And only if you're eavesdropping
From the comments:
Milbarge and I had the gall to talk about race - you saw it as evidence that we are "crazy." Your unwarranted assumption of the high ground - such that we did not even merit a substantive response - aptly illustrates my point.
Check the whole statement:
it's more evidence that the they are as crazy as we are.
I hardly think saying your condition is equivalent to mine is an assumption of moral high ground, warranted or not. In fact, were I inclined to JUDGE I would begin by asking what your starting assumption was that let you read an assumption of moral supreriority in my simple few words. Especially since I remember your comments on Cobb in what turned into the Identity Blogging thead I followed last year.
But I'm not inclined to judge right now.
You'd make enemies out of natural friends
Only if the misread what I say.
I actually know what the gentleman assumed. He was assumed I was talking to him, or for his consumption.
See, this is what make public race discussions hard. You're supposed to pretend everything you say is going to be equally applicable to everyone, color-blind rhetoric…and as my childhood hero was known to say, "that trick never works."
It's like we're on opposite side of a platform, each standing right up on the edge. If we both turn 90 degrees to the right and take one large step, one goes closer to the center of the platform while the other falls off the edge. Frankly, dude, one thing a lot of Black folk needs to understand is that race does make y'all as nuts as we are, just a different kind of nuts…one would think you'd prefer "confused" to "hateful."
And you read that, turned and damn near walked off the edge.
