Another Attempt To Come To The Rescue Of Justice Clarence Thomas While Attacking Black People

I have always tried to read opposing viewpoints to find out what people who might disagree with me are saying. Booker Rising is a fine Web site and I do check it quite frequently (even if I rarely agree with many of the opinions that are posted there from writers who are highlighted). But, as I was once a black conservative, I do have a bit of a soft spot for black people who learn right or dive blindly to the right going all in.

This all brings me to an entry I read at Booker Rising recently about a person who was upset at some negative feedback that Virginia Thomas (wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is getting for some affiliation she has with a Tea Party group. Personally, I could not care less what she is doing in our out of a Tea Party.

But, I did stumble across an article cited on Booker Rising with a few passages I found particularly interesting:

This new 'post-racial' world is GREAT!!! In effect, for some people their 'infinite universe' has doubled back on itself. They are now stuck - chasing after their own tails. The gross hypocrisy and fraud has been exposed. We now see that while indeed they love 'community organizers' who work to get people engaged in the political process. They merely don't like 'citizens activists' of the 'Tea Party' type. Despite the fact that no Black person has been lynched or beaten as a direct result of 'Tea Party' actions - those who are under the 'Bitter Black Coffee Movement' fear that the 'Tea Party Movement' is the biggest threat to Black voting rights and civil rights. They need no proof.

So, we should be grateful they are not (physically) lynching us?

Oh, speaking of lynching...

Anyone remember these words from Thomas (who at the time was a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court)?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTyaIAaqz8]

Can you imagine if a so-called liberal/progressive black used those words? The far right would accuse him or her of playing the mythical race card.

I supported Justice Thomas even though I could not possibly disagree more with his policies or much of a lot of what he stands for and is in support of.

Here is another passage:

In truth the Lampblack Yellow Journalists and their Snarling Fox White Liberal syndication sources (HuffPo and Rachel Maddow) merely operate to 'self-chum' the bigoted Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chaser. They are more interested in the masturbatory impact of striking out at Brother Justice Clarence Thomas than they are in spotlighting the gross corruption that the Democratic Machines in Detroit, Chicago, Memphis and Newark and other places where Black folks live in our highest concentrations. Again - they are members of the BLACK ESTABLISHMENT and thus their goal is to protect the establishment, not expose it. By exposing it to the open air they fear that their ideological enemies might sneak back into power. The fact that their ideological enemies have departed [for the suburbs], having no interests at all to return and continue the struggle over the resources within these cities is not enough for them to turn the spotlight upon these festering piles of compost where the methane gas streaming from them produce steam.

Based on the video above ... who was the racism chaser when Thomas was a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court?

The highlighted part is ridiculous. Far less people care about Virginia Thomas than cared about (from a Michigan standpoint) Monica Conyers and Kwame Kilpatrick (as examples). Those two were vilified for their alleged acts of corruption and have been, will be forced or will continue to be forced to pay for their sins. Those of us who live in or near Detroit know all too well that Monica Conyers and Kwame Kilpatrick have certainly gotten their fair share of highly negative and mostly deserved media (from people of all races) attention.

But, what really makes me shake my head is this: Stereotyping black people from big cities like Chicago Detroit, Memphis, Newark and elsewhere is a useless self-hating waste of time (one that perpetuates a myth of a sort of black-on-black crime).

Corruption is far from exclusive to any one race (no matter how much one blogger might try to imply).

Nolan Finley Is Correct About Monica Conyers, Detroit, North American International Auto Show

All of the obstructionism by members of the Detroit City Council, led by Monica Conyers, has put Detroit in a frightening position right now (with respect to continuing to host the gigantic North American International Auto Show). Conyers’ personal victory, however, in the effort to prevent a regional authority from assuming control of raggedy Cobo Hall (and provide funding to repair and expand it to keep it up to standard) may end up costing Detroit the Auto Show. The show could be headed out to the suburbs or it could be headed out of the state.

From Nolan Finley’s Detroit News blog:

The Detroit Auto Dealers Association seems plenty serious about moving the North American International Auto Show to Novi if Detroit doesn’t come up with a Cobo Center solution soon. The folks at Rock Financial Center have the shovels waiting to go in the ground on an 800,000-square-foot expansion to accommodate the auto show.

It would be a major coup for western Oakland County and would turn the Rock center into a major convention venue. That means more hotels and restaurants for the surrounding communities.

And none of it would be possible without Monica Conyers.

Hopefully new Detroit mayor Dave Bing will be able to cut through the garbage to bring people together and do something positive for the city of Detroit. Dealing with Conyers, however, will be no easy task (as the city, the region, the state and perhaps the world is increasingly becoming aware of).

Detroit News:
http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/nolanfinleyblog/index.php?blogid=1246