Bookworm on May 06 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Race
Tweet Perfect: [T]his bizarre obsession with race cannot be fully understood without treating it as a psychological symptom. Increasingly a liberal is someone who looks at an inkblot and sees only that it is black.
Bookworm on Feb 15 2011 | Filed under: African-Americans, Leftist morality, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Race
Tweet Clifford May wrote a very interesting article pointing out that modern liberalism means giving a complete pass to utterly offensive behavior — provided that the behavior is practiced by non-Western people: What do you think about the niqab — sometimes also called a burqa — the veil that leaves only the eyes of a [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2010 | Filed under: Democrats, Race
Tweet Loretta Sanchez (D – Cal.) was caught bad mouthing both Vietnamese and Republicans: What’s so funny about the video is the part when Sanchez attacks Van Tran, a Republican, as “anti-immigrant.” Sanchez was born in California; Tran was born in Vietnam, and immigrated to this country in 1975. For you young’uns, that was the [...]
Bookworm on Aug 30 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race, Tea Parties
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Aug 06 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Economics, Israel, Judges, Judicial activism, Media matters, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Jul 22 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Jul 19 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Elections, Government, Hamas, Israel, Jihad, Military, Palestinians, Race, Second Amendment
Tweet 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. [...]
Bookworm on May 30 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Apr 25 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race, Tea Parties
Tweet “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 [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Liberal blogs, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Apr 04 2010 | Filed under: Leftist morality, Race
Tweet If you have the stomach for it this Easter day, check out Zo’s video, in which he reads from the hate mail he gets from liberals angry at him for being a “race traitor.” It’s stomach churning stuff. Zo’s ability to handle with aplomb this vitriol just confirms what I realized the very first [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2010 | Filed under: Government, Privacy, Race
Tweet Country of origin strikes me as a reasonable question for a census, although it’s not constitutionally mandated. (The Constitution just allows for a head count.) Race questions are obviously simply to satisfy the grievance mongers in America. So I pass on this advice from The Corner: Sending a Message with the Census [Mark Krikorian] [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education, Race
Tweet When I was a very little girl, back in the hard drinking 1960s, an expression I frequently heard was that someone or something needed a bit of “the hair of the dog that bit you.” I used to think that actually meant people would consume dog hair to cure their ills. It was only [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2009 | Filed under: Education, Political correctness, Race
Tweet I remain absolutely convinced that Obama, the boy genius of the left, is a product of affirmative action who is hiding his academic record because it is dismal. If it weren’t dismal, he’d be showing it off. Frankly, though, after thirty years of affirmative action, we expected nothing more from our academic institutions. That’s [...]
Bookworm on Oct 14 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education, Race
Tweet You must read today’s article from Robin of Berkeley. End of story.
Bookworm on Sep 25 2009 | Filed under: Race
Tweet After talking about a guest on NPR who explained that “personal responsibility” is racist code for hostility to blacks (because they can’t be responsible?), Mark Steyn states the obvious about the whole “criticizing Obama is racist” theme: “Code language” is code language for “total bollocks.” “Code word” is a code word for “I’m inventing [...]
Bookworm on Sep 17 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Race
Tweet Here’s a simple quiz to see whether you’re a racist: 1. It’s got yellow and black bands, it’s fuzzy, it flies, and it makes honey. It is a a. Turkey vulture b. Bee c. Woodpecker d. Barack Obama [Yes, the correct answer is b.] 2. It’s orange, it grows on trees, it’s used to [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Race
Tweet Whenever I read the news, I’m being told that those who disagree with Obama do so based on his color. Ordinary Americans simply can’t handle a black man in a power position and reflexively disagree with him and wish him ill. It’s not even personal, we’re told. It’s just that we’re bone-deep racists. When [...]
Bookworm on Aug 21 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet I guess for the next three and a half years, I’ll keep having to trot out this joke when I link to articles containing ridiculous claims of racism made to cover for incompetence and other personal failings. First, the joke (which you’ve heard before and I can guarantee you’ll hear again): Two men met [...]
Bookworm on Aug 06 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Race
Tweet I finally figured out what the “Obama in whiteface is racist” charge made me think of: The Sarah Silverman Program Makeup Artist www.comedycentral.com Joke of the Day Stand-Up Comedy Free Online Games Claiming that Sarah Silverman’s ridiculous attempt at blackface was racist is as foolish as complaining that Obama’s remake as the Joker, a [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2008 | Filed under: Identity politics, Race
Tweet I’ve said before that I am not a racist — I’m a classist or values-ist. Always have been. I don’t care about your external color or sexuality or whatever; I do care about the beliefs you bring to the table. What this means is that I’m pretty hostile to identity politics. I never felt [...]
Bookworm on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Race
Tweet Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is now accusing Republicans of speaking “code” to make racist remarks about Obama: Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius accused Republicans on Tuesday of injecting race into the presidential campaign, arguing that they are using “code language” to convince Midwesterners that Democrat Barack Obama is different from them.”Have any of you noticed [...]
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