tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post5376487442483013955..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: Hollywood Meets DC On RacismAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-33190743815965717632012-02-24T00:08:27.258-05:002012-02-24T00:08:27.258-05:00T-Rav: Yeah, they just love Hymietown.T-Rav: Yeah, they just love Hymietown.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-11225546219001707772012-02-23T23:19:32.116-05:002012-02-23T23:19:32.116-05:00"I mean, have you ever heard Jesse Jackson, A..."I mean, have you ever heard Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or the Rev. Jeremiah Wright make a disparaging remark about people of other ethnic backgrounds?"<br /><br />(Except the Jews, that is.)T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-56397661204147338552012-02-23T23:01:35.571-05:002012-02-23T23:01:35.571-05:00Indi: I agree, but that's still a lot of fut...Indi: I agree, but that's still a lot of future voters and current dupes.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-68235760862215929602012-02-23T23:00:15.420-05:002012-02-23T23:00:15.420-05:00T-Rav: If you can find any pictures of the South ...T-Rav: If you can find any pictures of the South Central (Los Angeles) riots during the Rodney King debacles, you'll see how much love there is between the Korean and black communities. The Korean community absolutely refused to surrender their homes and property to rioters even after the police stayed out of the area and roving gangs of looters were out to grab all they could (all in the name of racial justice, by the way). They were frequently stopped by Korean shopkeepers armed with automatic and semi-automatic weapons. And they knew how to use them. So obviously Asians can be racists too (he said, tongue in cheek).LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-76378291569099973522012-02-23T22:52:55.638-05:002012-02-23T22:52:55.638-05:00Lawhawk
I would get worked up about this but it i...Lawhawk<br /><br />I would get worked up about this but it is not about Obama but Orwell. These are democrats bought and paid for by the studios and to keep getting aprts they need to come out for the cause and throw the race card out there.<br /><br />This is nothing new and quite frankly the public sees through this. The only people this affects other than hard core dems are the young people hooked by the nedia. This is a problem but the MSM is losing their franchisae on information and entertainment.Individualisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11005025873042230314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-65032977691395804612012-02-23T22:43:00.249-05:002012-02-23T22:43:00.249-05:00LawHawk, I don't have any personal experience ...LawHawk, I don't have any personal experience there. I know I've heard that if you want to see some real racial tension, go to where the black and Korean neighborhoods meet, but I haven't actually witnessed any of that.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-22554588847251090322012-02-23T21:26:10.429-05:002012-02-23T21:26:10.429-05:00Bev: There's a whole mistaken perception invo...Bev: There's a whole mistaken perception involved in that black feeling toward whites. They have been told by their teachers, their elected representative, and most of all their college instructors that they are oppressed. There simply aren't enough Asians in positions of power to "oppress" black people, so they are currently considered insignificant. <br /><br />But there are exceptions. The Chinese (and other Asian) communities in San Francisco are extremely numerous, powerful and influential. So there, Asians are considered to be every bit as racist as whites. <br /><br />But as we all know, in those urban gardens where blacks are in the majority or at least have considerable power, such racial divisions never occur. I mean, have you ever heard Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or the Rev. Jeremiah Wright make a disparaging remark about people of other ethnic backgrounds?LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-28325760252865654082012-02-23T21:17:27.699-05:002012-02-23T21:17:27.699-05:00T-Rav: In all seriousness, the worst examples of ...T-Rav: In all seriousness, the worst examples of race phobia I have seen in the past twenty years have come from Asians. They have been singled out for physical violence in San Francisco by black gangsters, so I can somewhat understand their fear. But they have made the traditional mistake of judging an entire group by the horrific actions of a few.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-50608666850443819672012-02-23T21:13:34.134-05:002012-02-23T21:13:34.134-05:00Bev: And now that an affirmative action case is w...Bev: And now that an affirmative action case is wending its way to the Supreme Court to revisit racial preferences in college admissions, you can just bet you'll hear that "whites can't be discriminated against."LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-58531570542168429252012-02-23T21:10:32.829-05:002012-02-23T21:10:32.829-05:00Tam: I guess the confusion started when the appel...Tam: I guess the confusion started when the appellations "Caucasian, Negroid, and Mongoloid" were traded in for less geographically (and racially) descriptive terms. Caucasian became white, Negroid became black, and Mongoloid became Asian. None of the expressions is particularly helpful in racial politics and are more often used as a sledgehammer to beat down the demonized other. But they did serve a purpose strictly for anthropological and historical investigation. As genetics have become more and more sophisticated, the differences between what used to be considered wildly different races have been reduced to a few obvious physical traits and a few different biological reactions to the environment. But those few obvious physical traits are the ones that the race-baiters hang their hats on.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-7972610579080946162012-02-23T20:58:39.401-05:002012-02-23T20:58:39.401-05:00tryanmax: I'm pretty sure Jackson knows that ...tryanmax: I'm pretty sure Jackson knows that there are plenty of redneck thugs out there who would do the same thing. But they're irrelevant, since they're white. To behave like a street thug is a bad thing for whites but a good thing for blacks, at least according to Jackson.<br /><br />I doubt that his is the view of the majority of black Americans. But it certainly has plenty of traction in the urban centers and the ghettos among the younger generation. How many times have you heard the expression "make it real," or "authentically black?" Behaving oneself and using civilized discourse is constantly being reinforced as "acting white."LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-14827659724823398382012-02-23T20:53:26.215-05:002012-02-23T20:53:26.215-05:00T-Rav: Freeman was unusually dyspeptic about the ...T-Rav: Freeman was unusually dyspeptic about the issue, and I'm not sure he would have reversed course the way he did if something else hadn't intervened between his original comments and the recent ones. But so far, he's not backing away from his recent ones.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-65005319308238707012012-02-23T20:08:30.117-05:002012-02-23T20:08:30.117-05:00Hey, hey, hey! Asians can be racist too, Bev.Hey, hey, hey! Asians can be racist too, Bev.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-43753090691321994102012-02-23T18:42:43.149-05:002012-02-23T18:42:43.149-05:00Tam - You are just wrong. Don't you know that...Tam - You are just wrong. Don't you know that only white people can be racists? Remember that and dont' make that mistake again. And since you don't like Obama, that makes you...well...smart, but a smart racist. Freeman and Jackson have spoken.BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-77836406665372478872012-02-23T18:04:16.899-05:002012-02-23T18:04:16.899-05:00T-Rav, it is sad, isn't it? He seems so reason...T-Rav, it is sad, isn't it? He seems so reasonable and decidedly not racist. And yet, apparently, he is. <br /><br />Also, it seems to me that all these racists are unaware that "white" is, in fact, a race. So hating white people because they're white is, in fact, racism.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16892551860593187175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-4746297771088368872012-02-23T17:58:58.980-05:002012-02-23T17:58:58.980-05:00Jackson's statement about what a n****r would ...Jackson's statement about what a n****r would do in office only serves to illustrate how race-blind he is. Does he seriously think that only a black man is capable of such behavior? For that matter, does he really think such behavior is admirable? It's not enough that whites don't feel threatened by a black man? We must elect a black man who is just plain scary? <br /><br />Jackson bespeaks a set of values that are truly backwards. I won't pretend his values are representative of blacks as a whole; that would truly be denigrating. But he clearly subscribes to a value system where one rises through bullying, intimidation, and malice. Jackson speaks as a fool and ought to be regarded as such.tryanmaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881154741574720094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-26016743876043546562012-02-23T17:53:42.635-05:002012-02-23T17:53:42.635-05:00Tam, I didn't know about that Morgan Freeman i...Tam, I didn't know about that Morgan Freeman interview. Sad. Even without hearing it, I expected more from him than I did from Samuel L. Jackson--although Jackson did have a movie recently called "Lakeview Terrace," in which his character was a racist who terrorized an interracial couple next door; kind of edgy in its own way.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-69944201228607978392012-02-23T17:25:11.657-05:002012-02-23T17:25:11.657-05:00Bev: As long as you use them to sleep on, but don...Bev: As long as you use them to sleep on, but don't wear them, you'll be OK. <br /><br />Frankly, I'm getting sick of being lectured to and hectored by people who weren't anywhere near the Civil Rights movement. Half of these morons weren't even born yet. I know what black people went through, and that's why we, black and white, took our chances in the Deep South in the 60s. Hearing this racist blather is not what we fought for.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-13670555953002724722012-02-23T17:21:29.504-05:002012-02-23T17:21:29.504-05:00Tam: Freeman had a long history of speaking about...Tam: Freeman had a long history of speaking about racial healing and the foolishness of making racial identity a motivator in anyone's life. I can only guess that he had a stroke recently, because his view hasn't just modified, it has changed 180 degrees. Maybe he had an argument with Bill Cosby. LOLLawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-72679308574061097932012-02-23T17:18:18.790-05:002012-02-23T17:18:18.790-05:00Joel: They both made that abundantly clear. If y...Joel: They both made that abundantly clear. If you didn't get what they were saying the first time around, they kept repeating and expanding on the theme. Freeman concentrates on evil white people while Jackson extols thugs who are "genuinely black." But the ultimate message is the same. Race, and race alone matters.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-27254088481650097412012-02-23T17:15:29.853-05:002012-02-23T17:15:29.853-05:00T-Rav: The left and the universities have been fu...T-Rav: The left and the universities have been fueling this racial nonsense since the Civil Rights and Voting Acts became law and people started to treat each other with respect regardless of race. The race-baiting industry is big business, and they're not about to allow blacks or whites to think that reconciliation was almost accomplished.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-51625972157290857002012-02-23T17:12:37.529-05:002012-02-23T17:12:37.529-05:00Tennessee: The Jackson rant was mentioned on some...Tennessee: The Jackson rant was mentioned on some of the news networks, mostly in passing and with considerable editing. Fox was a little clearer about how Jackson was making it clear that only race mattered. But I really thought the original quote, complete with obscenities was worthwhile publishing, even if I had to bleep the expletives.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-16603276283223699222012-02-23T16:48:37.162-05:002012-02-23T16:48:37.162-05:00Oh well, I guess I'm a racist if Morgan Freema...Oh well, I guess I'm a racist if Morgan Freeman and Samuel Jackson say I am. I mean, Freeman plays God so much, maybe it's going to his head. I've been called worse...oh, wait, no I haven't. I guess it should bother me, but it doesn't. I have had an affinity for only using white sheets for a very long time. Now I know why!BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-1706515645326663462012-02-23T16:45:35.745-05:002012-02-23T16:45:35.745-05:00If I cared much at all, I'd be more disappoint...If I cared much at all, I'd be more disappointed in Morgan Freeman than any of the others. Morgan Freeman is the one who had this exchange in an interview with Mike Wallace:<br /><br />"Black History Month you find....<br /><br />"Ridiculous. You want to relegate my history to a month? What do you do with yours? Which month is white history month? Come on. Tell me."<br /><br />"Well...uh...heh heh...I'm Jewish."<br /><br />"Okay, which month is Jewish history month?"<br /><br />"There isn't one."<br /><br />"Oh, Oh. Why not? Would you want one?"<br /><br />"No."<br /><br />"Why not? I don't either. I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history."<br /><br />"How are we going to get rid of racism?" <br /><br />"Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man, and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace, you know me as Morgan Freeman."<br /><br />That reason and logic disappears with his race-based support of Dear Leader.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16892551860593187175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-80179764454152906122012-02-23T16:20:55.716-05:002012-02-23T16:20:55.716-05:00It is sad to see the shallow convictions of Morgan...It is sad to see the shallow convictions of Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. Jackson. Racism is unbecoming in these fine actors. Unfortunately, they said it unbidden. To them, it was and probably still is far more important that Obama is black than anything else. They must think that they have earned enough money.Joel Farnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856960977033430002noreply@blogger.com