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 03 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Democrats, Media matters
Tweet 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 [...]
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 Jan 12 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Dec 26 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet I just returned from seeing Disney’s latest release, The Princess and the Frog. Looked at purely from an entertainment standpoint, the movie is a delight. The hand drawn animation is imaginative and, at times, exquisitely beautiful. When the Bayou lights up at sunset with fireflies, every little girl in the audience emits a rapturous [...]
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 Nov 03 2009 | Filed under: Education
Tweet Yesterday, I noted two sterling examples of physical bravery in the battlefield. I’d like, today, to pay homage to moral bravery in the face of both verbal and physical attacks. Despite withering fire from her school and the community, and despite threat physical confrontations, knife threats and property attacks, conservative student Kristen Campbell has [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Health, Nazis, Socialism
Tweet Is Obama telling a true story or not? I don’t know and with Obama’s credibility gap, it’s impossible to tell. It doesn’t matter, though. What does matter is that, by relaying this anecdote, Obama is keeping alive the Obama/Hitler analogy: President Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner last night, discussing false claims [...]
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 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 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 Aug 04 2009 | Filed under: Identity politics
Tweet Here’s a bad, almost cruel, joke, but nevertheless a pointed and important one: Two men met on the street. One looked very angry. “What’s the problem?” asked the first man of his friend. “I’m r-r-really a-a-ngry,” he stuttered. “I app-ap-applied for a j-j-job as an an-an-announcer at the-the-the r-r-r-radio s-s-station and they t-t-turned me-me-me [...]
Bookworm on Jul 26 2009 | Filed under: Identity politics
Tweet Willie Brown is one of the smartest politicians out there. He’s been in the business since the 1960s and, not coincidentally, has broken a whole lot of color barriers. While he is a die-hard Democrat, he’s also nobody’s fool. Here’s his take on the Gates kerfuffle. America got a good look at the Chicago [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Tweet Being a police or other type of security officer is, by definition, a risky job. It’s entirely possible to find oneself in a low risk situation, such as the town in which I live. Crimes here tend to revolve around shoplifting, speeding, vandalism, etc. I know of several young officers (and fire fighters) who [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Tweet By now, you’ve all heard about the Henry Louis Gates incident: a neighbor reported a possible break-in; cops came; they discovered that it was Gates trying to get in after being locked out; and, when things got heated, the cops arrested Gates. Gates has cried racism; the cops claim a righteous arrest. Since it [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I have no idea who he is, I have no idea what this is about, but I sure do love seeing someone exposing in Barbara Boxer the condescending racism that is a global characteristic of liberal whites:
Bookworm on May 17 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet Remember how, in a thread a couple of weeks ago, we talked about the fact that there is no middle for European voters? If they’re concerned about their own governments’ destroying their national cultures, or an unchecked flow of immigrants who (a) game the system and (b) are incredibly hostile to their new host [...]
Bookworm on May 02 2009 | Filed under: England, Europe
Tweet Charles, at LGF, is concerned that the “extreme right white supremacist” (his phrase) BNP party in England is gaining political ground. If you check out the party’s blog, though, racial purity a la the Nazis or the KKK is not part of the party’s platform. As far as I can tell, it wants to [...]
Bookworm on Feb 03 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet Am I missing something, or does Obama’s cabinet boast more than its fair share of old white guys. I know Daschle’s gone — thank goodness, give his ideas about health care reform — but that’s still a predominantly white, male cabinet. Indeed, if you flip through the Vanity Fair slideshow of the people he’s [...]
Bookworm on Oct 09 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Media matters
Tweet Our world view determines how we process new data. If your world view is bounded by race, every new bit of information is going to be run through that racial filter, and divided into “racist” or “non-racist” categories. If you only have two intake bins, the information has to go into one of them. [...]
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 25 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I’m going to take you back a few days to my post asking if American’s are really racist. That was the one in which I questioned a poll that was struggling to figure out why the Messiah isn’t doing better and that concluded that it’s because Democrats are racists. (Republicans are racists too, but [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Media matters
Tweet The current “scandal” is that a poll shows that one third of white Democrats harbor racist views towards blacks. I have two problems with this poll’s approach and two questions about whether its conclusions have any real meaning. My first problem is the poll’s underlying assumption, one that reveals entirely the pollsters’ bias: Why [...]
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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