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.
Oh my God, I just realized - THAT Greg Kane.
Baltimore Sun columnist.
Often cited by our local shows as really sensible and brave, being a black "conservative", altho the admittedly few times I ever look at a Communist Sun, I haven't been convinced.
Never saw that pic of Ann before. Splendor in the grass. But does she really go into Central Park dressed that way?
I hope you are right- and yes, I have not read any of his work- I just hope it is better for conservatives than this
Thanks! Good sentiments from Ann, even if anything of that sort is endlessly debateable ...
But I sure wish she'd EAT!
You know it was the Democrats who measured how much "Black" one had in their family line during the days of Jim Crow. SO it doesn't surprise me they continue to do this even when it's 50/50 black/ white.
"But does she really go into Central Park dressed that way?"
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Skimpy dresses and her S&W. Gotta love it.
You'll never convince some of the folk here that Coulter isn't an oracle. I find her embarassing.
(Congratulations on FrontPage linking to your blog the other day!)
Coulter was right about Halle Berry. Ms. Berry is a looker, but she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. As was once said about Katherine Hepburn, she shows an emotional range from "A" to "B". If she hadn't got nekkid, she'd be strictly B-list (Berry, not Hepburn).
Coulter was also right about the Confederate flag. Anything that can piss off the libs enough to reveal their racial hatred and misbegotten sense of cultural superiority (as you have done) can't be all bad.
IIRC, one of the things about Halle that bugged Ann was that she identified more strongly with her Black father who had abandoned her than her White mother who raised her. By any fair definition, Halle is at least as White as she is Black.
Singling out Berry as being an undeserved winner is silly. Considering the garbage that wins best picture, how can one single out this one person as being undeserving? I don't think Berry can act but she was outstanding in Monster's Ball--anyone having to do THAT to Billy Bob onscreen deserves an award. Methinks Coulter is jealous.
Oh, I do love it. Lots of us love it. Oops, here comes my wife, gotta run. Tell Ann I'll get back to her later.
They DID? News to me! [g]
Every picture tells a story, don't it?
It's not *really* about race. Ever. It's about Communism.
They use race all they can until it's inconvenient. Inconvenient to the *real* purpose - pushing communist ideas. The rest of the protesting is mostly just smoke&mirrors to hide the truth.
Latest example of this fakery about "race"/"building up the black community" being Condaleeza Rice being raked over the coals. Only finally are a few "black" organizations starting to speak up. Haven't heard from the greatest of them all yet, tho. You know, NAACP. Or the CBC, FTM.
As far as I am concerned, the Confederate flag stood for and still stands for STATES RIGHTS. Some people want to make it stand for racism and I believe that in that way they hope to eliminate the STATES RIGHTS issue.
Because black women tend to treat their sons like kings and their boyfriends or husbands like dogs..
You kidder, you! ; )
I like Ann but she's dead wrong about Halle Berry. I'm not a Halle Berry fan but Ann please!
Cher has an Oscar. 'nuff said.
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