http://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/30914/
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/the-white-rules-for-thinking-about-black-people/
Serenity
Eventually she will get angry and use the word loud and publicly. Leopards like that don’t change their spots easily… And she has never apologized to Black people, she apologized only when it was clear her money was going to stop rolling in. I doubt she’ll ever be broke but she will never be what she was. And once she has nothing to lose the hate will come spewing out. Like it’s Black people’s fault….
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abagond
I am so used to whites being fake a_______ that the only thing that gives me pause in this whole thing is that she gave two apologies in rapid succession – meaning that the first one was not coached by her P.R. people, meaning that she is not particularly slick, meaning that maybe her folksiness (“I is what I is” – *vomit*) is not some corny act, a la Reagan, Sarah Palin or George W.
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abagond
Anna Renee:
I wonder about that too.
John McWhorter, for example, says that racism is over. If he is right then there is no need for Rented Negroes and so he cannot be one. But for me it is hard to shake the idea that he is just fooling himself and that deep down he knows it.
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edud01
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Hathor
FG,
You act as if Black folk do not believe in economic development and uplift. Even Black Democrats and liberals believe that.
What you are saying is one of the talking points that the rented Negro focuses on. It compares all Black people to the least productive person.
Actually conservative philosophy has never been diametrical opposed by most people. Most people are politically in the center. What composes conservative philosophy now is wingnuttery.
Strom Thurman had a more cohesive argument and philosophy than cable news pundits and talk show host.
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Hathor
FG,
Protest was a tactic, not a culture. It is also a right. There was much more going on with Black people than marching and still is.
Most people are not entrepreneurs, so they look for jobs. Black people have many skill sets, but where are the jobs. They get educated in mostly two year schools. The health care industry is the largest employer in my city. You see Black people in all aspects of the industry, from phlebotomist to medical doctor.
The problem is that there are not enough jobs to employ all people and the market is mostly saturated with small business and corporations hire off shore.
Employers are driving up the entry requirements and their are not many Black people that handle $30,000/year college tuition. This is not include housing, books and supplies and food. It seems that employers are pre-selecting a certain group of people since they can’t outright discriminate
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abagond
In regard to Booker T. Washington:
1. He did great material good for blacks through Tuskegee and through raising money for other HBCUs.
2. He is right to urge blacks to get an education, work hard and all that. After all, who in their right mind would urge anyone they cared about to drop out of school and lay about?
3. He never said anything in public that his white donors would object to. They had, in effect, bought his silence. We know because in private he was for equal rights and secretly gave money to fight for them in the courts. But in public he just said what the white man wanted him to say.
He was letting white people believe that everything was all right – black people just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. White people on this blog are STILL saying that stuff a hundred years later:
Bill: “It’s a shame to watch an entire race stew in poverty, crime and self-pity. The answer is…yes, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” – July 13th 2010.
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Hathor
Ms. DR,
You are beginning to sound like one yourself. The welfare system was reformed during the Clinton administration and the application in many states will not allow for someone to continue to get benefits without working. Most of those jobs are only paying minimum wage so how would you pay for rent on a decent house or an apartment if you have one child to take care of.
Your description of the welfare recipient is a rehash of the last thirty years of speaking about Blacks on welfare and a talking point of the rented Negro. No matter if laws have changed or if it is true for the majority of Blacks..
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abagond
@ BadNewsBear
No, not fair enough.
The us v them and ingroup/outgroup stuff is probably natural to the human condition, but not the levels of racism seen in America. That stuff is sick and twisted and off the chain. White people are SCREWED UP but, because they control the mainstream culture they can NORMALIZE it and make themselves seem Basically Good. They judge everything according to themselves. Whatever they do is “natural”. So their racial caste system is seen as part of human nature, even though their One Drop Rule is pretty strange stuff.
Racism – dividing the world into a handful of races based on physical appearance and then excusing an unequal society based on that – is not more than 500 years old in the West. The Ancient Greeks certainly did not think like that. Nor the Jews. The word “whites” only goes back to the early 1600s.
This idea that racism is natural IS part of racism, part of what keeps it in place.
No matter how bad things are, they can always be made better. America has proved it can do that with the civil war and the civil rights movement.
More:
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/racism-is-unnatural/
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/bell-hooks-talking-race-and-racism/
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/colour-blind-racism-the-four-frames/
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