True dat!
I just sent them this comment (sorry for cut/pasting the quotes directly from your diary, but I guessed you wouldn't be TOO bothered by it). ________ To: CNN
In your article "Could an Obama presidency hurt black American?" you cited Steve Sailer's comment about white voters wanting to have voted for a black man for reasons of guilt. Here are some of his comments you didn't cite:
"[Blacks] tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society."
"the brutal truth: Obama is a 'wigger'. He's a remarkably exotic variety of the faux African-American, but a wigger nonetheless."
"Nor is it surprising that the black refugees at the Superdome and the convention center failed to get themselves organized to make conditions more livable. Poor black people seldom cooperate well with each other because they don't trust other blacks much, for the perfectly rational reason that they commit large numbers of crimes against each other."
Regarding Michelle Obama: "sounds like she's got a log-sized chip on her shoulder from lucking into Princeton due to affirmative action."
His comments have generally been well received...by the racist community.
Perhaps the author of this piece didn't know that Mr. Sailer is a bigot pretending to engage in an honest discourse about race in America. But he is. And as a major force in American journalism, using his comments as a source is unacceptable.
what boneheads to quote a guy like this.
I have black friends who call me 'wigga' all the time.
Is it supposed to be a racist slur? If so, then I'm going to have to start kicking some ass.
And I agree with the sentiment that if the AA's in this country acted more like Obama instead of blaming whitey for their troubles, many of the inner city problems would fade away. He's basically saying what Bill Cosby has been saying for years. Take responsibility, pull yourself up, better yourself. It's sound advice.
If many of you consider that racist, then I contend that YOU are the racists as you WANT THE BLACKS to stay down. I can think of no other explanation for being so PISSED OFF that someone (this guy, billcosby, obama) would suggest that blacks may be respobsible for many of the problems they blame on whitey (another racist term, btw, but no one here would care).
He DOES sound a bit on the edge, but he is no David Duke. He's just a pissed off white guy.
As far as the michelle comment, well hell, it was impolite, but objections to affirmative action are not racist in my view.
Well hell, I'm as non-wigga as I could be, then. I guess they do it to give me shit. It's usually when we're all sitting around stoned on a friday night.
Maybe next time I'll come dressed as M and M.
"blaming whitey"? Did L. Whitey Johnson start enforcing an age-limit or something?