You know, I’ve never even noticed race. I never discuss it, because in my world it’s just not important. I’ve always looked past it to the individual – his intellect, his sense of humor, his courage, integrity, etc. … The Redhead’s first nanny was black. None of us ever thought anything of it. She was wonderful with him. Her name was Hazel, and she loved him and the other babies in her care like they were her own. The Redhead never even thought about her race. She was just “Hazel.” He didn’t learn to even recognize race until he was exposed to his new daycare here in Virginia… it just didn’t matter to him until someone pointed out skin color one day. I remember he looked at me with those big blue eyes and little innocent face and said, “Mommy! Hazel was black!” like it was some kind of revelation.
We don’t discuss race in my family, because it’s just not important… because we have learned to look past it and at the individual’s qualities. I thought that’s what Martin Luther King and the fighters for equality wanted – an America where race is not a consideration! Now that we’re finally getting there, racist pigs like Holder want to take us back.
OK. Fine! You win. You want to talk about race? You think we’re cowards for not doing so? Take it away, Sir Francis!
White Americans have been bludgeoned for half a century about our
“racism” and “maltreatment” of blacks. In response, we erected
enormous, hugely costly systems and institutions specifically aimed at
alleviating black Americans’ sufferings and easing their integration
into America’s social and commercial structure. Our reward has been an
intensification of the abuse heaped upon us.
Conservative politicians have gone to great lengths to include
blacks in their staffs, and to give their views proper attention. Our
first two black Secretaries of State were Colin Powell and Condoleezza
Rice, both put in that position by President George W. Bush — a
Republican. Our Second black Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas,
was appointed by President George H. W. Bush — a Republican. Our first
black United States Senator was Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts — a
Republican. Michael Steele, the Chairman of the Republican National
Committee, is the first black American to chair a major political party
– either major political party.
Go. Read the rest. You may find the statistics contained in that essay most illuminating.
Feb 22, 2009 @ 21:56:24
I don’t watch The View, bunch of pontificating harpy morons (including Hasselbeck) whose collective IQ doesn’t reach the triple digits; however, I was told Rice was going to be on and I ended up watching her interview. Not only was the normally screeching Joy Behar utterly stumped into slack-jawed SILENCE (blessed, blessed silence) but Condi did an absolutely wonderful job – like a soft-spoken Coulter who never raises her voice but sure as hell gets the message across.I was in love. This beautiful, highly intelligent, amazingly-well-spoken and talented woman, just sat there ripping these bitches to shreds again and again, without even trying, and without malice. I would absolutely vote for her were she ever on a ticket. Bush appointed black people and women to his cabinet without any fanfare – like most of us, he wasn’t concerned with color but with character. The race-baiters tell us they don’t HAVE the luxury of looking past race because they are still oppressed and institutionally discriminated against. (When asked what “institutional discrimination” is you’ll hear that it’s the existence of prisons. Huh.) But then again the feminists told me I was oppressed too, and they were lying. Anyway, here’s part 1 of the interview, but do watch it; it’s wonderful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7BlMKWSUsI’ve been thinking of putting the whole thing up at my blog; maybe I’ll just do that.
Feb 23, 2009 @ 12:08:37
Dont you just love that woman? Four years ago I was hoping that she would run for president and if she had run I would have voted for her and was disappointed when she did not. What people have seemed to have forgotten is he fact that it was the democrat party that was instrumental is depriving the black people in this country of their freedoms and that it was the republican party that fought tooth and nail to give that freedom. Ask anyone who the first republican president was and watch for the blank stare
Feb 23, 2009 @ 15:40:02
If you think about it, most of our ancestors didn’t come over until after the civil war. My ancestors came over in the early 1900′s. As I recall most of the Union Army was white. Hippies, like my parents, worked with blacks to get them registered to vote in the south. Thanks to television showing the dogs and water cannons that were unleashed on civil rights marchers –whites around the country were outraged. This led to the passage of civil rights legislation. After all if we are so bad, Dr. King’s sermons would have fallen on deaf ears. Maybe we should talk about race and get the truth out.