Earl Aagaard’s opinions about everything that interests him. Og also enjoys gardening, travel, reading, woodbutchery, and lots of other stuff.
Powered by ExpressionEngine
I mean, his name resembles the Western World’s #1 enemy, Osama bin Laden. It’s not just those who dislike Senator Obama who make the mistake, either.
Case in point?
DEWAYNE WICKHAM writes editorials for USA Today, and he’s mad…..two young men were killed in Baltimore recently, and
Bell’s death drew the scorn of civil rights leaders and black activists, many of whom took part in the march. West’s killing has generated no such attention.
And that makes me made as hell.
GOOD INTENTIONS AREN’T ENOUGH. At least, that’s what John McWhorter, today’s candidate. tells us. LBJ’s Great Society had wonderful intentions - to rid the U.S. of poverty in a single generation. The results were not what was expected.
What Katrina stripped bare, then, was not white supremacy, but that culture matters — even if what created the culture was misguided white benevolence. Social scientists neglect that before the 1960s poor blacks knew plenty of economic downturns and plenty more racism.
But before the 1960s the kinds of behaviour so common among the blacks stranded in the Superdome, possibly including multiple rapes, was a fringe phenomenon. Only after the 1960s did it become a community norm.