Bernard J. Tyson
Melissa Harris-Perry
Al Sharpton
In
his most recent rantings (It’s Time to Revolutionize Race Relations; https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141204174020-261404895-it-s-time-to-revolutionize-race-relations?trk=prof-post), Bernard J. Tyson’s (CEO of Kaiser Permanente)
comes off as an ungrateful member of what Ellis Cose has rightly called “a
privileged class” (in his book, The Rage of a Privileged Class http://www.amazon.com/Rage-Privileged-Class-Ellis-Cose/dp/0060182393/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1417869305&sr=8-1).
Bernard J. Tyson no doubt benefited greatly from the
first and I believe ONLY nationwide system of segregation – the segregated
standards that comprise today’s “Affirmative Action.” Southern segregation
existed in appx. 9 states. Today, many promising young black “affirmative
action babies” receive a “mentoring” that rivals the access that the richest
scions of the most prestigious families get.
And to think that affirmative action was initially
sold as “leveling the playing field,” to make sure blacks were treated
“equally.” I’m sure most Americans felt “equal to other average Americans,” NOT
to the Vanderbilts and Kennedys.
I oppose the favoritism shown to such rich &
powerful families too, but that’s never been reined in successfully anywhere,
but WHY treat ANY “promising” black recruit the same way a Kennedy, or a Bush
or wealthy scion from such prominent families is routinely treated?
THIS, “in today’s global world. The first step
in changing negative behavior is to understand the underlying imagery of the
black male, which doesn’t represent reality…” is simply WRONG.
The image of the black male is actually better than
IF the stats on violent crime were more well-known. Consider that in America,
since 1976, black males (6% of the nation’s population) have committed upwards
of 50% of the murders NATIONWIDE! Blacks commit an extremely disproportionate
amount of ALL violent crimes (rape, assault, armed robbery, etc).
“...(In) James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein in
their classic 1985 study, Crime and Human Nature said “Every study of crime using official data
shows blacks to be over-represented among persons arrested, convicted, and
imprisoned for street crimes.” This was true decades before the authors put it
to paper, and it remains the case decades later.
“The
over-representation of blacks among arrested persons persists throughout the
criminal justice system,” wrote Wilson and Herrnstein. “Though
prosecutors and judges may well make discriminatory judgments, such decisions
do not account for more than a small fraction of the over-representation of
blacks in prison.” Yet liberal policy makers and their allies in the press
and the academy consistently downplay the empirical data on black crime rates,
when they bother to discuss them at all...” (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/21/family-secret-what-the-left-wont-tell-you-about-bl/)
IF whites knew (that is, IF the MSM accurately
reported the facts) how would black males be seen, if others knew that Blacks
commit 25 times more violent assaults on Whites than Whites do against Blacks? (https://twitter.com/chris_1791/status/540052759526252544)
Exactly HOW MUCH privilege, preference and
protection via distortion and disinformation do blacks want...and need?
I’m sorry, but guys like Bernard J. Tyson are among the
most vile of the 1%. He gloms a disproportionate share of the wealth, that his
skills almost certainly did not earn and yet...he wants MORE. He wants
deference...the deference that an exalted “favored group” status brings.
Tyson could’ve, liked Charles Barkley told the truth
and gone against the grain, but apparently Tyson doesn’t have the guts that
Barkley does, nor the appetite for real controversy.
Moreover, the current call for police body cameras,
once instituted, will almost certainly show how rarely police act impulsively
and how often “scumbags” (as Barkley rightly calls them) bait police and act
recklessly and dangerously.
Cop dashboard cams have rarely shown police
misconduct, but tons of civilian misconduct.
Recently, a dashboard cam caught black actress
Danielle Watts in an anti-cop lie; “Actress
Danielle Watts, who was handcuffed Sept. 11th by an LAPD sergeant,
says she refuses to apologize for accusing the department of racial profiling,
against the demands of civil-rights leaders.
“LAPD
Sgt. Jim Parker handcuffed the “Django Unchained” actress when she walked away
and refused to provide identification after he and other officers responded to
calls of a couple having sex in a car.
“Watts
accused Parker of racial profiling, leading to the LAPD launching an
investigative probe into Parker and two other officers.”
It also caught a black Oakland firefighter Keith
Jones who claimed “racism” when stopped by a white Oakland cop while entering a
locked and empty firehouse at 10:45PM (http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/09/03/black-oakland-firefighter-says-white-cop-held-him-at-gunpoint/).
What Watts & Jones did (using false charges of
“racism”) are far, FAR worse than Darren Wilson did (Wilson’s ONLY “crime”
seems to be surviving a vicious attack by a thug), or what Daniel Pantaleo did
in taking down Eric Garner.
What Watts and Jones did was EXACTLY akin to a cop
“planting false evidence” on a suspect.
NOTHING has happened to either Watts or Jones, but
Wilson and Pantaleo have been vilified, dragged through the courts, lost their
jobs and still face various “Civil Rights” violations by a rogue DoJ, run by
former Columbia University radical Eric Holder.
In a truly fair world, the tables on these acts
would’ve been reversed. Jones and Watts deserve to be punished for their very
REAL crimes (bearing false witness, filing false reports), etc).
All of this goes to the heart of the “white male
privilege” crusade by America’s modern racist demagogues. Consider that there
are few, if any people, more PRIVILEGED than the likes of Melissa Harris-Perry,
born to a white mother (Diana Gray, taught at a community college, then working
on her doctorate when she met)and black father (the first dean of
African-American Affairs at the University of
Virginia).
Ms. Perry was born in Seattle but grew up in Chesterfield County, Virginia, one of the
counties adjoining the independent city of
Richmond, Virginia attending
Thomas Dale High School.
Harris-Perry was an associate professor at the
Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and left in 2011 after being denied a
full professorship because of “questions
about her work and an assessment of where she is, in her career,” according to the Center's director at the time, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
MSNBC couldn't wait
to hire a slothful academic, with a spotty work record and announced
on January 5th, 2012 that Melissa Harris-Perry would host her own
weekend show, which began airing on February 18, 2012. Now THAT’S real
privilege.
How about Al Sharpton, a self-anointed “Reverend”
who has spent his adult life as a “race pimp.” He first made major headlines
with the Tawana Brawley hoax, which ended with the disbarment of two associates
(Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason) and a Civil judgment for defamation won by
Anthony Pagones.
Sharpton set up an enterprise entitled the National
Action Network, which sole purpose seems to be shaking down large Corporations
for generous “donations.”
In 1995, a Sharpton speech railing against a
Jewish-owned store (Freddy’s Fashion Mart), in which Sharpton called the owner
(Fred Harari) “a white interloper.”
The Sharpton-led protests began in August and came
to a head on the morning of Friday, December 8th when Roland James Smith, Jr., 51,
a Harlem resident with a criminal record going back 30 years, who’d been part
of the Sharpton's protests, walked into Freddy's Fashion Mart, pulled out a
gun, ordered all the black customers to leave, spilled paint thinner on several
bins of clothing and set them on fire - a fire that resulted in killing 7
people (Angelina Marrero, Cynthia Martinez, Luz
Ramos, Mayra Rentas, Olga Garcia, Garnette Ramautar, Kareem Brunner)
and Smith himself.
Kareem
Brunner (a security guard) whom Smith called “a cracker-lover,” was the only
black Smith didn’t evacuate from the store prior to setting the fire.
Despite that history of vile racial agitating, he’s
been rewarded – the IRS has been “extremely lax” in collecting the massive tax
bill he’s owed for decades, his National Action Network has been allowed to
continue a veritable extortion scheme, he’s been given unprecedented access to
both the White House (through Barack Obama) AND Gracie Mansion (through Bill
DeBlasio)...AND MSNBC hired this bigoted buffoon on August 29th,
2011, to host PoliticsNation, the MSNBC show which airs weeknights during the
6:00 p.m. Eastern Time slot!
MSNBC hired, in effect, the black equivalent of Tom
Metzger, the charismatic head of the Aryan Nation, without even a trickle of embarrassment. While both men's views may well be offensive, I'd be willing to bet that Mr. Metzger would have an easier time with the teleprompter than Mr. Sharpton has (collections of his mind-boggling bloopers are everywhere online).
Privilege just doesn’t get any better, nor more
undeserved than that.
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