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| 2015-05-15 |
| As racial tensions have ratcheted up in recent months, triggered by incidents of actual or perceived mistreatment of black men by law enforcement, fresh consideration has been afforded to what it means to be black in America. As a black Republican activist and office-holder, I retain a unique perspective. My existence, and the existence of others like me, makes one side of the debate uncomfortable. After all, it's hard to maintain a stark whites-versus-blacks dichotomy in a world with black and biracial Republicans. In my encounters with radical black activists, my skin color has commanded no respect. Blackness, it would seem, means how you think, not how you look. A new study seems to confirm this. ...The study concluded that "nothing the Republican Party does, even nominating African-American GOP candidates, works to win them over." You know, we have something similar with Arabs in Israel. Neh, any similarities are strictly superficial. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #15 I don't use the thug term anyway. Subhuman vermin is far more appropriate. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-05-15 23:36 |
| #14 "Feral" is gonna have a shelf life of about another week before it goes into the Racist Lexicon |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2015-05-15 22:48 |
| #13 Basically that 'thug' is the new N-word. Hard to believe we have gone from separate drinking fountains to separate words on only a half-century. That's progress, yepper! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-05-15 21:04 |
| #12 There was talk the other day that we shouldn't use the term 'Thug' to describe, well, Thugs, because it's somehow offensive to blacks. Basically that 'thug' is the new N-word. I wonder what they would think of the term 'Feral'... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-05-15 19:42 |
| #11 ...that includes sexual orientation. As a rule I don't disrespect anyone until they've earned it. And that's not just a week of new software training and whiskey talking. ...damn I'm tired. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2015-05-15 19:19 |
| #10 I reserve the right to disrespect assholes of any race, religion or political leaning. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2015-05-15 19:10 |
| #9 To me the most important thing is that there are some practical conclusions to be drawn by Republicans. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-15 12:59 |
| #8 I don't have a problem with the Afro-American culture. BTW, if they would drop the Afro and just be Americans, I'd like it much better. I have trouble with any part of the culture that chooses not to assimilate into the larger culture and hates the larger culture. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-15 11:32 |
| #7 Democrats are trying to do the same thing with Latino's with less success (Cubans are less Latino for example). If not countered it might be a matter of time before they become a monolithic waste as well. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-05-15 10:05 |
| #6 I've been saying this for some time. Its not race its culture. And African-American culture (victim-hood and the belief that education is acting white) has held them back. As a white guy I have more in common with Larry Elders than I do with Eminem. Eminem subscribes to a culture I just don't understand while I agree with most everything Larry Elders' writes. It is fairly obvious with new immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean who are treated differently by just about everyone. Blacks also have the problem that a super-majority of them subscribe to the hip-hop culture so they are all going down together. Whites have a number of cultures. Some fail, others succeed, but we only truly see the more successful ones unless we decide to watch the Jersey Shore or something. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-05-15 10:04 |
| #5 Cause Trunk/conservative women, blacks, Hispanics, gays etc are not 'authentic', so says the socialists/progressives. Remember the Progressive motto - You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-15 09:22 |
| #4 YES, black is NOT what you look like, it's how you act. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-05-15 09:05 |
| #3 Is there a bad link to this story? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-15 08:48 |
| #2 I believe a few days ago someone posted a story about 'Liberation Theology' having it's origins in the Former Soviet Union....Marxist Victimology as it were. This might tend to confirm the 'way we think over the way we look' theory. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-15 06:23 |
| #1 he's onto something this guy the socialists have co-opted race for their own ends. It's not about black at all it's about socialism! |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-05-15 06:12 |