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 haven't seen "Monster's Ball", but from what I've seen of Halle Berry's acting, I'm haven't been too impressed.
More importantly, they gave thier lifetime achievement awards that night to an actor specifically because he was pioneer for black actors. While this is a good basis for a lifetime achievement award in of itself, when you give the first best actor/ best actress awards to a black actor/actress the very same night, it surpasses my capacity to believe in coincidence.
She certainly is. Halle is gorgeous and a good actress IMO.
Since some racists - including the black kind (or perhaps it's more accurate just to call them black commies since race isn't the real issue) - co-opted the (last and hardly used) Confed battle flag as their own, many are turning to the real nat'l flag that lasted the whole war+....to get away from this nonsense...
...the bonnie blue flag, the 1 w/the single star. ;-)
He's one of the good guys. He is a regular columnist for The Baltimore Sun and I often agree with his points of view. He's big on personal responsibility, which is a rare stance indeed in Baltimore.
Well, she was one of the worst Bond Girls, and that's saying something. She made me cringe almost as much as that airhead who played "Christmas Jones" in Tomorrow Never Dies.
Sorry that I can't comment on how she acted in any chick flicks, but in the ultimate guy flick, she stunk!
'“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.'
Both Ann and this Dude are Smokin' something. There was one army, and one only, that NEVER lost a SINGLE battle where the odds against them were close to 1:1.
Which Army? The Wehrmacht, 1939-1945.
They were overwhelmed by a massive Allied superiority in personnel and equipment, plus by the imbecility of their impulsive, syphillis and methamphetamine-addled micromanaging "Corporal-in-Chief" Hitler. Had Hitler left his Generals to run the entire war, Europe (and European Russia) would today be speaking German.
Good for me (and other Freepers whose Fathers/Grandfathers fought in the various resistance movements) that he did not. Otherwise I wouldn't be here talking about it.
I doubt if her dad was 100% black---kindof like Tiger Woods---he is more Asian than Black--he even looks more Asian but he is considered Black.
Hey a Confederate flag here, a Jomo Kenyatta there ...
What's the big deal, as long as we are going after each others jugular, keeping the races at each others throat? ;)
I don't care for the movies she's been in since winning. I wonder if it's due to bad scripts or because movies have been in horrible decline lately. I did like her as Storm in X Men.
#25 Caption:
'Hey big boy, did you ever snatch a kiss or vice versa.'
I was invited to sit on a few 'diversity' roundtables in my day. I can tell you that democrat liberals are the most obsessed racial beancounters you'll ever come across.
I thought Berry was deserving of the Oscar. She played a poor woman, without the usual glamor and make up seen in many of these roles. She displayed a wide range of emotion, strength, and even dependency once she formed a relationship with Billy Bob. He scenes with her son and in the diner were realistic to my experience. I think her performance was worthy.
Who's the dude (not Rosie). A freeper maybe?
They're obsessed because that's all they have. Otherwise, to the breadline with them!
The fact that the writer didn't mention that it was Democrat govenors who returned the confederate flag to prominence is a good indication that the man is not a conservative.
At your weight, I can see why you're embarrassed..:O)
Me too!!!
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