Daily Dolt: Fran Eaton
She labels the following hate speech:
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The question is what is hateful about the sermon. It isn’t attacking anyone in the clip above (he does attack Bill Clinton personally in another part of the sermon and that was out of line). He’s pointing out that there is a rich white culture that is dominant and that African-Americans feel the racism that comes from that structure uniquely. I’m no thrilled with the notion of one minority (African-American) being more oppresed than another (women), but only because those lines cross a lot and individual experiences make such comparisons difficult and somewhat fruitless.
But what is controversial about pointing out that an African-American man feels the impact of a rich white culture that historically discriminates against African-Americans?
One can guess it isn’t what Wright said, but that the method of him saying it and the color of his skin frightens a whole lot of people.
March 13th, 2008 at
[...] I’m curious to know what he might say about his fellow Ill Reviewer Fran Eaton’s own subtly racist remarks? [...]
March 13th, 2008 at
Go ahead, Rev. Wright. That’s the God’s honest truth.
Fran Eaton is an idiot who can’t handle the truth.
March 13th, 2008 at
There is, I think, an awful lot in that sermon that would make an awful lot of white people uncomfortable. Heck, I I agree with most of his argument, and watching it makes me feel uncomfortable.
This is what makes people say it’s “hate speech” whether it’s true or not.
March 13th, 2008 at
Okay, it’s now been almost twenty-four hours, and the Clinton campaign has not gone after it.
There are two possibilities:
(1) the Campaign is taking a break and/or can’t reach Clinton to make a decision because today is a voting day
(2) the campaign is gun-shy about picking it up because they know they’ll lose the election of black turnout is low or if they desert Clinton.
March 14th, 2008 at
theres just as many racist’s in the black comunity as the white comunity,its just not news worthy
March 14th, 2008 at
lee, of course it’s not as newsworthy. Racism is as racism does. The group holding the power is the one to watch.