In this clip from last August, Loury & McWhorter discuss the following:
"Did Obama, our nation's first black president, waste an unprecedented opportunity to improve race relations while in office? Or, was he the victim of systemic racism in the new age of social media?
@JohnHMcWhorter and I agree to disagree in this week's post at The Glenn Show."
McWhorter is dead wrong and Loury is right (and no rational person would argue otherwise). It’s just preposterous to act as though Obama wasn’t at fault for how he miserably handled racially charged incidents. Of course, social media turbocharged the problem, but POTUS put it on a silver platter for people to do so. Note the token nod to “agree to disagree" (never mind that one person is thinking things through and the other is not). But hey, let’s “agree to disagree” so McWhorter can feel good in denying the undeniable.
A lot of that goin' around!
"That the reaction is not to think it through, not to question, not to assemble facts, not to make arguments — but instead to wave banners and spout slogans such that you could hardly distinguish what they were doing from a manifesto that would come out of [does it matter?]"
— Glenn Loury, Tucker Carlson Today
When the context suits you, such words are solid gold. What you do when it doesn’t — determines the worth of your word.
People who argue racism was the root opposition to Obama ignore the bitter war republicans waged against the last white southern president Clinton on the 1990’s and white communities who broke for him in 2012. Those very same voters switched to Trump when Obama was no longer on the balllot
And you think I'm arguing that racism was the root opposition to Obama? Perhaps you should have a look around at the material I offered you before you spend 60 seconds "countering" what you think you see.
I wasn’t really arguing that with you , I was pointing it was a de facto defense of Obama to say racism and the facts don’t align with that , I thought I was kind of agreeing with you
Sorry for the misunderstanding. My mistake. But that doesn't change the fact that this is only a tiny slice of what I have to say and why I'm here. Unless you're interested in hearing me out on that (by looking into what I have to say and furthering the discussion from there), we have nothing more to talk about. No offense meant -- it's just that I have a very specific purpose in being here (and that doesn't include transactional exchanges on the topic of the day).
Thank you for the clarification and your civility in making it.
Thank you kindly! I very much appreciate that. I'd appreciate it even more if you'd hear what I have to say on this story below -- that's ultimately about finding our way back to that day (if only to a degree). Even if it's only shades of it -- that would be world away from where we are now.
And believe it or not, it can be done (with a handful of people and hardly any money). But mark my words -- traditional methods have no chance of ever achieving anything of the kind (not even with any amount of money and resources). Everyone is trying to plow through problems when you should be going around them.
Hear me out and all will become clear.
It’s pure fantasy to think that you can ignore key dimensions of a problem and magically solve it. The problems that plague America are interrelated, and anything short of addressing that is going nowhere. But everyone’s wrapped up in their wheelhouse — operating under umbrellas of interests that don’t account for complexities outside of them.
Just picking the “root cause” that works for you doesn’t cut it. You’ve gotta look at interconnected causes across-the-board. Thanks for your time!
“Oh, You’re So Condescending Your Gall is Never-Ending”:
In this clip from last August, Loury & McWhorter discuss the following:
"Did Obama, our nation's first black president, waste an unprecedented opportunity to improve race relations while in office? Or, was he the victim of systemic racism in the new age of social media?
@JohnHMcWhorter and I agree to disagree in this week's post at The Glenn Show."
McWhorter is dead wrong and Loury is right (and no rational person would argue otherwise). It’s just preposterous to act as though Obama wasn’t at fault for how he miserably handled racially charged incidents. Of course, social media turbocharged the problem, but POTUS put it on a silver platter for people to do so. Note the token nod to “agree to disagree" (never mind that one person is thinking things through and the other is not). But hey, let’s “agree to disagree” so McWhorter can feel good in denying the undeniable.
A lot of that goin' around!
"That the reaction is not to think it through, not to question, not to assemble facts, not to make arguments — but instead to wave banners and spout slogans such that you could hardly distinguish what they were doing from a manifesto that would come out of [does it matter?]"
— Glenn Loury, Tucker Carlson Today
When the context suits you, such words are solid gold. What you do when it doesn’t — determines the worth of your word.
A snapshot of my work on the Trayvon front (and "front" is quite fitting): https://youtu.be/p4hMfZfN8WA
From the Earth to the Moon to “WUT”
https://onevoicebecametwo.life/2024/04/24/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-to-wut/
The Yellow Brick Road: Path of America’s Predictably Counterproductive Pursuits:
https://onevoicebecametwo.life/2024/04/07/the-yellow-brick-road-path-of-americas-predictably-counterproductive-pursuits/
People who argue racism was the root opposition to Obama ignore the bitter war republicans waged against the last white southern president Clinton on the 1990’s and white communities who broke for him in 2012. Those very same voters switched to Trump when Obama was no longer on the balllot
And you think I'm arguing that racism was the root opposition to Obama? Perhaps you should have a look around at the material I offered you before you spend 60 seconds "countering" what you think you see.
I wasn’t really arguing that with you , I was pointing it was a de facto defense of Obama to say racism and the facts don’t align with that , I thought I was kind of agreeing with you
Sorry for the misunderstanding. My mistake. But that doesn't change the fact that this is only a tiny slice of what I have to say and why I'm here. Unless you're interested in hearing me out on that (by looking into what I have to say and furthering the discussion from there), we have nothing more to talk about. No offense meant -- it's just that I have a very specific purpose in being here (and that doesn't include transactional exchanges on the topic of the day).
Thank you for the clarification and your civility in making it.
Wow. That's how we handled things back in the day. A real civil discussion, with opposing views.
Thank you kindly! I very much appreciate that. I'd appreciate it even more if you'd hear what I have to say on this story below -- that's ultimately about finding our way back to that day (if only to a degree). Even if it's only shades of it -- that would be world away from where we are now.
And believe it or not, it can be done (with a handful of people and hardly any money). But mark my words -- traditional methods have no chance of ever achieving anything of the kind (not even with any amount of money and resources). Everyone is trying to plow through problems when you should be going around them.
Hear me out and all will become clear.
It’s pure fantasy to think that you can ignore key dimensions of a problem and magically solve it. The problems that plague America are interrelated, and anything short of addressing that is going nowhere. But everyone’s wrapped up in their wheelhouse — operating under umbrellas of interests that don’t account for complexities outside of them.
Just picking the “root cause” that works for you doesn’t cut it. You’ve gotta look at interconnected causes across-the-board. Thanks for your time!
“Oh, You’re So Condescending Your Gall is Never-Ending”:
https://onevoicebecametwo.life/2024/05/09/oh-youre-so-condescending-your-gall-is-never-ending/