Race Card
Posted at 10:21am on Apr. 11, 2008 N-A-A-C-P bringing H-A-T-E to M-I-C-H-I-G-A-N
By RightMichigan.com
Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.
"When you take the t-e-x-t out of context, you're left with c-o-n, and we have been conned," Detroit Branch NAACP President Wendell Anthony said as he announced the dinner's keynote speaker Thursday at a news conference.
I haven't talked about Jeremiah Wright here on Right Michigan to this point. He's one of those characters and one of those stories that's radioactive and distasteful enough that I happily reasoned "it's not happening in Michigan." He represents a part of America I wish didn't exist. A part I'd rather not discuss if I don't have to. I'm all about "picking fights" but there has to be a line somewhere in the sand. A boundary you won't cross. Because you know the minute you do things get a heck of a lot uglier and there's no going back.
My younger brother Casey was born bigger than me. Almost literally. Two years my junior but everything I'm not physically. I remember being a six year old at church and walking next to him and hearing "oh, are you guys twins?" every single week. No exceptions. By the time he was ten he was bigger, stronger... I was a runt. But I was still the oldest and that lead to some epic battles in the living room or the backyard. Some of our fights are still legendary among our friends from the neighborhood.
But there were unspoken rules of engagement. No hitting in the face and never, EVER, strike below the belt. We might have been at each other's throats (that was allowed) but at the end of the day we were still brothers and best friends.
Lines you just shouldn't cross, you know?
Jeremiah Wright is the nut-shot of 2008 political discourse. It's crude, it's distasteful, it's ugly, it's painful and when it's all said and done you've only made things worse.
So it was with considerable (seriously) displeasure that I read the report in this morning's Detroit Free Press. The Detroit Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has lined up one heck of a big name guest to keynote their fancy annual fundraising dinner on Sunday, April 27.
Barack Obama's pastor and potential hate-monger-in-chief, Jeremiah Wright, will be making his first big public appearance and darn it all if he isn't being welcomed with open arms in the most troubled and racially divided city in the United States of America. Get ready, Motor City, you haven't seen hate like this in a long, long time.
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Posted at 4:11pm on Nov. 1, 2007 You Say "Macaca," I Say "Jimmy The Greek," Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
I Guess They Are Not The Clean and Articulate Kind
By Dan McLaughlin
Joe Biden's arch-nemesis - his own mouth - has struck again, according to a one-day story on Page A7 of the Washington Post:
Biden also stumbled through a discourse on race and education, leaving the impression that he believes one reason that so many District of Columbia schools fail is the city's high minority population. His campaign quickly issued a statement saying he meant to indicate that the disadvantages were based on economic status, not race.
After a lengthy critique of Bush administration education policies, Biden attempted to explain why some schools perform better than others -- in Iowa, for instance, compared with the District. "There's less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with," Biden said. He went on to discuss the importance of parental involvement in reading to children and how "half this education gap exists before the kid steps foot in the classroom."
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Posted at 2:24pm on Oct. 25, 2007 Horse Trading
By Dan McLaughlin
[R]eports have suggested that Southwick's confirmation was the result of political dealmaking. Roll Call reported that in return for Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) not aggressively rallying against Southwick's nomination, Republicans, led by Sen. Trent Lott (R-MI), agreed to help Democrats in negotiations with the White House over spending measures. Lott didn't dispute that account, telling Roll Call, "Good-faith efforts on one side beget good-faith efforts on the other side." A spokesman for Reid disputed the suggestion of a deal: "The fact is that Senator Reid opposed the nominee from the start."
Thoughts, assuming this report is correct:
1. I know we all hate compromises, but at least this time Lott was (1) getting something in return for supporting more spending, rather than doing it for its own sake, and (2) trading a short-term loss (on spending) for a long-term benefit (a life-tenured judgeship).
2. Reid was willing to play to the peanut gallery on the Left by playing the vilest sort of race card on Southwick (even invoking Jena, thus impliedly comparing Southwick to...a white kid who was kicked into unconsciousness by a mob of black teenagers...um, let's scratch that analogy), but at the end of the day saw nothing at all wrong in trading that away as just another bargaining chip.
3. Lott didn't feel there was any benefit to denying a deal; Reid did. That should say something, no?
