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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Personally I think only people with green eyes should get to vote for Senator, and people with brown hair should vote for governor.
When are we going to look these lunatic racists in the eye and politely say, “Shut the h@11 up.”
Wow – and I so foolishly believe in that “…judged by the content of their character…” stuff. I really do so I guess racism is alive and well (and knows no specific skin color as its source).
The KKK got in trouble for that sort of thing. Obomba will straighten them out
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What part of EQUAL don’t these educated fools understand?
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Any sane person–of any race or ethnic background–should vote for the candidate they think will do the best job for the job. The choice should be made on character, accomplishments, and actual goals.
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Voting because of skin color–or lack of it–gives us all worse leaders. Elect the best ones.
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Meh. This idiocy is so commonplace, I find it difficult to whip up any indignation.
Screw the memo–I wanna know what this is:
perhaps this is also written down somewhere?
Behavior like this may backfire. Obama’s overt race-baiters in his administration may push unity across the multiple European-American nationalities. If the White community ever got fed up with the extreme Left’s “Blame Whitey” idea, there would be political heck to pay. So much for post racialism.
Alright . . . if that’s what they want then let’s throw all this “equal rights” babble out the window and pick it up from there.
Post-racial era? More like Most-racial era.
Hope and Change –
Screw the Black Agenda! How about promoting an American Agenda?! You poinyoins!
My sentiments exactly.
From now on, I’m only voting for middle-aged white guys with gray hair. You know, just to make sure my interests are respected and represented.
Well Rogue, it is mentioned twice in the paragraphs above…
also, I’m sure the Nation of Islam has a defense of this agenda anyway. I’ve heard it several times.
This kind of behavior has been prominent for a few decades. In the Civil Rights era, it was perfectly understandable. Those days are behind us, though. Necessary advancements in law have been made, and necessary social adjustments on the portion of society that was formerly racist have also been made. Racism among whites is now about as uncool as it gets.
People like these professors and their drones need to understand these things and come join the rest of us in the 21st century. They are living in the past and are holding themselves back by advocating these racist positions. Clearly they would have done well to have learned from the ObamaGates fiasco, but, alas, they had their eyes blinded by their hate. Do they think that two wrongs (our wrongs 40-100 years ago, theirs now) will make a right?
Clearly, the public education system has failed.
I wonder how these two would react in a place like San Jose, where the majority is not white and not black?
As long as free speech and diversity of opinion goes both ways, there’s no problem. However, I doubt that a pair of white people publishing the exact same letter, but with “white” replacing “black”, would be allowed to keep their jobs or their reputations intact.
“I didn’t say the house was flammable! I said it was inflammable!”
You media-types just keep twisting what people say.
Black racism is the worst kind of all because it exploits revenge and the latent resentment of its people. The entitlement to hate.
Why are black ‘leaders’ so eager to prove the segregationists were right?
The segregationists told us people would always judge others based on the color of their skin. The segregationists told us the races could not live together in harmony.
Don’t get me wrong. I loathed and still loathe the segregationists. However, by any objective standard these professors are much worse, since these scum are the reason the segregationists’ argument has a basis in fact.
And the ‘black community’ keeps voting for Democrats who think the same way.
In light of this, how can I rationally criticise the segregationists?
This is the kind of racist idiocy that results in myriad clueless black congressmen being elected forever nationwide. Paschal’s restaurant in Atlanta has long been the place where the city’s black power brokers met to divvy up the spoils.
Note the “professors” at Clark University (a black college) are also feeding of the Federal and State dime, while indoctrinating their students with perpetual grievance attitudes that continue this stupidity.
It is this asinine mentality of voting based solely on skin color that resulted in the election of Mr. HopeAndChange in the first place. Stupid is as stupid does. Take away the “blackness” thing and he wouldn’t have been marketable to the great unthinking masses.
Should whites only vote for whites then?
But there’s nothing fascistic about this, right dems?
http://community.tasteofhome.com/forums/t/672972.aspx
Correlation between democrat governance and poverty:
1) Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Milwaukee, WI (8th)since 1908;
2) Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;
3) Cincinnati, OH (3rd)since 1984;
4) Cleveland, OH (4th)since 1989;
5) Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican Mayor;
6) St. Louis, MO (6th)since 1949;
7) El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican Mayor;
9) Philadelphia, PA (9th)since 1952;
10) Newark, NJ (10th)since 1907.
Keep voting based on skin color and/or ignoring candidates like Herman Cain, Lynn Swann, and Alan Keyes, and enjoy the consequences.
Next thing you know, there will be billy-club wielding uniformed thugs at the polls while the Justice Department looks the other way.
Race is the Unified Field Theory of black people and Black Socialism is its practice. Are there exceptions? Sure there are, Thomas Sowell being the greatest of them, along with his friend Walter Williams. But you have to go looking for them, and most people cannot be bothered, least of all the average black voter. Would an average white voter do any better? Sadly, I doubt it. So how about Michael Steele? Oh, please. Or Louis Henry Gates? You know who he is, right? Reverend Wright? Louis Farrakahn? That Watson person? Conyers? Jefferson? etc., etc., In this “spectrum” of black intellectual opinion where the above two black professors can be safely found, people like Sowell exist only to be ignored at best or denounced at worst. That is the reality of Race in 21st century America and we all need to accept the fact and plan accordingly.
Admission: I accept any and all charges of racism.
Naw, that could never happen, could it?
“The Era of Post-Racialism” how did this phrase ever enter the lexicon and gain any level of acceptance I just don’t know.
That being said, the words and motives of the two Professors should certainly be critiqued excrutiatingly closely.
But, it does not have to be, the Professors are clear that they see race before anything else, even admitting that a black person may not necessarily advance the concerns of black citizens.
Is it only the image that matters? Because Robert Mugabe is black, does that make him the best person to run his country? I think not.
Good greif, how about the candidate’s actual positions on the issues?
We as a nation have come a long way, and yes, still have a long way to travel, with regard to race. We can get there, but these Professors do not help.
By this standard, you end up voting for Howard Dean over Sarah Palin. I don’t think so.
But Black Liberation Theology pays so good!
Maybe Bravo TV can come out with another sequel to their reality shows:
“The Hot Racist Professors of Atlanta”
I need to get out and vote for the middle-aged, hetrosexual, Caucasian, Christian male candidate, then.
I know. That means I’m ageist, homophobic, racist, creedist, and sexist. So sue me.
Goodness NO, absolutely not!! But you may wish to consider the respected opinion of Congresswoman Watson and select someone who “looks like me”.
I did not get the memo about the black agenda. Guess that serves me right for wandering off the plantation. Hmph!
I am SOOOOOOOO done with race as an issue in America.
It seems that there are only a select few of us who have any business being racists any longer, and they are SELECT people of color.
When will they grow up? When will Americans vote as Americans? When will all Americans throw out the thugs that hold any of us down?
It is very interesting that academia choses not to shun blatant racism. They should be run out of town, but instead they get to spew their bile in well circulated news papers. Praising racism begets more racism. I wonder if these thoughts ever enter the minds of these well conditioned “intelectuals”? Pavlov would have been amused.
On second thought, after over forty years of anger and hate and invective I’ve shot at the segregationists, I hereby apologize.
I was wrong. You were right. With regard to blacks.
I have had it with tolerating the racism of the ‘black community.’
AG Holder was right. It is time to have a frank talk in this country about race. The discussion can start off with an honest recognition of the pathological inability of the black community to see beyond skin color, and then it can continue on to how we can best separate the populations so black people will no longer have to deal with such terrible oppression.
Too bad profs, it is racism. Whether you want to spin it in any other way or not, a rose is a rose is a rose, by any other name.
Martin Luther King, Jr. would be proud.
Fits nicely with Jim Crow doesn’t it?
If the Colored People have their own schools they will achieve their best in dance and music which is their natural inclinations.
William Boone and Keith Jennings could have represented Board of Education of Topeka in the famous Brown decision.
Terrible things are going to happen to good people because of this Grievance Industry. God is our witness, we do not want war. But if there must be war let it start here and it just may start because of billy-club wielding uniformed thugs at the polls; some of us push back.
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two race baiters that are professors, now that’s something new, right. lowering standards produce idiots with advanced degrees, not because they are qualified but because the right box is checked of.
It should be noted that Lisa Borders, the black candidate who stood to benefit from the memo, condemned it immediately. But that doesn’t fit your narrative of crazy race hustler black people, so obviously it didn’t get reported here.
It’s not about her. It’s about the overt racism of her supporters.
Just you wait’l Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton find out!
Yer gonna get it!
Duly noted, so what? What’s your narrative on the crazy race hustler black people?
No time like the present.
The fact that there are many African Americans that detest racism has nothing to do with these two professors who are racist – but that doesn’t fit your narrative.
Our Glorious Leader in the WH isn’t going to do it.
The way we say it is by electing leaders who say it. As long as Americans who say they despise racism keep electing people who are ‘whitey’ hating racists, we are saying racism is okay.
NO ONE should be voting for ANY Democrats just because of this one issue. Yet Democrats now totally dominate Washington. That’s a GO FOR IT signal to the race hustlers.
Yes, Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave.
In this case, I would vote for the white candidate. It would be a racial decision but I would feel I had no choice to deny race baiters a reward.
Raaaaaaacist! Oops sorry, black professors can’t be racists. Just listen to the the Atlanta Constitution.
When Lisa Border’s supporters get to the point of offering to divide Georgia into “separate but equal” areas, let me know.
Unlike them, I’m getting to the point where I just might accept that deal. With a smile.
I am SO tired of this crap…
RSS, it’s not about bigotry. Obviously, God created blacks and whites and loves them both equally. The issue here is Black Liberation Theology, which is fueled by the very real, violent, and irresponsible black subculture. This movement and mindset seeks to destroy the American way of life and replace it with tyranny. Blacks that escape it are labeled as Uncle Tom, gray-meat, Oreo, etc. I remind you of the black leaders’ talk about “chocolate cities”. The color of success is not black or white, it is green.
Maybe we should have some kind of literacy test to vote. That would keep the white trailer trash folk from voting.
Maybe we should have two lines for voting. One in the front labeled “People”
and one in the back Labeled “White”
How about we have the white people sit in the back of the bus.
When 90+% of a particular race vote for a Presidential candidate because of his race, that makes their votes racially motivated.
It’s been my personal observation that when I saw blatant racism, it was perpetrated by blacks – in particular, black females seem to be the worst offenders.
It’s also been my personal observation that when racism is brought up, its normally brought up by liberal Democrats and by black race-baiters (redundant wording I know).
This is not to say that all blacks are racist just as not all whites are racist. Very few are that I’ve encountered.
I’m not making my observations because I’ve been insulated from the black population – quite the contrary. I’ve worked with, lived by, and associated with blacks ever since my college days and for the most part, racism wasn’t evident that I saw. Everyone got along fine and the issue of race wasn’t brought up as there never seemed to be a need for it to be.
Hello? What fits your narrative?
“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right,”
-Joe Lowrey at the Inaugural benediction
Walter Williams is Rush’s guest host this upcoming Friday, September 4th.
I’m sorry, but you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. You never heard of Black Liberation Theology before Jeremiah Wright, and you don’t know that its existence outside of that church is basically negligible. These professors have nothing to do with it.
Again, you really need to watch what you say about other races, because you really have no clue what you’re talking about. I live in Atlanta, and everyone – black and white – is condemning this memo in public and private.
But instead, all you hear from Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of your crowd is how racist and irresponsible black people are. It is especially galling that MM did not set the record straight on Lisa Borders here, because she must know that people have these misconceptions of black people, but instead she chooses to spin her story that black Democrats are nothing but Sharptons.
obviously many of michelle’s readers have never experienced the black experience. i lived with them in the service, and can only say they are different. my mother used to take baskets of food to the ghetto poor black families of st louis city, and i always wondered why a woman with 7 kids of her own would concern herself with a family of 12 children and a never married woman who obviously was only looking for the next handout.
I was musing a little yesterday, and it occurred to me…has anyone put together the connection between;
a) many of the black politicians from liberal states,
b) Obama’s black Czar appointees, and
c) the sudden emergence of their socialist views,
with Black Liberation Theology?
It just seems that with the recent idolizing of Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro…(BIG socialists,) by both elected and unelected officials in the federal government, coupled with the origins of Black Liberation Theology coming from South American socialism…it doesn’t seem coincidental to me.
Put that together with some of the social indications weren’t getting from Obama now, and his previous twenty years in Jeremiah Wright’s church, Van Jones, and others…it is very disquieting to me.
Michelle, I haven’t finished your book yet…do you go into this aspect of Obama’s administration?
What a different world we would have had if MLK had survived.
Spin? How many black Democrats in Congress oppose affirmative action?
Oh, heck. That’s right. It isn’t just the black Democrats who support institutionalized racism against whites and asians.
It’s ALL Democrats.
I replied to rss, but I can’t see it. Oh well. I strongly disagree with rss’s viewpoint.
Really? Seems to me I’ve heard about it for years. It is an outgrowth of the Black Panther party/BLA. Roughly from the early 70s.
I guess that it’s OK now for white college professors to urge white people to vote for white people.
From the memo:”The persistent poverty in the city, the educational crisis in the schools; the human security/public safety concerns; the type of economic development policies being pursued; and the citys awful financial management issues;
A Black Agenda that any candidate should be evaluated against.”
The Mayor and 12 of 16 council members are black.With the above statement maybe they need to look in a mirror.
Orlando, you do not understand. WHITE professors are part of the “White Power Structure.” So if they urge white people to vote for white candidates because they are white, that is racism. That would be EVIL.
On the other hand, since black people are OPPRESSED by the “White Power Structure” then it is the OBLIGATION of leaders in the black community to encourage their brethren to help each other to OVERCOME that OPPRESSION by voting for their fellow Victims of Oppression. That is GOOD.
So now stop being a racist and get with the program!
Orwell would be having a ball with this baloney.
They do that here in Flint, Michigan all the time. Black skin trumps qualifications for a lot of the population here.
Does this apply to black conservatives as well? Or does conservatism render them fake blacks?
No; I believe it renders them invisible.
the Force is strong with this one. I see you’re up on your NOI writings.
Racists !
and why should anyone believe what you say?? why do you know what you are talking about? I’m part black and married to a black lady…you???
you never heard of the NOI now have ya??
If you mean post-racial as in premenstrual, then yeah, sure, the cramps and irritability are just starting.
Obama never did represent any post tense, just like his hopenchange towards this radical left agenda, his is about the new racist beginning.
Must be very strong. I had no idea what NOI was until I googled it. I got that all from black community leaders like the one we elected POTUS.
That would never happen in the USA, what do you think we are, a 3rd world country?
How many members do you think the Nation of Islam has? Sources vary between 10,000 and 100,000 members in the U.S. Let’s assume it’s the high number. That’s a quarter of a percent of the 40,000,000 blacks in this country.
their influence is much larger than their membership..but again, how would YOU know???
Does white racism exist today? Yes. Does black racism exist today? Yes. Sadly the back racists get treated as “civil rights” experts while the white racists are correctly called racists.
It is time we tell all racists, blacks included, to shut up and do something, anything constructive with you life and others.
…and Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Malcolm X, etc…
Atlanta IS referred to as the “Black Mecca”, right? This is the reason, apparently. Inmates are running the asylum.
most white people would be surprised at the resentment and racism in the black community….black liberation theology or what the NOI preach…no difference….it has a very strong appeal…
You have your opinion. Mine is extremely different based on my experiences. And before (ok, after) you play the “my wife is black!” card, know that I have a lifetime of several close friendships with black people who consider me family. The reaction to the memo has been universally negative among the black community here.
Regardless, it is extremely irresponsible of Michelle Malkin to cherry-pick facts that make blacks look radical, but ignore the more important facts that make them look more moderate.
Agreed. RSS is a fool if he believes what he wrote. BLT would not be possible unless there was fertile ground for it to grow. The black subculture is that fertile ground. Those blacks that do not escape it are the ones to whom it may strongly appeal.
why don’t you try reading some of the black papers…if you’re in a big city, you should have one…
oh and its not just in poor, uneducated black people…you’d be surprised the wealthy, educated, well-off black people I know who believe some or all of BLT….
of course they call themselves christians too, and support obama and his pro-abortion policies…all without blinking an eye…
You could say the same about the KKK, but that doesn’t make the entire south racist zealots.
and the politics of resentment is par for the course for democrats of all races…
RSS, shame on you for making out MM to be a race baiter. Get this through your head. MM and others (myself included) on this blog are not talking about black people. We are talking about the black subculture and its champions and leaders. You are only proving the point of many of us. BLT’ers can talk all day long with impunity about how whitey is holding them down, but the moment we protest, we’re branded as racists, and we’re shaken down by the likes of the Justice Brothers. I, too, have personal experience. Apparently it is drastically different than yours. It’s like we’re living in different countries. In fact, let’s go ahead and split the country into states that believe your way and the states that believe my way. It’s obvious that we’re never going to agree on how to live.
Blacks are barely the majority in Atlanta now as Whites and Asians have significantly increased their presence within the city limits.
Really??! When was the last time she took white people to task for their racism?
talk about crickets
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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.