Intellectual Insurgent said...
MF is not just an emotional girl in a man's body who carries a grudge over a perceived slight, his reading comprehension skills are woefully lacking.
My comments about Crowley describe his conduct post-arrest. I said nothing about whose side of the story was correct. Once the media got a hold of this story and attempted to manufacture it into another divide-and-conquer narrative, who was telling the truth became utterly irrelevant.
Indeed, who was telling the "truth" is utterly irrelevant because - as CNu has pointed out many times - there would still be no justification to arrest Gates. None. So it is of no concern to me whether Mr. My Kids-Are-Half-White, If-It-Could-Happen-To-Me-It-Could-Happen-To-Anyone was truthful or not.
Skip became a pathetic bitch ass when he started in on all that, "if it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone" "do you know who I am" baloney. That's punk shit. And that's what it was all about. It wasn't about racial profiling. It wasn't about being Black in America. It was about his fragile little Harvard-manufactured ego. Not about anyone else.
Which was why he acted like an undignified little baby through the whole thing.
How Crowley handled the media was a lesson in skill.
This isn't about racism. IT IS ABOUT MANHOOD.
Men don't get bullied into apologizing for shit. Men don't whine like bitches in front of cameras.
Hold on Mike, what was all that business about Black Males being girls in men's bodies, acting out of emotionalism and holding grudges for perceived slights? Your stupid ass is the real racist. You and your buddy Skip. Because none of the Black men I know would have behaved like children the way your lover Skip did.
The real racist is Michael Fisher and his homo lover Skip who still can't believe that being light-skinned and married to a White woman and having "half-White" children didn't elevate Skippy to Super Status in America.
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I'm wondering,
If men don't get bullied into apologizing and men don't whine in front of cameras
Was Michael Jackson a man?
And if he wasn't, how could he be the blackest man in America?
Pretending like men don't humble themselves and apologize when they don't want to shows that somebody have very little experience being a man.
All the black men who had to apologize or be humbled in other ways in order to do for their families in this crazy world must not be really men.
I can see the point about whining though.
Big Man. There is a concept called principles.
Apologizing for arresting Gates "because he WAS A BLACK MAN in America" ... when that had nothing to do with why you arrested him - is an unforgivable act of complicit conformity that can't be explained away by wishing "to do for one's family".
If Gates had apologized last week, he would have been endorsing a falsehood.
Like Michael Vick should never have apologized for doing with his dogs what he pleased ...
and
Chris Brown should never have apologized for simply beating up Rihanna.
Look how Crowley made out.
Look how Chris Brown made out.
Look how Vick made out.
Public apologies are usually followed by public crucifixions.
Like I said DV, was Michael Jackson a man?
Cause you and I both now he made several public apologies. For the boy touching stuff and for the comments about Jews. Did that strip him of his manhood, or does he get a pass?
The comment the lady made about apologizing was overly broad and while it may have sounded good to some folks, it sounded misguided and hypocritical to me considering some of her earlier posts.
You're right, a man has to have principles, there must be some things that are non-negotiable.
But, her comment went too far.
It does not make a man a "bitch" if he apologizes even when he feels he did nothing wrong.
Hell, any man in a successful marriage knows damn well they better master that skill. Sometimes you humble yourself because you realize that's what the situation calls for. You may not like it, but you see the bigger picture.
I think about all the black men who lived in this country when racism was much more violent and virulent. Where they had to make the choice to apologize to a white man for some perceived slight or risk not coming home to the home full of kids and a wife who depended on them.
Ain't nothing bitchlike about that. That's being a man. Sacrifice is manhood.
So, I see how you liked the lady's comment, and I understand some of what she tried to say, but she overreached in my opinion.
"It does not make a man a "bitch" if he apologizes even when he feels he did nothing wrong." Big Man
... I don't know.
... I don't know 'bout that one Big Man.
I don't do shit cuz "I'm supposed to".
I do it because I want to. Anything else would cost me my credibility.
When I apologize to my wife. She KNOW I aint bullshitting.
Which I believe, is what keeps us together. We can trust each other.
We are not going through the motions.
All of these fake apologies breeds contempt and disunion. Which explains why everyone who does - signs their own death sentence.
Michael? A man? One of the best.
Public apologies? I'm not hip. Post a link.
Link
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/06/30/1006224/jackson-and-the-jews
Snippet
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance, took Jackson on a two-hour tour of the museum ending with the vivid exhibit on the Final Solution.
“When he left, Michael was crying, and he wrote me afterwards that he cried for weeks,” Hier recalled Monday.
Two years later Hier and Jackson corresponded again, but this time the tone was quite different. Jackson had just released an album featuring the song “They Don’t Care About Us,” with the lyrics “Jew me, sue me, everybody do me/Kick me, kike me, don’t you black or white me.”
Hier fired off an angry letter to Jackson, who replied with a profuse apology, declaring, “I am committed to tolerance, peace and love.” The singer promised that an explanatory note would accompany future album sales.
Jackson met Boteach in 1999 and the two became fast friends, touring together to promote the Heal the Kids campaign. It was Boteach who escorted Jackson to the Carlebach Shul in Manhattan that year, accompanied by the psychic Uri Geller.
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