Cobra, I’m not your enemy. I don’t do things, purposely or not, to harm you. I realize that nothing I say will remove that huge chip from your shoulder, but I still have to tell you that you are wrong here. Just plain wrong.

Much “hypocrisy” lies in the ears of the beholder. Especially when the beholder weaves a semantic spider wed with words like: racist, friend, and justice.

One of the first rules of rhetoric is to base your claim with words that do not bear wide disagreement in their meaning.

One of the first ploys of the demagogue is to choose words that do bear wide disagreement in their meaning and to base his argument upon them.

>>>”And on the other side of that coin, if you aren’t aware of the fact that outspoken anti-racism conservatives who believe in the power of the individual (me, for one example) are your friends, you just haven’t been listening.”

“Outspoken anti-racism conservatives” shouldn’t be bending over backwards defending racist right winged talk show hosts, or attack policies designed to increase minority participation in education and employment, should they? I mean, “friends” don’t do things that purposely harm those they claim are “friends”, do they?

Just asking a question based upon observation of the posts to this blog, which generally imply that American history regarding white conservatives and their treatment of minorities didn’t really happen, and even if it did, it’s all the fault of minorities themselves and white liberals who fight for justice.

–Cobra

And on the other side of that coin, if you aren’t aware of the fact that outspoken anti-racism conservatives who believe in the power of the individual (me, for one example) are your friends, you just haven’t been listening.

>>>”In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Martin Luther King Jr

–Cobra

As always, your cogent and succinct observations on a variety of topics, as well as your unflinching willingness to take tough issues head-on, make your column a pleasure to read.

You’re spot-on when you say “Hillary has to settle for black folks. Drat. Can you imagine what would happen to the Democratic party, architect of Jim Crow, supporter of black genocide, if blacks suddenly became offended en masse by their politically expedient antics and start voting for Republicans?”

Things will change for the better when ordinary people (whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, et al) realize that much of what flows from Washington is nothing more than elitist claptrap designed to create division and dumb down the general population…it’s “called divide and rule.” An educated populace is the enemy of tyranny, and by destroying the world’s greatest mass education system, political elites have made it so much easier to shackle minds and inflame passions. Passions are easily engaged, and manipulated, when the mind that would otherwise control them has been deliberately stunted.

This is why liberals “rediscover” blacks every election season, and why they take so many actions whose only possible outcome is to keep them poor, undereducated, and living hopeless lives in crowded urban ghettoes. If they move up in society in proportion to the resources devoted to “helping” them over the past generation, then they’d just be 10% of the population, distributed across a continent-sized country, and voting conservative.

Hektor

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Before I’m implicated in the “lying Republican hypocrites used plantation analogy, too” meme, let me clear the air. I can’t speak for other conservatives, but I’ve used the plantation analogy before and will do so again because it’s appropriate. Whatever Hillary said to that black congregation, I couldn’t give a rat’s behind, unlike certain other conservatives. I just like making fun of vacuous, pandering white liberals.

The point is Hillary’s disgusting pandering, and how typical it is for white liberals to be false.

That’s because the folks you listed who used the phrase are all still on the GOP approved script.

–Cobra

Any objections then?
No?

Uhhh…. Ain’t that the definition of hypocrite?

Just so I don’t see my name on that list. Can’t speak for them, but I didn’t complain about the woman’s use of the word. She could’ve sung “Old Man River” for all I care. I’ve used the word and will use it again. – Admin

In honor of Hillary Clinton’s “Let my people go!” rant at a MLK event in New York, I believe that President Bush issue the following:

The Emancipation Proclamation- For House Democrats

Ho, hum. The analogy, no matter what the source is still super lame. What counts is the context: where, when and why was the stupid analogy posited.

But surely you would consider with Newt’s plantation statement he was pandering to some demographic. In Newt’s case the demographic in question would not be African American.