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Snipe
04-19-2010, 11:02 AM
The Tea Party Protests have been singled out because the people that attend are overwhelmingly white. This is supposed to prove something, like they are all a bunch of racists.
Going on that theory if you look around the protest scene in Cincinnati just about every protest is pretty racist. Consider those racist homosexuals:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3033614944_bd19f8d1de.jpg
http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/protest2.jpg
If you look at the "queer rally" in Cincinnati it was overwhelming white.
What about Bush and Anti-War protestors in Cincinnati?
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/drsanity/bushbinladen.jpg
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/wp-content/images2009/Bush_is_the_disease.jpg
I wouldn't stand out in those crowds. I am only allowed 4 pictures in a post, so...
Snipe
04-19-2010, 11:20 AM
Every think about joining a Code Pink Protest?
http://www.moonbattery.com/Code_Pink_lunatics.jpg
If you are White Like Me, you would never have to worry about looking out of place at any Code Pink event.
How about the editorial board of the New York Times?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BjW1avGcuos/S8wDDgiWpBI/AAAAAAAACLk/Mq601xMs3RI/s640/NYT+BD+of+Directors.JPG
Delicious Crackas! Give me a shave and put me in a suit and I can sit in on a board meeting!
Did you go to the Christmas Party at Cincinnatians for Progress (http://picasaweb.google.com/margywaller/CincinnatiansForProgressHolidayThankYouParty?feat= flashalbum#5413736911219681266)(Streetcar Fever!) What beautiful white people just like me!
You can google pictures for Cincinnati protests against Bush or against the War. You can look at local progressive groups and their meetings. It happens that protests in Cincinnati are overwhelmingly white.
It never occured to me to question the racial demographics of protests. Had a conservative questioned the overwhelming whiteness of the anti-Bush movement, the anti-war movement or the gay rights movement they would have been attacked as being a racist and trying to insert racial tension into a situation for no good reason. But the Tea Partiers are a different story. Moderates, Conservatives, Libertarians (and yes even some Democrats) have attended tea parties. I don't think the Conservative movement has ever had so many people in the streets protesting in the history of the United States.
While at the tea parties I met many people and most of the storys seemed the same. Many had never even attended a political protest before in their lives. They were fed up with the direction of the country and they wanted to join together to get their voices heard.
You can dismiss the Tea Party because of the politics. It is political. But the argument that these people are racists or that the crowd being "too white" proves something is wrong with them is odd and wrong in America today.
Snipe
04-19-2010, 12:05 PM
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BjW1avGcuos/S8pxpsusb2I/AAAAAAAACLE/fbPFKH3AO20/s1600/war-420x0.jpg
I love seeing white people come together.
I came across this blog, which was in fact the inspiration for this post:
Another Black Conservative (http://anotherblackconservative.blogspot.com/2010/04/just-how-dark-are-leftwing-protesters.html)
Lucky for me I read another black person’s first hand account from a Tea Party in Chicago. In this account by Shamara Riley there was a paragraph that stuck in my head.
As the event was scheduled to go from 12:00N-1:30pm, the public plaza was also interspersed with lunchtime eaters and curious folks. A couple of vendors sold tea party-related merchandise on the periphery of the plaza, where there was also a significant police presence. Also, on the periphery was a contingent of white gay liberal counter-protesters, waving rainbow flags. As I went into the plaza, I overheard one of them say, "These f_____s are racist!" Another one held up a white sign which said, "Don't Tread Spit On Me", a play on tea party slogan to refer to the allegations that tea party activists in Washington, D.C. protesting the health care bill spit on a black U.S. Congressman. It was interesting that one of the counterprotesters was alleging racism, because the racial makeup of the counterprotesters even less diverse than the tea party crowd of 2,000-4,000 folks.
Ever hear of the Coffee Party (http://www.flickr.com/photos/coffeepartyusa/page1/)? It was the group organized to combat the Tea Party.
Look at their photostream on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/coffeepartyusa/page1/)
I dig the Coffee party. What a bunch of well intentioned white people! White Like Me!!
And look at the white people protesting Wal Mart in Cincinnati (http://www.life.com/image/1855605). Those crazy ass crackas will protest anything.
Snipe
04-19-2010, 12:18 PM
Speaking of crazy ass crakas, even our modern day superheros are white!
Shadow Hare anyone?
http://thechuckler.com/wp-content/uploads/retro/888blog_cinci_superheroes.gif
What self respecting black man would dress like that?
DC Muskie
04-19-2010, 12:23 PM
You okay Snipe?
Snipe
04-19-2010, 12:29 PM
You okay Snipe?
Fair to middlin, just baskiing in my whiteness.
http://whitewatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/1sheep.jpg
http://whitewatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/nb.jpg
Snipe
04-19-2010, 12:41 PM
These racists in Cincinnati don't like child pornography.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/05/21/protest.jpg
Where is the diversity? By not including blacks, they seem to infer black people are all for kiddie porn. They should have been more inclusive.
Snipe
04-19-2010, 12:53 PM
The SLDC (Servicemens Legal Defense Network) is a white person's paradise:
http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef011570931daa970c-800wi
And if you think that Code Pink is the whitest organization in America, don't forget PETA.
http://ballstjournal.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/michael_vick_protest.jpg
That was a bunch of whiteys protesting Michael Vick, a prominent black man.
PETA is amazingly white, check out a google search on PETA Protests (http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1T4GZAZ_enUS362US363&q=peta%20protest&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi).
http://photos.upi.com/slideshow/lbox/13980d2e149e18d82a2692e1e58bbe10/PETA-PROTEST.jpg
http://www.outlookindia.com/images/photoessays/peta_nude_protest_20080227.jpg
Do white people love to get naked in protest or not? White people are crazy. Code Pink ladies like to strip as well at times.
Those aren't conservative people though. I think liberals have an edge in attracting young men because the women like to get naked. If you are a college kid you have a much better chance at finding drugs, rowdiness, nudity and hooking up with some loose braless woman if you attend a liberal protest. Go to a tea party or some event for school choice and your only relief will be your hand. No drugs, no alcohol, and everyone even picks up after themselves. Talk about boring and bland whiteness!
Snipe
04-19-2010, 01:14 PM
The National Organization for Women may hate Sarah Palin, but if she was uglier she would fit right in.
http://static.flickr.com/51/139035020_98c693cc5d.jpg
UGLY WHITE WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!
They aren't the only white band of baby killers...
http://www.blogforchoice.com/NARAL%20Pro-Choice%20America%20Holiday%20Picture%202009.JPG
I guess Merry Christmas is politically incorrect, especially since celebrating the birth of our Savior might not go well with baby killing...
To be fair, the other side of the baby killing debate is just as white. Here are the people who oppose killing babies:
http://blog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/prolife_rally.jpg
Oddly enough, more black babies die at the hands of baby killers than anyone else, but the debate is largely among white people.
It is great to be white. You can get mad about everything. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Unless of course you are a Tea Party Patriot, then you are just a racist and a bigot.
nickgyp
04-19-2010, 06:32 PM
Snipe:
Comment about NOW and Palin was priceless. Made me laugh. Thanks!
Snipe
07-12-2010, 01:25 PM
NAACP considers resolution decrying racist elements in tea-party movement (http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/11/2076909/naacp-takes-critical-look-at-tea.html#ixzz0tURyr3WG)
Huffington Post Version (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/naacp-to-offer-resolution_n_642834.html)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will propose a resolution this week condemning racism within the tea party movement.
The resolution, scheduled for a vote as early as Tuesday by delegates attending the annual NAACP convention in Kansas City, calls upon “all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era.”
NAACP leaders said the resolution was necessary to make people aware of what they believe is a racist element within the tea party movement.
“I think a lot of people are not taking the tea party movement seriously, and we need to take it seriously,” said Anita Russell, head of the Kansas City chapter of the NAACP. “We need to realize it’s really not about limited government.”
The NCAACP is asking that "“all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties".
That dosn't flesh out from the statistics of Tea Party Demographics. From Gallup:
Tea Party supporters are decidedly Republican and conservative in their leanings. Also, compared with average Americans, supporters are slightly more likely to be male and less likely to be lower-income.
In several other respects, however — their age, educational background, employment status, and race — Tea Partiers are quite representative of the public at large.
http://radioviceonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tea-party-demographics.gif
Survey: Four in 10 Tea Party members are Democrats or independents (http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/90541-survey-four-in-10-tea-party-members-dem-or-indie)
The national breakdown of the Tea Party composition is 57 percent Republican, 28 percent Independent and 13 percent Democratic, according to three national polls by the Winston Group, a Republican-leaning firm that conducted the surveys on behalf of an education advocacy group. Two-thirds of the group call themselves conservative, 26 are moderate and 8 percent say they are liberal.
http://afrocityblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/tea-party-frances-rice-web.jpg
Snipe
07-12-2010, 01:33 PM
From the Cato Institute:
The Not-So-White Tea Party (http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/07/02/the-not-so-white-tea-party/)
Posted by David Boaz
USA Today is out with a new poll on Tea Party supporters. Near the top of both the article and the accompanying graphic is this point, also singled out by Howard Kurtz in his Washington Post report on the study:
They are overwhelmingly white and Anglo,
Not too surprising, perhaps. Economic conservatives, we hear, are more white than the national average. But wait — here’s the rest of Kurtz’s sentence:
although a scattering of Hispanics, Asian Americans and African Americans combine to make up almost one-fourth of their ranks.
“Almost one-fourth of their ranks” is “a scattering”? Sounds like a pretty good chunk to me, especially in a country that is after all still mostly white. Let’s go to the tape. The data-filled graphic says that 77 percent of Tea Party supporters are “non-Hispanic whites.” And this 2008 Census report says that the United States as a whole is 65 percent non-Hispanic white. So the Tea Party is indeed somewhat more “white” than the country at large, but not by that much. Twelve points above the national average is not “overwhelmingly white,” and 23 percent Hispanics, Asian Americans and African Americans is not “a scattering.” At a rough estimate, it represents about 14 million non-Anglo Americans who support the Tea Party movement.
How does this compare to the demographics of other movements? Strangely enough, I can’t find any real data on the demographics of the enviromental movement. Maybe pollsters and mainstream journalists don’t want to know. But here’s a report that 84 percent of the visitors to the Sierra Club website are Caucasian. Similar implication here. And here’s a story on the environmentalist movement’s desperate attempt to seem not so “overwhelmingly white.” Yet somehow journalists don’t focus on that obvious fact about the environmentalist movement.
Instead, they keep describing the Tea Party movement as “overwhelmingly white,” even when the data suggest a different conclusion.
I can't find reports on the demographics on other political movements either. It is only the Tea Party that is singled out. I think that they would find that they are all White Like Me!
GuyFawkes38
07-12-2010, 01:37 PM
Snipes post reminded me of this awful Nytimes op ed piece, ridiculing African Americans for expressing their views as taking part in a "minstrel" show:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/opinion/17blow.html?_r=1
Seeing everything in terms of a race struggle must be hell.
Snipe
07-12-2010, 01:59 PM
I read that piece by Charles M. Blow. I wish he would do the same to other movements. Nobody has ever questioned the demographics of other movements. It is hard to find any record of that.
I haven't found any demographic research or media questioning into the demographics of the Anti-War movement, the Anti-Gun movement, the Anti-Abortion movement, the "Truther Movement", the "Birther Movement", the anarchist demonstrations or any such things. From all I can tell these movements are overwhelmingly white.
So why do they single out the tea parties? As you can see from my pictures above, protests in Cincinnati for any political variety are overwhelmingly white.
And how many black people belong to the NAACP? If a quarter of our non-white population consider themseleves part of the tea party (14 million people!), I bet that number represents a lot more than the number of members in the NAACP, whose membership numbers peaked in 1964 (625,000). And not all of the members in the NAACP are black. I just might join myself to show how cultured and inclusive I am.
Snipe
07-12-2010, 02:05 PM
Found this link
NAACP Finds New Life in Truth in Numbers (http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f8ad4909fa7ef4ed3e4fb beb83fc924d)
Finally, Gordon has acknowledged that the venerable organization has a membership of less than 300,000. He won’t say how many members shy of 300,000, but other NAACP sources say the figure has fluctuated between 150,000 and 250,000 over the past three decades.
The NAACP has had various membership drives over the years and for some reason, they expected the public to believe they had a half-million members. When they weren’t having membership drives, they were claiming 500,000 members. At the end of each drive, the figure reported to the public would still mysteriously remain at 500,000. The Baltimore Sun did some research and discovered that the NAACP has been claiming 500,000 members since 1946. For 60 years, it has been telling the same lie.
It wasn’t like top officials didn’t know the actual numbers. My friend DeWayne Wickham, who has been researching a book on the NAACP, came across a memo written by Benjamin Hooks stating that as of November 30, 1982, there were 178,000 members. Hooks made a report to the executive committee of the board on December 17, 1982 citing those figures. Hooks and Board Chair Margaret Bush Wilson clashed over a number of items, including the low membership numbers and some questionable fiscal practices.
It looks like the Tea Party has millions more black people than the NAACP.
Masterofreality
07-12-2010, 02:33 PM
"Nobody's whiter than me!!!"
http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/pics/8/2539/how-to-draw-casper-the-friendly-ghost.jpg
xu2006
07-12-2010, 02:43 PM
A great little post by Michelle Malkin: Whitewashing Black Racism (http://article.nationalreview.com/437827/whitewashing-black-racism/michelle-malkin)
This week, Justice Department whistleblower J. Christian Adams came forward with damning public testimony about how Obama officials believe “civil-rights law should not be enforced in a race-neutral manner, and should never be enforced against blacks or other national minorities.” In the wake of Adams’s exposé on how the Obama Justice Department abandoned default judgments against the NBPP bullies for the sake of politically correct racial politics, a shocking video clip of one of the lead defendants in the Philadelphia voter-intimidation case resurfaced on the Internet. It shows bloodthirsty King Samir Shabazz during a 2009 National Geographic documentary interview spewing: “You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers! You’re gonna have to kill some of their babies!”
GuyFawkes38
07-12-2010, 10:17 PM
A great little post by Michelle Malkin: Whitewashing Black Racism (http://article.nationalreview.com/437827/whitewashing-black-racism/michelle-malkin)
Crazy stuff. I admire how colorblind France remains on this type of stuff (one of the last countries).
blobfan
07-12-2010, 10:47 PM
Crazy stuff. I admire how colorblind France remains on this type of stuff (one of the last countries).
No, they just direct all their hatred towards Muslims.
GuyFawkes38
07-12-2010, 11:27 PM
No, they just direct all their hatred towards Muslims.
ha, yeah, I guess that's one big objection to france's colorblind experiment. There isn't much mobility for minorities. But IMHO, I doubt that's a result of their policies and more of consequence of other forces.
American X
07-13-2010, 08:53 AM
So why do they single out the tea parties?
Fear.
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an offensive and racist name that should be banned.
Kahns Krazy
07-13-2010, 10:44 AM
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an offensive and racist name that should be banned.
That is interesting. I wonder what Christopher Smitherman would do if I approached him on the street and called him a colored person.
Snipe
07-13-2010, 01:46 PM
If I saw Christopher Smitherman on the street I would cross to the other side of the road.
American X
07-14-2010, 08:47 AM
If I saw Christopher Smitherman on the street I would cross to the other side of the road.
Racist. You cannot walk on the same side of the street as a black man.
Juice
07-14-2010, 09:35 AM
Racist. You cannot walk on the same side of the street as a black man.
Separate but equal sides of the road
Snipe
10-20-2010, 10:05 AM
I had to add this video to the list of wacked out things that white people do...
John Cage "4'33" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E)
The reporter on the scene talks about how exciting it is to be there for the performance, and after it is over he raves how extraordinary it was to be there.
You have to wonder how much people paid for that.
Porkopolis
10-20-2010, 10:40 AM
I had to add this video to the list of wacked out things that white people do...
John Cage "4'33" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E)
The reporter on the scene talks about how exciting it is to be there for the performance, and after it is over he raves how extraordinary it was to be there.
You have to wonder how much people paid for that.
I've always been fascinated by 4'33" and people's responses to it, pro and con. Cage was a bizarre and interesting fellow to be sure. 4'33" really bends the definition of music and poses some interesting questions. That said, I would NEVER pay to see it "performed." I can perform it at my leisure wherever I am. :D
smileyy
10-20-2010, 11:03 AM
I've always been fascinated by 4'33" and people's responses to it, pro and con. Cage was a bizarre and interesting fellow to be sure. 4'33" really bends the definition of music and poses some interesting questions. That said, I would NEVER pay to see it "performed." I can perform it at my leisure wherever I am. :D
Part of the performance is the sound of the audience in silence (which is never completely silent).
Benxman
10-20-2010, 11:22 AM
Did I detect the sound of one hand clapping, or was it my imagination? ;)
Snipe, I want to congratulate you on a magnificent post. You have addressed a situation that is rampant in our media today, reverse racism, and done it without malice. Your tongue in cheek approach suits the topic perfectly.
Well done, my man!
GO MUSKIES!
:logo:
American X
10-26-2010, 11:33 AM
7/24/04 (http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm):
Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there’s the United States of America.
10/25/10 (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/125677-obama-fate-of-immigration-reform-hinges-on-election):
"And if Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, we're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder — and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2," he said.
Enemies? Who are the enemies of Latinos? I thought we were just a United States of America. Maybe the Columbia and Harvard Law graduate never chanced upon the concept of the loyal opposition. Is this the language of a Lightworker (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/06/notes060608.DTL)?
smileyy
10-26-2010, 11:41 AM
Tea Party leader: Beat Ellison because he's Muslim
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/10/26/tea_party_nation_phillips_ellison_muslim
waggy
10-26-2010, 01:48 PM
It's pretty common knowledge that libs have no use for God, so why you care?
Snipe
10-26-2010, 02:31 PM
"And if White People sit out the election instead of saying, we're gonna punish our enemies"
I can only imagine if an American President said that. Talk about appealing to racial animosity. What a uniter.
And Smileyy makes a great point. Sometimes people on the right that nobody has heard of say things, and on the left sometimes the President of the United States tries to incite racial animosity for political gain.
He also said that Republicans could come along, but they would have to "ride in the back".
Rosa Parks could not be reached for comment. (http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/10/25/obama-republicans-gotta-sit-in-the-back/)
No need to use Code Words on the left. You can specifically call out Latino's to punish their enemies. I am guessing that their enemies are not other Latino's.
GuyFawkes38
10-26-2010, 03:13 PM
Tea Party leader: Beat Ellison because he's Muslim
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/10/26/tea_party_nation_phillips_ellison_muslim
The full quote is sort of interesting:
There are a lot of liberals who need to be retired this year, but there are few I can think of more deserving than Keith Ellison. Ellison is one of the most radical members of congress. He has a ZERO rating from the American Conservative Union. He is the only Muslim member of congress. He supports the Counsel for American Islamic Relations, HAMAS and has helped congress send millions of tax dollars to terrorists in Gaza.
I hope that both left and right can agree that sending aid to Gaza and the West Bank is a worthwhile endeavor. Gaza has a closed port. The West Bank is landlocked and trade routs are stifled. Aid needs to be sent.
Snipe
10-26-2010, 04:02 PM
The full quote is sort of interesting:
I hope that both left and right can agree that sending aid to Gaza and the West Bank is a worthwhile endeavor. Gaza has a closed port. The West Bank is landlocked and trade routs are stifled. Aid needs to be sent.
I would cut aid to the region. I would cut all aid outside our borders. We are broke.
GuyFawkes38
10-26-2010, 04:21 PM
I would cut aid to the region. I would cut all aid outside our borders. We are broke.
I'm skeptical of most US aid. It mostly ends up in the wrong hands. And there's Malthusian concerns.
It's a touchy subject. But US policy for the past 70 years has helped lead to the situation there now. I think the US, along with Israel, have a responsibility to contribute well targeted aid to Palestine.
And it's good PR in the Muslim world.
smileyy
10-26-2010, 05:15 PM
Israel is perfectly happy to contribute aid to Gaza. They'll throw billions at the problem. Unfortunately, they convert those billions to "missiles" first.
American X
10-27-2010, 12:12 PM
Final Primary Night 6/3/08: (http://www.barackobama.com/2008/06/03/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_73.php)
What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon – that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first.
Now we are hyphenated-Americans first (again). I am disappointed Mr. Obama did not adhere to his own words and descended into racialism and divisiveness.
For electoral purposes, these base appeals and the recent paranoia-style memes are a good sign for the right, but it is still sad to see two short years after such a different message. Do we have any evidence David Axelrod is not still a raging pedophile?
I am still on the lookout for the Enemy of Latinos. That might make a good Halloween costume.
pizza delivery
10-27-2010, 02:36 PM
I would cut aid to the region. I would cut all aid outside our borders. We are broke.
It's an itty bitty sliver of the problem and our foreign aid probably adds more goodwill than it's worth considering removing. Some cuts would be in order, but like most everything already on the books, complete removal of programs would be a mistake.
Snipe
10-27-2010, 04:34 PM
It's an itty bitty sliver of the problem and our foreign aid probably adds more goodwill than it's worth considering removing. Some cuts would be in order, but like most everything already on the books, complete removal of programs would be a mistake.
I disagree in total. I think our foreign aid pisses a lot of people off. We have preconditions and we bully people around. We withhold aid or access to our markets unless we get what we want. We dump food in countries and put their farmers out of business, many of which were the middle class. Then people become dependent on the central government who distributes the food, which is often corrupt. Everything comes with strings attached and never underestimate the law of unintended consequences.
Egypt was once a bread basket of the region and now they can't feed themselves. They are a welfare state because of our aid. Their farmers can't compete against ours because we subsidize ours. We buy up excess and then dump the excess on their markets. A lot of people hate us, and it isn't all about ideology and this talk about freedom and democracy. A lot of people hate us because we get up in their business. I think we should mind our own business and stop the aid altogether. We don't need to fund Israel or Palestine or Egypt. Let those people sort out their problems and tell them it is their problem, not ours.
One African author just came out with a book that blames the piss poor state of Africa today on all the aid we give them. It centralizes power and takes it from people and gives it to government. It keeps corrupt people in power. It crushes the free markets and the middle class farmers. The only thing our aid helps is Big Agro here in America, because that is where the money goes.
This thread is about whiteness though, so I should yell at myself for getting off topic.
Snipe
10-27-2010, 04:51 PM
Final Primary Night 6/3/08: (http://www.barackobama.com/2008/06/03/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_73.php)
Now we are hyphenated-Americans first (again). I am disappointed Mr. Obama did not adhere to his own words and descended into racialism and divisiveness.
For electoral purposes, these base appeals and the recent paranoia-style memes are a good sign for the right, but it is still sad to see two short years after such a different message. Do we have any evidence David Axelrod is not still a raging pedophile?
I am still on the lookout for the Enemy of Latinos. That might make a good Halloween costume.
Maybe he is asking Latinos to punish their enemies because the market research says that will work. Maybe they think of white people as their enemies. Maybe they just don't like us. Obviously this wouldn't be the case for all, but you will notice the guy from Univision didn't call him out on his language. How many Latinos have expressed any outrage about the statement that Latinos should punish their enemies? I haven't heard any.
Maybe we kid ourselves with paradigms like "diversity", "Multiculturalism" and "melting pot". Maybe it is just much simpler for them: "Enemies", with enemies being white people. The national Latino organization is called "The Natinonal Council for The Race" after all.
I could never quite put my finger on where I had previously seen the Snipe Arguing with Himself rant Threads, until I had a Eureka mement today.
Has anyone besides me ever visited the "free speech" sessions at Hyde Park Corner in London? Lots of fruitcakes and TheRentisTooDamnHigh shouters. I saw a guy arguing with himself. He would make a point turning to his left, then answer himself back turning to the right. If anyone tried to discuss his topic with him (which is what he was really waiting for), he would immediately launch into a scathing personal attack, usually based on skin color, clothing, nationality, but always labels. When the interrupter finally gave up and wandered away, this speaker would set the bait all over again.
Some guys just need an audience, if it is just himself.
GuyFawkes38
10-29-2010, 02:17 PM
Snipe is what makes this board great. And he isn't "talking to himself". Emperor, how many times have you responded to his posts?
Snipe
10-29-2010, 07:34 PM
I could never quite put my finger on where I had previously seen the Snipe Arguing with Himself rant Threads, until I had a Eureka mement today.
Has anyone besides me ever visited the "free speech" sessions at Hyde Park Corner in London? Lots of fruitcakes and TheRentisTooDamnHigh shouters. I saw a guy arguing with himself. He would make a point turning to his left, then answer himself back turning to the right. If anyone tried to discuss his topic with him (which is what he was really waiting for), he would immediately launch into a scathing personal attack, usually based on skin color, clothing, nationality, but always labels. When the interrupter finally gave up and wandered away, this speaker would set the bait all over again.
Some guys just need an audience, if it is just himself.
I am not sure that does me justice Emp. If you want to debate any point that I have made on any applicable thread I am usually up for the jump. For some odd reason that is my hobby. It is a waste of time, and I don't know why I like doing it, but I like it.
I do some name-calling and trash talking for fun for sure, but I don't think that most people who say something that I don't agree with get a "scathing personal attack". I don't think that is fair.
And you don't like labels eh? What party likes to label so much? Who gave us "Diversity", "Multiculturalism", "Feminism", "Transgendered", "African American", "Latino American", "Asian American" and any other hyphenated American? That is what Barrack once gave a great speech against in 2004. Those days are over.
In my last post I talked about Obama's address to Latinos in which he urged them to "punish their enemies". It seems like Mr. Obama is labeling people there. I am also concerned that he might be right. Maybe we are their enemies. Obama is the most choreographed candidate on the trail that I know. Most of the things he says are market tested and market approved. Maybe this was a slip (I don't know). You seem to have no opinion of "Latinos" punishing their enemies. I don't hear any "Latino's" complaining. He was rallying the troops, and the troops seem to be OK with defining the enemies of Latinos.
It sucks to have enemies. Maybe they don't really like us and really do want to punish us. Maybe Obama was hitting all the right buttons. I can see a future where this doesn't end well.
GuyFawkes38
11-04-2010, 12:31 AM
Speaking of rallies, this is really funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_23Nt5XumaU&feature=player_embedded
It's a good reminder that some people say and believe really stupid things.
It reminds me of a BBC radio report on America's growing bigotry towards muslims. It was beyond ridiculous. It referenced various surveys. One was the fact that 20% of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim.
Of course, 20% of Americans also believe that Elvis isn't dead. And I bet 40% of Americans believe that OJ was innocent.
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