Here we are, a year and half after a man with a white mother and black father has
governed as the leader of the free world--a man who was voted in with significant
white support -- arguing about race like we never have in my cognizant lifetime.
President Obama ran as a bridge to the black/white debate. What we’ve been
reduced to are racist allegations on all sides. Most finger pointing was initiated from
this administration, the NAACP, black Democratic Congressmen and the liberal
media. Most have been proven false.
Then there is the Journo-list, a group of lib media bloggers who loosely conspired
against the release of the Reverend Wright caustic sermons by diverting attention. Their
ploy was to call any famous conservative a racist without a scintilla of evidence. They
cited Newt and Fred Barnes as likely dupes.
With this, “when-was-the-last-time-you-beat-your-wife?”-type charge, how does one
respond? (Last Thursday if you’re Mel Gibson).
These are the types of things I argue on Facebook.
Before I get into the back and forth of the 140 + posts between me, a young
“independent” black friend I’ll call “Larry” and several liberal and conservative friends
(yes, I do have liberal friends—surprise, surprise) it might help to clarify why I bother.
You can’t make bread without going against the grain
In 2004, a friend advised me to go on Yahoo Financial Message Boards to check out
what top management was saying under alias about the company I was involved in. I
checked it out and started to wander around other companies, such as Pfizer, IBM,
Microsoft, etc.
What I found was some of the most anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, hate-
filled bile I’d ever seen. I looked for bloggers disputing the latter but like Bush not
replying to Democratic falsehoods about WMDs, I found none. So, I got myself an
alias and started posting against these slanderers, some of whom I was convinced
were Islamic terrorists.
They retaliated with MORE bile, accusing me of all sorts of things, not the least of
which was being an agent of Mossad. I resorted to something I hadn’t done much of,
research. As I proofed one of my responses the thought entered my mind that it
resembled a political op-ed.
If marijuana leads to heroin, do blogs lead to punditry?
Sooo, I sent some off.
Thanks to the Rolla Daily News and Bin Jolkovsky, owner of the Jewish World
Review, I’ve had a weekly column published starting about seven years ago. These op-
eds generate between 20 and 160 comments each from all over the world and the
columns are taken and posted on many other sites. One was used almost in its entirety
in a speech President Obama gave in his first Foreign Correspondents banquet.
Having replaced Yahoo with Facebook, I post questions and interesting news items
from the Net or my website, www.daveweinbaum.com
The reasons I do this?
Below is a question I posed on Facebook after hearing it on the Limbaugh show.
If Obama and the NAACP are so concerned about ridding
themselves of racists, why aren't they demanding the
resignation of Eric Holder?
When I posted this question, I immediately got responses from Larry.
The argument goes back and forth. I cite links for my arguments. Larry argues
emotionally about equal treatment under the law, something I agree with. Larry, when
pushed to produce evidence, tends to think that I’m responsible for his research as
well. Everyone opines for or against.
It’s a gas!
“I don’t agree with anything you say but I love this. What
are we going to argue about next week, Dave?”
-- Liberal Female Blogger on my newspaper columns
In fact, Larry and the gang are all babbling away on my “wall” as I write this. Time to
get in their face (book) and retort back, in their face!
Well, maybe after golf--gotta keep my priorities straight.
G-d I love to argue.
Does it show?
governed as the leader of the free world--a man who was voted in with significant
white support -- arguing about race like we never have in my cognizant lifetime.
President Obama ran as a bridge to the black/white debate. What we’ve been
reduced to are racist allegations on all sides. Most finger pointing was initiated from
this administration, the NAACP, black Democratic Congressmen and the liberal
media. Most have been proven false.
Then there is the Journo-list, a group of lib media bloggers who loosely conspired
against the release of the Reverend Wright caustic sermons by diverting attention. Their
ploy was to call any famous conservative a racist without a scintilla of evidence. They
cited Newt and Fred Barnes as likely dupes.
With this, “when-was-the-last-time-you-beat-your-wife?”-type charge, how does one
respond? (Last Thursday if you’re Mel Gibson).
These are the types of things I argue on Facebook.
Before I get into the back and forth of the 140 + posts between me, a young
“independent” black friend I’ll call “Larry” and several liberal and conservative friends
(yes, I do have liberal friends—surprise, surprise) it might help to clarify why I bother.
You can’t make bread without going against the grain
In 2004, a friend advised me to go on Yahoo Financial Message Boards to check out
what top management was saying under alias about the company I was involved in. I
checked it out and started to wander around other companies, such as Pfizer, IBM,
Microsoft, etc.
What I found was some of the most anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, hate-
filled bile I’d ever seen. I looked for bloggers disputing the latter but like Bush not
replying to Democratic falsehoods about WMDs, I found none. So, I got myself an
alias and started posting against these slanderers, some of whom I was convinced
were Islamic terrorists.
They retaliated with MORE bile, accusing me of all sorts of things, not the least of
which was being an agent of Mossad. I resorted to something I hadn’t done much of,
research. As I proofed one of my responses the thought entered my mind that it
resembled a political op-ed.
If marijuana leads to heroin, do blogs lead to punditry?
Sooo, I sent some off.
Thanks to the Rolla Daily News and Bin Jolkovsky, owner of the Jewish World
Review, I’ve had a weekly column published starting about seven years ago. These op-
eds generate between 20 and 160 comments each from all over the world and the
columns are taken and posted on many other sites. One was used almost in its entirety
in a speech President Obama gave in his first Foreign Correspondents banquet.
Having replaced Yahoo with Facebook, I post questions and interesting news items
from the Net or my website, www.daveweinbaum.com
The reasons I do this?
- To test my ideas and make sure the facts they’re based on are solid.
- To improve my debate and research skills.
- To test the waters for what may be of interest to my audience.
- To see what the argument of the “other” side is.
- To prepare for my talk radio show.
- To find and deliver the truth as best I can.
Below is a question I posed on Facebook after hearing it on the Limbaugh show.
If Obama and the NAACP are so concerned about ridding
themselves of racists, why aren't they demanding the
resignation of Eric Holder?
When I posted this question, I immediately got responses from Larry.
The argument goes back and forth. I cite links for my arguments. Larry argues
emotionally about equal treatment under the law, something I agree with. Larry, when
pushed to produce evidence, tends to think that I’m responsible for his research as
well. Everyone opines for or against.
It’s a gas!
“I don’t agree with anything you say but I love this. What
are we going to argue about next week, Dave?”
-- Liberal Female Blogger on my newspaper columns
In fact, Larry and the gang are all babbling away on my “wall” as I write this. Time to
get in their face (book) and retort back, in their face!
Well, maybe after golf--gotta keep my priorities straight.
G-d I love to argue.
Does it show?
by Dave Weinbaum
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
| COMMENTS |
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many regional and national publications and web sites, including the Reader’s
Digest, National Enquirer and Forbes and is a regular pundit for the www.
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John Russell
Good column. Cute cartoon.
Katharine
Hahahahaha!!! Right on Dave. I couldn't agree with you more. I wish I could
argue with you though... I just agree with you too much. I, for one, am sick of the
bile coming out of the WH, NAACP, and media. It makes us as Americans look
really bad. And quite frankly, the Americans I know, work with, associate with,
and encounter on a daily basis aren't so petty, full of themselves, and shortsighted.
I wish foreign officials could visit the midwest and see what true patriotic
Americans are like, because our leaders in the limelight are giving us all a bad
name. I love America and the people in it... even my uber-Liberal best friend. It's
the politicians and so-called leaders that are scum. Power corrupts.
Jim Bower
Mr. Weinbaum,
I really enjoy reading your column. Now for something totally
off-topic: I live in St. Louis; my parents used to live in Cherokee
Village, Arkansas. Whenever we visited them we took I-44 to Rolla and
Hwy 63 to Arkansas. We always planned our schedule around the hours of
Alex's Pizza Palace. I don't know if you like pizza in general or
Alex's in particular, but it's been a bright spot for us for nearly 20
years. My mom died last year and I finally convinced my dad (88 years
old) to relocate to a retirement village close to us. We spent the last
two weekends in Arkansas getting his belongings packed up and preparing
his house for sale. We made our (probably) last visit to Alex's this
past Friday. It was bittersweet because the place was a madhouse
(hey...it WAS Friday night) and they were really busy. This didn't keep
our favorite waitress (Diana) from recognizing us and getting us to a
table as quickly as possible.
Anyhow, I just needed to wax nostalgic about Rolla (which looks like a
really nice place to live despite my ex wife living and practicing
medicine there) and Alex's.
Sorry to put too much information your way, but it's been a long week.
Cheers
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Dear Jim,
Very sorry about your mom.
Just in Stl. Today. The family that owns Alex's just reopened Gordoz next to
Taco Bell in Rolla. Alex's was probably giving help to Gordoz. Check it
out---but my fav restaurant in Rolla besides my own is Matt's Steak House on
exit 189 S. Outer Rd. Best steak I've ever had.
Good luck with Dad.
You're a good son.
Jim Bower
Thanks...my folks gave my brother and me a good life. It was great to see them
enjoy a nice long retirement, and it's my privilege to be able to help my dad deal
with the events in his life.
Susan W. Hynes
Good one Dave!
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Thanks Susan.
OldProf
You should really be sanctified. Where can I do the research to find out if you are
really as wonderful as you assume?
Sometimes your byline reads Gateway and sometimes Rolla Daily News. Does one
cost more than the other?
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Prof,
'You should really be sanctified.'
Didn't you really mean crucified?
As to the byline, I pay no attention to it as long as they've remembered to put my
name on the column (something that didn't happen a few times)
Thanks for your 'concern' for my ego.
Doug McKelvy
"G-d I love to argue. Does it show?"
Only a little. 8^}
Actually, I'd be extremely flattered if one of my critics accused me of being a
Mossad agent!
Please keep it up.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Doug,
Thanks for the comments. Can’t argue with THAT!
Dave Whinebaum
Do you take requests O Great User of Social Media?
You have been unusually quiet about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Why not analyze
your ideology that we should support the domination and exploitation of a region by
a foreign nation and the racial domination of one ethnicity over another? You know,
colonialism, apartheidism?
Perhaps we can rely on the fact that the sheer amount of spin you will inevitably
generate may very well force the Earth to rotate backwards on its axis and reverse
time to before the incident in international waters happened.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Now you have requests for me? Oy Vey! I'm pretty sure I covered it on the Radio
Show. Hey if you support Hamas so much, get on one of the Flotilla boats! If you
survive you can go celebrate at the brand new Gaza Mall.
Let's see what happens when al-Qaeda decides to send a supply ship to build the
Mosque on ground zero. I'm beggin' ya, please get on THAT ship but tell 'em
whose name you're aping first. That way you'll get it from BOTH sides.
Dave Whinebaum
Nice deflection. You have so many skills!!
I was asking you to analyze your ideology, not assume I support Hamas. But I
totally understand if you support and justify what Israel did.
C'mon, entertain us by showing us how far down the rabbit hole of delusion and
isolationism you can go. Use your skills and magic!
'between 20 and 160 comments'
I bet you have enough viewers to support one of those pundit shows on the
television! Talk about cross-promotion!
Dave Weinbaum replies:
'Nice deflection. You have so many skills!!'
Are you here to criticize or acknowledge me?
'I bet you have enough viewers to support one of those pundit shows on the
television! Talk about cross-promotion! '
I'm sorry, but I don't hire phonies as agents. What's YOUR name?
Sulla Felix
I pride myself on being able to follow folks arguments. the Prof's arguments usually
seem pretty coherent to me, and I have no problem following them, even the ones I
disagree with.
But, honestly, Whinebaum's comments come off as incoherent and rambling.......
more anger than reason. He's like the poster that couldn't shoot straight. The fact
that his nic is a childish taunt pretty much sets the stage for the rest of the post.
I'd respond to his posts, but the reality is that they aren't coherent enough to
respond to. What I mean is that, yes, we know he's talking about Israel and the
recent incident with the flotilla assault, but beyond that, he just starts spewing
words like 'colonialism' and 'apartheidism' in a word salad. It's as though he's
piecing his arguments together from various leftwing bumper stickers, pasting them
to the page, and then letting rip.
You can't argue against him, not because his argument is good, but because it's so
vacuous as to lack the tangibility to strike at......it's like punching a ghost. There's
nothing there but the illusion that there's something there.
oscar
Very well spoken! Perhaps he is one that the DNC commisioned to infiltrate the Tea
Party. If so they did not get their moneys worth.
OldProf
Thanks, Sulla. Such a rare event on this rant. To not be savaged, I mean. Where
have you been? In good health, I hope, and too busy for this diversion.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Prof,
'In good health, I hope, and too busy for this diversion.'
The exercise of our First Ammendment Rights is hardly a 'diversion' for most of
us. It's a G-d given right that our government can't wait to eliminate.
But I do wish good health on Sulla, always a welcome and intelligent commentator.
I enjoy all those who comment, even the ones who make my blood boil. :>)
Donald W. Bales
He did have a black father, but he was Kenyan and not U.S. He did not have the
heritage of a U.S. black. His mother was surely not main stream-atheist and
deserted him. He chose to be all black although he is half white. He snowed the
electorate and led them to believe he was someone or something that he was not. If
anyone had looked at his mentors and his associates, they would not have been
surprised at what he has done.
There is a left wing conspiracy-it may not be vast, but it is very large and has many
in the media and in academia in it. Far from being a unifier, his Presidency has led
to a deeper and more intense division of the population.
You may need to grind the grain before you try to make bread.
No, punditry from the left leads to nutty blogs.
Firing Holder would be too smart and too good to ever happen.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Thanks for the Opine, Doc.
Paperpuncher
Perhaps if we ignore whinebaum's rantings, he will go away.
OldProf
4/10 are replies from Dave Weinbaum. In this you are the clear leader of all the
columnists accessible through Gatehouse News. You certainly defend your position
with substantial energy, helped along by your 'fanboys'. (I really liked that jab!)
I did actually get a nice reply from one of the Gateway columnists due to my
actually agreeing with their column. That author was also an amateur and not on the
payroll of a standard newspaper. It is probably a coincidence that editors and
reporters do not reply directly to their comments. Your responses are both
refreshing and amusing.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Oscar,
Ignoring the rantings of an anti-American, anti-Semite is not an option. That's how
I got started as an op-ed columnist.
Prof,
I asked some of the pros why they didn't respond to criticism/compliments. I didn't
get responses that made sense to me, but they do it for a living and they are dealing
with deadlines and such. I guess I'm in position to answer and as I said in the
article, I like to argue. Thanks for writing.
oscar
prof I guess that you are calling me a fanboy. Just because I agree with this column
more often than not does not mean that I am a fanboy. I quite often disagree with
Daves position and I must admit partly because of my WASP upbringing but most
often because I honestly disagree. Your position however is an acquired and almost
total disagreement of 50-60 years experience. Actually I have a missing index finger
and was unable to properly return a peace symbol.
Twice I have exchanged a series of emails with these columnists. One was with a
black writer on the subject of race. And the other was with a man of words and his
over reliance on spell check with its shortcomings in recognizing homophones.
However I would imagine that most professional writers just do not have the time
to exchange mail.
Dave Not my comment. When Yahoo had their old comment system I did a
personal survey of 5 articles that were apt to cause disagreement and several
hundred responses from a number of different individuals. And I discovered that
the loving liberals were more than 20% apt to get personally nasty than the hateful, -
ists and -isms conservative respondents were.
Mephisto
The United States is the only country in the world to fight a civil war to end
slavery, among other things. That was more than 145 years ago.
Today, there are race-hustlers and poverty-pimps like Je$$e Jack$on and Al
$harpton whose livlihoods thrive on perceived injustices in the black community.
The racism that exists nowadays is primarily black-on-white and/or black-on-
anybody else.
We have come a long way since our founding, but there are still a few racists
hanging around, like Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan, preaching their hatred
of everyone.
Our allegedly "post-racial" president still hates his white grandmother and has set
race relations back more than 60 years. Just read his "memoirs", written by Bill
Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
Everything he's "achieved" has been given to him by guilty whites; his inflated
grades, his being accepted into prestigious universities based on nothing but being
black, to his hijacking his senate seat from Illinois to his "coronation" as president.
He and his wife have achieved nothing on their own, yet they despise their
benefactors.
That's gratitude for you - being given everything they could never earn on their
own, then biting the hand that feeds their ego.
Fools!
Doug McKelvy
Note to Sulla Felix: I think you meant "niche" when you typed "nic."
Niche is a French word adopted into English. I'm surprised you didn't know that.
oscar
nic----Short for knickname. I do believe.
Good column. Cute cartoon.
Katharine
Hahahahaha!!! Right on Dave. I couldn't agree with you more. I wish I could
argue with you though... I just agree with you too much. I, for one, am sick of the
bile coming out of the WH, NAACP, and media. It makes us as Americans look
really bad. And quite frankly, the Americans I know, work with, associate with,
and encounter on a daily basis aren't so petty, full of themselves, and shortsighted.
I wish foreign officials could visit the midwest and see what true patriotic
Americans are like, because our leaders in the limelight are giving us all a bad
name. I love America and the people in it... even my uber-Liberal best friend. It's
the politicians and so-called leaders that are scum. Power corrupts.
Jim Bower
Mr. Weinbaum,
I really enjoy reading your column. Now for something totally
off-topic: I live in St. Louis; my parents used to live in Cherokee
Village, Arkansas. Whenever we visited them we took I-44 to Rolla and
Hwy 63 to Arkansas. We always planned our schedule around the hours of
Alex's Pizza Palace. I don't know if you like pizza in general or
Alex's in particular, but it's been a bright spot for us for nearly 20
years. My mom died last year and I finally convinced my dad (88 years
old) to relocate to a retirement village close to us. We spent the last
two weekends in Arkansas getting his belongings packed up and preparing
his house for sale. We made our (probably) last visit to Alex's this
past Friday. It was bittersweet because the place was a madhouse
(hey...it WAS Friday night) and they were really busy. This didn't keep
our favorite waitress (Diana) from recognizing us and getting us to a
table as quickly as possible.
Anyhow, I just needed to wax nostalgic about Rolla (which looks like a
really nice place to live despite my ex wife living and practicing
medicine there) and Alex's.
Sorry to put too much information your way, but it's been a long week.
Cheers
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Dear Jim,
Very sorry about your mom.
Just in Stl. Today. The family that owns Alex's just reopened Gordoz next to
Taco Bell in Rolla. Alex's was probably giving help to Gordoz. Check it
out---but my fav restaurant in Rolla besides my own is Matt's Steak House on
exit 189 S. Outer Rd. Best steak I've ever had.
Good luck with Dad.
You're a good son.
Jim Bower
Thanks...my folks gave my brother and me a good life. It was great to see them
enjoy a nice long retirement, and it's my privilege to be able to help my dad deal
with the events in his life.
Susan W. Hynes
Good one Dave!
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Thanks Susan.
OldProf
You should really be sanctified. Where can I do the research to find out if you are
really as wonderful as you assume?
Sometimes your byline reads Gateway and sometimes Rolla Daily News. Does one
cost more than the other?
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Prof,
'You should really be sanctified.'
Didn't you really mean crucified?
As to the byline, I pay no attention to it as long as they've remembered to put my
name on the column (something that didn't happen a few times)
Thanks for your 'concern' for my ego.
Doug McKelvy
"G-d I love to argue. Does it show?"
Only a little. 8^}
Actually, I'd be extremely flattered if one of my critics accused me of being a
Mossad agent!
Please keep it up.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Doug,
Thanks for the comments. Can’t argue with THAT!
Dave Whinebaum
Do you take requests O Great User of Social Media?
You have been unusually quiet about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Why not analyze
your ideology that we should support the domination and exploitation of a region by
a foreign nation and the racial domination of one ethnicity over another? You know,
colonialism, apartheidism?
Perhaps we can rely on the fact that the sheer amount of spin you will inevitably
generate may very well force the Earth to rotate backwards on its axis and reverse
time to before the incident in international waters happened.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Now you have requests for me? Oy Vey! I'm pretty sure I covered it on the Radio
Show. Hey if you support Hamas so much, get on one of the Flotilla boats! If you
survive you can go celebrate at the brand new Gaza Mall.
Let's see what happens when al-Qaeda decides to send a supply ship to build the
Mosque on ground zero. I'm beggin' ya, please get on THAT ship but tell 'em
whose name you're aping first. That way you'll get it from BOTH sides.
Dave Whinebaum
Nice deflection. You have so many skills!!
I was asking you to analyze your ideology, not assume I support Hamas. But I
totally understand if you support and justify what Israel did.
C'mon, entertain us by showing us how far down the rabbit hole of delusion and
isolationism you can go. Use your skills and magic!
'between 20 and 160 comments'
I bet you have enough viewers to support one of those pundit shows on the
television! Talk about cross-promotion!
Dave Weinbaum replies:
'Nice deflection. You have so many skills!!'
Are you here to criticize or acknowledge me?
'I bet you have enough viewers to support one of those pundit shows on the
television! Talk about cross-promotion! '
I'm sorry, but I don't hire phonies as agents. What's YOUR name?
Sulla Felix
I pride myself on being able to follow folks arguments. the Prof's arguments usually
seem pretty coherent to me, and I have no problem following them, even the ones I
disagree with.
But, honestly, Whinebaum's comments come off as incoherent and rambling.......
more anger than reason. He's like the poster that couldn't shoot straight. The fact
that his nic is a childish taunt pretty much sets the stage for the rest of the post.
I'd respond to his posts, but the reality is that they aren't coherent enough to
respond to. What I mean is that, yes, we know he's talking about Israel and the
recent incident with the flotilla assault, but beyond that, he just starts spewing
words like 'colonialism' and 'apartheidism' in a word salad. It's as though he's
piecing his arguments together from various leftwing bumper stickers, pasting them
to the page, and then letting rip.
You can't argue against him, not because his argument is good, but because it's so
vacuous as to lack the tangibility to strike at......it's like punching a ghost. There's
nothing there but the illusion that there's something there.
oscar
Very well spoken! Perhaps he is one that the DNC commisioned to infiltrate the Tea
Party. If so they did not get their moneys worth.
OldProf
Thanks, Sulla. Such a rare event on this rant. To not be savaged, I mean. Where
have you been? In good health, I hope, and too busy for this diversion.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Prof,
'In good health, I hope, and too busy for this diversion.'
The exercise of our First Ammendment Rights is hardly a 'diversion' for most of
us. It's a G-d given right that our government can't wait to eliminate.
But I do wish good health on Sulla, always a welcome and intelligent commentator.
I enjoy all those who comment, even the ones who make my blood boil. :>)
Donald W. Bales
He did have a black father, but he was Kenyan and not U.S. He did not have the
heritage of a U.S. black. His mother was surely not main stream-atheist and
deserted him. He chose to be all black although he is half white. He snowed the
electorate and led them to believe he was someone or something that he was not. If
anyone had looked at his mentors and his associates, they would not have been
surprised at what he has done.
There is a left wing conspiracy-it may not be vast, but it is very large and has many
in the media and in academia in it. Far from being a unifier, his Presidency has led
to a deeper and more intense division of the population.
You may need to grind the grain before you try to make bread.
No, punditry from the left leads to nutty blogs.
Firing Holder would be too smart and too good to ever happen.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Thanks for the Opine, Doc.
Paperpuncher
Perhaps if we ignore whinebaum's rantings, he will go away.
OldProf
4/10 are replies from Dave Weinbaum. In this you are the clear leader of all the
columnists accessible through Gatehouse News. You certainly defend your position
with substantial energy, helped along by your 'fanboys'. (I really liked that jab!)
I did actually get a nice reply from one of the Gateway columnists due to my
actually agreeing with their column. That author was also an amateur and not on the
payroll of a standard newspaper. It is probably a coincidence that editors and
reporters do not reply directly to their comments. Your responses are both
refreshing and amusing.
Dave Weinbaum replies:
Oscar,
Ignoring the rantings of an anti-American, anti-Semite is not an option. That's how
I got started as an op-ed columnist.
Prof,
I asked some of the pros why they didn't respond to criticism/compliments. I didn't
get responses that made sense to me, but they do it for a living and they are dealing
with deadlines and such. I guess I'm in position to answer and as I said in the
article, I like to argue. Thanks for writing.
oscar
prof I guess that you are calling me a fanboy. Just because I agree with this column
more often than not does not mean that I am a fanboy. I quite often disagree with
Daves position and I must admit partly because of my WASP upbringing but most
often because I honestly disagree. Your position however is an acquired and almost
total disagreement of 50-60 years experience. Actually I have a missing index finger
and was unable to properly return a peace symbol.
Twice I have exchanged a series of emails with these columnists. One was with a
black writer on the subject of race. And the other was with a man of words and his
over reliance on spell check with its shortcomings in recognizing homophones.
However I would imagine that most professional writers just do not have the time
to exchange mail.
Dave Not my comment. When Yahoo had their old comment system I did a
personal survey of 5 articles that were apt to cause disagreement and several
hundred responses from a number of different individuals. And I discovered that
the loving liberals were more than 20% apt to get personally nasty than the hateful, -
ists and -isms conservative respondents were.
Mephisto
The United States is the only country in the world to fight a civil war to end
slavery, among other things. That was more than 145 years ago.
Today, there are race-hustlers and poverty-pimps like Je$$e Jack$on and Al
$harpton whose livlihoods thrive on perceived injustices in the black community.
The racism that exists nowadays is primarily black-on-white and/or black-on-
anybody else.
We have come a long way since our founding, but there are still a few racists
hanging around, like Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan, preaching their hatred
of everyone.
Our allegedly "post-racial" president still hates his white grandmother and has set
race relations back more than 60 years. Just read his "memoirs", written by Bill
Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
Everything he's "achieved" has been given to him by guilty whites; his inflated
grades, his being accepted into prestigious universities based on nothing but being
black, to his hijacking his senate seat from Illinois to his "coronation" as president.
He and his wife have achieved nothing on their own, yet they despise their
benefactors.
That's gratitude for you - being given everything they could never earn on their
own, then biting the hand that feeds their ego.
Fools!
Doug McKelvy
Note to Sulla Felix: I think you meant "niche" when you typed "nic."
Niche is a French word adopted into English. I'm surprised you didn't know that.
oscar
nic----Short for knickname. I do believe.