Comments on: Farrakhan and Buckley http://melvinbray.com/2008/03/04/farrakhan-and-buckley/ all things bray-ish Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Melvin Bray http://melvinbray.com/2008/03/04/farrakhan-and-buckley/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Melvin Bray Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:35:00 +0000 http://melvinbray.com/2008/03/04/farrakhan-and-buckley/#comment-48 thanks for the comment mhollomon (although i do wish you had a profile so we could know who you are).<br/><br/>your assessment is fair: it is long-winded: i'm awful at self-editing for length.<br/><br/>my audience, however, is not conservatives. not that i don't hope for their consideration as well, but sadly, i seldom feel i have a chance in those circles. thanks for the comment mhollomon (although i do wish you had a profile so we could know who you are).

your assessment is fair: it is long-winded: i’m awful at self-editing for length.

my audience, however, is not conservatives. not that i don’t hope for their consideration as well, but sadly, i seldom feel i have a chance in those circles.

]]> By: mhollomon http://melvinbray.com/2008/03/04/farrakhan-and-buckley/comment-page-1/#comment-47 mhollomon Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:16:00 +0000 http://melvinbray.com/2008/03/04/farrakhan-and-buckley/#comment-47 Kind of long-winded, but well-stated nonetheless. I agree with your premise but I'm sure you don't expect to make any converts of your intended (presumably) audience: conservative whites and jews. White men of accomplishment will for a very long time have their political incorrectness overlooked and forgiven (especially if they give any semblance of apology) - there's an endless list of examples from Thomas Jefferson to George Wallace and William Buckley.<br/><br/>But that just isn't the case for people of color. If you're black and your pro-black pride comes across as even possibly encompassing an anti-white slant, expect to be forever marginalized as a "radical." Your chair at the table of public discourse will be pulled out from under you and burned. Ah, such is life for the minority in the land of the majority. Kind of long-winded, but well-stated nonetheless. I agree with your premise but I’m sure you don’t expect to make any converts of your intended (presumably) audience: conservative whites and jews. White men of accomplishment will for a very long time have their political incorrectness overlooked and forgiven (especially if they give any semblance of apology) – there’s an endless list of examples from Thomas Jefferson to George Wallace and William Buckley.

But that just isn’t the case for people of color. If you’re black and your pro-black pride comes across as even possibly encompassing an anti-white slant, expect to be forever marginalized as a “radical.” Your chair at the table of public discourse will be pulled out from under you and burned. Ah, such is life for the minority in the land of the majority.

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