Comments on: ‘Homie Has Some Rings To Kiss’ https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Danforth https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2253 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:21:19 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2253 Nicely done again, Ilana.

Substitute the word “Aryan” for “Black”, and Dickerson has quite a few premises in common with Hitler. If mulattoes are to be spurned by ‘pure’ blacks, could whites spurn them on exactly the same grounds? The unchallenged racist premise is that reality is governed by perception and perception is determined by race.

It occurs to me that one of the lessons of history is that if you really want to hold a class of people down, the surest way to do that is to make welfare dependents of them, and provide them with emotional justification for their right to the meager handouts provided by their oppressors. It is an ancient and evil ruse that works — we grow to love our servitude. In time, like prison snitches, the more prehensile members of the class are bestowed with a special reward of an extra morsel or two to enthusiastically nip at offenders to keep them in line and prevent them breaking free. Not unlike training a sled dog team.

Once slavery was abolished, residual racism in society could to little to prevent self-determination by an individual. It was mild compared to the pernicious spread of the victim mentality, itself racist at its core, reinforced from birth by the welfare state and permeating every aspect of their existence. The racist philosophy of the oppressed is serving to keep themselves ‘in their place’ better than any other program designed by their oppressor could ever hope for.

Oh, and the reason why people think all African ancients spoke Swahili? Of course it was because of the ground-breaking role of Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek!

–John Danforth-

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By: Carolus https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2247 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:55:20 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2247 Dan writes: “You’d never see someone of European ancestry wearing a beret, lederhosen, wooden shoes, and tartan all at once. ”

I think Dan is onto something here. If the Euro-Americans start wearing outfits consisting of all the above, they can become professional victims, too. Let’s get that gravy train running!

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By: Sue Bob https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2245 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:26:52 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2245 I say let all the ridiculous “frontrunners” tear each other up and hypocritically “position” themselves on issues rather than stand on principal.

Then, let a real Patriot sweep in and prevail over all these small and silly candidates–Ron Paul.

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By: Dan L https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2240 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:29:05 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2240 Glad you brought up the Eastern-Western African topic, as it shows a simultaneous bias and ignorance of geography in the US. The pan-Africanism popular in the US (spurred by pan-African socialism of the ’60s) is very odd. I’ll never understand why someone whose ancestors were abducted from west Africa would think Swahili would be a language of their ancestry, when it was not. The simplistic affectations of things like Kwanzaa are cute but just exacerbate the confusion. And the mix/match of “ethnic garb” is odd too. You’d never see someone of European ancestry wearing a beret, lederhosen, wooden shoes, and tartan all at once.

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By: Jamie https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2238 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:15:06 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2238 Another great column Ilana. I would only point out that Lenny Kravitz had a white father and black mother (she was an actress best known for appearing on The Jeffersons). His parents divorced, but not until he was a teenager. As an aside, she was Bahamian and thus does not qualify as black either by the person you lambasted in your article.

[Thanks. Corrections being made. Sorry about that.]

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By: Dan Maguire https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2237 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:56:23 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2237 In the February 26 issue of The American Conservative, Richard Spencer writes about the Duke rape case. He examines the manifesto signed by numerous faculty members shortly after the charges were made. One of the professors, Mark Anthony Neal, is a typical race-hustling clown who has accomplished nothing scholarly, but makes his living as a self-styled “thug-nigga-intellectual”, playing on the silly rich white guilt like a con man exploiting an easy mark. Nice work if you can get it. And live with yourself.

I hope for his sake and all the other so-called victims’ sake that they never actually experience the persecution of which they fantasize. Better that they continue to suck their victim pacifier and cry when they need attention. Actually, better that they grow up and contribute something of value to the world. Like that will ever happen.

Man, oppression sure is a gravy train for its adherents. Where can I sign up to be oppressed?

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By: Jeanne https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2236 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:18:31 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2236 Blacks in this country should hit their knees every day and thank God that some white man brought their ancestors over here as slaves.

Muhammad Ali seemed to agree, at least at one time. Remember the “Rumble in the Jungle” fought in Zaire? After Ali won he was asked his thoughts regarding Africa. He replied, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”
His grandfather was a slave.

So now the diversity ahderents are rejecting diversity. One must be a certain kind of black to be accepted! The irony is that Dickerson and those who think like her are actually doing what people have done for all of recorded history. She and her ilk are voluntarily grouping themselves with others that are like them and with whom they desire to associate. And this is quite alright with me. It is just a shame that she and her kind won’t allow others to do the same.

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By: Eric https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2234 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:49:50 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2234 Debra Dickerson is a strange lady to say the least. I wonder what she considers her children since they don’t look “west african” with their blue eyes? But then again she looks “east african” herself. Is she “black”?

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By: Alex Kovell https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2233 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:38:30 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2233 Great article. Dickerson and her ilk took “clean and articulate” as an insult to Obama. Their ideal would be someone like Sharpton or Jackson, or “the chocolate man” from New Orleans. Completely agree with James Higgins’ comment above.

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By: Dorde https://barelyablog.com/homie-has-some-rings-to-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2231 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:54:39 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=424#comment-2231 Ilana, here is Dickerson interviewed on The Colbert Report. Funny and enlightening stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nODHv2gxTTo
YouTube – Barack Obama is -“Not Black???”

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