12:15 p.m. PT: Remember Margaret Seltzer, aka Margaret Jones, the woman who wrote a memoir about being a half white, half Indian child growing up in a foster home in South Central Los Angeles and joining a gang?
You may recall that she was exposed as a liar. She’s not half Indian, didn’t grow up in a foster home, and wasn’t a gang member. See Crips, Bloods, and Rats for background.
In a video recorded before she was exposed, she explains what her “life” was like. Margaret Seltzer has serious fantasy want-to-be-down issues. Homies. I still can’t get over that. I haven’t heard anybody talk like that in years. Anyway, watch and listen as Seltzer makes up stuff. With a straight face:
Am I the only one who thinks this Spitzer prostitute scandal is hilarious? I mean, a governor, former attorney general, and prosecutor, for crying out loud. Did he expect to get away with it forever? What was he thinking? Ah, there’s the rub. His brains had shifted to his…
Yeah, Spitzer’s a fallible human being like the rest of us, but come on!
Friday, January 11: Blogger Stacy Harp is having a contest to give away an Archaeological Study Bible. Check it out.
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I don’t know how to tag this post. Lunacy? Comedy? Faith? Judiciary? A group of Christian parents in South Iron School District near St. Louis, Missouri, sued to stop the Gideons from distributing Bibles in classrooms. Why would Christians want to get in bed with the ACLU? Yuck.
According to an ACLU lawyer, the parents “believe religious beliefs should be taught in the home, not school.”
Once upon a homogenous time in America, that statement would have been utter nonsense. In a town where everyone was “Christian,” whether or not they actually were saved or even attended church, Christianity was more than a faith. It was a way of life. (On a grander scale, it’s the foundation of Western Civilization.) While parents understood it was their job to raise their children in the faith and teach them good morals and values, these morals and values were reiterated in the classroom.
Imagine this scenario: a child is boasting in class about his A+ paper and making fun of a classmate who received a C+, and the teacher gently reminds him of the pastor’s sermon on humility the previous Sunday. I’m sure this has happened countless times in various ways in the history of public schools in small towns across America. I should know. I grew up in one of those towns.
The time I spent worrying about my segment on “The Daily Show” (filmed last month) was wasted. Yeah, I sound a little silly (hated my voice, liked my hair, but my face looked fat – this photo I like…but not because of the way I look…OK, moving on), and the editor sliced and diced sound bites. But overall, it’s much better than I expected. (And my expectations were quite low.) Whew!
Wednesday, September 19: Want to know what I actually said on “The Daily Show”? Follow this link.
Friday, August 24 (12:50 p.m.): I had fun yesterday. Once I realized it was completely unserious, I played along and had fun with it. No regrets. I won’t be on stage with Jon Stewart (unfortunately), but I’ll appear in a segment with a “field” correspondent. Details later. I must catch up on work that pays the bills.
It is so funny to hear liberals complaining about the lack of skin color-only diversity at their own gatherings. (Lord knows they complain enough about other groups’ events.)
The Washington Post has a write-up about the predominance of middle-aged white men at Yearly Kos, a convention held this past weekend for liberal (political only?) bloggers.
By the way, the title of the article is, “A Diversity of Opinion, if Not Opinionators.” It should read, “A Diversity of Opinionators, if Not Opinions.” Different skin colors, not opinions, is the kind of diversity liberals obsess over.
I think the whole chasing-diversity thing is a bit ridiculous…but…since white liberals — not white conservatives, thank goodness — are the ones preaching it to the rest of us, I find them hypocritical and the situation ironic (and funny) when they end up with lily white conferences.
Look, I’m used to being either the only black or one of a few blacks at conservative and/or Christian bloggers conferences. Wish it were different, but I’m not complaining too loudly. I like going to events to meet like-minded people, regardless of color. I like being around the kind of whites who aren’t nervous about the “lack of diversity” at a particular conference or constantly asking me about “black” issues.
Ousted former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who punched a Capitol Hill police office last year when he tried to stop her from strolling through a checkpoint because he didn’t recognize her, is suing liberal columnist Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s parent company, the managing editor, and the publisher.
McKinney says Tucker libeled her by trying to “spin this incident into a felony by falsely alleging that [she] assaulted the officer with a weapon.” (Source)
McKinney claims that contrary to what Tucker wrote, she didn’t “slug” the officer with her cell phone. With a “closed fist,” perhaps? What a waste of money, time, and energy. The lawyers are getting rich and the broad continues to make a fool of herself.
Just goes to show you that liberal types have issues with each other, too…
The “Chicano” comedian George Lopez is being excoriated in the comment section of this story. After a five-year run, his series, “The George Lopez Show,” was canceled.
He said, “TV just became really, really white again.”
Hardy-har-har! That’s funny stuff, man. (Imagine a white basketball player released from a team saying, “The NBA just became really, really black again.”) Instead of being grateful that his show made it to TV in the first place and survived for five years — and he made a ton of money — Lopez plays that tired, worn, dingy old race card. He wasn’t explicit, but he gets the point across. From the story:
Lopez said he attributed the cancellation in part to the fact that the show is produced by Warner Bros. Television, and not ABC Television Studios. Using some colorful language that cannot be printed in a family newspaper, Lopez scoffed in particular at another ABC pickup: “Cavemen,” about two brothers and one best friend, described as sophisticated cave dudes living in modern-day Atlanta, who will continually find themselves at odds with contemporary society.
“I get kicked out for a…caveman and shows that I out-performed because I’m not owned by [ABC Television Studios]…So a…Chicano can’t be on TV but a…caveman can?” Lopez said. “And a Chicano with an audience already? You know when you get in this that shows do not last forever, but this was an important show and to go unceremoniously like this hurts. One hundred seventy people lost their jobs.”
It’s sad that certain people just can’t see past their own skin color. As a commenter on the story noted, while some minorities blame racism for a show’s cancellation, who or what is to “blame” for their shows getting picked up in the first place? Do minorities take all the credit for the good things but blame others for the bad?
I mean, separating prisoners by race? Doesn’t that violate a clause about treating people equally without regard to race, or some such?
In cotton-comes-to-Harlem fashion, the California-style black-hispanic race war isn’t confined to California. It’s occurring wherever there are significant enough numbers of blacks and hispanics fighting over scraps, which, incidentally, neither group even owns.
The Washington Post found out about an internal memo at the Prince George’s County Detention Center calling for segregation of blacks and hispanics during recreation. (Play nicely, boys!) There’s also an “unofficial” policy of assigning prisoners to cells based on race.
Referring to the practice as “jailhouse law,” a supervisor at the prison said, “It’s nothing written, but you try to keep the calm.” (The article states that blacks and hispanics in the PG prison “found themselves in conflict over relatively minor issues.” That’s PC euphemism for “fighting over stupid sh**.” )
If you recall, the government once mandated separation of black and white prisoners. That, as well as separating black and white children in government schools, was declared unconstitutional. Should prison safety override the Constitution and ignore decades of blood, sweat, and tears spilled to dismantle government-mandated racial segregation? If black and hispanic prisoners are at each others throats and segregating them during recreation time eases some of the tension, what’s the harm?
Update IV (3/5 @ 8:15 p.m.): I typically avoid tits-for-tats, but since I blogged about this, I’d better follow through.
A liberal blogger at The Horse’s Mouth blogged what he no doubt considers a “Gotcha” post. He writes:
As you can see, this clip makes it sound like Hillary is adopting not just this drawl, but this language and this down-home grammar, as her own. The righties have been waving this around to prove what a phony Hillary is. This audio was promoted by, among others, PowerlineBlog, Free Republic, Instapundit, and Fox News, which linked to it under the headline, “Will the real Hillary please speak up?”
But as always, a simple fact-check shows this latest wingnut preoccupation to be highly dishonest. The audio clip Drudge linked to cherry-picked that quote and removed it completely from its context, which would have shown that Hillary wasn’t adopting this accent or grammar or language as her own at all.
Rather, it turns out that Hillary was actually quoting the hymn lyrics of someone else – while clearly and very openly imitating (not very well, it turns out) the cadences she thought the lyrics would traditionally have been delivered in. There was nothing phony about it at all.
The emphasis is his own. That’s the “Gotcha!” quote. That’s not a revelation. I noted earlier that Hillary was quoting from a song that used to be sung quite a lot in black churches, “I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired.” The blogger at The Horse’s Mouth apparently just discovered this fact. Unlike him, I didn’t need to do a Google search on it…or however he found out.
According to the blogger, right wing bloggers were wrong to call out Hillary because she was simply quoting a song “while clearly and very openly imitating…the cadences she thought the lyrics would traditionally have been delivered in.” BS. I said Hillary was a condescending phony this morning, and she’s still a condescending phony.
I grew up in a black church and visited numerous black churches all my life, and I’ve never heard a choir sing that song the way Hillary drawled it. However, whether she was quoting a song or not, it doesn’t change the fact that she sounded like a pandering idiot. I listened to more audio at Hot Air, where she’s not quoting the song but still affecting a bad southern accent. This is how I responded to the post on the liberal blog (pardon the spelling and grammar errors):
Update (2/8): This morning I contacted columnist Vincent Carroll to find out if Cherry Creek intended the statements in the training material to be examples of what not to think about white people. His reply: “No, the district definitely was NOT suggesting that those were things we should not believe about white people. ”
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…in Greenwood Village, Colorado. According to Rocky Mountain News columnist Vincent Carroll, the following was found among skin color deep-only diversity seminar material:
‘Most white people most of the time” share the belief that “bland is best” when it comes to aesthetics.
They believe that “wealth equals worth” and that a wife is “subordinate to (her) husband.”
In communicating, white people “don’t show emotion” and “avoid conflict, intimacy.”
They share an ethic of “win at all costs” and possess a “master and control nature.”
Cherry Creek School District apparently cirulated this drivel to area schools as part of “diversity” training. The school district is using stereotypes to teach teachers about diversity. Hmm…I don’t think I’m intelligent enough to grasp that. Am I allowed to question the intelligence of these bureaucrats? Or would that be too judgmental?
It’s not that big a deal really (he probably meant clean as in scandal-free), but unfortunately, people (bloggers?) will jump all over it. Some blacks will be offended because Biden’s statement implies that “articulate” and “clean” (hygienically speaking) blacks are unusual.
Obama has been all over the press. Mainstream media have got him running for the presidency in 2008, and he’s the great black hope of white liberals everywhere. Last year — and in 2004 when he ran for the U.S. Senate — I speculated that white folks were fawning over Obama because he was one of those articulate Negroes. His publicist is also responsible for the hype, I’m sure. Obama recently wrote a second book about his life. If I had the money, I’d hire his publicist.
Update: Good news about black folks! The man’s a hero. That was a totally selfless act.
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Warning: Rant below.
This post is categorized under “Comedy” not because violence is a laughing matter. I just find it humorous that so-called civil rights groups and various race hustling camera-hogs are transparently absent and deafeningly silent about hispanic-on-black crime in California.
Two weeks ago, Lovett’s 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl Green, was standing with a group of friends on Harvard Boulevard, just south of 206th Street, when two men approached them in broad daylight. Without saying a word, one suspect pulled a gun and opened fire, killing Green and wounding three others, witnesses and police said.
Ernesto Alcarez, 20, was later arrested and charged with first-degree murder and a hate crime because the Dec. 15 shooting is believed to have been racially motivated. The other suspect, Jonathan Fajardo, 18, is still at large. Both are members of the 204th Street gang, authorities say.
Such a brazen act of violence has highlighted the racial tensions that have held this working-class neighborhood in a state of fear for years, residents and city officials said.
Where are the “African American” summits and protests and loud calls for an end to the violence? As I wrote yesterday in “Selective Outrage Over Black Crime Victims,” such protesting and shouting is not profitable or satisfying. Rage against perceived slights by whites commands a lot more time and energy in the black community.
When Jayson Blair, former New York Times journalist, was exposed as a plagiarist and fabricator, he had the excuses ready.
First, he blamed affirmative action. Then he blamed a so-called bipolar disorder, writing this about himself on his web site: “Jayson Blair was a reporter at The New York Times until an untreated and undiagnosised illness, known as manic depression, brought his career down.”
Got that? His illness “brought down his career.”
Despite Blair’s history of fakery and excuse-making, the powers that be at a magazine about bipolar disorders has decided to publish a first-person account of his experiences, according to the Boston Herald. Says the editor about the article, “It went through a very rigorous editing process. We just have a very rigorous editing process and a great deal of fact checking.”
Not that I really care what former football player Michael Irvin said, but apparently he’s going to get away with what would get a white man fired and/or ostracized.
Normally, this would be a compliment (for blacks), would it not? I mean, how many among us don’t believe blacks are genetically superior athletes? I believe they are, and I also believe that physical abilities aren’t the only abilities heavily influenced by genetics. Mental abilities…well, I won’t go there today.
That’s not to say that Romo has some “black” in him or that whites aren’t good athletes. But generally speaking, blacks just do certain things better, like sprinting, for instance.
In his own ineloquent way, Irvin expressed what most people know but don’t talk about in public. I don’t think he should be fired or made to apologize, but I’d be remiss on this Monday morning if I didn’t point out the dirty double standards.
You may recall that Rush Limbaugh was fired from his sportscasting gig for implying that Donovan McNabb, black quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, was hyped up as a great quarterback because he was black.
…as the old folks used to say.
The time I spent worrying about my segment on 
Ousted former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who punched a Capitol Hill police office last year when he tried to stop her from strolling through a checkpoint because he didn’t recognize her, is suing liberal columnist Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s parent company, the managing editor, and the publisher. 
McKinney claims that contrary to what Tucker wrote, she didn’t “slug” the officer with her cell phone. With a “closed fist,” perhaps? What a waste of money, time, and energy. The lawyers are getting rich and the broad continues to make a fool of herself. 
Update: Good news about black folks! 
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Not that I really care what former football player Michael Irvin said, but apparently he’s going to get away with what would get a white man fired and/or ostracized.
Normally, this would be a compliment (for blacks), would it not? I mean, how many among us don’t believe blacks are genetically superior athletes? I believe they are, and I also believe that physical abilities aren’t the only abilities heavily influenced by genetics. Mental abilities…well, I won’t go there today. 