Black professors urge race-based election results in Atlanta
So much for the Era of Post-Racialism.
A pair of black professors has admitted authoring a memo outlining how and why black voters should make their mayoral candidate choice based on skin color.
WSBTV reports:
A memo circulating on the Internet and amongst voters in Atlanta is drawing a dividing line in the race for Atlanta’s next mayor.
The letter, asking voters to support Lisa Borders because she is “the best black candidate in the race,” warns that “for the first time in 25 years, African Americans could lose the Mayoral seat in Atlanta, Georgia, especially if there is a run-off.”
It also states “time is of the essence … in order to defeat a Norwood mayoral candidacy.” Mary Norwood, a white candidate, is said to be the front-runner. “We have to get out now and work in a manner to defeat her without a runoff, and the key is a significant Black turnout in the general election,” the letter stated.
The full memo is here. This is the concluding sentence:
At the end of the day, when the morning comes, a black agenda would better enable us to have our interests respected by and our influence realized in any administration.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution spotlights the two professors who co-authored the report and are defending their analysis:
William Boone, one of two Clark Atlanta University professors who claimed authorship of the memo on Monday, will address the media at 10 a.m. at Paschal’s restaurant.
In a statement issued Monday afternoon, Boone and fellow CAU professor Keith Jennings blasted the media for misinterpreting the context of what has become known as the “black mayor first” memo. Boone repeatedly declined to talk to the AJC in advance of his press conference.
“News coverage to date of an analysis presented to the Black Leadership Forum has been incendiary and misleading,” the professors wrote…
…Boone and Jennings shot back Monday calling claims of racism “patently false” and a “red herring,” because they were presenting, “views that have been articulated in various parts of the community.”
“We stand by our belief that ‘a black agenda would enable African American interests to be respected by any administration,’ ” they wrote. “The interests of African American voters are just as legitimate as other Atlanta voters, and the notion that we must apologize for highlighting those interests is absurd.”
And I’m so very sure they’d be the first to defend a pair of white professors who wrote up a memo about the “white agenda” and strategized about how to rally voters behind the strongest white candidate to defeat non-white politicians.
Uh-huh.
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We are in a race and class war, no doubt about it. This is heating up and something is about to boil over. And I blame Obama for this…he has done NOTHING to calm the racist talk. NOTHING. He wants the war…and he will get it. If he wanted to calm all this down, he could. He doesn’t want to. If this country survives, Obama will go down in history as a traitor.
Raaaaaacists!!!!!
(oh, that’s right—we’re not allowed to use that on people advocating a leftist agenda)
Essentially, you are saying that Michelle should not post anything about black professors actively campaigning for a “black agenda” because she does not fill your quota for Tu Quoque arguments against white people who make racial comments? What’s the point of that? Michelle is well noted for taking Republicans to task as well. We’ve seen several posts here asking for Mark Sanford to just go away.
I’ve also noticed another theme in your links:
- Audra Shay released a statement condemning the comments and apologizing.
- Diann Jones was horrified by the remark that she missed in her forward and apologized to everyone to whom she had sent it.
- Sherri Goforth apologized (granted, an odd one) for her forwarded email and received a reprimand. Several Republicans came out about this and thought she should be fired. (I believe she should have been terminated as well.)
- Rusty DePass also had to apologize for his off-color (and not funny) joke.
I can’t find much evidence that Republicans defended any of these actions.
Also, none of your examples point to a deliberate and thoughtful attempt to sway voters to elect someone because of the color of their skin. Do you have an apples-to-apples comparison? Seeing two individuals from what should be considered an intellectual field engaging in this type of rhetoric is noteworthy, isn’t it? Or should MM ignore anything that doesn’t fit your standard of measurement of equal opportunity bashing?
Will these professors also apologize for their remarks? Somehow, I doubt it.
Fool, there is no socially acceptable white counterpart to the black subculture. Any such movement, like the KKK, is culturally abhorrent to the vast majority of whites (except in John Murtha’s district – your example you asked for). You know good and well that if even a hint of white racism was used to advance a political agenda, there would be six inch headlines in every major paper for the next two months. MM wants to conserve our national heritage. Obama and his ilk are the culmination of the BLT/leftist movement wanting to destroy this nation as the Founders intended it.
Your juvenile chirping was really funny – NOT! Very immature.
Racism is alive and well—in the black population.
RSS,I got those same emails as did many on my address list,some who side with the left and vote Dem.I didn’t hear from anyone that they were upset about them.As you well know plenty of this stuff goes around everyday.Most look at it and move on but someone will always make a big deal about it.
interesting that you would put those there…but nothing about the rev. Joseph Lowery and his uh ‘prayer’ at Obama’s inauguration..
of course that wasn’t racist…
No, of course people should know about this. But she should tell the whole story. More importantly, her failure to expose white racists — in her own party — makes her outrage disingenuous to say the least.
Never for their racism.
That Republican public figures who are exposed as racist issue perfunctory apologies?
Audra Shay, who initially approved of the fb post, and unfriended her friends who voiced their disapproval, was elected to lead the Young Republicans after this happened. No excuse whatsoever!
Oh really.
Obama never shied away from having the press and the entertainment industry portay him as someone who will put us past racial politics. I’d love to ask our President why then are black and latino racists so inspired by him?
Sooooo…the crickets chirruping means that the blacks who have an ‘agenda’ aren’t racists?
Did I get that right, RSS?
Ok, RSS, what incidents of racism occurred that MM should have covered but purposely overlooked?
Couldn’t be more wrong. But don’t mind me. Keep taking black bigots to task while taking a blind eye to your own.
See the chirps. I have links.
LOL–RSS.
cricket menagerie.
Your comment here seems to underscore what I said.
Also, the story wasn’t about Lisa Borders. MM did not say anything negative about Borders or attempt to link her to the professors. The story is about them and their actions, not Borders.
Also, what’s with the projected emotional assessment? I didn’t read “outrage” in her post. That’s not the type of thing I would expect from you.
That may be your assessment of their apologies, but these professors will not even offer a “perfunctory” apology, will they?
Do you see nothing at all wrong with this action taken by these professors? Or is this whole redirection bit to attack Michelle just noise to distract?
You’re right! They are WORSE than us, aren’t they?!
Of course I do. My point is simply that it is a longstanding conservative meme to point out any perceived or actual racism on the part of blacks while taking a blind eye to that of whites. Which is obviously what MM does.
That wasn’t my point and you know it. I did you the courtesy of reading your links and considering your point of view. Please do me the courtesy of not trying to twist mine.
Just as there is a longstanding liberal meme to paint conservatives as racists and refusing to challenge racist attempts to affect elections results based on the color of a candidate’s skin.
In some cases, they’ll expect that conservatives must point to a white racist before they can even talk about a black one.
Thanks Roland…I get it now.
What about a working American tax-payer agenda. Would that be ra-a-a-a-acist?
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RSS, I looked at all of your links. In all of these cases, I noticed a lot of embarrassment, apologies, and disavowing. These were all from southern states where there still are vestiges of Plantation mentality. These vestiges are dying out. I think most people recognize that it’s going to take more time for the Old South to catch up to the rest of the nation in areas of racism. I don’t know MM’s vetting policy is on what to post and where she is looking for stories. All I can say is that she has covered stories of white people saying racist things and other stories defending targets of racism. Links will be in next post (having posting problems).
Okay. Here’s one link. I’ll start with that. If it actually posts this time. I’ll do more.
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/08/14/harlem-residents-in-support-of-slavery/
Now I think I’ve got it. Hyperlinks don’t work here like I’m used to using in gmail. I’ve learned the hard way to never use hyperlink text in the title of the link!
harlem-residents-in-support-of-slavery
I guess I have to do them one at a time:
Hate on the internet
slavishly-vs-niggardly
michael-steele-and-the-sambo-smear
man-charged-for-racist-death-threats-against-clarence-thomas
biden-elect-obama-because-hes-black
wal-mart-pulls-racially-charged-mexican-comic-book
goat-talk-with-trent-lott
judge-leslie-southwick-and-the-democrats-bigot-card
last one. What a hassle!
plucky-90-year-old-klansman-d-wva-clings-to-committee-chairmanship
Crap, now RSS is probably gone. Oh well. He can’t say that MM never criticizes white racists.
R S link oh really is a joke . it did not pass it was on with another bill.da m I get sick of lib bS.
You are a liar. Prove that Rush Limbaugh or Michelle have made these comments. Show your sources or shut up.
Gee. Is Lisa Borders the Great Black Hope?
Does this surprise anyone? Liberals love to play the race card. Anyone that has criticism is instantly labeled a racist. But yet, they are incapable of solving problems.
All I know is that after mainstream America voted in a half-black man as President, his appointed AG called mainstream Americans a nation of cowards for not having dialog about race in America! Well Bucko, we’re having some race dialog now! Tough ta-ta’s if you don’t like the direction of the narrative.
In the spirit of cracker congeniality, I will withhold from kicking these intellectual giants in the family jewels, and simply kindly suggest they STFU.
I believe more and more of us out here who are apparently supposed to nod and understand the grievances of this “community” are well past the point of thinking we need to put up with this crap. And, we’ll be bluntly vocalizing our displeasure with these vermin far more loudly from now on, thank you very much. If they want confrontation, they’ll get it.
RSS, you are right about white racism. Those damn Democrats hate black people! I’m sure they would still elect George Wallace if they could.
Oh wait, that doesn’t fit your agenda? Well it was your posting………
You forgot Robert “KKK” Byrd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0
Especially, go to the 1:14-1:22 time frame. Jeez.
And let us not forget Joe Biden…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM19YOqs7hU
Nice stereotyping, Joe.
Now put that in the perspective of the way liberals attack conservatives for perceived or actual moral transgressions.
As part of your answer, compare and contrast the treatment of Ted Stevens and Charlie Rangel. There are plenty more, but this is the most current, like the comparative treatment Trent Lott’s commentary on Strom Thurmond vs. Chris Dodd’s commentary on Robert Byrd.
You got links, I got links.