SPLC Attacks Black Vanderbilt professor for backing film that calls Racism a Myth

[ScoutsHonor]

If racism is so prevalent, how could Obama have gotten elected?

 

[Lovecraftian4Paul]

I swear I read somewhere that Lynch mobs attacked whites and other groups--it wasn't always blacks. This is the new left history. Lynchers were mob justice in smaller communities against people thought to be killers and rapists.

 

[bobbyw24]

If racism is so prevalent, how could Obama have gotten elected?

In the 2008 election:

45% of whites voted for Obama
95% of blacks voted for Obama

Is this diversity?

 

[Dunedain]

I swear I read somewhere that Lynch mobs attacked whites and other groups--it wasn't always blacks. This is the new left history. Lynchers were mob justice in smaller communities against people thought to be killers and rapists.

Many white people were lynched but it depends on the stats you reference. But of course, the MSM has made the comparison time and again between African American's and lynch mobs so we have a gag reflect to think "black people" every time we hear the word "noose", or "lynching".

Even so blacks rape more white women in a single year then all the blacks who were ever lynched in history.

 

[Imperial]

Lynching victims were usually rapists and murderers. I bet your High School teacher never taught you that.

Somebody claimed they were rapists and murderers. Even if some were, was the burden of proof always met? I would bet not. Yet in America we are supposed to.

I swear I read somewhere that Lynch mobs attacked whites and other groups--it wasn't always blacks. This is the new left history. Lynchers were mob justice in smaller communities against people thought to be killers and rapists.

I think it is most accurate to say that both groups have had their bad seeds.

 

[ScoutsHonor]

In the 2008 election:

45% of whites voted for Obama
95% of blacks voted for Obama

Is this diversity?

Yes, because whites comprise 70% (approx.) of voters, (blacks only 13% approx.)
With a total voter turnout of approx. 131,000,000 million, we see that a large portion of the votes came from whites.

I'd say that's pretty substantial, and he could not have won without them.

 

[BlackTerrel]

lol makes sense. Polanski + NAMBLA = Swain + Conservative Values

You don't know a single thing about Carol Swain, so you immediately go on the discredit-bent.

Given she's a poster at Huffington Post, perhaps a bit of researching is necessary---unless we are just going to dump all Black Conservatives into the hating/racist bucket.

Be careful shooting from the hip, friend.

I didn't say anything about Swain. Rereard what I said. I was talking about the maker of the film, thus the comparison to Polanski.

The guy who made the film has in the past called black people monkeys. Therefore him making a movie about race is the equivalent of Polanski making a movie about NAMBLA.

 

[BlackTerrel]

Lynching victims were usually rapists and murderers. I bet your High School teacher never taught you that.

You have an interesting posting history. Why don't you start a thread about the greatest lynch mobs.

 

[bobbyw24]

Yes, because whites comprise 70% (approx.) of voters, (blacks only 13% approx.)
With a total voter turnout of approx. 131,000,000 million, we see that a large portion of the votes came from whites.

I'd say that's pretty substantial, and he could not have won without them.

So, Whites practice diversity and blacks don't?

 

[ScoutsHonor]

So, Whites practice diversity and blacks don't?

Well, my conclusion is: McCain was soundly rejected, by at least half of the whites and ALL of the blacks. I think, given the choice at the time, those blacks voted wisely...note I say, given what was known at the time..

 

[bobbyw24]

Well, my conclusion is: McCain was soundly rejected, by at least half of the whites and ALL of the blacks. I think, given the choice at the time, those blacks voted wisely...note I say, given what was known at the time..

excellent point

 

[ScoutsHonor]

Thank you!

 

[Crowish]

Watch Vanderbilt University dump her to avoid bad publicity and a possible lawsuit.
I hope not though, Im so sick of things going down that way.

I doubt it.

 

[catdd]

I hope you are right.

 

[bobbyw24]

Update from Professor Swain on Twitter

@cmswain Telling the good people of #Tennessee to look for my response to last Sat. #SPLC attack on the editorial page of tomorrow's paper.#tcot

http://www.twitter.com/cmswain

 

[tmosley]

I don't know anything about this movie and have never heard of it. But if this is true I don't think this professor should be praising it.

Do you know anything about this movie before posting on this?

Many people, including myself, referred to our last president as a monkey. It was pretty common in political cartoons. Of course, no political cartoonist DARES depict Obama as a monkey, as that would be racist.

It brings to mind something I saw last night on television. On the show Community, they were coming up with a new mascot for their community college football team, and in their attempts to avoid racism, they acted EXTREMELY racist. It was quite funny.

The "race card" is used WAY too often these days, especially by groups attempting to justify their blatantly racial agendas (think Israel, or any of the Jesse Jackson types).

Cries of racism have been turned into tools of oppression. It's quite a convenient tactic that can simply reflect any amount of logic and make the person who is making the rational argument appear to be a douchebag. It even worked on Ron Paul to at least some extent.

 

[jmdrake]

Lynching victims were usually rapists and murderers. I bet your High School teacher never taught you that.

Well my high school history teacher was a white racist who knew less about history than what I learned in the 8th grade (I was home schooled for the 8th grade). Really when I got back my tests I'd have a 70% until I went question by question showing him where he was wrong and then I'd get 95%. It was basic stuff he didn't know like "when was the war of 1812". (Not quite that bad...but close). So I bet my history teacher would agree with you.

Anyway, have you looked up the term "grandfather clause" yet? Do you know what that means?

Oh and the crime of this particular "rapist" (as you call the victims of mob violence) had only whistled at a white woman. Rape by whistling? Interesting concept.

YouTube - Death of Emmett Till

It's people like you that give legitimacy to the SPLC (an organization I detest on various fronts).

 

[jmdrake]

Many people, including myself, referred to our last president as a monkey. It was pretty common in political cartoons. Of course, no political cartoonist DARES depict Obama as a monkey, as that would be racist.

It brings to mind something I saw last night on television. On the show Community, they were coming up with a new mascot for their community college football team, and in their attempts to avoid racism, they acted EXTREMELY racist. It was quite funny.

The "race card" is used WAY too often these days, especially by groups attempting to justify their blatantly racial agendas (think Israel, or any of the Jesse Jackson types).

Cries of racism have been turned into tools of oppression. It's quite a convenient tactic that can simply reflect any amount of logic and make the person who is making the rational argument appear to be a douchebag. It even worked on Ron Paul to at least some extent.

While I haven't followed the controversy, the threshold question would be did the filmmaker single out one particular black man he didn't like (Obama) and call him a "monkey" or did he attack an entire group?

Anyway, I personally didn't think the "monkey" cartoon even referred to Obama. He didn't, after all, write the stimulus bill. He merely signed it.

And sure the race card gets overplayed. Glen Beck overplayed it. (Yes white people play the race card too.) But that doesn't mean racism doesn't exist. I'm met a number of racists on this and other forums. I've defended their right to speak and complained to Meetup when one's account was suspended for stuff he said somewhere else. (And the funny thing is that it was white Ron Paul supporters that got his account suspended and here I was a black guy defending him, although I don't think anyone realized that.) Racism clearly does exist, some people (blacks included) who don't call themselves racist clearly are and there are those who clearly exploit both real and imagined racism.

As for the film itself, there's nothing wrong with having an open and honest dialog. And it doesn't seem the Vandy professor was advocating anything other than an open and honest dialog. Those who oppose the film should make their own rebuttal film and be done with it.

 

[tmosley]

Everyone's a little bit racist.

YouTube - Avenue Q Broadway Musical - Everyone's A Little Bit Racist recording & lyrics

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

I've heard about this documentary A Conversation About Race, I didn't know it was up on the Internet. I'm going to watch it in full but I've already seen a lot of clips on you tube. From the clips I've seen the film basically says that racism is no longer the original nobel aim of treating people of different races equally but has become a stick that the extreme left use to bash white people with. This of course is true and blatantly obvious to any sentient human being.