It is. Where you and I may differ, though, is on the degree to which one must -- or should -- temper one's message in order to attain that end. Everyone tends to locate that line in a different place.

I'm all for being practical, but I tend to think that we can't actually win an argument unless we have one. Race is one of those subjects which it's unwise to temporize about, in my opinion, even if the alternative is to lose an election here and there.

In any event, this is one of those things that reasonable people can disagree about, if not in principle, at least in how that principle is applied. I sometimes find myself on this side of the fence, sometimes on that side, but on race, I'm an uncompromising hardass.

That's the reality for blacks, particularly black men, in America today and throughout history. Blacks are always being asked to account for themselves in some way in order to make themselves legit to suspicious, racist whites. They have to speak or dress a certain way. They have to be non-threatening or heaven-forbid "not too black."

The moron blogger with his N-word rant is just another example of a racist white person who DEMANDS that all black people conform to whatever standard he has decided that they must conform. If they don't, then they are the problem, they are the "bad blacks", the ni**ers.

The fact is that this guy is a moron who most likely knows almost no black people at all, and yet feels perfectly fine judging them from a safe and convenient distance. This is not a conversation or a discussion about race. It's an excuse to name-call and throw slurs. I hope the blogger enjoyed his brief time being "allowed" to call blacks what he always has wanted to call them.

MSNBC has a white supremacist on their payroll ... maybe he's just trying to get some professional recognition

http://mediamatters.org/items/200803220001

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.

Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks - with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.

And don't kid yourself ... that is the exact sort of sentiment you will find at Stormfront if you have the stomach to wade through that site.

I 'm gonna have to turn this off.

It's Easter. Maybe bunny pellets,

or avian dropping will fall on me.

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The hate-mongers need to go see,

a leftist psychiatrist for loneliness.

Maybe visit a Dr. EyeBrow barber?

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Puppies report the news better.

Poor Demented right flop winger.

They are depressing all Mothers.

I have been seeing this "assumption" about black people all sticking together played out at least since New Hampshire. Thanks to the MSM we know that every time a black person like Donna Brazile of Jim Clyburn speaks they aren't voicing their personal opinion, they're articulating the official stance of every card carrying black person in America. We are not a monolithic group by any definition of the word. Maybe if the media allowed more diversity of opinion on TV (and not just more diversity of black thought. What are the views of the Asian community? What does the latin community think about issues other than immigration? Will we ever see a Native American on TV in anything other than a cameo on some lame prime time drama?) they would begin to see we have a broad range of views on any and every subject, just as in any other community. Some of us are just as distressed by the long T shirt crowd as any white person would be but I suggest Mr. Instapunk avoid smacking any of them lest he risk pulling back a stump where his hand was. I have also noticed that when FOX News says "America" they mean white Americans who agree with them, damn everyone else. You would think the people on the right think the Statue of Liberty is inscribed with "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses; yearning to be marginalized as instruments of fear to scare white people into a call for action." Ya think?

Maybe Instapunk is a pseudonym for Pat "slavery was the best thing to happen to blacks" Buchanan. Who knows, but I will share a thought that has had me chuckling for the past week: all our lives we in the black community have been trying to convince ourselves that whites are really not as paranoid and biased as we sometimes want to believe they are. Thanks to Geraldine Ferraro, Pat Buchanan, Instapunk and Sean Hannity for showing us otherwise.

What Instapunk is saying, is that any black person he doesn't like is a n*****. I wonder what he calls white people he doesn't like. Its possible he also calls them n******.

"By stark contrast, there is never any assumption that John McCain shares the radical and vehemently 'anti-American' views of his 'spiritual guide' Rod Parsley or John Hagee..."

There's a lot I disagree with in Greenwald's rant, but that's a difference of opinion. The above quote, however, is a factual misrepresentation. It states, or strongly implies, that McCain said that Parsley and/or Hagee is his spiritual guide. Of course, McCain said no such thing. These are people McCain got to endorse him during a political campaign; there's no analog to Obama's relationship to Wright.

Mr. Greenwald, (AKA Ryan, Wilson, Ellison, Thomas Ellers, Rick Ellensberg) is willing to publish assertions he believes to be false. But we already knew that, didn't we?