Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
…on the sacred ground of not only King, but the numerous Vietnam demonstrations makes me retch, but that’s the easy response.
The white milk out there near the reflecting pool won’t impress the independents or the MOR watching either. They remember the multiracial throng who attended the March on Washington 47 years ago, and will know that these people in attendance won’t be half the fun, nor as impressive. Rage was not the order of that day.
The people Beck needs to impress are the punditocracy and the pollsters that the ‘Baggers are a winning horse. He’s hoping that the Wimple from Wasilla will be there with bells on as the main attraction. I doubt whether she will be saying The N Word as frothily as her admirer Dr. Laura. But whatever she says will be the same difference.
Cause I’m an oversensitive black person and I’m not sure what is and isn’t racist anymore.
But I’m definitely sure that calling him racist means I’m using the race card. Which is weird. Because everywhere I go, people already know I’m black. Don’t really need a card to inform people.
So it seems I need to use the term racist judiciously. But the funny thing is, I’ve never really been giving a criteria when to use it. Only when not to. And it always involves conservatives.
…on the sacred ground of not only King, but the numerous Vietnam demonstrations makes me retch, but that’s the easy response.
The white milk out there near the reflecting pool won’t impress the independents or the MOR watching either. They remember the multiracial throng who attended the March on Washington 47 years ago, and will know that these people in attendance won’t be half the fun, nor as impressive. Rage was not the order of that day.
The people Beck needs to impress are the punditocracy and the pollsters that the ‘Baggers are a winning horse. He’s hoping that the Wimple from Wasilla will be there with bells on as the main attraction. I doubt whether she will be saying The N Word as frothily as her admirer Dr. Laura. But whatever she says will be the same difference.
Can I call Rush a racist now?
Cause I’m an oversensitive black person and I’m not sure what is and isn’t racist anymore.
But I’m definitely sure that calling him racist means I’m using the race card. Which is weird. Because everywhere I go, people already know I’m black. Don’t really need a card to inform people.
So it seems I need to use the term racist judiciously. But the funny thing is, I’ve never really been giving a criteria when to use it. Only when not to. And it always involves conservatives.
Weird.