Archive for the 'African-Americans' Category
Bookworm on Jan 28 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Despite the fact that Republicans are currently busy working the circular firing squad, making outside efforts to destroy them somewhat redundant, the Progressives/Democrats/Media/Usual Suspects aren’t taking any chances about the November 2012 election and have already brought out the big gun: They’re crying racism. The racism claim that got the biggest headline this week is [...]
Danny Lemieux on Jan 09 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Conservative ideology, Elections
Yay, there’s another Sarah Palin in American politics. Mia B. Love – mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah. Those of you that have read my posts and comments (whether you agree or disagree) know that I am a huge Sarah Palin fan. Frankly, there is a certain breed of all-American women that I hugely admire in [...]
Bookworm on Nov 24 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans
Mr. Bookworm works for a very large corporation. While we were in the car with the kids, the conversation turned to the exquisite sensitivity the corporation has to show when it’s faced with firing a minority employee. The process is arduous, requiring huge HR involvement, dozens of staff interviews and a lengthy paper trail. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Here’s the joke, an oldie from the Soviet Union: On a bitterly cold day in Moscow, word has gone out that a store has received a shipment of food supplies. People start lining up early. Soon, the line doubles around the blog block. After a couple of hours, an official emerges from the store. “Owing [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Leftist morality, Race
From 2007 through August 2011, daring to question or criticize Obama meant you were a racist. Now, though, liberals are suggesting that Obama is so toxic he should just walk away from the job. Holding them to their own standards, aren’t they being racist? I mean, really, really racist? Please don’t scold me for pointing [...]
Bookworm on May 23 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, California, Crime and punishment
You guys are all connected to the news, so I know that you already know about the Supreme Court decision forcing California to release up to 46,000 prisoners because of the appalling conditions in California prisons. As a California resident, I’m less than thrilled about the fact that people who ought to be behind bars [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Media matters
By now you’ve probably heard the uproar about Michelle’s decision to invite the rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn, aka, “Common”, to the White House. The Daily Caller has an example of one of Common’s raps. I won’t sully my blog by quoting from it, although I can tell you that it calls for President George W. [...]
Bookworm on Feb 15 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Leftist morality, Race
This morning, I read and enjoyed Jeannie DeAngelis’ post about a potential Herman Cain candidacy. From everything I’ve heard, including musings from our own Danny Lemieux, Cain is a person one would like to have in the White House. He may not have a political track record, but he’s still got a lot more under [...]
Bookworm on Sep 02 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans
Typical liberal/conservative dialog, with the kicker being that the players are black. The young woman arguing the conservative case has great moral courage, and beautifully handles the insults and misinformation hurled at her: H/t: Danny Lemieux
Bookworm on Aug 30 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race, Tea Parties
Aside from the LaRouchites who appear at the Tea Party rallies, complete with their posters showing Obama with a Hitler mustache, I am unaware of any significant racist rhetoric or imagery from the Tea Party. Certainly the media’s minions, despite their ugly fulminations and accusations about racism, never point to actual evidence of wide-spread or [...]
Bookworm on Aug 06 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Economics, Israel, Judges, Judicial activism, Media matters, Race
Just random stuff that’s so good you shouldn’t miss it: Shirley Sherrod’s been on a roller coaster. Thanks to a video snippet that Andrew Breitbart posted, she got pilloried as the face of Leftist/NAACP racial intolerance. When it turned out the snippet was out of context, she got sanctified as the face of true racial [...]
Bookworm on Jul 28 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans
For reasons best known to Comcast, my internet connection today has been either nonexistent or merely spotty. I’m in a spot right now, so I’m just trying to write up a quick addendum to my earlier short post about the the fact that Shirley Sherrod is no saint. The Gay Patriot agrees, adding all the [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Race
By now, we’re all familiar with the Sherrod story. Andrew Breitbart was sent an edited video that made it look as if Sherrod was boasting to an NAACP gathering about denying government aid to white farmers. The audience laughed complicitly when Sherrod made that confession. Breitbart held onto that video clip until the NAACP announced [...]
Bookworm on Jul 22 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Race
I know more than one liberal who voted for Obama, despite conceding his total unpreparedness for the job, solely because he was black. These liberals were utterly unconcerned that they were elevating to the Presidency of the most powerful nation on earth, during a time of economic chaos and heightened national security concerns (not to [...]
Bookworm on Jul 19 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Elections, Government, Gun control, Hamas, Israel, Jihad, Military, Palestinians, Race
Although it’s been open for more than a year now, I went for the first time today to the newly rebuilt California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. My visit there was an interesting contrast to my first visit, some years ago, to the newly rebuilt De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Although [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Feminism, Identity politics, Judges, Judicial activism, Women
Kim Priestap, who blogs at Up North Mommy, got an impassioned email from the Democratic Party, raving about Elena Kagan. Does it rave about her brains? No (although it mentions as an aside that she’s “among the best legal minds this country has to offer,” which is a depressing comment about legal minds in America). [...]
Bookworm on Jun 21 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Government, Immigration, Islam, Silly Stuff, Women
To: American Citizens From: Your Government Date: Today It has come to our attention that citizens on your side of the aisle (“WN’s”, aka Wing Nuts) are doing a lot of talking. What in the world are you gabbing about? Talk Radio, talking amongst yourselves, chatting on the Internet. What is with you people? [...]
Bookworm on May 30 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
We’ve talked before about the horrible racism of liberals. They typecast everyone, and then convince each person so typecast that he (or she) is a victim of an all powerful white male cabal. Here is a perfect example, courtesy of Bill Maher. I’d like you to imagine the uproar — up to an including riots [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Capitalism, Gun control, Palestinians
“Logic! Why don’t they teach logic at these schools?” — C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Neither Data nor Mr. Spock, two relentlessly logical creations, could ever be liberals or Democrats or Progressives, or whatever the Hell else they’re calling themselves nowadays. (For convenience, I’ll just lump them all together under the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 25 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race, Tea Parties
“I sent the club a wire stating, ‘PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.’” — Groucho Marx, quoting a telegram he sent to the Friar’s Club of Beverly Hills, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959), p. 321. The Democratic Establishment [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Liberal blogs, Race
A few days ago, in the wake of a concerted (and almost certainly fraudulent) attack against the Tea Party by claiming its members are racist, I wrote a post in which I said that, if I’m going to be called a racist, I get to define the term to accord with my understanding of race. [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Democrats, Media matters
One of the things I love about Andrew Breitbart is that he’s willing to challenge the bluffs and cons emanating from the Left. While the Republican establishment was apologizing for the alleged claim that Tea Partiers hurled the “n-word,” Breitbart figured out that the absence of footage was significant — especially since the Black Caucus [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Horrified by the fact that the American people are not dancing in the streets now that Obama Care is the law of the land, the Left is doing what it does best: tarring and feathering anyone who stands in its way. The current libel is that people who oppose Obama Care are racist. These foaming-at-the-mouth [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Media matters
Okay, folks, I’m going to admit to racism here, by which I mean that I’m advancing a position based on racial considerations. I just learned through The Corner that there is an online conservative journal on the scene called Freedom’s Journal Magazine. Aside from the fact that it has one of the coolest online interfaces [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans
I can think of a billion reasons to dislike Harry Reid. The fact that he called Obama a “negro” is not one of them. It simply shows his age. (Although I do agree with Lloyd Marcus that it’s fine to be offended by Reid’s assumptions about white Americans.) The problem, of course, is what we’re [...]
