White Ignorance at the Core of Racial Tensions

[Tom Joad]

An excellent article.

This guy really nails it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dale-h...usaolp00000592

The recent grand jury decision to not indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing Michael Brown resulted in protests across the country for those disappointed with the outcome. Of course for those who believe Wilson's actions were justified the response was slightly different. There are those, like Ted Nugent, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, who chose to react with all the class of an Anthony Weiner Twitter photo. Some, like Sean Hannity,took the opportunity to blame President Obama for inciting violence and heightening racial tensions. Others have decided to use their victory lap as a way to "educate" the African American community.

It is this last category of people that are the most frustrating. They avoided the outlandish talking points offered up by the classic attention hogs but still managed to prove they were completely out of touch with reality. For example, longtime Fox News contributor Cal Thomas opined that the "real problem" for the African American community is that they have "an attitude of victimhood."

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[Zeke]

Final paragraph:

"The "real problem" with Ferguson, New York, Cleveland or any other city where the police have executed black males is not "an attitude of victimhood." No, the real problem is the group who sit in their ivory tower doling out sage advice to people they clearly don't understand about a situation they have no experience with that does nothing but increase the ever widening gap in race relations. Because pretending to know what it's like to be black in America isn't even remotely close to actually being black in America."

Dale Hansen (author) is WHITE. He eradicates his own white guilt points.

The only "execution" in Ferguson was of a good cop's career.

[finnbow]

The article sounds like defensive revisionism by a white liberal who got out way over his skis buying into the "hands up, don't shoot" meme, only to be proven wrong by the information released from the grand jury proceedings.

This is not to say that Rush Limbaugh and other members of the right-wing echo chamber aren't assholes, just like Al Sharpton and those on the other side of the Ferguson debate who chose to conflate the justified shooting of a violent felon with real instances of police brutality.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Dale Hansen (author) is WHITE. He eradicates his own white guilt points.

So you think that no black people would agree with him?

You think they are all in the Charles Barclay camp?

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

So you think that no black people would agree with him?

You think they are all in the Charles Barclay camp?

I think you should read the post prior to yours.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I think you should read the post prior to yours.

Tell you what I'm going to do, just for you and your pal Finn.

Next thread I start like this I'll make sure it's written by a black person.

And I'll throw it in your faces like ya'll threw Charles Barkley in mine.

That oughta make you happy.

[Zeke]

I threw Sir Charles at nobody.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Tell you what I'm going to do, just for you and your pal Finn.

Next thread I start like this I'll make sure it's written by a black person.

And I'll throw it in your faces like ya'll threw Charles Barkley in mine.

That oughta make you happy.

I only threw Charles Barkley out there after having been accused of being a racist, a bigot and a KKK sympathizer (in those very words) for saying that I believed that the Ferguson grand jury did the best they could in an ambiguous situation. I was curious if Sheltie Dave would make the same ridiculous claims about Barkley.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I threw Sir Charles at nobody.

Originally Posted by finnbow

I only threw Charles Barkley out there after having been accused of being a racist, a bigot and a KKK sympathizer (in those very words) for saying that I believed that the Ferguson grand jury did the best they could in an ambiguous situation. I was curious if Sheltie Dave would make the same ridiculous claims about Barkley.

Whatever Dudes.

Up until now I've been hesitate about posting what the preponderance of black people are saying about this because of the inevitable backlash that it would get from "the usual suspects", but no more. The gloves are coming off.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Whatever Dudes.

Up until now I've been hesitate about posting what the preponderance of black people are saying about this because of the inevitable backlash that it would get from "the usual suspects", but no more. The gloves are coming off.

Now, you're gonna become the spokesperson for the preponderance of black people. This should prove interesting.