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On Friday, the press rejoiced over the strangely dubbed "beer summit" between President Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley -- as if a photo op could generate the national conversation about race that we truly need.
We live in an age when the United States has elected a black man as President, and where open bigots and racists are driven from the public square. Yet the so-called "colorblindness" that now rules our conversations about race makes engaging in a mature, reasoned, meaningful discourse about the persistence of racism even more difficult.
Negotiating this dynamic is a process akin to that of viewing a shadow projected onto a screen. In this example, one group sees the original object, what is in fact a concrete example of racism. The other group only sees the shadow. Through learned experience one group comes to understand race and racism as lived realities. Simultaneously, the other group sees racism as an outlier of sorts, an inconvenient experience, the result of overly sensitive minorities looking for any excuse to be aggrieved, or as an example of a simple misunderstanding where race is not truly operative as a relevant variable.
In keeping with President Barack Obama's appeal to a "teachable moment," the arrest of leading African American scholar Henry Louis Gates outside of his home, as well as the gender and racial dynamics at play in the Judge Sotomayor confirmation hearing represent a rare and privileged opportunity for White America to see race clearly--as something more than a set of shadows or projections.
da razist repugnicunts hates to talk race but they hate da bleeks so why can't we just talks about it it?
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Don't be silly. He was referring to the Kentucky Derby.
__________________ “If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.” ~ Thomas Sowell
if its wildo, then it is likely the point reyes annual naked dash to the surf......all men, of course
Dat wuz so funny cuz you liek totally called me gay cuz gayz are fags and you hate da fags but only in a beat aroundz da bush cowardly kind of way OMG you can be in my club welcome to Wildo TRUTH tiem!
da razist repugnicunts hates to talk race but they hate da bleeks so why can't we just talks about it it?
Bill Cosby, Jason Whitlock, and Thomas Sowell talk about race all the time...are they allowed to be part of the conversation? I will post some of their quotes because who better to talk about the bleeks. So lets just talk about it.
Cosby had come to Detroit aiming to grab the city’s black men by their collars and shake them out of the torpor that has left so many of them—like so many of their peers across the country—undereducated, over-incarcerated, and underrepresented in the ranks of active fathers.
As Cosby sees it, the antidote to racism is not rallies, protests, or pleas, but strong families and communities. Instead of focusing on some abstract notion of equality, he argues, blacks need to cleanse their culture, embrace personal responsibility, and reclaim the traditions that fortified them in the past.
Then he attacked African American naming traditions, and the style of dress among young blacks: “Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people. They are showing you what’s wrong … What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans. They don’t know a damned thing about Africa— with names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail.”
There's a good start for you Wildo. Chew on that and if you have anything intelligent to say I will post some of Sowell. If this goes on long enough maybe we will even go to Whitlock.
Why can't We talk about Race?
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