http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/09/09/black-america-the-great-choice/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:27:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/09/09/black-america-the-great-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-96830 Ben Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:49:40 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=12027#comment-96830 Outstanding article, Roger; beyond superlatives. This one deserves the highest praise and widest audience. Outstanding article, Roger; beyond superlatives. This one deserves the highest praise and widest audience.

]]> http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/09/09/black-america-the-great-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-96790 Tennesseefree.com » Obama, racism, and the “…empty promises of endless victimhood…” Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:15:36 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=12027#comment-96790 [...] STACLU has an excellent post chronicling the identity politics and the manipulation of the ‘black victim’: the haters vs. the healers. Dr. King and his leadership vs. Malcom X and the politics of of perpetual divisiveness. And the Obama connection to the haters. Excerpted here… “But that other, darker myth would simply not die. It’s message was still too beguiling. It’s fiery preachers still to charismatic and inspiring. The baton of hate and revenge had been passed to a new generation of pied pipers, the Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons, who had never given up on their dark vision of the nightmare. The empty promises of endless victimhood and a total release from the weight of personal responsibility. The hope now was the hope for reparations, all kinds of reparations, social, political, financial. All predicated on the general acceptance of the great myth, not just the acceptance by its purported victims, but by the guilty oppressors themselves. [...] [...] STACLU has an excellent post chronicling the identity politics and the manipulation of the ‘black victim’: the haters vs. the healers. Dr. King and his leadership vs. Malcom X and the politics of of perpetual divisiveness. And the Obama connection to the haters. Excerpted here… “But that other, darker myth would simply not die. It’s message was still too beguiling. It’s fiery preachers still to charismatic and inspiring. The baton of hate and revenge had been passed to a new generation of pied pipers, the Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons, who had never given up on their dark vision of the nightmare. The empty promises of endless victimhood and a total release from the weight of personal responsibility. The hope now was the hope for reparations, all kinds of reparations, social, political, financial. All predicated on the general acceptance of the great myth, not just the acceptance by its purported victims, but by the guilty oppressors themselves. [...]

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