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Shade, I don’t see the slightest bit of lapdog in Larry Elder. He’s more of a Rottweiler. As a matter of fact, he seems to be the sort of self-confident independent thinker who would bite the head off any man, black or white, who would presume to treat him like a lapdog.

I have no idea how his audience breaks down over racial lines, nor is that any more important to me than any other sort of racial pigeonholing, all of which is negative. But I do know, from listening, that a great many blacks call the show, some to agree and some to disagree.

The thing I take away from Larry Elder’s show is that he bases his talking points upon conservative principle. His criticism of people is based upon behavior, not race. There really is a huge difference there. Have you heard him lay into people like Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer? Blood on the floor. He’s quite merciless toward all liberals.

Bottom line; white liberals are offended by Larry Elder as much as black liberals are. And if liberals in general are offended, then he’s doing something right.

He shows positives and negatives. He gives a good view into D.C. life.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680.html

Most Blacks don’t have an allegiance to the NAACP.

The NAACP membership has been stagnent and will shrink as the older members pass on. This is why the NAACP keeps making it a priority to get younger members, but it isn’t working. This is well known within the NAACP and outside of the NAACP. Black media pundits, those normally referred to as liberal, when writing about the problems of the NAACP, normally bring up this point. They also, normally, bring up that most Blacks think the NAACP is irrelevant. However, NAACP critics fail to mention these things, even though it is easy to find out about.

The question, then, is why?

This is going back a few decades, but do you remember Richard Pryor’s caustically defined “Black community Leader” in the movie “Car Wash”? If I remember right, he was driven around sitting on a throne. Might have even been a “Reverend”.

*Sigh*

That wasn’t a nit pick. I don’t listen to his show, so I didn’t want to claim something I don’t know about.

The day black liberals, including yourself, paint an accurate picture about what’s going on in the “Black community” is the day I’ll shut down this blog.

Well, one, I’ve said that liberals don’t paint the accurate picture of the Black community.

No need to shut things down, but since you put me out there, how about a “series” I did?

http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/003249.html
http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/003250.html
http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/003251.html
http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/003256.html
http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/003260.html
http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/003267.html

If anyone takes the time, they will get a snapshot of the life of DS and of the Black community. You will see positive and negatives, and that’s all I ask for when the Black community is being portrayed. The shine and the stain.

People like you put people like Elder and me on a higher standard.

Actually, I don’t do that at all.
Here’s a letter to the NAACP:
http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/003095.html
Here’s a leter to Project 21:
http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/003094.html

Our accounts of what’s going on in the “Black community” are inaccurate,

Sometimes inaccurate, sometimes incomplete, sometimes accurate.

while black Dems and other libs have got their collective finger on the pulse of the community with their grievance-hopping, right?

No, not right at all. And, I’ve written that many times on your very blog.

Where are they hiding this place, and why don’t they want me there?

The day black liberals, including yourself, paint an accurate picture about what’s going on in the “Black community” is the day I’ll shut down this blog. People like you put people like Elder and me on a higher standard. Our accounts of what’s going on in the “Black community” are inaccurate, while black Dems and other libs have got their collective finger on the pulse of the community with their grievance-hopping, right?

Thanks for reading and commenting at LBC, DS. My ignorance is equal only to your “wisdom.”

If Elder is going to point out name calling of Black liberals against Black conservatives, he should note, for clarity, name calling of Black liberals against Black liberals. Yet he doesn’t. He makes it appear as if it’s only the Black liberals against the Black conservatives. The instances of name calling I gave made national news.

because I rarely listen to his show,

That came from his writings not his talk show.

And Elder doesn’t have to write or talk about blacks Dems calling other black Dems sell-outs to be credible.

Here is my point. If he’s only showing that side, then it’s not an accurate picture of what is going on in the Black community. That’s a point that he, and other public Black conservatives, make about Black liberals and the liberal media. They don’t present an accurate picture of what is going on in the Black community.

So, why not judge him by the standards that he is judging others?

Larry Elder is not presenting the entire story, something that he likes to point out about Black liberals. [Deleted - Libel people on your own site, DS. - Admin]

By his writings, he gives the impression that most Blacks believe racism is the major problem in the Black community, yet there is no study to back this up. While there are studies saying that racism is a problem, there are none saying it is the major problem. In fact, I’ve read one that places education, crime, employment and finances as being problems most Blacks are worried about.

When Elder was writing about “hate crimes”, he was using information from Jared Taylor. He failed to mention that Taylor is a white supremist who believes in Blacks being biologically inferior to whites and genetically proned to violence. Elder also failed to note that Taylor’s crunching of the numbers started out by stating the number of hate crimes across all boundaries and then went to hate crimes of Blacks against whites and the reverse, but then concluded by using a statistical slight of hand by stating that all crimes that Blacks commit against whites are hate crimes.

In the first chapter of Elder’s book, “Ten Things You Can’t Say”, uses a rhetorical device that, essentially, causes the reader to judge all Blacks by the criminality of the minority of Blacks. On a local talk show, the host had Elder on his program. The host, who was giving a glowing review of the book, had to agree with my point when I called in and brought it up. Elder was livid at “the caller’s interpretation” but the conservative host stated that he read it the same way.

Of all of the articles that I’ve read written by Elder, close to none have gone into any detail about Blacks who are achieving or Black individuals or groups that are doing positive things in the Black community. If you read his commentary, what you get from his writings is that most Blacks complain about racism and are not doing anything else.

And here’s the kicker. Elder was defended against local groups who wanted him off of the air. Elder stood by and said nothing when Mfume had a chance at a national show. Mfume’s show was cut off at the knees, but Elder was given a talk show. It failed after one year and now he has “Moral Court”.

But before the chance for a national show, Mfume had a local Baltimore show, where he brought up problems and solutions to those problems. These solutions WERE NOT government based. GASP!

And has Elder EVER written about the Black Dems who call other Black Dems sellout? No, of course not, because that wouldn’t fit into his victimology role.

“Black liberals” have called Mfume and the NAACP sellouts and/or “bouggie Negroes”.

How about the name calling against Black Dem. Corey Booker in New Jersey when he ran against Black Dem. Sharp James? Did Elder write about that?

No?

Goodness, Booker was called a sellout and said to not “be Black” but did Elder mention that?

No?

Why not?

Could it be that he just wants “Black conservatives” to wear the victim crown?

Corey Booker, Kweisi Mfume…what? Again, you rattle off a jumble of disjointed facts to make a confusing point. I don’t know anything about Elder quoting crime stats, etc., because I rarely listen to his show, but I have a feeling your side of the story is probably missing some facts, too. We’re all biased, DS, including you. And Elder doesn’t have to write or talk about blacks Dems calling other black Dems sell-outs to be credible. I get it, OK? You don’t like Elder. But leave the defamation at Vision Circle. – Admin