In article <ji3s81$idk$
2...@dont-email.me>,
> > On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:16:18 -0600, Miike Smith<
m...@wt.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:59:20 -0600, The Daring Dumass
> >> <
the-dari...@stinky.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 2/22/2012 9:22 AM, Yoor...@Jurgis.net wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:39:45 -0600, Mike Smith<
m...@wt.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thomas Sowell has another great article on the meaning of fairness and
> >>>>> how it has been bastardized by libtards.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sowell--fairness?
> >>>>
> >>>> He's a fucking Scaife paid black guy--paid to write anti-progressive
> >>>> bullshit
Anybody want to comment on the Scaife Foundation? Anybody, anybody?
> >>>>
> >>>> Draws a monthly Stipend and a Big office at Stanford to lend "black
> >>>> authenticity" to rightwing propaganda.
> >>>>
> >>>> No one with half a brain takes him serious.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Now that's RACIST! ROTFLMAO
> >>>
> >>> TDD
> >>
> >> Don't be too sure. Yoogurt is an incredibly ignorant person/bot. It is
> >> very possible he doesn't know what he posted was racist.
> >
> > I see that despite Sowell being paid by extreme rightwing
> > "pumpkn-shootin" billionaire (proving clinton's killed foster), that
> > he gets a free office at a ultraconservative university (to lend
> > authority)----you don't find his "writing" suspicious in support of an
> > ideology that defended slavery, fought Civil rights, fought equal
> > rights, voting rights, fairness, equal pay for black people?
> >
> > Why is that?
> >
> > I'd say your intellectual ability to associate policy he helps
> > support, and his "color" coincide to lend "authenticity" to racist
> > policy of Conservatives is about as credible as Bush was.....Which was
> > zilch.
> >
> > What better way to fool people (or make them feel good) than to have a
> > black praise racist policy?
> >
> > Hmmm?
> >
>
> Got me thinking. Can one like yourself be so stupid as not to be racist?
Listen up, Frank knows a lot about being stupid.
Frankly speaking, Frank, this is America, and we have no more choice
about being racists than we do being neurotics.
"No, I think Kanye West was actually right ("George Bush doesnıt care
about black people."), but we have to make a distinction between being
racist in motivation and intention versus racist in effect and
consequence. And all you need do is look at the history of the Bush
administration, and youıll see policies that, in effect and consequence,
generated levels of social misery among poor people, brown people, red
people, but especially among working-class and poor people. So this is
the important point. If Kanye West had said he (The Worst President
Ever) doesnıt care about the black poor, the evidence is overwhelming.
But I think what happened was that President Bush understood this in an
individualistic way, which is the way most fellow Americans understand
racism: "Do I actually hate black people individually?" No, I donıt
think President Bush individually hates black people. His policies were
racist in effect and consequence, and especially classist in terms of
generating misery among poor and working people, disproportionately
black and brown.
And I would say that even about the Obama administration. The Obama
administration seems to have very little concern about poor people and
their social misery. Look at the policies vis-à-vis Wall Street
downplaying Main Street. Look at the policies of black farmers, a
settlement already in place, but they donıt want to execute it, because
they donıt want to be associated with black folk too explicitly. Look at
the policies of dilapidated housing. We can go right across the board.
Look at the policies of the new Jim Crow system, the prison-industrial
complex. So, weıre talking not just about individual presidents. Weıre
talking about a system that is tilted against poor people, against
working people, disproportionately black and brown and red.
Look, for example, at juvenile justice. We just had a wonderful meeting,
Coalition of Juvenile Justice. The Juvenile Justice, Juvenile
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 needs to be reauthorized. Itıs been
two years now, no reauthorization either from the Obama administration
or the public bureaucracy. Even our dear brother Eric Holder doesnıt
seem to want to move on it. Meaning what? Low priority for those young
people, disproportionately poor, black and brown and red, who are
getting locked into a system that leads them toward the
prison-industrial complex.
Why is that so? Why is it such a low priority? Itıs very clear the
people around President Obama, the economic team, pro-Wall Street,
pro-oligarchy, pro-plutocracy in terms of preoccupation with investment
bankers, very little concern about jobs for everyday people, very little
concern about homes for everyday people, very little concern about
transforming the conditions that deal with some of this crime out here,
with all of this terrorism taking place between poor people and other
poor people, young folk being killed every day in Chicago, Los Angeles
and so forth. It is a national emergency. Itıs a matter of national
security as much as Afghanistan, but very little talk about it. So weıre
talking not just about individuals, weıre talking about a particular
arrangement of privilege, of plutocracy and oligarchy that downplay
working people and poor people. And those of us who love poor people and
working people will not put up with it."
- Cornel West
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Wake up people. First they tried it on people of color, but now we are
all Greeks.
The GOP is chasing us towards a cliff called "Obama".
Vote 3rd party