*"First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American. Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?"
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The state of "punditry" today: "The Body" vs. "The Asshole"
Jesse Ventura is making a lot of sense tonight concerning gay marriage and the separation of church and state while running rings around the homophobic, racist Pat Buchanan*... really, why is this gas bag still around? What's more, we can probably look forward to Karl Rove following the same career path--except, hopefully, running for President.
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This is actually real. Appalling. It's getting hard to tell reality apart from the Onion.
Nation's Poorest 1% Now Controls Two-Thirds Of U.S. Soda Can Wealth
This is actually real. Appalling. It's getting hard to tell reality apart from the Onion.
Pat Buchanan is obviously living in a different universe.
You know - what about the Indians? I was at a coffee and conversation at good old PARC (Public Affairs Residential College) once - and this guy was going on about how the Indians should be thankful because they got modern medicine and air conditioning. He was a freako conservative who ran the Chronicle - which was a republican student newspaper riddled with bad air and typos. It got a lot of money from George Will and Charlton Heston - anyway, this argument was laughed at by a bunch of over-serious prone to thinking about anything for a minute types without a second's thought. Odd that this same argument could be used in a more offensive, perhaps even more inane way than some loopy sophomore at Northwestern used it about fifteen years ago...
I also liked on Buchanan's article that comments were closed.
This might be my favorite part:
"Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for “deserving” white kids.
Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?"
Those poor suffering white kids. I mean, Harvard might as well be a historically black college from what I can tell. And don't even get me started on Yale.
He's an even bigger ass-hat than Hillary. Hard to do.
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