George Will and Peggy Noonan Smack Down Michael Eric Dyson's Claim Obama Criticism Is Racist
Not at all surprisingly, Georgetown University professor and MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson on Sunday made the case that the criticism of President Obama's harsh remarks to the Supreme Court this week were racially motivated.
Fortunately for the sane component of those that view ABC's This Week, George Will and Peggy Noonan were there to add some desperately needed reason (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: Look all of this othering of Obama, like he's from some other planet. Everything he does is subject to a different lens and seen through a microscope that really tends to pick him apart. I think it's indivisible from the broader issue of his race, of his being a black man with a certain kind of authority. These are impolite things we don't want to talk about. We think that they're being extraordinary ratcheted up. But I don't see any other way to explain it but a remarkable resistance to the integrity of this man that has no other explanation.
Those familiar with Dyson know this to be his common position on anything involving Obama: any criticism of the President is because he's black. Period. End of story.
Possibly realizing the absurdity on display before him, substitute host Jake Tapper challenged his guest:
JAKE TAPPER, HOST: When you hear Republicans say that President Obama is being a bully, you hear racial subtexts?
DYSON: Of course. Bully -- I mean look this guy -- if -- if you can't deal with this reasoned, articulate expression of difference and dissent and calling that bullying. And on the one hand Obama has to be worried about, I can't be an angry black man. I can't speak up in a certain way. He's already constrained by the stereotypes that prevail. If you can't even take his dissent as an expression of legitimate disagreement and instead of ascribing to him bullying, I don't see how...
(CROSSTALK)
CHRYSTIA FREELAND, REUTERS: You think being black has made the president less effective?
DYSON: Well, it's made his job much more difficult because even white liberals who support him, obviously play into certain racial scripts. Black people who support him -- and -- and across the board, I think it's very difficult for the president to be able to maneuver because he has to be so concerned. He can focus on the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird, but can't necessarily highlight the 44th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. There are choices to be made. I think he's done an extraordinarily interesting and powerful job of it. But I think the constraints are not his, but imposed on him from the outside.
(CROSSTALK)
George Will clearly had enough of this nonsense and offered some much-needed sanity:
GEORGE WILL: But regardless of his skin pigmentation, what he said was factually, demonstrably false. He said something would be unprecedented that has many precedents, probably thousands since 1803.
DYSON: That I don't have a problem with. I'm talking about the overall response to him and the picking apart and the refusal to concede legitimacy of difference. Not to point out where you would disagree with him. I think that's powerful.
Enter Noonan:
PEGGY NOONAN, WALL STREET JOURNAL: Can I say this -- the president is known as an extremely bright man. He was an instructor of constitutional law. For him to say something so deeply incorrect and almost unknowing about the -- the purpose of the Supreme Court seemed provocative. At the very least sloppy and what the heck is he doing? But at the most, provocative. A real brush back. A real, I'm going to go to war with the court.
Indeed. In fact, this was so obvious to everyone on the panel except Dyson that Yahoo! News's Washington bureau chief thirded the proposition:
DAVID CHALIAN, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF FOR YAHOO! NEWS: He was definitely laying a predicate. I mean the aids will say, no, no, no he wasn't thinking that far in advance. But he clearly was laying the predicate that in case the -- the law is overturned, he's going to set up sort of that politicization of the court and another 5:4 decision. And -- and these comments will be looked back at. But let's be clear, he -- he gave his critics an opening here and the White House knew it. He cleaned it up the next day because of the -- the inaccuracy. They did not want to spend this whole week talking about Marbury V. Madison. And -- and Jay Carney had to walk back these comments all week. He -- he definitely slipped here and I think they tried to make a course for it.
Nicely said.
But imagine this same conversation happening on MSNBC where Dyson frequents and even guest-hosts.
With nary a conservative involved in the discussion, all heads would have been nodding over the racially-divisive nonsense coming out of his mouth.
And that is why there really ought to be a disclaimer running at the bottom of all MSNBC programs warning viewers that the opinions being expressed are completely divorced from reality and any factual basis.
Nice job David, George and Peggy. Bravo - or should I say Yahoo!?!
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Race Huckster Dyson -- professor, Georgetown U.
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 1:53pm.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: Look all of this othering of Obama, like he's from some other planet. Everything he does is subject to a different lens and seen through a microscope that really tends to pick him apart.
Ya mean criticism? Criticizing this President is treating him differently than, say, Bush-43 was treated? Both Presidents Bush and Ronald Reagan were vilified by the Left and the MSM. The difference here is that the Dems and the Left doesn't like the criticism.
DYSON: . . . I think it's indivisible from the broader issue of his race, of his being a black man with a certain kind of authority. These are impolite things we don't want to talk about. . .
Nothing of the sort.
It's the Race Industry and its hucksters like Prof. Dyson who see all politics -- and I mean all -- through a racial prism. Any criticism of a liberal black politician is immediately met with the Race Card. Criticism of black conservatives like Cain, West, Keyes, Sowell, et al is not just excused but justified by labeling them as traitors to their race (Uncle Toms, Oreos, House Niggers, etc.)
And Dyson plays this game openly on the more looney venues like MSNBC where he knows he won't be slammed as a racist.
DYSON: . . . We think that they're being extraordinary ratcheted up. But I don't see any other way to explain it but a remarkable resistance to the integrity of this man that has no other explanation.
Of course you don't see any other way to explain it, Professor, because you have one explanation to everything -- it's about race.
Exactly!
Submitted by panzerakc on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 3:52pm.
To Dyson, criticism of Obama MUST have something to do with his race. There cannot be a disagreement with, I don't know, Obama's policies? His actions? Nope, gotta be because he is black.
(Psst, Mike, he's only half black.)
As far as the "remarkable resistance to the integrity of this man", well, show me the integrity, and then we can talk about THAT issue.
As far as the "angry black man" meme, oh, please. Really? I've seen videos of Allen West looking and acting pretty ticked, and have never gasped in dismay at the spectacle. More like, "you tell 'em, Allen!"
Ditto
Submitted by johnnyatlanta on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 9:59am.
Ditto! Race is all they got. They can't debate the facts so they claim racism.
Slipped?
Submitted by mmilesll on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 1:49pm.
I am always stunned that these "smart liberal elites" dance around major nobama screw ups and NEVER admit that he isn't as "smart" as they think he is. nobama has been in over his head since he was in the Senate and becoming President has made his screw ups even more scary. Any normal person can see that he doesn't know what he is doing no matter how much spin and blame others he puts on it.
Harvard
Submitted by desert3030 on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 2:02pm.
I now understand when people say he is hiding his school records (by the way I had to produce a transcript for a recent job interview) for a reason it may be more than who paid what. To think he was the Law Editor and listen to him sends a chill. I am not in law but well aware of Marbury as it is the first case review for 101 Law & Business. Maybe I need to even suggest he isn''t as "brillant"?
No retreat
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 2:00pm.
Having declared him the most intelligent man to ever occupy the Presidency when he was elected, they can't retreat from that assessment without looking even more foolish than they already appear. I think some of them fear that if they question Obama's intellectual prowess, they get hammered with a deck of Race Cards.
So even as they grow increasingly discouraged about their messiah, they won't abandon the mythology they created around him.
In an earlier exchange..
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 1:54pm.
Dyson said that if the Healthcare Mandate is found to be unconstitutional then Romney would have some explaining to do. This proves these idiot Liberals still don't understand that however you feel about the Mass Healthcare law there is a difference between state rights and federal ones. After he said this, it looked for a moment that George Will was going to pounce on him to say this but the host changed to a different subject.
But remember ...
Submitted by texastommy on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 8:17am.
Dyson, like all liberals, doesn't want to be confused by facts. They'd rather mislead and be mislead than have to be bothered with them.
I see
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 1:54pm.
Admittedly -according to MED- Obama made and egregious error regarding the the precedence of SCOTUS overturning a law. But criticism of that statement -that clearly nonfactual statement- has nothing to do with the statement itself; rather it's criticism levied upon him by white conservative racists, and to some extent, while liberal racists.
Got it.
Dyson is a complete moron,
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 2:10pm.
Dyson is a complete moron, and a TOTAL racist!!! That is ALL he sees when he is discussing just about anything!! This guy is a 'professor'??? Have mercy on his students!!! (I wonder if Sandra Fluck/Fluke was one of his students??)
And, while I'm at it, I'm pretty sick about hearing that Boy Baraka is a 'black' man................it's been proven beyond a shadow of any doubt that he is more 'white' than 'black'...............not that I care, since he's black and white and RED all over, and I can't stand ANY part of him!! Maybe all of these 'mean racist' people who are 'seeing things through a different lens and microscope' are actually going after the 'white' part of what he is trying to do to our country.................did you ever think about it in those terms, 'Professor' Dyson????
I totally agree Killa
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 9:05am.
I am so sick and tired of having this race sh*t thrown in my face for the last three or four years. And it's NEVER conservatives bringing it up. It's ALWAYS progs and administration stooges. The only meaningful sized group that cares Obambi is black is the progs. Sure, there are some fringe conservatives who can't get past skin color. There always are. But this has never been an issue for most conservatives or true moderates. We don't care if the guy is purple with pink dots. The only question is - Can he do the job? This BS of labeling someone as being racist who criticizes the Obamessiah is old, dead, and should be buried. But, as usual, the progs will keep trotting it out again and again, long after it's lost whatever effectiveness it may have once had.
I don't like Obama because he's a sh*tty president, he's a liar, he's an idealogue, he's ineffective for our national defense and standing in the world, he's ruined our economy, he's a sneaky bastard, AND HE'S A RACIST.
And for anyone, including spewing sewer pipes such as Dyson, to reject the racism coming from the left is beyond ridiculous. What if Romney gets 95% of the entire white vote in this country? Or if Rubio were to run and get 95% of the Hispanic vote? Would that constitute racism? Of course it would. But where's the diatribe that Obama got 95%-plus of the black vote, and still has an 80 - 90% approval rate from that demographic? The double-standard and race-baiting is getting more pervasive, but, fortunately, more visible and harder for the progs to deflect or defend.
Either fringe has its racists
Submitted by T Walt on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 12:20pm.
"there are some fringe conservatives who can't get past skin color."
There have been many examples of racism and bigotry at fringe rallies on the left. The OWS folks are not very diverse. It's almost all white. Youtube is full clips of racist and antisemitic comments from OWS
The difference T Walt
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 11:15am.
is that there are SOME fringe conservatives who can't get past color, gender, religion, etc. On the other hand, MOST libs fall into that category. On of the biggest problems conservatives face is that it's an instant reation to call out conservatives on race, whether real or perceived (or just plain made up for faux "moral outrage"). Whereas the left blatantly practices discrimination and is NEVER, EVER called out on it. Hell, they DARE you to call them on it, because if you do, YOU'RE the instant racist or bigot.
I simply can't understand why the Jewish community, of all people, still support democrats. The libs slam them, their religion, and Israel on a regular basis. This administration has caused some of the most dangerous circumstances Israel has faced in decades. Obama himself was caught, open-mike, making snide derogatory comments about Netanyahu to Sarkozy. One of their lib heroes, Jimmy "Peanut-Puss" Carter, goes out of his way to demonize Israel and blame them for virtually every problem in the Middle East. The UN (full of libs and hypocrites - same thing, I know) does nothing but slam Jews, and is avidly supported by libs in general and this administration in particular.
It doesn't make any sense to support people who hate you.
Dyson is hardly an impressive thinker
Submitted by Savonarola on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 2:15pm.
kinda makes Georgetown look like a dufus college for giving him a job.
Hey, when you're flappin'
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 2:29pm.
Hey, when you're flappin' your jaws like you've just smoked some meth, and you're fittin' in as many words as possible, and you're wavin' your hands around to emphasive whatever it is that you're tryin' to get across - it just might fool some people into thinkin' that you're an 'impressive thinker'.............like I said, Lawd have moicy on his students.
And speakin' of students..................where ARE all of these students that Boy Baraka was teachin', back when he was a 'law professor' or a 'constitutional scholar'???? They've GOT to be somewhere, somehow......................right???
Where are they..............?
Submitted by Dan Diego on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 3:07pm.
My guess. DOJ, Dept of Labor, NLRB, K Street, AFL-CIO, various Dem Cong offices, EPA...
Unfortunately this guy would
Submitted by T Walt on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 12:22pm.
Unfortunately this guy would find open arms at most colleges today.
More malignancy from the narcissist in chief & his enablers.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 2:59pm.
It is a very obscure psychiatric factoid that bringing race and other elements of life that are uncontrollable are the last refuge of a narcissist in their own imagination and in the way their enablers and dependents (psychological context of dependence) relate to them. Obama's race is very much outside of his control, as indeed it is outside of the control of any child born. However, how the question of race and other uncontrollable events (e.g. acts of nature, diseases, socioeconomic circumstances, law) are interwoven into the dialogue of what a narcissist believes in a defensive mode, that is one necessary to feed their continuing delusions of grandeur and exclusivity, is completely controllable by their own actions. It seems that Obama brought with him an entire cadre of enablers and dependents, especially those who are parasitic to his status as President, and this has created what I see as a very mild form of mass hysteria. His supporters are so caught up in the identity of Obama that he essentially is the one force holding them to a common theme, that being his ego and his need to feed it through manipulation of them. It is a complex picture that emerges on a macro level, but on a micro level (specifically to Obama's supporters)--race is the one thing they believe makes their unfounded faith in the malignant narcissist inviolate. Obama knows this and uses them frequently. I believe some of them are quite conscious of it, but if he is no longer President come November, out goes their relevance and back into obscurity they go. This is another dimension of malignancy, that is the number of people who will be collateral damage and thus personalize valid criticisms of Obama.
How's criticizing a sitting
Submitted by Ogundipe S.O. on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 3:07pm.
How's criticizing a sitting president racist? Could it be because he was voted for strictly because of his image and not because of how intellectually capable he is? The answer is as obvious as all of us who were against him during the '08 campaigns.
I don't know why MRC refused to write anything regarding the unfair firing of Mr. Derbyshire from NRO. But I'll write this here nonetheless.
Multicultarilism has failed, the fact that Germany's Angela Merkel agrees with this position is enough pretext for the Whites to be ruthless against the invaders and their elites, too, for being complacent. There's no need for multi culture, especially since those who transport themselves to the West from the third world declines to mingle or adjust with the situation they met on ground. Instead, they package their culture and custom along from here and force their hosts to live with it. No, it doesn't work that way and it should never work that way: if you're in Rome, your behavior must not deviate from what the Romans practice. We should be working to enhance the betterment of our own people here and not travel to the West, after all we have all the natural resources and friendly weather than the Whites we always run to to solve our problems for us.
Mr. Lowry has been making series of poor judgment recently especially when it comes to event that has to do with strong conservatives in the media. We must remember how swiftly Rich took to his "the Corner" page last year to castigate Glenn Beck and said his exit from FNC was long overdue. Mr. Lowry was also among the first pseudo-Conservatives to endorse Mitt Romney, far ahead of even the unreliable Ann Coulter, I think.
Although I am a Nigerian who has lived in Nigeria all my life and thus can not vote in any American polls. But nonetheless, I am endorsing Romney now, because there's no other choice anymore at this stage and I think it's better for the Conservatives, especially Christian Conservatives, to rally behind Mr. Romney for a common outcome of defeating Mr. Obama. Not only to truncate his reckless driving of Americans towards an irrecoverable cliff but to deny him the chances of appointing another closet communist to the Supreme Court, which would finally be a nail on the coffin for anything Conservative in America.
We Blacks knows precisely the sort of people we are, we know how much we have not contributed anything to the advancement of the World as a whole and instead dragging it backwards. Look at Malaysia for example, Nigeria was an economic behemoth pre Independence, and even well into Independence, compare to Malaysia. Today, Malaysia has become the most traveled to country for Nigerian youths, I know this because this year alone, about 12 of my personal friends have jetted out in search of economic opportunities in that country. The same as Singapore, Thailand and several other Southeast Asia countries.
Just few days ago we started this topic on our local forum here asking why we Blacks lack critical thinking ability, it's a discussion among we Blacks, not a single White man contributed on that forum as far as we can tell. So does that makes us racist against our own race? Anyone interested should read this page and see for themselves: http://www.nairaland.com/907737/why-critical-thinking-common-sense.
Here in Nigeria, we have several tribes, but we're all Blacks and from the same country. One would think this should mean anyone can vote and be voted for anywhere in the country. Well not so much, unfortunately. If you're from the North, which would make you an Hausa man, the Constitution allows you to vote and be voted for anywhere in the South, Yoruba land, but you can never be voted for here in the South, you wouldn't even stand for election because you know no one will vote for you even if you're as brilliant as Thomas Sowell. This is among us, we the Blacks, in a black nation, drinking black waters and eating black foods. But we still hate ourselves and tribal sentiments reigns supreme among us. Why? What could be more racist than these few instances I listed? I don't know.
Yesterday, I wrote on another page on this website that may God punish State Department employee Johnnie Carson for denying that Islamic Sect Boko Haram is not a terrorist organization, lest I mention that the group, you know, the one Mr. Carson says are very peaceful, more like the way Mr. Clapper said the Muslim Brotherhood have "eschewed violence", few hours ago bombed another Church in the northern city of Kaduna during Easter mass. Today, I pray that may God bless Mr. John Derbyshire and his family for pointing out what we all know is the truth.
The only reason why the White elites are shouting bloody racism at every turn is strictly for political gain. But then, for how long would this continue? If this trends, where any thing that's adverse to the blacks is racism by default, continues then we should expect a race war sooner or later. Realistically speaking.
I haven't been to the NRO since Mr. Lowry attacked Glenn Beck and when I visited the page today it was through a Jonah Goldberg's link on Twitter, but then I noticed Mr. Lowry did not give room for comments, which means he's still as preposterous as he was before I left the site. Too bad we have someone like this calling the shots at the prestigious NRO. Mr. Buckley must be nauseating in his grave right about now.
Albeit Mr. McCarthy and Mark Steyn still write good articles on there, I think. But still, I believe it's time Conservatives should put NRO, and similar clandestine "Conservative" outlets like it, out of business or disgrace Mr. Lowry out of the publication. I'm sure Mr. Buckley would be contended, after all the only thing they cater for over there now is political correctness. Heck!
We Blacks Continues To Embarrass Ourselves.
Submitted by Ogundipe S.O. on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 3:08pm.
How's criticizing a sitting president racist? Could it be because he was voted for strictly because of his image and not because of how intellectually capable he is? The answer is as obvious as all of us who were against him during the '08 campaigns.
I don't know why MRC refused to write anything regarding the unfair firing of Mr. Derbyshire from NRO. But I'll write this here nonetheless.
Multicultarilism has failed, the fact that Germany's Angela Merkel agrees with this position is enough pretext for the Whites to be ruthless against the invaders and their elites, too, for being complacent. There's no need for multi culture, especially since those who transport themselves to the West from the third world declines to mingle or adjust with the situation they met on ground. Instead, they package their culture and custom along from here and force their hosts to live with it. No, it doesn't work that way and it should never work that way: if you're in Rome, your behavior must not deviate from what the Romans practice. We should be working to enhance the betterment of our own people here and not travel to the West, after all we have all the natural resources and friendly weather than the Whites we always run to to solve our problems for us.
Mr. Lowry has been making series of poor judgment recently especially when it comes to event that has to do with strong conservatives in the media. We must remember how swiftly Rich took to his "the Corner" page last year to castigate Glenn Beck and said his exit from FNC was long overdue. Mr. Lowry was also among the first pseudo-Conservatives to endorse Mitt Romney, far ahead of even the unreliable Ann Coulter, I think.
Although I am a Nigerian who has lived in Nigeria all my life and thus can not vote in any American polls. But nonetheless, I am endorsing Romney now, because there's no other choice anymore at this stage and I think it's better for the Conservatives, especially Christian Conservatives, to rally behind Mr. Romney for a common outcome of defeating Mr. Obama. Not only to truncate his reckless driving of Americans towards an irrecoverable cliff but to deny him the chances of appointing another closet communist to the Supreme Court, which would finally be a nail on the coffin for anything Conservative in America.
We Blacks knows precisely the sort of people we are, we know how much we have not contributed anything to the advancement of the World as a whole and instead dragging it backwards. Look at Malaysia for example, Nigeria was an economic behemoth pre Independence, and even well into Independence, compare to Malaysia. Today, Malaysia has become the most traveled to country for Nigerian youths, I know this because this year alone, about 12 of my personal friends have jetted out in search of economic opportunities in that country. The same as Singapore, Thailand and several other Southeast Asia countries.
Just few days ago we started this topic on our local forum here asking why we Blacks lack critical thinking ability, it's a discussion among we Blacks, not a single White man contributed on that forum as far as we can tell. So does that makes us racist against our own race? Anyone interested should read this page and see for themselves: http://www.nairaland.com/907737/why-critical-thinking-common-sense.
Here in Nigeria, we have several tribes, but we're all Blacks and from the same country. One would think this should mean anyone can vote and be voted for anywhere in the country. Well not so much, unfortunately. If you're from the North, which would make you an Hausa man, the Constitution allows you to vote and be voted for anywhere in the South, Yoruba land, but you can never be voted for here in the South, you wouldn't even stand for election because you know no one will vote for you even if you're as brilliant as Thomas Sowell. This is among us, we the Blacks, in a black nation, drinking black waters and eating black foods. But we still hate ourselves and tribal sentiments reigns supreme among us. Why? What could be more racist than these few instances I listed? I don't know.
Yesterday, I wrote on another page on this website that may God punish State Department employee Johnnie Carson for denying that Islamic Sect Boko Haram is not a terrorist organization, lest I mention that the group, you know, the one Mr. Carson says are very peaceful, more like the way Mr. Clapper said the Muslim Brotherhood have "eschewed violence", few hours ago bombed another Church in the northern city of Kaduna during Easter mass. Today, I pray that may God bless Mr. John Derbyshire and his family for pointing out what we all know is the truth.
The only reason why the White elites are shouting bloody racism at every turn is strictly for political gain. But then, for how long would this continue? If this trends, where any thing that's adverse to the blacks is racism by default, continues then we should expect a race war sooner or later. Realistically speaking.
I haven't been to the NRO since Mr. Lowry attacked Glenn Beck and when I visited the page today it was through a Jonah Goldberg's link on Twitter, but then I noticed Mr. Lowry did not give room for comments, which means he's still as preposterous as he was before I left the site. Too bad we have someone like this calling the shots at the prestigious NRO. Mr. Buckley must be nauseating in his grave right about now.
Albeit Mr. McCarthy and Mark Steyn still write good articles on there, I think. But still, I believe it's time Conservatives should put NRO, and similar clandestine "Conservative" outlets like it, out of business or disgrace Mr. Lowry out of the publication. I'm sure Mr. Buckley would be contended, after all the only thing they cater for over there now is political correctness. Heck!
Hey O - don't get embarrassed
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 3:15pm.
Hey O - don't get embarrassed because of your 'color'...........hell, I'm a 'white' guy, and there is NO shortage of other 'white' people who are quite capable and willing to embarrass THEMSELVES............but I"m not going to let it rub off on me. Just keep your head up, your attitude strong, and your convictions straightforward and positive - if people can't accept you for that, then it's THEIR problem, not yours.
A Little Off Track.
Submitted by Ogundipe S.O. on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 4:00pm.
Don't misconstrue my position. I didn't say I'm ashamed to be Black and I didn't say all Whites are perfect or that everything White is honky dory. Au contraire, my concern is that Black as a people are not advancing as much as we need to. No matter how much opportunity we are presented with we only seem capable of squandering it.
For instance, look at Haiti, it's the only Black nation in the Western world and it's the poorest. Look at Zimbabwe, the country was doing well, it was the food basket of Africa untill Mr. Mugabe chased away all White farmers and entrepreneur who has made the country great until the year 2000. All the wealth and good economy that the Whites left behind were squandered. As at 2009, within a decade, the country was running an inflation of about 250 million percent. Their currency literally became worthless. Please don't tell me it's due to some sanctions imposed by the West.
Look at my own country, we've made tons of billions of dollars over the last few decades and look at what we still have. A dismal economic situation, poverty level and unemployment is about 58%. That is Nigeria, not to talk of other African countries. Because we're still considered among the greatest Black nations, after South Africa I think you'll choose Nigeria next then Ghana. So you get the picture of the situation other low countries are in. There are about 52 countries in Africa. Okay maybe 53 with the newly independent South Sudan.
So get me right, the problem is not really about the color of our skin, it's about how we seem to have deferred our prosperity on the Whites on the pretext of centuries old slavery. And don't forget the Whites didn't really forced us, it was our Black ancestors who made tons of monies trading their own.
I agree, and you're writing
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 5:09pm.
I agree, and you're writing from a front-row position...........I'm just over here in Hawaii, which is a part of Asia, according to that 'historic Kenyan, Barrry Soetoro Baraka Hussein Obama. But I have always paid attention to current events and world news, and I do know that zillions of dollars have been poured into Africa for decades. And I also know that a lot of Africa is rich in natural resources, and that a lot of weath has been generated from that. And I'm sure that the 'white man' can be blamed for all sorts of things - true or not - but it seems to me that the leaders and power-brokers of many of these African nations keep as much of the money and wealth and power at the top, and consequently you end up with continuing conditions as you have described.
And I have known some South African surfers and residents who have told me that the country has gotten worse since the advent of 'home rule'............maybe you can verify that for me. I think you basically said the same thing about Zimbabwe.
I know somebody who was familiar with Haiti before it went totally downhill...............and that is the type of place that may NEVER recover from the position they're in, given the ongoing circumstances.
I don't know what it will ever take to rectify these conditions - they seem to be endemic - but you sound like you've got your own head on straight, so all I can tell you is to keep spreading the word and living your life by example.
Well, I see only one solution.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 3:27pm.
Elect a white (R) president.
Yeah,
Submitted by Chaitealover on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 8:10pm.
then the liberals can
mockcriticize him all they want and not only not be called names, they'll be called intellectual giants, just like when George W. Bush was President.Chai
It's simple - it's a con.
Submitted by sherlock1 on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 4:05pm.
It's simple - it's a con. Dyson is playing the White House game, and the race-hustler game, which are ultimately the same game. Nobody is allowed to criticize a black man or woman, because if they do they are a racist, and the validity of their critcism is irrelevant... because they are a racist. It's a nice con if you can work it, and the Democratic Party is full of masters at it.
And Dyson's attempted sly walkback from saying all criticism of Obama is racially motivated, to saying that calling the President a "bully" is an unacceptable form of discourse is beyond laughable. He must have spent the years 2000-2008 on an extended sabbatical to some alternate universe, one in which liberals behave with the decorum and honesty that they fatuously demand of everyone else.
The people LIVE in an
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 5:13pm.
The people LIVE in an 'alternate universe', so they don't know any other way.................it's in their DNA. There is a lot of TROOF to the belief that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Oh Brother...
Submitted by pcnav on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 6:31pm.
This is why I'll be glad when Obama is thrown from office, so we can get away from this bullcrap charge of racism for everything this clown says and does. The guy may have a black father but he was raised by his white lefty lunatic mother and grandparents. Everything about Obama is based on white democrat policy including the lies and deception.
Dyson
Submitted by Scott Trent on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 9:30pm.
Some people live and breath race, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The rest of us do not. Dyson came off as a race baiting idiot today on This Week.
So I walk into work today
Submitted by Nemesisesq on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 8:30am.
And there's a chocolate donut broken in half and left on the break room table. Black O broken and left there. Must be hatred of the president. Right? Right?
They fall for it.
Submitted by gwalt on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 12:08pm.
The marching orders are out. I was recently called a racist by three of my MSNBC/CNN viewing relatives. Their reasons were not particularly well founded ( i brought up WSJ Roe Effect study done in 2004 which stated that Roe means less Democrats) and I laughed at them which made them even madder.
Last week when they came to visit I turned my backside to them and asked: " do these jeans make my a$$ look racist?"
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Racist Media
Submitted by CJohnson on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 12:40pm.
Because the media cheerleaders only date the dumb jocks.
Dyson and the race card
Submitted by Steve Cakouros on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 3:08pm.
Dyson is a blustering blithering idiot. This is my first and I hope my last look into his narrow mind. Dyson thinks that if he talks with a loud voice that his opinions will sound credible. He doesn't reason he rants.
Why does ABC call on people like Dyson? When he said that Obama was criticized because of racism I threw up my arms in disgust. Is he kidding?
Dyson is the type of man Booker T. Washington would have denounced because his type is always moaning about race. Washington said that such men do not win the respect of the white man. He is right. I do not respect this loud mouth nit wit.
Horrified...
Submitted by JeremySmithColl on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:12am.
The moment I heard some years ago that this man had been hired by my alma mater, I was horrified... Michael Eric Dyson is the most divisive, fire-breathing, racial-baiter out there ... I can puke every time I see or hear him... disgusting.