Iraq war shows up divide between white and black in US

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 4-7-03 | staff

[syriacus]

Many blacks see wrongs in the conflict that white Americans often cannot discern, African American scholars and analysts say.

In other words, white Americans are not sensitive enough in a "politically correct" way. We aren't open-minded enough. We aren't tolerant enough. What a laugh!

America is filled with people of much more varied backgrounds than most nations. Generally speaking, people of all different backgrounds are given an equal shot here.

Unlike some folks in other countries, we haven't declared war on particular groups because we don't like the books they publish, the clothes they wear, the entertainments they enjoy, or the religion they profess.

We generally believe in "live, and let live," and I think we are allowed to defend our lives when faced with those who believe in slaughtering people because of their beliefs or because of the way they dress or behave in daily life.

[syriacus]

How exactly does affirmative action work at black universities? Does that mean a white guy can get a break?

Good catch.

[mtbopfuyn]

Hey, where's the barf alert?

This is a rag from Australia, our friend? Sounds more like French swill.

[Ga Rob]

"For one thing, many black people say their history makes them especially sensitive to the spectacle of a dominant entity asserting its will over a weaker minority."

Yeah because you know black folks are the only people who have ever been enslaved. I guess that's the way they teach it in the indoctrination centers.

[conservativeinbflo.]

fortunately, there are many blacks out there who do not think this way... and how can they make comments like that, when the most powerful woman in the country is Connie Rice, and one of the most powerful is Colin Powell? Or are they just viewed as "uncle toms"?

perhaps they need a good dose of Thomas Sowell... as for the election where they were "disenfranchised," maybe if those who make that claim knew how to punch a hole correctly, they wouldn't feel this way! GAG!

[DCPatriot]

Uh, African-Americans are Democrats.

To suggest a racial divide over the war is intellectually dishonest, IMO.

What's the percentage of Dems that are anti-war (read: anti-Dubya)?

[syriacus]

The war in Iraq is illuminating a racial divide in America, a profound rift in thinking between blacks and whites. Different histories and different experiences are bringing many people to different conclusions.

Different conclusions? Like in the jury's decision in the OJ trial?

[VMI70]

Ping

(This ought to be good)

[nina0113]

I've heard the same talking point from three different black people who don't know each other - "How can we expect Saddam to abide by international law (the Geneva Convention) when we don't (acting without the UN)?"

I'm wondering where that talking point is coming from - black radio stations? And where did they get it?

[homeagain balkansvet]

As long as white Aussies kick the snot out of Aboriginals for sport, no Aussie has the slightest reason to even MENTION American racism. Aussie racism makes Yazoo City, Mississippi, 1955 look positively liberal.

[JimRed]

...US President George Bush himself, excoriated by many blacks as the victor in a contested election in which black votes reportedly went uncounted.

Stalin and the DNC: tell a big enough lie often enough and it becomes th truth.

Though they are 12 per cent of the general population, blacks make up 21 per cent of the US military.

Another lie; it's more like 14%; and most of them are folks I'd be proud to call neighbor.

[biblewonk]

Thank goodness for the countless fine black service members and their families. This article and the people of which it speaks slap every one of these great Americans square in the face.

I have to keep reminding myself and my family about General Brooks and Walter Williams and the black Christians we know. We have to ignore the vast statistics, like the prison article on the FR today, and the black vote and our neighborhood which tend to make us feel like bigots.

[majordivit]

A large percentage of black Americans get animated by leaders who hate America and attack American values. That is why Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Al Gore and Bill and Hillary Clinton get overwheming support among blacks. Bush presents the antithesis. I've always said to people who wonder why New York State Senate candidate Hillary Clinton felt it necessary to kiss Sharpton's ring and to accuse the New York City police of murder is because she had to play to the anti white anti cop anti american black street... It's not a monolithe, there are many decent patriotic black americans, but the haters sure represents a huge percentage of the black vote.

[ThomasMore]

[mil-vet]

...attacking Iraq without provocation...

I should think the fact that iraq bankrolled both WTC attacks ('93 & 9/11) is more than enough "provocation"!

Liberals, by their very nature, are apparently unable to accept the fact that enemies can and do exist - appeasement, therefore, is the only thing they understand. The whole concept of "pre-emptive action" would naturally be a source of consternation and puzzlement to a liberal, and it is the liberal press which is promulgating all this crap about this group or that being disenfranchised and believing this way or that.

Thanks for the post - yet another glimpse into the cockeyed world of skewed liberal thought! As if liberals ever did anything thing for ANY minority group, other than put their lying liberal foot on minority's necks to keep them under liberal control, and to promulgate devisive multiculturalism in America!

[biblewonk]

I've heard the same talking point from three different black people who don't know each other - "How can we expect Saddam to abide by international law (the Geneva Convention) when we don't (acting without the UN)?"

I'm wondering where that talking point is coming from - black radio stations? And where did they get it?

International Law is like gay marriage. It's totally phoney and usually disregarded on a whim.

[GaltMeister]

"How exactly does affirmative action work at black universities? Does that mean a white guy can get a break?"

I think he realizes that with his degree in African Culture and Civil Rights History, the only way he will get a real job is if some company is forced to hire him. That is the whole crux - people like this guy are convinced that the only way ahead for them is for people to be forced to accept them, not to accept them on their merits.

[bimbo]

Sounds to me as if Blacks are more "anti-Bush" than they are "anti-war."

[mollynme]

I'm glad you brought that up. I was wondering if Australia had any "affirmative action" for the Aborigines?

[cicero's_son]

I agree.

But there's a historic opportunity for racial reconciliation right now. It can never happen under a Democrat president. The Democrats have everything to lose, politically, if blacks and whites start seeing eye to eye. Therefore, nearly all of their policies are aimed at dividing the races and disenfranchising blacks.