Kathy Shaidle (Five Feet of Fury) is at it again...thank God. She pasted a portion of Ta-Nehisi Coates' post at "The Atlantic." He is taking Will Satelan to task over a re-evaluation of the numbers of blacks voting against Prop. 8 in California. The basis for this interest is to ram home the opinion that, contrary to Satelan's opinion, the black community is not a cabal of pinko commies.
Here's the blurb that Kathy put up...and I shall too for it serves my point:
"Any writer who's spent significant time in the suburbs of Atlanta, on the South-Side of Chicago, or here in Harlem, knows that black people aren't "left-leaning"--they just think the GOP is racist. Surveys may show blacks leaning-left on certain issues (minimum wage? ending the war?) but take it from an actual black leftist, there is a conservative streak running through black America wider than the Mississippi. Don't confuse "enemy of my enemy"-ism, with actual sympathy."
That's snort worthy.
Now...watch as I do a trick. With one hand I am covering my eyes. With the other I am typing in the following keywords to "Google." (Keywords: Clarence Thomas, Uncle Tom).
WHOA....HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!! 94,800 posts to choose from.
1. How about this one from Spike Lee (celebrated black director)... "a handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit eating Uncle Tom."
2. Or maybe this one from respected black Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders publicly called Justice Thomas an “Uncle Tom” (Washington Post, May 2, 1995);
3. Maybe this one: Black radio talk show host Amos Brown calls Justice Thomas "Uncle Tom."
(click stopwatch....ohhhhh, only 17 seconds and three examples)
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Now, tell me exactly how blacks chastising other blacks with the Holy Grail of put downs has anything to do with blacks thinking the GOP is racist. These aren't just any blacks off the street corner. These are the "leaders"...the ones others use as a barometer on public opinion. As I see it, the black leadership is a whole bunch of W.E.B. DuBois' and not enough Booker T. Washington's. Too many Jesse Jackson's and not enough Jesse Lee Peterson's.
Why does the black community continue to vote overwhelmingly for the democratic party? I don't know...and neither does Ta-Nehisi Coates, apparently. Because, his conclusions are certainly easily disproved.
Oh...screw it...I do know...and it serves no purpose to keep it to myself. I'm not here to make friends.
Gullibility...victimization as a rule because it's the easier path, intellectual laziness, structured disinformation from leaders finanicially enhanced by the previous, stuctured disinformation from leaders politically enhanced by the previous, ignorance (it ain't just a white thing), prejudice (yes...black prejudice), racism (yes, on white racism)... RINSE LATHER REPEAT..
Disenfranchised my Alibaster ASS!!!
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