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| mike in houston | Sep 6 2008, 12:15 PM Post #31 |
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Hitler was a community organizer
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| Bill Anderson | Sep 6 2008, 12:18 PM Post #32 |
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Community organizers come in two categories. One involves people who have a genuine interest in serving others. They do things for others that those people cannot do for themselves. However, there is another kind, the political activist, and that kind of "community organizer" is a much different animal. Poor people are not real people; they are political backdrops and political tools. For example, Al Sharpton got his start as a "community organizer." He and his followers did things like stir up hatred against Jew, drive Korean merchants out of neighborhoods, and generally take a bad area to live and make it even worse. For that, he is treated as a hero because he and his friends are masters in the art of appealing to the resentment and bigotry of others. For that matter, there really was nothing substantively different in what Sharpton and others have done in the cities and what the Ku Klux Klan used to do in the rural areas and small towns. They, too, were "community organizers." As I posted elsewhere, I had to deal with the ACORN types when I worked as an economist for the Chattanooga Office of Economic and Community Development in the mid-1980s. For example, we received federal money for doing infrastructure work in poor neighborhoods. However, we did not have enough money to do all the full repairs in all the neighborhoods at the same time. Therefore, we planned to do certain neighborhoods one year, and then others the next, and so on. In a few years, we would have had all of the work to be done. However, the white "community organizers" went to the elderly blacks in the neighborhoods not on the list for the first year (but on the list in the second and third) and told them that we were not going to do any repairs at all. Now, that was a lie, and the "organizers" knew it, but all it took was for them to tell these folks that the white people at city hall were trying to keep them from getting the money they deserved. We had to deal with near-riot conditions, and endured threats and the like. When the City Commission ultimately voted on our recommendation, they were faced with angry mobs and caved in. The irony, of course, was that we did not have enough money to do real repairs, so we did cosmetic ones that did not last as long or really improve anything. But, the "community organizers" had their "victory" that they could tout to the people in Chattanooga. They have "prove" that people could "stand up to city government and win." Now, they did not "win" anything. The white "community organizers" went back to their homes in the suburbs, and the people who had the "victory" went back to their neighborhoods that never would get the repairs that were needed. So, you will have to excuse me if I demonstrate a dim view of "community organizing." I see people like Yankel Rosenbaum, stabbed to death in Crown Heights after "community organizer" Al Sharpton stirred up a mob. The young man who killed Rosenbaum, Limerick Nelson, was acquitted by an all-black jury despite eyewitness testimony and the fact that Nelson was in possession of the knife, with Rosenbaum's blood on it. After the trial, the jury that night partied with the defendant to celebrate the jury nullification for murder of a Jew.
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 12:23 PM Post #33 |
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Nor will she have a baby crucifixion, either. McCain/Palin will cast out demons |
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| brittany | Sep 6 2008, 04:37 PM Post #34 |
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Wrong. Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman candidate. VP candidate remember. Edited by brittany, Sep 6 2008, 04:38 PM.
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| DANinZA | Sep 6 2008, 04:45 PM Post #35 |
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Ah yes; Fritz & Tits |
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 06:19 PM Post #36 |
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I'm sorry, Duke 84...though I see your point, being a POW for five years is no "hook." It's not something many of us would willing undergo to prop up our "metanarrative" , if in future years, we should enter politics. That's an experience so extreme...I doubt you nor I can ever conjure up the most remote personal reference. I have never been beaten daily and returned from that beating knowing I would indeed be beaten again tomorrow. I never prrsented with the terrible choice to choose between subjecting myself to years more of that brutality or...go home to my family, leaping ahead of guys imprisoned there longer than me. I can't relate to the strength it took to stay, can you? There should be some standards , some level we will not reach to..even in our partisanship, to demean the opposition. |
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