Pandagon trying to be as offensive as I am? What's up with that?

I must admit, though,

Conservatives judge people by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. Or did I get that in the wrong order?

Charles Krauthammer, a psychologist, learned man, writer of presidential speeches, and failed admitter of the aforementioned fact when it's relevant, engages in such blatant white paternalism that it surprises me he didn't rename himself "Boss" for the article.

Because of her race, her symbolism and her personal story, Rice is not a run-of-the-mill appointment but a historic one. Which makes some of the more vitriolic charges against the first African American woman ever chosen for the office once held by Thomas Jefferson particularly wounding and politically risky.

Mark Dayton of Minnesota accused her of lying in order to persuade the American people to go to war -- a charge that is not just false but that most Americans don't believe. Rice was not a generator of intelligence. She was a consumer -- of a highly defective product.

Ms. Black Rice, who is black, was blackily blacking along when...

that last line is one of the better summations I've read...

Posted by Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2005 - 1:23pm :: Politics | Race and Identity
 
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So Krauthammer thinks that black folks are going to get upset because of the criticisms that were directed at Rice during her confirmation hearing? I don't know what black folks he has been talking to lately but no black person I have talked with recently including some very old, socially conservative heads give a damn about her. And what is the significance of his reference to that slaveholder Thomas Jefferson? Is it that black folks should be proud that one of our own is holding an office once held by a man who fathered children with his concubine slave? I'm not getting it.

Posted by  PTCruiser on January 30, 2005 - 8:58pm.
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He's not talking to Black people at all...especially with this editorial. He's talking about how white folks will react to other white folks bad-mouthing one of the good ones in public.

Posted by  Prometheus 6 on January 30, 2005 - 9:27pm.
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You mean bad mouthing one of the good black folk. Okay, I get it. Conservatives have their version of plantation politics too. The difference is that they feel no constaints in bad mouthing any black folks whom liberals regard as good or in the case of Jesse Jackson at least tolerable. But woe be unto liberals and other leftists apostates if they should feel similarly inclined to hurl a few mild criticisms toward one of the conservatives good black folks. This is crossing the line in their opinion. Now we know what to do to place ourselves above their judgement. Join the Republican Party and never step out of line. Is this what Cobb meant by our envy of those among us who know how to manipulate the levers of power? I have to think about this for awhile.

Posted by  PTCruiser on January 31, 2005 - 12:25am.
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Is this what Cobb meant by our envy of those among us who know how to manipulate the levers of power?

I couldn't say. I know getting their support isn't really "manipulating the levers of power."

Posted by  Prometheus 6 on January 31, 2005 - 1:36am.
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