An Honest Discussion about
Race in America
American Thinker,
by
Lloyd Marcus
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/26/2019 12:13:47 PM
Obama's A.G., Eric Holder, challenged Americans to have an "honest" discussion about race. Obama and Holder are progressives who believe that America is unarguably racist. What Holder really wanted was a one-sided conversation to declare white Americans inherently racist. Holder wanted to further instill a victim mindset in blacks and use reparations to seduce blacks to continue voting for Democrats. In response to Holder's challenge, I am launching an honest discussion about race. Due to their war of words on YouTube, I became aware of an ongoing feud between black comedian Mo'Nique and black entertainment power brokers Oprah, Tyler Perry, and Steve Harvey.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/26/2019 12:29:00 PM (No. 162764)
Do people like 0bama and Holder really believe that America is unarguably racist? They constantly say and imply so but in the core of their awareness they know it is not true. Holding forth that pretense is to their (so far) unchallengeable political and personal advantage. That is why it is a lost cause to argue the truth with these people.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 8/26/2019 12:51:28 PM (No. 162782)
Somebody somewhere posted a great response to these accusations of racism and white supremacy. Do you know one? Have you ever met one? Do you know anything but the most cordial relations between the races? Of course not. These are race hustlers trying to foment discord and race hatred. Democrats and liberals in general are despicable.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LesUNo 8/26/2019 1:24:13 PM (No. 162830)
It is not skin color. It is a combative attitude and unlawful behavior that will not be tolerated, not the ethnicity.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/26/2019 1:28:12 PM (No. 162838)
If this is such a racist country how do you explain 0bama, Holder, Jarrett, Oprah, Lemon, April Ryan, and on and on and on. If this country were truly racist we never would have heard of any of them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Penney 8/26/2019 1:37:16 PM (No. 162853)
Are lefties ever capable of having an honest discussion about anything?! ...No evidence so far that they can.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Wary American 8/26/2019 1:54:46 PM (No. 162870)
Honest? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Digger 8/26/2019 2:04:25 PM (No. 162886)
And God Bless Lloyd Marcus, too!
Since he mentioned Doug Williams, I have to post a memory which may amuse readers as it did then and continues to amuse me. A startup football league gave a franchise to Tulsa who hired Doug Williams as quarterback. The publicity was intense. Then a local TV station sports reporter got a live interview and asked Williams “How long have you been a black quarterback?” Williams glared and did not answer the question.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/26/2019 2:13:46 PM (No. 162903)
We have: A Congressional Black Caucus, Ms. Black USA, Ms. Black. America, the United Negro College Fund, Affirmative Action, the Assn. of Black Journalists, the Assn. of Black Engineers, the Assn. of Black Police, etc., etc., etc. Does America have even one, just one 'Assn. of White anything?' And yet we have a race problem because of white people? They couldn't handle an honest discussion.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/26/2019 2:20:57 PM (No. 162916)
There can be no "honest discussion" on race until accusations of racism stop every time someone disagrees with the minority version of things.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/26/2019 2:24:09 PM (No. 162917)
People are prejudiced. We judge one another, rightly or wrongly, based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and dozens of other factors. Its not going to change. All this discussion has done is inflame tensions which is exactly what the left planned. Can we stop talking about race now?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Debaser 8/26/2019 4:04:13 PM (No. 162981)
It's about time: We haven't had an honest discussion about race in nearly 5 minutes.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
web 8/26/2019 4:44:08 PM (No. 163019)
Yes, much of America is unarguably racist. Blacks and hispanics seem to hate Whites, while White people could care less about race, and just want to get on with their lives. If blacks would spend less time taking about racism and more time working, they would do a lot better. No one is holding them down. If you are getting preferences and grant money and welfare and you still can't get ahead, perhaps the problem is you.
The only time I ever think about race is when I see all those Black folks on TV and wonder why they are being figured so prominently when they are only about 12% of the population. You can only do so much to make people feel good about themselves. If blacks and muslims still want to kill White folks and infidels after TV and NASA try to make them feel good about themselves, the problem is them, not us.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/27/2019 7:53:37 AM (No. 163420)
They can't handle the truth. That's why we have so many problems.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
fayebeck 8/27/2019 8:27:13 AM (No. 163453)
Is an honest discussion the same as a national "conversation"?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/27/2019 8:35:59 AM (No. 163458)
What I hear from every prominent black Democrat (and a few white ones) is a Cure for Racism In two words: Kill Whitey.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
moebellini3 8/27/2019 9:12:44 AM (No. 163507)
Fact is, you cannot have an adult conversation with a democrat. They preach tolerance but are the most intolerant people on the planet. You see, they are who they want you to hate. They accuse us of being racists when in fact they are the racists. They want you to hate wall street and the rich when they are wall street and the rich. They preach civility when they are the most uncivil. They are the party of contradiction. Bottom line is they hate our country, our flag, our military, the police and our way of life and freedoms. Got it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Trapper 8/27/2019 10:11:47 AM (No. 163575)
America has had over half a century of institutionalized Black Privilege. Affirmative action, racial preferences in hiring, college admissions, and contracts, free housing, food, cell phones and cable TV. And what is the result? Calls for more free stuff, and calls for free money, "reparations."
Chicago year to date: 274 shot and killed, and of these 82% were black. Of the total 274 killed, where the shooter’s race was known 17 shooters were black, 4 were Hispanic, and 1 was white. Nationwide, 52% of murders are committed by African Americans, who make up only12% of the population.
Children of all races sit in classrooms together, reading the same text books, hearing the same teachers, and some still fail. Why? It's clearly not racial. Every successful African American proves it is not racial inevitability. Neither is it a product of white racism ... black president.
There is an element within African American culture that praises and rewards ignorance, promiscuity, illegitimacy, violence, and failure. Also in the mix are a failure to value self control, and fatherless families. No amount of cash reparations will fix these cultural pathologies.
So yeah. LET'S talk about race. But let's make the topic African American culture. After half a century it is time to declare the Black Privilege experiment a failure and begin to examine what aspects of African American culture are perpetuating failure generation after generation.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Quigley 8/27/2019 10:12:38 AM (No. 163576)
Racism was institutionalized by the Dims as a political strategy.
It is time for an honest discussion about race. Where will we find honest dims whose thought processes are not irretrievably corrupted: Mo’Nique can’t get as much money as she wants- racism! (I bet 0bama got plenty of money From Netflix- political corruption!) Seattle can’t was crap off its sidewalks- racism!
The political class is broken. They can’t broker honesty or honestly.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Arby 8/27/2019 10:19:44 AM (No. 163587)
Well said, Lloyd. The left doesn't want you to think about people as individuals because they would then find it difficult to divide us via identity politics--the source of their potential power. My experience working with and for black people and white people is the same as yours.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
joew9 8/27/2019 11:01:48 AM (No. 163641)
Every time the left says they want an honest discussion it means they will lecture us and we have to shut up.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LadyHen 8/27/2019 11:22:59 AM (No. 163668)
The powers that be in the Democrat Progressive (regressive) Party know we are becoming less racist as a nation thus the need to pound the "white people are evil" narrative 24/7/365. The perpetually aggrieved "victim", the constantly angry "intellectuals", the violent "antifacist " mob... these are their foot soldiers.
They have no tools but division, fear, and hatred. Why everyone can't see this and vote accordingly, I do not understand.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Franz 8/27/2019 12:26:23 PM (No. 163749)
It is unarguably a fact that Obama and Holder claiming racism at every opportunity, set race relations back nearly 20 years!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 8/27/2019 4:51:10 PM (No. 164001)
It's not the color of a person's skin, it is the disposition of character, the mind, the soul.
If someone wants to preserve and protect my (and their own) liberty, I am all for them; if someone wants to take away my (or our) liberty, I am an opponent.
It's ideological, most of all.
And let's assert this: race and/or ethnicity are too often used as weapons against those who especially want a LIMITED State, a weak State (regarding the Individual Citizen). I never thought that we would actually have advocates --the Democrat Party-- for a 1984-style dystopia which aims to thoroughly and absolutely control the individual.
People from the chosen minority groups who escape the mental quagmire of the Left and come over to our side of Liberty, are incredibly brave and invaluable for the furtherance of our goal of preserving and defending our Constitutional Republic and Nation of Laws, Not of Men.
These totalitarians, the Democrat Left, do not care about Minorities except as they're useful as a tool, a cudgel, to crush and defeat Constitutionalists in order to expand the socialist mega-State, with world communism is the ultimate End, or telos.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Tianne 8/27/2019 6:14:53 PM (No. 164109)
Lloyd Marcus, by his own admission, is criticized by racist blacks for viewing all people as individuals. Unfortunately, it is only Lefitist, racist blacks who get prominence on late night TV talk shows, cable news shows, and other venues - venues where they are exploited to laugh together with their white hosts about conservative Americans. The racist blacks who will spout the Democrat talking points are the only ones who are acceptable and welcome to their Progressive hosts.
Candace Owens, Lloyd Marcus, Ben Carson, Condoleezza Rice, and Supreme Court Justice Thomas, are all openly reviled by the 'black community'. Those who have accomplished great things on their own through hard work, attention to education, and adherence to principles that do not include a racial litmus test, are insulted, denigrated, and dismissed by racist blacks. Those mentioned above are not held up as examples of achievement in the schools located in black areas of our cities. Rather, black children are now being taught about 'resistance', Colin Kaepernick, Malcolm X, Ilhan Omar, Al Sharpton, and Beyonce, an outspoken supporter of the Black Lives Matter organization. Too many black children have never heard of the people whose names are first listed above.
The Media in this nation has been co-opted by the Left and all races and all creeds are under their Progressive magnifying glass. But Americans - all Americans - are beginning to take heed and are challenging the takeover by the Left.
The results of the 2020 election (after scrutiny against tampering) will tell us how far we've progressed.
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