I’m up to my eyeballs in work, but I wanted to post a couple of quick links this early morning.
First, NPR’s Juan Williams, author of Enough, is still catching it for his “conservative” views, if this op-ed (free reg. req.) is any indication.
In “The Hard Facts of Black America,” he lays out…hard facts. For the privilege, he’s called a turncoat, Uncle Tom, traitor — the usual stuff you’d hear from unimaginative, narrow-minded, limited black folks.
Quoting the 70 percent illegitimacy rate statistic, drop-out rate, poverty rate, prison rate, criminal culture, etc., doesn’t play too well with leftist blacks because of the “dirty laundry” stigma. There’s no stigma against getting knocked up or having served time in prison, but if you talk about how much of it goes on in the black community in front of white people, ostracism and insults, baby.
I’ve learned in my four years of blogging and writing that to name a thing is worse than being the thing. Haven’t figured out how that works yet…
Well, what is the brother doing besides talking and writing about it? What is he doing for his community?, ask the critics.
Talking and writing about these things, pushing them into the public debate, and encouraging people to discuss the issues, think critically, and solve their own problems is a worthy public service, in the opinion of this blogger. Check out my review of his book.
In other news, “Why the left fears free speech on campus,” written by David French, defender of academic freedom, is another must-read for the day.
Last week I wrote about raging white leftist idiots at Columbia University in “Rude and Intolerant Liberals at Columbia University.” They stormed the stage in “protest” against members of the Minuteman Project, a group of patriots willing to do what the federal government, including the Bush administration, won’t do: protect our freakin’ borders.
I read that Jim Gilchrist’s glasses were knocked off and broken, among other things, and someone (or more than one) called black Minuteman Marvin Stewart a “nigger.” He’s suing the university. The video is at YouTube. Hat tip: Independent Conservative, who has more video.
French says this about campus leftists:
The protesters hide behind tactics of the ’60s to lash out helplessly at a culture that seems (to them) to be inexorably moving right. With every branch of government in conservative hands, with the rise of conservative media and with the increasing influence of religious conservatives, the radical left feels under siege. To make matters worse, the conservative movement is now taking aim at the left’s last cultural bastion – the nation’s colleges and universities – in an effort to reopen the marketplace of ideas on campus.
In the ’60s, the excesses of campus radicals eventually led to a cultural backlash that ushered in the Reagan era. These same excesses committed in an era of blogs, YouTube downloads and talk radio lead to a much more immediate response. So, rather than reveling in last week’s momentary triumph, Columbia’s leftist radicals find themselves on the defensive, blaming others for the violence and begging the administration not to search the Internet for clues about the protesters’ identities.
I hope the idiot-students and the school remain on the defensive and are forced to account for their uncivilized behavior. Bored white fools at Columbia University have nothing to hang on to in their empty, godless lives, so they fill the void with outdated, irrelevant rants about racism, attack the people trying to defend their freedom to rant, and call a black patriot a nigger because he refuses to think and act the way they believe he should.
I’d love to see Stewart face to face on the street with one of those snotty kids. The words loose bowels and soiled underwear come to mind…
Update: Mychal Massie on the folly and tragedy of Section 8.
