Wednesday, October 9, 2013

“Who knew he was going to run for mayor?”

"After an Introduction by de Blasio, a Brooklyn Hospital Hired His Wife"

"Ms. Brier said that Mr. de Blasio had introduced her to his wife “at some social event” and that she learned from Ms. McCray that a job she had with Citigroup had not worked out and that she was looking for a new one. “He didn’t say, ‘Here’s my wife, hire her,’” Ms. Brier said. But she said that she was immediately impressed with Ms. McCray because, “she seemed so capable, so grounded,” because she had speech writing experience under former Mayor David N. Dinkins, and because the hospital needed more minorities in administrative-level positions."

“I’m the one who wanted to recruit her,” Ms. Brier said, adding that she likes to have women employees around her when possible. “I said, ‘Of course, I have no job for you. But I could probably invent one.’ I do that a lot.”

NY Times via Mikéy Ramoné @ThePantau

63 comments:

Revenant said...

"Who knew he was going to run for mayor?"

"What, you don't think we'd want to curry favor with a mere city councilman, do you? We've got standards you know."

Trooper York said...

My friend is a great friend of the wife. She even had a small fundraiser.

She was going to invite me but thought better of introducing Mrsl De Blaiso to me as I keep calling her Weezy.

edutcher said...

Funny how that works out.

Phil 314 said...

Impressed with her past of being a speechwriter for Dinkins!?

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Hey, it's not as if they'll be expecting her to put out, judging from her looks.

The Crack Emcee said...

“I said, ‘Of course, I have no job for you. But I could probably invent one.’ I do that a lot.”

Must be nice to be white, huh? You get to just invent jobs at will - on a whim even.

Something goes wrong with your ticker - no problemo. Everybody gathers 'round, "Hey, you old racist joke-telling thing, you - how you doing? Need anything?" Nobody questions why you're hung up on racist jokes - you're white. Your intentions are "pure". You can say anything, about anyone, at anytime, and they're as comfortable with that as they are themselves, ain't they? You're white.

Let's compare:

I've been laying in bed now for 13 weeks. Can't work. The only visitors I have are to harass me. (There was that one guy who came over, after saying some shit about killing us darkies, and then dropped $50.00 on me as a kinda no-hard-feelings thing, but other than him, nothing.) Why?

Because I get fed up with everybody being racial, mostly because it's directed at one group - the despicable percentage I'm born into.

So you know what I do? I start mentioning white people like they talk about blacks when they want. And you know what they do? They dislike me even more.

Why, you know, it's almost like they've got me in a no-win situation here, vis-à-vis this friendship thing.

They hate me for telling the truth - no matter how many times I'm right.

They hate me for emulating their actions - and they never acknowledge that's what I'm doing - they just need a new reason.

They hate me for standing up to them - though, after this many years, you'd think it would occur to them Crack might have an interest in saving their necks - an interest that definitely doesn't run in the other direction.

Like I said, man, it sure must be nice to be white.

I mean, even NEEDING HELP gets me ridiculed. Troop didn't need no help. He just said, "Thanks, guys." and then told another racist joke. Everybody laughs.

All perfectly normal.

I must look pretty bad, not laughing anymore, huh?

Damn that evil narrative somebody (Meade?) put in my head,...

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I remember when Meade told rhhardin that Althouse wanted to give him a hug.

That was a real head-scratcher.

Trooper York said...

Sorry you don't have any friends buddy.

Maybe you should join a cult or something so there will be people who care about you.

I recommend the Scientologists.

Synova said...

What would we say about an employer who said, in public, that he liked to have male employees around him whenever possible?

Synova said...

I hadn't realized you weren't well, Crack. I hope you get better. I think that being stuck in bed is pretty horrible. Partly because you can't complain about it next to people who are in extreme pain or dying. Having to have people do things for you is awful too, but complaining about *that* really gets a person nowhere.

The Dude said...

Let me see - Trooper is a good guy, people like him, when he is hospitalized, they send him flowers.

Cracker hates white people, reminds us of that fact constantly, then whines when his back hurts and he can't even get out of bed to get his EBT card refilled.

Poor, poor baby.

Call someone who cares on your Obamaphone, chump.

Oh, right, I forgot - ROMNEY TRAYVON NEWAGE!!!

Synova said...

I figure that Trooper is on meds and that Crack is on meds... I give a lot of leeway to people I figure are drugged up.

Is Sixty Grit on meds?

The Crack Emcee said...

Thanks, Synova. While you have class, and we have history, why don't you ask my long-time best buds, Trooper, how much of an effort he made?

And then ask him how long it took from the moment we knew he knew he was ill before I came over?

He knows all about me not having friends, alright.

And then there's Sixty:

Let me see - Trooper is a good guy, people like him, when he is hospitalized, they send him flowers.

He was one of my best online friends for years - ain't seen the punk.

Cracker hates white people, reminds us of that fact constantly, then whines when his back hurts and he can't even get out of bed to get his EBT card refilled.

I think you're going to have a *little* bit more difficult time selling that lie with Synova around - go ahead and try it. The rest of you fools may get pissed because I told you I won't jump of the political cliff with you, but racist? Please:

Synova, I've been jerking their chain about racist shit Cody and Sixty say (and the fact nobody calls 'em on it) and this douche keeps trying to re-write history as I'm like him.

Poor, poor baby.

Call someone who cares on your Obamaphone, chump.

Whuy don't call Freeman Hunt about my non-existent slave parents, dickhead, since you seem to think you've got something there to work with.

Oh, right, I forgot - ROMNEY TRAYVON NEWAGE!!!

Really, considering how he lies (which, thankfully, no one's accused me of) I have no idea how you guys stand this guy,...

The Crack Emcee said...

I just re-read what I wrote and this is the line:

"I think you're going to have a *little* bit more difficult time selling that lie with Synova around"

I don't know what happened to the rest of you, that you'll allow Sixty's sick ass to misrepresent me, but you have. And you know it. Especially Trooper.

You guys have changed.

The Dude said...

For a refutation of what Cracker writes here, visit his site. And give him money - the years he spent as a slave have left him destitute.

Well, that, or his complete lack of talent or marketable skills.

Synova said...

I tolerate Sixty Grit the same way I tolerate Cedarford... by ignoring whatever he says... except that Cedarford sometimes contributes. I don't think that Sixty Grit ever has. I think there is something wrong when people feel like they have to be on someone's case, like when Inga would show up and get clobbered before she ever said anything. Feeling righteous for hating the right people is something that liberals do. There is not a single thing admirable about it.

It's also extremely insulting to everyone else because it sort of implies that everyone else can't make up their own mind.

Which is mostly why I don't usually say much. I don't assume that without me saying so that everyone is going to be unable to evaluate a hateful rant in a rational manner.

I'll agree that Trooper has said some stuff that I found shocking lately, that didn't seem to fit with the Trooper that exists in my head. I don't know what's up with that and I sort of wish he wouldn't.

I understand how you get on people's nerves, Crack, even if you don't get on my nerves often. But getting on nerves is what people do. It means we're alive.

This isn't a Day Care. We're adults. We don't *ever* need someone to make sure that we aren't accidentally nice to the wrong person and we ought not need a mother to tell everyone to behave.

I dislike this intensely.

The Crack Emcee said...

Synova,

This isn't a Day Care. We're adults. We don't *ever* need someone to make sure that we aren't accidentally nice to the wrong person and we ought not need a mother to tell everyone to behave.

I dislike this intensely.


Like I said, you know me. I'm not bad with the give-and-take, but something's happening here that's unlike what we've been doing. Cody laughs about killing blacks and nobody says anything, because TRAYVON. Sixty does follow me around - amongst my friends - and,...nothing.

I wasn't going to say it, but I've hinted at it on my spot and might as well:

Lem's letting us down.

I'm not being heavy-handed in saying that, like I hate him or anything, but this isn't our free-for-all but something more sinister is happening.

I know these guys are losing a lot - have been since Romney - and it's been one plooky deal after another until they've politically backed themselves into a corner. I told them, just as with Romney, I can't go there - same thing when the black-bashing started after Trayvon. I'm into winning. Big mistake.

Right or wrong, saying "no" to these guys has been taking it's toll - because they're losing and they got nothing but attacking minorities to make up for it.

It may sound like a liberal line, but I've seen it, and born the brunt of it.

They've become what they hated,...

Revenant said...

I've been laying in bed now for 13 weeks. Can't work. The only visitors I have are to harass me. [...] Why?

Because you work hard to alienate everyone around you.

Synova said...

If Trayvon Martin's death had anything whatsoever do to with race it was that he had what people would call an "attitude" that he had to defend his pride... or something. Not an unusual young-male reaction to life, but without it he'd be alive. If that attitude was enhanced by Trayvon's own understanding of racial realities, that's where race exists in that event.

But we're supposed to understand, somehow, that if Trayvon had an attitude and the need to make sure he was never subjected to disrespect, that his actions ought to be consequence-free because young black men have a good reason to be prickly.

And although there is every reason to think that Zimmerman would have responded to a lurking white boy in exactly the same way, we're asked to swallow the lie that somehow white boys in hoodies are always assumed to be choir boys, never get harassed or profiled, never have to say "yes, sir" to a cop, are never given the stink eye or assumed to be up to no good.

You asks who speaks up? Who speaks up when someone says that Zimmerman winning a self-defense argument means it's now legal to hunt blacks in America? Does anyone speak up about that? Does anyone explain just how BAD it is if anyone at all starts to believe that?

Calm people can point out that there was no evidence for a murder conviction, no matter who the shooter or victim were. Calm people can point out the errors in reporting, the blatant lies that formed a racial frame for the shooting. I've tried. It's pointless. Calm people can point out that black Americans use guns to defend themselves and win in court just as often as white people seem to. (Or at least they win even more often with Stand Your Ground defenses in Florida than white people do.) But that would destroy the narrative that black people can not trust the justice system because it will always always go against them. Does anyone speak up about how damaging to society *that* lie will prove to be?

You know... it's right on the top of the list of Things White People Like. White people LIKE to imagine that they are crusaders against the horrible institutionalized racism of America where it's legal to hunt black men and shoot them and where a court is simply a place for white people to get away with it. White People LOVE that shit. They get to be entirely safe and display their moral superiority all at the same time.

So anyone who messes with their fun gets called a racist. And when, inevitably, discourse reaches the toilet, no one is there to explain that it's *understandable* for those people to be angry and that it's not their fault that they're angry or that their anger should be consequence-free because there is a reason for it.

What is the answer to that? I'm not sure I know. But I'm pretty sure that I know what the problem is.

Too many people have a "community organizer" out-look on life. It's all about getting people riled up. Nothing happens until you get people riled up. If people get riled up then you win. I don't know what you win, since nothing gets fixed and everything is worse than before, but you win.

Because it's actually hard to build stuff.


The Crack Emcee said...

Revenant,

I've been laying in bed now for 13 weeks. Can't work. The only visitors I have are to harass me. [...] Why?

Because you work hard to alienate everyone around you.


Telling you not to support Romney because he's a fruit loop who can't win - a fact we've learned even he know - isn't alienating everyone around me but insisting you face facts in a political contest we HAVE to start winning.

None of you - none of you - like to face the word "NO".

Don't bullshit me. We've had YEARS together. And you guys have been wrong on everything but the 2010 election - and I voted with you on that one.

You want to being wrong alienating everyone? Fine:

It's a hell of a lot easier, and more convenient, than saying you're wrong.

Just as you are in they showdown - you can't win.

Revenant said...

I'm in my forties. I've been listening to people beat the White People Oppress us drum my whole life, even though the oppression ended before I was born and I had nothing whatsoever to do with it. You learn to tune it out after a while and accept it as part of the background noise of American life.

What got my ire up about the Martin incident was the naked attempt to lynch Zimmerman for a crime he quite obviously hadn't committed -- just to appease the racist and race-obsessed mob baying for his blood.

I'll put up with having blood-guilt assigned to me for the sins of people I share nothing with but skin tone. I will not put up with having innocent people crucified to appease the mob.

The Crack Emcee said...

You want to call being wrong alienating everyone? Fine:

It's a hell of a lot easier, and more convenient, than saying you're wrong.

Just as you are in they showdown - you can't win.

The Crack Emcee said...

Revenant,

I'm in my forties. I've been listening to people beat the White People Oppress us drum my whole life, even though the oppression ended before I was born and I had nothing whatsoever to do with it. You learn to tune it out after a while and accept it as part of the background noise of American life.

Blacks love that attitude:

You have heard people suffering your whole life - and you tune it out.

Why can you do that Rev? Can I, when I come over here to talk to my friends and Cody Jarrett's talking about killing blacks and everyone's cool with it?

I say, in this country, it's because of your skin that you can be so cavalier,...

The Crack Emcee said...

Revenant,

What got my ire up about the Martin incident was the naked attempt to lynch Zimmerman for a crime he quite obviously hadn't committed -- just to appease the racist and race-obsessed mob baying for his blood.

Blacks didn't do that - the media did. And if you accept that blacks generally don't get a decent education, then why should any anger be directed at them while they grieve?

Why is Cody Jarrett talking about killing blacks and not a news reporter from NPR?

Do me a favor - don't play dumb.

Revenant said...

Telling you not to support Romney because he's a fruit loop who can't win - a fact we've learned even he know - isn't alienating everyone around me but insisting you face facts in a political contest we HAVE to start winning.

See, now right there is an example of what you do to alienate people. You are too focused on your own obsessions to spare any time for what anyone else is saying. Every conversation with you is ultimately ABOUT you.

The above is a case in point. I wasn't a Romney supporter. You've been told that; had you paid any attention you'd have known it without being told. But it doesn't sink in to that pointy little head of yours, because there is literally no space in your head for remembering anything that conflicts with your own beliefs.

Talk to you is like talking to a television set. Sometimes the television is tuned to Fox, sometimes it is tuned to MSNBC, sometimes it is tuned to a scrambled channel that doesn't come in clearly. But in no case does a productive two-way conversation take place.

chickelit said...

@revenant said: The above is a case in point. I wasn't a Romney supporter. You've been told that; had you paid any attention you'd have known it without being told. But it doesn't sink in to that pointy little head of yours, because there is literally no space in your head for remembering anything that conflicts with your own beliefs.

In crack's defense, I think he may be confusing you and me. We probably all look and sound alike to him.

The Crack Emcee said...

Revenant,

See, now right there is an example of what you do to alienate people. You are too focused on your own obsessions to spare any time for what anyone else is saying. Every conversation with you is ultimately ABOUT you.

Ha! That's even in your own mind - notice:

You completely ignored my point to find a reason to focus on me.

Was I right, Rev?

And, if so, do we need people who are right or likable?

Is Sully likeable? Ann? Come on, Rev - here you are with Sixty Grit - tell me about likable.

Revenant said...

Blacks didn't do that - the media did

That would be a good counter if I had actually blamed "blacks" for the Martin incident.

The Crack Emcee said...

Richard Nixon - known for his sterling personality.

Dick Cheney - a real charmer.

Lee Atwater - another saint that everybody wanted to be around.

I swear, you guys don't see the pretzels you twist yourself into not to listen to blacks.

Or is this where they hang out because the atmosphere is so welcoming?

You lie.

And you actually think that - plus there's a group of you - makes you a personality worth noticing.

The Crack Emcee said...

here you are with Sixty Grit - tell me about likable.

chickelit said...

@synova: Did Crack not hurl the first insult on this thread: Must be nice to be white, huh? You get to just invent jobs at will - on a whim even.?

I wasn't insulted because I have a thick skin.

Or do you consider this thread to be an extension of an earlier one?

The Crack Emcee said...

Mitt Romney knew - through the entire campaign - he never had more than an 18% chance of winning but did these likable folks see that? Of course not:

They were too busy saying I was nuts and too focused on my shit.

You know - what mattered.

Revenant said...

And, if so, do we need people who are right or likable?

You're welcome to keep believing you were right.

Feel free to repeat "I was right, I was right" to yourself as you lie there alone in the dark, in pain.

May it bring you comfort.

The Crack Emcee said...

El Pollo Raylan,

@synova: Did Crack not hurl the first insult on this thread: Must be nice to be white, huh? You get to just invent jobs at will - on a whim even.?

Ahh, nice slight of hand, there - god, how do you live with yourself?

This shit started days ago - and you know it - so Syn walks in today and you say "Look at Crack" like you haven't been riding my ass forever.

You're a real piece of work.

Synova said...

"Telling you not to support Romney because he's a fruit loop who can't win - a fact we've learned even he know - isn't alienating everyone around me but insisting you face facts in a political contest we HAVE to start winning."

Perhaps, but it wasn't at all useful. I get frustrated when so many people insist that it's most important to nominate someone who can win because that's exactly what got us McCain and Romney both. And they couldn't win. Obviously. I really do wish that everyone would just vote for who they like the best instead of second guessing other people's behavior. Even then, we'd end up with a nominee that most people dislike. That's how the system works.

I still think that Romney would have been significantly better than Obama, no matter how much you hated Romney. Trying to get everyone to realize you were right about Romney wasn't a *solution* to anything.

Revenant said...

In crack's defense, I think he may be confusing you and me. We probably all look and sound alike to him.

Heh! Yeah, could be.

We're all part of the undifferentiated ignorant mass of commenters known as "not Him".

The Crack Emcee said...

Revenant,

May it bring you comfort.

It does - I'm not the one bracing now, to have my shit shoved back down my throat, because I'm too unfair to admit I lost to Obama.

That's the crew you're comfortable with.

The perpetual losers.

The Crack Emcee said...

Synova,

I still think that Romney would have been significantly better than Obama, no matter how much you hated Romney. Trying to get everyone to realize you were right about Romney wasn't a *solution* to anything.

But it wasn't just Romney. I said they were wrong about EVERY MAJOR VOTE we've taken since 2010.

And what did I get? I'll never forget the words:

"Fuck you - we don't need your vote anyway!"

They're delusional - I mean, this is politics!

Revenant said...

Perhaps, but it wasn't at all useful.

What makes his spiel particularly silly is that there were almost no people here who wanted Romney to win the nomination in the first place. So basically Crack's lecturing people for stupidly picking Romney, who didn't pick Romney. Its like stopping a random black man on the street and ridiculing him for Obama's mistakes.

Except sillier, since Romney didn't get anywhere near 95% of the vote during the primaries. :)

Revenant said...

It does - I'm not the one bracing now, to have my shit shoved back down my throat, because I'm too unfair to admit I lost to Obama.

My "Crack is incapable of absorbing new information" theory continues to hold water, at least with respect to my voting history. :)

The Crack Emcee said...

Revenant,

What makes his spiel particularly silly is that there were almost no people here who wanted Romney to win the nomination in the first place. So basically Crack's lecturing people for stupidly picking Romney, who didn't pick Romney.

God, you're not even a good liar.

Remember? I was there. These folks were singing his hosannas. He and his cult were good and pure and - oh look:

Even Mormons are now leaving the "church" for the very information you guys ridiculed me for !

Synova said...

"Blacks didn't do that - the media did. And if you accept that blacks generally don't get a decent education, then why should any anger be directed at them while they grieve?"

Because it's an excuse.

Yes, the media was at fault. So were a couple of the usual professional race baiters. And what do you suppose people are grieving *for*? His family, absolutely they grieve. But a whole lot of people, young men, kids, others... no end to faceless people you never heard of and I never heard of have been violently killed, often quite unfairly, tragically, in the last year. In a sense, grieving for a stranger is perverse self-pleasuring. One can be concerned and sad and feel a great deal of empathy for those legitimately grieving, but taking on yourself?

Some poor kid here in Albuquerque saw his father stab his mother to death last week.

Suppose I have a public tantrum over it. Are people supposed to look at me and say, well, she's a mother so she's *grieving*? I realize this might be a stoic scandinavian thing where we're taught from birth not to emote, but it's perverse to *steal* other people's grief and then pretend like you hurt like they do. Because you DON'T.

I had a confrontation with a guy in the non-traditional student organization I'm in on campus because he was going on about how Zimmerman was hunting Travon and how everyone in Florida is a horrible racist, and citing every single last media lie. So I spoke up, told him every single thing he had said wasn't at all true, *particularly* that Zimmerman had called the cop on a 7 year old boy because the boy was black. All things that had been reported and had been retracted. His explanations about how bad everyone in Florida is, as if his words were true and not slanderous and destructive, as if he *knows* and it means nothing to say hateful things about people, that he wasn't actively engaged in breaking society...

What I wanted to say was... "Yes, David, you are absolutely correct, and it's all because Florida is so full of Jews."

David, *just happens* to be Jewish. And I didn't say it because I don't believe it, but oh how I wanted to give him exactly what he was dishing out, even though I'd have been so very wrong to do so.

It's hard to keep on trying to slog uphill when so many people are tearing down the world.

The Crack Emcee said...

Revenant,

My "Crack is incapable of absorbing new information" theory continues to hold water, at least with respect to my voting history. :)

Were we talking about your voting history or me and this group?

White people are silly,...

The Crack Emcee said...

Synova,

This takes us back to where this started:

Everyone was trying to get me to think as you're stating.

I said, as a black American, that's only possible for a few. Most of us think like Jews. We have a history that guides us, and we can't ignore it, and if we do our lives are imperiled.

Might sound crazy, if you're Irish or Italian, or German. But, if the best you can do is trace your lineage to slavery and then West Africa - not a place but an entire quarter of a continent - we're all we have. In an (obviously) hostile environment. An environment where something as simple as my own identity is questioned by (ostensibly) the same people who put us in this predicament.

It's madness.

The Crack Emcee said...

BTW - I supported Zimmerman.

That wasn't good enough for this crew - I had to break with blacks' feelings altogether to be acceptable.

I always am expected to change for you guys. Meanwhile, everybody else - even Sixty Grit - is left to be themselves. No admonisions. No requirements. No expectations. Just a white guy being free.

Why was it so important I vote for Romney? Why was it so important I give his cult a break? Why must I conform?

Do you guys EVER think about the pressure you put on blacks?

EVER?

Revenant said...

Were we talking about your voting history or me and this group?

Yes.

The Crack Emcee said...

No - only YOU brought up your voting history.

Why must you focus on yourself?

Revenant said...

No - only YOU brought up your voting history.

Best delete your 6:38 comment before peddling that particular lie, dude.

Synova said...

The fact that something is understandable and has a source doesn't make it constructive rather than destructive.

It's possible, on account of we're all humans, for a person with a little bit of imagination to understand what it's like to be someone else with a different history or experiences. But what are we if we refuse to at least try to push back on something destructive?

To stay with the example of David... he was being destructive. He was proclaiming as absolute truth something that was a fantasy. That fantasy is important to him and his view of himself and his understanding of his own worth but it's a rot and I don't really care *why* he wants to perpetuate that rot. It's rot.

Being invested in History and identity doesn't sound crazy to Europeans. It just sounds like a really bad reason to try so hard to keep things nasty or to make them even worse. Actual leadership is constructive and I don't think that anything specific about being a member of an Historically oppressed group of people means that no one is capable of constructive leadership.

In the end, I don't think it's got anything to do with History or oppression or identity. I think it has to do with political philosophy and the strange notion that the most important thing is getting people to rise up.

I mean, look at "Occupy". All that energy, all that effort, all that poop on cop cars and all those drum circles and they accomplished what?

But it wasn't about accomplishing anything, it was just so wonderful to be a part of, to have this feeling of corporate power... but for no purpose whatsoever because *purpose* isn't the point.

It's all about numbers... can we get a whole bunch of people at this rally? Can we get some slob named David to denounce everyone in Florida as an unrepentant racist because "they" are just "like that?"

You'd think that if someone wanted us all to actually get along (but how boring would that be?) they'd encourage everyone to be as objective as possible, to point out good things instead of agitating over bad things.

But agitation is so much more exciting.



The Crack Emcee said...

Ahh - nice stunt:

You take a person speaking generally and then accuse them of not being specific to you.

As the band said, Cheap Trick.

Synova said...

I have to go make a Birthday dinner, hoping the wind dies down enough to grill.

Also... Sleepy Hollow is a really fun show. :)

Good night.

Revenant said...

You take a person speaking generally and then accuse them of not being specific to you.

When you respond to a person and use the word "you", you include him in the group being referred to. This is basic grammar.

E.g., if I say "you black people are a bunch of lazy ignoramuses", I don't get to say "I was speaking to black people who dropped out of high school because they didn't want to study, how dare you accuse me of making a racist comment".

Revenant said...

As a further grammar lesson, if you are speaking to somebody and want to refer to a group you *aren't* claiming he belongs to, you use the word "they".

Incorrect:
"And you guys have been wrong on everything but the 2010 election - and I voted with you on that one."

Correct:
"And those guys have been wrong on everything but the 2010 election - and I voted with them on that one."

This concludes today's remedial English lesson.

Revenant said...

Also, while the second sentence is grammatically correct, it would remain factually incorrect. For example, small government folks, libertarians, and/or Republicans have in the last two years defeated Obama on:

- Gun control
- Sequestration
- Intervention in Syria
- Immigration reform
- SOPA

There are probably other issues I've forgotten. Obama hasn't had a major legislative victory since Obamacare. Obstructionism is paying off.

Certainly there have been occasions when the forces of Big Government have won. That's to be expected; the small-government movement is a minority of 1 party, which controls half of one branch of government. All things considered we're doing pretty well. Indeed, so far we're doing better in Obama's second term than we did in Bush's second term. :)

The Crack Emcee said...

Synova,

Being invested in History and identity doesn't sound crazy to Europeans. It just sounds like a really bad reason to try so hard to keep things nasty or to make them even worse. Actual leadership is constructive and I don't think that anything specific about being a member of an Historically oppressed group of people means that no one is capable of constructive leadership.

You don't get it (yet). It's not destructive.

Who am I going to turn to when this male is over? You guys? Whites generally? Are they going to pick me up if I fall in America? No - you don't care about me as an individual, a member of an oppressed group, or anything really. That's how whites live with each other.

You ever notice blacks nod to each other in the street, even if we don't know each other? If whites start shit with us, we'll talk about the details later, the first priority is to get the mob off your back - again. We DON'T always walk alone.

This is a family thing - a family of people with a shared experience because - thanks to slavery - that's who we are. That's who are parents were, and so forth.

And for whites to even try and take that away - not me.

You guys can be as ruthless and individualistic as you want, but when the shit goes down I know - I KNOW - I can't count on you, or Rev, or Sixty. But some random black dude who's within shouting distance WILL be there, and he WEILL fight with me and for me, and have my back no matter what you guys say.

You're tripping if you think, in a hostile environment, it would be any different.

It's amazing - that I have to even try to explain this when you KNOW from your own life, this is how blacks not only live but have always done so.

We wouldn't be here without it.

Meanwhile - while you think you know - you don't even ask yourselves (as I do) why doesn't Hot Air, Instapundit, etc., not cover black stories? Right now they're on Pigford because Breitbart - one guy - took on a black issue. Where's the rest? You know blacks have stories, right? You mentioned people dying - why are black children used regularly on Amber Alerts? They disappear more?

If I stay in the conservative bubble, I'd probably think like you, but I don't. I have friends, and family, and black publicans and movies that also inform me in ways a GlennReynolds will never understand.

He's also wrong a lot, too, BTW.

Why no one cares about that, in a country everyone claims is going in the wrong direction, is beyond me.

You follow Pied Pipers to Dead Ends,...

The Crack Emcee said...

Revenant,

if I say "you black people are a bunch of lazy ignoramuses", I don't get to say "I was speaking to black people who dropped out of high school because they didn't want to study, how dare you accuse me of making a racist comment".

Be honest:

You know if you tried that shit on a street corner you'd be in trouble.

God, you're miserable people.

Like niggas spent their lives learning "good grammar"

You're a fucking joke when it comes to this country.

Revenant said...

Be honest: You know if you tried that shit on a street corner you'd be in trouble.

Bored now.

Like niggas spent their lives learning "good grammar"

So you're a "nigga" now? Is that kind of like a black man? Because the black guys I know can speak English. :)

Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...

First of all Crack I am really sorry that you are sick and have been sick for so long. The longer it goes on the more frustrating it becomes. I would guess, however, that you are not the only one here who is sick and consequently has time on their hands to post regularly.

I understand your frustration over the lack of support for your blog. It is a work of art. This being said, it is not a blog that invites a conversation. It reminds me of Cheval's Ideal Palace, a work that stands apart from its surroundings. The lack of support for your blog is not race based, it simply is not the sort of blog that invites a general conversation from a broad range of commenters. ChIpS, who was a popular commenter at Althouse, also has an interesting blog to which no one pays much attention, as is true for the vast majority of blogs started by white guys.

I agree that some of the race-based comments directed towards you are well beyond reasonable. Some people think they are speaking the 'truth' others are just racist. It is hard for me to imagine that you haven't encountered this many times in the past. Not unreasonably your current frustration may be in part a reflection of your frustration with your health. On this you have my deepest sympathies.

Trooper York said...

Wow. I have not been following this today.

This is the first opera I ever heard that had only one note.

Crack you are musical genius.

chickelit said...

The Crack Emcee said...(regarding Trooper York):

And then ask him how long it took from the moment we knew he knew he was ill before I came over?

You showed up the next day. Here's a timeline, reconstructed:

Thursday September 26 2:41 PM EST:
Nick Spinelli informed us on the Trooper York blog that Troop been been hospitalized for 2 or 3 days.

Thursday September 26 3:43 PM EST:
I posted notice here at Lem's to spread the news after briefly conferring with Nick on the phone. (I was the only one there then who had access to post here)

Friday September 27 7:27 AM EST:
Crack showed up the next morning on Troop's blog calling Troop a "faggot" along with well wishes.

chickelit said...

The Crack Emcee said...Be honest:

You know if you tried that shit on a street corner you'd be in trouble.


Message? Intimidation.

The Dude said...

Crack should take his own advice and go down on the street corner and spew his anti-Mormon bile out loud. He does live in Utah, right? What could possibly go wrong?

Revenant said...

In my experience, Mormons react peaceably to verbal attacks on their religion. Maybe it is different in the "bad parts" of Salt Lake City, if such things exist. I dunno.