Nquest says: You apparently got me confused with somebody who’s affected by little childish fits of emotion (yours). Yelling “IDIOT”, ironically, because you’re too much of an idiot to make me “f*KKK off” by actually raising a substantive or direct point (not to be confused with a sissy whine — aka cowards plea) in opposition to what I’ve said is an invitation for me to laugh at you.

As for our friend who thought the famous expression, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” was one promoted by the NAACP… Well, I’ll help you out. That expression is promoted by the UNCF, not the NAACP.

Secretary of State is an impotent position?

- Harry Alford is a registered Independent.

- The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) is a non-partisan group. They are endorsing the Democratic National Health Care plan. Harry Alford supports this plan.

- The NBCC is a business/commerce-centric organization. The NAACP and 100 Black Men of Atlanta are not. Harry A. Alford is right- if she wanted to make her point and not be racist, why wouldn’t she compare the findings to a different commerce-centric group such as the US Chamber of Commerce, or a different ethnic business org such as the National Hispanic Chamber of Commerce? Because it appears almost ALL these groups are also opposed to the bill.

Barbara Boxer’s offers no reasoning or rationale for comparing the NBCC’s findings vs. the NAACP’s or the 100 Black Men of Atlanta’s findings. It can ONLY be based on the fact that these are “black organizations”. Like it or not folks, Barbara Boxer is being RACIST.

- To defend her only because there is a “D-” in front of her name tells me many of the respondents on this site will sacrfice any ethical/moral belief they may have and blindly defend someone’s behavior regardless of the act simply to protect one of their “team members”. If that is you, shame on you.

On a different note — any Republican or Democratic politician/judge who is out of step with their party/constituents the vast majority of the time would be an issue and definitely not considered as representing them; hence, the tokenism in Thomas’ case.

How many people of color do Republicans elect?
How many black Senators–zero.
Black Representatives? Zero.
Black Governors? Zero.

The leadership may cynically appoint black faces, but the rank and file don’t elect them. For a reason.

You want to see a list of all the Brack Republican elected officials?
http://www.aarlc.org/blackgop/elected.shtml

It’s one page long, including judges and members of city councils.

And the idea that Boxer’s “Liberal” cred/status invalidates Alford’s reaction is like excusing Sessions and other Republicans with his type of sentiments, let alone his type of history, because of a favorable vote or two they’ve made or the Republican party being the “Party of Lincoln”, though a nuanced or an extent and degree view of Boxer’s full body of work, so to speak, should necessarily be considered along with the fact that she is not perfect.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

I don’t know whose worse. You or Boxer — or Sen. Sessions who pulled the same kind of tactic this week during the confirmation hearing. Hmm… And, come to think of it, Sessions curious Puerto Rican, Puerto Rican routine didn’t receive the kind of deference here at TP that Boxer is getting. To me, to whatever extent the same posters are reacting differently, reflects some kind of weird, mindless partisanship if not some other ill-conceived notions.

Oh, Mathazar, since you don’t know… That’s not the NAACP’s famous expression.

PS:
Game Of Life… I didn’t see your post until I started mine. Anyway, thanks for trying to explain what’s at issue here. What people need to understand is that African-Americans get this kind of stuff countless number of times throughout their lives and there’s a long, nasty and unambiguously racist history of this.

The issue is not whether Boxer “is a racist.” The issue is what is it in the minds of Whites like Sessions and, now, Boxer (mere televised examples of stuff that happens all the time) that drives them, perhaps unconsciously, to think that one Black person/org (the NAACP) should be a model or example that others (Alford’s findings) should find relevant or follow.

Boxer didn’t just cite one Black organization. She cited two and, to me, acted like she was making some kind of point to Alford. What made it worse is that it took her a while to catch a clue. In fact, she was surprised that Alford would be offended and obviously didn’t have the capacity or, as they say “empathy” to listen. She thought she was being clever as indicated by her repeated and patronizing (and, yes, “racial”) use of the term “proud”… You know, because that’s what minorities are — they are “proud” of each other. Exactly what that had to do with the hearing, she and no one else here can explain. Also, no one can explain why the NAACP, in name alone (and its org’s resolution), was a relevant point in terms of the pro or con aspect of the hearing. What kind of relevant expertise does the NAACP or 1000 Black men have? That was Alford’s point.

And for the person (P.D.) who said something about Alford calling Boxer a racist (something he technically did not do — racial is often used to only convey that undue attention to race is given in a matter) was not helpful to his “cause” and acting like Boxer’s “one of the most Liberal” cred is somehow relevant… Well, that’s stuff Black people hear a lot, too.

(Link to TP thread when Sessions did it too.)
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/sessions-sotomayor-prldef/

The guy has apoint just this week we saw how the media played Racists Jeff Sessions asking Sotomayor why she could vote like the other minority judge(Cardenas)(sp).So this is the same situation.But I don’t think Boxer is a racists,she is just another “weak-kneed” Senator.

She is a racist. She believes all people of color think alike. OTOH she’s inferring white people are the only one that can think for themselves. She not a white supremacist by any means, but she definitely has some hang-ups with with people of color.

What she did is called a slight. It’s demeaning.

Just enough to get under ones skin.

No doubt.

To teabaggers: What’s in stupid that tastes so good?

Zooey says:
Wow. The pot calls the kettle black.

It’s like the chalk calling the shell white. :)

overthehills: That’s the funniest s hit I read thus far. Surely your fellow teabaggers are proving their “aptitude” and their many “points of view” by asking Judge Sotomayor the same bs questions, almost verbatim, time after time.

You and your teabaggers are the laughingstocks of the world. Your lame ass chimpy, ran what? Get Real.