1 I'm numb to being thought of as a racist.

2 Tha accusation of RACISM....the last refuge of a scoundrel!

3 Wow. That was a really excellent essay. I'll be thinking about it for a long while. Huh. Rarely do I read something that really introduces a new, cogent point of view to my little old mind.

4 I see no problem with making jokes about the KKK, cross-burnings, lynchings, etc. at the expense of Leftists like Frank Rich who want to pretend as if the actual racists are mostly on the right.

5 I hate white people Americans, all of them. Every last iota of a cracker an American, I hate him.

6 I think the perfect capper is that Shirley Sherrod essentially ran a slave plantation that exploited blacks. I think the racism charge has run it's course. Anyone who gets worried about being labeled one is foolish. The American people are just fed up with the whole issue. Besides they voted for Obama so they can't be racist and their white guilt has already been assuaged. Obama may not be post-racial but the public is.

7 Damn you Reverend Nippon!!! For stealing my post, yep, I think we have to bomb you again.

8 There's no coincidence that Black Americans had their vote guaranteed at the same point in time that Democrats set out to buy it with LBJ's 'great society.'

9 Similar tactics used against black conservatives.  You are not a real black unless you lockstep with the dems.  You are a house boy, Oreo cookie, uncle tom..etc.  Another words, if your black, you are never to think for yourself, you are to remain on the Democrat Plantation and do and think as you're told.  I wish more blacks would wake the hell up and see the truth.  They have and are being played like a cheap fiddle. 

10 This is the national dialouge on race we've been waiting for. Too bad the other party (of the conversation, not nessasarily political party) has closed ears and a closed mind.

11

I would like to see Baldilocks as a cob-logger around here.

I mean that in a good way too.

12 I haven't read the whole essay yet, but is there a solution?  not to what the leftist are doing, they will keep doing it, but to an awakening or at least an intellectual curiosity.  It seems to me with a 95% dem voting record, there clearly isn't a whole lot of debate going on in the black demographic.

13 Damn...the gal who speaks around the 8:00 mark in the IOTW vid is pretty hawt.

14 Until the people realize, hey, I know what racism is and this is not it. Being opposed to what mostly-white holier-than-thou thieves are transparently doing is not racist, no matter what color thet say their figurehead is.

15 Love me some baldilocks!

Why the hell doesn't a certain "fair and balanced" network discover her and broom Juan Williams?

Or, for that matter, why doesn't NRO take her on as a replacement for some of their squishy frat boys?

16

what the left loves most?
identity politics
and screaming RACIST!

17 Baldilocks is a gem, she often delves deeply into issues we all face. go to her site.

18 Wow. That was a really excellent essay.

Baldilocks is the shit.

One of the things the Left is trying to provoke is that one comment.  You know how in a sea of signs, they'll find the one that can be most provocative, or they always air the interview of that one dumb sumbitch?

They are just aching to hear that word.  Just aching.  SO much so that they had to make shit up when the CBC members were making their walk to the Capitol building.

Fact is, they know we can't guard against it.  Some fuckweasel that couldn't beat Basil Marceaux at tic-tac-toe WILL use that word.  They're just waiting for that one example caught on film.  And we can't completely guard against it.

Stacked decks are that way.

19 Baldilocks rocks!

20 I agree that conservative African Americans have it worse than anybody in this nation. Imagine having to hide your beliefs around family and friends. That's sad.

21 And by "they". I mean the Left.

Wait.  I mean the MFM.

22 The exceptional thing about the American revolution is that people were educated and enlightened enough not to go on a reign of terror afterwards. I'm not so sure our masters will do as well in a second revolution's aftermath.

23 Thank you, Ace.


4 I see no problem with making jokes about the KKK, cross-burnings, lynchings, etc. at the expense of Leftists like Frank Rich who want to pretend as if the actual racists are mostly on the right.

Posted by: Baldilocks on March 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM at August 06, 2010 05:42 PM (mHQ7T)

FTR, that's not me.

24 Baldilocks, I love you. Thanks for that wonderful pair of pieces, and for your work in general. You're awesome.

25

The white person who feels unproductive anger at blacks as a group is in just as manipulated as the black person who feels this way toward all whites whether either is justified or not.  Why? Because blanket anger toward group for things which an individual of any group cannot change—such as skin color or race--leads to the Vicious Circle of un-washable guilt and anger that I've already described and it gets the Left what it wants—the goal.

perfect

26

Posted by: Rube DeFarge at August 06, 2010 05:56 PM (k7SeR)

Knock that shit off, newbie.

27 FTR, that's not me.
Posted by: baldilocks at August 06, 2010 05:56 PM

Baldilocks isn't baldilocks?

Now I'm really confused!

We're all baldilocks now on AoSHQ. Except for those who are Pat Caddell....

28 Yes, excellent analysis Baldilocks. Excellent essay. You will now find yourself on the watch list of dangerous right wing extremists.

29 There will be a second revolution, Herr.  There will be blood.

30 Take Fred Sanford...mix in some Beverly Hillbillies...and add a healthy dash of "Movin' on up"...and you got the obamas

31 There will be a second revolution, Herr.  There will be blood.

Well, hell.  Why don't ya just walk up to the nearest Federal Building and let 'em know?  I'm sure they'd appreciate the intelligence.

Liam Neeson in "Rob Roy":  "It's bad enough it might be true without you wishin' it."

You know how it sets off the Ewok.  Just enough.

32 Unpaid promo: if you think Baldi's blog entries are good, you should read her novel "Tale of the Tigers".  It's every bit as well-written, and yes there's plenty of insight on race inside.

33

in first herding essay;

 Leftists seek to divide groups and stir up anger and, ultimately, violence--so that a leftist-controlled government can come in and crack down on all freedoms in the name of order and set into overdrive their well-laid plans to fundamentally transform the United States of America into the Socialist Utopia of Karl Marx's vision.

we mustn't let them!

34 I love you guys and girls too!

35 32 Take Fred Sanford...mix in some Beverly Hillbillies...and add a healthy dash of "Movin' on up"...and you got the obamas

Posted by: truth at August 06, 2010 06:00 PM (XSD4n) .

 i have it now who the Wookie reminds me of........  Aunt Ester from Sanford and Son. i think that was Freds sister-n-laws name........

36 Unpaid promo: if you think Baldi's blog entries are good, you should read her novel "Tale of the Tigers".

We charge for that shit in a capitalist society, you Commie!

I've been meaning to get a copy of that.  Thanks for reminding me.

37

Posted by: baldilocks at August 06, 2010 05:56 PM (eCBLw

Hey Juliette,

Howz about a couple of tickets to the gun show??

**FLEX**

 ...OW...OW..OW....shoulda streched...shoulda stretched

38

I'm starting to think that M'chelle and comrad Barry are living the high life because they either know they are out in 2012 or because they will defend the criticism with "racist"!

Is that a defence for everything??? I'm not sure even the "moderates" are gonna fall for that.

39

It is clear that our country can never become one with a professional class of paid agitators that are vested in keeping it divided.  That if the MSM.  Kill that snake, and we can move forward.  Let it live and it will surely poison us.

The MSM - kill the poisonous snake.

40 >>The MSM - kill the poisonous snake.


No shit.

41 I went back and read both Part 1 and Part 2. Excellent essay Balidilocks.

I would add one thing to think about for inclusion in the essay regarding the prevalence of those mandatory diversity lectures and training in the fortune 500 companies.

Most of us who had been around for a long time recognized those lectures and training for what they were. They were there to first to provide evidence of "sincerity" in equal opportunity and second to provide a job for a minority lecturer. Both were there at the recommendations of the legal department to assure that in the even of a Jessie Jackson/NAACP extortion civil suit the legal department would have ample ammunition to fight the suit. Indeed, the second reason also helped meet the hiring quotas (unofficial of course).

It was very hard to get qualified minorities in the field I worked in mainly because most do not take the required courses.

But again, these actions reflect back to government action that has made it so easy to instigate a civil suit in this area. The EEOC will even do it for you so it will not cost you a dime.

And like that unfortunate incidence in CT you can see that in the event you do every work up the documentation and evidence to fire a minority, odds are there will be some post firing action. Fortunately they are usually of a legal nature.
 

42 An excellent essay. The part about white guilt is dead on. Not that today's whites necessarily feel guilt over past wrongs ... but the feeling they get that anything they say, think, or do will be labeled racist. Racism accusers know that most people don't want to be associated with racism in any form--both because of societal views and because of moral leanings. They expect people to shrink away instead of allowing themselves to be dragged further into the mud. Fortunately, claims of racism are becoming so ludicrous, so numbered and so widespread that itÂ’s losing a little of its sting and not keeping as many people under thumb as the left has planned.

43
The MSM - kill the poisonous snake.

Yes sherlock, it's the classic battle, Mongoose vs Cobra!

We mongoose become stronger every day.

44 Baldilocks has hit the nail on the head; the left are trying to prepare the field to their liking, assuming that they will inevitably win the battle given that it's been shaped as they desired.  On this, the leftists are dad wrong.  Even if society balkanized completely and ended up playing nothing but tribal rivalries between the groups, the chances that the left wins that battle are slim to none.  However, like the other Hussein did in Kuwait, the left plays scorched-earth in their field preparations.  If they don't win the battle, they have pretty much insured that all will die in the process.  If the left can't have America, no one can.

It is very difficult to undo or reverse this process (but vote!, as I've been told to say) once it gains momentum, and given that much of the effort to tribalize America (the natural state for Democracies, as the Europeans have, that our Founders explicitly rejected) has become ingrained in our law and judicial rulings, the field of battle is going to end up being that way.  This wouldn't be a foregone conclusion, except that The Precedent (and, thus, his useful idiot junta) see fomenting racial animus as a goal even divorced from promoting any actual policies, and they have been pushing it so long and hard that we have gone past the point of no return on that (but vote!, vote!, vote!, anyway).

45

the left, instead of breeding the idea that americans protect eachother from harm, they encourage hate and encourage emotional and physical harm to us all.

46 I want to know who that wench is asking the questions at the beginning of the video. Good Lord, if she is a reporter, why even attend, she already has her story written for the MFM already.

47  you people need to lighten up alittle for a Friday afternoon.

48

She's right. The universities are so much worse than anyone believes and it's where this swill is poured into the soft shelled students...then they go out feeling all good about themselves, and not racist, and nice, and effeminated  and weaselly.

Google results for "school of social justice".

http://tinyurl.com/2uyg75d

49 In a much more coherent way, what Baldilocks says is a lot like what Glenn Beck says.  The left is trying to incite violence based on a race war.  The odd part, to a lot of white people, is that I think most of us had gotten over any feelings of race a long time ago.  If we did or did not vote for Obama, the reason was not his color.  So essays like Baldilocks are important and necessary, because if the behavior of the left has stirred up any questions, they can be discussed.  For example, when the New Black Panther story came out, I (and everyone I know) realized that they were a fringe group, small and unimportant.  We knew that all Black people did not feel that way.  The shocking part of the story was the Eric Holder, DofJ part.  The shocking part  was that now Justice was based on the color of the skin.

50 Things like the Booker Rising blog and @AACONS are also horror shows for the left, although they still get pushed into the Uncle Tom corner.

51 OT, the GOP has changed its Primary schedule and some rules.

http://tinyurl.com/36ffvhj

52

Excellent post Ms. Baldilocks -- fighting this will be an uphill battle; it is so entrenched, and the opposition is relentless.  I don't think it will ever be won -- it's just too easy a ploy to use in the pursuit of power.  People will always have to be vigilant, even if it's beaten back.

It is, to use religious terms, the eternal struggle against good and evil -- no human can ever completely conquer that one, not even in themselves much less society.

However, I think it comes down to another truth: just because final victory may never be achieved does not mean that the fight is/was not worth it (even though it looks completely hopeless).  I think we all owe it to ourselves, our country, our children to at least try (knowing we will fall short and "sin" -- both individually and as a society).

53 I am so sick of hearing about racism.  I don't see racism anywhere, anywhere in my real life.  To me, it doesn't exist.  And honestly my black friends feel the same way.  Why push something that no longer exists?

54 24  Only if we allow ourselves to follow that path

55

in a decent world, if the left was about social , economic equality, i'd like to buy the world a coke scenario, they would not pit citizen against citizen for political goals. money and power, they are stealing us blind, while pitting american against american, and hell  hispanics. making it about race instead of illegal activity it is and more political power for them.

this is the change i suppose everyone that voted for the jerk wanted? 

they are laughing at all of us.

56 Baldilocks, eh? We need more like her.

57

And, @24...do you think so little of your fellow Americans, so little of our exceptionalism, that you jump to that conclusion so quickly?

I think Americans, to be geeky and steal a concept from Tolkein, are very capable of fighting "the long defeat"...because they understand the concept of an ideal, and they understand that ultimately no mere human can attain it (but are better for the attempt).  Our founders certainly understood that -- it was their great gift to us.

58 Wow, that some tight writing by baldilocks. Now, I was a little surprised as I was scrolling and reading to see her picture along the left-hand side. Can I still call her a racist to establish my bona-fides? Or am I a racist for both denouncing her and not denouncing her? It gets so confusing... I look forward to going back thru her posts and gettin' some well thought-out learnin'.

59 Racism doesn't mean what you think it means.  It means you are in the act of beating the left.

60

Dig, brothers.  The Left is groovin' on my theory of Helter Skelter.

Far out.

61

to me they have attacked our american spirit directly, our bill of rights as citizens in the most henious manner.

i guess truths are not self evident to the left.

62 Dig, brothers. The Left is groovin' on my theory of Helter Skelter.

Unfortunately, Charlie's even righter than baldilocks. He didn't get that idea from nowhere. He was in the shit with 'em.

63 I recall many years ago seeing three lily-white teenage boys wearing pro-football jerseys of black players, Rice, Erwin, and Swan.   I was a student when Tennessee awarded its first football scholarship to a black Lester McClain, and a graduate later in the early seventies when Condredge Holloway became the starting quarterback. Yeah there was a lot of racial slurs and bandied about.  Back then, a white boy wearing a jersey of a black player would have been treated very badly. 

Does sports somehow trump racism?  Where is the racial prejudice when a university can sell out an arena when ten black basketball players are the starters.  I do not see black and white - I see Orange and White.

64

My only fear is that some on the left will push the meme of Tea Partiers being racist too far.   There is a blogger that is trying to start a movement to go to Tea Party events carrying Confederate Flags for the sole purpose of burning them in front of people hoping to start trouble.   If it's not legal in that locale to burn them, they want to just have as many there as possible, so these idgits can video it as proof that the Tea Party is racist at it's core.   For some reason, they seem to think that the Tea Partiers are going to get violent trying to stop them from burning that flag.

It won't work with TPs, but one of these dumbasses is going to go too far one day, I'm afraid.   Those of you going to any events for the TP or Glenn Beck, please be on the lookout.

Oh, and great read Baldilocks!

65 Morons/Moronettes,

These two posts had been building up for months--18 to be exact.  The Left had been Cloward-Pivening us so diligently that it was hard for me to keep up with them.

Most of us saw what was coming with just a cursory gander at Obama.  When he was elected along with a totally Democrat congress, I thought "Now they'll see" and we have.

I gave up for a little while, but anything worth having is worth fighting for. 

66

I forgot what an eloquent^* writer Baldilocks is; very well written piece.

*And yes, I denounce myself.

67 May I make a suggestion for the next essay? "Part III: How to Vanquish The Elites" Can we actually regain The American Experiment, or is the most we can hope for a controlled decline into a supine Europe, a testy Russia, or an ordered China as socialism seeks its equilibrium?

68

wish we could buy a news station.

69

67 I'm afraid of that too -- more from the standpoint of physical violence.  The more they try, and don't get the response they want, the more frustrated they will become, the more outrageous stunts they will pull.

The left is very violent -- they don't have much restraint.  The Tea Party folks are going to have to excercise caution and sense (I think it would be a good idea to leave your kids home from now on).

70

71  Maybe it's time for Silence Dogood to start making an appearance on neighborhood lamp posts and community message boards????

 

 

71

baldi, it's a very hot topic. it needs to be addressed  as Holder said. focker that He is, but not in the way He wants.

unite as americans against this horrid idea that would try to divide america into control-able for them

vote, vote, talk to others in the grocery store line, do not allow this idealism to flourish and pit us all aginst eachother.

i saw it through the dem primary against dem voters,,, now it moved to tea partiers and  republicans. spreading to all america,

 

72

unknown jane, @ 73 maybe so.

Ben was sorta hot, in a nerd way.

73 Yeah, Jane, I know parents want their kids to see and be involved, but you're right.   I'm beginning to believe the best way for kids to see it from now on is by video.

74

Wow, that was an insightful and interesting essay!  I'm going to point some of my colleagues to Baldilocks' site, because she is someone they can identify with and because she's such a good writer, and a Christian as well. 

 

 

75

75  Ben was a stud

 

And yes, it would be best to keep your kids at home imho.

 

Can we regain the American Experiment?  Nobody knows; history would say "no" -- but it's worth trying nonetheless, right?

76 v. havel

The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

{10}Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

77 Ugh, all this groveling is pathetic.  The same kind of wishful pandering that gave us Michael Steele.  I guess all we need to do is nominate Allen West is 2012 and prove the Democrats are the real racists!

78

I caught part of last nights episode of Real Housewives of DC. One (white) chick gets hit with the race card by a black housewife, because she stated she does not like Tyra Banks, and later says she doesn't care for Obama.

Merely not liking a person, should they be black, makes one a racist in the popular, current usage of the term.

This is one small example of what has made the term absolutely meaningless.

Sad, huh?

 

 

79

@73: "Maybe it's time for Silence Dogood to start making an appearance on neighborhood lamp posts and community message boards????"

Simon Jester would be welcome, too.

80

The question I have:  Is the possibility of increased racism (the real kind) that may result from the efforts of the left to play the race card intentional?  Do they actively want more racism?

It's obvious the left wants blacks to vote as a bloc, and to do that they're quite happy to sow racial discord by labelling the right as inherently racist.  I suggest that these efforts will inevitably lead to more, not less racism among whites.  Is such a backlash a desired outcome?

One can only be cowed for so long before resentment leads to anger.  The subject of race keeps getting brought up (I wish it wouldn't), and whites are largely told they can't participate in the discussion unless they take the leftist position.

I'm pretty certain that I'm not the only one who at times is reluctant to so much as engage in coversation with a black person out of concern that even the most innocuous word or action might be misconstrued as racist; it's easier at times just to avoid taking that risk.  Even when one does, the percieved need to walk on eggshells only furthers the notion that they are "the other".

Wounds don't heal by continually opening them up- they only get worse.

81

80 I could think of worse people for us to nominate...

I'm sorry, what groveling?  Perhaps I'm too dense to catch the nuance.

82 peanut. groveling?  explain?

83 oh, and actually i'd like Sowell. steele is a little lax on effort.

84

83  In my own, short sighted opinion "yes" -- if you look at what happened in the evolution of most totalitarian states, they first start pandering to elements that they consider on the fringe of society.  It's their foothold to gaining power.  However, once they gain power those groups are usually quite persecuted. 

A reading of the rise of  both kinds of socialism, fascism, even a history of a certain political party in this country seems to point most definitely to that conclusion.

85

Hollow,  yeah i see what you're saying,

what better way to keep us divided, don't let them win by fear of offense, just say it. you're called a name,

you tried to connect.

note: caution of key words, we all know them no matter what group we address,

i'm not fond of "hey bitch. how's things ?"

 laughing,

that was a joke at the end btw.

86 Good on her!

Always thought that "national conversation on race" was insipid bullshit.

It's funny to hear someone outside the herd, watch and wonder at our behavior.

I think that there is an issue needing to be addressed though.

Why are the transparently, race-baiting tactics of the Left so effective?

I would submit that it's something cultural.

Being American entails a certain sensitivity to questions of fairness, right and wrong, wondering what is just.

It's simply what we do, all the time, consciously, subconsciously, explicitly and tacitly.

We are all so vulnerable right there and can so easily be manipulated to false ends.

But I don't think that it's a bad thing, overall.

I think that it is kind of amazing, how persistent and pervasive this germ is.

Other peoples, in other lands, in different times, never suffered this "affliction" of worrying about who may or may not be aggrieved.

I suspect that the vast bulk of human experience on this planet has been rather more Hobbesian than not.

We are space aliens!

To think that these are our sources of controversy!

87

89  Yeah, well I'm a "white" person who would be posting it (and I am, once the third installment comes out) -- so I run the risk of being called a race panderer (the worst sort of racist, no?), and by implication Baldi would be my pet "Aunt Jemima".  At some point it's probably a risk that needs to be taken, no?  If even one person maybe stops, reads, and considers it (and beyond all wishing, passes it on) then was it worth it?

Or we can continue to walk on eggshells..  Sometimes a wound does need to be opened up in order to clean it out and get it to heal properly -- it will always leave a scar, but allowing it to fester unresolved is worse.

 

 

88

 Jane said :totalitarian states, they first start pandering to elements that they consider on the fringe of society.  It's their foothold to gaining power

yes.

89

I remember seeing quite a while ago on a Tavis Smiley panel that was important enough to be put on CSPAN, Lani Guinier, and she was speaking to a black audience, forcefully spitting out that Justice Thomas might have black skin but he sure isn't black. The audience approved, the panel, of course, approved, Tavis, approved...

These are the people we have running the country, and schools, and they've dug themselves in really good, like ticks n the back of an old dog.

Black is not a race, it is a belief system.

Strange shit.

90 80 Ugh, all this groveling is pathetic.  The same kind of wishful pandering that gave us Michael Steele.

Posted by: the peanut gallery at August 06, 2010 07:18 PM (mg/vv)

You might be surprised to find that I agree with you about Michael Steele.  He certainly wasn't the best candidate for RNC chair.  He wasn't even the best black candidate.

Back when I started blogging in 2003, I got a lot of attention for being a black conservative--my photo was at the top of my page.  I did notice that when I took it down, my traffic dropped.  However, I gained a much more loyal, thoughtful following.  I even gained better trolls (read: more obnoxious).

I assume that you read at least one of my posts.  If you have some problem with something I've asserted or my reasoning, I'd appreciate some none-trollish criticism (not saying that you're trolling now, BTW).

91
I'm simply saying that while her argument is compelling, others might not find it quite so much so if they were unaware of her racial identity.  It's as though a white male can have no say on the subject, despite the unquestionable truth of the message.

That I myself believe this is depressing to me.

Posted by: Wodeshed at August 06, 2010 07:32 PM (MFbfZ)

I think you should do it w/o saying what my race is.  Then when you get what you may get, surprise 'em! /shameless self-promotion

92 You might be surprised to find that I agree with you about Michael Steele.  He certainly wasn't the best candidate for RNC chair.  He wasn't even the best black candidate.

No shit!

Who was that dude from Ohio?

93 Blackwell? yeah i liked him too.

94

still for knowledge  about economics and how america runs, Sowell.

although maybe He is so disgusted with the political proccess, he'd never do it.

95 baldilocks, my point is that the groveling I see in this thread is pretty much the same kind of behavior you describe in your post.  I wish white people would just snap out of it so we could start dealing with the serious issues facing the country.

96

Back when I started blogging in 2003, I got a lot of attention for being a black conservative--my photo was at the top of my page.  I did notice that when I took it down, my traffic dropped.  However, I gained a much more loyal, thoughtful following.  I even gained better trolls (read: more obnoxious).

Posted by: baldilocks at August 06, 2010 07:46 PM (eCBLw)

I really don't care what they say. Better trolls are really where it's at!

97

91 American is founded on an ideal (or set of ideals) -- that's the difference (between us and other countries imho), and that's the cause of all the problems.  In a sense, the thing that makes us such a wonderful country is also the thing that we are most neurotic, to the point of self destruction.

Due to human nature, none of us individually (and certainly as a group, a society, a nation) can ever live up to the ideals our country was founded upon, because we're imperfect humans living in an imperfect world.  We'll always have problems living up to those ideals; we'll always have a certain amount of neurosis over the fact that we can't live up to them.  But our founders knew that -- they also knew that it was the only way we could keep the experiment going; that in at least trying to live up to the ideal this country was founded upon we'd be better people for it (and our country a better country than anything the world has ever seen before).  There are a lot of pitfalls following that course (we're seeing them front and center now); it isn't easy and ultimately we will fail to reach the perfect goal (that's why being a true American is one of the hardest things I think a person can do). But it's worth it.

 

For those of a religious nature, I would say that our founders set us upon the course, as a nation, of personal quest for salvation (with the attendant fall from grace, confession, penance, absolution cycle which will never resolve itself) -- and put it on a secular plane so it was available to everyone (it isn't just bible thumpers that work through the idea of "living right" after all).

98

peanut? the left have again, made division  of citizens a serious issue in This country. (not just black white, but religion, hispanic)

we need to address it.  to say nothing is cowing.

99 When I look at the black Miss Hooters 2010, her blackness is not in the top two things I notice.

100

gator, all you men are the same!

or not.

101 *Still holding tight to her initial impression of Baldilocks as a wizened red-haired dwarf a la LOTR with an inexplicable flavor of anachronistic service in the Marines or something*

Meh.

I'm a traditionalist.

I'm gonna keep thinking of Baldilocks as a middle-aged, hair challenged, white dude with a beer gut.

Not on her website of course.

But here?

Nope. I'm gonna keep imagining that she looks sort of like that comic guy Louis C.K..

102

peanut it's also saying to ;

The 2000 U.S. census counted a total American population of 281,421,906 citizens.

34,658,190 identified as "pure" black 36,419,434 identified as being of black/mixed heritage.

The census is due to be completed again next year (2010) so these numbers are likely to be invalid as of then Wiki@

many that are children that are seeing this creepy shit !we don't care  enough to ADDRESS IT.

103

let's discuss this. let's say the history in america wasn't perfect, way less than what we wanted in our beginning, and we are  doing our best  year after year to reach our ideal or what we espouse (sp), sorry wine.

we fulfill  and fight for our destiny day after day, living to our forefathers dreams of america. (an  ours)

 

looking in wine glass,

did that make sense?

104

it's friday, i'm allowed to have wine,  although maybe shouldnt type

o whatever.

105

fgs, jane said it better i should have scrolled back far enough.

she said: they also knew that it was the only way we could keep the experiment going; that in at least trying to live up to the ideal this country was founded upon we'd be better people for it (and our country a better country than anything the world has ever seen before).  There are a lot of pitfalls following that course (we're seeing them front and center now); it isn't easy and ultimately we will fail to reach the perfect goal (that's why being a true American is one of the hardest things I think a person can do). But it's worth it.

i say.

it's an obligation aS AN AMERICAN.

106 We'll always have problems living up to those ideals; we'll always have a certain amount of neurosis over the fact that we can't live up to them.  But our founders knew that --

No.

I don't believe that they did.

I think that they would be pretty shocked to see what they set in motion, if even they could perceive it.

Wouldn't that be a hoot to set up a meeting between Zombie Madison and Adams with Michael Barone?!

107

i think everyone moved on, and i look obsessed.

108

@90: "I'm simply saying that while her argument is compelling, others might not find it quite so much so if they were unaware of her racial identity.  It's as though a white male devil can have no say on the subject, despite the unquestionable truth of the message."

Fixed that for ya.

109 Baldilocks, you just got the coveted "thumbs up" from the nike air max guy!

110 lol willow, you're funny.

I'm all for having discussions or doing whatever it takes to minimize racial strife in this country, but we're not going to get anywhere if white people always feel like they have to hide behind a "person of color" when they're making a point.  All I want is for white people to grow spines and realize their opinions are valid whether they have been officially approved by a "person of color" or not.

111
I'm simply saying that while her argument is compelling, others might not find it quite so much so if they were unaware of her racial identity.  It's as though a white male can have no say on the subject, despite the unquestionable truth of the message.

That I myself believe this is depressing to me.

Posted by: Wodeshed at August 06, 2010 07:32 PM (MFbfZ)

That's why I advised that other Moron to put up the post and tell my race later, if necessary.

willow and unk jane:  Dr. Sowell greatly helped me to understand the thinking that went into the founding of this country--about the Constrained Vision.

112 Oh. that other Moron was you!

113 Too much wine.

114

snicker, slides wine glass over to baldi.

i'm much more understandable  after two glasses.

if not, don't be rude, drink it anyway.

115 willow and unk jane:  Dr. Sowell greatly helped me to understand the thinking that went into the founding of this country--about the Constrained Vision.

It's kind of weird reading his books, I find. 

I think that he will be an important philosopher someday (if there is a someday where we value philosophers again. Up to question at this juncture. IMHO).

They are pretty easy on the eyes and you just kind of swallow up a whole lot of important premises, conclusions and facts without even noticing them!

Freaks me out a bit, how persuasive I find him.

If Plato's Socrates wanted to be an intellectual midwife...

I fear the Dr. Sowell has taken liberties with me, and induced litters of proper thinking about important things.

116

baldilocks, enjoyed your article but I didn't even think of wanting to know your race. If it wasn't for all the racebaiters on the left I wouldn't think about race at all.

They aren't helping.

117 sowell,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQQon4tjlSA&feature=related

118 I'm so tired of talking about racism. The word is meaningless to me. My daughter just finished doing a newspaper story interviewing people in the company in Connecticut where some guy went berserk and killed eight people. He was emotionally disturbed and happened to be black, so the companies CEO had to issue a statement that his employees were not racist. Innocent people went to work and got killed for no rationale reason, and the people in the company have to go into PC mode. Why can't people just let them grieve the loss of co-workers? Ridiculous. Btw, I'm white, my daughter is black and a graduate from Howard University. Every once in a blue moon we talk about race, and I tease her about her being my reparation. But for the most part we talk about important stuff. Baseball and the Patriots, and making beer.

119 Btw, great to see Baldilocks swinging for the fences again. She always is interesting. If only we could get Stephen Den Beste to dust of his keypad.

120

srsly, He has argued economics forever, fallacy and truths.

that in the 2008 economic crisis of sept. it's a joke we were offered McCain and Obama.

121 srsly, He has argued economics forever, fallacy and truths.

He got me back in the habit and I had pretty much thrown off those traces,figuring no matter which horse's behind I was studying so closely, we weren't ultimately going anywhere!

Sowell kind of wakes me up.

People, and what they do and the way that they do it, are fucking fascinating!

I can't believe that I got so jaded as to forget that, for a time.

So, lurves his provocative and studious descriptions which beg for interpretation!

122

111 Really?  "a republic madam...if you can keep it"

I think the founders realized that human nature and the American experiment would always be at loggerheads from time to time -- because people might like the concept, but were too easily tempted to fall into the alternatives (because they are human and fallible).

The system they set up requires a lot of personal responsiblity, from everyone, all the time -- with responsiblity comes a lot of soul searching, a lot of being ever vigilant, on an individual level even.  That sort of thing can cause a great deal of tension within a person -- and a great deal of guilt if you fail to live up to it (that is, if you value the thing and really love it).  I think they set the system up, knowing that we would often fall far short (which leads to the more practical aspects of the Constitution as a safeguard for those times), and with the knowledge that if we still aspired to what was written there, that we would from time to time come back to it, like prodigal children, to move forward.

That's a tough row to hoe -- so maybe we should learn to excuse ourselves when we become entangled in these kerfluffles -- we were supposed to...so we could find the way through it.

123 I'm simply saying that while her argument is compelling, others might not find it quite so much so if they were unaware of her racial identity.

Well, yeah.

But isn't that kinda the point?

124

Are the Dems and the media trying to create a race war of sorts? I hate to say that, and I am not saying they are ,but from the "march through the protestors" with the "so called spitting and racial name calling", to generally calling tea partiers racist here and there with Tingles doing a documentary on it, to the possible setup attempt on Breitbart-Beck-Fox News with the Sherrod tape that blew up in their face because the White House acted so quickly, I wonder.

Is it possible the dems want and were responsible for the Rangel and Watters trials? Anybody find that thing suspicious? Two African American Icons on trial at the exact same time right before an election in which blacks are not motivated? Hmmmm.

 Maybe I am too conspiratorial, but do you think it is possible they sent Michelle, their most popular figure to a posh Hotel in Spain to goad and race bait conservatives to critique her? Or what about the very odd touching argument involving the very very white lady and Whoopee. I think both are very very democratic and it could have all been a charade, just like the crashing of the White House party could have been a distraction for the media at the appex of the Health care debate. Just saying....

And I won't even mention how odd one very recent major event has been, because it would be too controversial. Lets just say that people need to keep their eyes open about this possibilty, be careful not to take the bait. And for goodness sakes, bring your video cams to all tea parties. Espcially the one going on August  28th.

125 25 Yes, it is.

Palin to host first special on FNC. Special guest star: LL Cool J

126

I'm still waiting to see the video of the big reception desk the Tea Party sets up in the public square to turn away black people who wanted to attend...

thisblogisracist.blogspot

127 The Democratic Party is a majority-white party. Shocking, isn't it? Therefore, it is racist. (Of course not "therefore." But this is Democrat Logic.) Just about any organization that you could name that isn't a minority group racialist organization, such as the NAACP, is mainly white. By the Democrat Logic, then...

128

AS to Shirley Sherrod: She stated that she received the call for her resignation at 11:00 AM while driving back to work from a NAACP meeting where she gave a speech.

Now I ask you. What is a government employee doing giving speeches at a NAACP meeting on the tax payers dime. Was she being paid or did she apply for time off without salary.  Was she driving a government car. Did she charge the fuel and lodging on her government credit card. Her food? How many times has she done this in the past?

Why aren't Tea Party members afforded the same privileges?

She has violated federal regulations regarding personal use of the governments time, property and money. She should be fired and not made into some type of misjudged employee.

If a government employee can attend an organization dedicated to the advancement of Black people then would it be fair to allow government employees to attend organizations dedicated to the advancement of White people, or browns, or yellows, or reds? All on the taxpayers dime and using government vehicles to travel to and from these meetings.

After all, isn't it equality we are seeking? Nothing equal here.