It’s not racist if you’re black…
One of the strangest things about the NAACP Wright pseudo-scientific speech on learning, and its enthusiastic CNN coverage and analysis, was the abject racialism of Wright. It was sort of an inverse Bell-Curve presentation, based on assumed DNA differences.His convoluted explanation of African-American right-brain ‘oral’ culture as more creative, musical, and spontaneous versus European left-brain traditional analysis could never have been given by someone white to that audience without justifiably earning booing and catcalls.
Three comments: this was just the sort of racist ‘genetic’ difference that most Americans learned to shun, now apparently quite acceptable again, and part of the mainstream.
Second, there is no evidence that so-called Europeans could not “rap” or create an oral literature as well as Africans — remember, oral poetry as we know it , began with bards like Homer somewhere in the southeastern Aegean and continued into modern times in the Balkans.
Three, some of the most accomplished speakers of English and analytical thinkers are African-Americans, a fact everyone immediately recognizes from what they read and with whom they speak.
In short, Wright’s speech on black-right brainers, white-left brainers — replete with bogus stereotypes and crude voice imitations — was about as racist as they come and at one time antithetical to what the NAACP was once all about. Again, the Obama campaign and its appendages have set back racial relations a generation. Just ten years ago, any candidate, black or white, would have rejected Wright making a speech about genetic differences in respective black and white brains. Now it’s given to civil rights organizations by the possible next President’s pastor and spiritual advisor — and done to wild applause for an organization founded on the idea that we are innately the same, while being gushed over by ignorant “commentators.” victor davis hanson, the corner
A week or so ago in my commentsDr. Dawg objected to even going to Kevin Michael Grace’s site as Kevin has links to Steve Sailer [ And, Dawg, I warn you Steve says many of the same things Rev. Wright has just said albeit with a bit more rigor] and V-Dare. Based on Rev. Wright’s star turn at the NAACP does this mean Dawg will cease visiting sites which link to Obama? I ask because Rev. Wright, Obama’s spiritual guide for many, many years has now gone on record with remarks which pretty much confirm, and indeed surpass, Steve Sailer’s speculations about race.
Poor Obama.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:57 am
A couple of weeks ago a black American boxer named Bernard Hopkins, a legendary, all-time great who held the middleweight title for a decade, lost his (newly acquired) light heavyweight title to an undefeated and unflaggingly polite Welshman named Joe Calzaghe. During the promotional run up before the fight Hopkins repeatedly got in Calzaghe’s face and shouted menacingly “I would never lose to a white boy! I would never lose to a white boy.”
You could see in the undefeated Calzaghe’s face that there was no conceivable way to directly respond to what Hopkins was saying; given Hopkins’ words even a stupid retort like “Oh yeah?” would have been making reference to race.
The word “racism” is a weapon used bluntly against just one particular group—only whites can be racist, in effect. James Brown used to shout “say it, I’m black and I’m proud!”, and thousands of black men would punch their fists into the air. How much funky fun would it be if a white guy named “Werner Schmidt” did the same, with “white”, and got the same reaction from the same sized crowd? Very little, I’m guessing.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:12 am
You mean the Dr. Dawg who tried unsuccessfully last week to get the blogosphere interested in what turned out to be a bogus story about “Indian mass graves”?
I don’t understand why anybody even mentions his name in intelligent company?
April 29th, 2008 at 4:31 am
My ears were burning.
Bracket any comments I might have about Wright: I do not link to any sites that list his blogsite (assuming he has one) in a short list of “friends.”
Nor did I say you shouldn’t visit Kevin’s place. Even I do that on occasion. But I wouldn’t cite him as a reputable source on anything to do with white supremacists and their enemies, which is what I thought you were doing, given that you brought him up, not I. Sailer’s place and VDARE are out-and-out white supremacist sites, and anyone placing them on his or her blogroll simply loses all credibility.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:03 am
i’ve destroyed hangdawg’s ego…a week or more ago…i’ve asked him to meet me..mano a mano on any topic dear to his heart…
i wait….my heart as pure as ever it were…my sword and buckler shining like burnished gold…and hangdawg’s arguments steaming like freshly dropped ordure.
oh that i were a chickadee…and he a falcon.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Gosh: La Shaidle is getting a little punchy, it seems. I do hope her case isn’t keeping her awake o’ nights.
That story isn’t “bogus.” The media silence continues, with only a handful of articles. Nothing has changed as yet.
Here’s one story (and sorry to be OT, Jay). Obviously First Nations would prefer to be at the centre of any investigation. And that’s as it should be. But so far, no investigation.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:15 am
Dawg, acting with true and unhindered principles? Are you crazy??
Please! He banned me simply for pointing out his hypocrisy. (In my opinion he clearly libelled Ezra Levant in a posting criticizing Ezra levant for libelling others… ha!!)
You’re probably banned now too, if you haven’t been already.
His skin is pretty thin for one so happy to throw out potshots all the time.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:17 am
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well, i don’t know about you guys… but i’m looking forward to being a visible minority.
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April 29th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Yea but Dawg is such an easy target, he actually believes he is smart,
April 29th, 2008 at 9:21 am
You know, until six or seven years ago (yes, even post-9/11) I was a left-liberal. But it’s this sort of stupidity and this – what’s that term? – “war on science” that’s dragging me, very reluctantly, towards being a conservative. The Dawgs, the Kinsellas (Kinsellae? Kinsellacha?), and, Gaia forfend, the Cherniaks, have run out of arguments and are reduced to repeating “Four legs good, two legs bad” louder and louder (or making it a federal crime to express bipedalist hate speech) rather than actually answering the conservatives’ and libertarians’ arguments. which works fine as a way of throwing red meat (err, red tofu) to your base, but is no way to win over swinging voters in the middle, like me, whose main concern is not to be left on the wrong side of history and look like a fool a decade or two later (a criterion by which the Left does much worse than the Right, ironically).
April 29th, 2008 at 10:16 am
“Mass Graves Dawg” that is a keeper.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am
First Keith, now Rona… At least the Portuguese-Canadian Community seems to be swinging behind the Speechers.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Dawg bans anyone who does not agree with his 60’s style leftish thinking, he would have done well in the Soviet Union or Mao’s China.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Yes it is a hoax, Dawg. The guy who’s been trying unsuccessfully to peddle it for years is a known crank.
But of course it appeals to your prejudices so it MUST be true. Fire can’t melt steel etc etc.
And Leftists are so much more fond of imaginary atrocities than they are of real ones, usually ones they helped cause (see: Cambodia)
April 29th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Oh, I like your “as it should be.” Does that mean they should have put hookers in charge of Pickton?
God, you’re dumb.
And no, dear boy, I sleep like a baby.
Tons of money in the defense fund, one of the best defamation lawyers in the nation, support from people all over the world, hits doubled—and I find myself in excellent company what with Levant, Steyn et al.
Frankly, I’m having a blast. Jealous much?
April 29th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Oh and speaking of Steyn:
Dawg, how did it feel to get slapped by him in the pages of Maclean’s after you eagerly fell for another hoax: that doctored photo of Ernst Zundel.
Zundel, mass graves—jeez, for a progressive you sure spend a lot of time in the past.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:28 am
And no, dear boy, I sleep like a baby.
Well, I’m sorry to hear that you wake up every fifteen minutes and cry. : )
Isn’t Usenet trolling a little beneath you, Kathy? I mean, really: three spluttering posts in quick succession?
I see you’re still peddling the “Mark Steyn slapped Dawg” line. More on that little bit of revisionist history here.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Seems you haven’t ever minded a baby, Dawg. Fifteen minutes is a little rich, even when lacking lactating breasts.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Jan:
You’re right. I’m told it feels like every fifteen minutes, though. : )
May 4th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Dawg, anyone who calls vdare.com and Sailer white supremacists is either lying or has no idea what real white supremacists are like. Assuming you fall into the latter category, I suggest you visit a few white supremacist websites. (Warning: they’re repulsive, sometimes almost literally.) If you have trouble finding them, try the Wikipedia article on White Supremacy. I’m by no means a fan of vdare.com and/or Sailer, but a drive-by smear like that raise strong suspicions of intellectual and/or moral bankruptcy on the part of the smearer, not the smearee. Worse still, it helps the real White Supremacists recruit new followers.
May 4th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
What’s a “real” white supremacist, Chris? A knuckle-dragging wanker with a swastika armband? Or someone who uses pseudoscience to claim that Blacks are stupid and need strict moral controls placed upon them (Sailer)?
You’re being grossly disingenuous.