Ah, nothing like the thesis of a liberal (PDF) for intersting items:
…My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my “Blackness” than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong…
Stokely Carmichael and Charlie Hamilton’s (1967) developed definitions of separationism in their discussion of Black Power which guided me in the forumlation and use this concept in this study:
The concept of Black Power rests of this fundamental premise: Before a group can enter the open society, it must close ranks. By this we mean that group solidarity is necessary before a group can operate effectively from a bargaining position of strength in a pluralistic society.
Thus, Carmichael and Hamilton define separationism as a necessary stage for the development of the Black community before this group integrates into the “open society”.
All really good liberal mental gobblydegook – the sort of “thinking” which you get when you are just repeating back what a leftist told you. Trouble is, this lady might be the person who gets first and last crack at advising the President of the United States every day. I guess Michelle Obama doesn’t have as much pull in 2008 as Hillary had in 1992 in getting her thesis locked away. I wonder, however, what we might find in any thesis written by Barack? Would there be, for instance, anything like Michelle’s assertion that black (errr…I mean Black) politicians are to pretend to be working with Whites when they are actually advancing the Black community?
…They discuss the problems which face these Black officials who must persuade the White community that they are above issues of race and that they are representing all people and not just Black people…
Its going to be a very fun and interesting fall campaign…
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what?
The social pathologies you relate are not the result of racism, however – they are the result of family breakdown in the black community brought on by liberal social policies which while intended to help, actually did nothing but harm. The key to helping those people will not be found in battling whatever vestigal racism exists in the United States, but in enacting policies which encourage religious faith and family formation.
Mark Noonan | February 25th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Brett,
Oh, I don’t know – about 40 people; it was a going away party for me and another guy as we were being transferred off of our ship when I was in the Navy. As it turned out, I was the only white guy who attended due to various duty requirements.
So a shipmate admitted to being gay and hit on you??!!
Sorry Mark…IM questioning you veracity on this one.
But I’ve been on the mean streets, as well
If you have been on the mean streets liek you said…then why are you completely oblivious to your surroundings?
“I’m usually not paying that close attention to people on the elevator with me.
when I’m with my friends, I’m concentrating my attentions on them, not people crossing the street.”
I can tell you two things about you…you have never been in combat and you certainly have never once lived on the “mean streets”..you might have visited a mean street for about 5 mins..then went back to your very middle class neighborhood.
Dont take offense Mark…you also only have the haziest notion of what sort of person I am and what sort of life experiences I have, and yet you are making hard and fast judgements of where I’m coming from.
Perhaps you should take your own advice…
“You might want to try a little humility as you approach others.”
I find it odd you make that statement…when you never exercise that judgment yourself….
FrmMarine…
Yes I did first mention my race.
But then in 4 separate other threads you mentioned I was black. Even though nobody else had brought up that fact…just you.
I’ll give you a hint…in the 2nd thread you specifically stated “I cant stand talking to you minorities…”
Thats the great thing about blogs and the internet/email in general…words you say come back to haunt you long after you have forgotten them.
So what is YOU’RE take on BO?
BO? BO Jackson? BO Derek?
Mark writes:
The social pathologies you relate are not the result of racism, however – they are the result of family breakdown in the black community brought on by liberal social policies which while intended to help, actually did nothing but harm. The key to helping those people will not be found in battling whatever vestigal racism exists in the United States, but in enacting policies which encourage religious faith and family formation.
Do you have any proof to back this up? It is amazing how you can disregard centuries of being second-class citizens so easily.
I would ove to see you walk into a NAACP meeting and share your thoughts. We’ll see how many Blacks agree that their problem is that they have been coddled too much by the government.
Also, last time I checked, blacks aren’t exactly atheists. Visit a Bapist Church lately.
Brett,
Yes, because when I was in the Navy, we didn’t care too much about the gay guys…it took gay rights activists trying to ram gays in the military down everyone’s throat for it to become an issue. Most people are very much live and let live, Brett – its takes an a**hole to cause trouble. As for that gentleman, he mistook me for gay – I made my apologies and found other things to do.
As for where I’ve lived and hung out – well, I’ve lived and hung out in the past in areas I would never live now, given that I have a wife to look after…but as single man fully capable of taking care of himself and with no familial obligations? Different story. Its not a matter of being oblivious, its a matter of just not working on the assumption that everyone’s a threat until proved otherwise…such as: the time in New York where it was only when the guy turned the third corner after me that I became concerned – defenses up, I crossed the street as a final check, and when he started to cross, I turned and confronted him, and he suddenly decided he had somewhere else to be.
I’ve had a gun put in my face; I’ve had a much, much larger man pick me up and threaten to beat me to a pulp; I’ve had gang-bangers try to shake me down; I’ve dodged a couple muggings – I’ve had, to say the least, an interesting life…but mostly I get along wherever I go because I have a knack for fitting in…this, I freely admit, is a gift – God has graced me with the ability to swiftly understand where a person is coming from and thus adjust myself to their expectations, reserving, of course, my requirements to maintain the standards I adhere to. I think its called “the common touch”.
what,
Black Americans who attend church services are not the problem – they have solid families and are doing just fine…I’m talking about the black underclass…while we had, due to racism, a very large poor black class in the United States, it took liberalism to create the black underclass (and, of course, there is a white underclass, created by the same means). These are people not held back by racism, but by government-sponsored indolence and neglect. Create 10,000 more affirmative action programs and you won’t help a single one of them – they need knowledge and morals, not more laws.
Mark,
Are you actually claiming black ineqaulity can be traced solely to affirmative action? So do you actually believe we are all born equal in this country? That being white does not give you a head start?
As far as I can tell your entire solution is to pray more.