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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: Benito Cereno

I LOVE that pic!


41 posted on 01/31/2014 3:42:15 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is *always* intense.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every word is racist to black America.


42 posted on 01/31/2014 3:56:18 PM PST by tennmountainman (Just Say No To Obamacare)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“I know that this moment is racist because it trips my racial trigger, because it makes me feel nauseous,”......"While lamenting that her ‘white allies’ would never be fully able to understand the way black people feel"

I guess she really doesn't understand what "irony" or "hypocrite" means.

43 posted on 01/31/2014 3:59:51 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Harris-Perry, on the other hand, has a very finely-tuned racial trigger.

The Romney family noticed that about you right off.

44 posted on 01/31/2014 3:59:55 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A standard question during any psychiatric exam is along the lines of, “do you have any special abilities that you believe nobody else has?”.


45 posted on 01/31/2014 4:10:47 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jmacusa

You would think that bi-racial people (not her fault - got it!) might be a little careful about stepping into the racial identity minefield.

She’s what we in the Lowcountry call cafe au lait with extra cream. That kind of mixing produces some lovely outcomes, but apparently with some volatile attitude to go with it. Eartha Kitt comes to mind.

Melissa needs to stow the attitude & accept what G-d has given her, with maybe a little recognition for those who adopt across ethnic lines.


46 posted on 01/31/2014 4:19:08 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My sixth sense tells me she is an idiot!


47 posted on 01/31/2014 4:21:26 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just another Affirmative Action Jackson who can’t function in the real world.


48 posted on 01/31/2014 4:36:17 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Four dead in Benghazi")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just drop her off in Kenya between Kikuyu and Luo, or in Uganda between Acholi and Karamajong, or in Nigeria in the middle of one of the Igbo and Yoruba tribal gunfights.

Let’s see what her “very finely-tuned racial trigger” tells her among these totally black on black conflicts?

For that matter, drop her in South Central LA wearing the wrong “colors”.


49 posted on 01/31/2014 4:40:05 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: cloudmountain

“You are too nice. She’s a stupid racist bwitch, plain and simple.”

Thank you too much!


50 posted on 01/31/2014 4:43:12 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: BwanaNdege

“Just drop her off in Kenya between Kikuyu and Luo, or in Uganda between Acholi and Karamajong, or in Nigeria in the middle of one of the Igbo and Yoruba tribal gunfights.”

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Or Johannesburg around 2:00 AM.

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51 posted on 01/31/2014 4:43:37 PM PST by Mears
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Melissa Harris Perry - a racist of the first order. Unfortunately, when I channel surf my cable service stops at the MSNBC station even though I have removed it from the station guide. I came across her a few months ago and couldn’t click fast enough. Plus, she obviously has a lot of White folks blood. She seems to be playing the race card just like our half-black president. Neither seems to want to admit they are of mixed race.


52 posted on 01/31/2014 5:03:16 PM PST by CdMGuy
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To: Maceman

“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.”

Bingo. Well and most excellently said.


53 posted on 01/31/2014 5:57:55 PM PST by flaglady47 (Proud Conservative Republican)
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To: jiggyboy
A standard question during any psychiatric exam is along the lines of, “do you have any special abilities that you believe nobody else has?”.

Good grief! If you asked 0blahblah that question his reply would make the SOTU seem like a short offhand comment.

54 posted on 01/31/2014 6:27:26 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.

So the issue is not people or their actions - it is time itself that is racist or not. Interesting philosophical point. From a moron.

55 posted on 01/31/2014 6:33:58 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: elcid1970
Ms. Harris-Perry has never experienced anything remotely resembling racism or bigotry in her whole freakin' life, not once. No one ever told her to sit in the back of the bus, no one ever denied her the right to vote. But doesn't she sure wish she had so she'd have some ''cred''. This woman disgusts me.
56 posted on 01/31/2014 7:56:34 PM PST by jmacusa ("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

She’s too stupid to be an idiot.


57 posted on 01/31/2014 7:57:01 PM PST by jmacusa ("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Everyone has a threshold of what they consider racist.
M H-P's threshold is so low it wallows in the dirt, and yet this egotistical, blithering moron thinks so highly of herself that she apparently believes she is the arbiter of all that is to be deemed racist for all humanity.
58 posted on 02/01/2014 9:29:21 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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