JENA 6

[Sugar08]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Fail of a response.

I really do enjoy your parachute posting.

[Kevin]

Serious inquiry: How is the author's statement "anti-black"?

(and yes, I was being facetious in my placing him into the Nazi party for you, I was sort of playing up the 'with us or against us' mentality you seem to have adopted, the comparison was unnecessary and distracting.)

[Sugar08]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Serious inquiry: How is the author's statement "anti-black"?

(and yes, I was being facetious in my placing him into the Nazi party for you, I was sort of playing up the 'with us or against us' mentality you seem to have adopted, the comparison was unnecessary and distracting.)

He wasn't addressing what the potentially fixable issue is ... instead, he was redirecting the brunt of the problem onto people who aren't there. There will always be crime, there will always be broken homes and children without parents there for them. The only thing that can be done is make sure that those who go down the wrong path receive equal treatment.

It's all very well to say what he said, but I think it IS a matter of "with us or against us." It's not a mentality to me, it's an unfortunate fact of life. It clearly isn't so for you... which is why we're two different people with (obviously) differing opinions on several topics.

And yes, the comparison was unnecessary and distracting.

[MysticCat]

Thanks for your response Sugar08. I do understand better now where you were coming from on the Uncle Tom label.

I guess I didn't read the column as laying out everything the writer had to say on the subject, but rather as simply discussing a specific reaction he had to the protest. That is to say, I perhaps assumed that he was not dismissing other real or root problems, but was just doing what I do sometimes -- taking particular note of a particular reaction.

But I can see your point.

[Sugar08]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Thanks for your response Sugar08. I do understand better now where you were coming from on the Uncle Tom label.

I guess I didn't read the column as laying out everything the writer had to say on the subject, but rather as simply discussing a specific reaction he had to the protest. That is to say, I perhaps assumed that he was not dismissing other real or root problems, but was just doing what I do sometimes -- taking particular note of a particular reaction.

But I can see your point.

I understand what you're saying too. I suppose I'm extremely sensitive to this type of article because as a journalism major at an HBCU, the term "responsible reporting" took on a whole new meaning. As a reporter, I felt the factual responsibility of getting things correct, along with the social responsibility of being a black reporter.

I could go on all day about racial disparities in the news (and the newsroom) and the fact that the very few black reporters tend to fall into one of three categories: those who just report on the what the agenda-setters have declared "news," those who attempt to maintain a social conciousness while reporting, and those like this author and, say, Stanley Crouch, who write these columns which aren't addressing what I consider to be the real issues while receiving high praise from those who don't have the interests of African Americans at heart.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Sugar08

I really do enjoy your parachute posting.

Parachute posting?

Sorry I don't understand the language of the intertrons.

I didn't really have anything else to say. I think for you to call the guy an Uncle Tome is pretty much ridiculous.

[Sugar08]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Parachute posting?

Sorry I don't understand the language of the intertrons.

I didn't really have anything else to say. I think for you to call the guy an Uncle Tome is pretty much ridiculous.

Your opinion of my opinion is fine with me.