'My Master's House' (Jayson Blair is a true sell out)

Wall Street Journal ^ | Wednesday, September 17, 2003 | JOHN MCWHORTER

[TADSLOS]

Even if I wanted to read his drivel, could I believe it?

NO.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

John McWhorter Rules BUMP! :)

[mountaineer]

The spelling of Jayson Blair's first name suggests that he is black.

I know a white kid in his 20s whose name is spelled the same way. So much for that generalization.

[scabbage]

"Burning down my masters house" Gee, how incredibly Jesse Jackson of him. He fabricates stories but the white man is the villan as usual. What a piece of waste. The white man enslaved him to do this terrible deed, and he was treated like a slave. I`ve no doubt that the stupid mutts who lined up in droves to buy Hitlerys book, will be the same ones who will line up for this one as well and eat up every word. "The master forced me to steal other peoples stories" Oh you poor man! Excuse books I call them. Honor and accountability go out the window and they unbelievably get rewarded by it.

[an amused spectator]

ping for you, Michael.

[mhking]

John McWhorter rocks!

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[edsheppa]

Of the fraction of American men, first name Jayson, what fraction do you expect would be self-described black? I think it would be very, very high so Mr. McWhorter's inference and resulting anxiety were justified.

[netmilsmom]

Many names that are universal are stated to "sound black" by people. When I wanted to name my daughter Giselle, my sister said it sounded black. /huh?/
My niece is naming her daughter Mikayla Monique. My niece is blonde with green eyes and her husband is blonde with blue eyes.
My adopted sister is Debra. What color is she?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

My adopted sister is Debra. What color is she?

Irrelevant. Mr. McWhorter's testimony is that he was afraid that Mr. Blair might be black, and that he would in that case be likely to play the race card.

Mr. Blair is black, and he has played the race card.
There is no issue--except that Mr. McWhorter is off the liberal plantation and therefore is "acting white."

[mrustow]

The spelling of Jayson Blair's first name suggests that he is black.

I know a white kid in his 20s whose name is spelled the same way. So much for that generalization.

Exception proves the rule. All of the "Jaysons" I know of are black. You know of ONE white Jayson. That does not refute McWhorter. He said "suggests," not "guarantees," and suggests it does. You need to be more rigorous in your choice of words.

[mountaineer]

But I don't know any black Jaysons. I may as well generalize that all Jaysons are white, because all the Jaysons I know are white. Of course, that's a stupid generalization - just like the author's. His generalization also was irrelevant to the point of his essay, I believe.

[mrustow]

You may as well get around more, because there are a lot of black Jaysons nowadays, but there aren't a lot of white ones. Since you only know of one person with that name, I don't know why you're honking your horn so loudly. The author has a lot more experience in this matter than you do, and I don't hear him honking at all.

[mountaineer]

Well, aren't you just a nasty little person. I'm not honking my horn, merely pointing out that irrelevant generalizations add nothing to an opinion piece - kind of like your comments.

[mrustow]

McWhorter: The spelling of Jayson Blair's first name suggests that he is black.

mountaineer: I know a white kid in his 20s whose name is spelled the same way. So much for that generalization.

mrustow: You may as well get around more, because there are a lot of black Jaysons nowadays, but there aren't a lot of white ones. Since you only know of one person with that name, I don't know why you're honking your horn so loudly. The author has a lot more experience in this matter than you do, and I don't hear him honking at all.

mountaineer: Well, aren't you just a nasty little person. I'm not honking my horn, merely pointing out that irrelevant generalizations add nothing to an opinion piece - kind of like your comments.

mrustow: You took a cheap shot at the author, and I called you on it. Now you're sore. Well, you should be sore.

And if you think I'm nasty, just imagine how angry you'd be at McWhorter, if you'd tried your pathetic little stunt on him in public, and he gave you a spanking.

[torchthemummy]

I will never forget a couple of months ago when the Supreme Court essentially codified the discriminatory practice of affirmative action in college admissions. As a humble pizza delivery guy, I took a call a couple hours after the decision came down asking for a special that had recently expired. I informed the gentleman that the offer was not in our system anymore so I couldn't key it in. He said, quote, "Hey dude, I'm a black man and I need that special."
I replied, "Sorry, dude. I wish I could answer in the affirmative but I can't." I then mentioned the great deal that had replaced the other and he was satisfied.

First of all, I don't hold this dude in contempt - he's just clearly a prime example of the idea of constant compensation that has been ingrained into many black's minds. Ultimately, there are millions of small players in this fraud that is public education but I hold the King Pins in the liberal leadership level in complete contempt.

Second - I'm guessing that this gentleman had no clue about the SCOTUS ruling; probably couldn't tell me what the Dred Scott ruling was about or Plessy vs. Ferguson etc. If he did know about it, then, actually, I would hold him in contempt.

True story. Such a shame. And Jayson Blair is the posterboy for this kind of institutionalized racism.

[mrustow]

"Hey dude, I'm a black man and I need that special." I replied, "Sorry, dude. I wish I could answer in the affirmative but I can't."

You were being ironic about the "affimative," right?

You don't happen to work in the NYC area, do you? Cause that line ("I'm a black man ...") sounds awfully familiar. Or is it a coast-to-coast hit?

"Hey dude, I'm a white man and I need that special."

the idea of constant compensation

The democratic socialist writer Jim Sleeper wrote, in his 1990 book, The Closest of Strangers, of "professional blacks" who think that being black is a profession for which they should be paid (as opposed to say, being a black professional). As you can imagine, Sleeper wasn't too popular with his socialist brethren after that.

[mountaineer]

You're obsessing. Get over it.

[=Intervention=]

"Many names that are universal are stated to "sound black" by people. When I wanted to name my daughter Giselle, my sister said it sounded black. /huh?/
My niece is naming her daughter Mikayla Monique. My niece is blonde with green eyes and her husband is blonde with blue eyes.
My adopted sister is Debra. What color is she?"

Giselle is an older English name, I believe...but at least in America, names that sound different, or obscure, or that are spelled in non-traditional manners have been embraced by lower-class blacks. It's a collusion of the enduring low education levels as a result of slavery, the ghetto subculture which arose from that, and the unwillingness to embrace standard spellings (Monika, Karyn, Dijonette). These names function as a kind of social branding, which identify the name-bearer as not only lower class, but usually black. Again, it's the ghetto culture's way of identifying those who don't "play by the rules" (embrace Whitey's so-called "standard English").

Now the rules may vary somewhat if you're not in the States. Jayson, for instance, I have seen several times among Australian white males.

[mrustow]

You're obsessing. Get over it.

You're projecting.