Tenacious D is some fine music.
That's probably the only time JB is serious.
Posted on 01/27/2005 12:03:46 PM PST by pissant
In those rare moments where I’m actually embarrassed, I have a standard quip that eases the burden: “I’m used to being embarrassed. I’m a black conservative.”
Well, it’s pull-the-paper-bag-down-over-my-head time again, courtesy of Ann Coulter, who for the purposes of this column is Miss Ann Coulter, and I give not a tinker’s dam whether she pardons the pun.
Coulter is the conservative author and columnist who can match wits and words with the best of them. She’s fairly good-looking, but she’s no Halle Berry (More on that later.)
I pondered whether I should pick up Coulter’s latest work — How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must) — when I saw it in a local bookstore recently. I’ll have to admit, I hesitated. As a black conservative, I do indeed have trouble talking to liberals. It’s almost as vexing as talking to white conservatives who are totally clueless on the matter of race.
In How To Talk To A Liberal, Coulter unleashes her inner clueless white girl, and lets her run buck wild for well over 300 pages. Oh, it’s not all bad. Her pieces on the 2000 presidential election, and how the U.S. Supreme Court got it right while the Florida Supreme Court got it wrong, are classic. So much for President George W. Bush “stealing” that election.
But on matters of race, Coulter couldn’t get a clue if it pimp slapped her.
“(Halle) Berry successfully mau-maued her way to a Best Actress Award … ” Coulter wrote of Berry’s winning the Oscar in 2002 for Monster’s Ball. Then, after that gratuitous bit of race-baiting, Coulter accused Berry of some race-baiting of her own to win the Oscar when the sultry actress pointed out — correctly — that black actors and actresses still have trouble getting some roles.
You see what’s going on here, don’t you? Coulter had no problem with Denzel Washington winning an Oscar the same year. His was “deserved,” according to Coulter. It was Berry — despite a near unanimous consensus that she did indeed turn in the best performance by an actress that year — who “mau-maued” her way to an Academy Award.
This is nothing but catty hater-ation. What bothers Coulter is not Berry’s “mau-mauing,” but the knowledge that she’ll never even come close to being as fine as Berry is. Memo to Miss Ann: put your claws back in, dear.
Coulter really got buck wild on the issue of the Confederate battle flag, which still bugs a lot of black folks. It doesn’t bug me as much. I’m more concerned that Coulter all but accused Berry of terrorism, probably the better to increase her street cred with the David Duke wing of American conservatives (How this slight escaped those black folks who vigilantly ferret out every offense to the race is beyond me.). But Coulter said enough things wrong in defending the Confederate battle flag that are worthy of correction.
“Man for man,” Coulter wrote, “the Confederate army was the greatest army the world had ever seen.”
That would actually be the Zulus under Shaka, and any military historian worthy of being called one would tell Coulter that.
Southerners fly the Confederate battle flag, Coulter contended, to commemorate their glorious military heritage, not because of racism. But then she slipped and let in a little truth.
“The Ku Klux Klan did not begin using the Confederate flag until the fifties,” Coulter wrote. That’s true, but the total truth is that it wasn’t just the KKK. Southern state legislatures, schools and plenty of non-KKK folks found new love for the Confederate battle flag in the 1950s. If Coulter wanted to be honest, she could have given the precise date.
May 17, 1954.
Yes, the Confederate battle flag flew highly and proudly after the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional. Wherever the forces of integration clashed with those of segregation there were good ol’ Bubbas waving the Confederate flag and yelling about how they’d die before they let nigger boys into their schools and rub up against white gals like, well, like Ann Coulter, for example.
That was the battle the neo-Confederates wanted to wage when their precious flag made its reappearance in the 1950s. It would be refreshingly honest if they — and Coulter — would simply admit that.
I would think "conservative" columnist Greg Kane could better spend his time being "embarrassed" by one of a thousand opinions given over the years by Ann Coulter.
Basically what p*sses Kane off about Coulter are his respective perceived problems with her dissing Halle Berry, a charge of "race-baiting," and the same ol' regarding the Confederate Flag.
The truth of the matter is extremely debatable.
In it's proper context, the charge is petty, while one wonders how much of Kane's outrage really was based in defense of Miss Berry.
Back to Ann Coulter...
The woman at times has courageously and seemingly single handedly challenged the hypocrisy of the left for years. There is bound to be collateral damage in the far-reaching target-rich environment that ONLY Ann Coulter takes on.
I suppose she has an inkling what George Patton went through.
To those who may be "embarrassed" by the occassional stray bullet by Miss Coulter, I say get out on the front line and help battle the liberal onslaught yourself, or get out of the way and stop the back-biting.
Tenacious D is some fine music.
That's probably the only time JB is serious.
Actually they are both libs.
Why is this issue from 2002 being written about in a current column? Did I miss something recent that Ann Coulter said about Halle Berry? Is it a reminiscing about racism brought on by this year's Academy Award nominations? Is there some distant tie-in to Secretary Rice's pre-confirmation hearings? What's all the hubbub here? I'm lost (as you can tell). :o)
Oh...and do you know what did 'pissant' post that caused him to be banned?
and he did succeed in driving Newt Gingrich into retirement, which was an important victory in itself.
Unless, of course, Newt runs for and wins the Presidency in 2008. Then they will not consider it a victory any longer. GO NEWT!
LOL! Who pee'd in your wheaties?
That flag represents a historical heritage that can only be claimed by the south, and most of us do. Even the transplanted Yankee like myself who has taken the time to understand the the significance of that flag to many whose ancestors fought under it, and the significance of history in all it's manifestations.
Ann is correct, that the "stars and bars" was viewed as only a matter of confederate pride and never had a racist connotation until the kluxers used it as a marketing device.
You are to thin skinned, white or black or red, to see the truth of her words. The flag is no more racist than long hair on a boy is feminine or the German cross is Nazi.
This kind of politically correct crap is a disease.
Go spread it on the back forty with the rest of the manure.
"Coulter couldn’t get a clue if it pimp slapped her."
OK -- I stopped reading when I got to this phrase. You cannot just use English with all its glorious nuances? You have to use gang-speak? How STUPID. Besides which, he is dissing Ann Coulter, and THAT is stupid.
He uses racist terms repeatedly -- and you can bet your bottom dollar he knows it. Cute, huh?
Man....JA has loads of pure African.....not like Haiti but still....quite high....akin to the Mississippi Delta
especially in the countryside
I believe in antebellum days the slave-white ratio there was 20-1 in JA
Today's mixed population in JA is just 8%
Pure blacks are nearly 90% which as you can see is why Haley or Thandie Newton (whom I adore) would be deemed "Jamaican white" if from the landed gentry.
I spent a number of years with an heiress to the Desnoes and Gedddes (Red Stripe Beer) fortune....real live JA white...nordic looking but there were blacks and mulattos sprinkled in her clan to be sure.
I was wondering the same thing. I don't think it could have been anything on this thread. He had been around FR for a few years and sure did not seem abusive.
I'll admit that I don't know much about
the history of wars, or of armies, but
I like what she said, and I like what you
said.
Good to see you, and thanks for the ping. ;o)
How is it that pissant's home page is gone,
but his comments still show up? At least,
his comments are there as I post this. Could
he be suspended, instead of banned?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=pissant
Maybe I'm not as familiar with the workings
of this forum as I should be. ;o)
He's gone for now....I wonder why.
His only recent posts have been this thread that I saw.
I don't see anything here to get him yanked.
I think she goes everywhere dressed that way. it's sort of the "ann coulter uniform". her closet must be bursting with li'l black party dresses.
Check the link I posted.
He's been here since this thread.
I didn't see anything there to cause a fuss.
We have the makings of a Fair Play for Pissant Committee. Maybe he's just been reprimanded. Back at you soon on Channel B, DC2K!!
I'm not saying or implying who is right or wrong in this, it is just my local observation.
Well, it wasn't so much the Klan -- although they did use it from the 40's on, but not in the 20's, when the big Klan marches in D.C., for example, flew American flags -- as did the Silver Shirts in their day (and in 1940, Harvard had one of the biggest Nazi clubs in the world -- I found an article about it in a 1940 LIFE magazine many years ago, while looking for something else).
The Dixiecrats used it to register their dissent from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party about civil rights and racial issues, a split that had been coming since 1928, when urban-ethnic liberals and socialists captured the Party and nominated Al Smith, an Irish Catholic from New York City. This capture incidentally replicated at the Party level the ouster of Southerners from national power in 1860. FDR managed to paper over the differences for a while, but there was never much love lost between Southern Democrats and their urban-minority counterparts, with whom they had very little in common except an enemy.
Most blacks who express objections to the Confederate flag do so because of its display by segregationist politicians in the 1950's and 1960's. Here's a clue: It isn't the flag they object to, it's the people. Bashing the Confederate flag is a way of saying "I will not treat with 'those people'" -- white Southerners. That is an essentially racist attitude, but they can express disapprobation of old Confederate symbols and other political symbols used by whites without having to admit that they're actually rejecting the people instead of the issues. There are a number of issues like this that serve as proxies for this unscratchable itch; and when one listens carefully, occasionally one hears telling references to "people like them" and "we know what they are!" and "we know who's behind this!" -- all code-talk for Southern whites as the Race Enemy, Beast/Ice People (Prof. Jeffries), White Devils (NOI), and so on. The black community has a rich tradition of talking up their own sleeves that the MSM never calls them on, so of course the game will continue to go forward as long as one side continues to receive a pass. This motivating animus is what Kweisi Mfume tapped into when he undertook to revitalize the NAACP and the politics of confrontation. His moral position is very much different from that which Thurgood Marshall, Vernon Jordan, and other predecessors enjoyed, but he has pressed ahead nevertheless, sharpening differences and turning out the vote with appeals to racial animus disguised as seg-purging political-hygiene and anti-profiling campaigns.
Final note: "Stars and Bars" refers to the Confederate First National, with the blue union and ring of seven stars in the corner. The Confederate Battle Flag, which is more correctly the battle flag of the Army of Tennessee (CSA), is just the "battle flag". The "Southern Cross" is a constellation which appears on the flags of several southern-hemisphere countries like Brazil and New Zealand.
thanks for the informative post... it's pretty interesting
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