I know you're all sick of seeing me write about the travesty of the left's baseless racism accusations. More and more it sounds to me like calling someone a heathen. It doesn't actually mean anything. My 12 year old tosses it around all the time as a joke.
So I wanted to repeat this phrase that I'll bet most of you never actually got to read because it was at the end of the piece I wrote this morning - and the rest was too boring and predictable for even me to read the whole thing. But when I reread my comment, I was feeling kind of proud of it and I think it's worthy of repetition:
I am American, but of pure Irish descent on both sides of my family. A great many of my tribe "The Irish" are drunks. They are also very often great singers and musicians, but are as a rule, horrendous cooks. There are many who will object to the negative assertions, but I stand by my view. It is an accurate reflection of my family experience and my considerable exposure to the broader community of "the Irish".
And even though I am a full member of that group whose racial purity can be established back to the late middle ages, I am none the less a very light and occasional drinker, can't carry a tune in a bucket, and am (in all humility) a considerably better than average cook. None of those characterizations which I have asserted apply to my group 'The Irish", actually apply to me. But it would still be meaningful to understanding who I am to tell people I am Irish. It's foolishness to pretend otherwise.
Being a part of a group does not make us slaves to it, even if that group is defined by genetics. It does not prevent us from transcending the bad tendencies of the group or prevent us from making the most of the good ones. My tribe are drunks but that does not make me into one - only I can do that. And I have refused to. My future, and for that matter my present, are my own. The only thing that's fixed and unchanging for me is my past.
I know it's a shameful vanity to quote yourself (look how often Obama does it.) But this is free so please indulge me.
Anyway, black America needs to say the same thing I just have. They need to take control of their own future, and quit blaming it on everyone else - as the left would have them do.
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I think your 12 year old's response pretty much sums up the RFNJ community's feelings on the state of this word in context to liberal America.
way back when I was in College, my school had invited Daniel Schorr to speak.
All my Professors were gushing at the thought of this "great man" and courageous journalist.
The college Young Repubs - which I was not since I was apolitical - handed out a list of Schorrs "accomplishments" and most notably, how he helped derail and paint Barry Goldwater as a right wig racist kook - or Nazi...
I decided to ask one of my history profs if he recalled this event.
"Well... yes, but he didn't really mean it that way..." I was then treated to why Goldwater (and conservatives) was a bad person etc...
I didn't lap it up, but I hit the library to research the evil of Barry Goldwater.
Turns out, Goldwater was a guy I thoroughly agreed with and not a friggin racist or nazi bone in his body.
I went to the Daniel Schorr lecture. It was a packed house. I would say at least 300 hundred attended. It was boring. Schorr was a bloviating lib that was a lousy public speaker. He kept harping about how the Republican party rather than Nixon was really the cause of all his misery and pretty much everything that ills America... He did say that future journalists should be careful because of the Reagan Administration was almost as bad or if not worse than NIxon when it came to jurnalists...
During Q&A - naturally all the Journalism students fawned and heaped praises and asked "how can I be like youuuu???"
After 15 minutes of this crap and witnessing the one of the Young Repubs get shouted and booed at by students and faculty (I couldn't hear his question, but later I was told it was something about the press becoming an arm of the Democrat party...).
I stood up, raised my hand - told him I was a history major and Apolitical... But:
"AFter reading your comments about Barry Goldwater and then researching the person, at what point did you realize you stopped being a journalist?"
Much like the Young Repub that got booed and shouted at, I was the subject of the same derision...
Schorr went on to say that Goldwater wasn't who we thought he was and admitted that he stepped over a line of journalism, but he was justified (although he didn't say why...)
the following day, one of my Prof's said: "I had no Idea you were a Republican?!?"
I told him I wasn't until after witnessing the Daniel Schorr lecture, I am now.
For me it was Katy Couric and the way she behaved during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings (It was the same thing for Andrew Breitbart BTW).
Maybe we should be thanking the media - it sounds to me like they're keeping the conservative movement alive.
you would think that electing the first black prez in hx would be all the motivation a person of "color" would need to want to be better and get farther.nope. i think they elected him cause he would at the very least keep the gruel coming at same pace or even more.they were correct.>99% of em didnt vote for him cause of inspiration but cause of just color.im sure alot of em figured hed stick it to "whitey" or "the man". they were correct again.odumass had the chance to be inspirational and a tell his peeps and all of america stop wanting handouts and get up and make more of yousrselves.. he has failed . a friend would say "hes a dysmal abyssmal failure,.
and i will stick with my prediction of fomo.......dow maybe holds 9000.unemployment sucks but all we will hear from media is that the rate dropped to 8.1%. and most of america is stupid enough to applaud... mitt's camp needs to be making info pieces on why that number is sooooo wrong.. get ahead of this and take away odumass' soundbites.. dammit to hell this man...
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