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on 7/2/2008 11:31:38 AM
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No Guilt by Charley Reese
It's funny that Ralph Nader, the perennial presidential-election spoiler, is claiming that Barack Obama is appealing to white guilt. I've seen no evidence of that. In fact, Obama has been trying his best to run a colorblind campaign.
The truth is, except for his skin color, Obama is your standard Northern liberal. If there's only a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats, there's only a penny's worth of difference between Obama and Teddy Kennedy on matters of policy. Obama, however, is certainly the smarter of the two.
I've never been a fan of Nader, and I don't see why anyone is paying him the least bit of attention. He says what he thinks will get him ink and airtime. He's a publicity hound. There's something perverse about people who will run for office, knowing they can't win, but are willing to skim a few votes off one of the major candidates. Nader definitely cost Al Gore the election in 2000, so we can justly blame him for eight years of George W. Bush. As far as I'm concerned, that consigns Nader to the dung heap.
In reality, I'm not sure that there is even such a thing as white guilt. Most Northerners seem to feel self-righteous on race matters, having for years enjoyed blaming the South. Most Southerners don't feel any guilt. I don't. I never owned any slaves, and I was glad to see the end of segregation. What's to feel guilty about?
Whatever profits accrued to the South as a result of slavery were wiped out by the War of Northern Aggression and Reconstruction. The South, both blacks and whites, was plunged into poverty, from which it didn't begin to recover until World War II. While scientists were working on the atomic bomb in the 1940s in Chicago, Georgia tenant farmers, many of them, were picking cotton by hand and carrying it to the gin in mule-drawn wagons.
Outhouses, wells and oil lamps were familiar objects in my childhood. I went barefoot all summer, except for Sundays, and the only free lunches came from friends and relatives during visits. Believe it or not, people managed to survive without welfare, Medicaid or Medicare. I chopped kindling with an axe and carried in many a bucket of good old Pennsylvania anthracite coal for the fireplaces and stoves. My treasured possessions were a pocketknife, a secondhand .22 rifle and marbles.
No one I can recall considered himself poor or felt any guilt. If Obama receives any votes because of white guilt, it will be in the North or Midwest. Perhaps that is appropriate, since it was people from those regions who screwed the former slaves out of the promised 40 acres and a mule and cut a deal with the Democrats that made segregation possible.
And if there was segregation by law in the South, there was segregation by practice in the North. I grew up in a sea of black faces and played every day with black kids. There were no black ghettos in most of the South; black people lived a block from my house.
That said, was it tough being black in the segregated South? You bet. In some places, a wrong word or even a look could get you beaten or killed. Job opportunities were as scarce as voter registration. Apartheid was about the same in the South as in South Africa, although white Southerners ? some of them, anyway ? were naturally more polite than the Afrikaners. Schools were separate and unequal. The N-word and "boy" were constant affronts to men's dignity. Obama and people in his age group are lucky in the year of their birth.
But we Americans are not very good at feeling guilty. If you don't believe me, ask the Cheyenne, the Cherokee or the Sioux.
June 28, 2008
Charley Reese [send him mail] has been a journalist for 49 years .
? 2008 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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The intellectual insecurity of George W. Bush Brendan Nyhan "Too Hardcore for The American Prospect" -- Wonkettehttp://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/06/the_intellectua.html
Fred Becker of Wonkette notes George W. Bush lording his office over Samuel W. Bodman, his PhD-holding Secretary of Energy, yesterday:
THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate the Secretary of Energy joining me today. He's a good man, he knows a lot about the subject, you'll be pleased to hear. I was teasing him -- he taught at MIT, and -- do you have a PhD?
SECRETARY BODMAN: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, a PhD. (Laughter.) Now I want you to pay careful attention to this -- he's the PhD, and I'm the C student, but notice who is the advisor and who is the President.
You think someone's a little insecure? Sure seems like it -- Bush actually used the same line on Andrew Biggs, one of his Social Security officials, back in February:
THE PRESIDENT: Tell them whether or not we got a problem or not, from your perspective.
DR. BIGGS: Put simply, we do, in fact, have a problem.
THE PRESIDENT: By the way, this guy -- PhD. See, I was a C student. (Laughter.) He's a PhD, so he's probably got a little more credibility. I do think it's interesting and should be heartening for all C students out there, notice who's the President and who's the advisor. (Laughter and applause.) All right, Andrew, get going. (Applause.) Andrew's got a good sense of humor.
Bush also pulled rank in March on Jeff Brown, a professor:
I've asked Jeff Brown to join me. He is a professor. He can tell you where -- where do you profess? (Laughter.)
DR. BROWN: I have a PhD in economics, and I teach at a business school.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. It's an interesting lesson here, by the way. He's an advisor. Now, he is the PhD, and I am a C-student -- or was a C-student. Now, what's that tell you? (Laughter and applause.) All you C-students at Auburn, don't give up. (Laughter and applause.)
What it tells me is that some people pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, and others were the son of the president of the United States.
Given Bush's frequent need to mock experts with graduate degrees, it's no wonder his administration has a pathological aversion to expert advice. After all, who's the president?
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Bio: Chelsea aka Diznee is back with her electric smile and bang?n booty. Since my first post on Diznee, she has exploded like no other fresh face. It?s that nice girl with a pure sex body that wins the crowds. As Diznee says?
?I?m still the same sweet, innocent girl next door with green eyes and a big booty.? - Chelsea aka Diznee
She?s 19 years old and attending California State University Northiridge and not letting the game go to her head. Her five year goal is to be on network television. Hopefully that means more modeling features on the way.
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