Of Toms ...

[bijou]

Of Toms and Sambos
 

We have a new Mayor in the city of Detroit, prominent business man and Hall of Fame NBA star Dave Bing. “I wish Dave Bing would run for mayor”, “Now Dave Bing is the one that should run for mayor.” “If Dave Bing ran for mayor I’d vote for him in a second.” You could hear words like these echoing from the propped open doors of Detroit’s barber shops, over the sound of  squeaky shopping cart wheels in the local grocer and across the fellowship halls of every church denomination extant in the city.


Dave Bing did finally rouse himself and has become Mayor and now that he has suggested some rather draconian measures to attack the problems facing what could be the most problematical city in the union; a new refrain has replaced the sanguine cries of “run Dave run!”, Now we hear the stentorian and ugly crowd calling Dave Bing a “straw hat negro” and an “Uncle Tom”.


I even heard Tom Barrow, a man who has sought the office of Mayor for decades without positive results and the likely main challenger to Bing in the upcoming elections refer to Mr Bing as the tool of the Republicans who are trying to take over the city. I am not one for repeating platitudes but, the definition of insanity is to do the same thing repeatedly and expect a different result. Detroit has elected the same kinds of liberal democratic politicians without exception for well over thirty years.


Detroit has not had a republican or even a conservative democrat in any position of authority for decades. In fact we have scarcely had any whites in government in Detroit, the few who have gained office in the city have been liberals of the highest order. What we have seen since we have chosen to elect a singular political point of view in our once great city, is a steady decline in services, safety, education, employment, morale, pride and outside esteem.


All this without benefit of blaming it on the “MAN”, in Detroit the “MAN” is manifestly black, (tongue planted firmly in cheek) and we, of course, cannot be blamed for anything that is going wrong within our own community.


I am not sure if I support the measures that Mr. Bing is proposing, frankly I haven’t yet looked closely at the issues, I do know that I will never support anyone who uses the term “Uncle Tom”. Anyone who uses the term Uncle Tom is profoundly ignorant and has never read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or they would most assuredly never call someone an Uncle Tom in a derogatory manner, unless of course they have read the book and are also profoundly evil. ...

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A long piece, but it makes for interesting reading as he has a different point of view on the phrase 'Uncle Tom'

[thundley4]

Well worth the read.

[Rebel]

 


What I said on the Memphis Tigers.org site:

Racism doesn't exist in this country NEARLY as much as people on the left try to portray. It's more about culture than race. Are people biased? Sure. Prejudiced? Absolutely. Does this mean we're racist? Absolutely not. I absolutely detest the "gangsta" culture. I mean, with a passion. I can't stand the crime-prone thugs in inner-city Jackson or the ones in New Orleans like the f'ers that mugged me the time I "wasn't" packing. However, to even assume this is indicative of the entire black community, as many liberals do MOST of the time (kinda like how you call us racists for denouncing that culture....guess you think that's the only way they can act?), is disingenuous as hell. When "White Flight" was happening...something I tend to call "Successful Flight", there were law-abiding black citizens right on the white people's heels trying to escape the same damn thing. Thuggery and crime that's protected and excused by the left.