Even though Obama is not and never was an African-American, he has always been black enough to benefit from the superannuated slave culture that forgives every corruption and hypocrisy in those who have any claim on being black.

Okay, I'm gonna have the rest of my teeth pulled. If that doesn't work, I'll get a lobotomy. If I'm still aware of Instapundit after that, death will offer the only surcease.

Don't you all remember how the slaves were forgiven for every transgression? And the system of Jim Crow laws laid down, at great expense and with great trouble, to benefit the descendants of these slaves, and relieve them of all responsibility?

Reminds me about the story Sammie Davis used to tell: He went to play golf, and they asked him: "What's your handicap?"

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it's healthy we are having this debate;

in this sense, the Rev Wright controversy is a plus

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it seems easy to get stuck in the past

i remember Southern California in the 1950's

the blacks lived in one part of LA "out of sight"

the Mexicans had their neighborhoods

"the good old days" ?

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Pleasantville:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120789/

marc

It looks like this:

from Media Matters:

Summary: Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "

I read Instapunk's list of blacks he considers to be niggers and was left wondering what words can whites use for specific blacks they really can't stand?

It took all of five seconds to think up a whole menu of lovely epithets this guy could have used that have none of the racial baggage of nigger. For example, no one's racial radar would be triggered by the following:

Farrakhan is a pompous f*ckwit

O.J. is a murdering a**hole

Tyson is an ear-munching dipsh*t

because none of these carry any racial connotations. The fact that he expresses his dislike with a racially charged word is what makes him a such a detestable bigot. Not his dislike of the specific blacks O.J., Louis Farrakhan, Mike Tyson etc...

What a little coward. Now he's claiming ignorance by stating that it was ANOTHER author on the blog, and not the same author.

So of course, that makes it okay.

Then the little coward links to Dan Collins over at Protein Wisdom who brings up endorsements of Obama that, uhh, Obama doesn't even accept. Including the silly Black Panthers bullshit post created not on Obama's site, but on another site that Obama links to to which anyone can create a profile. Of course once the Obama campaign saw the website, they took it down immediately.

I sent in a post, but unlike those silly librul blogs it appears they screen their posts over at the wingnut blogs first, so I'm not holding my breath to see if Collins posts it.

I do tend to wonder what Collins thinks about this endorsement on the same site as the Black Panthers?:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gB4ns

Considering that Hannity is also good pals with this Nazi sympathizer:

http://www.halturnershow.com/

Sure wouldn't want anyone to think Obama is not only a racist, but a Nazi sympathizer too......

If there is no guilt-by-association for McCain, why should there be any with Obama?

Because Obama's black, and McCain is white.

[I realize your question was rhetorical, but apparently we can't assume our "metaphysically superior" friend has equally keen observational skills, can we?]

Just the silly profile of the Black Panthers endorsement.

The fact that [Instapunk] expresses his dislike with a racially charged word is what makes him a such a detestable bigot. Not his dislike of the specific blacks O.J., Louis Farrakhan, Mike Tyson etc...

I knew, from the moment I heard Obama's A More Perfect Union speech, that closet bigots would instantly zero in on his invitation for America to have an open racial dialogue, taking this as their permission to do it in precisely the way Obama warned against - with derision, divisiveness, blame, and even epithet.

It's inherent in Instapunk's words, which essentially said, "OK, Obama, you asked for it, in the spirit of open discussion now we're going to let loose with all the racist things we were previously too ashamed to utter publicly."

In fact, this thinking is overtly expressed by Gretchen Carlson in the recent Fox and Friends edition in which Chris Wallace bravely and admirably dressed-down the panel for their "two hours of Obama bashing."

CARLSON: And my point of view was that I felt as if maybe the attention was being taken away from what people really wanted to hear Barack Obama speak about, which was his association and what he thought about the comments by his minister, Jeremiah Wright. I felt like he was deflecting the attention potentially away from that, and if we really want to have a discussion about race, then let's really have a discussion about how there is a double standard for certain phrases and words. I think if you throw a phrase like that out there, then, OK, then let's really have a discussion about it.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200803210008?f=h_top

To Gretchen Carlson, the issue "people really wanted to hear" about was exclusively Obama and Reverend Wright, and the implications of their association. Then, with emphasis only obvious in the video, she pulls hungrily at the leash for the opportunity to really talk about race and what she sees as a "double standard for certain phrases and words."

The import of what she said was clear as day, and shared by a good number of people: Obama's asking America to have an open and constructive dialogue about race is really just an invitation to openly say, in the most divisive and confrontational way possible, the things that Instapunk, Pat Buchanan, and others have been burning to express.