Ramblings' Journal

As is your habit, Mike, looks like you pretty much covered it, Mike, so no smart-ass remarks from me........I don't think. Like Lyndon Johnson had to threaten the Republicans to vote for those much needed amendments.

And that Julian Bond, what's his deal? Is he another (looks like) liberal white man that is hell bent on proving his BLACKNESS with these asinine statements?

No wonder I won't be respecting any LIBERAL older blacks until it's extended to me. Contrary to what Bill Cosby said or very much implied - it aint just his age group peers from poorer neighborhoods that have SCREWED UP our communities.

That is why I am suspect of the vast majority of my elders, to include just about all of our so-called leaders & elected officials - most in their late 40s and up. Then they open their mouths.........confirming that I can save my respect for someone else. And my filthy mouth.

Looks like Mr. Bond was too consumed with spewing biggoted hate speech to be bothered with a little tiny thing like... justifying his claims. Too bad for him, someone in his position should at least try to give the appearance of intelligence.

The "write bigotry back into the Constitution" line probably refers to the the Federal Marriage Amendment; pretty sure I heard him describe it that way in another speech.

You maybe want to take that up with whoever wrote the linked article, rather than Mr. Bond.

Charming folk you have commenting here, Michael.

Good point, Aaron; I'd like to hear the context of that statement though.

Thanks for swinging by; I'm glad you could join us -- at least this once...[g]

Julian Bond is right. The passage of the Civil Rights Acts led to the Republican Party's Southern Strategy. It was, and is, to woo Southern whites based on their resentment of the end of segregation, and, the progress made by people of color since then. The GOP has usually carried the South because of its Southern Strategy. This is pretty basic history. Any person who is at all well-read would be aware of it.

I was hoping to see some improvement in Michael King's blog. But, it is still just mindless echoing of whatever far Right white people say.

"Mindless?"

Does this mean that your blog is similarly reflective of what the far left parrots?

What sort of "improvement" were you looking for? That I renounce my conservatism? That I join the lock-stepping masses who find it easy to bash anyone who has a thought that is different from their own? That I not do anything to upset the apple cart?

Please. Spare me. I don't expect you to understand.

Or to put it bluntly, I don't give a shit whether you see an "improvement" or not.

I don't claim to be a genius; I don't claim to have all the answers. But I do step out of the "blame whitey, whack the Republican" mindset that you seem to love so damn much.

If you don't like it, then go find someone else to bitch at.

My blogs don't echo anybody. I bring my own informed opinions to the table. If someone taking a Leftist position is guilty of sloppy thinking, he or she is gonna catch Hell just as much as a Right Winger would. But, the Right is wrong more often.

I wrote an entry, 'How to Be a Bad Blogger,' for my civil rights blog which is a critique of your blog in 2003. It criticized you for shallowness, copyright violations right and left and failure to grasp the difference between fact and opinion. More than a year later, your blog is still an embarrassment to anyone who wants blogging to be taken seriously. At the very least you could read the news articles you steal without attribution closely enough to make sure what you say about them is accurate.

Julian Bond's words were just more of the same old vicious, hypocritical hate speech we get all the time from the extremist fringes of the Left. All Bond is doing is throwing red meat to his fellow Democrats. Nobody really listens to him, because he and others of his ilk sound like a broken record, playing the same thing over and over again.

Oh, gee. How very kind of you.

Let me make sure I understand how it works.

You have issues with me; you write a scathing review of my work with some valid points, and some knee-jerk opinions; you don't say a damn thing to me about it; then you come back a year later and do the same thing, only this time with a backhanded slap.

Hmmmm. Excuse me if I don't think much of your opinion.

You don't like me, that's your business. But last I checked, you weren't the be-all, end-all arbiter of what is right and what is not. At the very least, if there was that much an issue, you would have at least have had the common courtesy to say something to me to begin with.

But I guess that was too easy. Just like it's too easy to bitch at me today.

Obviously, you feel that someone died and made you the bitch queen goddess of all that blogs are and are made of.

There are certainly blogs better than mine; there are certainly blogs worse than mine. I can only conclude that your selection of mine to bitch at then and now is solely based on your politcal differences with me and my views.

Thank you for the bitchslap. Don't do it again.

Can't we Americans - white, black, yellow, brown, purple - get along? I hate it when something like a disaster happens and we blame the white President when the affected ones do not get an immediate assistance from the federal government?
Everyone was overwhelmed by the gravity of the situation. No one could have predicted the enormous destructions brought by Katrina. I hate it when race becomes a factor when this type of incident happens. Reminds of an incident during the American Idol show - when a black contestant lost to a white contestant and blacks cited rate as the reason why the black constestant lost. Pls give me a break.