Jules Crittenden

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About That Frothing Racism

Published on 14 May 2008 at 10:00 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

The big news is that Clinton stays alive. I don’t know why anyone would be surprised. She wasn’t exactly dead in the water, no matter what the pundits were saying last week.*
How does she live? Ugly. That’s the story line, anyway. According to everything I’ve seen this week,** it’s because Americans are closet racists, and the gap-toothed […]

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Monkey Jokes and Funny Feelings

Published on 13 May 2008 at 10:55 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Stupid, vile, not funny. Also, his excuse is lame. If you’re going to be a racist throwback, at least be honest about it. More on funny feelings below. Monkey jokes first, via the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

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Heart of Darkness

Published on 12 May 2008 at 8:42 am. 8 Comments.
Filed under pols, America, racism.

You can almost hear the “Scree! scree!! Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!!!” of exotic plumed birds and shrieking monkeys as this intrepid scribbler hacks his way into the clearing where he encounters natives heretofore ignorant of all trappings of civilization. It’s a tour de force of the genre as the UK’s Financial Times attempts to explain why Obama is […]

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Bigotry Alert

Published on 10 May 2008 at 3:31 pm. 10 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Hey, how’d this sneak in? LA Times: West Virginia could spell trouble for Obama. That’s not supposed to be part of the story line. I thought it was all over, he was anointed.
It’s about West Virginia as the canary in the coal mine of American electorial racism. Hill’s still supposed to go, but now they’re working […]

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Outside the Mainstream

Published on 7 May 2008 at 12:47 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under racism, religion.

You already knew the Rev. Jeremiah was outside the mainstream of … let’s see … America, Christianity, etc. Did you know how far he is outside the mainstream of the black American church he claims to speak for? Way out, according to Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, who do the history, the sociology, the theology, and the Wrightology at RealClearPolitics:

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Too Late

Published on 1 May 2008 at 10:53 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Horse gone. Spike Lee wants Jeremiah Wright to do the right thing, STFU. He’s a little behind that curve. But he suspects it’s not so much just that Wright’s an uncontrollable egomaniacal bigot, but that he’s a corrupt one. Sounds like a vast leftwing conspiracy theory. Guardian:

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Mr. and Mrs. Grievance

Published on 29 Apr 2008 at 10:59 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Steyn on the peculiar Michelle Obama, cuts through a lot of American political backyards. Brilliant as usual. Read the whole thing. It may say more about today’s big news than any of the analysis of Barack Obama’s latest utterance.

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Wright = Jesus

Published on 28 Apr 2008 at 7:12 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

According to him, that is. Embattled rev was subjected to “public crucifixion” by comments taken out of context. Houston Chron re a Sunday sermon. Meanwhile, ABC’s Jake Tapper watches the whole NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund speech so we don’t have to.* “Goddamn AmeriKKKa,” etc. is not divisive, it’s descriptive. It’s AmeriKKKa that’s divisive. At least, that’s what […]

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It’s The Reflexive Laziness, Stupid

Published on 26 Apr 2008 at 9:59 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

McWhorter at NYSun states perfectly the case re race in this race, and the lack of racism.

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Cosby Unfunny

Published on 26 Apr 2008 at 12:34 am. 14 Comments.
Filed under law & order, racism, justice, mockery.

(Note the messages on Cosby’s shirts. They do not say something stupid.)
I was about eight the last time I was a Cosby fan, which is about when he was edgy. That was a long time ago. This unfunny Cosby act has been pretty good, though. Bill Cosby has been aggravating elements of the black status quo/powers that be … white sq/ptb […]

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Gun-Toting Churchgoer’s Gaffe Welcomed

Published on 15 Apr 2008 at 8:54 am. 8 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

I actually have no idea if Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Ky., is a guntoter or a churchgoer, but in the spirit of the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign, I’ll assume that to be the case. We’ll leave out bitter because he’s grinning in most of the pictures I saw, and as a sitting congressman, he’s probably getting by.
Not […]

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Friendly Fire

Published on 5 Apr 2008 at 10:52 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

The guy can’t catch a break. Snoop Dogg blasts Obama for getting in bed with the KKK. That’s OK:

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Wrong > Right

Published on 4 Apr 2008 at 6:52 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under racism, justice.

But it’s hard to argue with what this black judge was trying to accomplish, clumsily, when he booted the whites out of his courtroom. via Herald.

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Racial Debate

Published on 29 Mar 2008 at 10:52 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Forget Martin Luther King … in America’s racial debate, context is king, says Hanson.

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What Comes Around, Has Been Around

Published on 20 Mar 2008 at 11:01 pm. 5 Comments.
Filed under pols, Clintons, racism.

Can’t imagine why anyone would be surprised by this. Politico:

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Re Affirmation of Racist Affairs

Published on 20 Mar 2008 at 10:17 am. 6 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Gateway on Obama’s evolution from blase to all shook up.
Surber, Grandma got thrown under the bus and Just Ask Me.
Clintonite Lanny Davis: Two (good) questions.
Joe Fitz, Boston Herald: Eloquence isn’t enough.
Kondracke: Populism vs. Unity. I’d call it CYA vs. unity, but OK.
Margery Eagan with something to like about Obama’s speech. Eagan notes he’s still a hypocrite. In this […]

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Big Speech

Published on 18 Mar 2008 at 10:24 pm. 14 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Not a lot I want to say about the big speech. I found it depressing to hear it referred to as a great, historic speech on race relations. There was a fair amount of clarity in his history and current affairs lessons, and I appreciated the pretty accurate description of how his campaign is viewed. But I’ve […]

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Obama Wants To Talk

Published on 18 Mar 2008 at 8:09 am. 15 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

“I am not a bigot.”
“I did not have spiritual relations with that pastor.”
“It was a botched sermon.”
“I have a nightmare … “

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Words Not Heard

Published on 17 Mar 2008 at 7:39 am. 12 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism, religion.

Obama was in the pews, along with Newsmax, last July when beloved old crazy uncle Rev. Jeremiah Wright laid into the “United States of White America.”

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What’s Good for the Dingbat

Published on 11 Mar 2008 at 8:13 pm. 6 Comments.
Filed under pols, Clintons, racism, sexism.

Is good for the old bat. That has to be the rationale behind the Obama camp’s demand that Clinton ditch Ferraro like they had to ditch Power. CNN:

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Race, Sex, Religion

Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 10:09 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under pols, media, racism, sexism.

There’s something to piss off nearly everyone.

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Racist Joke

Published on 6 Mar 2008 at 12:12 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under pols, moronocy, racism, sexism.

Laugh riot at Malkin’s, I don’t intend to elaborate on:
Two congressmen today said the Department of Homeland Security needs more diversity to be effective, and scolded Secretary Michael Chertoff for not bringing any black or female staffers to his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.
…
Mr. Chertoff responded that Mr. Watt shouldn’t judge his staff based purely […]

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Subliminal Message

Published on 1 Mar 2008 at 3:15 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under pols, Clintons, racism.

On the PJ’s? Couldn’t be. Too Republican a trick for Hill. As Althouse suggests, we’re going to have to wait for NYT to explain this one.
Link to the suspect ad vid here.

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Sex in ‘08

Published on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:45 am. 7 Comments.
Filed under pols, sex, racism.

And why it shouldn’t be an issue in this year’s Democratic race, but like race, it is, according to the Boston Herald’s Margery Eagan:

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Gunga Din

Published on 26 Feb 2008 at 8:55 am. 11 Comments.
Filed under pols, literary, history, racism.

I was steering clear of that comparison with the benighted wretch of imperialist doggerel fame, played in blackface in the movie. But the Dems aren’t so shy. This one, anyway. Boston Herald:

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She Had A Bad Day

Published on 13 Feb 2008 at 6:31 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under pols, Clintons, racism.

Clinton’s deputy campaignista bails.
Hispanics says don’t make the immigrant’s daughter pay for Bill’s gaffes.
Obama sweeps.
But there’s a bright side. Top Clinton backer says Northeast lunchpail Dems are racists, and NAACP’s Julian Bond weighs in for Hill … seat her Michigan and Florida delegates.

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Thumbs Up

Published on 27 Jan 2008 at 9:23 am. No Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

For the politics of faux racism by surrogate! MSNBC:

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Welcome to Massachusetts

Published on 26 Jan 2008 at 8:57 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under academia, racism.

No place for hate. No place for teaching about hate, either. Boston Herald:

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“None of Our Hands Are Clean”

Published on 20 Jan 2008 at 2:59 pm. 5 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Says Obama, re healing divisions. Interesting speech, and an interesting tack to take while campaigning for black votes. I guess this means the Obama presidency will be doing away with laws, policies and programs that judge people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.
In related Dem business:
Obama on ABC calls Bill’s […]

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Black like Barack

Published on 9 Dec 2007 at 9:49 pm. 6 Comments.
Filed under pols, media, moronocy, racism.

I think what Andrew Young, former top aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is trying to tell us here is that we shouldn’t judge Obama by the color of his skin. Rather, we should judge Hillary by her man’s soul content.

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Looking Glass

Published on 2 Dec 2007 at 9:19 am. 7 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Passed through as Alabama blacks are advised to vote Hillary because she’s white, and she’s Bill’s wife:

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Rep. Dartez (D-Oops)

Published on 13 Nov 2007 at 8:20 am. 8 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Lousiana pol fails basic intelligence test. No, not “Don’t Take Envelopes of Cash from Total Strangers.” The other rule. “Remember, it’s 2007 now.”

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Why We All Can’t Just Get Along

Published on 16 Aug 2007 at 10:11 am. 8 Comments.
Filed under America, racism.

WSJ’s Henninger offers up his thoughts on the Death of Diversity:

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Save the Gangsta

Published on 1 Jul 2007 at 10:44 am. 5 Comments.
Filed under crime, racism, song.

Demise of an American folkway predicted. Gangsta rap going the way of so many of its artistes. Sales headed where the lyrics always were, down the toilet.

Kevin Powell, a historian of the genre, said: “Hip-hop culture has been assassinated by the hip-hop industry’s desire to make money by any means necessary.”

Means which, if we are to […]

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