New Attorney General: We’re A Nation of Cowards
by Bill Willingham
I haven’t been posting lately, because deadlines are well and truly on me. But here’s a quick note about something that caught my eye today.
According to the new Attorney General, Eric Holder, speaking today at the Justice Department, we’re a nation of cowards because we don’t talk about race enough. I have several responses to that grotesque statement, most of which aren’t printable. But I will say this much: If the past discussions about race in which I’d participated (voluntarily and otherwise) didn’t always – not often, not most of the time, but always – devolve into name calling, where I was denounced as a racist (usually as a starting point for said conversation), then I might today be more willing to continue to have discussions on the subject. I suspect I’m not alone in this.
In my experience, anyone who doesn’t immediately and enthusiastically subscribe to the idea that all American whites are active oppressors against other races is an irredeemable racist. Of course if you do agree you’re still a racist, just one of the self confessed variety.
In the interests of full and fair disclosure, I’m apparently also a misogynist, a homophobe, and a Nazi, this according to folks (some of whom were friends and colleagues) upon finding out that I have problems with feminism, gay marriage, and gun control. There were other accusations I could list, given time, but the truth is such incidents are too common and never important enough to be worth devoting too much of my time and memory.
So here’s my response to our distinguished public servant.
Dear Mr. Holder: serious and thoughtful conversations about race aren’t possible in today’s American culture, where name-calling and hurled epithets are the acme of discourse. Name-calling is a conversation ender. Always. And here’s some more cold water to pour on your notion: Name-calling is the proprietary weapon of the left. There’s no equality of blame, no comparison. We on the right aren’t “just as bad.”
That’s why I don’t play your silly games anymore. I only ever talk about important matters like race and gender politics with those for whom there is still the possibility of serious discourse and reasoned debate. Once again, I suspect I’m not alone in this. Your side has taken itself out of the game, and until such time as you on the left can get your house in order, you aren’t worth a reasonable man’s time or effort.
Here’s a hint though. Calling everyone a coward isn’t a good place to start.
In the meantime, I’ll continue to live my life, free of prejudice, never oppressing anyone, hating no one on a group basis, and not participating in your cloud cuckoo world of vicious and hateful pan-victimology, where even making funny faces is now a crime worthy of multi-billion dollar lawsuits. Your world is no longer a serious one, and I’m no longer interested in wasting my valuable time there.
Best of luck though.
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I agree, we ARE a Nation of Cowards
http://www.rkba.org/comment/cowards.html
I agree, we ARE http://www.rkba.org/comment/cowards.html
I agree, we ARE a Nation of Cowards.
http://www.thefiringline.com/Misc/library/cowards...
The time when we could have done something passed long ago. There is no possibility of going back on the offensive against political correctness — PC has already won.
right now i'm watching some cartoonist at the new york post get crucified. i think people are deliberately misinterpreting his work as a racist assault on obama. i see the thing as a version f the old "thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters" gag. i've used it myself. and it's directed at the writers of the spending bill, reid and pelosi.
it's going to be a long four years. each time i make a joke about obama i have to pause and wonder if at any time in the last 300 years a racist has ever used a similar metaphor.
http://www.attackcartoons.com
Kudos, Bill!
I grow tired of the talking about race (or gender issues) because far too often, the fact that I am an educated white male means I am incapable of understanding the discrimination and thus, my opinions and views are not relevant.
Yep, I love being part of a discussion where I am talked at, and not with.
Holter's remarks are disgusting. In fact, they're quite racist.
S/B ^^ Holder, not "Holter".
Attorney General Holder wants to see a coward? Tell him to look in the damned mirror.
Damn! Nothing sickens me more than seeing a racist accuse others of racism while hiding behind his race. That has so many evils attached to it – cowardice, hypocrisy, etc. – that my head's spinning.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Nice, Bill. I share your sentiments. And the words i have for Eric Holder and all the race-baiters out there, black or white, are, I daresay, even less printable than yours., lol.
We are a nation of cowards – however he is mistaken as to which side of the political isle that name applies and not in regards to race. For crying out loud, we have a (half)black President, yet people are still using race as a crutch?
Vic
Jake — With your white flag displayed so prominently, one might take you…for a Frenchman.
'What you mean 'we', kimosabe?'
Speak for yourself.
On of the dumbest comments from this administration yet, and that is saying alot. Cowards on the left do not want to or "can't handle the truth" when it comes to race issues. Until the facts are faced by all, especially liberal blacks, the issue and so called cowardice will continue. The truth cannot be spoken or one is deemed a racist, by stating facts. Holder is nothing but thug anyway, he belongs in the NBA or ACORN.
We don't talk enough about race "honestly," Mr. Holder, due to the cowardice on the part of the race-card holders.
If Holder wanted to show us true courage, he could have made his remarks before his confirmation.
Okay, Mr. Holder – I'll bite. Since we now have a black president, and you would agree that there has been a strong sense of social liberation to come with it, can we now expect the majority of black children to be born from married couples? Can we expect the percentage of blacks among the male prison population to resemble something closer to the general population (12-20%)? Assuming Obama goes two terms, can we reasonably expect this to be accomplished by, say, 2017?
Is this the kind of frank discourse you were seeking?
Not to worry – I think I know the answer.
I was blasted by some PC-armed (former) friends a few years ago for having the audacity to call a spade a spade. I know, the horror. The best they could come up with when I supplied the phrase's non-racist origin: "Oh well, even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut." Yeah, a lovely bunch. I did mention "former" friends, right?
So let me get this straight…America is a cowardly nation because we don't sit around contemplating racial "issues"? This from the crowd that have made it abundantly clear that my opinion on their "community" doesn't matter because of my melanin content? This from the bunch that continue to pick at the scab of racism as a method of self-egrandizement and personal wealth creation? This from the indiviuals who will preach racial unity on Thursday and then on Friday, attend events clearly designed to segregate themselves and their victim-mentality myrmidons from their fellow countrymen? This from a gaggle of mental midgets who blanched at the idea that they were basing their support for their beloved Teleprompter-in-Chief because of his skin tone, yet couldn't pick out the bulk of his policies unless they were accompanied by enough bass to dislodge Rosie O'Donnell from the buffet line at Golden Corral? Interesting concept there, Mr. Holder. Seems to me the greater coward here is the individual who can look at this nation, see the strides that perviously downtrodden minorities have made, and still see nothing but white-sheeted boogeymen lurking behind every corner.
Well, look what happened to Bil Cosby. If he can't have a racial conversation, who can?
So far the race baiting hasn't played a much of a role in the Obama administration. Statements like these from Holder suggests it might down the road. If they want to go there, I think they'll regret it. It's a can of worms.
America isn't (and never was) a white/black society. Other groups have their axes to grind. And not just against white people. If they try to play the white guilt card, that may have got them elected, but it's going to disenfranchise a lot of Obama supporters if they keep it up.
When times get even tougher, as they might, a lot of anger is going to boil over and they would be smart not to fan any flames.
How is this one Mr. Holder:
Content of character not color of skin. TRY THAT ONE ONCE! This is race baiting at its worse.
So glad a man in his position has pre-judged us all. Thanks for the heads-up.
And I thought justice was blind.
"Pan-victimology"… very snappy (and at deadline no less).
Is this guy stupid? We just had the Daytona 500. People have been talking about the race for about a month! We have the INDY 500 coming up and the Kentucky Derby, NYC & Boston Marathon. I'll race him anytime anywhere he chooses at a ice rink on ice skates!
A comment on a different post about this Holder incident summed it up rather nicely, I thought:
"The reason Americans don’t “talk enough” about race is because race isn’t an issue unless you are racist."
Someone should tell these race-baiters that all race cards expired at 12:01 pm on Jan. 20, 2009.
I thought Obama was the post-race, post-partisan President? So far, I'm kinda not seein' it.
Hope and Change FOR IMPEACHMENT – bottom line this guy reflects his own anger and that same anger that Obama keeps hidden so very well.
Bill Cosby has been trying to have that conversation for years, and all it's gotten him is vile insults.
This from those who are running the country.
This from those who won.
This from those who will tell you how you are going to pay.
The first black Attorney General of the U.S. nominated by the most powerful man in the world, an African-American who was elected by a 65% white nation.
Cowards? No.
The real cowards are the blacks on the left who help enslave their people on the Democratic plantation that does not educate, enlighten or otherwise promote their well-being in any way.
If 300 fearless students/activists at a left leaning university held demonstrations against political correctness, occupied the university president's office until removed by the police or until he/'she denounced the Womens/black/gay studies departments as government funded left wing indoctrination centers, then we'd be a long way towards banishing political correctness in this country. If it happened at 10 universities PC would soon be dead once and for all. The fact that this is an unheard of scenareo just shows that Holder is absolutely correct.
You have to stand up for what you believe in spite of fear of arrest or lawsuit. The red diaper left does, why not the conservative right?
Holder's not the one who has to sit through 3+ hours a week listening to a barely literate woman spout drivel about how all Americans are rascist. I have been instructed, by said woman, that if I buy Aunt Jemima syrup then I am… a rascist person promoting black enslavement. Also, Uncle Ben's rice is abominable.
And, I can't graduate from my university without passing this class. Heh, are we not talking about it enough?? The many wasted hours of my life (and money I pay for the class) spent in that classroom listening to crap (she gets her stat's from ACORN, nuff said) are lost forever to me. Holder can shove his nonsense rhetoric where the sun don't shine. B*stard.
The high road's quieter. You can get more real work done.
A tired argument that Holder can't seem to get past. Time to move on.
http://the100mostannoyingthings.blogspot.com/
This Democrat administration hack does not say these outrageous comments accidentally- comments such as this one from Eric Holder are purposely put out there to further the myth of epidemic white racism.
Holder's clear promotion of this false perception serves to keep America separated, agitated, and keep different racial groups suspicious and at odds with each other. The purpose is for no reason other than to characterize ordinary, rational people of good will as guilty, racist creeps, whose every opinion is to be considered vile and invalid.
This race-baiting strategy is advantageous for Obama/ Holder's fascist criminal socialist policy objectives, making them much more difficult to criticize when the criticism is directed at Holder or Obama, themselves being of a race with automatic liberal victim status.
Dont fall for this racist ploy by Obama, Holder, and their ilk.
Speak your truth regardless of this false side issue.
Holder, we already know that there is no level you wont stoop to in order to serve your criminally sick career and yourcriminal buddies like the Clintons and Democrats in Congress.
CC,
Many moons ago I used to buy the Northern toilet paper that had the black baby on the wrapper. They also had white babies, but by getting that one, it was like a racism innoculation. I don't see them nowadays.
Being called a coward means so much coming from a guy that authorized federal agents to drag out an 8 year old boy from a house at gunpoint.
I went through school as an, Irish-English-Danish-German American male, constantly being bombarded with the notion that I was somehow responsible for every social injustice under the sun. As a white male I was responsible for slavery and keeping the black man down. I was also responsible for keeping women in the kitchen and for slaughtering Native Americans. Not to mention interring Japanese-Americans during WW II. I was stunned to find out how busy I had been and not even known it.
Slavery is not some cruel notion thought up by Americans and only practiced here, it exists through out history in all cultures. I'm not condoning slavery in any way shape or form, it's deplorable and disgusting at every level, however, it is part of American history as well as world history.
What about the outrage at the Native American tribes who routinely took slaves from other tribes they defeated in battle. It was that very same practice by the Zulu tribe in Africa that brought Africans to Americas shore and many other countries as well
According to the 1860 US census of the 15 slave states only 4.8% of the southern citizens had slaves. Slave owners were in the extreme minority. My ancestors never owned slaves they were indentured servants.
MLK "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." People like the Rev. Jesse Jackson has turned such a thought provoking statement on its head. Where everything is about the color of ones skin and not the content of their character.
Now, let's not get nasty!!
Were did you get such dangerous ideas?
Actually, I had a fun experience in lawschool. In an in-class debate about a couple of old cases dealing with legal discrimination, I started quoting Martin Luther King. A black student then jumped up and said that what I had said (a direct quote mind you) was racist and insensitive. When I pointed out that this was a MLK quote, I got a blank stare followed by "I doubt that."
If you want to experience full on hate, try law school. They've added anger, victimology and weapons grade ignorance into a very toxic mixture that is all kinds of unpleasant.
Our first African-American chief law inforcement officer kicks off Black History Month with some hopey changey racially charged marching orders to the troops – call it a trial balloon on the upcoming Integration Anti-Cowardice Act of 2010 legislation. I wonder how many Justice Dept new hires got the memo in their personnel orientation?
I look forward to Gary Graham assisting Congressional Quarterly with some insightful reporting!
I couldn't agree more MadRocketScientist. Come on Mr. Holder race isn't talked about??? Perhaps it's time to turn on the TV and watch the news for about 15 minutes, race most assuredly will come up at some point. Actually never mind that, where do you live Mr. Holder? I want to move there.
Oh, who cares about being called a coward? He's a jerk, his opinion is irrelevant.
No, I care about the fact that academia is so obsessed with "discussing race" that I cannot graduate without spending approx. $3,000 on a class called "American Cultures: Race and Representation", which has not one damn thing to do with a degree in European History. And, might I add that your tax dollars are paying for that class for every student with federal financial aid.
And, I'm sorry but I don't think the iconic image of a strong, nurturing but strict, black mother is particularly rascist. Nor do I think that the Obama presidency is a new level of racism. My money and time are spent being told that raising the standards of achievement for black people (see: Obama presidency) is racist.
Or am I just innoculated??
You and Holder are both right.
My wife is Asian. Her family cannot stand me, and could not accept me, from the very beginning because I am NOT Asian. After 15 years and more, I have made NO progress at all in getting these people to accept me. They have NO friends other than Asians, they have flatly stated to their kids that they are NOT to intermarry (that means their children, who are all grown now, are not to marry a black, white, hispanic, Middle Easterner, or even any Asian other than their own kind.
I did not realize this kind of racism existed in this day and age but of course I was naive in the extreme, I guess. So Holder is right, but it is not just "white" people who self-segregate. Trying to connect with these people was and is impossible. The word "Nazi" was thrown at me Thanksgiving Day, 2000, apparently because they were angry about the election.
How can we ever come together when this kind of garbage continues?
But, yes, TugboatPhil…. I absolutely believe that anyone who buys a particular brand of syrup (see: Aunt Jemima) is racist. And, also that the name "Jemima" is racist. Ooh, and can't forget that the image of any woman with a kerchief on her head is a direct link to black enslavement. I guess when women cleaning their houses decide to keep their hair off their face with a kerchief, it's an abusive and derogatory gesture against black people.
I guess I should never, ever, ever buy anything that has a logo containing a black person or I will become so innoculated to racism that I'll inadvertently join the Klan, or something equally heinous.
I was in a conversation with my niece, who was in her second year of college at the time, challenging her notion that just because I am white I am a racist. I pointed out that it is one thing to spout off about "injustice" and "equality" and yet another to actually put your money where your mouth is. I challenged her to do like I did, and marry out of your race and culture. See how much fun it is. See what kind of garbage gets thrown your way. Of course, she didn't have the guts to respond or to ever do it. Perhaps now that she has a graduate degree from a prestigious private university, she'll see fit to take that challenge, but I doubt it.
LOL!!!
hmmm…
Let me add this:
Don't mean to piss anyone off… Just got a little bit angry today when I found out exactly how much propaganda and indoctrination cost at a Catholic university. Holder's crap didn't help.
Oh, I should mention, of course, that I am white. However, I also have a black friend (what a concept) who married into an Asian family. He got exactly the same treatment. Take the beam out of your own eye, Holder, before you start talking about the tiny sliver in mine.
Ah, I remember the 'good-old-days' in college. I feel your pain.
Getting it off your chest helps. Go have a cup of tea, you'll feel better.
He should (and probably is) speak for himself.
What can I say, the guy is a twerp
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To your example EP,
Isn't it interesting how the people that interpret racist and sexist undertones to most of what they hear, then turn around and call everyone else bigots.
I seldom think of any issue in terms of race…until I get drawn into a "conversation" with these TRULY racially bigoted people who see EVERYTHING through a race/gender prism
John,
Since the PC "white people = oppressors" doctrine has been taught in high schools and universities for well over 3 decades now, I think that we have created a society where most light-skinned people are raised to be sensitive to others' cultures, etc. but ethnic minorities (Asians, Hispanics, Blacks) are not.
This is VERY evident if you live in an area of the country dominated by one of these ethnic groups. I lived in an area of southern Arizona that was >50% Hispanic, and found my Hispanic friends and neighbors there to be EXTREMELY racist (mostly toward Asians and blacks), sexist and homophobic. Hell, just watch Univision if you need proof.
We are "for the most part racially integrated in the American workplace, but not so in our personal lives?"
Perhaps you should just do your job as an overgrown lawyer and leave who I have over for a barbeque to me. How many white folks you have over for dinner this last year yourself? I am only friends with people, including blacks, that don't constantly hang everything on their race or sexuality. Forget calling America cowards and go find another nation that will treat you and your "people" to a lifetime of apologies and fruitbaskets for your troublesome times in this horrible nation that has elected a half black man to POTUS and who tolerates someone like yourself calling us all cowards as you hide behind the color of your own skin. Good day.
http://www.glorious-revolution.blogspot.com
I am a coward for not talking about race? I talk about race and because I do, I am immediately labeled a racist because I am a white conservative male. If i don't talk about race, I am ignoring the most henous trespass on man since the world began. I am sick of being called a racist by racists. If Mr. Holder wants to get together and gripe about the racists in the world, let him. Let him do it with his friends. Let me live my life. If you want to start calling names, I've got a few for you sir. And none of them are racist.
Yeah, I get kinda pissed also when people call America a "cowardly" nation.
Holder sucks. Why does every Attorney General have to be a douche? Obama should have appointed Judge Judy.
Yeah…..I always get that same response when I tell people that Dr. King had registered as a Republican – LOL!
I'm serious, btw.
She shouldbe Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
I'll be brave once Mr Holder arranges the pardon for some my shadier friends.
We can haggle about the size of the donation to the DNC afterwards.
Will "white ever do whats right?"…lol
I for one am beyond fed up with the race card that has been pulled on white people for all of my life,
Every movie or t.v. program that deals with race in any way is only made to make whites feel guilty about the past and enable black people to be victims!
For instance as far as movies go, i liked GLORY very much, but was i the only one that was offended by the white boy comments? and the only black carracter in the movie that had been around white people most of his life was a #@ssy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And about REMEMBER THE TITANS , another good movie but, had the typical southern white stereotypes, (you know when the stupid white BOY finally figured out the mamma jokes). and how they only came together after the white kids started acting more black? hmmm!
I am through, i am through with this b.s. it is over for me i will never again feel guilty for the racism of the past, i do not care anymore. we have a black president and that now ends it!! To quote a great man, FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY , THIS WHITE BOY (NOW WHITE MAN!) IS FREE AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm curious… do you remember what the quote was?
Speaking of cowardice, how about these statistics (culled from the Justice Department's statistics, of which Eric Holder, the Attorney General, is in charge):
• Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.
• Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Fortyfive percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.
• Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
• Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.
Perhaps we SHOULD be cowards. What the attorney general fails to talk about is the real reason whites avoid blacks — because we want to avoid crime and, hopefully, stay alive.
Of course, I somehow don't believe this was the conversation about race the attorney general WANTED us to have…
I believe most non-blacks understand than when they are told to "discuss race", that just means for them to listen and nod their head.
We're not interested. Most of us don't have any hangups about skin color anyway, so why should we listen to a sermon?
I'm a racist, Eric. Come visit me and I'll prove it. Truthy enough for you?
Now that you point out the connection it seems somewhat defensable. The paper failed to do this and most poeple, I believe, couldn't figure out what the heck they were tyring to say.
Thank-you for posting here Mr. Willingham. Believe it or not I have been a fan of your since waaaay back when you did art in things like "Slave Pits of the Undercity" , I still have it in a box somewhere
Anyway, liberals only interact with liberals because conservatives are stupid or evil, so to them they are surrounded by cowards, political correctness is the ultimate cowardice
Rae
In order to get my MA I was forced to take a class about race, class & gender in America. AG Holder might want to stop by a few colleges and universities before he opens his trap and starts throwing out insults. Why would I want to have a conversation about race with people who thought America was worse than Nazi Germany (which is exactly what I heard during that race indoctrination class I had to take)?
Besides I though electing "The One" was supposed to get us beyond all this. Whatever happened to all that "hope and change" we were promised?
Let's make nice nice with Islamic Jihadists who want us dead.
Let's make nice with North Korea, because they're psycho.
Let's be nice to Iran.
Cowards – yes, the Democrats are Cowards, I agree.
But he needs to use the singular when he says this, not the plural.
I'm no coward.
Speak for yourself, Holder.
The New York Post monkey business dovetails beautifully with the Holder remarks. I posted about it over at Infinite Monkeys — http://blog.infinitemonkeysblog.com/?q=node/6204. You're right, crash. The bottom line is, a crazed monkey wrote the stimulus bill. And explaining the punch line always ruins the joke.
[...] that amused, right now. I feel like I’m watching a Keystone Kops version of the Wehrmacht goose-stepping down Pennsylvania Ave., with a propped-up quisling media corps (aka “the Clown Brigade”) flashing [...]
I'll bet my chunk of bailout money that he's not talking about minorities in general with that comment either. How "post-racial."
I'll bet my chunk of bailout money that he's not including minorities in that comment.. How "post-racial."
Lord if only. HA!
Hey Andrew can I get my check now?
Look at how freaked out you're getting….that was his point. Americans cannot talk about our nations race issues without:
(1) Whites getting defensive, screaming about white burden & denying the lasting effects of Slavery
(2) African Americans getting frustrated, angry at continued racism & shocked at those who deny it's existence
Those are the reactions of cowards. Brave men don't fear debate. Brave men don't fear having their views proven wrong. Brave men don't fear truth, they embrace it…they reject "Lie to Win" as a debate strategy.
Brave men stand up for Universal Truths..truths like, "all men are created equal"
So who's brave..they guy who wants to honestly talk about & confront a problem…or the guy who wants to deny the problem, deny history & deny his own actions?
On election day 23% of Americans "feared" that our new President was "Arab", "a Muslim" or "a Socialist". Nearly a decade into the 21 Century…and we continue to allow that level of ignorance to fester.
Brave men wouldn't stand for it. We ARE cowards on this issue.
To a Liberal, if you DON'T consider race, you're a racist. Go figure.
X: so you think maybe "Mr. Jocelyn Elder" is angling for reparations or something similar?
We were arguing about criminal law. Our very liberal Constitutional law professor asked whether it was "right" to apply the same criminal standards to suburban whites and to inner city blacks. A group of black students jumped on this and said, that it was not fair because inner city blacks live in such a horrible, violent surrounding that "they can't be held culpable" for their behavior. I disagreed, saying that we're all responsible for our own actions. I used the following quote:
"Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy."
And I was promptly attacked for being racist. When I said this was a direct quote from King, I was told, "I doubt that."
"Your side has taken itself out of the game, and until such time as you on the left can get your house in order, you aren’t worth a reasonable man’s time or effort."
Truer words have never been spoken. IMO the left has not been interested in actual discourse for several years now, unless hateful spewing of dogma counts as discourse.
I showed my wife wife the same cartoon, and she wondered if they would be called racists for saying obama is a monkey. I pointed out to her that congress writes the laws, & therefore they are the monkeys, not obama. She said they would be called racists anyway. Apparently, she was right. Ishould have known that onlyu racists call people racist, just as only cheap people notice who is being cheap!
If he did, coward would be the wrong description. Spineless, greedy, Clinton lackey, sellout, hypocrite, race-baitor….those would work much better.
Just be glad you didn't marry into a Middle-Eastern family. The traditionalists tend to be a bit harsher in showing their disappointment.
Obviously you have not encountered inner city minorities. They will make your head spin by making every sentence of every subject racial, then a moment later they will denounce you for speaking aloud. I am white and have worked in minority majority areas for over twenty years. Racism is quite alive, but most of it is antiwhite. After getting abused multiple times, you learn to just smile & ignore the racist morons, because they refuse to know the truth. If you make your decisions based on race, you're a racist. If you make your decision based on the actions and character of the people you see, you're not a racist. See how simple it can be????????????
jana,
That is a brilliant thought you had. I hope you don't mind if I use it myself. Oh and by the way, if he has to claim to be post partisan, he isn't. It is just like declaring you're not a square. If you have to say it, you're a square!!!!!!!
I spent much of 1964 getting broken bones and scars from a redneck sheriff who didn't like my stand on civil rights in Mississippi. Much of my legal career was devoted to criminal defense cases where African-Americans were being selectively prosecuted. I'm no coward, nor are my friends and associates. We love debate. But being called a coward and a racist by those who talk the talk but never had to walk the walk is deplorable. Debate on race today is comprised entirely of a white person making a statement about affirmative action, welfare, crime, the economy or any of a host of subjects and being responded to with the debate-ending "you're a racist." If being pissed-off about being called a coward and a racist by people who were born twenty to thirty years after we civil rights workers, black and white, put our bodies on the line is defensive–then so be it! .
logic: be my guest!
And yes, there is racism in America. Show me a country where there isn't any racism, and I'll show you Shangri-La. I don't deny history–I lived it. I don't deny my own actions–I'm proud of them (and rather surprised that I had that much courage). And I don't deny there's a problem. The problem is people who have a particular position, and when you disagree with it, they cover their ears and shout "Nyah, nyah, hyah, you're a racist." Walking away from that isn't fear, it's just common sense. And I never feared that Obama was a socialist. I know that he is, and I acted on it. So I guess that qualifies me as a defensive racist and a coward. I probably should add "fascist" since that's the other insult du jour.
i'm not that familiar with the post's cartoonist. but if he really wanted to be racist, he could have done a much better job. i understand the sensitivity to a point. but i'm already seeing any criticism of obama labeled as bigoted. want to take a stand against this sort of hysteria/bullying. save the outrage for something real.
i remember a few years back the L.A. Weekly running caricatures of colin powell and condileeza rice as apes. i was the only one who seemed to notice. but leftists get a free pass on this sort of thing.
So sad, and unfortunately so true.
When I told my neice that I didn’t like rap music, she immediately told me that I must be a racist. So I responded by saying that I didn’t like country music either and wanted to know what that made me. In true liberal fashion, she had no response because there is no thought behind the name-calling.
The AP article indicates Mr. Holder told his staff they have a special responsibility to advance racial understanding. Perhaps they can help me understand this… Check out the Extended Brawl Video.
http://www.wsfa.com/global/story.asp?s=9859983
I wish Holder would STFU. Do we need to talk about Rev Wright or ACORN?
*Sigh* I guess we know how the Obama administration is going to handle all criticism.
What really bugs me about leftist style name calling is that it distracts from the issues– which is the point I expect. Sarah Palin showed *real* courage IMO by being so up-front with her pro-life stance. Obama doesn't even have the guts to take a firm stance on gay marriage. I swear I'm still trying to figure out where the man stands on most issues– he literally speaks out of both sides of his mouth. Anyway. Palin never wavered in stating her views and she backed it up with her real-life choice to have her Down Syndrome baby. But does the Left respect Palin for her courage? Not at all. They viciously attack her for actually putting her money where her mouth is. I guess the Left doesn't *really* care about courage. They just like to pretend they do.
It's unfortunate, but great job pointing out the REALITY – and with facts.
*Sigh* I guess we know how the Obama administration is going to handle all criticism.
What really bugs me about leftist style name calling is that it distracts from the issues– which is the point I expect. Sarah Palin showed *real* courage IMO by being so up-front with her pro-life stance — many politicians try to be as vague as possible on this one. Obama doesn't even have the guts to take a firm stance on gay marriage. I swear I'm still trying to figure out where the man stands on most issues– he literally speaks out of both sides of his mouth. Anyway. Palin never wavered in stating her views and she backed it up with her real-life choice to have her Down Syndrome baby. But does the Left respect Palin for her courage? Not at all. They viciously attack her for actually putting her money where her mouth is. I guess the Left doesn't *really* care about courage. They just like to pretend they do.
Why is it never mentioned how many Northern soldiers died to save the union and thereby support the end of slavery? I mean, they were white. My American ancestors did this. Why are no Abolitionists mentioned in discussions of American history? They worked their asses off.
Well–now I've heard the actual speech. I've fired off a letter to Mr. Holder. It contains the following message: "How dare you?" I can borrow a line from Lloyd Bentsen when I say "I knew Martin Luther King, and you, sir, are no Martin Luther King." The reality is that I only knew Dr. King from one of many mass meetings he conducted during '63 and '64, and I was only one of hundreds of civil rights workers who heard his words. His words to us presaged his later "I have a dream" speech. But I now remember where I got the courage to walk into the lion's den. I got it from him. So once more I say to Mr. Holder: "How dare you?" And furthermore, I would be delighted to debate him, provided he agrees in advance not to call me a racist in exchange for which I will not call him a race-baiter.
Perhaps he knows something about being a coward. Freeing terrorists to help Clinton. Instead of him having a back bone.
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