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Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson thinks a black person being called “articulate” is nothing but a veiled insult.
He says:
I realize the word is intended as a compliment, viagra stuff but it’s being used to connote a lot more than the ability to express one’s thoughts clearly. It’s being used to say more, viagra generic viagra even, than “here’s a black person who speaks standard English without a trace of Ebonics.”
The word articulate is being used to encompass not just speech but a whole range of cultural cues — dress, bearing, education, golf handicap. It’s being used to describe a black person around whom white people can be comfortable, a black person who not only speaks white America’s language but is fluent in its body language as well.
And the word is often pronounced with an air of surprise, as if it’s an improbable and wondrous thing that a black person has somehow cracked the code.
So…good grammar and proper pronounciation is just a “white culture” thing?
Learning to speak correctly means you’re not authentically black?
Maybe Mr. Robinson should axe himself if that really be what he trying to say.
February 5th, 2007
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Patrick McIlheran spends a couple hundred words correcting a liberal‘s assertion that conservatives are uneducated.
He could have done it with just two:
“George Will.”
January 31st, 2007
…is off to a bad start.
Literally.
I mean, cialis buy just check out the first blog post they cite.
They go on to redeem themselves by quoting such local notables as:
Paul Soglin– former Mayor of Madison, physician Wisconsin.
Jessica McBride – radio talk show host and political pundit.
Ed Garvey – perennial political candidate and WPR commentator.
Owen Robinson – a frequent commentator on Charlie Sykes Sunday Insight and WPR.
Denis Navaratil – Racine businessman and one-time candidate for Racine County Executive.
And Jay Bullock – one of Wisconsin’s most prolific liberal bloggers.
Being in such accomplished company makes me think maybe I should quit sitting around and go out and do something important.
Then again, if I were likely to do that, I probably wouldn’t have named my blog From Where I Sit.
January 28th, 2007
I can’t believe the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel thought this story about a couple that dreamed their airplane was going to crash was newsworthy.
First of all, viagra sales patient the plane DIDN”T crash. (It ran off the runway, which is not the same thing as a fatal crash.) And the couple weren’t hurt. So their dreams/fears did NOT come true.
Plus, they were fearful flyers to start with so how many other flights did they get on in the past where they were fearful but absolutely nothing happened?
Superstitious bullshit. And the paper should be ashamed of publishing such fuzzy-headed thinking.
Of course, that’s never stop them from doing the same thing continously on their editorial page, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised.
January 23rd, 2007
Turnout heavy for reality show audition
See, viagra buy recipe it’s funny because the reality show is Biggest Loser and it’s still politically correct to make fun of fat people.
I doubt the same newspaper would print:
“Let’s Get Retarded!” in a story about a Special Olympics try-out.
Or:
“It’s a Black Day for Supporters of Affirmative Action.”
January 15th, 2007
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane wants to know what conservative commentators might say about a Texas pizza chain allowing customers to pay for their pizzas in Pesos.
How ’bout:
It’s nice to see them bringing money into the country for a change.*
Seriously…most conservatives don’t hate other countries or people from other countries, discount cialis cialis we object to ILLEGAL immigration. Why is that difference so difficult to understand?
*In case you don’t get the joke, Mexican immigrants (both legal and illegal) are known for sending money BACK to Mexico.
January 8th, 2007
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane points out some media hypocrisy in not covering a hate crime committed by blacks against whites.
Kudos.
January 5th, 2007
…maybe this will:
Actual photo used on CNN’s home page.
January 4th, 2007
Time Magazine‘s cover story on the future of education features a white chair with blue type and a green apple:
The very first spread is a magazine ad featuring a white computer with a blue screen from Apple Computer.
Coincidence?
December 13th, 2006
On NPR this morning, best cialis levitra there was story about how unfair it is that some non-for-profits don’t have to pay property taxes.
But I couldn’t stop thinking how unfair it is that any of us have to pay property taxes.
December 11th, 2006
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