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Showing posts with label race and gender cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race and gender cards. Show all posts
Yes, that's right. After years of effort, the European Space Agency's lander Philae landed on a comet300 million miles away. At first, people were excited. Then some women noticed that one
of the space scientists, Matt Taylor, was wearing a shirt, made for him
by a female "close pal,"
featuring comic-book depictions of semi-naked women. And suddenly, the
triumph of the comet landing was drowned out by shouts of feminist
outrage about ... what people were wearing. It was one small shirt for a
man, one giant leap backward for womankind.
So close and, yet, the race-baiters (of all stripes) among us keep us so far away from the days when we may "judge a man not by the color of his skin but the content of his character."
Those among us ensuring that race is a consideration dishonor the man, dishonor the movement, and dishonor the dream.
Was initially intending to put a bit of Pat Benatar (you could say I've been feeling All Fired Up) but had a change of heart while drinking morning coffee and reviewing the news.
I think some Eurythmics might be more appropriate:
Enjoy and forward, to our Two-Minutes Hate, Comrade Citizen!
The defense presents closing arguments, the state gets rebuttal, and the whole thing should go to the jury late today...
In all honesty and, based on the case (or incompetent lack thereof) they presented, I was expecting Bernie de la Rionda to open his remarks along the lines of, "Ladies and gentleman, this trial has been a farce forced upon us..."
I highly recommend the work Andrew Branca has been doing, over at Legal Insurrection, to bring this trial to all of us.
Let's hope they're able to see through this travesty. If not, I truly fear for us all.
I've said it before that I have no issue with Adam wanting to marry Steve. If you do not hurt others (and, yes, things like NAMBLA do promote the hurting of others), your proclivities are your own business and the libertarian in me is a firm believer that government has no business in most aspects of our lives otherwise.
Just as I can't stand the government trying to control all aspects of my life (my betters do it for my own good, of course), I can't stand proselytizers of any stripe.
Yeah, maybe this has been an ongoing joke and/or rallying cry for decades but it still absolutely disgusts me no less each time it rears it's f#<k!ng ugly head:
I am a child of Sesame Street, from some of its earliest years. Bert and Ernie were a staple of my childhood long before the tyranny of the Elmo gang took the street over.
Whether coming from someone of Jerry Falwell's bent, where there's a homosexual plot in every cultural nuance, or this. This is an in-your-face activism that cares only about the message with complete disregard for the damage it can do. Some things are exactly as they are.
To any :conservatives" who kept insinuating that Bert and Ernie were gay as a means to show the evils of infiltration of homosexuality, I have to ask just what the hell you're repressing within to see this in everything.
To members the gay community pushing things like this, I cry bullshit. This week's (and others) court decisions don't give you the right to flaunt it in the faces of the reset of us like some drag queen's scarf on Commercial Street in P-Town. You do that, you've now made it my business and I say, F#<k You. Maybe the other side's more right than I used to think and, way to go, making me not want to see your side of things.
To either side, spraying me down with cold water doesn't make me want to hold your respective hose.
Progracists are people who continually classify individuals by “race” and yet can’t see how that is racist.
Progracists hateMartin Luther King Jr.’s dream of an America
in which people “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by
the content of their character,” because progressive policies are based
on race consciousness, ethnic division, and identity politics.
Poor boy. Yeah, apparently there's folks going there, as well.
I'm sick of this not offending the sensibilities of wanton murderers sh!t. Call a f#<king spade a f#<king spade and be done with it. Or, as Rachel Lucas puts it:
Well. How dare the world?
Look, this young man simply wanted to helpfully cure you hicks of your goofy baseless prejudices about his oppressed religion, by blowing up a little boy and a bunch of other people. He did his faith a huge favor last week, a great big huge explosively helpful favor, and now I think we’re all on the same page: we’re done picturing Islam as a violent religion, yes? Surely those days are behind us at last, thanks to the brave heroics of one Mr. Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
For decades, hundreds of college players have gathered each year at the N.F.L.’s scouting combine, where their strength is tested, their speed is timed and, in a test to measure their intelligence, they are asked questions like “When a rope is selling 20 cents per 2 feet, how many feet can you buy for 30 dollars?”
That query is part of the Wonderlic Personnel Test, a 12-minute, 50-item quiz that has been used by N.F.L. teams since the 1970s. It is, however, infamously unreliable in predicting football success — forgettable players have scored high, stars low — and there have been quiet concerns that its reliance on knowledge taught in school might result in a racial bias.
Apparently, his emphasis added.
He goes on to state that he feels utterly speechless by this. I don't. The author of the original article is essentially saying that minorities can't possibly make it in an academic setting. By this reasoning, they are all obviously inferior.
[Quick note that my original drafting of this post intended to end with Dr. King's speech. As I began to write it, I felt that it was more appropriate to lead off with.]
This is something that I had begun to mentally draft a year ago,
before I'd begun to blog. Unfortunately, I'd not written most of those
thoughts down and I've found myself struggling to recapture them for this post as they'd first been...
Back at New Year's, I'd linked a video of and provided the lyrics for Creed's One in my post An Earworm to Start 2013 With. Perhaps, I should have saved it for this post?
Believe
it or not, for this white boy, growing-up on Cape Cod in the middle of
the middle class, MLK Day and, recognizing the accomplishments of the
Civil Rights Movement in the 50's and 60's, was important and
motivating. Despite being a household of supposedly evil conservatives,
we're all firm believers in "judging a man not by the color of his skin
but by the content of his character." Possibly, were it the 19th
century, we would have been on the front lines of the Abolitionist
Movement.
I still get goosebumps every time I hear the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
We're not always perfect in our applications but, then again, none of us on any side of any issue ever are.
Being staunch supporters of judging by the content of our
characters also means that we cannot hide calling things as we see them
behind that charade of censorship, the PC Movement, which has so
intrinsically embedded itself into our culture. I've almost allowed that
sense of political correctness, so nearly beaten into my head in my
waning college years (I matriculated just as the movement was gaining
solid momentum in the 90's), to stop me from writing this specific post
for this specific day.
We are all god's children and if I shuffle my feet and fail to to
look you in the eye and address my concerns directly with you, that
means that I don't truly see you as my equal and vice versa. And, yes,
Mr. Holder, we are a nation of cowards for not having these difficult
conversations; however, the cowardice come not in the way you intimated.
I fear that in our drive to reddress past wrongs, we have succumbed to
offering solutions based on guilt, self-loathing, anger, and a perpetual sense of victimization.
Ms. Parks may no longer have to fight to sit at the front of bus but, now, in our hearts, are we all not still thinking of each other as that "other"?
Overall, we are probably at the most integrated and equalized
point in the history of our republic and, yet, every continuing turn
yields discussions about and accusations of racism. It all continually
has to come back to race, race, and yet more race until it is quite
obvious that there are those of us all too willing to perpetuate past
grievances and leaving us all still saturated and wallowing in the evils
of racism.
The fact that any of us who dare state this are quickly
shouted-down on confirms it. We are a nation of cowards for allowing
this perpetuation.
As loathsome as any segregationist may have been, s/he was direct
and you knew the content of that person's heart. Today, we hide
ourselves in either shamed self-censorship and avoidance or direct
manipulations to convince others of the continuing grievances in order
to benefit ourselves, positions, or partisan affiliations.
The actions of anyone of any race—and, I don't care if you're a
white politician or journalist throwing the term "racist" at anyone who
dares criticize our current president (it's part & parcel of holding
the office folks, get over it), preaching the inequalities instead of
steps taken towards equality in order to keep interest in your political
party, or a two-bit hustler trying to provoke the us & them
mentality at every turn in order to keep his/her name in the news—to
intentionally provoke the perpetuation of racial divides instead of
truly seeking ways to heal them is just as despicable as any hooded
Klansman. One needs look no further than the manner in which minority
Republicans are treated by members of their own race and supposedly
liberal and tolerant members of the other party.
Let's
face it, if you do these things you wear a similar hood; only, yours is
all the more evil for you profess to do so for everyone's good.
A while back, Julia from Mininerd really hit the nail on the
head regarding thoughts and feelings I've had for a long while
regarding race and partisan identity. In her post, The Democrat
plantation, Julia fisks this NY Timesarticle by U-Penn Professor Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
Reed
doesn’t even attempt to disguise his belief that black people belong to
the Democrat party–and that any black person who leaves his or her
owners’ plantation must be shamed and disowned by the black community.
...
So
let me get this straight. The “how far we have come” narrative does
not apply to minority Republicans, because they are all just “tokens,”
trotted out to cover up the fact that Republicans hate minorities. You
know, for a group of people who supposedly hate minorities so much, we
sure do support a lot of them for leadership positions. I mean, really,
if we hated these people, why in the world would we be happy that an
Indian governor appointed a black Senator? Unless . . . we’re just
happy because she gave us another token on the game board? I think
maybe Reed is claiming to have psychic powers, if he can read our minds
and determine that we are all lying. (Hint: we’re not. We love Tim
Scott because he is an authentic conservative with strong values. His
race is utterly irrelevant, and only the Democrats bring it up)
...
Republicans
can’t prove they are not racist by supporting minority candidates, of
course, because everyone knows they are just tokens. Now, I doubt this
professor would have the guts to call Lt. Col. Allen West a “token” to
his face, but still, all tokens that we only pretend to support. No,
no, in order to win the black vote and prove that we aren’t huge
racists, we must “take policy positions that advance black interests.”
What are those positions? Well, not being “anti-tax, anti-union and
anti-abortion,” to start, I guess.
What
it boils down to is that anyone who does not toe the Democrat line on
policy issues either isn’t authentically black (if outwardly black) or
must be a racist (if white). The indicator of blackness or tolerance is
adherence to . . . what? Keynesian economics? Unlimited abortions on
demand? Disarming the public and leaving them at the mercy of armed
criminals? And if you disagree with those things? Well, you aren’t
black, and you’re probably a racist.
Definitely read the whole thing!
And, go back and listen to Dr. King's words again and try to think on what it means to "judge a man not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character."
When Charles “Chuck” Hicks does the Martin Luther King Jr. Day peace and freedom walks Saturday, he’ll also be taking a step for what the National Rifle Association has dubbed “National Rifle Appreciation Day.” That’s because Hicks is the son of Robert Hicks, a prominent leader of the legendary Deacons for Defense and Justice — an organization of black men in Louisiana who used shotguns and rifles to repel attacks by white vigilantes during the 1960s.
“The Klan would drive through our neighborhood shooting at us, shooting into our homes,” recalled Hicks, 66, who grew up in Bogalusa, La., and has been a civil rights activist in the District for more than 35 years. “The black men in the community wouldn’t stand for it. You shoot at us, we shoot back at you. I’m convinced that without our guns, my family and many other black people would not be alive today.”
As one of the organizers for the weekend’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities, Hicks’s pro-gun stance may seem like something of an anomaly. But even though King may best be remembered for his philosophy of nonviolent protest, the fact is that black civil rights activists in many small towns throughout the South carried guns or received protection from groups like the Deacons for Defense and Justice.
This popped-up on my iPod while I was doing some serious data entry for the HR Empire. It felt very apropos to some of my thoughts and wishes for 2013.
Happy New Year!
Affirmative may be justified Take from one give to another The goal is to be unified Take my hand be my brother The payment silenced the masses Sanctified by oppression Unity took a backseat Sliding further into regression
One, oh one, The only way is one
One, oh one, The only way is one I feel angry I feel helpless Want to change the world I feel violent I feel alone Don't try and change my mind
Society blind by color Why hold down one to raise another Discrimination now on both sides Seeds of hate blossom further The world is heading for mutiny When all we want is unity We may rise and fall, but in the end We meet our fate together
One, oh one, The only way is one One, oh one, The only way is one I feel angry I feel helpless Want to change the world I feel violent I feel alone Don't try and change my mind
[x3] I feel angry I feel helpless Want to change the world yeah I feel violent I feel alone Don't try and change my mind
I feel angry I feel helpless Want to change the world yeah I feel violent I feel alone Don't try and change my mind
ESPN has suspended "First Take'' commentator Rob Parker indefinitely for
controversial race-related comments he made about Redskins quarterback
Robert Griffin III on Thursday's program.
'Bout time these racists were held to account for their statements and actions.
ADemocratic senatorhired an unpaid intern who was an undocumented immigrant but a documented sex offender. Apparently Senator Menendez needed an immigrant to do sex offending that Americans won’t do.
Meanwhile, Representative Jim Moran is “embarrassed” by therevelationthat his voter-fraud-orchestrating son smashed his girlfriend’s face
into a garbage can and pleaded guilty to assault. The girlfriend appears
to be doing what she can to make the story go away. But don’t worry,
the phrase “war on women” may still only be used to describe people who
don’t want to pay for someone else’s birth control. No word if anyone on
the left will be expressing their gratitude for theViolence Against Women Actfor this.
Over in Michigan,defendersof the union protestors who tore down an Americans for Prosperity tent
are heading toward trutherism, suggesting that it was all a set up, the
canvas-and-rope equivalent of the Reichstag fire. No word yet if anyone
is claiming the Jews inside the tent got advance notice.
Oh, and after months — nay years — of rhetoric from the president and
his proxies about how taxes are simply a sign of neighborliness and the
dues we pay to live in this great country, we learn that Obama’s staff
owe nearly amillion dollars in back taxes.
And the Republicans are losing to these guys.
It's amazing what those evil Republic... [what, they're not?!] uh, wonderful, thinking only of the little guy/women/minority/ad-nauseum Democrats are capable of (if we don't report it).
Get out and get active, folks. Give voice. Get involved in the party you typically vote for and take part, take responsibility for it. Hold it accountable to you.
