Comments on: Bad news for the republic.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 21:03:39 +0000

You miss my point.

Real intelligent people–the kind worthy of doctorates–don’t think that way. And any black person who’d work for them gets no more respect from me than would the Jews for Jesus.

By: Dan McAfee

Dan McAfee — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:47:28 +0000

You miss my point on purpose.

Nobody cares if you criticize Thomas Sowell or the Heritage Foundation. But why don’t you criticize the white folk at the Heritage Foundation by saying, “Real White people don’t think that way.” or “Real White people don’t say those things.” You don’t because it’s not true and doesn’t get you anywhere.

But you find it perfectly OK to criticize a Black person in that manner. Why? Because it keeps all the other Blacks in their place. Even though it isn’t true that Thomas Sowell is an Uncle Tom, you use the argument that he is because race baiting works; it puts the fear of God into any other Black person who might speak in agreement.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:30:14 +0000

Well, I’d never hesitate to criticize the caucasians with doctorates at the Heritage Foundation. Or the blacks who would sell out their own and everybody else by working for them. That doesn’t make me a racist. It makes me a patriotic American.

By: Dan McAfee

Dan McAfee — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:03:56 +0000

It’s seems we agree. You’ll only let a Black person wander a certain distance from the plantation before the racial insults begin. You could disagree with Sowell’s ideas, cut them down with logic, instead you put him in his place. How many Caucasions with Doctorates do you cut down with the logic that ‘White people ought not think that way.’ No, because Whites are allowed to think any way they want & you have to deal with their ideas. A Black man can’t even be considered ‘thoughtful’ when he disagrees with you.

So who’s really shillin’ for the massa, the Black who votes Republican or the Black who votes Democratic?

Answer: Neither. Black Americans have no masters and can vote any way they damn well please, think any thing they damn well want.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:51:17 +0000

C’mon, Dan. I wouldn’t say the same of Clarence Page. But then he isn’t shilling so transparently for massa. He’s a genuine, thoughtful conservative�which is to say a moderate�since the conservative mantle has been so successfully coopted by radicals.

I’d rather live in my intellectual trailer park than your anti-intellectual country club, thank you.

By: Dan McAfee

Dan McAfee — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:33:58 +0000

It’s really rather breathtaking. The gall it takes to label Thomas Sowell an “Uncle Tom” because his viewpoint is conservative. I think I understand… some won’t put down their fifty cents for any thought that doesn’t agree with their perception of how the world should be. Everything they need to know is in the NYT. They live in an intellectual trailer park.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:30:22 +0000

Yes. It’s the perfect newspaper for a) reading before you’ve had coffee and b) keeping up with “Bennifer” gossip.

By: michael golden

michael golden — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:09:11 +0000

By the way, am I the only one who finds “USA Today” absolutely unreadable?

By: michael golden

michael golden — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:07:57 +0000

I like Molly Ivins. When I read her chronicles of the Texas Legislature I don’t feel so badly about the California Legislature.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:00:40 +0000

A few years ago in a checkout line at a supermarket in a part of Fort Wayne where many residents have made the first step away from the trailer park, I overheard an exchange between a woman and her man.

She asked him for fifty cents for a newspaper, and he responded, “You don’t need no goddamn newspaper! Everything you gotta know is on the TV!”

It’s a disconcerting recollection on election day.