I’m a Racist Coward!
by Gary GrahamI am appalled. I just found out that I am a racist and a coward and I did not know it.
Eric Holder said yesterday, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”
How could I have been so self-deluded?
Wow. I know, huh? The things you find out about yourself if you just listen to newly appointed/elected government officials.
I always thought that I treated everyone fairly in my daily life with no preference or deference to anyone based solely on skin color. I always loved the words of Dr. Martin Luther King who said so eloquently, that he dreamed of a day when people “would be judged, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”. But now…I find out that that philosophy is racist and cowardly. And it is proclaimed by the top law enforcement officer in the land, our new Attorney General, Eric Holder.
Apparently, I’m a racist coward because I want to be color blind. This great national offense of racism doesn’t want to die – even though we just elected our first black president. Just when you thought it was okay to climb out of the past, to put racial injustice and animosity behind us…the Attorney General in the national media yesterday drags it back out.
At my favorite Baptist Church in North Hollywood, the congregation being 90% Black, I have often been asked to get up and read long passages of scripture for special events. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Good Friday, Easter Sunday. Guess they thought my acting background translated to passable delivery of the Lord’s word; I was always happy to oblige, and I hope I did not disappoint. But each year, when the month of February rolled around, I was always asked the same question: Would I like to participate in a special Black History Month pageant? My answer was always the same: No thank you, I don’t believe in it. And their response was always the same: A puzzled look washes over the inquirer’s face, he starts to respond, then not knowing how, drifts away, puzzled. No matter how many times I explained my position, it seemed to make so little sense to them, as to gain no purchase in memory banks. This yearly ritual has been repeated six years running.
I don’t believe in Black History Month any more than I believe in White History Month. To me, Black History Month is a complete insult to Blacks. We must prop up an entire race of people, give them special awards, honors, and recognitions, underscoring their accomplishments and achievements and contributions to society, based on their color… as if it’s so truly remarkable that they did it in the first place…and are African American to boot? Stop the presses! A black person accomplished something great! As if they couldn’t have done it on their own, without help. As if they are somehow inferior to whites. That they somehow overcame their blackness…and did all these wonderful things despite the obvious disadvantage, encumbrance, disability…of being a person of color.
Am I the only one in America…who finds this the least bit patronizing and insulting…and downright, well, racist?
I’ve got a lot of black friends who have accomplished great things in the arts and music world, in the business world, the legal profession, the medical profession…and not one of them has ever expected anything from me other than to be a good friend. I celebrate the achievements of all my friends with love and support and good cheer, and with absolutely no patronizing overt or subliminal addendum of how wonderful you did all this “and you’re a black man, too! Amazing!” I don’t compartmentalize my friends based on their skin color, ethnicity, religious affiliation, political leanings or sexual preference. We’re all just people, period.
I believe it was the great Vince Lombardi who, when chastising a player for a grandstanding end zone dance, post touchdown, would yell, “Knock off the hoopla – act like you do it all the time!” We could all learn something about humility…and equality…from those words.
But now I find out we’re a nation of cowards because we don’t talk about race enough.
Mr. Holder went on to say, Even when people mix at the workplace or at after work social events, many Americans in their free time are still segregated inside what he called “race-protected cocoons.”
Uh…yeah. Maybe because people like Eric Holder are so preoccupied with race that every waking thought is consumed with it? And they insist on inflicting into every thought and daily conversation within the black community a general and constant grievance-addled invective that fosters a victimhood mindset? Just a thought.
So…let me get this straight. If I’m a racist coward because I don’t want to talk about race all the time, don’t want to even think about it, just wish all racism would go away, and everybody just get along as if we we’re all just human beings…and truly do want to judge people not based on skin color, but on the content of their character… Does that mean Dr. Martin Luther King was also a racist? If he were here today, and repeated those words about ‘content of character’ …would Eric Holder call Dr. King a coward?
I hear Eric Holder’s words and I get a chill up my spine. It doesn’t sound like freedom from racism to me. It sounds like reverse racism. It smacks of concepts like “reparations”…”affirmative action” (code for racial preferences)…and “get-even-with-‘em”… So, Mr. Holder, what can I infer from your words…but a tacit warning?
This, Mr. Attorney General…this is what you want to stir up? You should be ecstatic for the ultimate affirmative action as reflected on November 4th. White guilt to a very large extent enabled a charming but inexperienced young socialist to assume the reins of the most powerful nation in the world. And still we are cowards because we don’t talk about race enough?
Dude – are you off your meds??
This supports my assertion that no matter what whites come up with, no matter how many ‘adjustments’ or reparations, or consolations they offer, groveling grotesquely at the altar of Political Correctness for the race-baiters…it will never be enough. My severed head on a silver platter would not placate the sense of racial inequality, aggrieved victimization and indignant persecution Eric Holder and his ilk envision has been perpetrated against him and his constituency by myself and millions like me – people who just want to treat everyone fairly and get along.
Our former leader, President George W. Bush, in one of his more articulate moments, exhorted us to “…challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
But you, Mr. Holder, and those who share your views, are the ones who perpetrate racism in America – by never shutting up about it! Yes, we Americans are proud of our ‘melting pot’ – we are proud of our national motto, E Pluribus Unum, “out of many, one”. We are proud of the idea of America, the most brilliant and good and moral proposition ever submitted to the human race: That all people can assemble in this one nation, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, creed…all men and women can come here and be free. We can pursue our dreams to the utmost and are free to enjoy the fruits of our efforts and talent and determination, unimpeded by coercion or kings. We’re not white Americans, or black Americans, or Hispanic Americans…
We’re Americans.
So… if Mr. Holder is calling me a racist and a coward…isn’t he’s calling Dr. Martin Luther King one, as well?
At least I’m in good company.
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Mr. Holder has a chip on his shoulder.
I don't know about "racist" or "coward" but seems like Phil Gramm was right on with that "whiner" thing.
I like how three posts down from this is a post about how people take offense too easily re: race issues.
Big Hollywood, heal thyself
I like how three posts down from this red-faced screed is a post about how people take offense too easily re: race issues.
Big Hollywood, heal thyself
I'm an african american and i despise what mr. holder said. It seems like the administration truly has a chip on their shoulder. Along with FLOTUS previous statements (downright mean country") and the whole Jeremiah Wright thing. I figured you couldn't listen to that kind of sermon for 20 years and not let it influence you.
Don't take it personally, if Hillary were in the White House you'd be labeled a Sexist Coward.
Somebody help me out here. How many countries, in the western world at least, have elected A BLACK GUY president? I fink i frew up a iddle in my mouf
I love you, Gary! Will you marry me?
Extremely well said Gary.
In Alabama people are so racist that whites and blacks are producing children in order to destroy each others race like the whites did to the Native Americans 100 years ago. I know it is because of hate because the fat girls are the ones hell bent on destroying the black line of men.
Dang it gary… I wanted to make some sort of snarky comment, but you just about covered everything I can possible think of.. a pox on you!
<" It sounds like reverse racism. It smacks of concepts like “reparations”…”affirmative action” (code for racial preferences)…and “get-even-with-‘em”… So, Mr. Holder, what can I infer from your words…but a tacit warning?"
I got the "warning" vibe from his rant too. Soften them up. Make them feel guilty. Call it something other than "reparations". Take their stuff.
I was hoping someone would bring this up. Thank you, and keep bringing the shizzle, my nizzle!
WOW! You said everything I was thinking but couldn't put into words. It's cowardly of Mr. Holder not to recognize the leaps and bounds we have made in the last 40 years. Give us some credit, Mr. Holder. Go stand on the grounds of the Arlington Cemetery and make that speech about cowards. I would like to see you do that!!
" It sounds like reverse racism. It smacks of concepts like “reparations”…”affirmative action” (code for racial preferences)…and “get-even-with-‘em”… So, Mr. Holder, what can I infer from your words…but a tacit warning?"
I got the "warning" vibe from his rant too. Soften them up. Make them feel guilty. Call it something other than "reparations". Take their stuff.
I was hoping someone would bring this up. Thank you, and keep bringing the shizzle, my nizzle!
Heal thyself blucas. That you would criticize someone who is arguing for a color blind society is really pretty sad.
PLEASE go back on Dennis Miller and discuss this post!!!
I concur, extremely well said, and you are not the only one who feels this way! did you know the state (California) gives preference to awarding contracts based on skin color? They even insist on it in many cases. How is that supposed to create "one nation"? I agree 110% with Dr. Martin Luther King saying he dreamed of a day when people “would be judged, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”.
This administration is a huge gift to the Republican Party. He's so staggeringly incompetent it's hard to believe he won't be removed from office after the Republicans win in 2010. They have so many good reasons, not being born in the USA for starters.
This wasn't the kind of hope and change that people expected with the new administration. Eric Holder just proved to the world that he is a racist with that comment.
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I too work in Hollywood and had often been called a racist simply for pointing out facts, in this case about illegals. The shop I worked at was hiring illegals to do some lesser grunt work for cheap. Lunch came and all the caring liberals ran off to eat lunch, I and a few others were working into lunch, and the illegals were working too. It dawned on me that perhaps they had no money for food or a means to get to a restaurant. I asked them best I could if they had any food or could I buy them some. They replied that they did have some food, but did not know that they could stop working. I told them they could. Later, another guy in the shop came up and said "You know, I used to think you were a racist, until today when I saw you were the only person who cared whether those workers had any lunch. Obama and Holder are instigators, plain and simple– They keep all us fighting, straights and gays, men and women, blacks and whites… hoping we don't notice they are screwing us over.
I can't wait until we have racial quotas to hang out with particular types of people on the weekend like we do in the hiring process.
How dare that BLACK RACISTattorney general insinuate there's still a problem with racism in this country????!!1!!11!!!
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!!
I especially love how the color-blind conservatives obsess so much over Black History Month, non-existent "reparations", and constantly assume that black people are coming to take their power away. But, they're so color-blind…
I spent 24 years in the US Air Force and worked with and worked for many blacks. I have called many friend. I too think Black History Month is an an insult to blacks and I detest the term African-American. I too am color blind, but I am no coward. If I was a black, I would be insulted by our new AG. God help America.
But he's NOT arguing a colorblind society, he's overtly arguing for those who see legitimate racism to stay quiet. If he's so concerned about exclusionary things like Black History Month, where's the outrage over St. Patrick's Day or Oktoberfest.
Why is the running theme of this essay how black people are really out to get white people with anti-discrimmination laws or "reparations".
Pretending that racism doesn't exist is no way to actually stamp racism out.
Mr. Graham is supporting what Dr. MLK Jr. supported. Not the faux civil rights activist such as Sharpton, Jackson, and now it seems Mr. Holder.
How does it seem whenever someone from the right discusses race they are crucified and claimed as racist? Whatever happen to having and open and frank discussion. If Mr. Holder wants a discussion, then he needs to be able to listen to views he doesn't agree with.
What kind of a conservative are you? You should have been calling INS immediately to have all those guys rounded up. Turn in your GOP card right now.
Say what? You're comparing "nation" type celebrations to "race-based" celebrations?????
Good lord, Erasmus… I know you like to make these vague statements, but did you even think about what you're trying to compare here? By your argument, we should not be in favor of a "4th of July" holiday then, right?
The reparations issue.. has been off and on by the "leadership" of NAACP and other groups for ages.
Oh…some of my best friends are black, but they shouldn't talk ever ever about being black.
Open your eyes, puppet.
He was born in the US. You guys deliberately choose NOT to believe it. After all, truly color-blind peole wouldn't ever keep a whispering campaign going that the President is a filthy foreigner.
Don't you have some cut and pasting to do on your non-news site, Andrew? Tell me, when's the last time you actually wrote a story by yourself.
Gliberals:
Angry white male here. I think I can speak for many of us who are just plain worn out for taking the blame for problems we A) are not really responsible for, and B) cannot change anyway. So instead of continuing to attack us, why dont you all declare a second Black History Month, offer us another brilliant Black president, create another Oprah Winfrey, and while you're at it drive around the slums of Washington handing out your own money. seems like those are good places to start, eh?
Political Correctness is flat out unAmerican. One is GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT. And even that, where is the forum in which one can debate openly or defend one's honor when accused of being a racist. PC and accusations of racism are a cudgel used to destroy non-leftists. Period. A GOP can not make the same claim of racism against liberals. Think: Michael Steele being pelted by Oreos by liberals. Think: Ted Kennedy publicly humiliating Clarence Thomas during the confirmation hearings. As long as the leftist media, leftist Academy and leftist Hollywood reinforce this order, it will always stay this way. President Obama affords courageous people like Gary Graham, Michael Steele and many others (gay, black, Hispanic conservatives, etc) to upend this manifestly corrupt and deeply unAmerican categorization and corralling process that does nothing but reinforce the worst in humanity so that a select few can attain political power and exploit this evil system.
You're none too good with the reading comprehension are you?
So you equate St. Patrick's Day or Oktoberfest with racism huh? Fascinating…
You mean by whining about Black History month and openly fretting about "reparations" (a code word designed to scare white people), he's being color-blind?
When IS the last time someone on the right discussed race that didn't include whining about perceived racial quotas or invoking prison/birth statistics.
Well said. Needs to be said more often. Awesome article.
He's supplied no evidence he was born here. That document he posted on his web site does not imply being born here, foreign-born people can get that document. And when his approval drops to very low levels as his incompetence becomes apparent, it will become politically possible to press him for proof. He would have already supplied it if he could. Ipso facto, he's not natural-born. But there's so much crooked crap that's gone on so far, it could be anything that they end up using. By the way, this isn't a whisper campaign– I used my real name, and you didn't.
Political Correctness is flat out unAmerican. One is GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT. And even that, where is the forum in which one can debate openly or defend one's honor when accused of being a racist? It's certainly not the media or the modern college campus! If you do go there to defend yourself you will be either attacked or refused the dignity of speaking. PC and accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia act as a cudgel used by leftists to destroy non-leftists. Period.
A GOP can not make the same claim of racism against liberals. Think: Michael Steele being pelted by Oreos by liberals. Think: Ted Kennedy publicly humiliating Clarence Thomas during the confirmation hearings. As long as the leftist media, leftist Academy and leftist Hollywood reinforce this order, it will always stay this way. President Obama affords courageous people like Gary Graham, Michael Steele and many others (gay, black, Hispanic conservatives, etc) to upend this manifestly corrupt and deeply unAmerican categorization and corralling process that does nothing but reinforce the worst in humanity so that a select few can attain political power and exploit this evil system.
Wow Erasmus. Don't you feel special.
These totalitarian tactics are found in Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, or wherever the left gains power. It's why the left sucks. And it's gonna take good traditional, old school liberals to wake up from a 40 year flirtation and alliance with the hard left in a compromise of their values to attain power in order to right the ship.
Yes, Andrew, how DARE you say ANYTHING!!! Why, it just burns me up when people like you say THINGS. And when it burns me up, I have to reach deeeeeeeeeep into my brain-thingy and pull out a truuuuuuuly cutting insult. And frankly, that hurts. So stop saying things. We live in a tolerant society and people like you are ruining it for meeee!!!!!!
TYPICAL liberals.
No reasoned responses, only off-hand quasi-intellectual snipes.
Can't you see your universe starting to roll back on itself? You have little in the way of logic to support your
feel-good, above-it-all TRIPE. You idiots flat-out s*ck.
"Think: Michael Steele being pelted by Oreos by liberals"
-Which never happened.
Do your best to prove it. You'll fail, much like at everything else.
People flippantly throw around the word racist because they don't want the opposing side in a debate to continue to contradict them. The quickest way to get someone to stop stating their own point of view is to scare them into shutting up? And how is that done. By trying to damage other peoples' perceptions of them. Because since all people want to be liked no one will want to risk being called a racist for the fear of social pariah. If people look up the word fascism in the dictionary then they will see that one part of the definition of fascism is trying to silence opposing points of view. So who is really acting like a fascist here. People like George W. Bush or the race-baiters who carelessly throw around such loaded words?
And if I report that Africa run by africans is a absolute disaster, GDP around $ 200 to $1000. corrupt, disease ridden,starving, violent what does that make me?
My point is that if the so-called hypenated American is verboten, then why do we have St. Patrick's Day? Why should the Irish celebrate their heritage at the exclusion of all others, I mean we're ALL Americans no?
Many black Americans would retort the race v. nation thing by pointing out that the Slavery system eradicated their connections to their home countries, and for many years, the vast majority of black Americans had no idea of their ancestral countries or homelands or whatnot. If you have no idea that your Senegalese or Congolese, etc, should you be denied the opportunity to celebrate your heritage like the Irish or Germans? I just find it interesting that of all the cultural heritage commemorations or celebrations, it always seems to be the Black themed events that are asked to consider going out of business in the name of racial harmony.
Look to fire fighters for a solution. They fight fire with fire. If they don't put the fire out, they are consumed by it.
Better to be THOUGHT an idiot than post as you do, Erasmus, and remove all doubt.
Our society engages in human sacrifice. The latest victim of this attempt was Sarah Palin. And what we need to do is to defang it. Fight a trench war when the next conservative says something that is deliberately misconstrued.
Say over and over again. NO. No, it was not racist. Stop being an idiot. NO. No it was not r….
Thats one reason I'm for Sarah in 2012. The Left tried to destroy her. If she can come back, then she takes away a lot of their power of personal destruction.
Maybe we need to do more than trench warfare on this issue. Maybe we need to ask ourselves "What would Ann do?"
Andrew,
If Gary doesn't accept your proposal, I will.
And a person shouting "Kill Him" about Obama at a Palin rally never happened either.
The head of the Secret Service office in Scranton, Pennsylvania even said there was NO proof that anyone uttered that phrase about Obama. So please, try and prove that for me.
Actually, I don't equate St. Patrick's Day with racism. I find the notion that we should eliminate Black History Month for being too exclusionary to be somewhat racist. Neither Black History Month or St. Patrick's Day bother me a whit.
Someone is jealous…
So the NAACP is using a code word designed to scare white people? You make no sense.
Also, the people whining about quotas and prison statistics are liberals. On the birth statistics, I seem recall that being a common topic of both sides. SOoo, you're wrong as usual. What's next?
What a bold riposte to an argument I'm not making!
He did provide proof, you simply chose not to believe it.
He was born in Hawaii, therefore natural-born. End of story.
Grow up
Proving natural-born status (a CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT) has nothing to do with race, anonymous bomb-throwing liberal.
Of course you do, because you find all things said by conservatives about minorities to be racist. So why should I take anything you say seriously?
Thanks Gary. I agree with you %100.
As far as I am concerned discrimination is an excuse for those who feel they deserve respect they haven't earned. They feel they deserve, no insist they be given the benefit of the doubt. These people wear their race, religion or sexual preference on their sleeves and demand and expect that people look past it. They take pride in those differences and allow themselves to be ruled or defined by them all the while using them as a crutch for their own failures. If you truly care what people think of you then don't pretend you don't care. Stop throwing your differences in our face and you won't find yourselves being ostracized. Stop insisting that society like you because of your differences and ask us to accept you despite your differences.
Ask us (society) nicely, as though our opinion matters and most will gladly oblige, but the moment you dare to insist or order us to do something you will find we are not so easily moved.
As liberals lately seem to like to say "You lost the election. Get over it." The same applies here. You're (insert color here). Get over it.
Andrew is too busy pretending that he's a journalist, although he's just a cut and paste hack.
Maybe the Democrats could show conservative solidarity by invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
"Does that mean Dr. Martin Luther King was also a racist?"
Well, he was a Republican, so by liberal standards he must have been a racist.
Gary, Love your articles. Just wanted to tell you to keep it up!! Regards, Fellow coward..
Mr. Graham – bravo! I also am insulted and infuriated at having a racist accuse me of racism because of my race while he escapes punishment for his racism because of his!
You know, the biggest irony of Holder saying he wants racism to end is that in reality he'd be ruined if that happened. Holder NEEDS racism. Without it, he'd lose everything. Starting with his affirmative action education and ending with this plum assignment, everything Holder has gotten has been given to him on the basis of his race. He sure hasn't earned it for being smart – as his assinine statement just now clearly proves. (For God's sake, this jerk isn't even street smart.) You know, there's a saying – 'be careful what you ask God for, you might get it'. Well, I think Holder should get what he's demanding – an honest assessment of racism in this country. Should that ever happen, boy, would HE get it, in more ways than one.
It DID happen (an Oreo rolled to his feet, anyway, maybe he wasn't PELTED with them, per se), it was done by Townsend supporters, and YOU are a dishonest person.
But you must equate the two Erasmus.. otherwise you wouldn't have compared the two.
I love Gary's writing and his POV so my comment is not directly directed at him, but is Big Hollywood really just going to become a never ending series of perceived slights. Some dumb liberal said this, there's only 20 percent as many Obama jokes as I want on TV, and so on and so on. A lot of the site is not that, so I'll stick with it forever…it's awesome. But we're conservatives…we have a point of view, let's start articulating it. I think it was clear if the Democrats would've not attacked Bush so stridently and made a case for their view (now I know they don't have one) they would've beat Bush in 2004. Let's not make that mistake, let's push forward with what we believe in as if liberals don't exist. Let's stop letting then get our goat!!!
Gary….how true your words are!! Thank you! I think I love you….LOL!
Fabulous article, Gary. Thank you so much!
I'm OFFENDED! I want to know what race of people does the so-called first Black Attorney General mingles with during HIS weekends off? Or is he, himself, is just about as hypocritical as the rest of the liberal left! A man in his position, should NOT make any comments or statements regarding race relations, when it was affirmative action and the lack of racism that got him in that position in the first place! As a Black American and a defender of the constitution, the office of the Attorney General has more pressing issues than making comments about race. For example, how his office are going to deal with the first so-called Black President who signed an Executive Order to try murderers from Al Qaida on US soil? Mr. Holder's office should be more concentrating on that issue than about race issues. One more note Mr. Holder about race in America. What political party wanted to keep slavery during the Civil War, conducted human atrocities against Blacks during Reconstruction in the South, passed Jim Crow Laws, denied racial riots ever existed during the 1910s & 20's, fought against the civil rights acts of the 1960's and sided with the Progressive Labor Party on Busing during the 1970's and 80's? Sound familiar, liberals? Know your history first, before you speak of it.
Erasmus…..blah, blah, blah, blah……if you could hear yourself talk you would probably not say anything!!!
Since when does objecting to something, equate to obsessing over it? Maybe G Graham is objecting to the "wrong thing?"
Fools, And while you're trying to find your 'nads, why don't you buy my terrific NY TIMES bestselling book (co-authored with Mark Ebner), Hollywood, Interrupted. It came out five years ago next week!
It is impossible for a White person to honestly discuss race and not be called a racist. That's why most of us simply don't .
We can't mention gangsta culture, or how hip-hop denigrates women, or how the fascination with the pimp culture destroys relationships, or how the majority of black children are born to unwed mothers. Or the devaluing of education, or why the predominant black culture is filled with hate for Condoleeza Rice, or any other conservative black person. Nope -just can't talk about it.
Everything that Bill Cosby talks about is out of bounds for a white man. And just so we are clear here, there is no secret code to making better and stronger families. It is all well known. If we talk about it we'd get fired or dragged up before a Maoist re-orientation center and vilified. We need our jobs to feed our families and oh yeah – to take care of our children, the ones in my house, that live with me and their mother. Oops – must be sounding racist again….
Kudos Agent Orange. It's far too easy for the limousine liberals (and yes I include young college educated kids in that boat) as saying they're for the illegal/black/muslim, etc. people yet walk/run from them whenever in close proximity to said people. Actions are what I judge people by. Talk is cheap.
And some of my best friends are white, but they know that if they ever talk about being white, they'll immediately be accused of being racists.
Again, you're saying Irish shouldn't have a "national day of celebration"? (you do realize what that day actually is right?)
Again, by your own argument, we should get rid of the 4th of July.
Many black Americans would retort the race v. nation thing by pointing out that the Slavery system eradicated their connections to their home countries,
You just keep digging yourself in deeper, don't you Eras?
They were born in the US, they live in the US… so again, WHAT connections? I was born in the US, live in the US.. I have quite a few nationalities in my family tree… so I should be demanding this country celebrate what… Important Netherlands Figures Month, right? I mean that's part of my heritage.
Sorry, Gerard.. but that's one of those "old wives tales".. even most conservatives of sound-thinking don't buy into that one.
I'm pretty sure St. Patrick's Day and Oktoberfest aren't propaganda initiatives supported by our Federal Government. Kind of an apples/oranges comparison. Those two holidays were imported from their native countries by immigrant people groups. Nobody's trying to force "St. Patrick's Day" down your throat, or make you feel guilty if you don't feel like participating in it.
Come to think of it, though, they used to pinch you if you didn't wear green. Damn Irish.
"Oktoberfest", on the other hand, is a holiday dedicated to swilling large quantities of beer and ogling women in low-cut blouses. If we're going to federalize anything, I'd vote for that one…
Again, you're saying Irish shouldn't have a "national day of celebration"? (you do realize what that day actually is right?)
Again, by your own argument, we should get rid of the 4th of July.
Many black Americans would retort the race v. nation thing by pointing out that the Slavery system eradicated their connections to their home countries,
You just keep digging yourself in deeper, don't you Eras?
They were born in the US, they live in the US… so again, WHAT connections? I was born outside the US, live in the US.. so I should be demanding this country celebrate what… Important Icelandic Figures Month, right?
I hope to God that comment was intended as satire. It didn't really come out all that well, though…
Let me see…you want to honestly discuss race by invoking negative stereotypes about "gangsta culture" or "pimp culture"?
Well. Two can play this game. When will white people tackle the problem of shirtless meth-heads arrested every week on Cops. Or overweight white lesbian strippers who are sleeping with their stepsons on Jerry Springer? Or the fact that the majority of "welfare" dollars actually is distributed to rural white people in Southern states? Or how the lowest percentage of college educated people are in the rural white South (talk about devaluing education). Or that every high school shooter and virtually every major serial killer has been white?
I mean, if you want to honestly discuss race by employing only negative stereotypes, see where this will lead?
No change, No Hope, No-Bama 2012.
" I don’t compartmentalize my friends based on their skin color, ethnicity, religious affiliation, political leanings or sexual preference. We’re all just people, period." And here you see is the raison d 'etre for the Democrat party. They have power ONLY by putting people in categories based on aesthetics and sexual proclivities and then pandering to their liberal manufactured victim hood. Let's face it, the REASON that President Teleprompter was elected was because of skin color. Nothing more. He is a man with no past, a man with no developed ideas, a man of no accomplishments other than self aggrandizement. He signed, packaged, and delivered based on his skin color. I heard so many people who didn't agree with him say "well at least we can get past this whole idea of racism now." And I always told them that this was Naive. The liberals are incapable of getting past race, the Democrat party can not and WILL NOT ever drop the issue of racism. After all why would they? Why would they stop doing something that gives them power? They will continue to peddle and pander to race, they will continue to paint Republicans as racists, and people will continue to base their decisions on that criteria. Conservatives/Republicans don't enter race into their decisions with the exception of when they must and that is only because of the world that liberals have created, where in order to fit in one has to appear sensitive to melanin content. What most Americans fail to see is that "racism" is a self fulfilling prophecy. As long as we keep talking about it, as long as we keep feeling guilty about it, as long as we keep making government policy based on it it WILL NEVER go away. Racism exists, but it is exists in the minds and policies of Liberals. It exists not in the Lynchings of the past, but in the race based government policies and special interests groups of today. It is cloaked in the trappings of "diversity" and "tolerance" while its reality is ego stripping condescension and welfare slavery.
" I don’t compartmentalize my friends based on their skin color, ethnicity, religious affiliation, political leanings or sexual preference. We’re all just people, period."
And here you see, is the raison d 'etre for the Democrat party. They have power ONLY by putting people in categories based on aesthetics and sexual proclivities and then pandering to their liberal manufactured victim hood. Let's face it, the REASON that President Teleprompter was elected was because of skin color. Nothing more. He is a man with no past, a man with no developed ideas, a man of no accomplishments other than self aggrandizement. He signed, packaged, and delivered based on his skin color. I heard so many people who didn't agree with him say "well at least we can get past this whole idea of racism now." And I always told them that this was Naive. The liberals are incapable of getting past race, the Democrat party can not and WILL NOT ever drop the issue of racism. After all why would they? Why would they stop doing something that gives them power? They will continue to peddle and pander to race, they will continue to paint Republicans as racists, and people will continue to base their decisions on that criteria. Conservatives/Republicans don't enter race into their decisions with the exception of when they must and that is only because of the world that liberals have created, where in order to fit in one has to appear sensitive to melanin content. What most Americans fail to see is that "racism" is a self fulfilling prophecy. As long as we keep talking about it, as long as we keep feeling guilty about it, as long as we keep making government policy based on it it WILL NEVER go away. Racism exists, but it is exists in the minds and policies of Liberals. It exists not in the Lynchings of the past, but in the race based government policies and special interests groups of today. It is cloaked in the trappings of "diversity" and "tolerance" while its reality is ego stripping condescension and welfare slavery.
I have discussed race many times without invoking racial quotas or prison/birth statistics and I am on the right. My kids play with kids of different races all the time and there are never discussions associated with racial quotas or prison/birth statistics. Dude, get a grip!
Looking at all the posts trying to distract from Gary's article or attack Gary personally, clearly written in fear of Gary's words ("it burns, it burns"), it's clear that Gary has truly written a masterpiece here!!
Sincerely, thank you Gary!
" I don’t compartmentalize my friends based on their skin color, ethnicity, religious affiliation, political leanings or sexual preference. We’re all just people, period."
And here you see, is the raison d 'etre for the Democrat party. They have power ONLY by putting people in categories based on aesthetics and sexual proclivities and then pandering to their liberal manufactured victim hood. Let's face it, the REASON that President Teleprompter was elected was because of skin color. Nothing more. He is a man with no past, a man with no developed ideas, a man of no accomplishments other than self aggrandizement. He is signed, packaged, and delivered based on his skin color. I heard so many people who didn't agree with him say "well at least we can get past this whole idea of racism now." And I always told them that this was Naive. The liberals are incapable of getting past race, the Democrat party can not and WILL NOT ever drop the issue of racism. After all why would they? Why would they stop doing something that gives them power? They will continue to peddle and pander to race, they will continue to paint Republicans as racists, and people will continue to base their decisions on that criteria. Conservatives/Republicans don't enter race into their decisions with the exception of when they must and that is only because of the world that liberals have created, where in order to fit in one has to appear sensitive to melanin content. What most Americans fail to see is that "racism" is a self fulfilling prophecy. As long as we keep talking about it, as long as we keep feeling guilty about it, as long as we keep making government policy based on it it WILL NEVER go away. Racism exists, but it is exists in the minds and policies of Liberals. It exists not in the Lynchings of the past, but in the race based government policies and special interests groups of today. It is cloaked in the trappings of "diversity" and "tolerance" while its reality is ego stripping condescension and welfare slavery.
" I don’t compartmentalize my friends based on their skin color, ethnicity, religious affiliation, political leanings or sexual preference. We’re all just people, period."
And here you see, is the raison d 'etre for the Democrat party. They have power ONLY by putting people in categories based on aesthetics and sexual proclivities and then pandering to their liberal manufactured victim hood. Let's face it, the REASON that President Teleprompter was elected was because of skin color. Nothing more. He is a man with no past, a man with no developed ideas, a man of no accomplishments other than self aggrandizement. He was signed, packaged, and delivered based on his skin color. I heard so many people who didn't agree with him say "well at least we can get past this whole idea of racism now." And I always told them that this was Naive. The liberals are incapable of getting past race, the Democrat party can not and WILL NOT ever drop the issue of racism. After all why would they? Why would they stop doing something that gives them power? They will continue to peddle and pander to race, they will continue to paint Republicans as racists, and people will continue to base their decisions on that criteria. Conservatives/Republicans don't enter race into their decisions with the exception of when they must and that is only because of the world that liberals have created, where in order to fit in one has to appear sensitive to melanin content. What most Americans fail to see is that "racism" is a self fulfilling prophecy. As long as we keep talking about it, as long as we keep feeling guilty about it, as long as we keep making government policy based on it it WILL NEVER go away. Racism exists, but it is exists in the minds and policies of Liberals. It exists not in the Lynchings of the past, but in the race based government policies and special interests groups of today. It is cloaked in the trappings of "diversity" and "tolerance" while its reality is ego stripping condescension and welfare slavery.
So, the way to rebuild your party and lead the country is to pretend that those who disagree with you don't exist? Isn't that the mentality that directly caused your party to lose Congress and lose the popular vote in the Presidential election 16 out of the last 20 years?
"He would have already supplied it if he could. Ipso facto, he's not natural-born."
That is faulty logic. He well may be simply so arrogant that he feels he doesn't need to provide proof beyond his own spoken word.
This whole birth certificate thing is really hurting the conservative opposition and making us all look like nutbag conspiracy theorists. Let it go.
Man, you guys do more projecting than a movie theater
It feels great to be in Obama's post-racial America doesn't it!
" I don’t compartmentalize my friends based on their skin color, ethnicity, religious affiliation, political leanings or sexual preference. We’re all just people, period."
And here you see, is the raison d 'etre for the Democrat party. They have power ONLY by putting people in categories based on aesthetics and sexual proclivities and then pandering to their liberal manufactured victim hood. Let's face it, the REASON that President Teleprompter was elected was because of skin color. Nothing more. He is a man with no past, a man with no developed ideas, a man of no accomplishments other than self aggrandizement. He was signed, packaged, and delivered based on his skin color. I heard so many people who didn't agree with him say "well at least we can get past this whole idea of racism now." And I always told them that this was Naive. The liberals are incapable of getting past race, the Democrat party can not and WILL NOT ever drop the issue of racism. After all why would they? Why would they stop doing something that gives them power? They will continue to peddle and pander to race, they will continue to paint Republicans as racists, and people will continue to base their decisions on that criteria. Conservatives/Republicans don't enter race into their decisions with the exception of when they must and that is only because of the world that liberals have created, where in order to fit in one has to appear sensitive to melanin content. What most Americans fail to see is that "racism" is a self fulfilling prophecy. As long as we keep talking about it, as long as we keep feeling guilty about it, as long as we keep making government policy based on it it WILL NEVER go away. Racism exists, but it is exists in the minds and policies of Liberals. It exists not in the Lynchings of the past, but in the race based government policies and special interests groups of today. It is cloaked in the trappings of "diversity" and "tolerance" while its reality is ego stripping condescension , exploitation, and welfare slavery.
I 'm really scared about were this whole thing is going.!
As a working member of the press I've seen a lot of anger and violence. But in spite of that I believed this country had turned that page in history and most racism was in the past. I realize that the Jesse Jackson's, Al Sharpton's
and David Duke's are still out there . this is definitely a different America than the one I grew up in.
But this Eric Holder/Obama thing is totally is dangerous
.I truly believe they ( Obama) want to ignite a new level of racial hatred with the very purpose of dividing this country.
They want to use this as an excuse for all kinds of actions. Possibly to restrict our freedom of speech, to eliminate
conservative talk radio, to ban guns, and eventually impose martial law if things get bad enough.
I don't believe that Obama sat in that church for twenty years "by accident". And his violent friends were not
mere acquaintances.
Are you worried where this is going?
Thank you Gary Graham for not being a coward!
Eric Holder lawfirm is representing 17 terrorists at Gitmo
You know the ones that have murdered thousands of people in office buildings, shops, just minding their own business.
obama has stopped their trials!
You must not have any black friends. Sitting around discussing skin color is not a high priority for them– believe it or not.
Grow up? Sorry, all he was saying was that we've forced integration enough in the workforce but people still hang out with their own kind on weekends. Sorry man, its hard for me to find a lot of black people out there when I'm surfing or hiking. Any black people want to go surfing with me in Boston? If so, I'm not trying to avoid you, we just all look black in our wetsuits.
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