soave

Posted on 01/31/2014 2:58:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

At a recent forum at the University of Michigan, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry explained to her audience that white people will never understand why things are racist, because they lack an innate “racial trigger,” that instantly tells them when to be outraged.

Harris-Perry, on the other hand, has a very finely-tuned racial trigger.

“I know that this moment is racist because it trips my racial trigger, because it makes me feel nauseous,” she said, according to The Michigan Daily. “I’m not generally angry, but you just made me mad.”

While lamenting that her ‘white allies’ would never be fully able to understand the way black people feel, she nevertheless maintained that a faculty more committed to discussing racial issues would help improve white people’s understanding of racism.

“Part of the answer to how you begin those conversations is you bring more faculty in who are teaching these courses, who are well-resourced, who are not visitors, who are not adjuncts, but who are actual faculty,” she said.

Harris-Perry’s talk was intended to kickstart Black History Month, which begins on Feb. 1. She lectured for three hours about the history of the civil rights struggle and the problems facing black people today. The audience frequently cheered and applauded her remarks....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: idiot; media; melissaharrisperry; memebuilding; msm; msnbc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; racecard; racism
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To: equaviator
Her so-called sixth sense is probably some kind of psychological disorder.

You are too nice. She's a stupid racist bwitch, plain and simple.

21 posted on 01/31/2014 3:11:33 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Jean S
She lectured for three hours...

I wonder how many people stayed for the whole rant.


While I can't say that I know the answer to that question, I can say that Melissa Harris-Perry would have exhausted her intellectually pertinent information about five minutes into the three hours. Which means for the next two hours and 55 minutes, she could have been reading the Peoria phone book to the audience and it would have made more sense than anything she actually said.
22 posted on 01/31/2014 3:14:44 PM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

White people have feelings too, Melissa. And this white person is sick of stuffing his outrage at the unconscionable and self-serving race-baiting from leftist blacks and whites who use their own racism as a weapon against liberty.

You’re all so outraged at American chattel slavery which lasted 85 years in the United States of America and ended 150 years ago, and which was exclusively implemented and advanced by your own political party, yet you never fail to work to advocate the enslavement of us all by the tyrannical forces of concentrated government power beyond anything the founders could have imagined.

Truth is, the only objection you leftist race-baiters of all colors really have against the institution of American chattel slavery is that the slaves were privately owned.


23 posted on 01/31/2014 3:14:57 PM PST by Maceman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So "racism" is anything that blacks don't like.

The one thing some blacks don't get is how they are racist to whites (maybe they do, they just think that kind of racism is OK).

24 posted on 01/31/2014 3:15:36 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Jean S

yeah huh all she has to do is open her mouth and ive heard enough


25 posted on 01/31/2014 3:19:00 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Ray76

really puts the more in moron.

LOL I’m stealing this. Hope you don’t mind. (I promise to credit you)


26 posted on 01/31/2014 3:19:07 PM PST by KGeorge (Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Melissa is indeed “nauseous” herself, that is, nausea inducing in those who listen to her. The word she should have used is “nauseated”. People who are supposedly journalists should have a decent command of English usage in the USA. And my BS meter is clanging.


27 posted on 01/31/2014 3:19:53 PM PST by Nordic Breed
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To: KGeorge

No credit needed! Go for it!


28 posted on 01/31/2014 3:24:17 PM PST by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Please, someone tell Harris-Perry.

A lot of us just don’t care anymore.


29 posted on 01/31/2014 3:26:22 PM PST by Rich21IE
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did you ever think the reason I don’t like you has nothing to do with race.


30 posted on 01/31/2014 3:26:36 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
because it makes me feel nauseous

If people who use the word "nauseous" this way would look it up they wouldn't use it again. They are saying they make others want to puke. Of course, in her case, she does accomplish that.

31 posted on 01/31/2014 3:31:38 PM PST by Octar
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32 posted on 01/31/2014 3:33:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m not racist, I am a culturist. And yes, certain cultures are inferior to others.

You can’t choose your skin color, but you can choose your culture, choose wisely.


33 posted on 01/31/2014 3:35:46 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like The Obamanation, Miz Melissa has a white mother and a black father. Funny, neither one of them ever gets vibes from their “white side”. Race-baiters, race-haters.


34 posted on 01/31/2014 3:35:50 PM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Milton Miteybad

She must take brevity lessons from Fidel Castro.


35 posted on 01/31/2014 3:37:36 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: jeffc

Racist = Someone winning an argument with a liberal.


36 posted on 01/31/2014 3:39:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Melissa, read my fortune, then make me a sammich.


37 posted on 01/31/2014 3:40:15 PM PST by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I may not have a finely tuned ‘racial trigger’ but I do have a finely tuned Remington 700 SPS chambered in .308


38 posted on 01/31/2014 3:40:19 PM PST by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This womans mother was white. So how does that make her black?


39 posted on 01/31/2014 3:40:47 PM PST by jmacusa ("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She lectured for three hours on the civil rights movement and the problems facing Blacks today. Don’t need three hours to say what the problems facing Blacks today are—they take no responsibility for their own actions, it is all someone else’s fault. Just look at the head Black—ain’t nothing his fault, it is all someone else’s. If the Black so called leaders ever start taking responsibility for their actions and demanding that their “people” do the same, only then can we make headway in this country. But that isn’t going to happen, it is too lucrative for Blacks to play the victim game.


40 posted on 01/31/2014 3:41:39 PM PST by falcon99
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