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The Money Grab at Full Bore - AL SHARPTON; Meets with Obama today for "Targeted" Funding!
Topic Started: Feb 10 2010, 04:55 PM (466 Views)
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The AA community is so sensitive, if you call Barack a professor, you are now a racist.

The use of “professor” as a term of derision may have hit its stride in the 1950s, but it dates back to scolding characterizations of Socrates, according to Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. By the 1940s, Hollywood had cashed in on the stereotype with a film called “Ball of Fire,” which cast Gary Cooper against type as a naïve professor who learns the real ways of the world from a nightclub dancer called Sugarpuss O'Shea. In the political realm, Adlai Stevenson was similarly labeled an “egghead” in his 1950s campaigns for the presidency, Nunberg added.

If the term professor is used in politics, it's seldom a compliment, and instead "implies dry, hectoring, unemotional, self important, all of the negative stereotypes of somebody who is vainly certain of his own superior mental capacities but doesn’t have a human connection,” says Nunberg, author of The Years of Talking Dangerously and a frequent contributor to NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/10/obama
Edited by retiredLEO, Feb 10 2010, 08:32 PM.
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Here is Rush Limbaugh's take:

Okay, fine. Frankly I didn't know that professor had become the number one dig, but if it is, fine and dandy. Now, gets get it this: Charles J. Ogletree, Harvard Law professor, "founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, says he sees the 'professor' label as a thinly veiled attack on Obama's race." Yes, my friends, you heard me read that. I heard myself read it. So now when we call Obama "a professor," we are racist. "Calling Obama 'the professor' walks dangerously close to labeling him 'uppity,' a term with racial overtones that has surfaced in the political arena before, Ogletree said. Describing his divisive confirmation hearings as a 'circus,' Justice Clarence Thomas called the proceedings 'a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas. ...'
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http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021010/content/01125107.guest.html
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I suppose the bottom line is that whatever the left deems "racist"- is "racist". We should take their power away by continuing to use the terms until we have destroyed their arguments. This is nothing but psycho terrorism and intimidation.

The AA community have had 40 plus years to get their act together and look what we have to show for it. They still expect whitey to pick up the tab.
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"...Describing his divisive confirmation hearings as a 'circus,' Justice Clarence Thomas called the proceedings 'a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas. ...'"

That reads like Thomas called the hearings 'a high-tech lynching..."

He's a conservative vote every time. I do not recall him whining before.

Did I miss out on that?
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