today I noticed a huge sign that said Anybody But Obama had been
repaired.
Somebody had actually pulled over on the side of the interstate, waded
through fences and b-wire to destroy his sign.
Thankfully he's persistent.
On Apr 3, 5:03 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Holder's remarks are but one more reminder of why it is imperative that
> President Obama be defeated in November. Our Nation will be unrecognizable
> if this charade is allowed to continue another four years.
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:20 PM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
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> > When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are
> > entitled?
> > ---
> > slave mentality
>
> > On Apr 2, 4:16 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ** **
>
> > > ****
>
> > > Return to the Article<
> >http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/holders_revenge.html>
> > > ****
>
> > > April 2, 2012 ****
> > > Holder's Revenge****
>
> > > *By* *John T. Bennett* <http://www.americanthinker.com/john_t_bennett/
> > >****
>
> > > Reverse discrimination against whites has just begun, according to
> > Attorney
> > > General Eric Holder. Now, the exploitation of Trayvon Martin's death has
> > > thrown the cycle of racial resentment and favoritism into overdrive.****
>
> > > There has been much poisonous rhetoric following Trayvon Martin's death,
> > > and more is sure to come. It is hard to imagine that any other current
> > > topic could result in racial madness exceeding that tragedy. Nonetheless,
> > > an exceptionally ominous and instructive remark was recently made by
> > > Attorney General Eric Holder -- a remark more outlandish than any heard
> > so
> > > far in our national conversation about Martin.****
>
> > > Attorney General Holder recently addressed the question of affirmative
> > > action, and for how long it would be required. He answered, stunningly,
> > > that reverse discrimination has only just
> > > begun<
> >http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/24/holder-talks-financial-cr...>:
> > > "Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices,"
> > Holder
> > > said. "The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin[.]
> > ...
> > > When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are
> > entitled?"*
> > > ***
>
> > > We see in these remarks the soil out of which rises the bitter fruit of
> > > racial resentment. Holder's attitude is best summed up as the elite
> > victim
> > > mentality. The belief is one of perpetual entitlement, fueled by
> > > bitterness, and given the stamp of official approval by politicians at
> > the
> > > highest levels of national office. The Trayvon Martin upheaval is made
> > > possible by this carefully cultivated attitude, which exists within all
> > > income levels. Whether it's under the guise of injustice, inequality,
> > > underrepresentation, or white
> > > supremacy<
> >http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/critical_race_theory_a_cult_of...>,
> > > the effect of the attitude is the same: sheer resentment towards the
> > > majority and its institutions. ****
>
> > > Not all minorities share this attitude, while many non-minorities do. For
> > > instance, Professor William B. Eimicke of Columbia University supports a
> > > lawsuit<
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/nyregion/a-fire-department-under-pr..
> > .>against
> > > New York City because the city doesn't have enough black
> > > firefighters. Eimicke, who is
> > > white<http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/wbe1-fac.html>,
> > > says, "The reality is the [fire] department should look like the city it
> > > serves." In other words, the fire department has something wrong with it
> > > because there are not enough blacks employed. This is an example of an
> > > educated, mainstream leader promoting an arbitrary standard of
> > > underrepresentation. Such standards will only fuel more demands for
> > special
> > > treatment, and more resentment when the arbitrary standard proves
> > > predictably impossible to meet.****
>
> > > Take the example of Eimicke's fellow Columbia faculty. Of the 70 core
> > > faculty members<
> >http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/browse_core_faculty...
> > .>in
> > > Prof. Eimicke's department, there are 3 blacks. Seventy-five percent
> > > of
> > > the faculty is white, and 4% is black, whereas New York City is 45% white
> > > and 27% black. Presumably, the principle that a fire department "should
> > > look like the city it serves" also applies to the faculty of a tony
> > > university. If the faculty "should look like the city it serves," then
> > > Columbia needs to expedite the removal of white professors. Will Eimicke
> > > enlist in the righteous cause of minority representation and quit? Or is
> > > that a sacrifice he prefers to delegate to students or middle- and
> > > working-class whites? We all know the answer: elite liberal hypocrisy
> > > protects many academics and politicians from the application of their own
> > > dogmas. Columbia's faculty will never match the ethnic makeup of New York
> > > City because professors are typically protected from purported racial
> > > favoritism, while firemen are fair game.****
>
> > > As the attorney general's remark shows, the cycle of elite liberal
> > > hypocrisy and racial favoritism will never end, so long as liberals
> > control
> > > racial discourse.****
>
> > > In the meantime, the results will become increasingly absurd. The
> > attorney
> > > general's daughters, and each successive generation, will continue to
> > > benefit from affirmative action to the same degree as truly disadvantaged
> > > minorities. This incongruity grows more and more evident, as Democratic
> > > Senator James Webb pointed out in his famous *Wall Street Journal*
> > > editorial<
> >http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870372410457537963095230..
> > .>piece.
> > > Sen. Webb noted that affirmative action policies have "expanded so
> > > far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not
> > > happen to be white." Racial preferences extend to business startups,
> > > prestigious academic admissions, job promotions, and expensive government
> > > contracts. Many of these preferences have no relationship to
> > > discrimination, oppression, or even socioeconomic class level; they even
> > > benefit recent immigrants whose ancestors never faced discrimination in
> > > America. Instead, we are actually creating a government-sanctioned
> > nobility
> > > -- a favored class of citizens with officially endorsed, race-based
> > > hereditary privileges.****
>
> > > Under the sway of of identity politics and racial grievance, even the
> > most
> > > privileged members of our society will hold onto petty gripes. In a 2009
> > > commencement address, the First Lady complained about her childhood
> > > experience with the University of Chicago. Recalling that she grew up
> > right
> > > near the campus, she
> > > stated<
> >http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/05/michelle_obamas_early_alienat...>
> > > :****
>
> > > [T]hat university never played a meaningful role in my academic
> > > development. The institution made no effort to reach out to me -- a
> > bright
> > > and promising student in their midst -- and I had no reason to believe
> > > there was a place for me there.****
>
> > > That she felt entitled to be "reached out to" in the first place is
> > > astonishing. The egomaniacal sense of entitlement contained in her
> > remarks
> > > will strike most people as utterly foreign. Yet this way of conceiving of
> > > one's own position in society is commonly shared. Amongst the lower
> > class,
> > > this attitude takes the form of demands for "Obama
> > > money<
> >http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/18/a-pelosi-maher-go-to-nyc-welfare-of...>"
> > > and other such hilarity <http://youtu.be/P36x8rTb3jI>. ****
>
> > > Perhaps Michelle Obama should have made an effort at some point to
> > > understand why young white students, many of whom were not from Chicago,
> > > would have been reticent about venturing out into the South Side of
> > > Chicago. The reasons are not hard to discover. Immediately after their
> > > report on the First Lady's address, CNN aired a segment on violent crime
> > on
> > > the South Side. Chief Ernest Brown of Chicago's Organized Crime Division
> > > explained the high rate of youth violence by saying that "their
> > > behavior<http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0905/16/cnr.04.html>is
> > > just inconsistent with civility." With that in mind, many students --
> > > of
> > > all races -- may not feel that it is their place to step into another
> > > community and attempt to help its youth. In fact, not even Dr. Martin
> > > Luther King and his family stayed in urban Chicago for long after
> > starting
> > > to work in the city in 1966. Cohen and Taylor write that Coretta Scott
> > King
> > > was concerned about violence in the neighborhood, and the Kings spent
> > > little time there [1].****
>
> > > Our own attorney general, ostensibly committed to even-handed enforcement
> > > of the nation's laws, referred to blacks as "my
> > > people<
> >http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Pan..
> > .>."
> > > Strangely, it is socially acceptable for only certain groups to proudly
> > > claim ethnic group membership. If similar tribal loyalties were publicly
> > > boasted by a white ethnic, that would be seen as sinister. Just imagine
> > the
> > > reaction if a President Bush had identified -- *on the basis of race -*-
> > > with a victim of minority-on-white crime by saying, "Channon
> > > Christian<http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=10968229>looks like
> > > my daughters."
> > > ****
>
> > > Identifying with an ethnic group as one's own "people" will lead in most
> > > cases to in-group favoritism. Cultural pride is one thing, but
> > proclaiming
> > > exclusive ethnic group affiliation while occupying a position of public
> > > trust is another. This tendency is too often written off as a harmless
> > > cultural tic or a healthy form of therapeutic identity formation. The
> > > trouble is that there is a worldview lying beneath the "my people"
> > language.
> > > ****
>
> > > In his remarks, the attorney general has provided the most explicit
> > > statement of ethnic favoritism and racial grievance by a high public
> > > official in American history. And the racket has just
> > > begun<
> >http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/24/holder-talks-financial-cr...>:
> > > "When do people of color truly get the
>
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