We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_27_apr_1.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:09:17 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... Time to add a new caveat, because from email it's not clear to some folks (mind you, if you don't read this it won't matter...) Being an open post, people (collectively, the Denizens) other than I post in the H&I. They sign their work (most of the time) - keep that in mind when you want... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_27_apr_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_27_apr_1.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:59:18 -0600 multi-generational poverty in order to find ways to best support and inspire the learning of my deeply-impoverished students. Every generality Wright listed is a majority characteristic found across racial lines among people who have suffered in multi-generational poverty. Wright is a pseudo-intellectual when it comes to this sort of thing. Like any white-superiority racist, he takes supposed (anthrological) "science" and twists it to his own racist ends.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_27_apr_1.html#comment-72573 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_27_apr_1.html#comment-72573 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:02:39 -0600 Oh, please. The defenders are doing the same thing they (erroneously) claim Wright's detractors are--taking a single sentence and saying it characterizes his entire sermon. That "chickens" quote wasn't just about economic inequality. It was part of a sermon in which he described America's actions overseas as "terrorism." And one more thing... "a boogeyman of black nationalism and aggression" implies he's neither aggressive nor a black nationalist. Listen to his sermons--NOT just soundbites--and tell me he's not those things. Again, nice try (spoken to his defenders). This kind of game-playing over such a serious issue as race relations in America is pathetic. The damage Wright and his defenders are doing to the interests of the very people they claim to support is incalculable (see my links above). You want to call me a racist? Fine. I'm going to be offended, but I'm not going to write an entire post about your stupidity. Set American race relations back a decade while clothing yourself in the garb of victimhood and, well... see above and below. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_27_apr_1.html#comment-72571 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_27_apr_1.html#comment-72571 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:56:41 -0600