Let's just note something quickly-- I could not call Naked Testicle Spiderman a "traitor to the white race" without being (justifiably) scorned.

Yes, because though Naked Testicle Spidyman has Balls of Blue, cut one open and they are still white (with a whole lot of red. oops!).

Excellent post. Not sure why, but their tossing Oreos at the guy disgusted me in a way that the rhetoric, disgusting though it is, never has. Sort of a symbolic stoning. Dare I say, it was gobsmackingly vile.

Kudos too to Filet 'o Fish, who managed to slam Steele again today for shrugging off Ehrlich's appearance at a racially restricted club without noting that Democrats have appeared there too.

Great minds think alike Ace. I published a piece about this on my site at about the same time you did (after accounting for time zone differences).

I won't "link whore" and throw the article down here, but if you get a chance to read it and think it could serve as an update, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!

Dammit, Ace. Beat my post too, by *this* much. Plus, yours is better.

I must break you.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

And you said, you couldn't handle the show all by yourself 'cus you'd run out of thing to say!

Well, Ace has a lot more time to think out his posts now that he has restricted comments and distracts us with naked testicle references.

The comments aren't intentionally restricted. It's the monthly mu.nu comment glitch.

And I suppose you are going to blame the Naked Testicle Spiderman references meant to distract us as a mu.nu glitch, too?

Look, if this is the way they want it, fine. The next time Cynthia McKinny says Bush caused 9/11, the next time Louis Farrakhan rails against "whitey," or the next time Al Sharpton says something incredibly stupid, I am just going to attribute those to Oliver Willis and the rest of the black liberal bloggers. Hey, they all think alike anyway, right? Don't tell me they can think for themselves anymore, since they don't seem to want to have independent voices anymore.

So my question has to be to Oliver Willis - why DO you think Bush knew about 9/11?

The most insidious form of racism is the insistence that people's thoughts, values, and philosophies must conform to their skin color. I've been enheartened by recent indications that ideology was proving to be a stronger delineator than race, but this seems to be making those accustomed to playing the race card very unhappy.

I would also like Oliver to explain why he thinks that the CIA developed crack cocaine and introduced it into black neighborhoods.

Oh, this can be kind of fun!

Is Oliver going to be joining O.J. to find the "real" killers?

Stay black, bro!

...(T)here's another pretty vicious term Nazis use when they see a white person cottoning a little too much to black folks for their liking. Nigger-lover.

Sure, Ace. Go ahead. Steal all my best material. It's okay, maybe I'll just go back to my blog and post a Top-10 ripoff, or link to Paul Anka's home movies or somethin.

Lotsa loose shit rollin' around here today.

(great post, btw) ;-)

50 Cent, the next "race traitor":

50 says he disagrees with West's infamous statement that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," proclaimed during a September telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims.

"I think people responded to it the best way they can," 50 told ContactMusic.com. "What Kanye West was saying, I don't know where that came from."

Though I doubt anyone will call him an Oreo. To his face, at least.

Your post rings true on so many levels. It actually struck very close to something I observed earlier today.

A girl in one of the classes I teach was wearing a shirt that said, "The best girls are BLACK." That struck me as just dripping with racism.

I mean, what if we had her t-shirt say what it only directly says? "White women/latinas are inferior to black women." At least then the racism wouldn't be disguised any longer.

What if I wore a t-shirt that said, "The best men are WHITE." IF I made it into the building past the lynching mobs that day, I wouldn't make it inside the next, as Jessie Jackson would be there with a mob to prevent my access to the building!

The hypocrisy of racism is so utterly baffling. Apparently only white people are racists, and only non-white people can be the victims of racism (but only when the perpetrators are white themselves).

It's too bad that documentaries like this aren't shown on PBS's American Experience.

Wake up black people.

Can you stop talking about that picture? I'm getting traumatic flashbacks just from its mention.

One of the best you've ever written, Ace. No joke.

"That's not racial. If they call him the "N' word, that's racial," Mrs. Marriott (a black Baltimore Democrat) said. "Just because he's black, everything bad you say about him isn't racial."

Can we have that statement signed, notarized, and run off a coupla million copies ? We everyday, non-elected, working folks need to be able to hand this stuff out everytime we hear some similar accusation.

I remember as a child the first black family to move into our area (early sixties). He was a jovial round bellied Santa type personality and we loved the guy. He had a bunch of kids, some older and some younger than us. An equipment operator by trade and lots of the local people (Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Belgians to mention some of the ancestral background ) hired him for various jobs. A fair man and did his job well.

Then we got our first television(BW) and to my horror, watched rioting for the first time . I asked mom"What did they do?" and she said something like, "probably nothing... they just aren't liked". I said to her"Why don't they move? There's lots of room around here." Well they did move and if I go to any big city, they don't look happy to see me, even when I tried to be friendly. What did I do? Probably nothing...I'm just not liked.

All that to say this- There are thousands of people that think as I. One, we think. Two, due to that process we can make choices based on facts, devoid of the emotional knee jerk reaction that encumbers those who remain enslaved in their pitiful cycle of pointless rhetoric. Three, if good is what you wish for then start doing good things.

I realize that as a child I thought as one and some will say I still do. Action will always speak volumes and what do the volumes of actions devoid of the moral and ethical base practiced daily in that one black man I met so many years ago, have to say . We called him Mr. Winston. I think his first name was George (RIP)...if you can.

Steele supports politics/parties/ideologies/whathaveyou out of the mainstream of Black American political thought. Should he have been pelted with oreos? No. Not because he ISNT an oreo, he definitly is, but because its counter productive and serves to only allow white pundits and their lackeys such as yourself to denigrate what are viable complaints w/ the reverse racism brush.

I love how majority politicians/pundits/etc decry Black insularity as if its just SO prevalent and so pervasive, when at every turn, the Black community is in fact confronted w/ turncoats such as Steele, Dr. Rice, Judge Thomas, etc who wouldnt have their vaunted positions without the very policies they seek to change. The cardinal sin in Black America is forgetting where you come from. Steele has. Thomas has. Dr. Rice...maybe less so.

I just can't fathom how you can demand that a community think in lockstep simply based on their skin color. I have much higher hopes for the future of race relations.

I can't believe that nobody mentioned the Sneetches until now.

Binlahab,

First off, you exemplify exactly the kind of mindset that is the "new" (read: Marxist/Adornoean) racism. In your world, one is not black or white, one acts black or white. The logical fact unknown to you, because you've been steeped in illogical Marxist/Gramscian/Ardonoean propaganda for the majority of your formative years, is that attributing particular actions as belonging to particular races is inherently racist.

Secondly, fuck right off, racist.

Oops, that should read "Marxist/Gramscian/Adornoean." Need more coffee. Right after Bihabalabablah fucks right off.

You think Binlahab is for real, Sue? Scary. I assumed it was cheap provocation.

Considering this is a land famous for people who don't care where they came from but are passionately interested in where they're going, it's hard to imagine someone seriously trying to make the case that it doesn't matter where you end up, as long as you remember where you came from. It's an attitude with "LOSER" embroidered on it in lime green thread.

Sorry S. Weasel, this kind of crap gets me wound up. If nothing else, my response was cathartic.

Oh, not complaining! It was a real question. I figured with a name like "Binlahab" he was more likely provocateur than honest broker. I wondered if he thought an uppity message from someone purporting to be black would cause us to break out in...I dunno...wild mockery in a minstrel-show dialect or something.

Me, I'm all for engaging trolls. It's just more effective when you know which ones mean what they say, and which are all sockpuppet and posturing.

This has to be the best Ace post I have ever read.

You really told the truth in this article. I am a white woman who was once married to a black man, I have two mixed grandchildren & my son is going to marry a girl from Kenya next spring. I have gone from admiring to total disgust for the actions & attitudes of blacks I know. You are right, they can't be reasoned with. It's almost diabolical. I did enjoy your words.

I think that classism is much more pervasive than racism. What's most interesting is to bring topics of classism into a conversation with a conservative. The immediate accusation is "your inciting class warfare". Maybe, maybe not but there is a truth that as the rich get more and the poor get less it will become more evident. What's unbelevable is the puritanical notion that somehow poor people must've done something to be poor. So I long for the day when we can have an honest conversation about class.

No, Michael, you don't have to have done something to be poor. But you have to have done something to stay poor. Depending, of course, on how you define poor. In this country, you can provide yourself with food, clothing, shelter, transportation and a few amenities on minimum wage. And there are plenty of minimum wage-style jobs that don't stay that way.

There has to be something pretty significantly wrong with you if you can't hack a burger gig.

Wow Ace. This post is so not like your usual faire. I come here for the edgy, tounge-in-cheek humor.

This post is your best ever. It is the only one that I was ever compelled to read twice. It is thoughtful, in-depth, surprisingly serious, and most importantly, spot-on on every point!

Keep your great sense of humor, but more of this kind of stuff, please. Thanks!

What's unbelevable is the puritanical notion that somehow poor people must've done something to be poor.

I may be kidding myself, but it seems to me that the poor were not looked down upon by the middle class until after the War on Poverty began. Prior to that we had memes like: 'poor but honest,' 'poor but hardworking,' 'just needs a hand up,' 'down on their luck,' etc. Now we have middle class resentment towards the semi-permanent welfare class (whose statistics are ballooned by immigration)

Sue Dohnim-

Its interesting that you can tell me what I have or have not been doing for my formative years, when you know nothing about me. I have been lead to believe from Fox & O'Reilly and the like that is what you call being a smear merchant. Are you in fact a smear merchant, Sue?

The bottom line in this country is that ever racial/identity/minority group has used their collective force to increase their collective economic/political power. A chinese person banks at a chinese bank, lives among Chinese people, speaks Cantonese/Mandarin and in general attempts to retain as much of his original culture as possible in the States. Yet when Black people attempt to do the same, we're accused of being reverse racists. How so? Do you have an answer for that, Sue? How is my initial response 'racist' to you? Or where is your "fuck right off, racist!" response to Connie or S. Weasal or anyone of the above?

Try to respond to any of the points I brought up in the previous reply, if you can. Or you could continue to name call, if you'd like.

I also find it amusing that people in this are assuming I'm a provocateur or some troll simply because of a log in name.

Sorry it took me so long to come back, but I'll be checking in regularly from now on.

Thanks!
Binlahab