By Nicholas Stix
Note that the pretext for the brouhaha and for firing Eisner was that she used the word “colored.” First of all, what’s wrong with “colored”? When I was a child, colored and white folks both used it. It’s a perfectly innocent term. And today, blacks use “person of color” all the time, which is just a disingenuous way of saying “colored.” The issue can’t possibly be that “colored” is anachronistic, since blacks sneeringly use the equally anachronistic “Caucasian” all the time, instead of “white.” The issue with a white using “colored” or “negro” is that our black masters have forbidden it.
Tomorrow, they could forbid using “African-American,” and punish a white for using it. At any moment, blacks will routinely claim that any word a white uses is “racist,” just to terrorize him.
In 1989, in a conversation with a black colleague named Donna, I referred to a black foster mom as a “church lady,” then a well-known phrase referring to a particular kind of black foster mother who networks through her church, being recruited into being a foster mother by her church lady friends, and in turn recruiting other church lady friends. The “church ladies” resolutely refused to abide by the laws and rules they were obliged to follow (such as never hitting the foster children in their care), and they taught each each other to repeat, Stepford Wife-like, the same phrases: “I never hit the children. I only take away privileges.” (They all hit the children!)
My black colleague, Donna, knew all that, and yet when I said of one of my black foster mothers, “She’s a church lady”—every one of them was black, but not all were church ladies—she accused me of “racism.” And until that moment, we had had very cordial relations! I told her never to speak to me again. Today, a “Donna” would have me fired for less.
That incident is also a microcosm of race relations. The black you thought you had a friendly relationship with can turn on you at any moment.
And why did Eisner not get into trouble for calling George Zimmerman “white”?
No, the real reason Eisner got fired was for her honesty, which had her depict the Trayvon Martin Hoax as a racial fairy tale.
College fires cartoonist over Trayvon 'colored boy' drawing
By Anonymous
3 days ago
MSN
The Daily Texan, the student newspaper at the University of Texas, has booted cartoonist Stephanie Eisner two days after her eyebrow-raising illustration of Trayvon Martin created all kinds of controversy. Eisner's cartoon depicted a mother reading a book about Martin to a kid with an unfortunate 'sex-doll' appearance. Anyway, the mom describes Martin as "the handsome, sweet innocent COLORED BOY," a C-word that led to widespread C-riticism of Eisner, the Texan and its staff. "The decision to run the cartoon showed a failure in judgment," the Texan's editorial board wrote. "We sincerely apologize for publishing the cartoon and for the harm that decision caused."
[From the Trayvon Martin Hoax files:
“Sanford, Florida: Black ‘Little Boy,’Trayvon Martin 17, Beat White ‘Vigilante’ George Zimmerman Bloody; Zimmerman Shot Martin Dead; Now Black WFTV ‘Reporter,’ Daralene Jones, Black Supremacists, and White Aunt Jemima Earwitness Demand That Zimmerman be Arrested”;
“Trayvon Martin: ABC ‘News’ Gets on Bandwagon, Acting as Martin’s Family Mouthpiece; Family Lawyer Refuses to Release All Information about Teen’s Last Phone Call to Girlfriend, but Insists That It Requires That George Zimmerman be Arrested ‘Right Now’”;
“Arrest First, Investigate Later: Press Conference by Lawyer Benjamin Crump, of Trayvon Martin’s Family, Seeks Through Violation of Due Process… to Railroad George Zimmerman”;
“News Coverage of the Trayvon Martin Case Keeps Getting Worse: New York Daily News Passes Off ABC News Hearsay as ‘Interview,’ While Changing the Hearsay!”;
“USA Today: ‘In wake of black teen Trayvon Martin's death, USA is soul-searching’; McPaper Invokes Jena 6, Quotes Al Sharpton, Self-Described ‘ThugNiggaIntellectual’ Mark Neal, and Jena Attacker Theo Shaw as Moral Authorities”;
“Why the Secret ‘Interview’ with Trayvon Martin’s Secret Girlfriend is Bogus, and His Alleged Last Cell Phone Call is Insignificant”;
“Another Trayvon Martin Supporter: Florida Atlantic U. Hate Crime Attacker Jonatha Carr Had Just been Interviewed about the Jena Six/Nuremberg-Style Rally She’s been Organizing; CBS12 News Tries to Rationalize Her Crimes”;
“Trayvon Martin’s Parents Attend New York City Riot Held on Their Behalf”;
“Associated Press and Penn Live: Arrest George Zimmerman for Killing Trayvon Martin, the Law be Damned! Let Zimmerman Prove His Innocence in Court!”
“National Review ‘Conservative’ Rich Lowry Goes to Bat for Al Sharpton in Trayvon Martin Case, Ignoring or Misrepresenting Facts of the Case”;
“Trayvon Martin Case: Real Eyewitness Supports Zimmerman’s Story, as Opposed to Lynch Mob’s Fake Eyewitnesses”;
“Barack Obama: Because Trayvon Martin was Black, and Vaguely Resembled Me, ‘All of Us Have to Do Some Soul-Searching’”;
“Federale on the Trayvon Martin Hoax: National Review’s Rich Lowry and Robert VerBruggen Seek Street Cred with Black Supremacists by Sacrificing George Zimmerman; America Needs More Zimmermans, and Fewer Lowries and VerBruggens”;
“The Trayvon Martin Hoax: Business Insider Joins Mob Seeking to Lynch George Zimmerman”;
“The Trayvon Martin Hoax: Geraldo Rivera Finally Does the Right Thing!”;
“Black Supremacist Spike Lee (‘Tawana Told the Truth!’) is Trying to Get George Zimmerman Murdered, by Tweeting His Address: The Trayvon Martin Hoax”;
“Hoax Starts to Unravel: Trayvon Martin Started Fight, and was Going to Kill George Zimmerman”;
“George Zimmerman’s Lawyer and Friend Defend Him Against Trayvon Martin Hoax, While ABC News Soldiers on, Repeating Refuted Claims”;
“First Report on Trayvon Martin’s Death One Month Ago Already Included Eyewitness Description of Martin Beating George Zimmerman, and Zimmerman Yelling ‘Help Me!’”;
“George Zimmerman: Trayvon Martin was Trying to Murder Me (Orlando Sentinel)”;
“Jesse Jackson Called for Riots on Behalf of Trayvon Martin, and North Miami Beach Senior HS Students Came Through, Ransacking a Walgreen’s”;
“Another ‘Honor Student’: Trayvon Martin was a Thug, Vandal, Burglar, Pothead and/or Drug Dealer, and Had been Suspended from School at Least 3 Times”;
“The Nation of Islam’s New Black Panther Party Offers $10,000 Bounty for the Kidnapping (or Murder?) of George Zimmerman, for Shooting Trayvon Martin”;
“Walter Williams on Profiling and the Trayvon Martin Case”;
“Barack Obama’s Ally, the Genocidal Nation of Islam’s New Black Panther Party, Calls for the Murder of George Zimmerman”;
“Trayvon Martin: Racist Terrorist Rep. Bobby Rush (Race-Chicago/Black Panthers), is Thrown Off House Floor for Donning a Hoodie, and Denouncing ‘Racial Profiling’; CBS ‘News’ Soldiers on with Race Hoax”;
“Heather MacDonald Goes Halfway on the Trayvon Martin Case, Race, and the Media”;
“I Guess Everybody Would Have Preferred George be Beaten to Death; My Son being Shot”: Video of George Zimmerman’s Father’s Exclusive Miami Herald Interview”;
“Trayvon Martin FAQ”;
“Elderly Couple Terrorized by Spike Lee Hires Attorney; Lee Simulates Humility and Humanity, in Order to Avoid Losing Millions in Court”; and
“Vichycon David Frum to MSM: I’ll Support Your Trayvon Martin Hoax, if You’ll Continue Supporting Me as a ‘Conservative.’”
5 comments:
Hey! If it's not too much trouble, do you think you could make a small blog post about my petition? I made a petition calling for Ms. Eisner (the cartoonist) to be reinstated:
http://www.change.org/petitions/daily-texan-newspaper-reinstate-stephanie-eisner
What do you think?
Very interesting post.
Anon.
I look at it like this: If not zimmerman, another black "brother" would have capped him.
Btw, what are the facts?
A security person shot a black kid in a gated community, that's ALL we know.Unless you ask Soledud O'Cry'n.
I would have done the same thing and cursed myself that there was only one..
Hey anon, you from a nation of cowards?
ps. Know why you dont get more comments on your blog Nicholas? It's because your comment moderation words are eFF'n(4th attempt) w/ people.
"comment moderation words"?
Captcha issues?
I didn't know that, Mickey's. I'm sorry. I used to be wide open, but trolls abused their privileges, and most of the time the comment delete function didn't work.
These captcha screens drive me nuts too (on other blogs), if that's any solace to you.
There is one reason why I don't comment here more than I do. The wicked behavior described in these articles often angers and worries me. So I usually feel like I'm in a poor frame of mind to write something halfway intelligent when I'm really steamed.
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