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Yea I guess you can link a racist comment made by an incompetent mayor of a tourist town to the call of genocide on BLACK BABIES (emphasis mine) by the former secretary of education.

Black conservatives, a vital TOOL for American propaganda.(emphasis mine)

Comments like these are so predictable. You can’t admit that Nagin made a mistake here, so you have to excuse it by belittling this black man (something that white racists have always done to blacks) by referring to him as an “incompetent mayor” while still holding Bennett to a much higher standard even though he is no longer a publicly-elected official–unlike Nagin.

“…the call of genocide on BLACK BABIES.”

While you are ‘emphasizing”, make sure you keep the entire context in mind instead of stretching the facts you want to accept to make a point.

Personally, I feel sorry for Black conservatives. Looking out for, and defending the interests of your own seems like a much better use of time than regurgitating the beliefs of those who truely look down on Blacks. That having been said, I am disappointed by Mayor Nagin’s poor grammer, and his attempt to link the progress of the rebuilding efforts to Gods will.. Also, no public official should make racial comments. My guess is that New Orleans will never be as Black as it was. Is that important? Not important?

Looking out for, and defending the interests of your own seems like a much better use of time than regurgitating the beliefs of those who truely look down on Blacks.

Two simple questions for you:

#How do you define “looking down on Blacks”? Everybody’s definition on this varies and I am curious to hear yours.

For the time being, let’s just say that “looking down on Blacks” means that an individual (in this case) has a demonstrated track record of the following definitions of racism:

1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.

2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race. (dictionary.com)

#Based on this established definition of “looking down on Blacks”, can you give examples of Black Conservatives that support such people? Who are they? No generalizations please.

I think that your website is a very, very ,useful and well produced resource. Hopefully you are not offended by my comments, no offense was intended.

Since I do not have time to produce a complete dossier, with footnotes, I’ll simply make a few observations:

Black, and white conservatives with whom I have had discussions seem to believe that Blacks need “tough love” .

Try re-phrasing Bennett’s comments and insert ” Jewish “in the place of “African American ” in the spot where he is talking about babies. How does it look now? (By the way I have Jewish friends, and think highly of the accomplishments and culture of Jews).

When you get a chance, talk with young African American men and see if they have any experience with conservative elements in society “looking down on” them.

Why do you think that MLK and others had such difficulty with conservatives? Not to mention Brown vs Board of Education, etc..

My two cents …whatever…

First and foremost I don’t have to admit Nagin made a mistake, because I saw the busses parked in parked in the flood water while his constituents drowned. Second, I belittle him because it would be unlawful for me to tar and feather him. The point I’m trying to make is we all know Nagin’s track record and we know he’s FOS so anything he says or does is just pure BS.

And as for Mr.Bennet I don’t hold him to any higher standard than a mayor, council man or felon as a matter of fact.

Bennet – “But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.”

Being and black man in America I have seen with my on eyes the prejudice towards blacks withheld in the system on many different occasions. Stating that blacks are predisposed to being criminals is SICK. Killing black babies won’t lower crime, killing ignorant MF’s will.

exe,

For starters, thanks for returning to further explain yourself. No, I was not offended at all by your comments.

No matter what race you put into Bennett’s comments, he admiditly made an insane hypothetical to make the point that the caller’s hypothetical was just as insane. There was nothing literal about it.

When you get a chance, talk with young African American men and see if they have any experience with conservative elements in society “looking down on” them.

I do often. Unfortunately when it gets down to asking for speciffic cases where black conservatives have aligned themselves with whites who “look down on the black race”, as usual, all I am left with are sweeping generalizations–if I get a response at all. For example, there are still some black folks (and whites as well) that believe that blacks were more affected by Katrina than other races (I remember someone saying that this was the tsunami for black America). But when you challenge those same folks on the actual numbers, many of them still prefer to keep the myth alive rather than the truth. And if someone like me comes along to inquire about the facts, I am the one labeled as the sellout. Ask me do I care.

It gets old really quick.

So when someone like yourself makes the comment that black conservatives align themselves with those that look down on blacks, that may play well on the emotional side of things, but facts must prevail in the end. A “dossier” I do not need. Evidence based on an actual truth is what is needed. This is why I pressed you for some factual examples of black conservatives who align themselves with those that look down on blacks.

Again, thanks for coming back.

Brian,

As I asked in my last comment to you, why only take PART of his comment instead of the WHOLE clip? You know that is not all he said.

I could be wrong, but the comments by Bill Bennet concerning Black babies/abortion/crime, were in reference to the Freakanomics book, of which the caller that asked the question was referring to.

I’m no fan of Bennett by any means. While I may be conservative, I’m a Black conservative, which is (and should be) a whole different animal than a white conservative. With that being said, I would give Bennett the benefit of the doubt on “this” particualr comment.

As far as Nagin is concerned…This guy is a joke and is stereotypical of liberal Black leadership gone bad. He runs on a platform of “elect me, I will look out for your interests”. He gets elected, makes poor decisions (Nation of Islam sensitivity training of the NOPD?), shows no leadership in a crisis (Katrina), is revealed to be incompetent at best, then plays the moonbat “war in Iraq under false pretenses” card to curry favor with the African American community he sent up the river…literally.

Now, he wants New Orleans to be Chocolate City? This reminds of Atlanta. Atlanta is considered the Black Mecca by many. Black mayor, city council, school board, etc. However, it is the white citizens that live in the city that support the enourmas tax burden. I love some Black folks in charge. But when incompetence is publically displayed, and excuses and justifying result, it makes all Blacks look incapable of leadership. I never excuse incompetence with racism, much to the chagrin of my liberal family members.

Florida, N. and S. Carolina, Mississippi, Texas get hammerd by hurricanes each year. Outside of the storm itself, the fiasco is absent with them. Amtrac offered rail cars to evacuate the stranded, not to mention all of the resources would have been made available by other states, if La. had asked. No national gaurd in place to set up the needed infrastructure for rescue ops, in-fighting with the feds, buses under water, etc., etc. Suprisingly, most of the Blacks from NO understands the leadership from state and local authorities is not up to par, so they are choosing to stay where they are. He is hoping to play the race card, to get a pass. If God is mad at anything concerning the Black community, it is our embracement of the lax and relativistic moral standards that white liberalism has indoctrinated into our community through self appointed spokespeople.

Duane

You dont have to use the entire conversation as a reference because he said “But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.”

That speaks for itself. You can say it was hypothetical but he said it as a stated fact. When in actualality he does not know that. That statement alone lets me know exactly how Bill Bennett feels about blacks. The debate started over america’s lost revenue due to Roe vs Wade and he ends it with “Well, I don’t think it is either, I don’t think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don’t know. But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.”

Out of all the “far-reaching , extensive extrapolations” there are that he could have used, why use the abort every black baby before they grow up to be criminals one?

Yes please lets bus the strain on the economy back , that way we can make sure the city never gets back on its feet. If David Duke said anything racist like this the NAACP would be patrolling the neighborhoods hunting down whites for a massacre.There are no equal right down here for blacks or whites.

What about maybe GOD chased them off!, so the city might have a chance to rebuild and get a tourism going again without making headlines for robbing and killing tourists every year.

Why not use that one, racism could also be the person who is over reacting to that comment….which the comment was obviously said to make a point. Come live in New Orleans and see if the black on black crime might make you think twice. No freedom of speech here on this site , just erase comments made here that you don’t agree with.

Bring back the homeowners ,(BLACK ,WHITE ,PURPLE ,GREEN etc.) that pay the property taxes and actually have a huge reason to want to make the city better.There is no reason to bring anyone back right now that don’t hav anywhere to go.

No freedom of speech here on this site , just erase comments made here that you don’t agree with.

What are you talking about? There were no comments erased.

Brian,

You are still having trouble puting the whole conversation together. Now add the ridiculous comment the caller made before Bennett’s.

If you are going to “pick and choose” parts of that conversation, just know that the same thing can be done to many contraversal statments made by us as well.

Duane

True.

Both comments are stupid and racist, in my opinion. But because the Mayor is black and I am black and the comments were made on MLK Day (of all days!), I hold him to a higer standard. We as black people could write volumes on the sting of racism. Why would we become black versions of that ugliness?

I wrote an article on the Mayor’s comments. Perhaps you agree, perhaps not. It is just my take:

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-19-2006-86810.asp