On your very own position of racial solidarity, it's not clear why Dwayne should should have to run out and interview black americans how they feel about Colin Powell or Condoleeza Rice. Run out was an odd phrasing huh? Maybe you could podcast yourself interviewing yourself in a mirror Dwayne.
Be sure you hide all the sci fi books and science lab stuphs, else your true whiteness will reveal itself.
Bill Cosby he can rag on ghetto blacks -- coz it's all about racial solidarity. Or Boughetto News blog where it's all about mocking ghetto blacks in the name of racial soldirity! Never mind that the black elite think Jesse Jackson's too black! (BTW, in elite DC society, Colin Powell is persona non grata among black elites. No lie! That was in a book written in 1999.)
alos, why slow to come on board? my guess is that they didn't know who he was. most americans are not political news nerds. when I have conversations with folks at work, it's mostly talk about what's on the telly -- unless _I_ move the conversation.
a couple of months ago or more, if politics ever came up, it was about Hillary. I was kind of shocked when all the women were for hillary. turns out they hadn't heard of obama. some of that can be chalked up to me being whitey, though, so hard to say.
At 05:31 PM 2/8/2008, Julio Huato wrote:
>Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
> > This reminds me of the sort of well meaning stuff I've heard my whole life
> > about how to boost Black self-esteem. As a wee lad, there was the striped
> > suited Bible salesman who insisted I buy the version of holy writ he
> > offered. All the illustrations featured Black people in crucial roles.
> > Including a Black Jesus facing a Black Pontius Pilate in a Pax Romana
> > version of 'Black on Black' crime(Maybe there was even a Black Tiberius
> back
> > in Rome being imperially groovy).
...
>You mention Colin Powell. You see, Powell played the most ignominious
>role in selling the invasion on Iraq. Shame on him. Ask regular
>African Americans what their view of the Powell. They may be
>critical, but they will tend to rationalize his behavior. Good or
>bad, it's part of us. People make a sharp distinction between him (or
>Condoleezza Rice, or Clarence Thomas) as individuals with aspirations
>and rights (including the right of messing things up big time) and the
>policies they chose to advance. I'm sure that Colin Powell is not in
>disgrace among Blacks. They still respect him in a way that White
>liberals or radicals don't.
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