May 2006

Twice As Hard

by La Shawn on 05.31.06

in Liberals

Earl Ofari HutchinsonI’m old enough to remember when older blacks used to tell younger ones that they’d have to work twice as hard as whites to get somewhere in life. There was no bitterness in the comment. The older people had lived through Jim Crow and knew what second-class treatment was like. Their own government codified racial discrimination, and the laws were definitely carried out.

Blacks once relegated to the back of the bus knew that even though laws were dismantled, bigotry and a sense of superiority would never go away. Working “twice as hard” wasn’t just a symbolic gesture to convince whites that blacks were worthy of full citizenship. It was and still is a necessary work ethic in a society where blacks had been subjugated for two centuries. Call it a game of catch-up or making up for lost time.

William JeffersonIf you saw the dreadful movie “Soul Man,” you’ll recall that C. Thomas Howell’s character (disguised as a black man so he could attend Harvard on scholarship) failed to turn in an assignment because he’d spent the night in jail. His black law professor, played by James Earl Jones, didn’t accept the excuse, saying something like, “If you have to work twice as hard as these little white sh***, you damn well better work twice as hard.”

The line wasn’t at all shocking to me. It was a fact of life. To blacks younger than I am, however, it’s probably cringe-worthy or offensive.

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Not Very ‘Christian’ Of Me…

by La Shawn on 05.30.06

in General

…but I’ll say it anyway:

May they all burn in hell.

Speaking of Christian (bad segue), come one, come all, to the second annual God Blog Conference, August 3-5 at Biola University in La Mirada, CA.

Update V (6/5): Steve at Pardon My English says FOX News reported a pending ethics complaint against DA Mike Nifong. (Warning: Some of the comments are vulgar.)

Update IV (6/2): I appreciate the links you’re sending, new/first-time readers, but I’ve been blogging about this case since April 10. I’ve covered almost everything that’s been reported. The links you’re sending are “old” news articles and info I blogged about weeks ago. Check out the Duke Rape Case category to read link- and opinion-rich posts from the last two months. Thanks for reading! :)

By the way, here’s new info: Duke’s lacrosse team will be reinstated next week.

Update III (6/1): An indicted player’s father e-mailed and thanked me for having the courage to blog about this case. As long as the sham case continues, I’ll be on hand to balance the coverage.

Update II (5/31): I don’t know how I missed this op-ed. David Brooks, a former conservative who became a liberal (don’t ask me how!) [confused him with David Brock. Sorry for calling you a liberal, Mr. Brooks!], says the Duke lacrosse team has been unfairly vilified and recognizes the obvious class envy fueling the vilification.

Covetousness is so unattractive, people. God says it’s bad, too.

Brooks writes (registration required – bypass with BugMeNot):

But now that we know more about the Duke University lacrosse team, simple decency requires that we return to that scandal, if only to correct the slurs that were uttered by millions of people, including me.

We know now that the Duke lacrosse players are not the dumb jocks they were portrayed to be. The team has a 100 percent graduation rate. Over the past five years, 146 members of the team made the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll, twice as many as any other ACC lacrosse team. According to the faculty report written by law professor James E. Coleman and others – which stands out as the one carefully researched and intellectually honest piece of work in this whole mess – “The lacrosse team’s academic performance generally is one of the best among all Duke athletic teams.”

We also know that the lacrosse players are not the amoral goons of popular legend. The current and former black members of the team are “extremely positive” about the support they received. The coach of the women’s lacrosse team says relations between the men and women are respectful and supportive.

The members of the lacrosse team were male, mostly white and mostly members of the suburban bourgeois middle class. For many on the tenured left, bashing people like that is all that’s left of their once-great activism.

Many conservative, including me, said this from the very beginning. Bored white liberals and camera-hogging black “leaders” found something to keep them busy. Even before reading details about the rape allegation, however, I instinctively knew that three white boys at a party did not rape a black stripper. I just knew it. By now we know why Nifong pressed on with this dumb case although he had no evidence linking the players and the stripper.

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The Weakening West

by La Shawn on 05.28.06

in Cultural Decline

Update (5/30): Why would any proud, red-blooded American elect a man who thinks like this? We reap what we sow…

I know who I’ll be campaigning against for 2008.
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People don’t talk about it in “mixed” company, but it’s as sure and true as the Earth spinning on its axis.

Whites are responsible for their own diminished power in the world. The death knell was allowing empty, egalitarian, illogical, and counterintuitive government policies to flourish in an effort to absolve themselves of crimes committed against non-whites and assuage their guilt. However, decades of penance have been in vain. And suicidal. Every other ethnic group is allowed, without penalty, to think “racially,” except for those of European descent. To do so is morally criminal.

Although Whites have bent over backwards to make amends, and the West, especially the United States, pretends everyone is endowed with similar abilities and every idea equally valid, we all know it’s not true. Western values (though the author and I would disagree on what underpins these values), influenced by Christianity, are superior to all others, and denying it in favor of non-offending, logically unsustainable relativism has been to our detriment.

Hindsight in very insightful, but we can’t reverse time. Mistakes and misjudgments can’t be corrected. One day, long after those who read this blog are dead and buried, someone will write a definitive history of the collapse of the West. Those attempting to do so now don’t count. Distance and perspective are needed to write the story as it truly is and not as people presently living in this age want it to be.

This short post — written by someone conscious of his race and its place in the world — is worth reading. (Much worse than the Third World invasion from the south is the global spread of Islam, also destructive and anti-western.) I suspect many whites share his view, but rarely will you hear them express it publicly for fear of being branded xenophobic and racist.

Right or wrong, I also share his view. Unlike many “minorities,” I can see past the hype and get to the heart of the matter: Western values have benefited this black woman in ways I’ll probably never fully appreciate. That historical scar known as American slavery matters little to me in 2006, especially since I know black Africans were complicit in the slave trade. God gave me the ability to circumvent “victimology” and see an objective truth: American blacks are much better off in the U.S. than they are anywhere else on the planet.

As the West weakens, so do the hopes and dreams of all Americans, including the descendants of African slaves.

Addendum: If America’s elites want modern-day slave labor, they’ll get it. But middle- and working-class Americans, people George Bush cares about least, can do something, even if it’s symbolic.

(Via Michelle Malkin)

Memorial Day Reflections

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Republicans Are Funny

May 25, 2006

Let me tell you about human nature. If we’re not interested in something, we might think everyone else’s interest in it is funny. That’s the way I feel about the Dennis Hastert/William Jefferson blog swarm. Here’s the short version. Congressional crook and Democrat William Jefferson was caught on tape taking bribes from an undercover agent. [...]

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La Shawn Barber, Race Blogger

May 25, 2006

Why is this woman smiling? I’ve been on a roll with the racial stuff lately. One of my disgruntled detractors finds it disturbing that I always seem to end up “siding” with the race other than my own. Sometimes it’s incidental; other times deliberate. Others are upset that I seem to always blog about race. [...]

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Duke Rape Case: 1,300-Page Discovery Bolsters Defense

May 23, 2006

Monday, May 29: According to a liberal journalist, Duke’s women’s lacrosse team was “ignorant and insensitive” for supporting the lacrosse men. This post is closed, so feel free to comment here. Thursday, May 25: Tom Bevan responds to this article (which conveniently fails to mention black men’s complicity in perpetuating negative stereotypes about black women. [...]

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Lame Duck, Straw Men, and Cosmetics (Updated)

May 23, 2006

(These men are what you’d call “enemies” of George Bush. They are vehemently anti-amnesty and fiercely pro-enforcement. Actually, I’m only assuming Thomas Sowell [far left] is “fiercely” pro-enforcement. Next is Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist, “Rasta Republican” Ted Hayes, and Rep. Tom Tancredo, a man who should but will never be president of the United [...]

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Congratulations, Howard Dean!

May 22, 2006

This reminds me of that old saying about barn doors and horses… Update II (5:15 p.m.): DNC “strongly denies” placement of political operatives. Drudge says “well-placed DRUDGE REPORT sources” made the claim but takes the DNC at its word. It’s a retraction of sorts, but as I wrote, kudos to Dean if he supported Landrieu [...]

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California’s ‘Disadvantaged’ Business Advantage in Jeopardy

May 22, 2006

I wouldn’t want my business to be described as “disadvantaged” because I’m black or a woman. But according to the government, that’s exactly what it is. Disadvantaged means an unfavorable condition or circumstance. A disadvantaged business is one owned by a racial minority who’s been the victim of racial prejudice or cultural bias because of [...]

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Duke Rape Case Hearing

May 18, 2006

Sign up for a free 30-day trial (no pun intended) with Court TV Extra and watch the Duke rape case hearing at 2:30 p.m. EST. Then again, you may be able to watch it on Court TV without signing up for anything. Currently showing: the boring Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing for CIA chief [...]

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The Sad Fate of Lionel Tate

May 18, 2006

He killed a little girl when he was 12. Convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, Lionel Tate caught a break when an appeals court threw out the conviction. He got a new trial, plead guilty to second-degree murder, and received 10 years probation. A blessing, all things considered. Instead of doing [...]

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Calling All Legal Aliens

May 17, 2006

If you or someone you know is a legal alien or resident in the United States presently “in line” to become a citizen or in the process of naturalization, I’d like to hear from you. If you’re already a naturalized American citizen, I want to hear from you, too. E-mail me. All correspondence is confidential. [...]

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Morning Reading

May 17, 2006

Update II (5/18): Michelle Malkin’s doing what I don’t have the stomach to do: monitoring the Senate debate on what to do with illegal aliens. More at Hot Air. Yeah, throw us a bone, why don’t you? It’s a shame this was necessary, but there you go. Ann Coulter: “Press “1″ for English; press “2″ [...]

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