Having stated my position, I have a two-part comment. The first is reinforcing what “Faraday” observed on CSPAN yesterday. The second part is aimed at just a few people who posted in this thread (not “ “Faraday”).
A. The CSPAN show consisted of several hours of 10-12 “Black Leaders” (Barbara Lee, Socialist Democrat from CA, Maya Angelou, poet, Al Sharpton and several others) talking about how other people have kept them down for years and now they were going to rise up and assert their pride. Fine, I have minimal problems with that. A large part of their rant was going back more than 140 years to discuss slavery and how it still effects them. All Al talked about was “the dogs and fire hoses of Selma” (early 1960’s). I watched more than “Faraday” did (probably an hour or two) and I have never been so insulted in my life. I guess one example of what was discussed would suffice:
One of the speakers (I don’t remember who it was) announced that the way for Blacks to thrive economically was to only do business with each other! At one point the woman said, “Right now we are supporting the business of a white person or Asian person by shopping at their store or place of business. We should be taking our business to Black-owned stores and spending there.” There was more, she went on describing the process but you get the idea. The whole Conference was like this! All the speakers (while I watched) did not talk about working with other races, but blamed all the other races for the problems in the Black Community.
B. Although I believe that Black History Month is divisive and counter-productive, a large minority of the postings on this thread are demeaning and bordering on racist (or at minimum were heavy-handed stereotyping of an entire race). This is supposed to be a conservative forum, not a place where just white conservatives can vent. Reflect on what a conservative Black person would think if they read through this thread. Do you think they would think they were welcome here? I’d be embarrassed to death if I had sent any Black people to this site and they stumbled across some of they stuff posted here…Flame me all you want…
There are so many thoughts that come to mind when I read that. I'll give you just a couple.
1) Why would you be embarrassed?
2) Would you be embarrassed for blacks only?
3) Please be specific as to the stuff posted here....