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Michelle Obama, wife of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama, symbolizes everthing ill about the politics of race. She also represents the very lowest motivation in life: envy and revenge. Some call it social justice, but that’s only a fancy name for the base reaction to life– pure materialism. It’s all about fame and fortune. Ultimately, now, it’s about the White House.

The Obama’s degrade the very idea of the White House. Instead the home of our country’s leader, they are suggesting that is should be the triumph of envy. Economic jealously. The lowest of the low should sit in the Oval Office. This is justice. This is the juvenile insult the whole world offers America through the Obamas. The Third World believes it has a right to sit on the throne of power. The Third World had nothing to do with the creation of that throne, nor any capacity to contribute to it, nor has it any comprehension of how the throne was established, or what it means, or what it’s worth. The “have nots” simply look at it, and envy it, and are angry that they don’t have it. The Obamas represent the non-white Third World. They represent envy. This is the secret of their popularity.

Continue reading…. Michelle Obama: You Owe Me
Also see… “Is Michelle Obama Emotionally Disturbed?”

Well, it looks like Michelle Obama’s real self is being thrown under the bus along with other Obama supporters who provide too much insight into a man who is damn determined that America not realize who and what he essentially is.
Michelle Obama’s attempt to rehabilitate her bitter black image reminds me of an article I read in 2002. This was after the Cincinnati riots when I was trying to fathom who the hell blacks in this country had become. Just as Rev Wright was an eye opener to many white Americans, the riots in my hometown and the ensuing rhetoric of black politics was my eye opener.
One of the things my research led me to be perplexed with is this notion the black community has that they have to wear some kind of mask in order to be acceptable to whites. It would seem that just being regular Americans would be far simpler. But the more I read, the more I understand that those blacks who subscribe to the notions of Jeremiah Wright find being a regular American distasteful.

In every position I’ve held, I’ve felt valued for my qualifications, and highly prized for being black in a sea of whiteness. I’ve sometimes felt like what James Baldwin once described as the fly in the buttermilk. Token and expendable. I am constantly aware of my loneness, of how I am being treated, of how I am treating others and how I am perceived.
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But it leaves us “Only Ones” with a challenge: We must integrate without compromising ourselves or our beliefs. We must retain our cultural selves and run the risk of scaring the white folks we work with and for. We must constantly filter our experiences, screening for racism in each moment, while still being a team player. We must be able to culturally navigate both worlds, working side-by-side with folks who are only vested in their own white world. We must teach tolerance or suffer being misunderstood. We must put up with ignorant comments, always picking our battles. We must reach out to other people of color for reality checks. We must prove that we are more than a dark body the white company brings in to sit behind a desk. And we must perform twice as well as our peers and look twice as good doing it.

Always with a smile and always with flair. No exceptions.

I’m used to being the Only One, so at this point in my professional life it’s almost second nature. Still, it often leaves me feeling numb, defeated. I go home at times exhausted from the effort. I feel cheated out of being who I am in my workplace, where I spend nearly half my waking life.

Oh cry me a river. Talk about a martyr complex, you are either proud of who you are or you are not. Don’t blame “whitey” that you felt you had to conceal your “real nature”. Most of us could care less. But I find it highly tiresome and more than a little exasperating that blacks hold their culture as separate and apart from their American identity.

It certainly doesn’t speak to the reality on the ground that finds a huge percentage of white youth adopting black music, dress, eubonics, and attitudes. Combined with the indoctrination taught in our treacherous public schools which has succeeded in inculcating a few generations with “white shame”, you have millions of white kids emulating black culture and abjuring their own. So what the hell do blacks feel that they have to conceal?

When I brought this article up in a local online forum where whites and blacks were going head to head on race issues, many blacks affirmed that indeed, they felt compelled to hold back their “real’ selves.

“We must integrate without compromising ourselves or our beliefs. We must retain our cultural selves…”

And what beliefs are so alien to white America, except perhaps those that echo the rhetoric coming out of Obama’s long time mentor, Rev Jeremiah Wright.

Sociologist Dena Wallerson is a top college administrator. She remembers her 10 years as one of a few African-Americans in the graduate sociology program at a state university. She wrote a paper there titled “Minority Among Minorities,” which examined how women of color cope in a white-dominated workplace. She found that it was important for the women to network with other people of color outside of their workplace. In these networks, the women could let down their guard and strip themselves of the mask.
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The mask gives you more access to the white world. It is that corporate, professional thing you take off when you get home, put your feet up, pick up the phone, and say, “Girl you wouldn’t believe the kind of day I’ve had. *” It can change daily, depending on who will see it. What doesn’t change is how heavy it is. It weighs so much, it’s numbing.

We get used to the transition — on and off, on and off. I used to date a guy who was an insurance salesman by day, thugged-out rapper by night. Tattooed biceps and all. I called him at work one day and listened to his voice mail — he sounded like a straight-up white guy. His deep voice was nasal, his words crisper than normal. With this voice, his co-workers probably had no idea who he really was. I didn’t either.

When I worked in a more corporate environment, I remember feeling exhausted at the end of the day from continuously putting on the front. Jealous that my white co-workers could let loose and blow off steam while I fronted ’til the end. Some days I was relieved just to make it to my car where I could finally breathe and play my soul music, returning to my black world.

If you read the entire article, you get an idea of why Michelle Obama is such a bitter woman. Putting up with us whitey’s is such a mind numbing, onerous task, according to her sistas.

The slings and arrows of racism can’t get you if you’re not emotionally present. In addition to the mask, tuning out white co-workers is one way of coping.

That black woman in your office who isn’t so friendly? The one who doesn’t hang out with the rest of the gang? The one who doesn’t join in on the water-cooler talk? She’s most likely using the only tool she knows to deal with being the Only One. She’s keeping a safe distance and double-checking her work. She knows that if something goes wrong, she’ll be blamed and fulfill a stereotype of the shiftless Negro.
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Another big problem for “Only Ones”: being the spokesperson for the race. We’re not a monolithic group. Black folks come from as many different backgrounds as white people. Within the community, we are more attuned to the differences, but white folks have a tendency to just see black and make general assumptions.

It’s tiring being the teacher all the time, but Younger believes it is an integral part of black professionalism. The more black professionals there are, the less isolated we are, and the more diversity there is, the less each one has to teach.

Those white folks with little to no exposure to people of color, who are over eager to seem “down,” need to be taught a lot.
from The Only One: Being Black in the White Working World

No, I think maybe blacks in America need to be taught how to be Americans and quit clinging to their culture , which, unfortunately, has little to do with American culture, apparently.

So go ahead Michelle, put your mask back on, pretend to love America. Problem is, you can’t erase the real face we have already seen. And I suspect it won’t take much for your mask to slip away again.

I love comments and this one deserves it’s own post. Thank you LL.

After reading this post, and so many others these past few weeks, I’ve come to the conclusion that Obama cannot lose. Oh, he might lose the election, but what he represents for America will claim victory regardless.Let’s say that the progressives, represented by Obama, do lose the general election. What’s their response going to be? Racism. That old worn out saw is going to be paraded again throughout the social conscience of America. Is it a lie? Yes, but what does the truth have to do with it?

Let’s say that the progressives win the general election, then what? They’ll make a claim of moral victory as they throw the country into sociological tailspin, pushing every left wing agenda they can imagine starting with legislation and the federal court systems. It’s easy to blame the eunuch’s of the GOP, the extreme ranting of the progressives (Kos Kids), the socialist mindset of our universities, the Islamic invasion happening world wide for the past 40 years, the failure of the Christian church to actually believe/act upon the Word of God (Bible), the economy or last nights pizza. I’m sure all have had some effect, there’s enough blame for everyone to get a ’super-sized portion’, but blame is not the issue. The world is about to change, drastically.

As I set here listening to NPR news and the propaganda they’re shoveling today, I wonder how we’ll look back on the first decade of this millennium. Will Americans accept the loss of their freedoms quietly like Europe has? Will we become a bunch of whiners like the Islamic’s have and reconquer our freedoms through legal manipulation? Bullets are not the answer, but a groundswell of indignation from the vast silent majority would change things.

One final point: Were you aware that during the American Revolution less than 1/3 of men of fighting age actually fought in those battles long ago? And what did they accomplish? They kicked the ASS of the greatest military power of the age!!! It’s not a good thing to make America angry, eh? Why do you think Osama hasn’t attacked a second time? My guess is the next attack is going to ring America’s bell - or - that will be his intent.

From LGF:

Coming to the rescue of Barack Obama—the United Nations “Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” to expose the bigotry and racism of the United States: U.N. racism investigator to visit U.S. from Monday.

I know it is useless to imagine that Barack Hussein Obama owns a pair of balls, but if he did, he would dis-invite this two bit race huckster, Mr. Caca Doudou Diene, and while his foot is kicking this meddling euro-trash out the door, he could remind the fool that America has done more for so-called civil rights than any nation on earth. That Bush has designated billions for AIDS in Africa, that he himself is an example of how a black man can be chosen as a stooge for Soros as a presidential contender, that slavery began by Arabs and Africans 1000 years before whitey ever thought about it, was ended by the West, that Mr. Caca Doudou can just turn his odoriferous self right around and investigate some real racism as currently practiced in the Middle East.

But then, Barack Obama doesn’t believe that, does he? Remember, neither Obama nor his wretched wife are proud to be Americans. Obama has been living and breathing Marxism and loony black liberation theology all of his life. See, Obama believes America is racist and must do penance. And we haven’t even heard much about reparations yet. Don’t worry, it’s coming.

At any rate, he’d probably get in trouble with Michelle for defending America. It is quite apparent that she suffers under the delusion that she is somehow still oppressed. Yeah, all of our oppressed blacks in America make 350K a year.

In fact, my guess is that Michelle will volunteer to be Mr. Caca’s Doudou’s tour guide. Rev. Wright will host the scumbag in his 10 million dollar mansion (in a typical white racist neighborhood), and Michael Moore will film the tour.

And you are thinking of voting “progressive”??? Because that group of self-flagellating globalist scalawags are more than happy to throw this country under the UN bus and into the maws of some International Court. ReProgressives are just begging to be spanked to assuage all their hand wringing “guilt”. They aren’t in the least offended that America’s sovereignty is weakened in each instance that they grant the UN even an implied right to meddle in our affairs. And they will be more than happy to overlook the gross hypocrisy that this bloody UN lackey hales from Senegal, a nation rife with “human rights” violations and awash in the blood of mutilated female genitalia.

A commenter at LGF points out that in Senegal…

…the Government, at times, limited the freedoms of speech and association. Domestic violence and discrimination against women, female genital mutilation (FGM), child labor and trafficking in persons remained problems.

And I won’t even begin to speculate which asshole in the State Department allows this travesty. Who ever it is should be shot, but then, the entire State Department deserves to be lined up against the wall.
Perhaps Mr. Caca Doudou ought to start his “racism” investigation with Mr. Obama himself. “Barack’s Obama’s Forgotten People” makes my point…

The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of how he was charged with “racial harassment” simply because he was “caught” reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I’m not kidding…

It is sad and pathetic that there are so many blacks who have been reduced to whining fools - and it is damnably annoying that the rest of the country has to put up with their never ending litany of complaints. What ever happened to black pride? They seem to have been, for the most part - at least the most vocal part - reduced to being simply beggars, bullies, and, little nazis. Such as affirmative action officer - whatever the hell that is - Lillian Charleston, a poster child for the mediocrity her job title has foisted off on this country.

It seems little Miss Lillian is still hiding under her bed from the KKK.

The book was Todd Tucker’s ‘Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan’; I was reading it on break from my campus job as a janitor. The same book is in the university library . . . .
But that didn’t stop the Affirmative Action Office of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis from branding me as a detestable Klansman.

They didn’t want to hear the truth. The office ruled that my ‘repeatedly reading the book . . . constitutes racial harassment in that you demonstrated disdain and insensitivity to your co-workers.’

And when the hell did it become a crime to express contempt, disdain or any other emotional response. This is the height of anal-retentive inanity. Colleges need to introduce the concept of growing a spine, but then, that would serve to defeat the agenda.

Upon review of this matter, we conclude that your conduct constitutes racial harassment in that you demonstrated disdain and insensitivity to your co-workers who repeatedly requested that you refrain from reading the book which has such an inflammatory and offensive topic in their presence. You contend that you werent aware of the offensive nature of the topic and were reading the book about the KKK to better understand discrimination. However you used extremely poor judgment by insisting on openly reading the book related to a historically and racially abhorrent subject in the presence of your Black co-workers. Furthermore, employing the legal “reasonable person standard,” a majority of adults are aware of and understand how repugnant the KKK is to African Americans, their reactions to the Klan, and the reasonableness of the request that you not read the book in their presence.

During your meeting with Marguerite Watkins, Assistant Affirmative Action Officer [sic] you were instructed to stop reading the book in the immediate presence of your co-workers and when reading the book to sit apart from the immediate proximity of these co-workers. Please be advised, any future substantiated conduct of a similar nature could result in serious disciplinary action. (Source)

Get a life Miss Charleston - if you are even capable of a life lived without your victim credentials. But hey, you make over 100,000 a year performing as a buffoon. I imagine that will be too hard for you to give up.

Is this what we have to look forward to with an Obama presidency? Will the incessant ululating of the ever so precious victim class crescendo to an ever more shrill pitch? In every instance of Obama being criticized or challenged, will America have to endure even more of this racial claptrap?

George Bush , over the last eight years, has been pilloried, maligned and caricatured in the most foul, vile manner imaginable, in every format, in all media. Do you want to imagine how similar attacks on Obama will be received? If Miss Charleston has anything to say about it, you best be prepared to watch free speech tied up in a strait jacket of hate crime “laws”.

Not related, but it is worth noting that censorship is on the Islamic agenda too. It is so very clear that CAIR and other muslim groups have successfully adapted the victim template perfected by the Jackson/Sharpton wing of race hucksters. It makes the terrorist and Muslim support that Obama is receiving all the more unnerving. The symbiosis between these groups is as toxic as anything this nation has ever faced.

People talk about how brave Wright is for speaking his mind, it doesn’t take bravery to parrot the standard line, Kevin and Cobie were the bravest two people on that sidewalk this morning for sticking to what they believe in the face of the biases of the spittle-slinging mad dogs who just applauded on cue to the weakly hidden racist remarks of an opportunist who found a way to bamboozle his flock.Continue reading…Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club

H/T:LGF

	…then they get bitter
…they cling to guns
	…or to religion
…or antipathy to people who aren’t like them
	…or anti-immigrant sentiment
…as a way to explain their frustrations

“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama said. “And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Barrack Hussein Obama(via Michelle Malkin)

‘Jews Against Obama‘ posts what they, correctly, call a “gem” from Obama’s web site. Didn’t you know that the Jews owe everything to the “Africans”?

Obamanism is the cure for Clintonitis that has devastated America and I hope Jews all over US rally around Obama and support him to win both the nomination and the Presidency because after he wins, he would help the Jews and Israel as well as settle the Middle East problems.

However, if Jews betray Obama and he loses, Africans worldwide would consider it a betrayal to the whole African people and will never forgive world Jewry.

In retaliation, (eye for eye, remember!) Africa would consider expelling all Jews from Africa who have been mining African Gold and Diamond and enriching themselves for many centuries.

It was African gold and diamond that built international finance, trade and banking that the Jews (Rothschild, Warbug, Rockefeller and others) dominate.

It was African gold and diamond that built Jewish banks and wealth worldwide.

Continue reading…A Threat To Jews Who Would Abandon Obama

Condoleezza Rice - RINO, appeaser to terrorists and a traitor to Israel - is in accord with the continually aggrieved Michelle Obama.

“Black Americans were a founding population,” she said. “Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding.”

As a result, Miss Rice told editors and reporters at The Washington Times, “descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.”

“That particular birth defect makes it hard for us to confront it, hard for us to talk about it, and hard for us to realize that it has continuing relevance for who we are today,” she said.

Rice hits U.S. ‘birth defect’ - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper

Oh dear, how un-PC of me. I’ve spit on “sacred” ground. Well, to tell you the truth, l never really looked into the history of the word “nigger”or what it was ever actually meant to denote. It was quite verboten by the time I was born and, along with millions of other Americans, I pounced on anyone who happened to use it.

Lot good that did anyone, at least as far as Michelle Obama goes. After all, this country that she so disdains, the one that has yet to make her proud, the country that is populated by “sloths”, or according to her husband Hussein, by “typical white people“, has only been responsible for elevating that husband to the Senate and a possible presidency (god help us all). How “just downright mean” of us not to not have done more.

Now a speech from a few moths ago adds yet more complaints from the diva of oppression.

“We don’t like being pushed outside of our comfort zones. You know it right here on this campus. You know people sitting at different tables - you all living in different dorms. I was there. You’re not talking to each other, taking advantage that you’re in this diverse community. Because sometimes it’s easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance… That’s America. So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?”

via Gateway Pundit via Wizbang

Excuse me Michelle sweetie, but the only damn fool holding on to stereotypes and misconceptions seems to be you. Your comfort zone is apparently endless whining and denigration of the country that you owe everything to. Yes, you do Michelle, but hey, maybe you need to get your money back for that fancy education. They sold you a bill of revisionist goods. And Michelle honey, about the only change I’m ready for is for the incessant mewling of so-called minorities to cease. I’m sick of it and this country is sick of it. Talk about beating a dead horse…..

So yeah Michelle, I think the definition of the “N” word needs to be updated. Here is my suggestion :

Nigger: An ungrateful, whining, disloyal American of any ethnicity who continually stabs their country in the back while prospering from the same.

Hey Michelle, fair is fair. If the “N” word is sacred to you, my America is sacred to me. If you continue to lie about America and castigate Americans for sins long gone and paid for, don’t expect respect and don’t expect for real Americans to remain silent.

The days when use of the “N” word was common are long gone, but you, Michelle, are doing your best to revive it. I have no idea what the original definition of the word was, but my new definition fits you to a “T”.

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This is tiresome. This entire election is about race now? In case this is also news to you Obama, that freaking war has already been fought on American soil, and the slaves were freed and Americans have more than paid with blood and coin. It’s about time you start disabusing your people of the notion that blacks are separate and victims. How dare you speak of unity when “liberation theology” is one of the tenets of Marxist indoctrination by which you gained purchase to your present chunk of national turf.

So please hush your lying mouth, Obama. Your entire campaign has been insulting enough, do we really have to go through the charade of a race lecture from someone who personifies race card politics? How can any one take any of your protestations seriously when every character in your Obama Drama has to do a two step of equivocation in their support of you.

They remain loyal but apparently understand that they need to step to the back of your campaign bus, so to speak.

Now, Mr. Obama is no dummy. Following the Cohen outing of this information in the Washington Post, Obama’s aides issued the following statement on his behalf: “I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan. I assume that Trumpet Magazine made its own decision to honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a decision with which I agree.”

Yes, Mr. Obama distanced himself. Even Mr. Farrakhan understands why. As Farrakhen said recently on ABC’s Nightline: “I like him very much. …He has a fresh approach…If avoiding me would help him to become president, I’d be glad to stay in the background.”

(source)

Obama’s Kenyan grandmother has joined the two step also, first asserting she is Muslim until realizing declaring such might imperil her grandson’s election chances.

Obama’s grandfather had converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism and taken the name Hussein, Sarah Obama said, but his children had inherited only the name, not the religion. Each person should be able to choose how they worshipped, she said.

“In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents,” she said. She, too, is a Christian.

Just one little problem with this statement.

In April of last year, Sarah Hussein Obama told the New York Times she is a devout Muslim.

Sarah Hussein Obama, who is his step-grandmother but whom Mr. Obama calls his grandmother, still rises at 5 a.m. to pray before tending to her crops and the three orphans she has taken in.

“I am a strong believer of the Islamic faith,” Ms. Obama, 85, said in a recent interview in Kenya. (source)

And now your Trinity church has attempted to make their formerly blatant proclamation vaunting their “black value system” a bit more difficult to find on their web site. And we won’t even begin to go into your anti-semitic brood of foreign policy advisors. You managed to kick Samantha Powers off the bus, but will the rest of them fit in the back?

You will continue to fool some Obama, but I do believe Americans are starting to get the scent of your game. And, as it is Obama, there are many, many more Marxists and socialists in your closet. You can’t shove them all to the back of the bus for the duration of your campaign. But your behavior will resonate with your muslim relatives and terrorist supporters who know very well how taqiyya is played

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Back in 2001 I had my political awakening to race-card politics duly blogged under the heading “Is This White Woman Racist and Does She Really Fucking Care”. This was in response to the so-called Cincinnati riots. (Here is the local media’s politically correct distortion of the events, and here is the correct assessment.) As I review those early posts I can trace my journey from someone who had absolutely no issues with any race or ethnicity to my present views on racism.

As a pre-teen, I was not a participant in any civil rights movement, wasn’t particularly aware of it, but never had any perception of blacks as inferior. I think what frightened me most, as I remember, was associating poverty with blacks. My mother, born shortly after her parents immigrated from Yugoslavia, was thrust into an orphanage at a young age and her dire tales of want and hardships chilled me as a child, leaving me far more wary of that particular condition, no matter what color skin bore witness to it.

It actually is very hard for me to think in terms of ethnicity. I have never felt need to make claim to my Romanian-Serbian roots nor lament the plight of my gypsy kin in Transylvania. My daddy grabbed his American name from a billboard and proceeded to move himself steadily up the economic ladder.

By the time I was born, he had turned his allotment of rags into riches, and I was, quite frankly, a spoiled little rich girl, without the attendant social status. I felt we had much in common with the Beverly Hillbillies. My dad may have known how to make a buck, but uneducated white men who sold cars for a living didn’t get much respect in the wealthy neighborhood I grew up in. And my dad, an independent cuss, could not have cared less. But there was never a moment in my life that I defined myself, or others, according to blood, skin or lineage.

Black men worked for my father at the dealership. He also hired them to cut our grass and paint our home. There wasn’t a disparaging word uttered by my parents. They were treated like any other contractor that came to the house.

I do have vague memories of the Cincinnati riots in 1966. Those were actual riots. I remember my dad getting the gun out of the safe. In retrospect, our neighborhood was so far from Cincinnati center that the likelihood of anyone driving out to do us rich folks harm was minimal. But he didn’t talk about shooting “niggers”. The word wasn’t in the home and my guess is he would have gotten the gun out no matter what race was having a riot.

But here’s the rub. It isn’t about civil rights anymore. It’s about victimhood. It’s not about equality. It’s about extortion. It’s not about unity. It’s about vengeance and pay back. Obama dresses it up with flourishes of pompous rhetoric and spices it with the incense of mysticism but it’s the same ole same ole race, entitlement and “justice” rhetoric that constituted “dialog” during the riots here in 2001.

When trying to debate racism in some local Cincinnati forums in the aftermath of the riots, I argued with one fellow accordingly.

…for those of you who claim to know the white man so damn well, I would counter, you better look again. You think you know the white race but, by virtue of your incessant self-obsession and constant caterwauling, you have failed to see you are dealing with a generation of white people who have, for the most part, from childhood on, stepped all over themselves trying not to offend a black person.

Should we say black, or is it negro, or now is it colored, oh, now it’s african-American - and god forbid you inadvertently say the frigging ‘N’ word lest everyone shatter like so many fragile humpty dumpties and we have another damn mess to clean up.

You’ve been insulting and alienating a generation of people who have taught their children to respect all people and immediately challenged REAL racist, behavior. A generation who has enjoyed and appreciated the appearance of more and more visible black performers, newscasters, journalists, analysts and personalities. Not as material for the purpose of caricaturing black people, as so often accused, but for the brilliant HUMAN talent there to be enjoyed.

And guess what? It wasn’t hard. Counter to what you appear to believe, there is no a cauldron of repressed black hatred lingering in the white heart. We don’t connive in small circles to make a black man’s day bad. There is no boogie man.

(original post)

The charge of racism today has become no more than a handy shibboleth intended to silence all criticism. It no longer holds weight with me. It is another word hollowed out of all meaning by the language re-framers on the left.

I finally quit attempting to communicate with the activists, but came away from the entire experience with a far more informed view on race and civil rights than ever supplied to me in school or via the PC media.

Below is the conclusion I reached in 2002 and it hasn’t changed in 2008. In fact, events in the intervening years have only strengthened my position. My guess is, the “unexpected consequences” of multiculturalism and political correctness that abets race-card politics has resulted in multitudes of Americans feeling about the same.

I began this venture trying to grasp what the perception of racism is and what I have found is this; because I ascribe to a particular set of principles and standards, because I adhere to a particular work ethic, because I disdain mewling dramatics and solipsism, because I demand accountability and responsibility…in other words, because of my values, I am deemed a racist.
So be it.
I am not going to cheapen my standards to accommodate some distorted version of civil rights. I’m not going to subscribe to a crippled social doctrine as define by malcontents just to appease the likes of you and your gang. Your quest for ‘equal treatment’ has served to lower the bar in every field of endeavor, but, I assure you, you will not continue with such chicanery. There are more more and more un-hyphenated Americans who know when to say the madness has gone on far too long.

(original post)

With Obama being teflon-ed from relevant criticism by his supporters it appears I will be visiting the topic of racism yet again. I’m not signing on to the Party of White Guilt.

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What Really Happened in Cincinnati - Heather McDonald

If only Bush had Ann Coulter as an advisor we’d never have to endure his praise of Islam nor his race pandering palaver to blacks. While Bush has long ago ceased to be amusing, the farce that is Kwanzaa is very amusing indeed.

… Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga, aka Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.

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Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy ’60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven “principles” of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life — economics, work, personality, even litter removal. (”Kuumba: Everyone should strive to improve the community and make it more beautiful.”) It takes a village to raise a police snitch.

When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from “classical Marxism,” he essentially explained that under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the “best of early Chinese and Cuban socialism” — which one assumes would exclude the forced abortions, imprisonment of homosexuals and forced labor — Kawaida practitioners believe one’s racial identity “determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding.” There’s an inclusive philosophy for you.

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During my youth, the rise of the black activist was seen -by little old cracker me - as another phenomenon of the ball-breaking, barrier shattering, (add additional delusional rhetoric) cultural “revolution”; Angela Davis sporting an afro like a bank of low clouds over her brow, the defiant and exotic Malcolm X, the buzzed guitar riffs of Shaft and Super Fly. It was all part of the drama.

An image from that era was this black fist, denoting “Black Pride”, denoting power. Somehow, I believe the pride and power of those days bore little semblance to the bombastic swaggering of the current pretenders to the throne.

So. I propose a new symbol. One more in keeping with the posture that today’s activists apparently want their “people“ to assume.

I’ll suggest this one.

And i think I’m on target, given the supplications law suits winding their way through this country’s courts like weighted prayers to clay gods. One must only conclude that the black fist has, over time, been warped into the outstretched hand of the beggar. Let us see.

I’m going to consider all their complaints against Coke absolutely suspect, much as I continue to doubt the validity to any of the claims made against Xerox. Then, let us see, we have that suit against the Enquirer, speculated upon nicely by Mr. Anderson over at Queen City Soapbox and also being steadily tracked by Cinciblogs’ numerous updates.

And, you have to laugh at the audacity of these shakedown artists. The Raven, in his usual adroit fashion , reviles the ever audacious money grabbers latest angle ( under heading, “They Never Give Up”). How long before this inspires a like response in this city. Well, the cost of building is gonna get even higher. Frigging brilliant.

And obviously the list can go on and on. But, I’m weary of thinking of it. I have a long day ahead of me. One more wedding, than a 5 hour bar run that I hope to hell does not take me anywhere near where I might get shot at.

Believe me, when someone gets shot by your regular limo stand down by Main St., you take heed.

Editors Note: This is one of several exchanges between myself and black activists in a local news forum. The 2001 Cincinnati riots were my awakening to black separatism and the never ending laments of those who call themselves African-American. It’s when I learned that the hyphen between African and American was tantamount to giving America the finger.

This exchange references the Black Family Reunion that turned into a small riot in 2002. As usual, the general consensus from the black community was that if it were not for “the usual reasons” these “youths” would have behaved like good citizens.

Cincinnati Boycott: Spit & Venom from Channel 5 news forum

Riddy wrote To Colerain:

Like I said in my previous post-the people involved in the weekend’s problems should be punished and their parents should be held accountable. But since you are aware of the situation at OU, then please enlighten me-why is race never an issue when there is unrest at an all white event, but it is the first thing that you and your friends mention when it is at black event?
What happened this weekend had nothing to do with the racial tension in the city but it had everything to do with a lack of supervision. There was no protest going on, it was a group unruly young people that had nothing better to do then to distroy other people’s property - just like the bar situation at Ohio U.

And since you are aware of the problems at OU, are you aware of the way the city of Athens is trashed every Halloween and High/Palmer Fest weekend by a predominately white crowd? Are you aware of the number of women that are raped during these events? One of my best friends, who happens to be white, was one of the rape victims. But of course race is never mention then either. And I am sure the number of people involved in these events number well beyond 2000. And this is by a supposedly educated, morally grounded crowd of young people.

As far as blacks working to find solutions, there are people out there trying to make a difference. I, along with everyone in my family and my friend base (including white people), mentor inner-city, poor young people on a weekly, if not daily basis, regardless of the race of the child. We also work with the police and other groups to help try to find solutions, instead of just putting out blame. We need to come out of our comfort zones and reach out to all the people in this city. Although I am a black woman, I come of my comfortable surburban lifestyle to go to the inner-city and work with these young people.

Since you seem like such a civil minded person, why don’t you and any other person interested in making a real change in the city, become part of the solution. There are numerous groups that have mentoring and community involvement in the schools throughout the city. We need to get proactive instead of reactive and defensive if we want to see real change in this city.

Cincinnati has a bad reputation throughout the county now. And all Cincinnatians regardless of race, class, gender, etc. need to step up to the plate and change that reputation.

I think this is really sad that after all that this city and this county has been through in the past 18 months that we can get beyond all of the blame and start taking action. It is no longer a black or white neighborhood problem - it is a city problem- and it is up to everyone to make a positive contribution.

Zee responds with…

Why are people playing these damn word games??? Wake up Riddy!

It becomes a race thing when the consistently criminal activities are perpetrated by one group. It is a racial thing when I have to wake up and have my morning coffee with my daily “black-on-black” murder count in Westwood, or Fairmount, or Over-the Rhine, or Madisonville. Not too many white folk there.

It was a sea of black faces roaming downtown screaming obscenities this week-end, not white. I am downtown every single day and those are black faces staring -sullen and menacing - not white. Not white trash, not white anything.

And these were not kids or children. Who are you kidding? These are not youth with homework time and bed time and play time. Quit acting like they are suburban kids with inattentive busy parents.

Their parents did not know, nor care, where they were because they never know or care where they are. These are street savvy, angry black men and women ( and a few deluded whites) plus , a whole host of out of town activists, (their infiltration here courtesy of your frigging boycott), exploiting ignorance and innocence alike.

And don’t even begin to compare this week-end with sporting event outbreaks, which are a breed of its own and, gee, includes black participants, and guess what? They all go back to the productive lives they took a recess from. It is uncharacteristic behavior. Get it?

The white melees you contend are comparable to the BF Reunion mess loose all appearance of similarity when you can safely conjecture that the majority of the participants were acting OUT of character, while the reunion revelers , it can be safely assumed, were acting very much IN character.

And don’t even go there with college mayhem. Those students, I guarantee you, felt remorse and/or had to accept consequences. They did not moan about their history of oppression to justify their misbehavior. And - they went back to solid productive lives as students, not to some murky street corner to brood about the white oppressors and how “white boy gonna get his ’cause they owe us”, as often recited by your reparations contingent.

I am convinced that you people are going to attempt to justify your every rude, ignorant, and criminal deed with a recitation of what big ole mean whitey has done to ya in the past. You sound like spoiled, hysterical children running from the big bad boogie man. The only picture that is emerging of the black race, as far as I can see or hear, is that of venal, avaricious, vindictive, churlish, juvenile losers.

You don’t like that Riddy? Well, neither do I. Until this boycott, the only image and experience of black people I knew were what you described yourself to be but, if you do not speak out, do not make your presence known, do nothing to be a voice of reason to counter the skewed picture Lynch portrays to the world, DO NOT complain that you are being grouped with those whose raw ideology is malignant and destructive. You can be damn sure white folk are quick to disassociate themselves from the KKK.

See, for those of you who claim to know the white man so damn well, I would counter, you better look again. You think you know the white race but, by virtue of your incessant self-obsession and constant caterwauling, you have failed to see you are dealing with a generation of white people who have, for the most part, from childhood on, stepped all over themselves trying not to offend a black person.

Should we say black, or is it negro, or now is it colored, oh, now it’s african-american - and god forbid you inadvertently say the frigging ‘N’ word lest everyone shatter like so many fragile humpty dumpties and we have another damn mess to clean up.

You’ve been insulting and alienating a generation of people who have taught their children to respect all people and immediately challenged REAL racist, behavior. A generation who has enjoyed and appreciated the appearance of more and more visible black performers, newscasters, journalists, analysts and personalities. Not as material for the purpose of caricaturing black people, as so often accused, but for the brilliant HUMAN talent there to be enjoyed.

And guess what? It wasn’t hard. Counter to what you appear to believe, there is no a cauldron of repressed black hatred lingering in the white heart. We don’t connive in small circles to make a black man’s day bad. There is no boogie man.

As far as “stepping up to the plate”, as riddy suggests, because it is a “city problem”, well, I’m sorry, it is a problem bestowed by the black community, created by the black community, and needs to be solved by those in that community and by anyone else who feel they are so called.

I don’t particular subscribe to the “it takes a village to raise a child” philosophy. It takes me to responsibly raise mine and you to responsibly raise yours, and we all produce , as best we can, gracious and productive adults and, bingo, you end up with a village that functions to the benefit of all. It is in that sane, civilized environment that one can effectively deal with the real issues.

Where did the money for Huntington Meadows go? Where did the so call empowerment zone funds walk off to? Why is Luken mayor ( can he be impeached)?

Develop a showcase for all black business and make sure minority contractors have a crack at all gigs. Whatever. Do you really think white people do not want to see legitimate inequities addressed? But how many remain who give a damn? It is poor psychology and absolutely asinine ‘marketing’ to present the image of ‘poor oppressed me’ with grasping outstretched hand to the average American. NO one likes whiners.

I stopped listening as soon as I heard I ‘owe’ it to you. But damn, can you imagine the response if Little Leftie Lynch had spent all his exuberance organizing a black business showcase, get funding from the many wealthy among you, and present a weekend event at the Convention center introducing Cincinnati to the many many wonderful and brilliant people and enterprises that minorities are responsible for?

Showcase the mentoring and every other endeavor the community is proud of. You don’t think that that type of networking and enterprise would be met with open minds and a willingness to CAPITALIZE on all the talent.

Instead of turning black entertainers away you could have made a special production of inviting bus loads of white folks from the suburbs in to enjoy your music and drama. But to think in that vein, one must actually care about the needs of the black community instead of exploiting it in order to launch baby Sharptons and Jacksons and build up the membership of the Black Panthers. To think in that vein is to truly act in a spirit of integrity and cooperation. AND , it would produce results.

Until there are responsible black leaders speaking as aggressively as Lynch, until the black community expels the leftist dirt they drug in here, they will get no support from me. Whatever organization exists to thwart Lynch and gang, whatever influence I can ever wield, as small as it may be, will be directed against those who hold this city hostage and all who maintain a condoning silence.
The damage done to all, is at your doorstep. Keep it off of mine.

Zee