I have long maintained that the Democratic Party in America views minorities in a fundamentally racist way, and that this racism is clearly expressed in the policies they support. Just to give one example, there is quite a bit of merit to the notion that children who come from financially disadvantaged homes and neighborhoods deserve a leg up when it comes to, say college admissions. However, when the Democrats go about setting policy, they don’t seek to give children from financially disadvantaged children a leg up, they seek to give minority children a leg up (so long as those minorities are non-Asian). No one argues that there is a 1:1 correlation (or even nearly a 1:1 correlation) between being a non-Asian minority and being financially and socioeconomically disadvantaged, but any attempts to implement an affirmative action plan that operates on relevant socioeconomic factors (instead of on race per se) are stridently resisted by these Democrats, who are apparently under the impression that even wealthy non-Asian minorities are, as a class, less intelligent than whites and non-Asian minorities. This view is, by definition, racist.
Time and time again, elected Democrats expose this bigotry by admitting - often in embarrassing ways - that they have the same set of expectations for all people of a given minority (be it black, hispanic, or other). In their worldview, these privileged white liberals are simply incapable of understanding that people of a given minority are capable of thinking, believing, acting, or achieving as individuals, but instead must be patronizingly dealt with as some inferior class. Behold Exhibit A, Barbara Boxer attempting to deal with Harry Alford of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. The NBCC has done quite a lot research on cap and trade and climate change issues, and was testifying before the Senate Public Works Committee in support of the NBCC’s view. Boxer, apparently of the belief that all black people should feel the same about every given issue, counters the NBCC’s view with a resolution passed by the NAACP, despite its total non-relevance to anything Alford was discussing. Alford’s reaction was… well, you can see it for yourself:
Oh, but that is not nearly all. The Democrats have had a banner week in improving race relations this week. More below the fold…
Exhibits B and C come to us courtesy of Dick Durbin. Exhibit B we already covered yesterday. In Exhibit C, Durbin explains the District of Columbia shouldn’t be prevented from spending federal $ on abortion, despite the fact that 41 per cent of all pregnancies in the District of Columbia are already terminated in abortion even without federal funding.
The issue arose last Thursday when the Senate Appropriations Committee took up the bill that funds the federal district. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) invoking President Bill Clinton’s formulation that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare,” asked why Congress should pursue a policy that will make abortion even more common in D.C. than it already is.
“Forty-one percent of pregnancies — that’s not rare,” he said. “We do not need to have more abortions in the District of Columbia.”
Durbin’s reply to this point — and Brownback’s interruption of him — follows below.
Durbin: In terms of safe, legal and rare, to the Senator from Kansas, I will tell you two things. First, it is a fact that a disproportionately large number of African Americans seek abortion in America, not just in the District of Columbia, but all across the nation.
Brownback: 41 percent?
Durbin: No, but it’s also a fact that a disproportionately large number of African Americans live in the District of Columbia.
Brownback: 41 percent?
Durbin: I’m telling you, look at the numbers.
Brownback: I’m telling — I’m just asking you, aren’t there enough [abortions] here?
Durbin: Look at the numbers, and you will find this to be true.
Brownback: This — this is not high enough?
Unbelievable. It is not so much that Durbin is pointing out a statistical fact about abortion (that a disproportionate number of pregnancies in the black community end in abortion), it is that he is using this as an argument for why there should be more abortions in D.C. That Durbin can say such a thing without any apparent effect on his conscience indicates how ingrained this racism is.
Look, we could do this all day. We could harken back to Biden explaining that Iowa’s schools performed better than DC schools because DC schools have more black kids than Iowa schools (sure, he eventually got around to the socioeconomic stuff, but his first thought? Too many blacks in DC.) But the point should be obvious by now to anyone who is paying attention - elected Democrats expect less as a class from minorities, both in terms of intelligence and behavior.
And that, folks, can’t be called anything other than what it is: racism.
Out-Fricken-Standing Leon!!!
Aaron Gardner Thursday, July 16th at 4:12PM EDT (link)I will be digging and tweeting and facebooking this.
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jimc1969 Thursday, July 16th at 4:18PM EDT (link)Lets NOT forget that the Dems put Robert KKK Byrd as the effective head of the senate, putting him what 3rd in line for the presidency ???
Double Standard
Lisa in Maryland Friday, July 17th at 12:43PM EDT (link)The Dems make sure they bring up David Duke as much as possible, but how dare us bring up KKK Byrd. It shocks me that minorities don’t realize these people don’t really care about them, Liberals just want to keep them in their place because they think african americans are too stupid to get ahead on their own, and they want to make sure their aren’t too many of them either by the sound of it. How insulting.
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Excellent work.
randy streu Thursday, July 16th at 4:19PM EDT (link)I’ll also be spreading this far and wide.
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In Boxer's view, Mr. Alford strayed from the plantation
jonreagan Thursday, July 16th at 4:28PM EDT (link)You sum up the liberals’ world view of minorities very well: victimology. They promise to provide lots of “goodies” from the welfare state, in exchange for absolute loyalty in the voting booth. Conservative women like Sarah Palin, and conservative African-Americans like Harry Alford are branded as traitors who just don’t know any better. Clearly they drive liberals like Barbara Boxer crazy, which is fun to watch.
What I really like here is that Alford called Boxer out on her hypocrisy, and basically ripped her face off—-unlike the usual timid witnesses on the Hill. This makes twice in a month that this hag has insulted witnesses…..a Brigadier General (call me Senator! not ma’m) three weeks ago, and a prominent African American businessman today. And you’re right: her outrageous treatment of this gentleman is racism, pure and simple.
Leon, I was thinking the same thing when Durbin said:
Jack_Savage Thursday, July 16th at 4:29PM EDT (link)“When we asked questions of the white male nominees of a Republican president, we were basically trying to … make sure that they would go far enough in understanding the plight of minorities, because clearly that was not in their DNA.”
So white males don’t have the ability to understand or empathize because of what they lack in their DNA? How about white women? Maybe a little more, but not as much as a Latina, and certainly not as much as a half-Latina, half- African American. That would be the jackpot!
Durbin also leaves out what he believes, but doesn’t say, is “in” or “out” of the DNA of minorities. Maybe they can understand each other, but succeeding in business, or doing well on standardized tests, or lifting themselves out of poverty may “not be in their DNA.” Predestination, Democrat style. Ricci, times one million.
Because, according to Durbin and other racist Democrats, we are all hard-wired for success or failure, class, attitude, political viewpoint and ability, without the possibility of improving or changing our circumstances. It’s either in our DNA, or not, according to them. They are obligated, noblesse oblige, to help others with our money because of the burdenof others’ inferior genetic make up. Justice Ginsberg goes so far as to promote Roe v Wade as a vehicle to reduce undesirable populations, which is simply an extension of the theory. With public health care, euthanasia is not far behind. After all, quality of life after 65 may not be in our DNA.
They believe this as surely as I sit here and type, and every move they make relies on the strict categorization of entire ethnic groups, according to what liberals believe is in their DNA.
Harry and I played football together in High School.
Tbone Thursday, July 16th at 4:36PM EDT (link)He was tough then and I was tickled to see him give BABA a good ol’ forearm shiver. LOL.
You may also want to link over to http://www.nationalbcc.org and see what they have to say about cap & trade.
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You went to high school??
Aaron Gardner Thursday, July 16th at 4:47PM EDT (link)I kid, I kid. ;^)
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2.9 GPA!
Tbone Thursday, July 16th at 5:16PM EDT (link)But with a 1260 SAT and a 10 flat 100, it was plenty to get into the school of my choice. lol
BTW, it was where I filled my only elected office. Would you believe Commissioner of Recreation? After all, every other office actually required….work.
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That is awesome Tbone nt
mom2oneson Thursday, July 16th at 5:37PM EDT (link)No wonder Boxer was trying to silence Mr. Alford
stang Thursday, July 16th at 5:46PM EDT (link)NBCC Study on
Climate Change Bill:
Waxman/Markey Bill will Reduce
US GDP by $350 Billion and Cost
2.5 Million Jobs per year
through 2030.
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Harry has fought the vile ones in Indiana as well
pilgrim Thursday, July 16th at 4:39PM EDT (link)I have partied with Harry. It’s been quite a few years ago, but he is a good man. He had to fight Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana. It got ugly, but Harry was on the right side.
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Pilgrim that is awesome too!
mom2oneson Thursday, July 16th at 6:09PM EDT (link)He has two friends here and a whole bunch of fans if he isn’t on here he needs an invite.
I doubt he will join RS mom2one
pilgrim Thursday, July 16th at 6:40PM EDT (link)He is not a loyal Republican, nor is he a conservative ideologue. You might think of him as an African-American version of Achance. He has always understood that you can’t bring a knife to a gun fight in the political arena.
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We need more fighters who understand real strategy and how to win
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Thursday, July 16th at 11:59PM EDT (link)On the political struggle between conservatives and the fascist lefties depends the survival or destruction of the United States as a country of free individuals. No less. We need people like him all the more if they are clear about the real threat.
“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
That makes it all the more encouraging
6eorge Jetson Friday, July 17th at 11:18AM EDT (link)Political party loyalties are deeply ingrained in the psyche, regardless of color. I believe the #1 predictor of party affiliation (or very near the top) is a unified parental affiliation. The effect naturally intensifies among largely homogenous groups. (Statistic: blacks consistently vote ~85+ percent Democratic in national elections.)
IMO, in thelong run, there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit for conservatives as individuals in the ever-growing black professional class ask “What’s best for me and my peers?”
Good on ya, Mr. Alford! nt
Vegas_Rick Thursday, July 16th at 5:10PM EDT (link)“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Go, Harry Alford, go!
ZootSuit Thursday, July 16th at 5:13PM EDT (link)Of course, in Barbara Boxer’s racist mind, this is just one Black man sticking up for another.
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TNJim Thursday, July 16th at 5:33PM EDT (link)In her racist mind you should be encouraging Mr. Alford to just blindly go along with the NAACP and the other gentleman she mentioned (and made a point to mention was also black). In fact, there shouldn’t be any encouragement at all. To her it should be automatic.
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aesthete Thursday, July 16th at 5:23PM EDT (link)I love how the man never apologizes for either his race or his beliefs, and how he (rightly) makes the point that it shouldn’t be about his race, but about the effectiveness of the policy for all Americans.
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yes he did so well resonding even with
mom2oneson Thursday, July 16th at 5:35PM EDT (link)those repeated attacks on him!!!! He said was a vet I’m sure he had to deal with a lot of not nice situations but that was really amazing what he did there, he is very skilled.
Alford/Cheney/Cheney/Bachman ‘12
What happened to "Don't Call Me Ma'am"
jocelyn Thursday, July 16th at 5:31PM EDT (link)How interesting that he wasn’t scolded for not calling her Senator!
Boxer is a hypocrite and should be kicked out of office.
How any representative of California can show their face in public is beyond me.
Mr. Alford was GREAT!
Alford was doing the scolding! - nt
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Alford should have...
texas214 Thursday, July 16th at 5:41PM EDT (link)asked why she didn’t support Palin when she was running for Veep and had that “put in the record”.
Why should he feel especially "proud" to be in front of her committee?
Chieftain1776 Thursday, July 16th at 7:07PM EDT (link)Her word choice @1:25 is revealing. It’s a guide into the appalling liberal mindset. “The minority made it up here and can speak in front of the committee…now isn’t that progress… clap everyone!”,
She treated him like a 2 year old that just completed potty training. I doubt she’s ever spoke of how some white guy should feel “proud” to be in front of her committee. How ridiculous and condescending!
Mr. Alford doesn’t need to feel “proud” to go in front of some political hacks to make his case. According to his biography he’s had a successful career in the military and private sector. http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/AlfordBio.html
No matter how much he accomplishes.. some stupid upper class liberal from California is just going to see him (and the chairman of the NAACP) as a black that needs *her* affirmation and the condescension that will always come with it.
Disgusting.
And yet so many blacks
Vegas_Rick Thursday, July 16th at 9:44PM EDT (link)can’t see this. They seem to buy into the condescension.
Frustrating
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Actually, a surprising number of Blacks do see it
ZootSuit Friday, July 17th at 8:00AM EDT (link)The thing is, as I have said many times before, the ones that do are normally (like myself) of the more “militant” variety. The problem is that they also falsely assume that that White conservatives are even more racist.
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Way To Go Babs!!!
mblack Thursday, July 16th at 7:40PM EDT (link)I sure hope Mr. Alford rallies the California chapter of his organization to give her the heave ho next election. What an arrogant, old bag Boxer is.
Boxer was right
Dencal26 Thursday, July 16th at 7:45PM EDT (link)Sort of. Allford runs an organization which bases membership on the color of ones skin. Its befitting that he be addressed as such.
what a pantload of bullcrap
pilgrim Thursday, July 16th at 8:03PM EDT (link)You come to RedState and post that Harry Alford should not be addressed on his work? You say Boxer should address him as just one black man pitted against another black man. That is disgusting.
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Allfords Comments
Dencal26 Friday, July 17th at 10:15AM EDT (link)” When you get right down to it, you can call it just plain psychological warfare. It is pretty much what the maniacal propaganda minister for Adolph Hitler, Joseph Goebbels would say, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, then people will begin to believe it”. That is what classic bigots of the far right movement are practicing when they claim that someone is a “racist” or a “reverse racist”. They exclaim that Affirmative Action is evil and is racist in principle. The real fact is that without Affirmative Action discrimination and the ills of racism fester and affect a targeted class in this nation, i.e. people of color and too often females regardless of color.It is just amazing how many people of color have risen so fast as a result of the victorious Civil Rights Movement. “Cream” will always rise to the top and with the lid of bigotry declared illegal and out of our way we are witnessing that fact. So let us be vigilant and protect our liberties and the laws that were won by our forefathers. We have come too far to turn around. The vile claims, lies and assertions by bigots with a microphone must not deter our progress. Let’s move on for we are just getting started. As the song says, “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now”.
A Hispanic Supreme Court Justice is well overdue. It would have happened much earlier if it weren’t for racism. It is happening now because we are overcoming the racism of the past not because we are repeating it. Please don’t fall for the game. Congratulations Sonia Sotomayor and “Ndiyo Tunaweza” (“Yes We Can” in Swahili).
Harry Allford.
Sorry I cannot defend this mans bigotry and racist hatred. I don’t care how much I hate Boxer .
So you hate blacks more than you hate Cap and Trade...
Aaron Gardner Friday, July 17th at 10:30AM EDT (link)seems like a a silly priority in my book.
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Please remove this hateful post
Dencal26 Friday, July 17th at 11:13AM EDT (link)So you hate blacks more than you hate Cap and Trade…
Aaron Gardner Friday, July 17th at 10:30AM EDT (link)
Nowhere in my post do I have anything suggesting hatred toward blacks. I hate racism period. And see no need for any organization catering to skin color . Discussion on the issue of race is not racism. This is the problem in America today. People like you.
There's something ironic, here.
Moe Lane Friday, July 17th at 11:18AM EDT (link)Haven’t you people learned by now that ignoring me doesn’t work as a not-get-banned strategy?
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That's just plain unfair to Dencal26, Aaron!
Achance Friday, July 17th at 11:17AM EDT (link)He said nothing at all about hating Blacks. He pointed out the racist views expressed by Allford and admonished that the enemy of our enemy, Boxer, was not necessarily our friend.
In Vino Veritas
Unfortunately, he wasn't arguing in good faith anyway.
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Art, He was saying that Boxer was correct to treat Allford like nothing more than some slave who went of the plantation...
Aaron Gardner Friday, July 17th at 11:22AM EDT (link)That is a subtle endorsement of soft racism if I have ever seen one. I do not recant my statement.
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"...soft racism ..." is a long way from "hate,' Aaron. nt
Achance Friday, July 17th at 12:06PM EDT (link)In Vino Veritas
Right, and the Aryan Brotherhood doesn't hate Black, they just love whites...
Aaron Gardner Friday, July 17th at 12:14PM EDT (link)Seriously Art, what Boxer did was blatantly racist and it should be called out as such. Dencal condoned it and is therefore just as accountable for his hate as Boxer is for hers. And yes, it is hate at it’s very core.
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I know racism, Aaaron, racism was once a friend of mine,
Achance Friday, July 17th at 12:30PM EDT (link)and this stuff ain’t racism. This is arrogance and elitism on Boxer’s part, and arrogance on Allford’s part. My sense of his reaction is that he didn’t think she was givign him his due by viewing him and his organization as a lesser light compared to the NAALCP.
I grew up in the rural Jim Crow South where there were “White” and “Colored” doors and water fountains, Blacks wouldn’t dare come in the drug store and order a Coke, and the balcony at the theater was openly referred to as “ni@#$r heaven.” That’s racism! The word has been so cheapened by the Left that it has been rendered meaningless. Just like hate has been rendered meaningless - and hero for that matter.
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It's still racist Art, although it is a lesser degree of racism...
Aaron Gardner Friday, July 17th at 12:43PM EDT (link)I suppose using your logic it wasn’t racist to have separate water fountains to someone who used to be a slave master.
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You're simply being silly and I'm done with you on this. nt
Achance Friday, July 17th at 12:47PM EDT (link)In Vino Veritas
I'm not being silly Art....
Aaron Gardner Friday, July 17th at 1:03PM EDT (link)It is inherently racist to assume that all blacks thin the same, just as it is racist to think that all whites think the same. This is what Boxer did and this is what Dencal endorsed. I am sorry you disagree, but don’t act like the argument has no merit.
And just so you know you aren’t the only person on this board to have experienced racism first hand.
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A chance that what Boxer was doing was trying to discredit Allford for daring to
Mike gamecock DeVine Friday, July 17th at 1:51PM EDT (link)think differently than liberal blacks. Their position is that they OUGHT to all think the same and know that if conservative blacks or blacks espousing conservative ideas get prominent mainstream attention, it is a direct threat the left’s power.
Surely Achance agrees with this construction.
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I think he does as well Mike...
Aaron Gardner Friday, July 17th at 1:59PM EDT (link)And I am not sure how I was being silly.
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Mike gamecock DeVine Friday, July 17th at 2:26PM EDT (link)http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/06/01/an-exercise/
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True, Aaron
tanstaafl1019 Friday, July 17th at 1:37PM EDT (link)I was actually going to point that out myself–that if we’re parsing degrees of racism, then we’re calling into question the very existence of racism.
I’m reminded of an old joke where a man asked a woman if she would sleep with him for $10,000. She readily agreed. He then asked if she would sleep with him for $5, and she said, “What kind of girl do you think I am?”
His response: “We’ve already determined that. Now we’re just haggling on the price.”
Racism is racism is racism. Crossing the street to avoid a black teenager, refusing to hire someone due to their race and killing a black man who supposedly raped a white woman may be different degrees of racism, but they’re all wrong.
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of “loyalty” and “duty.” Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute—get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.
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Racism has acquired many meanings and can be de facto (as you recount) or de jure
Mike gamecock DeVine Friday, July 17th at 2:23PM EDT (link)but surely it is racism to punish a black man in a particularly racial way because he dares to differ with the liberal ideology.
I will try and find my racism defined column (that goes into it in detail)…. and provide link.
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race based private orgs vs two kinds of aff action
Mike gamecock DeVine Friday, July 17th at 12:40PM EDT (link)Allford’s org seeks to encourage and promote blacks as entreprenuers with no animosity towards.
The JFK kind of aff action was needed: voluntary seeking out of qualified minorities.
The demlib kind is of another kind altogether and you surely know that.
Just as La Raza is openly hostile to others, as in their La Mecha motto:
For The Race everything, for others, nothing.
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actually I do agree with this statement of Harry's
pilgrim Friday, July 17th at 2:13PM EDT (link)If Miguel Estrada had not been filibustered and denied countless number of times by the Ds, then he might have been a potential nominee when Sam Alito was selected. Yep, the racism by the Ds did keep an hispanic from having an opportunity over the previous eight years.
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exactly Pilgrim...nt
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How did she address him as such?
Vegas_Rick Thursday, July 16th at 9:41PM EDT (link)I didn’t hear her “address” him as anything. I heard her insult him.
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That's about as condescending as what Babs said to him. nt
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Umm. No, Dencal26. Please read this.
Moe Lane Friday, July 17th at 8:32AM EDT (link)He’s associated with an organization whose purpose is to “teach capitalism and expand access to capitalization, technical support, procurement opportunities, effective networking, and sharing of information for Black owned businesses and other minority owned businesses as well as the African descendent community as a whole.” This is important their bylaws state that “any person, association, corporation, partnership or estate having an interest in the objectives of the organization shall be eligible to apply for membership.” Their rules say nothing about limiting membership by skin color: please post your link to evidence indicating that they do, or else retract the statement.
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Dencal26 Friday, July 17th at 10:08AM EDT (link)Mission Statement
The National Black Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to economically empowering and sustaining African American communities through entrepreneurship and capitalistic activity within the United States and via interaction with the Black Diaspora.
There is not one White Board member. The entire organization is based on helping one group based on skin color.
Imagine an organization called the National White Chamber of Commerce? Would its President be given an opportunity to address the US Senate or would he be labeled a racist?
Sorry Moe. Techically you may be correct as to their official bylaws but this organization is a race based organization.
In other words, Dencal26, your statement was incorrect.
Moe Lane Friday, July 17th at 11:11AM EDT (link)“Allford runs an organization which bases membership on the color of ones skin.”
You will now retract it. Next post.
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Given the accelerating white male unemployment rate
Mike gamecock DeVine Friday, July 17th at 12:48PM EDT (link)an organization promoting white male empowerment may actually be called for in the near future! esp given the way boys are treated in school and men in the workplace…
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The Chamber of Commerce part of the NBCC is of some importance
6eorge Jetson Friday, July 17th at 11:45AM EDT (link)<\Snark>
Boxer addressed Alford as a Vote-to-be-kept-Democratic-based-solely-on-his-African-American-race. Not as a Black Businessman with interests related to TradeCap™. (BTW, the first amendment protects freedom of association.)
You’re making the same mistake as Boxer did.
Sorry to deflate your argument
Richard Mullins Friday, July 17th at 12:03PM EDT (link)but he happens to be an advocate for Black owned businesses. If the chair of the National Hispanic Chamber of commerce where there instead of Mr. Alford, you would say that its based one race, instead of whole as National Chamber of Commerce is. Since we don’t live in color blind society, there is a need for the NBCC and others.
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Ginsberg, Boxer, Durbin.
skorrent1 Thursday, July 16th at 7:48PM EDT (link)Can someone explain to me again how electing Barack Obama would resolve all our racial tensions so we can “all just get along” in a post-racial world?
They don't want racial harmony
avgamerican Thursday, July 16th at 9:35PM EDT (link)It gives them their platform. It keeps them in power.
Dave Hinz was so right before the lection as to how Obama's
Mike gamecock DeVine Friday, July 17th at 12:50PM EDT (link)election would make the race issue worse. I was wrong, or at least I was hopeful…that this could be the one area that his election would have a positive effect on…
I will say this. I think Obama’s election coupled with the great recession is eroding most all tolerance for race games by whites anymore
see women and hispanic OPPOSITION to Sotomayor in Rassmussen poll even before the hearings…
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
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Mr. Alford is not being a Good Negro.
Vladimir Thursday, July 16th at 9:36PM EDT (link)I have a dream, that one day, Black Men will be judged, not by their intellect or the content of their character, but to the degree that their political opinions are in lockstep with the NAACP.
That Madam Boxer is one vile, pinheaded woman.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Vengeance is Mine saith the Lord
Wing Zero Thursday, July 16th at 9:39PM EDT (link)But today He subcontracted to Harry Alford.
This was God’s way of putting Boxer in her place after the treatment of the general in front of her a few weeks ago.
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Here's a 20-minute interview with Alford afterward
bk Thursday, July 16th at 11:14PM EDT (link)He said that the general Boxer had insulted contacted him after the debacle.
He gave a lot of background on himself and his group that makes it clear why he was so mad.
Toward the end of it he addresses the “black” CoC issue by saying she didn’t offer comments from some black-related BUSINESS group but rather from black SOCIAL groups, and that’s part of why he was offended.
He’s got quite a sense of humor too.
http://www.breitbart.tv/it-was-vile-jim-crow-exclusive-interview-with-black-business-leader-insulted-by-sen-boxer/
For those of you who enjoyed Alford's smackdown
TNJim Friday, July 17th at 12:53AM EDT (link)of Boxer, try to take time to watch the video. Thanks for the link, bk.
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Here hoping this gets the play it deserves
djemi Friday, July 17th at 1:41AM EDT (link)Well it might make it onto Fox.
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Allfords rant
Dencal26 Friday, July 17th at 10:17AM EDT (link)Sorry I should have posted a link to Allfords whitewash of Sotomayors racism.
http://www.nationalbcc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=770:when-racists-call-us-racist&catid=63:beyond-the-rhetoric&Itemid=8