Awww, look at this – Newsweek has actually retracted their “Amerikan fascists flushing Korans down toilets trigger floods across length and breadth of Cuba, countless Muslim prisoners drown” story:

Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a …

For instance, I’ve written about the faulty reasoning and bogus psychological tests that the Court relied on in Brown v. Board of Education. If you check “My Writings,” you’ll find two columns that discuss the case. In one, I make the point that people self-segregate ALL the time. It matters NOT whether white people like me or want to hang out with me or think I’m one of the inferior dregs of society. If they choose to segregate themselves from me SOCIALLY, that’s their right, and vice versa. I agree with Connerly’s statement wholeheartedly, and if you check your list of friends, I’m certain it’ll be obvious that you do some self-segregating of your own. The GOVERNMENT segregating citizens based on race is a whole other matter. But they do so all the time with set-asides and separate tracks for college admissions. Complain about THAT kind of segregation, and you get called a racist.

About the IQ thing, the fact is that blacks, on average, test one standard deviation (15 points) below whites. On average, Asians test higher than whites. Now you can argue about the validity or usefulness of the tests, but you can’t blame someone for reporting FACTS. Cobra, whether you acknowledge it or not, there IS a skills gap between blacks and whites, particular in schools, but no one likes to talk about it. The white people who have the courage to do it are called “conservative racists.” What the so-called gap reveals about adult bloggers is beyond the scope of my blog and of little interest to me. Popularity can be relative. One man’s success is another man’s failure.

I have also quoted CoCC on this blog and defended it against charges of racism in the context of Hispanic groups like La Raza and that dinosaur we all know and mock, the NAACP. Check it out: http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/11/29/topcop/

I’m glad you support my success in the blogosphere. It’s more than I can say for most black liberals. But you miss the irony of your own statement about people not believing it’s possible. What black people need to do is defy the odds and negative stereotypes and CREATE something instead of EXPECTING something in this country. I’ve worked HARD to build up my readership, blogging day in and day out. NOBODY — black or white — gets the credit for that but ME. We’ve got to dump the “you owe me” mentality, Cobra, or another generation will emerge with their hands out, feeling entitled to something because they’re black. I wan’t NO part of that.

To expect anything less of blacks is REAL racism. It makes whatever “racist” study or article you cite pale in comparison.

Lashawn writes:

“Any policy that even HINTS that I belong in a special category, separate from competition with whites because I’m black, is vomit-inducing. Implicit is such nonsense is my “inferiority.” ”

Now, I hope you’re sitting down right now…because I’m going to AGREE WITH YOUR STATEMENT…to a degree. Given a choice between YOUR statement above, and Ward Connerly’s, I’d take yours in a heartbeat.

Yes, I would certainly take issue with a group or individual that would call both you and I “inferior” because we’re African American. That’s one of the reasons why I’m a LIBERAL. There are any NUMBER of conservative individuals and organizations that should certainly “induce you to vomit:

Take the white conservative-think tank sponsored Charles Murray of “The Bell Curve” fame, who believes that blacks, on average, are only 85% as intelligent as whites.
http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript129.html
Take Heather MacDonald of the conservative Manhattan Institute, and her rationale for the lack of black bloggers. She explains why you have a problem blogging, LaShawn.

>>>As for minorities, the skills gap in reading and writing means that, at the moment, a lower percentage of blacks and Hispanics possess the verbal acumen to produce a cutting-edge blog.”

http://nationalreview.com/comment/mac_donald200503300758.asp

Do I have to post up quotes from:
The Council of Conservative Citizens?
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=360
Or from the myriad of websites that tout racial superiority and eugenics?
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=240

Let me further establish, that even though I rarely agree with you, I SUPPORT your success in the blogosphere, and all of your endeavors because I realize there are those who still don’t believe it’s possible.

–Cobra

Couple that with the fact that Prop 209 used “bait and switch language.”

>>>But the ultimate trick came with Proposition 209, audaciously known as, “the California Civil Rights Initiative,” which banned the use of race or sex as a criterion for “either discrimination against or granting preferential treatment to” anyone doing business with the state. Prop 209 spokesperson, Ward Connerly, is as duplicitous as the language—having once served as a paid lobbyist for the construction and roofing industry — the same group that provided a vocal rearguard in recent Supreme Court affirmative action cases.
When the Harris Poll surveyed Californians, 81 percent supported the referendum. But when asked if they would still support the measure if it would “outlaw all affirmative action programs for women and minorities”– that support fizzled to 29 percent, and opposition climbed from 11 percent to 58 percent. Simply put when the voters understand these mean-spirited ideas, they reject them. The citizens of Houston did not buy this verbal sleight of hand either, and refused to accept a similar initiative, when worded properly, even though they’re Southerners, and like California, in a highly populated state.”
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/pking.html

So the fix was in. A lobbyist for white contractors (Connerly) came up with a cleverly worded scheme to eliminate non-white competition for his former bosses. If you doubt Connerly’s motivation for these adventures, simply follow the money…
http://www.mediatransparency.org/people/ward_connerly.htm

And just as an aside, what exactly was so GOOD about Proposition 54?

–Cobra

Regardless of what you think of Ward Connerly personally, so-called affirmative action itself is nothing more than bar-lowering, skin color preferences/race discrimination, which, on its face, is repugnant to me as a black person. (I doubt the veracity of the claims made by your left-leaning sources. A liberal editor I had the displeasure of working with made a similar claim about Connerly. I’d read and reviewed his book couldn’t believe he’d done what the editor accused him of. I contacted him, and he set the record straight. The false accusation stemmed from a San Francisco Examiner article that contained an error, which was later corrected.)

Both sides can frame an issue in the most favorable light, but in this case, skin preferences are just plain demeaning. Any policy that even HINTS that I belong in a special category, separate from competition with whites because I’m black, is vomit-inducing. Implicit is such nonsense is my “inferiority.” Government set-asides are now so ingrained in our minds, some blacks actually accept them as a preverse compliment, entitlements handed to us on a stinking garbage can lid as though it were a gift. That other blacks actually support such dignity-robbing policies is a frustration I will take to my grave. – Admin

Yup, I can’t wait to get back on the plantation and put those blacks back where they belong. I can whistle me some more dixie and them folks can pick some more cotton.

I’m sure that’s the goal of all of us “revisionist righties”

So I won’t.

–Cobra

It’s almost like plantation imagery: The benevolent White master who is so generous with the Black slaves. —The oh-so-sympathetic White College Admissions/Regents who freely admit the throngs of ill-prepared minorities.

I think we should start doing affirmative action and diversity at the Administrative/Admissions level.

OFF TOPIC: Sorry, but I’m absolutely livid over the comments Vincente Fox made about how….. “Mexicans do the jobs even Blacks would not do”. He’s angry about USA Migrant Policy. Yeah, well I’m angry too. Where does he get off talking about what Blacks would or wouldn’t do? Very presumptuous and arrogant. Plenty of Blacks work unglamorous minimum wage jobs, or would like to— but for the fact that they don’t speak Spanish! If these jobs are so horrible, and exploiting……I’d think Fox would be relieved.

That was my experience too Kahuffman. It is all about your parents expectations and the money to
back them up.

http://www.beaufortgazette.com/24hour/nation/story/2392798p-10658593c.html

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