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Showing posts with label Black History Month. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black History Month. Show all posts
Friday, February 23, 2018
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Joe Biden on Emancipation
Vice President Joe Biden is known for his egregious gaffes, his colorful metaphors as well as his uncouth social graces while in the spotlight. Last year, Biden channeled "White Men Can't Jump" for his Black History Month event. This year, Mr. Biden hosted a Black History Month dinner at the Naval Observatory (the Vice President's official residence) in which he fused class envy with racial politics.
It is unclear if the man who is one heartbeat away from the Oval Office is trying to outflank Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on progressive economic appeals in a fledgling bid for the Democrat presidential nomination, or if Biden is just tone deaf by once again invoking the "chains y'all" rhetoric famously used during the 2012 re-election bid.
A fortnight ago, the media worked itself into a tizzy when it discovered the old news that Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) dropped out of Marquette University during his senior year and never graduated. Biden makes an inflammatory and insensitive appeal and the Lamestream Media will not cover it since it's just "Joe being Joe".
It is not the conscience of the American public that needs emancipation as much as the news needs emancipation from a progressive lamestream media which will not report things which do not fit into their favored narrative.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Biden Blusters for Black History Month
As part of the Obama Administration marking Black History Month, Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd of his hoops prowess and how he could give a good game against his boss.
Perhaps Biden was trying to be intentionally funny, as he was on a charm offensive as he also appeared on "The View" and "Late Night with Seth Myers".
Yet after Biden being Biden, the Vice President went on to question states passing Voter ID laws, which he linked to the battles during the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. It seems incredible that Biden can keep uttering these questionable quips without controversy from the Lamestream Media. Yet by virtue of the office, Biden can claim that fighting voter fraud is akin to Jim Crow laws and afterwards are covered straight by a sympathetic media.
At least Biden was not so wrapped into pandering so as to repeat the "They'll put y'all back in chains" remark from during the 2012 Presidential campaign.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Tim Scott on Segregated Civics and Civility
The so called Reverend William Barber II, a member of the NAACP Board of Directors, recently ignited a firestorm when Barber recognized Martin Luther King Day by pronouncing Senator Tim Scott as a puppet of the Republican Party. Barber's exact barb was: “A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy."
The right Reverend feels wronged that the first black Senator since Reconstruction articulates a Tea Party agenda. Perhaps Barber forgot about Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA), Senator Carol Mosely Braun (D-IL), Senator Roland Burris (D-IL), now Senator Mo Cowan (D-MA) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ). And of course there was Senator Barack Obama (D-IL). But to be charitable, perhaps Rev. Barber was referring to the South.
None the less, it is fascinating that Barber has the expectation both of group think for Blacks. Moreover, it shows the hypocrisy of the NAACP as a civil rights organization which it disses an African American who has achieved high office because he does not articulate liberal Democrat policy positions.
Furthermore, Barber uses insulting imagery to demean his bete noir. No wonder Thomas Sowell quipped that he was so old that he remembers when most of the people promoting racial hatred were white. When Barber rhetorically excoriated Senator Scott, Barber intimates that only Whites are part of the Tea Party and clearly he thinks ill of them.
When Rev. Barber was given a chance to walk back his tough talk on Senator Scott, he chose to play the prophet, for which he may profit in progressive political circles. Wonder what happened to all of the Democrat's push for civility in public discourse. That's right, it was a one way street.
While Barber may be a pastor at the Geenboro Christian Church Disciples of Christ Church, his uncharitable rhetoric and routed political thinking lends credence to having him lead the Church of the Poisoned Mind. Of course, he would have to compete against the Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Thomas Sowell on Racism
With comments like Bryant Gumbel's quip about the paucity of pigmentation that the Winter Olympics, one can better understand Sowell's critique.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
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