<p>citationX…is there any other designation than left and right…can circumstances ever be neither or both…</p>
<p>just because a no name professor said some horrid things at a tiny meeting that barely got covered, does that mean the lefties had some kind of plot to ignore it</p>
<p>no, things happened…he is a pariah…</p>
<p>Rush says garbage ALL the time, and just sometimes is it reported…going after MJF, super tacky</p>
<p>when you see things in such black and white- only left and right, you miss a whole lot</p>
<p>I went to a pretty left wing website last night and they slammed the prof…imagine</p>
<p>the other weibstie I found that reported it was a white power one…</p>
<p>so from all sides he was slammed, but guess some people want every person who says insensatie thngs to be pummled in the press all the time…that would take a whole lot of news space</p>
<p>when Lady Bush said that the poor were better off after having lost everything, lots of people defended her…what can I say</p>
<p>“when Lady Bush said that the poor were better off after having lost everything, lots of people defended her…what can I say”</p>
<p>Well…that’s because that’s NOT what she said or even intended to say. What she did was point out the truth of the situation. Those Katrina evacuees who landed in the Astrodome did so because they were poor and didn’t have means to leave New Orleans. They were forced to rely on an inept City of NOLA government who utterly let them down before, during and after Katrina. When these people arrived at our Astrodome, many received health care for the first time in YEARS, and from the finest physicians and nurses from the finest medical center in the world I might add. Many had not had JOBS in years, yet job fairs were being conducted in the Dome. Many lived in horrendous dilapidated shacks (have you BEEN to the poor part of NOLA??) and were being placed in decent, clean housing courtesy of the City of Houston.</p>
<p>The thought of absorbing hundreds of thousands of people with such desperate need WAS scary. No person in their right mind wouldn’t be scared of such a task (and I do believe this is what motivated many OTHER city governments to start whistling at the ceiling rather than step up)…and as it turns out we were right to be scared. We have had NOLA vs. local gang fights in many of our Houston high schools, our social services have been stretched to breaking point and now we have some of the very BADDEST, meanest, most sophisticated crime cartels you’d ever wanna meet calling Houston, Texas their new home. We still did what had to be done though.</p>
<p>So don’t sling mud at Barbara Bush because she spoke plainly. She was right.</p>
<p>I guess after losing everything, one is Better Off living in a shelter…k…</p>
<p>Being poor DID NOT mean homeless, it did not mean not having any pictures, momentos, valuables, not having pets, she assumed these people lost nothing</p>
<p>And ps- it didn’t have to be that bad, did it…thank you Mr. Bush and your trusty friend Brownie</p>
<p>cgm - I’m having a hard time getting over the mental picture of thousands of flooded buses thank you very much. Btw…it would have been nice if the New Orleans levee board would have used their funds to actually reinforce the lakeside (Ponchartrain) levees for which they were responsible instead of building hotels and casinos. At least the feds did spend THEIR levee funds on the levees which they were charged with maintaining (Mississippi River levees). Not saying more dollars aren’t needed for the river levees, but at least there wasn’t malfeasance at the federal level, and it wasn’t RIVER levees that failed. </p>
<p>(CPA who used to audit gov’t entities in the good old state of Louisiana. I know too much of the state and local corruption which makes any complaint you can dream up about the Bush administration pale in comparison…)</p>
<p>It really irks me when there is something so despicable as this, that we are obviously all in agreement on, and someone uses it as an excuse to imply that liberals are somehow ok with it. Like saying liberals think terrorists are ok, for example. That is just really low, to accuse liberals of thinking ANY kind of violence or bigotry is ok.</p>
<p>What this man said and did was despicable. It does not matter what race he is. Why can’t liberals and conservatives just be glad when there is something we can agree on?</p>
<p>Gasp the double standard. If it was the other way-around blah blah blah.</p>
<p>Having a double standard in the media is far better than having a double standard court.</p>
<p>He is an idiot, period. Should be fired and not be allowed to have a educational job. White supremacist and Black Supremacist are the same lost souls, except the black ones are generally wealtier and educated.</p>
<p>“If this had been Denzel Washington, I can assure you that it would have been EVERYWHERE.”</p>
<p>Let’s look at the case of Harry Belafonte. Belafonte’s racism has gotten more press than the crazy professor’s comments, but still he has gotten a free pass overall. After a solid record in support of civil rights he went off the rails about 20 years ago with praise for the Soviets and Castro. His “house slaves” comments in 2002-03 and “jews worked for Hitler” comments in 2005 drew coverage as did his trip to meet with Hugo Chavez in 2006 where he called Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world” (inspiration for Chavez’s UN speech?).</p>
<p>OK, Belafonte’s career in entertainment is in the past and he is not Denzel Washington. But Belafonte seems to be untouched by any criticism and the coverage has been minimal. Whether it is due to his celebrity or his race, he has been protected from any real consequences of his actions and he still has access to a public podium from which to spout his lies and invective. The obscure, crazy professor, at least, will probably not teach again.</p>
<p>In '87 he was named a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador. He received an award from Africare in 1987 for distinguished humanitarian service. More recently AARP honored him with an award this year. He was honored at this year’s BET Awards program with a Humanitarian Award. He still gets invited to speak at institutions such as Duke (my alma mater, sigh) where this year he claimed that there was no difference between the terrorists that hijacked the planes on 9/11 and the Bush administration.</p>
<p>It is disturbing that there are people out there that believe this craziness and there is an audience, perhaps small, for their message.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I think the audience is larger than “small”. Consider the percentage of blacks who think that AIDS is a white establisment conspiracy.</p>
<p>^^ A couple of people I knew seriously believed that adding fluoride to water would actually increase tooth decay and was some kind of secret plot that was perpetrated by the medical industry in order to make more money. They believed that either local government water districts were duped or in cahoots with them.</p>
<p>There are irrational people everywhere who’ll prefer to believe the fantastic and improbable over the probable and rational explanation every time.</p>
<p>Of course, but I mention it becuase I am less concerned with the professor as an agitator versus his being an example of something bigger going on.</p>
Belefontes comments are a whole lot different than calling for genocide. Had Denzel Washington called for genocide, youd get a ripple there for sure.</p>
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Dont know the comments in detail, but I do know the house slave stuff is just the same old small-mindedness that has affected blacks for centuries. It is just a response of a disastrous history in this country. I dont agree with it, just as I would not agree with an old Jewish guy for saying all Germans should be exterminated. But I do understand it, and I think for this reason Belefontes comments are perceived differently than they would had they come from a white guy. There is accessible history behind a white’s comments of this nature. There is none behind some no name black guy saying such things.</p>
<p>But you too have no objective basis for drawing the line farther to the left than I would to the right and you too are basing where the “center” is on your own personal omniscience. So from my perspective you have it exactly backwards. Liberals like yourself - I’m not sure why liberals are so afraid or unwilling to call themselves such - look at the world as if there is the “conservative” position on a given matter and then there is the reasonable, common sense “other” position which of course is mainstream and thus in the “center”. Pick the topic and you’ll see that it’s almost universally true. I’m sure that you’ll be quick to show me some examples where I’m mistaken, but for the most part as Barry Goldwater might have said “in your heart you know I’m right”. The mainstream media does a terrific job of aiding you in this regard. It’s typical for a conservative individual or organization to be labeled as such by our firiends at NYT/CBS/ABC et al, but nowhere near as frequently do they label liberals as such. So we end up with a view of the world from a liberal’s perspective that places him/her smack dab in the “center”. How nice!</p>
<p>Browninfall, there’s a Latin phrase used in law which pretty much sums up the only rational comment to make in response to post #77: “Res ipsa loquitur.”</p>
<p>When the whites compete with blacks and hispanics they are against Affirmative Action and insist that only grades and test scores should matter. When they compete against Asians they say that they should look at the whole person. All whites want is white privilege, and they will get it. Twenty years from now, the dumbed down and less qualified whites would still be supervising some better qualified and smarter Asians, and would be still complaining about affirmative action, outsourcing and “immigrants” taking away their jobs and the complainers would be the next genaration of Lou Dobbs.</p>
Btw…it would have been nice if the New Orleans levee board would have used their funds to actually reinforce the lakeside (Ponchartrain) levees for which they were responsible instead of building hotels and casinos. At least the feds did spend THEIR levee funds on the levees which they were charged with maintaining (Mississippi River levees). Not saying more dollars aren’t needed for the river levees, but at least there wasn’t malfeasance at the federal level, and it wasn’t RIVER levees that failed. </p>