The NAACP is attacking Rick Santorum, accusing him of singling out blacks for receiving federal benefits. They are calling his remarks “inaccurate and outrageous.” Santorum, speaking about entitlement reform said: “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money – I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”
Personally, I don’t want to make anybody’s life better by giving them somebody else’s money. I personally want to see everybody seize the opportunity that exists, to go out and earn money. That’s my opinion. That said, I have no quarrel with what Santorum said, and my reasons are simple. First of all, his comments may have been blunt, but they weren’t unfair or inaccurate. We are continuously bombarded with the mantra that blacks are suffering disproportionately. Everything the NAACP, The National Urban League, and every tow-bit politician says when referencing blacks is a lament pursuant to how many blacks are incarcerated, uneducated, unemployed, broken homes, mistreated, and discriminated against juxtaposed to everyone else. The plaintiff cry is always more money and more whatever is needed to make the lives of blacks more sustainable. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that racism is to blame, if Oprah Winfrey’s new television channel doesn’t soon stop tanking. (Sarcasm intended)
My point is twofold. First, they cannot have it both ways. They cannot constantly carp that which I just referenced, and then be upset when someone offers a solution they don’t like and/or someone disagrees with them. The second is that they are ignoring the real problems.
Specific to the elephant in the middle of the room that they are ignoring, in 2007 I wrote the following syndicated column. As you can probably imagine, I was excoriated on black blogs and from the mouths of liberals who are analogous to uncleaned pissoirs on a hot, humid day. I stood my ground then and I stand my ground now. I’m right and I don’t care what they say. And my advice to Rick Santorum would be not to apologize, because if he does, they will immediately marginalize him. If he doesn’t know how to respond to them, then I suggest he give them my number. I’ll explain why they should shut up and stop prostituting race as currency to further their diabolical agendas.
Slavery: A Crutch For Blacks (WND.com; 1/30/07)
Virginia state Del. Frank Hargrove, R-Hanover, may not have been politically correct when he addressed a proposed resolution calling for Virginia to apologize for slavery, but in the purview of this essayist he was far from incorrect.
Hargrove was correct in saying: “The present Commonwealth [of Virginia] has nothing to do with slavery … nobody today had anything to do with it,” and “it’s counterproductive.” But it was his final comment – “I think personally our black citizens should get over [slavery]” and “by golly we’re living in 2007″ – that needs repeated voicing.
His opening comments created a tempest in a teapot, but it was his ending comments that should make his critics hang their heads. It is 2007 – at what point do we move on? How much longer – how many more centuries will blacks dine on the Barmecidal dinner of “it’s because of slavery”? What tangible bit of difference will such an apology make in the everyday lives of blacks? More to the point, how many blacks go to bed praying for an apology for something they have only read about? I submit that slavery can be a primary cause of disaffection for blacks, but only because they use it as a crutch, not because it has any relative bearing on said individuals’ lives today.
A sponsor of the bill, Donald McEachin, D-Henrico County, claims the proposed measure “is meant to be a resolution that is part of a healing process, a process that still needs to take place even in 2007.” Maybe King Salim Khalfani, head of the Virginia NAACP, didn’t get that memo because his words, “You’re damned right [whites] owe an apology” and “[whites] need to repair the damage,” in no way sounds like a warm, fuzzy, kum bay yah, we’re all in this together soliloquy to me. They sound as brutish and confrontational as McEachin’s comments sound deceitfully disingenuous.
Blacks do not own the market on past suffering and injustice – yet today, blacks disproportionately (we are led to believe) suffer the effects of a rocky beginning in America. I submit alleged suffering has nothing to do with slavery, but rather, everything to do with one’s mental outlook and approach to life’s consequences, based in large part on decision making.
The owner of my favorite Italian restaurant arrived in America in the mid 1960s. He had no money and spoke not one word of English. His first job was in a New York pizzeria, and it took long years of struggling to overcome his lack of money and English skills – but he always “believed that in America he could be more.” Korean friends opened a produce stand in the worst part of the city. They lived in the back of the store, but today, their children attend prestigious Ivy League universities.
In 1851, Irish immigrants arrived in New York aboard “coffin ships,” so named because, on the average, 15 percent or more of the immigrant passengers on those ships died at sea. They lived in the worst slums ever imagined – yet within 20 years they had transformed themselves. Italians and Jews suffered similarly. Yet they transformed themselves by taking low-paying and often dangerous jobs. African immigrants arrive here today from some of the poorest communities on earth, yet in less than one generation, they have transformed themselves.
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The reason for same is easy – it is because they come/came here prepared to take advantage of the American dream. Blacks, who have been here for centuries, are stuck on trying to extort an apology for something no one alive for at least a century has been involved with, and even then, not everyone participated in.
I once wrote, “America is not responsible for the accouchement of slavery” (July 15, 2003). I now add to that: Slavery has become the crutch of those inspired to underachieve, not achieve, cause for resentment of those who do achieve, and/or to be used as currency for those seeking to achieve based on immiseration.
“The average white person” doesn’t owe blacks special dispensation – in fact, no white person does. Blacks owe it to themselves to stop trying to extort benefit out of the past and grasp the overwhelming opportunity of the present. Slavery has nothing to do with not having better homes, better jobs or better lifestyles – but purpose and goals do. Low graduation rates have nothing to do with slavery – but purposefully failing, so as not to be “white,” and nonexistent parents do.
If McEachin wants an apology, he should start by looking in the mirror – that is to say, he should apologize for being so offensively wrong-minded. He, and those of his ilk, should apologize for misleading blacks through bitterness and resentment.
I suggest that those eager to exact an apology start with Anthony Johnson or his modern-day ancestors. I suggest they revisit his 1654 court case in Northampton, Va. I further suggest that those eager for an apology send a letter of request for same to their nearest mosque or imam – and not just for 9-11 – because no group has played a more prominent role in the African slave trade than Muslims.
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Great article, Mychal. It annoys me that people can’t just be people anymore. Things have become so politically correct, that those who are just looking for a window to be seen as some victim of something, latch on and make it their truth. The media loves to exploit the plight of the poor black man – it makes for a seemingly more sensitive approach to win accolades from their victim loving viewers. Everyone loves a victim – they can pity them and shake their heads while saying, “Aaah.. there but for the grace of God go I.” Victims make us feel better about who we are – at least we aren’t *them!” Why doesn’t the media report on the whites who are victims of self-made, perpetual poverty? Simple. People aren’t sympathetic to the poor white man. He’s been given every opportunity and for him, it’s a “choice” – after all, his ancestors weren’t slaves! (or were they?!). I recently saw a piece on a black woman who has 15 kids and can’t support them, and she’s shouting from the rooftops to get the government support that she feels entitled to (she said it, not me). A minister jumped out of the woodwork to take her on as his pet project and help this poor victim – he pays for her hotel room, food, clothing and helps her get the word out so more guilt-ridden people will help her out. My feeling for her was the same as if it had been a white woman in the same shape: If you weren’t so busy being on the dole, you’d be working and having less time to lay around and procreate. I can’t afford 15 kids, even if I did want them (I shudder), and I don’t expect the government to pay for that, so I simply don’t have 15 kids. Birth control is free at P.P. – so don’t say you can’t afford it. And don’t say your religion doesn’t condone it because what religion condones manipulation and feelings of entitlement to pay for your mistakes? While I think a majority of people *thought* what I did, they’d never actually *say* it for fear of seeming racist. Has nothing to do with race – has everything to do with the choices we make. Today, we all come into the world with the same opportunities as the next guy. Nobody needs a silver spoon in their mouth to take advantage of what they can make out of life. We all get the same shot, it’s what we do with that shot that determines if we’ll be a leader or a follower, a master or a slave. My point is simply this: there are always going to be victims in this world. They are victimized at every turn, every day. You and I could have the same exact lousy day, but it’s how we view that day that determines whether we feel we’ve been personally victimized or whether we feel that life happens, not always pleasantly, and move on with it, not personalizing the events. I might say, “That clerk was rude to me because I’m poor” and you might say, “That clerk was rude to me because he’s clearly having a bad day.” It’s self perception that makes us victims, but it’s the media’s need for more viewers that gives certain victims the edge over others and gives the *haves* the perfect excuse to be good, charitable souls and have pity on the *have nots.*
snoopsister: victims annoy me…I change channels when commercials come on playing victim card whether it be animals or children…it makes me feel like I’m being hustled…just tell me the need if there is one…don’t sell me…pusuant to the woman w/ 15 children…no one held a gun on her too have babies…my grandmother actually once told someone don’t look to me for sympathy because you couldn’t keep your legs closed…enough said…
Wow, this is great! Dr. Massie, how about a blistering column on affirmative action. It’s becoming more obvious every day that The One who took total advantage of this insane nonsense is The One!
Thanks for keeping us balanced out here. Stay healthy!
patricia: I’ve written many syndicated pieces on affirmative action…I surprised you don’t recall them…
Mychal, you’re the BEST!! I look forward to your rants every day – keep up the great work…….
jazzlo: you’re making me blush…lol…
Amen Mychal.
As you know… Sadly, nobody can tell parts of the Black community the truth without being called a racists or Uncle Toms or having some excuse, blaming others as the cause of their poor behavior. There is little inter-community accountability, and of course the “black leaders” just continue to enable poor behavior and stir the pot of discontent.
The end result, sadly, is broken families and an overload of human parasites with chips on their shoulders, walking around the streets dressed like rodeo clowns, bumming change and cigarettes.
The end result looks just like a friend of mine (who is black) whom at age 26, had nine children from two women, lives perpetually on public assistance and smokes a lot of pot. He also runs a video photography company, which is how I met him, but that’s all “under-the-table”.
The failure to tell the truth worked it’s way into recent “public service” radio ads that tell people that everyone has natural talents worthy of gaining entrance into college, skills including: playing video games, rapping and hip-hop dancing … math and science be damned.
Meanwhile, the Asians communities, who are more or less the anti-thesis of the Black community, take care of their own, regulate their community behavior internally and are generally more ambitious and successful than Whites. The end result for them is high paying jobs, property ownership and cohesive families.
As such, Asians, a prime example of what the Black community could achieve if the got their act together, are the scorn of many Blacks: Asians typically as property owners and Blacks typically as persons resenting such, and trying to take property of Asians.
There will never be change in the Black community until most Blacks lay the blame for their plight squarely on themselves. Unfortunately, Obama, rev. Wright, rev. Jessie Jackson, rev. Al Sharpton, scofflaW Eric Holder and the Democrat party as a whole will see that this never happens.
Other than a miraculous, God-caused, change-of-heart within the general Black community… I hold little hope that it will be anything other than a perpetual thorn in the side of America. I would love to be proved wrong.
david: most of what you say is spot on…but I can report that change is taking place hearts are being changed and eyes are being opened…it is not expected to be a quick process…but there are more today than earlier this decade…that’s a slow step in the right direction…
Dear Mychal, you are an absolute necessity in this world today. Our nation’s greatest problems are all related to the fact we, as a Nation, have been so rich, we have no time to realise what we have discarded in that profligate time of wealth.
There have been no people on this earth who have not, as a race, been enslaved, and there are none who have not at some time, enslaved others. The fact it has only been institutionalized under the joint work of the North African tribes taking others to sell to the Berbers, the Muslims who conquered the North of Africa, should be well remembered, just as in “Kwanza”, no one bothers to note it is entirely focused around some of the societal aspects of that same group of tribes of North Africa, and whose social ideas were only used because they dominate what “African Culture” is celebrated here, because they took the other tribes as slaves.
It is of the utmost importance that time be considered, because it always moves forward, and what has been done is history, and while useful for educational purposes that is its limit.
Every society has stories which celebrate the enslavement of foreigners or a foreigner, who then acquires the language and customs, makes the most of his situation, and becomes heroic in the end by rising from the least of slavery to being a major factor in the rule of that Nation.
Is not John Brown’s stand celebrated by Americans who believe in freedom? He was one of my heroes growing up. What about George Washington Carver, one of the most prominent chemists of his day, born a slave, and freed, he managed to separate some three hundred useful chemicals from the peanut, formerly grown for animal feed alone, and from his succes, he established the first Black University, in Virginia no less, Hampton University. I used to visit it every month as a Marine recruiter, and had to wonder what Mr. Carver would have thought of some of the fools who were there and made no effort to acquire even a modicum of education.
My family left Scotland to leave the mines, and then left Ireland because of the potato famine, and came to Virginia and worked the coal mines. On my mother’s side, my family left Russia to escape the destruction being wrought against Jews. They settled in eastern Ohio, and worked the coal mines.
My father was the first of his family not to have anything to do with the mines, and my mother’s father was the first to avoid the mines, by joining the Army, and fighting in the Spanish American war. He entered completely illiterate, never having been to school, and at the end of the war, returned home, entered the one room school house, and in three years, came out with an eighth grade education, the equivalent of a college degree in 1905 or so.
If there is an appology owed for slavery, it is owed by everyone, to everyone else, as no people on this earth have failed to participate on either end of the deal. That the last generation of American slaves were Black is merely an accident of time, brought on by the accumulation of agreement that slavery was indeed immoral, and had become intolerable to self-conscious people in time for Black Slaves to be freed. Being the last by no means makes them alone, and one need only consider both the Irish and the Chinese, in reference to the building of our transcontinental railroad, to realise this is absolutely true. There are slaves being traded today, while I write this note. They are far more important as an issue, than slavery as practiced almost two centuries ago.
Sincerely,
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC
john mcclain: it was the dahomi and ashonti (modern day benin and ghana) tribes who led the way in catching other africans and selling them as slaves to the muslims…which as you know is the point I make when I say farrakhan is tangentially correct when he says islam is true religion of the blacks…he would be more correct if he said of africans…any sarcasm perceived is intentional…
Mychal,
I once wrote Donna Lamb, “lambasting” her on the town hall meeting she attending somewhere in the south, with Al Sharpton and other black leaders. It was televised in a black barber shop. Donna came out and said “I am one white woman who believes blacks should be compensated with reparations”, or something to that effect. I have not read her “manifesto”, declaring why we should give reparations. I don’t have to. I basically know what it says, because i have black friends like this. Friends who believe we should pay them for the damage done to “their” people five generations ago. I also have black friends who work hard and never complain about the damages of slavery.
You are spot on. Blacks keep themselves down by reinforcing each other that they have been wronged. This kind of mob mentality can catch hold easily, and destroy people. In general, you become who you associate with, especially in this country, where anyone can be successful.
Any reparations, which will probably come in the form of money because it is the easiest and most expected way of remuneration, will help to destroy the black race even further. I was unemployed for five months in 2011, for three months and then again for two months. I realized both times that if I was out of the labor force for even a short while, I would lose market skills, because i am in technology sales, and must keep up on corporate technology services. To do that, i need to be in the workforce, actively competing.
I can’t imagine being out of the workforce for years. It would destroy my ability to work. If we give reparations to blacks, many of them will stay out of the workforce. This will destroy their will to work, their ability to work, and idle hands create trouble, as we all know.
In addition, if we started issuing reparations, eventually the amounts would not be enough, and people would start to complain and fight for more and more. That is how welfare, and other people’s money, destroys peoples’ minds. If our tax money was actually Obama’s hard earned money, he would not have been eager to pass it out like he has. With what he has already done, he should be prosecuted for theft of hard earned taxpayer money.
Also, if you want to talk reparations, why shouldn’t i get reparations for the injustices done to people during the Austro Hungarian Empire? There is a connection there to me, i am pretty sure. What about providing reparations to ALL of the ethnic minorities who have been slighted, denied, and persecuted worldwide? This is no different. Australia apologized to its faulty attempt to incorporate Aborigines during the 19th and 20th centuries. Should they pay reparations? Maybe we should go back centuries, when Attila the Hun burned and looted villages. I am sure I am a descendant of those tortured people.
This argument from ignorant blacks is disgusting, and almost laughable. It is another self inflicted wound on the black race. They need to start working with the system, not against it. That, or get the hell out and go to another country.
dave buls: the bulk of any reparations will go to the lwyrs just as the cigarette lawsuit money did…that said reparations were paid by the 600K – 1 million who lost their lives in the civil war…
I just wonder what was the context when Santorum supposedly made that statement, maybe someone just asked him what he was going to do for black people, just wondering…
freeyourmind: it was during campaign stop…I know rick personally…I worked w/ him for 2 yrs getting bush judicial appointees nominated…he is a good guy…that which he is being accused of i.e. big spender etc…is disingenuous argument…george w. bush forced, blackmailed, threatened, and coerced congressmen to support no child left behind and medicare prescription…bush did same thing obama did to healthcare…I don’t excuse rick but I cannot let him be painted w/out telling the truth about bush…
I’m 68 years old and I work 3 jobs to make ends meet….one full time and 2 part times. These supplement my SS. How dare these lazy, good for nothing idiots who refuse to work take my money given to them by some worthless government program created to do just that….give them money for not working. They would rather go out and pimp someone or sell a $20 crack rock on the corner or stick a gun in someone’s ear or just terrorize and victimize some defenseless person in general rather than getting a job. I live in a podunk town of about 1000 people in Okiehoma that is full of rednecks and hillbillies who would rather be on foodstamps and every other govt. dole than get a job. I work 3, 6 days a week and I am doing just fine and drive a new car….because I work my a** off. I have no sympathy for these people. If I could not find a job in a MAJOR city, it would be because I was not breathing. I realize that there are those who actually need help and are more than willing to work and I have absolutely NO problem with helping and am all for it. But to have a bunch of babies simply for the purpose of “stealing” more money from state run agencies that hand it out freely….it is just wrong. There is way too many people in this country who do not have a conscience and do not recognize the difference between right or wrong. I pray to God that the conservative Republicans can extract the cancers now living in the White House and put someone in who is not a neo-marxist, spread-the-wealth narcissist who is incapable of knowing the first thing about govt. other than “organizing” some neighborhood project and hiring a bunch of czars to advise him.
tony: it is worth noting again that this is what roosevelt and johnson policies wrought…any gaps in the policy bricks they set in place were and are being filled in by feckless vote chasing socialist politicians…
Tony, you make me ashamed of myself. I’m 70 and haven’t worked in two years. I could lay it off on my health, but that would just be a crutch for me to lean on. My health doesn’t keep me from sitting at a desk and keeping books, or doing a little design work on a system. It wouldn’t be particulary for money because I’m lucky enough to have had some pretty responsible jobs in my life and get a decent social security check each month. I might add here that I do not condiser it an entitlement. It’s bought and paid for with 55 years of social security payments. Payments that could have me on easy street if Forest Gump had managed them for me rather than politicians who used my money (and yours) to buy the votes to keep them in their cozy little jobs. I also draw a small pension from the Army. I’m not sure exactly why. But between the two, I find myself with more descretionary cash than I ever had in my life. That’s partially because I’m not living as high on the hog as I have in the past and don’t have kids to throw money at while they got an “education”. I’ll bet my money has bought more hemp for them than the Beatles inhaled. Also three cars, all wrecked. I also don’t have to put out for for $150 dresses, shoes anywhere from $25.00 to $200.00, $1.000 + jewelry, $85.00 hair “dos” a Mack truck full of assorted makeup etc., etc. for what evades me right now, but I can introduce you to two ex’s that will be more than happy to tell you that I’m the biggest SOB in Texas (and we got some big SOB’s here). My point is that I should be doing something for a reason to keep busy if nothing else. But taking care of my two Scotties is exausting.
More to the point though. I have typed now and then that I was a JCO (Juvenile Correction Officer) at a state school for a few years. When I was a teenager we called the reformatorys and guards. These schools are populated with punks up to 18 years that had been sentenced for anything from burglary to selling dope to shooting a rival gang member and on and on. A very few of them truely tried to take advantage of the school that was there to get an education. It was tough on them because they didn’t have a very solid base to draw on and learn from and not a few of the others looked down on them and constantly made life miserable for them. But they tried. These kids I would help out with their reading and math. I used crossword puzzles and bought them books to read. I think that for some it was the first books they’d seen that wasn’t porn. Most of these kids left promising that they were going to make a life for themselves. I don’t know if they did or not.
But the majority of these little criminals (I don’t know why I called them little or kids), all day trying to cause trouble for the JCO’s or setting up attacks on each other. Not just a few could whip my fanny and did from time to time. These I did nothing for and I’ll admit they was some payback now and then. These hated us and we hated them back.
Just to your point that the lord (or the JCO) helps those that help themselves.
sumitch: criminals is right…
Thank you for sending this out again for those that missed it the first time and those that may have needed a reminder or nudge to look beyond the politically correct yet grossly misleading bovine scat constantly flowing from the mouths of those who have built very lucrative careers encouraging some people not to accept responsibility for their own actions and choices but to always whine and blame others for their circumstances. (Whew, long sentence – sorry about that)
Your points are perhaps even more appropriate today than when you originally wrote them given the success of the current regime and its supporters in promoting a race card that shouldn’t even exist in this country. The point about the collective Muslim responsibility for slavery in yesteryears and continuing today in parts of the world should be trumpeted loud and clear. All the politicos, media talking heads, and other hangers-on that are afraid to offend anyone with the truth, are doing a great and grievous disservice to the culture and country that has showered them with riches and influence far above their actual abilities.
wakinyan: I resend them to show I was right then and I’m right now…it helps to point out their duplicity helps open eyes…at least thats my intent…
As always a good post Mycal. I’m tired of being told to feel guilty about something I didn’t do and can’t change now. It is a sad thing that humans fail to treat each other with respect and dignity. No amount of retribution will change human nature.
dottie k: you are spot on when you say “no amount of retribution will change human nation”…
I have ancestors who were German slaves to the Queen of England. That was a very long time ago and I do not hold any grudges to the Governors of NY for knocking my ancestors around and demanding more work from them. I believe a number of imported “immigrants” were somewhat in the same “boat.” This great Country was founded by our ancestors, including African Slaves, who endured many hardships. That is what makes it such a wonderful land to secure and protect. I did not choose to live here; I was born here. My parents were American Citizens and my forefathers became American Citizens who fought for a Free Nation. I’m ever so glad that I do live in the United States of America and I will defend our Liberty and Freedoms until the day I leave this planet. As for the Jesse Jacksons, I have no use for that kind of banter and head-hunting. It only promotes racism…and Jesse Jackson’s pockets to be filled with gold.
marilyn: at some point in time there is evidence that every population group engaged in slavery even as most themselves were at some point slaves…slavery was a means of doing business and building structures…America had the good sense and decency to abolish it…the same cannot be said for africa and certain places in the muslim world…the tow places race mongers love to extoll…
Have you ever thought of doing an article on the Davis-Bacon act
chris miller: I have not and what I know of it is that it was a gift to unions to prevent non-union companies from having a bidding edge on government jobs…imagine that…
If all the wrongs of the world can be traced to slavery, why are very few of these liberal weeping willies concerned by righting the Big Wrong: the slavery that still exists today. If all the countries who have slavery going on in them today were kicked out, the UN would be about one third the size it is. When slavery was occurring in this country, my ancestors were still living in Germany and on the Isle of Mann, so it is hard for me to work up any personal guilt. Your really hit it on the head Mychal when you mentioned the Muslim involvement. Between them and the kings of neighboring tribes selling captives into slavery, there is enough guilt to go around; all races, all religions. If I felt that every one who treated me badly and their ancestors owed me an apology, I wouldn’t get much done except standing around waiting for those healing words. But, you know what? After the big apology, I would still have all the problems to deal with of my own making. A shame isn’t it?
Well said, sir!!!! While I abhor the thought of making any one person a “slave” to another – there comes a time when we all have to live in the present. My ancestors were not slave holders either. They were Irish immigrants who were thought of and treated the same as other races who entered this country and were looked down on by the “elites”. There were other slaves in the country besides “black” slaves. Indentured servants came to this country as late as the 20th century. Long after the “black slaves” were freed in this country, there were many whites and others who came here seeking freedom from their countries but, they had to work a set number of years for a family that took them in. The conditions were brutal for the majority of them – as slavery ALWAYS is. Slavery is as old as time – no matter the color of the skin – from tribes to nations – when you were conquered you became slaves to the conquerer. Then sadly, it became a trade – a way to make money. Mistakes are made and they are hopefully resolved. However, trading one slavery for another does not a resolution make. As usual, Mychal has seen past the rhetoric.
lotow: there is slavery today in africa which is ironic since the race mongers tend to sing the praises of “the motherland”…
gary thomsen: and specific to your point…as Walter Williams and I have chronicled there are “white” churches in new england that are raising their own money and using it to buy people out of slavery in africa…and bring them here…while the naacp and the other race mongers cry the blues about cnn not having enough blacks on-air…you cannot make it up…
Fabulous,
I have sent this column to all my email friends with the caption
“The Race Card Just Got Trumped”
bill sr: thk you much…genuinely appreciate it…hope they all continue to talk to you…lol…
who do we report website issues too?
the rss block on front page overflows to right with firefox browser.
dmacleo:
Fixed! Thanks!
Jim
thank you, much betterer :) :)
dmacleo: lol…
editor: thk you…don’t need those rumors started…lol…
dmacleo: have no idea what that means…but there is tab at top of page for help…thks for making us aware…
Pissior? i had to look it up. Fantastic. i just love it when i learn… Thanx, Mychal. I’m no Santorum fan, but i’m even less a fan of those who don’t accept responsibility for their unfruitful lifestyles. “When the people learn they can vote themselves largesse, the Republic is finished”. i only hope it’s not too late to salvage the Republic. For a majority to continually approve of O’Bama is a very damning indictment.
caveman: it is also an indictment that people continue to reward failure w/ re-election and/or replacing them w/ more of the same…
WOW!! Absolutely phenomenal piece Mychal. This was, indeed, one of your best, although I love them all.
Amazing comments also, loved the idea that Ben has. I feel the same as he. I was once an avid viewer of Fox, however, Ben is correct, every since Murdoch’s catastrophic downfall in England, Fox has become a sappy and tiresome confabulation of useless material. Fear of losing his standing here in the U.S., he has massively changed Fox’s format to cater to the progressives. You, Mychal, would be a welcome addition to the present wimpy broadcasts. Too good to be true though!!
Betsy, I agree about Fox. When it first started I thought I’d missed something. Then friends started agreeing with me and I notice greater lack of substance and clear alternative to MSM. Wish it weren’t so! Megan Kelly is turning into an attack dog!!! When is she going to get out of bed on the right side again. Too many sleepless night with that baby?
Watching CNN while waiting to see Herman Cain on the Situation Room must have heard “for the public safety” about 50 times!!! Get out of my life! I don’t want Big Brother guarding my every move.
dottie k: megyn kelly is the 25 cents version of katie couric…
betsy: fox has become nothing more than the marionettes of party hierarchy…all of the people they have hired from cnn et al are now polluting fox…I watch Neil Cavuto and when possibl;e Greta Van Sustern…the rest aren’t worth my interest and megyn kelly is the 25 cents version of katie couric…
“Kid. You can’t drive forward looking in your rear-view mirror.”
What fantastic advice. How many of us forge a chain of regrets over past mistakes and mistreatment’s, real or perceived. It often is most difficult to cut that chain and free ourselves, but until we do it will continue to hold us back from the joy of success and a satisfying life.
The most critical link in that chain is the one that is blame directed toward others for our failure to achieve. How easy to just suck our thumbs and settle for defeat.
I love Sir Winston Churchill’s quote: “Never, Never, Never give up.”
Thank you Mychal, for putting a white hot spotlight on this issue.
stormrider900: you are very welcome my friend…
Ya know, it just ocurred to me. It’s got to be tough for Obama to blame slavery or anything else for his failures. Which side is he going to blama? The white or the black. Given his dad is from Kenya, it just doesn’t wash that slavery is the basis for his problems. And his white side provided him with a pretty easy childhood. He crys about not having a daddy in his life. I guess that someone else’s fault too. The fact is he needs to find an excuse for his failures that holds water. So far, he comes up short.
sumitch: make that african and white…he’s half kenyan…
I’m not sure I understand. Aren’t Kenyan’s black?
sumitch: in color but not in ethnicity…
Good read, Mychal. The Cherokee watched it all from the inside out, but you said it right. It’s America and we all should be equal Americans. I’m still having trouble with the anti-American Muslim Dictator, but maybe we’ll change that soon.
lonewolf: its his communist agenda that i have the most trouble w/…
Mychal, what we need is for some one, like you, who can promote proper values to not only blacks but also whites and all ethnic groups. Values which this country was founded on. I no longer watch FOX, they have become the establishment media (RINO) who simply want to keep the status quo repeating the headlines with their own bias for ratings.
With that in mind there might be a synergy there. If you were able to get a show there, I would expect them to jump on it, I think viewership would rise, eventually a large population of the black community would also tune in. With guests like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, etc. the stereotypes created by the Sharptens and Jacksons could be dispelled or at least publicly countered.
ben: I’m reasonably sure my criticism of them has killed that opportunity…they would rather have sharpton and hannity yucking it up…
My father’s side of the family is of Serbian extraction, and if one is so inclined to read of CENTURIES of abuse, defilement, and degradation in that region/country it is edifying to the extent that there is not one group or ethnicity that as been grossly mistreated. Such truth is not useful to those bent upon a multiple-generational malaise of claiming ownership of victimhood, but it provides useful edification.
An older advisor took me aside as a young man in business, patted me on the shoulder and said, “Kid. You can’t drive forward looking in your rear-view mirror.”
Game. Set. Match.
dan bubalo: game set match indeed…