He’s been dropping entries fast and furious, it seems; he dropped this entry somewhere around six this morning, which would have been about the time he got the reply I posted at quarter to one this morning…
His last few posts seem to be especially banal, as though he senses that if he posts any more ill-considered political posturing, he’s going to be a little more than just challenged.
I’ll lay my reply on you, though it’s probably a little unfair without access to his original post:
So I’m a member of some monolithic, faceless “Black Community?” Hell, some of that “Black Community” in Buffalo are prominent members of my mother’s family. Try and tell them who to vote for without presenting a damn good line of reasoning. We are a proud, educated line who were perfectly capable of thinking for ourselves since long before we ever got the opportunity to leave the plantations of northern Kentucky and move up and out across Ohio, Pennsylvania and easterly beyond.
Is an Obama election the only acceptable proof that racism is still alive in America? Personally, I think not. I see proofs of it every day, not least of which are the calls for Obama’s death from the crowds at McCain/Palin rallies. Perhaps the media might be making too much of them, but the fact that the media has these incidents to report on at all is proof enough, no?
I cannot be presumptuous enough to say that race played no role in the mayoral elections of which you speak, but the loose subjectivity with which you speak of the candidate’s qualifications gives me equal pause, even without benefit of my own research into the matter.
I’m going to spell out how I am interpreting the statement, and before becoming defensive, I would ask you to consider your words as they are written and might be read by someone who has never met you in person and has no sense of your personal history: you don’t agree with the vision that Obama has for the country’s future, to you this makes him categorically unqualified to be elected, and as such, anyone who supports him is a mindless primitivist/tribalist sheep that must be voting from some vacancy of mind or absence of will, rather than from the sincere belief that he is, in fact, the most qualified candidate [Personally, I don’t think that Obama is necessarily the best qualified candidate, but then, I believe that perhaps the best qualified people for the job aren’t running, but that’s another issue; I will vote among the choices that are presented when I go to vote, but I do feel that the clarifying caveat is in order on my own behalf.]. To me, that is a position that has to be one of the most insularly egocentric that I have ever heard asserted. Perhaps your position might lend itself to further exposition, because I really don’t like to think so little of anyone, to say nothing of the fact that such a simplistic assertion, without further clarification, is so far beyond merely offensive as to seem intentionally provocative.
I’ll private you the original post, if you’d like, because I can’t paraphrase what he said without injecting my own bias.
He’s been dropping entries fast and furious, it seems; he dropped this entry somewhere around six this morning, which would have been about the time he got the reply I posted at quarter to one this morning…
His last few posts seem to be especially banal, as though he senses that if he posts any more ill-considered political posturing, he’s going to be a little more than just challenged.
I’ll lay my reply on you, though it’s probably a little unfair without access to his original post:
So I’m a member of some monolithic, faceless “Black Community?” Hell, some of that “Black Community” in Buffalo are prominent members of my mother’s family. Try and tell them who to vote for without presenting a damn good line of reasoning. We are a proud, educated line who were perfectly capable of thinking for ourselves since long before we ever got the opportunity to leave the plantations of northern Kentucky and move up and out across Ohio, Pennsylvania and easterly beyond.
Is an Obama election the only acceptable proof that racism is still alive in America? Personally, I think not. I see proofs of it every day, not least of which are the calls for Obama’s death from the crowds at McCain/Palin rallies. Perhaps the media might be making too much of them, but the fact that the media has these incidents to report on at all is proof enough, no?
I cannot be presumptuous enough to say that race played no role in the mayoral elections of which you speak, but the loose subjectivity with which you speak of the candidate’s qualifications gives me equal pause, even without benefit of my own research into the matter.
I’m going to spell out how I am interpreting the statement, and before becoming defensive, I would ask you to consider your words as they are written and might be read by someone who has never met you in person and has no sense of your personal history: you don’t agree with the vision that Obama has for the country’s future, to you this makes him categorically unqualified to be elected, and as such, anyone who supports him is a mindless primitivist/tribalist sheep that must be voting from some vacancy of mind or absence of will, rather than from the sincere belief that he is, in fact, the most qualified candidate [Personally, I don’t think that Obama is necessarily the best qualified candidate, but then, I believe that perhaps the best qualified people for the job aren’t running, but that’s another issue; I will vote among the choices that are presented when I go to vote, but I do feel that the clarifying caveat is in order on my own behalf.]. To me, that is a position that has to be one of the most insularly egocentric that I have ever heard asserted. Perhaps your position might lend itself to further exposition, because I really don’t like to think so little of anyone, to say nothing of the fact that such a simplistic assertion, without further clarification, is so far beyond merely offensive as to seem intentionally provocative.
I’ll private you the original post, if you’d like, because I can’t paraphrase what he said without injecting my own bias.
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