Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Rush Limbaugh finds an apt quote by way of an interview that was clearly intended to offer a different message (hat tip to Bob Belvedere):
RUSH: A black tea party protester was featured last night on NBC’s Nightly News.
KELLY O’DONNELL: There aren’t a lot of African-American men at these events.
DARRYL POSTELL: Heh, heh, heh. Right.
O’DONNELL: Have you ever felt uncomfortable?
DARRYL POSTELL: No. No. These are my people!
O’DONNELL: (snickering)
DARRYL POSTELL: Americans.
RUSH: “These are my people: Americans.” A black tea partier, NBC Nightly News.
Whenever people ask me “What exactly is this Tea Party movement all about?” — enough time has passed that everyone’s heard an answer, and that’s the problem, more than one has been offered — I make a point of giving out a consistent response: They are concerned parents and grandparents.
I had an older relative, who has since gone on to his reward, who used to love to argue politics. But not really. The poor fellow was born at just the right time to suffer through the worst of the Great Depression, and to see his household get “saved” by means of the relatively easy employment of FDR’s alphabet soup agencies. And so the constraints of our “discussions” were well understood. You can talk about the security people enjoy because of a government program and you can talk about the awful things that may happen to them if the government program is not there. Just those two things. And then when I give the signal that I’m tired of discussing politics the whole thing comes to a stop.
The percentages of the future generations’ paychecks that would be disappearing into the rat-hole of foreign-held debt, never entered into it. The man loved his wife, loved his children, doted on his grandchildren. To leave his heirs in financial comfort, rather than misery, after his passing became a concern of his so intense, you could feel it rolling off him when you shared a room with him, and I developed a new respect for him during his last couple of years. His intellectual gifts were vast, and surely he had the wherewithal to comprehend he was only weighing one side of an equation that had more to it…and the ramifications were dire.
To this day, I still don’t understand it.
Tea Partiers are people who can see what he could not. Maybe they aren’t as well-traveled, or well-read, or compassionate, or even as bright.
But to me, they are people who managed to secure a comprehension of the problem that he never could quite grasp, and have taken the next logical step.
Now, on this other matter of calling someone else “my people,” crossing racial barriers as you do so. There are folks out there snickering at that notion? They find that funny, do they.
This is something I don’t understand, either. If the black Tea Party protester were to reach off the screen, pull a white lady into the frame and say “Oh and by the way, I would like you to meet my wife” — what would Kelly O’Donnell say to that. She’d chuckle? No, she’d make a point of taking it in stride, showing how open-minded she is about interracial marriage. This is called soft bigotry. Marrying, we’re going to go ahead and let people of your kind go ahead & do. Joining a Tea Party, nuh huh, that’s stepping off the plantation. You get a derisive chuckle. You get some special condemnation over & above what we’re tossing out at the white folks.
I’m told there still is some bigotry out there.
I’m told the Tea Parties are it; nobody’s going to ’em except a bunch of white folks.
The second of those two axioms, has bit the mat hard. It is yesterday’s propaganda drive. By now, most people realize whatever the Tea Party is, it isn’t a Klan rally and it’d be a pretty damned awkward one if it was, with participants of all colors walking around willy-nilly to-and-fro.
The first of those two? I’m going to have to go ahead and admit they were right. There is a lot of bigotry out there. Lots of bigotry. It just doesn’t look like what it used to look like. It looks like: “All black people are supposed to agree with me. If they don’t, I’ve got a special treatment for them, and it’s not the same way I treat white people who disagree with me.” Yes, it is definitely out there, in abundance, and it is a shame upon our modern culture.
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It looks like: “All black people are supposed to agree with me. If they don’t, I’ve got a special treatment for them, and it’s not the same way I treat white people who disagree with me.”
Isn’t this exactly the same sort of vitriol and bile which is also reserved for women, homosexuals, the disabled, Hispanics, or any other ‘protected class’ who, as you put it, “wanders off the plantation?” The media is especially guilty of this. They’re dumbfounded as to why members of any of those groups aren’t interested in standing around waiting for handouts from the government, or why they’re more interested in freedom than “equality” or “fairness” or “social justice.” What the hell is wrong with them, the media asks itself.
It must be the sole remaining advantage of being a white male: You don’t have people walking around telling you what your political views are “supposed” to be as-per your membership in some preassigned group.
- cylarz | 04/17/2010 @ 23:29