Recently, I got into a debate with a right-wing blogger in the comments section of a post he wrote about the incident at George Bush Intercontinental Airport involving Patti Labelle. Because the blogger connected the incident to President Obama, I asked him to explain the connection. He responded with the following:
"I feel that Black celebrities have a feeling of power and that they can get away with anything since Obama was elected. Case in point, the Professor Henry Louis Gates, where Obama RAN to his defense."
Although I disagree with this blogger's theory, I felt the topic could generate a lively discussion. As a result, I invited the blogger to write a guest post about it here. Since he declined, I decided to write it myself.
As I said previously, I disagree with the idea that black celebrities feel empowered to do whatever they want in the Age of Obama. I'll go even further by saying it's absolute nonsense! The blogger makes it sound as if there is a hotline for black celebs to reach President Obama so he can make their legal troubles go away. Oh and if people think President Obama serves as a human "Get Out of Jail Free" card for famous black people, tell that to Plaxico Burress and Lil Wayne among others.
The blogger cited the incident involving Prof. Henry Louis Gates as proof of "Black Celebs Gone Wild". Because President Obama and Prof. Gates were friends, I think it was this relationship (not race) which played a factor in the president coming to his defense. President Obama even admitted their friendship may have caused him to be a little biased when viewing the case. Also, there is no evidence President Obama played a role in the charges being dropped against Prof. Gates.
As it stands, I think the blogger is not only off base, but paranoid as well. If black celebs as a whole waited until the Obama presidency to start acting like they could do whatever they wanted, I'd agree with his statement. Also, if anyone can show me a stat illustrating an increase in black celebs causing trouble since President Obama took office, I'd love to see it. The bottom line is that any black person (famous or otherwise) is a damn fool if they feel they're above the law simply because Obama is president.
Do you think the Obama presidency has caused black celebrities to think they can get away with anything?
Note: If one buys into the right-wing blogger's theory, they must also be nervous over what would happen if a Latino becomes President of the United States
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I'm sorry, how is a Professor a celebrity?! Maybe I spend too much time with my nose stuck in fiction (because fiction seems more realistic than fantasy to me anymore...) but I had never heard of Professor Gates until that incident. And somebody forgot to tell Ja Rule too :-)
Sorry, I was doing too many things at once. I meant to say that fiction seems more realistic than reality, not fantasy
the wingnut blogger hates black people with status, plain and simple. He feels the Obama's do not deserve to have the life they have, do not belong in the White House, it's his peoples WH! When he writes a post about the Obama's you can feel the rage and hate come out at you. It's kinda scary really. He is a hate-filled, angry little man.
That blogger recently put up a post titled "Calling a Spade a Spade," then had a photo of President Obama under it, and then later, as an update, a photo of Mrs. Obama.
I don't need to say anything more about him. He's ignorant, illiterate, and a racist.
That blogger is the one who brought race into the discussion, then blamed you for it. It's right there for any rational person to see. But he and his fans are NOT rational, as he so pathetically illustrated with his and their nonsensical answers to your comments.
Arguing with him is like arguing with a diningroom table.
My two cents worth, most celebrities feel empowered all the time to make asses out of themselves. Heck, 'supermodel' Naomi Campbell was beating her maids, assistants, chauffeurs years before Obama entered the whitehouse, treating her staff, black, brown and white like garbage, because she's an arrogant jerk. Then when a candy company uses her name in an add, say, 'move over Naomi Campbell, there's a new diva in town', she cried, 'racism!'.
Beyonce, takes millions to dance like a slave girl, for Gaddafi's sons, but neither she, her husband or anyone in the black entertainment or civil rights movement say one word when they learn that in Arab countries, they don't refer to black people, or Africans as 'black' or 'African', but as 'abd' which is the Arab word for slave (there are Arab words for African and black, by the way) and speaking of her husband, Jay-Z refers to himself as 'Che Guevara with bling' hasn't apparently read any of Che Guevara's writings, at least not one that wasn't carefully edited to purge out Guevara's racist contempt for black people. There are complete texts of the Motorcycle Diaries, and Guevara's later writings that include his statements that he considers black people dirty, lazy, inferior, drunks who care only about frivolities (I guess Guevara would consider, 'bling' a frivolity) but then again, no one in the black community, whether in the entertainment industry or civil rights movement said one word about it.
Then of course, in February of 2009, two black civil rights activists in Cuba were starved to death in Castro's prisons, they had been incarcerated for years, for doing nothing more than reading the speeches of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the public square. They'd been beaten and abused for years. Their mothers in Cuba, got the word out through their extended family living in the US, and they contacted the Congressional Black Caucus, begging them to do something about these atrocities, as they knew that various members of the CBC were traveling to Cuba, as guests of the Castro regime. Not one of them, not Rep Barbara Lee, or Rep Bobby Rush, not one of them were interested, and in fact despite knowing what was being done in Cuba by the Castros, proclaimed Cuba a 'paradise'.
Had to continue my comments in a second post as I ran out of space in the last
And look at that actor in the news over the past few days.. can't recall his name at the moment, but he's on 30 Rock. He's been catching hell for comments he made doing standup in Nashville, and the very leftists who make death threats against people merely because they disagree with their political beliefs, were demanding that actor be fired. He was also delivered a public tongue lashing by Tina Fey, as she reminded him that on the left, some people are more equal than others, and the glbtq rate higher than black people.
As to whether conservatives should be worried about a sense of entitlement among Hispanics if a Hispanic were to be elected president, well, given the record of Hispanic politicians, whether in Latin American countries, Spain, and even in the US, I think anyone would have to be worried. I've listened to Afro Latinos speak volumes about the massive amount of racism in Latin American countries, including Mexico, and given the virulent racism in the Hispanic community towards black Americans, the ethnic cleansing, the murders of black Americans, including children (maybe you should google about those 4 college students in Newark, or little 14 yr old Cheryl Green, or 17 year old Jamiel Shaw Jr., great student, football star, being scouted by Rutgers and Stanford, his mother serving 2 tours of duty in Iraq, while her son is shot down while walking home from school by a racist illegal alien gang banger (118th St gang), with a tattoo on his neck proclaiming he 'kills blacks'. There's also an article titled, "LA Blackout" on the ethnic cleansing, and there are plenty of others as well. The MSM, including black American journalists, or such stalwarts as Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson won't discuss these facts, there isn't any money to be made on it.
I can't claim to know who this right wing blogger is, and again I think pretty much all celebrities are disconnected, self centered loons, but what I'm curious about is, when will there be anything written by you or anyone addressing these realities, the corruption, hypocrisies and frauds of those who like to hold themselves up as caring about civil rights, or who love to toss out the race card? I include Barack Obama in that, because he doesn't give a damn either. The question you need to answer is, do you actually give a damn, or do you just pretend to???
I'm surprised to not see any response to my comments from yesterday. Given the expressed interest in starting a discussion. I'd appreciate reading any and all responses. In the mean time, I'd like to comment on something written in this blog, in the article regarding Sally Kern. The points I'd like to address where your blog's author stated that when Republicans refer to racism in the democrat party, they have to point to something far back in the past, and he went on to espouse the leftist lie that the republican party was originally the 'liberal' or 'progressive' party, and the democrat party of the past were somehow the republican party of today. There are no amount of lies, and twisting of the truth that can make that claim accurate.
Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner was not a conservative, he wasn't a republican, in fact the republican party wasn't founded until 1854, after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which expanded slavery into the western US. The founders of the republican party were opposed to slavery, and formed to end slavery and provide freedom to the slaves, and take on the unconstitutional tactics of the democrat party.
Thomas Jefferson was a liberal, he might have been high minded on the subject of the concept of democracy, and he allied him self with the French Revolution, but it was a one sided idea of freedom and liberty. It wasn't until long after the French Revolutionary government had been found to be oppressive, and abusive to the general citizenry, that Jefferson distanced him self from them. It was the likes of Jefferson that refused to include language that freed slaves in the constitution.
The democrat party were the party of slavery, the democrats wrote and enforced the Jim Crow laws used to oppress black citizens, freed from slavery, it was the democrats who formed the KKK, to intimidate, oppress and kill black citizens and whites who were republicans and spoke out against Jim Crow and the KKK. The democrats were pushing Jim Crow and the KKK openly, up until the 1960s. Like alot of other people, I grew up thinking that the democrat party changed in the '60s, but I have come to recognize that they hadn't changed, in fact they are still the same sick, twisted, hateful party they were in the past, seeking to enslave, oppress and exploit and they've been doing that consistently, using power to entrap our free citizenry into bondage.
The left have sought to revisionize history, to help achieve their agenda, they've redefined words, changed facts to suit their ends, until up is down, good is bad, bad is good, freedom is slavery, slavery is freedom. If Rev King were alive today, they'd be attacking him, for his staunch support for the right to self determination, in fact the left have purged the writings of Rev King online, of his strong, anti-Marxist, anti-communist anti-socialist writings. One such example of what has been made to disappear by leftist academics, once they got control of the archive of his writings has been the clear, unequivocal statement made by Rev King in his writings, about how as a student, he'd studied the writings of Marx and Engels, and had come to realize that communism and socialism, because they were based on depriving human beings from their right to self-determination, reduced human beings to slavery. When a human being is deprived of their right to self-determination, they are a slave.
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The left like to lie, claiming that Rev. King was a socialist, when he wasn't. These same leftist academics when confronted by the fact that slavery existed all across the world, and African slavery originated within Africa, and for thousands of years before the first European traveled to Africa, is that African slavery was benign. When confronted that the Arabs were buying African slaves thousands of years before the first Europeans traveled to Africa, they lie and claim that Arabs treated their slaves like princes, gave them freedom, educated them. Yet the truth is, the Arabs not only didn't free their African or any slaves, they abused, worked them to death, and killed them outright when it suited them. It's the reason why there is no surviving descendants of those African slaves in the Arab countries. The left make up their lies, because they really don't have a problem with slavery, in fact the outcome the left desire is a massive, world wide slavery based form of government. That is what Marxism, communism and socialism have always been and continue to be plantation slavery states.
Now it's true the left like to point out the US's involvement in slavery in the past, yet that same left not only refuse to discuss the true history of the slave trade, they attack anyone who does, and excuse the legacy and terrible truths about that legacy.
Answer this question, who created the trans-Atlantic slave trade? Which country had the most African slaves? Which country has the worst history regarding the African slave trade? Face it, admit which country is the only one held responsible for African slavery. If you're being honest, you'll say the US, right? The truth is it isn't the US.
Ann: Even though Prof. Gates has written books and made TV appearances, I wouldn't call him a celebrity either. Even if I did consider him a celeb, the blogger's claim would still be ridiculous. By the way, good call on Ja Rule.
Sue: I sensed that too about that blogger. He is obsessed with the Obamas nitpicking at everything they do. As I said to you previously, I am grateful the Internet exists because it gives him an outlet for all his hate and frustration.
Shaw: As you know, I love a good political debate. However, when this blogger brought race into the discussion and lied that he didn't, I was done with him. Like I told him, even his conservative blog buddies could see he was lying. Otherwise, I think they would have came to his defense.
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Anonymous: On more than one occasion, you said something along the lines of the left likes to lie/rewrite history. Here is the link to a post I wrote about a recent political figure who attempted to rewrite history:
http://diversityink.blogspot.com/2011/01/history-of-slavery-in-us-courtesy-of.html
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on that post.
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