Comments on: ‘The Cost of Silence’ – now it’s the BLACK WOMAN’S fault that White Feminists don’t defend Michelle Obama? HELL NO

By: pinksun

pinksun — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:20:07 +0000

Thanks for passing on the info about Prof. Harris Lacewell. I had been hoping she would pop up somewhere.

By: pinksun

pinksun — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:20:07 +0000

Thanks for passing on the info about Prof. Harris Lacewell. I had been hoping she would pop up somewhere.

By: sallymeet

sallymeet — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:54:19 +0000

I am a black single woman. I am proud of this. I often discuss relationship, love and marriage between black and white at Blackwhitemeet.com. You can join us.

By: kalagenesis

kalagenesis — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:09:35 +0000

Yea but make sure you carry your ass to the polls on election day and vote for Obama.If not you are a traitor.
http://kalanation.blogspot.com/2008/08/kalagene...

By: Anovelista

Anovelista — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:26:05 +0000

Actually, Melissa Harris Lacewell quit a few weeks ago… She blogs now at her own blog called “The Kitchen Table.”

By: aaronraul

aaronraul — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:02:42 +0000

Its funny know that yhe article calls us BLACK,all the post are using the term black,If the days thread says AFRO AMERICAN everybody uses the word AFRO AMERICAN.Clearly nobody here understands strategy.Two wrongs dont make a right.Theres a difference between being racist and using race to strenghthen your position.Both campaigns did this,and Its possible Bill Clinton did this purposelly,No one on these sites seems capable of asking themselves why the same white power structure that committed ethnic cleansing during Katrina is so enthusiastic about making a Black man president,Voter are just pieces in the game you didnt put Barrack were he is THE WHITE MAN THE ZIONIST THE MEDIA PUT HIM WHER HE IS.WITH ALL THE SUPER TECHNOLOGY OF MY SPACE FACEBOOK AND OTHER MIND CONTROL TECHNOLOGY.Obama didnt use none of this stuff to win his senate seats he used good old fashioned down dirty Chicago Politics and had every bobdys names removed from the ballot.AS LONG AS blacks WANT A black president we are still aspiring for white approval by letting WHITE SOCIETY SET THE STANDARD OF SUCCESS.THIS IS PIMPMPING 101.GIVE EM A OSCAR GIVE EM A DIDDY GIVE EM A OPRAH But black wealth as a whole registers as a negative compare to any other group eitther by race or age.As long as Blacks continue to succumb to anger and racism well get played. WE ARE NOT black or a man or a woman or a mother or a son etc.We are what ever is capable of playing all of these different roles and assuming all of these different identities.So see the truth the power wove ideas of racism sexism religion through both campaigns.The candidates have very little control over their campaigns ther given a role to play and words to say that have beenfocused grouped and psycoanalysed and marketed to get just the effect you see division among DEMOCRATS DIVISIONS BETWEEN RACE GENDER ETC. wE NEED TO STOP THINKING LIKE CONSUMERS AND START THINKING LIKE PRODUCERS.GEORGE CLINTON PUT IT LIKE THIS. LITTLE MISS MUPPET SAT ON A TUFFET SNORTING SOME THC ALONG CAME A SPIDER SAT DOWN BESIDE HER SAID WHATS IN THE BAG BITCH SHE SAID IM LAUGHING AT YOU.If anybody on this site can began to understnd this rhyme you will have the key to understand this whole presidential charade.AND IM BLACK ALL THE TIME THAT BEING A REVOLUTIONARY STATE OF MIND THAT REALIZES THAT THE ELITES PLAN TO ENSLAVE US ALL BY DIVIDING US RACE AGAINST RACE CLASS AGAINST CLASS RELIGION AGAINST RELIGION AND GENDER SAGINST GENDER.REMEMBER THESE WORDS AS YOU WATCH THE GAME UNFOLD

By: Leila Abu-Saba

Leila Abu-Saba — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:42:36 +0000

Let me also say that my kid brother, Khalil, and I grew up in the Midwest and then the south in the 1970s, and we got a lot of teasing about our names, even from African-American kids at school. This was before Arabic names became popular. Sometime in about 1991 I was living in Brooklyn and walking down Flatbush Avenue when I heard one African-American guy say to another “well my brother Khalil did something or other” and I thought – your brother Khalil? My brother is Khalil! How cool is that? My little brother's name was finally acceptable on the street.

I really thought anti-Arab racism and anti-Muslim sentiments were getting better in the 90s. Then we had 9/11 and it has been downhill since. Everybody's worst nightmare come true, and those Arabs did it, so they're all terrorists and deserve to die horrible deaths. Nuke the whole continent of Asia, one of my white aunts said to my mother. Yep. Nuke 'em all.

By: Leila Abu-Saba

Leila Abu-Saba — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:38:01 +0000

Thank you all. Yes the whole Arabic name thing is a perpetual source of … interesting interaction. Especially since “I don't look like one.” Then I come to this blog and I read experiences from my African-American sisters and I think… hmmm… I can relate to that.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:23:01 +0000

hold up Melissa Lacewell Harris blogs there, too though she has been absent due to illness of late….

By: ljf

ljf — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:06:52 +0000

I hate to say it in such a crass way, but I don't expect much or a blog that is truly pro black (including black women) with Rebecca Walker as one of the feature writers. I checked out the blog before. It's one of those niggerati wishy washy liberal spineless can't we get along kumbya screed. I always thought is was written for a liberal whites and the negroswho adore them.

By: thembi

thembi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:37:12 +0000

“Miss Anne Aint Studdin’ About Your Black Behind”

Fantastic post! I'm with RosieReader – the whining must stop. Hillary wasnt robbed, she lost. There's no crying in baseball.

By: Clio

Clio — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:13:07 +0000

The authors of that article are idiots.

As for demanding that black women choose gender over race? That's a generational thing. White feminists over fifty were the idiots telling black women to stand down while Hillary was spewing racist bile. White feminists under fifty were fleeing the Hillary camp and rallying around Barack and Michelle in response.

On a related note, is anyone else incredibly annoyed that the old white guys on PBS are not giving Michelle Obama far more credit for her speech? I thought she was splendid. And the audience was, as Judy Woodruff put it, completely rapt.

By: RobM

RobM — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:28:12 +0000

It's not possible to make a rational response to this

By: eclecticbrotha

eclecticbrotha — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:18:08 +0000

Yeah, that's some pretty absurd crap they're spouting over at the Root. I guess it was black women's fault that Gloria Steinem said its harder to be a white woman than a black man. White feminists have ALWAYS been about themselves. If you notice those same women who were bitching about a misogynist media attacking Hillary never minded when racist dog whistles were used against Barack. But then, since most of the racist crap was oozing from the Clintonista game plan it wouldn't look good if they spoke up about what their hero was doing to undermine the black guy.

By: SpartacusLaw

SpartacusLaw — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:54:47 +0000

I am so proud to see the strong voices being shouted on this site.

By: BlackButterfly

BlackButterfly — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:26:42 +0000

Co-sign!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: SquarePeg

SquarePeg — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:14:16 +0000

Black first, Female Second.

That's the way OTHERS decided it would be in this country. While white females were sitting on the porch being waited on hand and foot not just during slavery, but when Black women worked as domestics in their households for pennies, I am sure they had our best interest at heart.

Yeah, they truly care about the plight of Black women AFTER they have been served first, after all, with all the crying, whining and eyelash batting, what's a Black girl to do?

Stay in her place until Ms. Ann tells her she can move. How dare these Black women think they are equal to us! Who told them they could speak? Waaaaaahhh, Waaaaah, are they lookng at me yet?

Damn. Just Damn.

By: GreenLadyHere

GreenLadyHere — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:03:34 +0000

Admiral: Sing on!!!!! :>) :>) :>) Let me get my choir robe, again!!
I'll do Doo-Wop in the background!!! :>) :>)

By: GreenLadyHere

GreenLadyHere — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:37:20 +0000

taritac: ROFLMAO!!!! :>) Loved the “. . .kinife in the back. . ” visual!!! :>) :>)

And “whycome” they use the ROOT title!????? Whose ROOTS???? :>) :>)

By: Admiral_Komack

Admiral_Komack — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:37:00 +0000

I think of him (Harold Ford) as…”I coulda been a contenda! “