Jan Brewer tarmac tiff touches nerve in black community, some commentators say [for dissing Zero]

Reaction to the Jan Brewer encounter is still bubbling, with some black commentators now suggesting the image of the Arizona governor wagging her finger at the President of the United States has touched a nerve in the African American community.

On MSNBC Thursday, Al Sharpton posited that Brewer's treatment of President Obama was another example of disrespect in a list of many for the nation's first black president. His guest, Sirius XM host Joe Madison, said such incidents show that there are people "who cannot stand the fact that this is an African-American who is now one of the most powerful individuals on the planet," Mediaite reported.

An NAACP official went a few steps further in an interview with POLITICO Friday, saying the tiff played on age-old and discriminatory stereotypes of whites being superior to blacks. Hilary O. Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy and policy at the NAACP, said he was particularly disturbed by Brewer telling reporters afterward that she "felt a bit threatened if you will, in the attitude that he had."

"In the upcoming month of February, designated Black History Month, you know so little about your own history that you cannot grasp the irony that MLK, Jr. would turn his face in disgust from you...because you are incapable of judging The One's character, having first decided that the REAL thing that counts is the color of his skin."

That sir, was an OUTSTANDING comment. I'm an unimportant, average white guy who just finished reading both "Up from Slavery" by Booker T. Washington and "Narrative" by Frederick Douglass, and I can say unequivocally that these men would be utterly disgusted, indeed, horrified by the race pandering and the ongoing slavery of dependency. If BTW's ideas and ideals has caught on faster, we'd be celebrating that man's birthday, and MLK would have probably have just quit the clergy at some point and run for office.

melancholy: Thanks for the Ping!

In the end, it really has nothing to do with color...it is a generation lost and abandoned to a lack of Culture...or of bad culture. If your heroes are pushers, your culture is broken. If you find it easier to freeload than work, and the shame of failing to provide for your family is meaningless, your culture is broken. If your women are called "hoes" in your popular music and you do not speak up for them, your culture is broken. If your greatest figureheads are young gangsters who can rhyme well, your culture is broken.

I watch the commercials for Black History Month and see scientists, civil rights leaders, freedom riders, and industrialists. And then I see young men with pants around their ankles cursing The Man, acting "cool" and going to jail...and I am in the end blamed for all their bad choices. I see no end of Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, and other immigrants come to America, work 18 hours a day, and buy businesses, get educated, and succeed. It is not their skin, it is their culture that lets them become great, because they value education and achievement. Generations of handouts delivered by the government, and excuses delivered by the black leaders of today as to why their people cannot possibly succeed have robbed them of any chance to become great. W.E.B DuBois (I think) noted that there are those in the black community that profit by keeping the people poor.

Years ago, I heard on Glenn Beck a tale of six young black men who were beaten and bullied in high school. This you heard on the news, with your own brain to draw the conclusions. The backstory? They were Nigerian immigrants, and they were beaten for getting A's in school. They were beaten by other black students...for getting good grades and making them look stupid. And later, the parents of those beaters took action...and went and beat up the parents of the bullied students, because they were buying all the local businesses and doing well with them.

It is a case of rotten culture. The leaders like the President's racist pastor get more mileage preaching race hate against (fellow, supposedly) white Christians than preaching responsibility to their congregations. Those (viewed by some blacks) "uppity" Nigerians got the beat down because they wouldn't wait for their checks from Uncle Sugar like everyone else, and their achievement implied their might actually be something wrong with the rest of the Hood. And if you point out that one segment of the black community has rotten culture, you are, guess what...a racist.

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