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Note (UPDATED)

Today is a busy day but I'll be posting more later on the fear of being labeled RWW (racist while white).  Meanwhile, go read Robert Stacy McCain's take on Gone with the Wind (haha, that guy is fearless). Stacy and I talked on the phone yesterday about the fear and its origin.

I'm not taking this subject lightly; as a matter of fact I am galled by it. It is insidious.

UPDATE:  I should have known that my political father, Shelby Steele, had gotten down to the root of the matter of what created this environment.

Just a cursory glance over the reviews reveals a gold mine.

Question for My Caucasian White Readers (Pedants!)

Why are some of you so afraid of being called (called=labeled in this sense) 'racist' when you know that you aren't?

And careful, Dan Collins.  You laugh but some Leftist is going to write a "real" proposal, submit some bogus studies and voilà!  Your kid is graduating with a B.S.--and I do mean B.S.--degree in Cablinasian Studies--and you paid for it. 

Oh, the humanity.

(via RSM)

UPDATE: I knew that there was fear out there, but I didn't comprehend the breadth of it. 

Fear breeds resentment and resentment breeds no good things. 

I have to think about this topic some more.

Message for Peter Barban

Grow up.

Wise up.

If you can't take the rough and tumble heat of disagreeing and commenting on blogs, find something else to do.  Get in that Word since you're a pastor.

You seem to think that everyone is supposed to treat you with kid gloves.  Sorry, Reverend, it doesn't work that way out here.  If you think my less-than-cotton candy treatment of your ignorance was "insulting" perhaps you should join a monastery.

This real world is not forgiving of ignorance--and in the subject at hand, a person's reputation is on the line, that of Robert Stacy McCain.  Such things are more important than the imaginary insults I've offered you.

Now you can you can keep whining about how I've hurt your poor little feelings (<-----insults) or you can...

Man up. Your choice.

God bless you.  Really.

Since People Seem to Care About Interracial Relationships So Much (UPDATED)

UPDATE:  Come on, now.  Courtesy of the bountiful Glenn Reynolds, I've received 11,000 hits (so far) from the previous post.  But only a few have come over to this post and none have bought Tale of the Tigers.  Of course I understand: you're taking a chance since the marketing of the novel is only in its infancy.  But you're only taking a chance with $19.99! Nice, affordable entertainment.

Okay, here's a link to the site excerpt.  Tell me what you think and...take a chance! I predict that you won't be disappointed.

ORIGINAL POST: You know, I actually wrote a novel which features interracial relationships between blacks and whites as its main theme.  And guess what? No side goes away untarnished!  So I'm taking advantage of your obsession (even though I started writing the book last century).  Sue me.

(Click the Image)

I get my sample copy today.  The first hundred sold will be autographed. I've pre-sold only thirty but I have a couple of reviews due in the next week or so, so I'm positive that the numbers will rise. 

Hang on, those of you who already bought my opus! Your patience will soon be rewarded.

Why Black Americans Think That the Federal Government is Our Friend

While hanging out yesterday at Ace's yesterday as he was flogging racists, I happened to mention that many if not most black Americans view the federal government as beneficial and friendly.  Some other commenters were surprised and I was surprised at their surprise, because it isn't difficult to figure out why this is.  Whether it's the Emancipation or the desegregation of the Armed Forces or Brown v. Board or the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, the federal government for the most part had seemed to be on the side of the black American as his constitutional rights were being oppressed by state or local governments.

What needs to be spelled, however is what the federal government did in the above-mentioned areas: it legally removed obstacles to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of Americans who are black.  And that is what it was supposed to do.

The present problem in my unlearned opinion is this: the federal government began overstepping its bounds during the Great Depression and did so most infamously in the late sixties via the Great Society programs.  Doing more that getting local racists out of the way, the federal government sought to and succeeded in making itself the suppliers of life, liberty and, putatively, the happiness of many black Americans.  (Try telling a senior of any race that Social Security is sending the country to financial ruin. You'll get an earful about her "rights".) 

And even many black Americans who do not rely on the federal government still view the fed as our friend because of that history.

What's needed in order to change this perception is obvious: education--not a new education but the old one, one which contains an objective explanation of the role of government.

Simply put, the role of the American government is to remove obstacles to liberty of the People--even when that obstacle is American government itself.  Supplying all of one's needs is not government's role.  That's God's purview.

We all remember President Obama's statement containing the assertion that one of the flaws of the US Constitution was that is only contained a  list of "negative rights," meaning negative government "rights."  The idea that a Harvard-trained lawyer thinks that the government has rights or that there was no list of positive responsibilities assigned to government was mockable.  (Hey, you voted for him.)

But what the statement betrayed was a widespread misconception present in those of us who aren't lawyers of any variety of a friendly fed whose role is to insert itself between God and man's liberty and to redistribute wealth (aka stealing).  The notion that the founders "forgot" to address this is hilarious.

So when the Democrats came to full power this year, they began to build on the foundation that Democrat Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson laid.  The good news?  Between Socialized Medicine, Cap and Trade, TARP, etc., the federal government's active role in overstepping its bounds--in crippling America--is opening the eyes of Americans of all races.  The bad news: there may not be an America left when the federal locusts finish.

UPDATE: Hi, Glenn's readers!

Say Goodbye

Racist!!!

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And…

Racist!!!

What the flock is up with the Right side of the Blogosphere?

LGF is gone.  Charles Johnson is gone.  Face it.

He was never ours.  How about we let him take his delusions and slanders and paranoias and obsessions and falsehoods with him?  How about we stop looking for racists under every bed or behind every computer screen the way he seems to? How about you all stop flogging yourselves and each other for his loss and for being fooled by him?

I'm over it.

No, It's Not a Black Thing

Okay, I lied.  But this crap is getting on my nerves. And this.

Tiger Woods  violates his marriage vows repeatedly and all people like Eugene Robinson care about is the race of of the near-dozen women not-his-wife with whom Tiger has allegedly had relations.   Eugene's problem? None of these women are black.

Listen closely, black people: Tiger Woods' job here on Earth is the same as that of each individual person--to do what God wants him to do.  What that probably does not entail: validating the attractiveness of black women via serial adultery, humiliation of Mrs. Woods and, possibly, tainting the relationship between him and his children.

Just a guess.

Listen closely again, black people: get over yourselves.  Everything is not about you.  Heck, my novel is about interracial relationships, but there are subjects that transcend this.  As a matter of fact vows to God transcend everything.

But consider this: Tiger is a very blessed man, even in this situation.  Don't think so?  Consider the case of the late Steve McNair. 

Sometimes God gets tired of your BS and removes his protection.  God thinks Eldrick Woods is still teachable.

That question remains for the rest of us.

(Thanks to Hot Air)

UPDATE: Cogent and tangential points:

[W]e are interested because Tiger Woods, who may legitimately be the best golfer ever, had been turned into an all-purpose icon: a man of personal rectitude, a lovely smile, apparent openness; a family man, with a lovely wife and two adorable babies. And of course, he was our first living embodiment of the collective hope for racial reconciliation. Who knew that the early reports of his betrayed wife Elin swinging at him with a golf club constituted literal icon-smashing?

We are staring because we've been had. Betrayed. We see now that the image was all a fraud. The talent was real. But the things that made the public like Tiger personally -- the low-key demeanor, manners, and sweet smile of countless sports-page photos, magazine covers, political analogies, and most important, product endorsements, was an act. That would be betrayal enough. But it wasn't just Woods' act. The larger lesson here is about how much artifice -- sustained, deliberate deception -- goes into the construction of a public persona when there is profit to be made or power to be had.

Read the whole thing and note the parallels (however imperfect--hey, that's a joke!) to another demigod walking on clay feet.

More About Flight 297

So happy to have put a disclaimer up before retelling this story--at least the first part of it! From the Spooky One:

The scenario sounds frightening; it doesn't take a lot of imagination to conjure up images of a hi-jacking, were it not for the quick actions of Mr. Petruna and that other passenger. You'd think that AirTran would offer him some sort of reward.

But there's only one problem with the story of Todd Petruna and the events that transpired on Flight 297 back on 18 November. After a little checking, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution discovered that Petruna wasn't on the flight on the date in question. While he was scheduled to be on that aircraft, Petruna didn't make the first leg of his flight, out of the Akron-Canton Airport in Ohio. As a result, he missed his scheduled connection on Flight 297.

Here's the retraction.

Be that as it may, there's still this:

While the AJC story paints a much different picture of Flight 297, it doesn't answer all of the questions raised by the incident. For example, the paper (and other media outlets) confirm that a replacement crew was brought onboard to fly the plane to Houston, after the first crew declined the assignment.

That decision was made by the Captain originally assigned to the flight. It's rather unusual for a pilot-in-command to decline an assignment, and take his crew off the aircraft. Chaplain Keith Robinson of Houston, who was allowed to board the aircraft after it returned to the gate area. Based on his conversations with passengers and crews, Robinson believes that some sort of "intentional intimidation" occurred during the first departure attempt. And apparently, that intimidation attempt was so disconcerting that the original crew refused to complete their flight to Houston.

Something happened on that plane and it's too bad that one person's fantasy life may interfere with the whole truth getting out.  But there will be more like these.  Count on it.

(Thanks the Ace of Spades HQ)

Don't Go Back to Sleep, Part 2

The Mumbai terror attacks from a year ago may have been planned by Americans—or rather, persons with American passports. The Department of Justice has charged a Chicago man (re-) named David Headley with conspiring to commit those attacks.

Originally David Headley was only charged with plotting to blow up the newspaper in Denmark that published the Mohammad cartoons. That plot seemed rather amateurish and was thought of as aspirational. But it soon became obvious to any one paying attention that Headley also had a hand in India's worst act of terror this decade.

The importance of this being that radical Islamists are now using their American passports to bypass suspicion that would normally be put on them if traveling under, say, a Pakistani passport. They are using their American citizenship to plot and execute terrorist plots abroad.

And this is not too fine a point to make either for Headley was originally born Daood Gilani and only changed his name to make it sound less Muslim and more flyover country American. He also admits he did this to make international traveling easier.

(...)

Headley,49, was charged in a 12-count criminal information with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India, to murder and maim persons in India and Denmark, to provide material support to foreign terrorist plots, and to provide material support to [Lashkar e Tayyiba—an Islamist organization in Pakistan], and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India.

So if Chicagoans are plotting and carrying out terror in an Indian city, what do you think they have planned for American ones?

Remember what happened in Mumbai:

Starting Nov. 26, 2008, and continuing through Nov. 28, 2008, 10 attackers trained by Lashkar carried out multiple assaults with firearms, grenades and improvised explosive devices against multiple targets in Mumbai, including the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, the Leopold Café, the Nariman House and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus train station, each of which Headley allegedly had scouted in advance, killing approximately 170 victims. The six Americans killed during the three-day siege are identified in the charges as Ben Zion Chroman, Gavriel Holtzberg, Sandeep Jeswani, Alan Scherr, his daughter Naomi Scherr, and Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum.

All of these Americans were of the Jewish faith and purposely targeted because of that.

We’ll see what this Department of Justice does with this case.

Keep watching.

(Thanks to Hot Air)

Don't Go Back to Sleep

 USS West Virginia, December 7 1941

Not Pretty

People are missing the big bombshell embedded in this incident!

The testy exchange [between White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and April Ryan of American Urban Radio] was sparked by Ryan's insistent questioning of White House social secretary Desiree Rogers' role at the recent state dinner, which has been in the headlines because of the fallout from Tareq and Michaele Salahi's "party crashing."

Watch.

Did you hear that? It was disgusting!

Someone actually reproduced with Robert Gibbs!

That is a straight-up news flash because I would think that such a combination of stupidity, arrogance, condescension and fugliness would make a powerful unattractiveness cocktail--one repellent nearly universally. But I guess that the aphorism that "there's someone for everyone" applies here.

Yuckies.

My Lone Tiger Woods Commentary

Like I said to the Instapundit, I'm not sure who should be embarrassed to be photographed with whom.

Tight Woods may have permanently marred his relationship with his wife, but he isn't destroying the country.

I'm Not Infuriated By This

There's another emotion I'm feeling about this, but I don't quite have name for it yet.

It's been brought to my attention by several reliable sources that the Defense Department has brought Louay Safi to Fort Hood as an instructor, and that he has been lecturing on Islam to our troops in Fort Hood who are about to deploy to Afghanistan. Safi is a top official of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and served as research director at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).

Worse, last evening, Safi was apparently permitted to present a check (evidently on behalf of ISNA) to the families of the victims of last month's Fort Hood massacre. A military source told the blogger Barbarossa at the Jawa Report: "This is nothing short of blood money. This is criminal and the Ft. Hood base commander should be fired right now."

ISNA was identified by the Justice Department at the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing conspiracy trial as an unindicted co-conspirator. The defendants at that trial were convicted of funding Hamas to the tune of millions of dollars. This should have come as no surprise. ISNA is the Muslim Brotherhood's umbrella entity for Islamist organizations in the United States.

A Muslim--a Jihadist--murders those which he has sworn oaths to lead, to stand beside and to render no harm to. So what do his commanders do?  They bring in a representative from America's Muslim Brotherhood entity to chat up the troops and bribe the bereaved.

No, I can't name this feeling.  But I know in my gut that the base commander didn't order this visit.   The permission for this came from the top.

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Victicrat Civil War

...with acknowledgement to the Sage of South Central for the use of the term.

Too delicious:

The long-simmering family feud between the Congressional Black Caucus and the first African-American president burst into the open on Wednesday, with members boycotting a financial overhaul vote as a warning shot at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

From what I can tell, members of the Race Baiters Caucus are angry that the Race Baiter in Chief is neither kowtowing to them nor cutting them a sufficiently large enough piece of the action known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

So what else is the CBC thinking of doing to "force" the Obama Administration to see reason?

[My Congressional Representative Maxine] Waters suggested the CBC’s 43 members could vote with the GOP to scuttle a variety of Democratic bills if Obama and [White House Chief of Staff Rahm] Emanuel don’t address what she thinks is a lack of understanding of the CBC’s wide-ranging goals of reducing urban unemployment, home foreclosures and bank failures.

Fools negotiating foolishly from a position of weakness--though I'm sure that the Republicans will take it.  But it's hilarious that the Hope and Change Express Bus won't even slow down for those who were and are its main source of fuel. Thus is it always with Leftists.

(Thanks to Instapundit)

On Our Own?

UPDATE:  Dr. Melissa Clouthier, who had the story yesterday, interviews Chaplain Dr. Keith A. Robinson.

Disclaimer: I don't know whether any of this is true but it's better to put it out there than not. [I moved the page break.]

A terror dry-run seen from one end:

I was in 1st class coming home. 11 Muslim men got on the plane in full attire. 2 sat in 1st class and the rest peppered themselves throughout the plane all the way to the back. As the plane taxied to the runway the stewardesses gave the safety spiel we are all so familiar with. At that time, one of the men got on his cell and called one of his companions in the back and proceeded to talk on the phone in Arabic very loudly and very aggressively. This took the 1st stewardess out of the picture for she repeatedly told the man that cell phones were not permitted at the time. He ignored her as if she was not there.

The 2nd man who answered the phone did the same and this took out the 2nd stewardess. In the back of the plane at this time, 2 younger Muslims, one in the back, isle, and one in front of him, window, began to show footage of a porno they had taped the night before, and were very loud about it. Now….they are only permitted to do this prior to Jihad. If a Muslim man goes into a strip club, he has to view the woman via mirror with his back to her. (don’t ask me….I don’t make the rules, but I’ve studied). The 3rd stewardess informed them that they were not to have electronic devices on at this time. To which one of the men said “shut up infidel dog!” She went to take the camcorder and he began to scream in her face in Arabic. At that exact moment, all 11 of them got up and started to walk the cabin. This is where I had had enough! I got up and started to the back where I heard a voice behind me from another Texan twice my size say “I got your back.” I grabbed the man who had been on the phone by the arm and said “you WILL go sit down or you Will be thrown from this plane!” As I “led” him around me to take his seat, the fellow Texan grabbed him by the back of his neck and his waist and headed out with him. I then grabbed the 2nd man and said, “You WILL do the same!” He protested but adrenaline was flowing now and he was going to go. As I escorted him forward the plane doors open and 3 TSA agents and 4 police officers entered. Me and my new Texan friend were told to cease and desist for they had this under control. I was happy to oblige actually. There was some commotion in the back, but within moments, all 11 were escorted off the plane. They then unloaded their luggage.

Read the whole thing, then if you're skeptical....

Look at the incident from the other end as witness by Chaplain Dr. Keith A. Robinson, Corps Commander of the Houston Regional Community Chaplain Corps: