Mark Steyn: Keepin' it real is real stupid

Macleans ^ | 09/28/06 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[E Rocc]

Chris Rock once said about "keeping it real": "Yeah. Real Dumb.

-Eric

[1rudeboy]

bttt
good one

[kellynch]

It amazes me how "inner city" kids say that studying hard is "acting white" and then they have the chutzpah to complain that racism is the reason they don't succeed in life.

Will someone please explain the logic of that to me because I just don't get it.

[2banana]

Also - the black abortion rate is nearly 40% - in some states more black babies are aborted than born. Yet - the majority of blacks think the liberals are their friends...

[goldstategop]

The worst racists are liberals. They hide their racism behind feel-good rhetoric and policies designed to prevent blacks from acquiring the habits and skills essential to a civilized existence. Despite the disaster they've inflicted upon Black America, they keep it in their thrall since they've managed to convince blacks that any one pushing non-liberal policies to help them is a racist. So the irony comes full circle: blacks are kept down by the very people who are supposed to lift them up but whose own existence would become completely irrelevant if blacks no longer had need of them.

That is why the whitey racism industry will remain alive and well. Too many liberals have an investment in making sure things never change. Even the most die-hard white racist never had that kind of power. And that's the tragedy.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Constitution Day]

BUMP!

[bwteim]

Steyn: "In 2003, congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee was reduced to complaining about the racist nomenclature of hurricanes. If I recall correctly, her argument was that blacks were being discriminated against because hardly any devastatingly destructive meteorological phenomena are given African-American names."

From our history files...

'Black' hurricane names brewing swirl of dissent

World Net Daily ^ | August 3, 2003 | Joe Kovacs Posted on 08/03/2003 by rickmichaels

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/957542/posts

[Catholic Canadian]

It's more absurdist than any novel, play or television show in history. Douglas Adams would have been baffled by it.

[dirtboy]

Juan Williams is a certified liberal, but he's not a certifiable liberal.

That's pretty much the key lens nowadays through which to evaluate individual liberals.

[Tax-chick]

... Does that list really testify to the vitality of "Black English"? By comparison, India via the Raj gave English (to pluck at random) pajamas, bungalow, jodhpurs, cheroot, cummerbund, veranda, khakis, karma. Despite the best efforts of the late Tupac and the Rodney King rioters to copyright them, even "thug" and "looter" come from the subcontinent. Doesn't that list make "jiving around" and "get high" look a bit weedy?

Zip, zing, zowie!

[RightResponse]

Steyn nails it, and points out that Juan Williams nails it in his book, but I say it's time for Williams and his ilk to drop the blackberry(s) and run for office and have a direct effect on those of his own race, and make changes happen!

Yes, he's liberal, but he's been around enough sensible thinking (i.e. Fox News, etc.) that he's able to recognize that Sheila Jackson Lee and Jesse and Al, are not the types to lead blacks in the right direction.

[gcruse]

"racism is the reason they don't succeed in life."

Their definition of succeeding in life is having wealth (and maybe but not necessarily a job) handed over to them with no strings attached. Since that's what Democrats promise them, you can see why they'd be looking for things like reparations.

[Catholic Canadian]

That's because at least the most die-hard white racists were completely honest about their racism. Liberals, on the other hand, would lie enough to have you convinced they were the exact opposite of racist. Very cunning.

[Horatio Gates]

Lee is dumber than a rock and lacking the common sense of a rock to not comment on things

[Paradox]

Has Juan Williams been "Cosbied" yet?

[DCPatriot]

Thanks Pokey....

[Red Badger]

Sounds like Juan Williams is finally gettin' it.............

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

From the present wreckage, there are two ways to go: the black leadership can pursue the mirage of slavery reparations, which is a kind of über-welfare and would likely prove just as destructive; or blacks can sideline the present "phony leaders," as Williams calls them, and begin the hard work of rebuilding their families and communities.