Question: Anything You Want To Say To A White Guy?

This actually got a few surprising results,...

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Crazy Glenn Beck To Oprah Winfrey: You Disgust Me!!!

This is a pretty (unintentionally) funny clip of Glenn Beck bemoaning the fact that, though Oprah's accomplished, she's still  aware of race as an issue to be dealt with. As though one person's accomplishments are shared by the group, or mean the others have the same chance, when that just isn't so. 

And for a white guy - a member of a cult that just admitted it was racist to blacks, for over a century, and well into the 20th - to think he can dictate what opportunities are out there, for blacks, puts him right square in the "jerk" column where so many blacks already think he belongs. 

I used to listen to Beck on the radio, before he went God crazy and was doing more comedy, but I never really warmed to him. His lessons on history could be revealing, but it was never black history. Not what I heard anyway. That was an obvious "tell". 

It's always an obvious "tell". Glenn Beck doesn't see race, you see. Glenn Beck ignores the most obvious part of black's political identity, so he can try and sell us his own, and it won't work. We're not, and don't want to be, part of Glenn Beck's goofy LDS "America". We're making another one, and him, his cult - and his "disgust" - be damned.

Especially because, I don't know about you, but it sounds to me like somebody's ready to start hitting the bottle again,…

Without Reservations: We Must Free Native Americans

Speaking of tragedies that, somehow, America HAS to rectify:

"The hard lives — and high suicide rate — of Native American children on reservations"

For the true Founders of Our Nation, this will not do,...

TMR Got Into Race Because That's Where We Should Be

The Week has seen the sweep of history:

For the good of their party and for the good of the republic, Republicans must genuinely reach out to and successfully attract black voters.

The GOP is not off to a good start. In South Carolina, where blacks make up 28 percent of voters, so few blacks voted in the 2012 GOP primary that it was statistically impossible to find among them a preference for any of the party’s candidates.

Rand Paul and other Republicans have made awkward attempts at appealing to African-Americans — so awkward it sometimes seems their intended audience is not the people sitting in front of them. Speeches by white Republicans at historically black schools and in Detroit have had the whiff of slightly smarmy non sequiturs. "Dontcha know? Republicans were abolitionists 150 years ago."

There are some obvious alterations the GOP and the conservative movement must make to attract black voters. Any project that looks like anti-black voter suppression should be first on the list to go. The Randian rhetoric of "takers" must go too. It not only alienates parts of the existing GOP base, but is pungent with contempt for those, like African-Americans, who view themselves as unfairly held outside and below the sphere of social concern.

Perhaps most difficult of all, conservatives need to bring their well-paid yappers to heel, lest they find another case like Trayvon Martin's death and use it to enflame a totally spurious debate about "the real racists." Such arguments make conservatives look like self-involved idiots and aggrieved monsters.

Or so we've been told,...

Lavell Crawford Doesn't Have An Issue With Paula Deen

For the obvious reasons.

I love that happy man,...

Tim Wise: The 5 Things Whites Can Do To Fight Racism

I think TMR's "good white people" meme is taking off,...

Because Of Racism: Even Average Blacks Live Within A Sphere Of Complexity That Can Make White Brains Hurt

It must be nice, to have the white privilege of "not thinking about race", though - I must admit - it does make whites look stupid when they debate someone who's done the work.

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You don't have to listen to the whole thing but, last night, I listened to the late Patrice O'Neal arguing with his friend Bill Burr, and even he brought up white privilege as it exists in the world of comedy,…

It's Hard To Clean House When Whites Live In A Vacuum

 The asshole with the megaphone is a white supremacist and Neo-Nazi who has recently been elected to represent the Republican Party as a committeeman in Luzerne County, PA. 

But - conservatives insist - the party doesn't have a problem,…

 

The Good Whites (Michael Dunn's Neighbor Speaks Out)

There IS an America - I'm sure of it - this guy, to me, is proof:

The question we face is, who else is in it?

Blacks Shouldn't Ask Whites For Things (They're Hurt)

I'm almost homeless but still concerned.

The best part is, this "makes sense" to most,...

What Lena Horne Saw When Blacks Met Robert Kennedy

As tough as she was beautiful.

There was no messing with Lena:

Kenneth Clark ran down the numbers of how bad it was for Blacks. Robert Kennedy, Attorney General and brother of the president, countered with all the things his brother had done for Blacks. While it was more than any president since Lincoln, it was too piecemeal. This was just weeks after the Birmingham protests, where police chief Bull Connor turned fire hoses and dogs on children.

Robert Kennedy acted like someone from a suddenly famous family. He seemed insensitive, expected gratitude. She was surprised at how little he understood about what Blacks were going through. It seems he had not even read Baldwin or talked to anyone who had – why else would he compare being Black American to being Irish American, like it was pretty much the same thing?

Thinking they're clever.

Ha! Blacks still ask that question of whites, all these years later,...

A White GOP Senator From Wisconsin (!) Steps UP!!!

Play that funky music, white boy!

I was almost ready to think whites, Wisconsin, and Republicans were lost - Rand Paul, pay attention - and not to Rick Perry's "nigger stone":

During a filibuster-style radio interview in Milwaukee Friday, senior Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner (Wisconsin) charged that the State of Texas as a whole had a tendency to discriminate against minority voters and should be placed back under Holder Justice Department supervision thanks to his proposed legislation.

After the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act—a policy that held a number of southern states like Texas and other jurisdictions structurally discriminatory toward minorities until proven otherwise—Rep. Sensenbrenner vowed to revive the law.

I never would've guessed Uncle Tom was a doctor. 

 BTW, It should be noted who HASN'T said anything of the kind,…

 

The C.I.A. Honors America's Black Spies During Slavery

Will someone, please, make a serious movie of this woman's life?

During the war, African-Americans received recognition for their contributions through articles in the press. However, after the war, the recognition died off. Racial prejudice and a lack of official records of intelligence activities were factors in the lack of acknowledgment.

In honor of Black History Month and in an effort to give these brave black Americans the recognition they deserve, here are a few of their amazing stories… 

The Perfect Spy

African-Americans played an important role in the outcome of the Civil War. Slaves and freed African-Americans were an invaluable resource to the Union, providing information on the Confederate forces. This became known as the “black dispatches.”

The dispatches were most commonly obtained from debriefing slaves—either runaways or those who had come under Union control. And a few brave black Americans learned important intelligence about Confederate plans through behind-the-lines missions or by serving as an agent-in-place,...

Blacks Talking Race Online To Conservatives (A Visual)

All the while, the whites are screaming they're NOT being racist,...

"Go To Hell" Has Recently Been A Regular Suggestion

“Part of successful engagement with African-Americans is to simply not stereotype them. If Black students are going to a predominantly White institution, then they might not know how to respond to nuanced racism in the form of stereotypes.

If the majority of faculty and staff are White, then the students do not necessarily know who to turn to or where to go.”

We've Better Things To Do (But Nothing More Important)

We'll get jobs when we're done with the one we've been handed.

Shouting Thomas' slogan for life.

Blacks everywhere seem intent on educating white folks:

"For my talk today, I will not only explain to you [smile modestly to the mostly white audience], how to make the poetry publishing world more racially inclusive, but I will also reveal the root cause of this inequity.

You’re welcome."

You ARE welcome.

It just doesn't seem like it because we're exhausted,...

It Can Be Hard To Talk To Whites About Race Problems

I remember being 17:

"Ten minutes into the second half, I started to hear monkey chants. I couldn't believe it. I was just trying to play football.

It was a crowd of about 10 people standing behind the goal. It went on from there. One man shouted at me: 'black bastard' and 'banana man'. It was really upsetting.

After a while I was in tears. I couldn't really concentrate on the game.

I tried to, but the manager decided to take me off as he knew my head wasn't on the game. I appreciate what he did.

My teammates were really angry about the abuse I had received."

I'm in my 50s now, and would (lovingly) tell that young person to toughen up, and get used to it, because it only gets worse over time - and more complex - since whites won't deal with it, or themselves. Positive, or negative, you're going to be a target of some kind.

Oh, I'm sorry - I forgot most whites "don't see race" - my bad:

Go on back to being color "blind" without me.

Kind of hard to have a sympathetic ear.

I didn't mean to interrupt the party,...

Hey, White People: I Think I've Found 1 Of Your Histories

The Beautiful People.

We exist under centuries of delusional thinking crafting our world:

The term Caucasian race had,…been coined by the German philosopher Christoph Meiners, the application of craniometry and other anthropometric studies by Blumenbach had given the idea a certain scientific credence.

Meiners had coined the term Caucasian (or Caucasoid) from the Caucasus in Eastern Europe, from where he believed "the most beautiful race of men" - white fellas - had originated. The aesthetics of race seemed to interest him more than anything else, and he was particularly gushing about Georgians for some reason, while considering black people ugly and inferior.

The two halves of my horrible heart.

That last part of that quote, I kinda figured out on my own,...

Decent: A New Song By Diplo, Frank Ocean & The Clash

Talk about an odd pairing creating a fine result:

There seems to be more happening in culture than politics today,...

The Father Of Modern Journalism Didn't Foresee "Spin"

Fix racial problems? Why, when you can do this, all day long?

"This is no time for men,…to keep silent…. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities."

- Edward R. Murrow