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1. In eighth grade English class, 1974, after I gave what must have been a brilliant and insightful observation, a black girl across the room raised her hand, and announced to the class, He talk like a white boy!
2. What did LaQueesha mean? That is spoke clearly? Intelligently? That some timbre was missing from my voice? That moment was the beginning of my life.
3. It was suddenly clear that my definition of my black self was unimportant: my membership credentials to the brotherhood were confiscated and ripped to shreds. The way I spoke, the sound of my voice, my diction, clearly meant that I was trying to be something I wasnt. I was an outsider.
a. Ive written a column for several years. The emails included lots of polite comments .as well as your thoughts are dangerous to black people, Stepin Fetchit, Sambo/Uncle Tom, youre betraying the race, et.cetra.
b. My sister, Lisa, whom I love dearly, tells me, Im ashamed to tell people that my little brother is a Republican. We have another sister how has been a drug addict, a lesbian for a time, in and out of mental hospitals, chased by debt collectors .but Lisa never said Im ashamed of you.
4. All because they perceive a lack of adherence to their definition of blackness. Witness the treatment of Ward Connerly, the University of California regent and author of Prop 209 outlawing affirmative action in California. For daring to question the morality of affirmative action quotas an insisting that black children are capable of competing with white children, Connerly was called everything but a child of God.
5. When John McWhorter, former linguistics professor at Berkeley, a black man, wrote Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, the NYTimes review claimed he wasnt black enough to write about black people with authority. Another professor called him a rent-a-Negro. Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, economists, have argued that the black middle class did not spring from affirmative action or the welfare state, are routinely ignored by the mainstream press, and miraculously left out of a list of public intellectuals compiled by race expert Michael Eric Dyson in his Race Rules. Need we even begin to address the black communitys ostracizing of Justice Clarence Thomas?
a. The epitome of such thinking appeared when Justice Thomas was asked to speak to an elementary school in D.C. The invitation was rescinded when a number of the parents objected that he was not a proper role model. The school has no such complaints when they invited the crack-addicted, philandering former mayor Marion Barry.
6. What remains unclear is who anointed these folks with the right to stand at the door checking ideological credentials and confiscating the cultural membership cards of those who refuse to hoe rows on the liberal plantation?
7. Ironically, these gatekeepers use the same tool used by those they call oppressors: they define those who view the world with different eyes as less than, and the accusation is enough evidence of its veracity.
8. This is not to say that these self-appointed judges dont hold a potent and painful weapon. The threat of banishment, of being put on silence and marginalized cannot be underestimated. All people search for a sense of belonging and the menace of being on the outside is often much more frightening than being deemed that which is not.
The above from Joseph C. Phillips' book, He Talk Like a White Boy.
9. People desperate for a badge of identity are highly susceptible to groupthink, in fierce need of a guide, and, so, the foolish, ignorant, and envious persons are freed from the sense of their insignificance and powerlessness.
Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of The Popular Mind, p.22.
a. For insight into the incentive of the bullying behavior that is a hallmark of liberal behavior one needs to review the work of The American Sociological Review, which reported that the bullies are not at the top of the popularity-heap, and see bullying as the way to increase their social status. Bullying behavior is correlated with how much the student cares about being popular.
Web of Popularity, Achieved by Bullying - NYTimes.com
'Liberals speak out with the fatuous lunacy of people in the old Soviet Union, passing out awards to one another for imaginary heroism and denouncing others for class crimes.' Coulter, Demonic, chapter 14.
2. What did LaQueesha mean? That is spoke clearly? Intelligently? That some timbre was missing from my voice? That moment was the beginning of my life.
3. It was suddenly clear that my definition of my black self was unimportant: my membership credentials to the brotherhood were confiscated and ripped to shreds. The way I spoke, the sound of my voice, my diction, clearly meant that I was trying to be something I wasnt. I was an outsider.
a. Ive written a column for several years. The emails included lots of polite comments .as well as your thoughts are dangerous to black people, Stepin Fetchit, Sambo/Uncle Tom, youre betraying the race, et.cetra.
b. My sister, Lisa, whom I love dearly, tells me, Im ashamed to tell people that my little brother is a Republican. We have another sister how has been a drug addict, a lesbian for a time, in and out of mental hospitals, chased by debt collectors .but Lisa never said Im ashamed of you.
4. All because they perceive a lack of adherence to their definition of blackness. Witness the treatment of Ward Connerly, the University of California regent and author of Prop 209 outlawing affirmative action in California. For daring to question the morality of affirmative action quotas an insisting that black children are capable of competing with white children, Connerly was called everything but a child of God.
5. When John McWhorter, former linguistics professor at Berkeley, a black man, wrote Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, the NYTimes review claimed he wasnt black enough to write about black people with authority. Another professor called him a rent-a-Negro. Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, economists, have argued that the black middle class did not spring from affirmative action or the welfare state, are routinely ignored by the mainstream press, and miraculously left out of a list of public intellectuals compiled by race expert Michael Eric Dyson in his Race Rules. Need we even begin to address the black communitys ostracizing of Justice Clarence Thomas?
a. The epitome of such thinking appeared when Justice Thomas was asked to speak to an elementary school in D.C. The invitation was rescinded when a number of the parents objected that he was not a proper role model. The school has no such complaints when they invited the crack-addicted, philandering former mayor Marion Barry.
6. What remains unclear is who anointed these folks with the right to stand at the door checking ideological credentials and confiscating the cultural membership cards of those who refuse to hoe rows on the liberal plantation?
7. Ironically, these gatekeepers use the same tool used by those they call oppressors: they define those who view the world with different eyes as less than, and the accusation is enough evidence of its veracity.
8. This is not to say that these self-appointed judges dont hold a potent and painful weapon. The threat of banishment, of being put on silence and marginalized cannot be underestimated. All people search for a sense of belonging and the menace of being on the outside is often much more frightening than being deemed that which is not.
The above from Joseph C. Phillips' book, He Talk Like a White Boy.
9. People desperate for a badge of identity are highly susceptible to groupthink, in fierce need of a guide, and, so, the foolish, ignorant, and envious persons are freed from the sense of their insignificance and powerlessness.
Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of The Popular Mind, p.22.
a. For insight into the incentive of the bullying behavior that is a hallmark of liberal behavior one needs to review the work of The American Sociological Review, which reported that the bullies are not at the top of the popularity-heap, and see bullying as the way to increase their social status. Bullying behavior is correlated with how much the student cares about being popular.
Web of Popularity, Achieved by Bullying - NYTimes.com
'Liberals speak out with the fatuous lunacy of people in the old Soviet Union, passing out awards to one another for imaginary heroism and denouncing others for class crimes.' Coulter, Demonic, chapter 14.
