I don't care who you are or how eloquently you're able to express yourself - keep bringing up race and oppression and you'll be shut down... most people are way over this crap.
I don't care who you are or how eloquently you're able to express yourself - keep bringing up race and oppression and you'll be shut down... most people are way over this crap.
True, but it doesn't make echoing the rhetoric of oppression any less bitter and humiliating for its targets. And why? Are you the kind of person who enjoys humiliating people?
Speaking of Wallace, Gay Talese wrote a several page article in the NY Times several years back, in which he told an interesting story of an interview he did with Wallace in the Pierre Hotel along Central Park South, very early in Talese's career.
From Wallace's hotel room, Wallace pointed down to the Upper East Side of Manhattan and said to Talese that the ES is the "citadel of hypocrisy", that it was an all white neighborhood that pushed segregation on everyone else.
Talese at the time lived in that neighborhood and still did after all these decades, and he said it is/was true- that to this day his immediate neighborhood is all white and filled with hypocrisy.
It's interesting the NY Times proofreaders missed what Talese reported.
The George Wallace reference was so good. My dad took me to see Wallace speak during the 1976 primary in Illinois. I asked him if this was the guy he and Mom planned to vote for. He said, "Oh no, never, but it's a rare opportunity to see a presidential candidate speak, and better understand the process of choosing the President."
During the speech I understood why my parents would not be voting for him.
It is the baggage they were born with. There are rewards for dipping into that bag. The elite white folk give them out freely. Keep you mouth shut and you are non grata.
Maybe one step up from a chimp with a thesaurus.
I don't care who you are or how eloquently you're able to express yourself - keep bringing up race and oppression and you'll be shut down... most people are way over this crap.
Black folk just love being compared to monkeys. Don't be a bigot
You were the one to notice the comparison and consider it bigoted. I suppose you can't be compared to a chimp, eh?
It doesn't have the same import. My people haven't been being called animals for a couple of centuries.
Don't kid yourself. We're all animals. The insanity that currently plagues our civilization is proof of that.
True, but it doesn't make echoing the rhetoric of oppression any less bitter and humiliating for its targets. And why? Are you the kind of person who enjoys humiliating people?
And you are a half step up from George Wallace with a smart phone.
Speaking of Wallace, Gay Talese wrote a several page article in the NY Times several years back, in which he told an interesting story of an interview he did with Wallace in the Pierre Hotel along Central Park South, very early in Talese's career.
From Wallace's hotel room, Wallace pointed down to the Upper East Side of Manhattan and said to Talese that the ES is the "citadel of hypocrisy", that it was an all white neighborhood that pushed segregation on everyone else.
Talese at the time lived in that neighborhood and still did after all these decades, and he said it is/was true- that to this day his immediate neighborhood is all white and filled with hypocrisy.
It's interesting the NY Times proofreaders missed what Talese reported.
The truth doesn't fit the NY Times.
I believe Talese is still alive. He must be in his nineties. Thanks for the story.
Bill, that is simply, fucking awesome. Thanks.
YouтАЩre welcome
The George Wallace reference was so good. My dad took me to see Wallace speak during the 1976 primary in Illinois. I asked him if this was the guy he and Mom planned to vote for. He said, "Oh no, never, but it's a rare opportunity to see a presidential candidate speak, and better understand the process of choosing the President."
During the speech I understood why my parents would not be voting for him.
When you can speak that elegantly and coherently in a public setting, please let us all know.
It is the baggage they were born with. There are rewards for dipping into that bag. The elite white folk give them out freely. Keep you mouth shut and you are non grata.