So, while in the hotel room, I decided to give a look at the Black conservative shing ding on CSPAN being moderated by Jesse Lee Peterson.
Here are some thoughts as I watch..
If "white guilt" is a "bad thing", then why is "Black inferiority" not a bad thing?
Listening to CSPAN, I've heard Shelby Steele and LaShawn(?) mention feeling "inferiority" when they saw the images out of New Orleans.
Hmmm....
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1:30:00 Seems like Joseph C. Phillips is out of the Glenn Loury mode of "Black conservatives" if there really is such a thing. And he's taking the tact that I take, one where I get labeled as being in denial because I'm accussed of "they do it too!" syndrome.
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1:55:00 Joseph C. Phillips mentions Old School. His comments about ignoring "Black leadership" and putting out your message is ignored on purpose(?) -- by Jesse Lee Peterson. Shelby Steele keeps hammering "Black leadership" and points the finger at "white guilt". Interesting.
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2:02:00 "They are going to screw you". "Black people have been screwed by Black leadership". Would you believe a preacher said this?
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2:38:00 A Black student, 22, just made Jesse Lee Peterson look like a fool. Joseph C. Phillips recovered for Peterson very well.
The student asked about "looking back to the morals of the past" but the history of the U.S. doesn't show morals because of slavery, Jim Crow laws, etc. Joseph C. Phillips said the "moral foundation" is based on the principles of equality of the government. For example, equality. He's pretty animated.
Looking back...
Joseph C. Phillips is the face of Black conservatives that will get Blacks to consider what is being said by being REASONABLE. Jesse Lee Peterson is not reasonable. He is a race hustler and poverty pimp. I found it interesting that Phillips spoke up and disagreed with what was being said at the same times I thought something should be said.
I also found it interesting that Phillips pointed out the hypercritical nature of Black conservatives and how that is perceived in the Black community.
I also found it interesting that Phillips said that Black conservatives make too much of media appointed "Black leaders" when people in the Black community don't give the "Black leaders" the weight and credibility that Black conservatives give those media appointed "Black leaders".
Phillips said MANY of the same things I have said, and have been criticized by internet conservatives for saying.
A few times I've written that I thought that Blacks were brain damaged as bourne out by the hypercritical nature of Blacks, left and right, towards the Black community.
Shelby Steele's continuing reference to "Black inferiority" has strengthened that belief.
If whites shouldn't feel white guilt why should Blacks feel "shame" at seeing Black victims of Katrina?
Yeah, he was the only up there (JP) that seemed reasonable.
Posted by: Dell Gines at October 18, 2005 04:58 PM
"If White guilt is a bad thing then why is Black inferiority not a bad thing.Are they connected two different emotion.Then you use shame and guilt as the same ;something wrong here.
Posted by: tootsie at October 14, 2005 10:27 AM