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...
We’ve Been Hoodwinked
Continuing on the theme of the post previous, which is the positioning of conventional wisdom to be the polar opposite of logic and truth. Kevin McCollough is calling Sen. Barack Obama a liar, because the Senator implied the Republican party is the one with a history of racism and discrimination against blacks.
McCollough says the reverse is true, and he has facts on his side. Sen. Obama appears to be cruising on blind faith in supporting what he said…
[Sen. Obama] spoke with the typical charismatic demeanor he’s become known for when he let loose: “Don’t be bamboozled. Don’t buy into it. … It’s great if he (President Bush) commits to signing it (the extension of the Voting Rights Act), but what is critical is the follow-through. You don’t just talk the talk, but you also walk the walk.”
His lie by implication is that there is at least an outside chance that President Bush would not sign the legislation (passed without amendments) the very minute it hits his desk.
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In my upcoming book, “Musclehead Revolution,” I spend considerable real estate delving into the history of the conservative and liberal parties and their association with race and equality…
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In the chapter entitled “All Men Are Created Equal � Except to Liberals,” I spend several pages pointing out how it was the party of Barack Obama that took the rights of African-Americans away from them. It was Barack Obama’s party that, according to the Congressional Record, began the Ku Klux Klan, lynching of blacks and intimidation to keep them from voting. It was the party of Barack Obama that in fact sought to remove the black man’s right to vote following nearly a generation of freedom following the conclusion of the Civil War.By contrast, it was the Republican Party that fought for the freedoms of blacks in Congress following the conclusion of the Civil War. State chapters of the Republican Party were started by blacks in most Southern states. The first black members of Congress, some of whom had been former slaves only months previous, were all Republican. Under Republican initiatives between 1875 and 1893, blacks had full and equal rights in every way.
But it was the Democrats who took these rights away in the early 1900s.
From 1896 to the early 1960s, nearly every party platform the Republicans voted in had specific language banning all forms of lynching and Klan violence. The Democrats have never mentioned the lynching started by their party in any party platform to this very day.
And, in 1965, it was the Democrats who fought to get a “sunset provision” added to the Voting Rights Act � meaning that Democrats only wanted blacks to have the right to vote for a certain period of time. If they had truly believed that blacks were equal � fully equal � they should have never included such a provision.
This is part of what makes Barack Obama’s willful misleading of the attendees to the NAACP so laughable, so sinister, so evil. President Bush campaigned on the guarantee of renewing the Voting Rights Act; he argued to make it a permanent extension. And when the Congress passes it, he has promised to sign it into law.
Instead of implying otherwise, Obama should be in the Senate helping for the completion of the legislation and pushing for final vote. And instead of lying to proud African- Americans, he should apologize for grotesque and unequal history his own party has exercised against people who have much darker skin than his mulatto hew.
And while he’s at it, would Sen. Obama be able to cough up an explanation for his willingness to assist in fund raising for former Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan Robert Byrd?
What McCollough has lifted from the pages of his own book, stands in stark contradiction to the prevailing viewpoint. But, pointedly, not in stark contradiction to the facts as they’ve been made available to me.
The Republican party was formed to abolish slavery. Once it came along, the Democrats fought to keep slavery going strong. A century later, Republicans favored civil rights and Democrats opposed civil rights. So far as I’ve been able to determine, there has been no role-reversal, no trading-of-places. For there to have been such a flip-floppery, wherein liberty-minded Republicans become benevolent Democrats and segregationist Democrats become racist Republicans, is unlikely because ideology always comes down to a question of how people do their thinking, not what they actually think. And like I said before, being a left-winger today means bypassing the formation of opinions from empirically observed facts, and instead forming opinions based on someone else’s opinions. That is a kind of “slavery” in and of itself. And, it turns out, the opinion that Republicans are more racist than Democrats, has little basis in fact. It appears to have been formed because someone somewhere wanted it to be formed.
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Right, Jim Crow and the Democrats were old friends. That doesn’t come up too much. I think Jim Crow is still around, only he’s in disguise, and now he says “you people can’t do anything on your own. You need my help, but first I need a little help.” Cuttin’ cards with Jim Crow is like cuttin’ cards with the devil.
Lockjaw
- Lockjaw45 | 07/21/2006 @ 10:32