During George W. Bush’s two terms he appointed more blacks to prominent positions within his administration and did more humanitarian work for Africa than an other person on the planet before him. Not good enough apparently. Now we have a black president who won The White House because the tie breaking votes where cast by democratic leaning guilty white people. People that wanted to prove their opposition to racism so badly they would vote for a European style Socialist. These type of people are as bad as the black power crowd, its just they are on the other end of the spectrum. I personally didn’t vote for Obama, not because he is black but because of his policies. I don’t need to affirm my displeasure with racism by voting for a black candidate. I have this silly thing I do. I judge people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. I also pay attention to the company they keep throw under the bus once they have served their political expediency purposes. Novel ideas, I know.
Since all the things George W. Bush did for blacks failed to impress them I thought maybe having a black president would. According to Esquire, Obama isn’t black enough. ‘Sigh’
The economic crisis has predominantly hit non-white working class men; the collapse of the auto industry is threatening to destroy the basis of the Midwestern black middle class. If the President were white, there would be riots. Network television has somehow become even whiter since the inauguration, a nearly impossible feat. The Game is gone. Everybody Hates Chris is gone. Fred Armisen does blackface nearly every weekend on SNL.
So let me get this straight. Only blacks are working class people or the economic crisis isn’t color blind and picks out blacks, one by one? Now that we have a black president we should have more black sitcoms on TV?
One could argue that since the creators behind both Brothers and Cleveland are white, the shows never really had a chance: white people have never known how to talk about race, hiding their shame and fear behind silence or awkwardness.
Just pure ignorance.
A little chat is not going to deal with the reality that a short, grey-haired and somewhat fragile old man was led out of his own house in handcuffs for absolutely no good reason.
I like how the author plays down Professor Gates as “short, grey-haired and somewhat fragile old man.” I think I would have added angry, uncooperative and race-baiter to his description. Typical liberals though, they always have to play the victim and use charges of racism where they don’t apply.
