Posted on 07/20/2010 6:13:50 PM PDT by Hojczyk
I did, as directly relevant...would you condemn those who support Paul talking about his conversion?
Unlike your comment about the NAACP, which has no bearing on Mrs. Sherrod’s words. The REACTION to her words is the key.
Yeah, right. That's why she used the terms "the haves and have-nots." I'm so glad I'm not as gullible as you are.
In case you don’t understand the terminology, the have-nots are the poor ones who were losing their farm.
In case you don’t have a clue about history; it is the terminology of Progressives and Bolsheviks.
That would be telling her racist story as a braggadocio tale and saying she had taken the while folks to their “own people.” I wouldn’t get up in a Klan meeting (the white equivalent of the racist NAACP) and brag about how i had mistreated negroes to titters and giggles, and then expect everyone to let it go just because I added a few obligatory remarks about what a wonderful person I now was because I even found a few negroes acceptable. Negroes set the “racist” standards; now let them live by them.
First, she wasn't fired because she was a racist, or said something racist. She was fired because she became a political liability to Hussein.
Second, only the NAACP is responsible for the conclusions they jump to. It's tough to do the right thing when your worry is how things look, not how they are.
Third, I've heard it said she may have committed a crime. I would think the SoL is way past.
Fourth, it wasn't the idea she expressed that bothers me...it's the mindset she reveals.
Someone truly committed to civil rights wouldn't be talking about "his own kind." They wouldn't be thinking in terms of "his own kind."
They would know if racism is to end, it needs to start with me.
Now obvious to everyone, that's not what they are about. This is potentially very damaging to the left.
"Obviously?" Why?
Admirable? In what way?
ORLY???? You mean like poor versus rich?
You need to listen to the tape again (or for the first time.)
Does that mean the farmer was also a lawyer?
Those with evil in their hearts see evil all around - those who see life through the racist filter see racism wherever they look......
Who says the tape was edited? Did Brietbart say that or is this just what the NAACP is saying? They say they have the full tape, then why hasn't it been released yet if it would show her in a better light? There is no evidence this woman is telling the truth but the tape speaks volumes. The audience was racist to the core and so is she.
“the crowd may also have reacted that way noddding and all as recognition of how they also HAD felt that way in the past.”
yes, the NAACP has turned from it’s racist ways and seen the light, and they were laughing at the way whitey was shunned and mistreated, as a way of showing that they had been so foolish in the past.
Put down the crack pipe.
I just now got caught up with the rest of the class.
Yep, you are spot on!
“When she saw how the audience reacted in a pro-racist way to her telling the part of the story where she acted in a racist manner to the white farmer, I think she ovv-the-cuff interjected the “well, it IS sort of a black versus white thing” in order to continue to get a good reaction from the racist audience.”
or maybe she meant exactly what she said.
It was actually a very good speech with several very positive messages in it. She talked about people "on both sides" (meaning the black and white communities in rural Georgia) finding understanding about how to work together.
But she blew her credibility on that at the 24:00 minute mark by implying that opposition to "0bamaCare" was racist and "the last eight years of Bush" was racist "but now we have 0bama!" She sure doesn't understand where the problem lies.
She blows it again near the end by saying "there has never been a better time to buy a home and we can thank 0bama for that."
Right. Which is why its so odd that you keep throwing the NAACP's red heerring back into the conversation.
Well sure...foreclosed homes can be had for a song!
(/sarc)
I know. But Bawney Fwank and Chris Dodd should get more of the credit for that. lol
1) It has.
There is no evidence this woman is telling the truth but the tape speaks volumes.
2) See #1.
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