The term "African-American"

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour

holy moly Robert

you said a mouth full.......... took the words right out of my mouth.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Robert Goren

I settle just plain ole American. I don't need to put anything in front of it. It is implied I am white skinned and I know it. I was lucky enough to born with a white skin and I know that was just plain luck. I have had a good life. It was a lot easier to live well because I because I have a white skin. I don't pretend that it was not. I like to think I would have done as well if I had not had a white skin, but who knows. I do know that things would have been different. My chances to do well would have been more limited. My chances to screw up would have been more. Again I like to think I would have found the right path, but who knows. I didn't have 90% of my 7th grade trying to convince me to join a gang. I didn't have a dope addict for a mother and father that I had never met or who was in jail. Who knows how I would have turned out if that would have been my childhood.

All left-leaners who have ever sided with Mr. Goren in the past, please take note of who the real racists are among us.

[horses4courses]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

All left-leaners who have ever sided with Mr. Goren in the past, please take note of who the real racists are among us.

Feel better now?

[Clocker]

An interesting article called "Why liberals should stop trying to "help" black Americans". It is written by Jason Riley, and discusses the ideas in his book, "Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed". In echoing some praise by Democratic leadership about the president, I would point out that Riley is articulate and bright and clean and doesn't speak with a Negro dialect.

Some excerpts:

Obama was doing exactly what liberals have been conditioning blacks to do since the 1960s, which is to blame black pathology on the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. And the president is conditioning the next generation of blacks to do the same.

This is a dodge. Those legacies are not holding down blacks half as much as the legacy of efforts to help them “overcome.” The left’s sentimental support has turned underprivileged blacks into playthings for liberal intellectuals and politicians who care more about clearing their conscience or winning votes than advocating behaviors and attitudes that have allowed other groups to get ahead.

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Liberalism has also succeeded, tragically, in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims. Today there is no greater impediment to black advancement than the self-pitying mindset that permeates black culture.

White liberals think they are helping blacks by romanticizing miscreants. And black liberals are all too happy to hustle guilty whites. The result, manifest in everything from black studies programs to black media to black politics, is an obsession with racial slights real or imagined.

[horses4courses]

Originally Posted by Clocker

I would point out that Riley is articulate and bright and clean and doesn't speak with a Negro dialect.

Interesting that you would ever find it necessary to point this out to anyone.

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by horses4courses

Interesting that you would ever find it necessary to point this out to anyone.

Interesting that the sarcasm escaped you. I wasn't pointing it out about Riley. I was pointing out that Harry Reid and Joe Biden are so condescending to blacks that they felt compelled to use these descriptions about Barack Obama.

[dartman51]

Originally Posted by horses4courses

Interesting that you would ever find it necessary to point this out to anyone.

Probably because that is exactly what Harry Reid said about Obama. Did you ask him why he felt the need to point it out?

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by dartman51

Probably because that is exactly what Harry Reid said about Obama. Did you ask him why he felt the need to point it out?

Dirty Harry also pointed out that Obama was light-skinned. Riley isn't, so I didn't mention that particular "compliment" from Harry.

[horses4courses]

Originally Posted by Clocker

Dirty Harry also pointed out that Obama was light-skinned. Riley isn't, so I didn't mention that particular "compliment" from Harry.

Oh yeah....you're right.
Mea culpa.

The humor of the Right escapes me on occasion.
Sort of like those situations where you stop and think
for a second - "Are they laughing with me, or at me?"
An age old GOP quandary.

[Robert Goren]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

All left-leaners who have ever sided with Mr. Goren in the past, please take note of who the real racists are among us.

The real racist are the whites who born in 1948 like me and think they had as hard as the African Americans born at the same time.

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by horses4courses

The humor of the Right escapes me on occasion.

Liberals are so literal.

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by Robert Goren

The real racist are the whites who born in 1948 like me and think they had as hard as the African Americans born at the same time.

The real racists are the whites who think that they know what blacks think and what is good for them.

[Marshall Bennett]

Originally Posted by Clocker

The real racists are the whites who think that they know what blacks think and what is good for them.

Yeah well, ask most blacks what is good for them and see what kind of racist answer you'll get against whites. Start with the blacks destroying the south side of Chicago, I'm dying to hear what they say.

[hcap]

Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett

Yeah well, ask most blacks what is good for them and see what kind of racist answer you'll get against whites. Start with the blacks destroying the south side of Chicago, I'm dying to hear what they say.

Have you asked "most Blacks"?

[reckless]

Originally Posted by reckless

Your implication that the Tea Party --or basic conservatism--is racist is patently incorrect. The racism in this country lies square at the feet of the liberals and more specifically, the Democrat Party.

Apologists, simpletons and assorted water-carriers such as yourself are just naive dupes of the vulgarians such as Obama, Biden, the Clintons and thousands and thousands more like them.

I will never personally accuse you of such racist conduct, even though you do defend the hateful, racist, anti-American rhetoric of the Left and Democratic Party.

Once again, only the haters on the left espouse racism -- and deliberately accuse the conservatives of such vile conduct thinking we'll cower in the corner caused by such accusations.

I, and many other conservatives, will not play your vapid word games.

You and the other haters in this country have been exposed for what you really are.

Goren's post below appeared after my earlier response to another silly, incorrect and hateful post by him.

Originally Posted by Robert Goren

I settle just plain ole American. I don't need to put anything in front of it. It is implied I am white skinned and I know it. I was lucky enough to born with a white skin and I know that was just plain luck. I have had a good life. It was a lot easier to live well because I because I have a white skin. I don't pretend that it was not. I like to think I would have done as well if I had not had a white skin, but who knows. I do know that things would have been different. My chances to do well would have been more limited. My chances to screw up would have been more. Again I like to think I would have found the right path, but who knows. I didn't have 90% of my 7th grade trying to convince me to join a gang. I didn't have a dope addict for a mother and father that I had never met or who was in jail. Who knows how I would have turned out if that would have been my childhood.

Typical thoughts from one of our pontificating, racist, know-it-all resident liberals.

I rest my case.