March 21, 2003
THE ASSAULT UPON BLACK REPUBLICANS (via Drudge):
Black liberals need to respond to insult of Rice (Gregory Kane, Baltimore Sun, 3/19/2003)
REMEMBER when Mayor Martin O'Malley used all those colorful cuss words a few years back in speaking about Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy?Remember the uproar? Remember how all those black folks gathered out in front of City Hall with signs and accused O'Malley of insulting all black women? How dare the mayor use such language about a black female government official, they fumed.
On Saturday, at one of the state's public colleges, another man said something even worse about another black female government official.
In front of an overwhelmingly black audience of about 100 at Coppin State College, Amiri Baraka, New Jersey's Lunatic Laureate, called national security adviser Condoleezza Rice a "skeeza."
For those of you not in the know, a "skeeza" is a derogatory street term used in reference to a woman and as offensive as calling her a prostitute. It's a noxious, bilious, disgustingly sexist term and one of the worst things you could call a woman.
It is something Rice certainly is not. Baraka knows she's not. Those blacks who laughed, giggled, tittered and applauded when Baraka said it know she's not. But what was the reaction of these black folks when Baraka finished his invective masquerading as poetry that he called "Somebody Blew Up America"?
They gave him thunderous applause and a standing ovation.
The racial divide in America is not primarily a matter of irrational prejudice (which is what most people mean by "racism"), but of ideology and culture. The left seeks to maintain this racial divide by intimidating any blacks who cross ideological or cultural lines. Clarence Thomas evoked much fiercer opposition from Democrats than comparable Republican judicial nominees; and a white National Security Adviser would not be subject to this sort of derision.
Gregory Kane is a fine columnist who is not afraid to speak truth to power in the black community. In challenging the intimidators, he is helping to heal America's racial divide.
Posted by Paul Jaminet at March 21, 2003 1:48 PMAs long as Black America is willing to tolerate, much less honor people like Baraka, Sharpton et al, Black American must be prepared to be written off by people of good conscience in the rest of America.
Enough. It is grow up or shut up time.