This article, like most about racism, stinks from square one because it
assumes only whites are racist. Everything in a mixed society is about
race
and as a result blacks are as likely to pack together against another race
as whites or almonds are.
I will pick one of my own for employment (for instance) before I pick
another because like any other group I feel most comfortable around those
I
share the most commonalities with. That makes me a racist according to my
people who describe similar actions by whites as racist. Obama is no
different than any of the white Presidents of yore, they all are
surrounded
by people most like them. Obama will be great for the employment of
blacks,
and other minorities. Something long overdue.
Crazy-Repairs.
"Ubiquitous" <weberm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> For the first time ever, the Democratic Party seems poised to choose an
> African-American presidential nominee. As Barack Obama is discovering,
> politics at the national level entails intense scrutiny and criticism.
> Predictably, however, some Obama sup****ters have been accusing his
> detractors
> of racism--especially when they criticize his "spiritual mentor," a
> practitioner of "black liberation theology."
>
> In a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece, one David K. ****pler goes further.
He
> explains how racism supposedly works in post-civil-rights America:
>
> In a country so changed that a biracial man who is
> considered black has a shot at the presidency, the
> subterranean biases are much less discernible now than
> when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
> They are subtle, unacknowledged and unacceptable in
> polite company. But they lurk below, lending resonance
> to the criticisms of Obama. Black professionals know
> the double standard. They are often labeled negatively
> for traits deemed positive in whites: A white is assertive,
> a black is aggressive; a white is resolute, a black is
> pushy; a white is candid, a black is abrasive; a white
> is independent, a black is not a team player. Prejudice
> is a shape ****fter, adapting to acceptable forms.
>
> But it also turns out that adjectives are the equivalent of their most
> offensive synonyms. Thus calling Obama elitist is actually a racial
slur:
>
> "Elitist" is another word for "arrogant," which is another
> word for "uppity," that old calumny applied to blacks who
> stood up for themselves.
>
> You can see how the ****pler method works. Did you say Obama was
> inexperienced?
> "Inexperienced" is another word for "young," and a young male is a boy.
> You
> just called Obama "boy," you racist! Here's another example:
>
> Casting Obama as "out of touch" plays harmoniously with
> the traditional notion of blacks as "others" at the edge
> of the mainstream, separate from the whole. Despite his
> ability to articulate the frustration and yearning of broad
> segments of Americans, his "otherness" has been highlighted
> effectively by right-wingers who harp on his Kenyan father
> and spread false rumors that he's a clandestine Muslim.
>
> Wait a minute! Did ****pler just say "articulate"? Granted, he's using it
> as a
> verb and not an adjective, but surely he knows that it is invidious to
> describe a black person as "articulate" because it implies that blacks
are
> usually inarticulate.
>
> The Obama campaign has set in motion a fascinating dynamic. On the one
> hand,
> some of his fellow Democrats, especially Bill Clinton, have been willing
> to
> attack him in expressly racial terms. On the other hand, we have someone
> making the case in a semi-major newspaper that adjectives are the white
> man's
> tool of oppression and that anyone who modifies Obama is a racist.
>
> The Obama campaign may mark a turning point in the history of race
> relations
> in America: the point at which calling someone a "racist" comes to carry
> no
> more sting than calling him a "fascist."
>
>
> --
> It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
> the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
> our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
> for them, it's failing.
>
>
>
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