Of course it's "OK" to say these things about Armstrong, because in their eyes he's a "sell-out®" and an "Uncle Tom®" and an "Oreo®" who is "frontin' for the white man®" and has "forgotten where he has come from®."
I am so damned sick and tired of hearing from mindnumbed lemmings who parrot whatever brainless ideas come from the heads of the so-called leaders of black America. Here is yet another "independant writer®" (read "one who doesn't listen to the 'white devils' that are in charge") who sticks his foot in his mouth so deep that it'll take stomach surgery to remove it. Does he care that he sounds like a complete imbicile? No! He is saying what Cynthia McKinney herself has said about black conseravtives. And it's OK, why? "Because they're just 'house niggers®' who will lick the white man's boots and step on other good black folks to get what they want!"
Notice how it's OK to use that vile and dirty word to describe someone that they find repulsive and terrible. Notice how it's OK for them to put down someone who they feel is being used as a pawn for white America (of course, in their minds, Armstrong simply can't have an original thought of his own - he's too stupid! If he weren't, then he wouldn't allow himself to be used, right?). Notice how they deride anyone who doesn't follow the march of the lemmings ever so steadily toward the cliff that Jackson and McKinney and Sharpton and others are leading them toward.
And anyone wonders why blacks are not taken seriously in America today? Guess what -- there's one heck of a wake-up call that's coming within the next five years, and it speaks Spanish and English fluently. Blacks will relinquish the top minority spot in America within five years. And once that happens, the few that have been listening to black America will begin to concentrate more on Spanish America. And with good reason. As opposed to voting and spending and participating in American society as a monolithic bloc, Hispanics in America are incredibly diverse. They participate in both political parties. They have a defined economy that businesses would kill for. One thing they don't do is have a group-think that stagnates their progress.
While they will continue to thrive and advance, the stagnation of black America will send many of us by the wayside. And that's one heck of an epitaph. But that's what'll be on the gravestone. "They stagnated and fell by the wayside."
RJayneJ: "Essay of the Week" material, I think.