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...
Comment I left on this blogger guy’s blog, on an older post about the Jeremiah Wright flap that I think sums it all up.
I’m not going to get fancy and re-word things too much, because the wireless connection at this hotel sucks. Maybe re-edit things here if I feel like it.
This whole flap needs a brand new headline.
The real story is that there is an effort underway to tell people they should be horrified when & if, as you point out, “if they came from a Caucasian [the words] would brand him a racist.” And to further tell people that if the colors are reversed they should think nothing of it.
In short, to assess exactly how pliable people are.
Kind of reminds me of what Dilbert’s boss told him: “Once we figured out we could put you guys in cubicles half the size of jail cells, we knew anything was possible.”
People are watching the Wright flap with baited breath because it’s possible there’s a limit to how pliable people are when instructed to show horror at one thing and not at another thing. But it’s only possible. Nobody is really sure how it’s going to turn out, but the ultimate verdict will obviously have a bearing on future attempts to tell us what to think.
That’s the REAL story.
Yeah, I mean it. The hairpin-turn hypocrisy is so sharp and so 180-degree, it almost looks like a test and I think that’s exactly what it is.
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Yes. Indeed. I experienced a true insult to the brain watching Michael Eric Dyson on Meet the Press yesterday. He insults you by mangling the English language and then insults you by trying to tell you – in tortured English – that Pastor Wright talks the way Martin Luther King Jr would talk if MLK, Jr were alive today.
I’m a white guy with a black wife and son and live up to my eyeballs in the black community of my town – whatever that might mean – that still doesn’t authorize me to say “some of my best friends are black” – but it does authorize me to second the notion that bullshit is bullshit. Where is CNN getting this parade of black intellectuals and preachers to cover Wright’s – and by extension Obama’s – ass? To say that black people are REALLY differnet from whites and REALLY different in how the express themselves in church. Bullshit! All of Wright’s maniacal utterances have drifted around the black community like so many dead leaves for DECADES – going back to Malcom X and before. But they were never given status as sane remarks outside of black barbarshop bull sessions or super-marginal, isolated Black Studies departments of universities.
For God’s sake why doesn’t CNN put the Reverend T.D. Jakes on for his view of Pastor Wright?
The only racial scab that Pastor Wright has torn off America is the scab over Black Studies departments in our universities – to reveal the rot and vulgarity of the ideas they promote…
- das | 04/07/2008 @ 14:50I attended this “church” with a friend back in the mid-80s. I felt like I must have walked in to a Black Panther meeting with a large pillow case with eye-holes cut in, I was greeted *COUGH* so warmly. From two rows back, a teenage boy asked his mother “What’s that cracker doing in here?” People pointing and staring. The minister – or someone else in a robe, I don’t remember any names other than those of the people I was with – refused to shake my hand as I left.
I abhor racism. In all its forms. I have grown more and more disgusted with the double standard, and that Sunday morning may have been the turning point. I am sick of people calling me cracker, honky, white boy, etc. and THAT is A-okay. It’s not.
For one, I’m only 3/4 Caucasian, the rest is Native American. For two, I am a MAN, I am NOT a redneck hick, and “honky” is just as bad as “nigger” in my book.
And thanks for stopping in – feel free to come back any time.
- WThomasPayne | 04/08/2008 @ 08:54