Snigger at the “N*gger”: Clarence Thomas Contra the Cracker Soul
If you’ve ever been around when some sewage tank backed up and the cascade of merde flowed in rivers, it’s as good a time as any to be glad it was Hercules, not you, who got the task of cleaning up the Augean stables. Trouble is, granting the malodorous sludge in which, ah, the “culture” has forced us all to swim these past forty years, it’d be nice should a god drop by to take it on, though this may be a labor only the real One can handle. Alas, He seems disposed to let it keep doing, so to say, its purgative work, or at least ‘til He finds ten good men with enough moxie to begin the rinsing.
All of which makes it, if mixed, nonetheless a joy inestimable to be reminded of a time some two decades past when the spigots septic were unleashed whole throttle at a man surely greater than Hercules; for not only did Clarence Thomas take the full brunt of cultural mire and withstand it, he did so by sheer dint of an almost Leonidas-like manhood. When Thomas rose to confront the assault, few had much memory of the virtue, so it was quite stunning when he did it, but as he makes the rounds on the chat shows to discuss his memoir My Grandfather’s Son it is no less startling now. However imposing, not to say elusive, a quality manhood always is, perhaps it rings more vivid still when the paragons don’t just hate it, but have lost the residue even to grasp what it is they hate.
One need not belabor the form it took about a week before Thomas had dodged the regular obstacles, savage enough as to that, and was headed toward an easy confirmation to our Court Supreme by the U.S. Senate. Accordingly a contract hit was contrived, of extraordinary foulness, though since FBI investigators saw through it the contractors had to organize their mobs and leak it to their minions in a frantic last stab to block the confirmation—which almost worked.
To be sure, the charges flung, as charges, were simply false and everybody knew it, not least the people who flung them, and fling them still. “We thought anything was justified,” as one of them put it, because his confirmation would mean “our access to abortion and sex was under attack.” All that was manifest, though to wrap up as to evidence, it need simply to be recalled that Thomas had worked with literally hundreds of women in the course of his career, not one of whom had even a remote experience of his accuser’s charges: and that, without exception, every single woman who had known and worked with both testified, under oath, that of course the claims were snake oil, because Thomas had never allowed even the “slightest hint of impropriety and everyone knew it.”
But that it was all, to his enemies, the “extravagant fiction” Thomas named it was of course beside the point. Unleashing sludge before a Senate Committee and twenty million television viewers about bestiality and pubic hair—explained not in the original deposition incidentally, albeit of course in front of the cameras, and taken all but neat from a scene in the novel The Exorcist—ought to have been sufficient to block the confirmation just because it was all so fetid, quite apart from whether it was true. That it would teach the boy his salutary lesson was no doubt an additional pleasure, though far more important, as Thomas would most dramatically explain, was the age-old message to anyone else—white or black one may observe—tempted to challenge the denizens of Empire.
They made one error. They had assaulted not an apparat, but a man, and it is worth another look at how the man responded.
Rejecting all the political handlers once the assault came, Thomas stood alone before the Judiciary Committee hitmen, and with a passion surely never before or since seen in that medium, testified that “something has happened to me in the dark days that have followed since the FBI informed me of these allegations. From the very beginning charges were leveled against me from the shadows - of drug abuse, anti-Semitism, wife-beating, drug use by family members, that I was a quota appointment, confirmation conversion, and much, much, more, and now this.”
It “is a case in which this sleaze, this dirt was searched for by staffers of members of this committee, was then leaked to the media, and this committee and this body validated it and displayed it at prime time over our entire nation. You spent the entire day destroying what it has taken me 43 years to build. The Supreme Court is not worth it. No job is worth it. I’m not here for that. I’m here for my name, my family, my life, and my integrity,” for this “is a national disgrace, a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.”
Well, the story has the magnitude Aristotle demands, though had it been fiction perhaps only Faulkner could have done it justice. Confronted with it—and perhaps the polls that showed Americans rejected the slanders by more than two to one—the Senate capitulated despite a 57-43 Democrat Senate majority; and Thomas was confirmed in the closest Senate vote for a Justice in American history. Still, if the immediate - prime objective of the hitmen failed, others were achieved, since his enemies have made a point of employing openly racist tropes about him—to snigger at the “n*gger” so to say—whenever they got the chance; but let us note especially because, as they feared - and as an ABC News study recently confessed—“his judicial opinions reveal a powerful voice extraordinary in scope and intensity.”
Ah, but the fallout from the assault was at least this successful, in that two years before it Justice Anthony Kennedy had voted against Roe v. Wade, but six months after it showed he’d learned his lesson, and dutifully became the decisive, indeed the very author, of the vote that upheld it: so in the end, if indirectly, the hit had achieved its chief social purpose. Meanwhile the Maureen Dowds of the land will continue to lament being unable to find a man, even as they defer to their eunuchs by spitting at a real one, just as the Jeffrey Toobins will scratch their heads and wonder why Thomas won’t accept the slime because, hey, Jeff would, and after all he got the plum job didn’t he?
Even so, since there is a God, and thus it matters what we do quite apart from the swill, there is rather more to Clarence Thomas than the political context through which his soul was revealed. In this hemisphere, Thomas’s genetic line formally emerged seven generations ago, shortly after the united states became independent, when a man and his wife first appeared in Georgia’s Liberty County records, as property. After emancipation their son, in his mid-fifties, bought 40 acres of land that had once belonged to his slavemasters; and he in turn witnessed the birth of the grandfather to whom Thomas would dedicate his book, as the Justice would, in a manner, his life.
My Grandfather’s Son is accordingly not simply a riveting tale, though it surely is. (According to the New York Times, Justice Thomas’s memoir has been purchased by more Americans than any other hardcover in the country. ) In showing a man who refuses to be degraded by the dead souls who run the show these days, it reminds of a standard older and more enduring than any passing Empire, one towards which the rest of us, still, remain free to aspire.
Richard Cowden Guido is a professional Gabriele D’Annunzio impersonator who resides in New York City.
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“an almost Leonidas-like manhood”
Interesting turn of phrase! He’s certainly an impressive man, a truly independent spirit and possibly the best of the Supreme Court justices.
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At the time the sludge was released, I too was amazed
by Clarence Thomas’s stoic dignity. As for the sludge,
I would expect nothing less disgusting from our
political-media class.
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That I impersonate Gabriele professionally is highly exaggerated, m-much as we love Venice. Less uniforms, though, or their attendant enthusiasms, not to say supermen, especially if they’re poets. As to womanizing, I’m married to a Calabrese, who, Taki notwithstanding, thickens all ankles I see with her bloodthirsty views on adultery.
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Richard,
Wow, finally Thomas get his due. Great work on
capturing the essence of a real Christian man.
Still have those Ron Paul buttons? This Saturday at
The Church of Our Savior (212.679.8166) on 38th & Park
Father Benedict Groeschel will say Mass and lead us
in a Walk for Life. You will find a lot of takers
there. Hope to see you.
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Not sure it’s the place for it, tho I’ll bring some. Che ora?
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If Richard Cowden-Guido takes over Fiume, I’ll be on the next steamer over from New York.
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Thanks!
It starts at 8:30am...below is the schedule...my kids
will be altar servers, so you can find me that way…
http://cafetheology.org/2007/10/16/prolife-walk-for-life-2007-this-sat-oct-20th-our-saviour/
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“I may be an originalist, but I am not a nut.” -Nino Scalia in response to how his views on Constitutional interpretation differ from Justice TooStupid to be able To Ask Questions in Oral Argument.
Erwin Griswold, Dean of Harvard Law School, lifelong Republican and partner at Republican megafirm Jones Day, where Scalia was also a partner, declared Thomas unqualified before anybody ever heard of Anita Hill.
True conservatives oppose Affirmative Action.
Not to mention the man was a porn fiend, even if Jane Mayer and Jill Abraham are New York liberals, they were respected Wall Street Journal reporteers and nobody has come forward to knock their book down. Even Ricky Silberman exclaimed “Hedid it, didn’t he?” when she read their book. All Thomas and Guido can do is shout racism when confronted with evidence of Thomas’s sins.
How is that any different from Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
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Richard ---
Okay, so he’s a brave man. But I resent the implication that our elites are a tribe of decadent lying nitwits. The very idea!
Great job!
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@Virgil,
Thanks for the stark reminder; dead souls reside on
both the left and right sides of the cultural
graveyard.
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@ Kevin
If you mean to impy my soul is dead because I questions Thomas’s qualifications to be on the Supreme Court and his veracity on whether he was an enthusiastic consumer of pornography, then shame on you.
The man is a sinner, as am I, as we all are. The “deadness” of his soul, as with mine and all souls, is for God alone to judge. Thomas can be forgiven, but no without first honestly admitting his sins. I don’t see him doing that when we plays the race card to smear anybody who questions his competence or his character.
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Virgil,
I think it’s safe to say that good and evil are
joined at the spine in all of us. Yet, you employed a
public policy issue, in this case affirmative action,
to ridicule a man’s entire life and charachter. That
is a common practice in the barren world of
ideologues and a soul-deadening practice.
Before you call for Thomas’s public confession,
you might want to make a private one of your own.
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@ Kevin
As we are on the subjects of dead souls, I am reminded that Thomas “officiated” at Rush Limbaugh’s THIRD wedding in 1994. Thomas’s moral fitness for appointment was , according to his handlers, unassailable because he was a “religious” man who had been educated in Catholic schools. I thinks he currently identifies himself as a Catholic, but then so does Rudy Adultriani.
My Point: The Church flatly condemns remarriage after divorce, absent annullment, as adultery. I’m sure you and Guido will cite some Clintonian loopphole on Thomas flirting with Episcopalianism. Fomenting adultery is a moral outrage worthy of a church founded by a gluttonous English tyrant who martyred blessed Saint Thomas More and persecuted Catholics because he wanted the true church to sanction his adulterous serial harem. God forgive me if Thomas has made good confession for this past sin,but it seems to me that if the man wants to preside over the third wedding of Limbaugh, who makes Henry VIII look like Henry James, maybe he should have stayed with the Whiskeypalians.
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@ Kevin
I did not ridicule the man’s entire life and character, and I am not calling for any kind of public confession unless a priest were to make him apologize for bearing false witness againt the women I believe harassed and the reporters and congressmen he caluminated.
For the record, I admire Justice Scalia and Robert Bork.
Thomas, as a jurist and a legal scholar, is not fit for the highest court in the land. That does not mean that I denigrate his work as alawyer for Monsanto or EEOC bureaucrat. I’m sure he was adequate, as were plenty of other lawyers with similar credentials. But, to put it in down home terms:don’t piss dwon my leg and tell me it’s raining. If Thomas were white with that resume, he wouldn’t have sniffed nomination to the Supreme court.
To put it bluntly, he is a product of a racially tinged Political Correctness of the Right. If the first President Bush had any guts whatsoever, he would have done away with the quota system of a black seat on the Court and renominated Bork.
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@ Kevin
And sincere thanks for reminding of me of the need to avail myself of the sacrament of pennance. I did feel a little heat around my shirt collar.
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Virgil,
The Church is a hospital for the sick,therefore there
is no shortage of evil working behind the walls of
any denomination.
Given your rhetoric, I don’t suspect you’ve been
responsible for many conversions.
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Funny you should cynically manipulate that quote of our Blessed Lord to give credit to a fomenter of adultery and remarried divorce’ himself. The Archbishop of Cantebury recently perverted it to further the homosexual agenda in that so called church where some Southern American conservatives and Africans are finally awakening in horror to the inevitable fruits of heresy.
As to conversions, I point you to the words of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, no piker when it came to the work of conversions:
“But some most worthless persons in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God t their own destruction, and that of those that give credit to them, whom you must avoid as wild beasts.”
I made specific, factual rebuttals on Thomas’s qualifications and affirmative action, a public policy issue, as you in the clinical terms of an idelogue characterize it. I, in turn, receive ad hominem on my piety and character. Good day Sir.
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My how a man makes the world’s Cain(e)s howl, even when they’ve got such luminaries as Mayer and Abraham – and Ricky Silberman! – to turn spigots for them! Swimming midst such gleaming prose has apparently prevented Mr. Caine from actually reading Thomas’s opinions, whose power, scope and intensity – not to say grasp of Constitutional law – all but the professional hacks have been forced to acknowledge; but, as he says, and demonstrates, Mr. Caine prefers gibberish, at the Court and apparently everywhere.
Gibberish such as that all Cowden “Guido can do is shout racism” and “play the race card” when nothing in the piece does anything of the kind. Its only passing reference is to method, the racist tropes Thomas’s enemies are happy to employ – for example, tropes like TooStupid to Read a Short Article. Oh wait…
In any event, whatever complexity of motive Bush Sr. may have had in nominating Thomas, part of it might well have been insight into character. That is of course the real contribution of Clarence Thomas and his grandfather, for which our joke of a Court is but the occasion and backdrop; and so only incidentally makes him the best man on that degraded institution, quite independent of whether he is a Serb by heritage, or an African as to that. Much more interesting is that, as a man, he is very likely the most estimable American public figure of the post-war era. That tops affirmative action every time.
As to Thomas’s public sins – and I don’t mean the ones the hitmen and their minions contrived – in particular the especially egregious presiding over Rushie’s faux marriage, it was undeniably horrible: if not so horrible as the apostasy that still gripped Thomas when he committed it. He has, presumably by God’s Grace, since returned to the Faith, and though corruption of its priests is another subject, corrupt or no, they ruled Thomas’s first effort to marry did not take, and so it was annulled.
Whether, apart from the apostasy, these sins were as severe as the one against bearing false witness, which includes making charges without knowing their validity, we can leave to Mr. Caine’s confessor to decide.
But as to his argument, such as it is: Mr. Caine slimes Thomas as Too Stupid to gibber, slanders Cowden-Guido, says the slander proves C-G’s no different than Sharpton/Jackson, uses detraction by comparing Thomas to a swine like Giuliani (for which, regarding detraction, that may be unjust to the swine), then makes false charges and insinuations – invoking Loyola no less – of a very serious kind and without foundation, then calls all this “specific, factual” rebuttal, before demurely claiming none of it ridiculed Thomas’s character. He then closes with a whine that others are engaging in ad hominem against him.
Mr. Caine’s soul is, humanly, his confessor’s problem, but that his brain long since ceased to blip is manifest. Doubtless he will provide further evidence, but his work is done, and the rest will but be redundant.
He does, however, provide us this vivid illustration of how all the attacks on Thomas work, and it was in the knowledge that minions and idiots would purvey such drivel that the original slander was devised. It should be of some satisfaction to them that Thomas, because he is a man, feels it; much more to us, that the Justice shows what manhood looks like in an era that has forgotten it.
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“The most estimable public figure of the post War era.” What a farce. How about Senator Jeremiah Denton, John Cardinal O’ Connor, or Whittaker Chambers to name three off the top of my head that Thomas can’t hold a canlde to.
Nice Stalinist trope of your own Sir: all critics of Thomas are dupes of the Trotskyist slimers.
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Like most black conservatives Thomas embraces an ideology that once championed slavery and later segregation. No wonder he is called an “Oreo” and “Uncle Tom”. The man is totally lacking in self-respect and in a sense of his own identity. His troubled soul cries out empty words.
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1) Giuliani is not swine. He is made in the image and likeness of God, in other words a man.
2)No refutation of Erwin Griswold, hardly a “hack” re: Thomas’s lack of qualifications.
3) A friend mine served as a Supreme Court clerk. It is thyey who are to be praised for whatever “power scope and intensity...grasp of Const.” to be found in Thomas’s opinions. Dirty little secret:they write them. If Thomas can be praised for anything, it is his talent for hiring sharp clerks.
4) @longwalksetc. Thomas is not an “Oreo”. That is a Marxist term on the order of “false consciousness.” Moreover, plenty of 19th century liberals had no qualms about slavery as long as they were making money off of it.
5) Pitt the Younger along with Wilberforce lead the fight for British abolition. HE also planted the seeds of the Tory aprty.
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Father Benedict Groeschel will say Mass and lead us in a Walk for Life.
As to conversions, I point you to the words of Saint Ignatius of Loyola...
And sincere thanks for reminding of me of the need to avail myself of the sacrament of penance.
I hereby introduce the reducio ad magisterium:
As a paleoconservative discussion grows longer, the probability of the conversation turning to sacerdotalism approaches one.
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“We remain a hunted people. Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we’re a new Mestizo nation.”
“Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes…”
“We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.”
– Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, founder of La Raza
“Around the year 2040, whites will become a minority in the United States and, believe me, it will be ‘payback time’.”
- Pro-Immigration Activist, Jorge Sanchez
“And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that in my estimation is the only conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem.”
- African Studies professor, Dr. Kamau Kambon
“Blond hair and blue eyes are a biological defect.”
“The white race is a disease, and the only cure is a bullet. The rule of whites is history. Soon they will be our serfs. It’s now the Age of the Brown Man.”
- Hindu nationalist, Ramesh Sharma
“The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists. Make no mistake about it we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed–not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed.”
- Jewish studies professor, Dr Noel Ignatiev
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Obviously Clarence Thomas has an immense trouble with his blackness. Unlike the “Tan Everyman” Obama who enjoys good looks and is solidly planted in the American mainstream, Thomas suffers in comparison. Marrying white or adhering to the philosophy of the ruling class will not change the DNA of a man.
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I should like to point out that in Mr. Fumne’s excellent exose’ of Mr, Caine, the former made an error. Mr. Caine did not slander Mr. Cowden-Guido, but rather libeled him.
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Then Guido’s title itself is a libel to me because he’s the only one employing racial epithets. Further he is doing it in a calcualted way as did the Communists within the Civil Rights movement who accused all Southern opposition to encroaching Federal power of racism. It is neocon reverse race baiting.
Mr. Fiume is also libelous of Justice Scalia, though there may be a public official loophole, in lumping him in with the Supreme Court as a “joke.” It is certainly libelous of Daniel Webster, John W. Davis, and Justice John MArshall Harlan, to name a few legendary oralists that must be consigned to the dustbin of “gibberish” because these your man Thomas is simply not capable of going toe to toe in the arena of oral argument on highest legal plane. So, in classic Communist/Neocon fashion the entire process must be denigrated. Scalia’s words sting because they speak truth. Therefore Toobins (sic) must be destroyed.
No Erwin Griswold refutation. Was he a senile gibberer?
And enough about Thomas’s exalted “manhood.” If he were 1/100th of the man of Senator Denton, he would have volunteered to fight and die in the rice paddies of South Vietnam to save a defenseless country with many Catholics from a Godless Communist agressor. But, instead, after getting a low draft number, he got himself, like his buddy Rush with his pimple on his ass, a physical deferment for a spine curvature ( a real man with backbone). This despite his vaunted prowess in the weightroom and on the flag football field. After that he pranced around New Haven in radical chic overalls and spouted Black Panther “gibberish”.
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If he were 1/100th of the man of Senator Denton, he would have volunteered to fight and die in the rice paddies of South Vietnam....
Why is it a young man’s duty to risk death and maiming in a foreign war in which (a) his country is not threatened and (b) the architects of the conflict are godless globalist nincompoops?
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We were fighting evil in Vietnam. The South Vietnamese gov’t was not perfect, LBJ larded up Defense Contracts for his buddies at Brown adn Root (predecessor firm to Halliburton) and we did commit atrocities. However, unlike the Muslim extremists, the Soviets were bent on world domination.
As to your specific point, I take no issue with conscientous objectors. However, Thomas and Rush did not go that route. I’m sure they say now they supported the fight againt Ho Chi Minh, they just wanted somebody else to fight it. THomas, in his vaguely Black nationalist/radical phase at the time, may have had a casee of timely moral qualms-though one would think his fondness for the nuns in Savannah might have provoked some fighting spirit on behalf of Vietnamese nuns being slaughteerd by yhte VC.
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Kudos to Mr. Caine for his charitable (and ongoing) vindication of that Fiume analysis about his brain, however redundant the gibberish may be. Thanks too to Mr. Paris for his further illumination of the cracker soul.
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Forgive me, but Clarence Thomas is an intellectual lightweight. He is a perfect product of our times: shallow, arrogant and unworthy. He is the intersection of affirmative action and political insincerity. His value to the nation is nil. His defense of freedom is nonexistent and his corruption is limited only by his incompetence.
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@ Demais
Andrew Jackson, Senator Jim Webb, Alvin York, Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senator Lawton Chiles, Senator Ralph Yarborough, all “Crackers” or “Rednecks” did more for this country than Thomas Sowell ever did or will. Johnny Cash, MErle Haggard, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, “Crackers” and “Rednecks” all added more to the cultural richness of our American music and folklore than Thomas Sowell ever will.
Plenty of “Crackers” and “Rednecks” from Kentucky, Missouri, MAryland, what is now West Virginia, Southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio fought and died in the war that gave Mr. Sowell’s people their freedom. Crackers and Rednecks, Respectfully called backwoodsmen in those days, turned the tide against Cornwallis and Bloody Tarleton at King’s Mountain and Cowpens, laying the groundwork for the glorious victory that gave us our Nation at Yorktown.
Or are these mostly poor to middle class, rural Scots-Irish Southerners not “crackers” and “redneck” under Mr. Sowell’s taxonomy that you parrot Demais? IF not, then I submit your reasoning is akin to white racists who exempt “good blacks” from the scurrilous epithet Coward Guido lacks the guts to lay out full bore in his title. Wrap your Neocon mind around that one while sipping your Chardonnay at the Met, and while you at, remeber hoss, tath when it comes to fighting and dying for this great land, “Crackers” haave sacrificed the most by a country mile.
In the words of our Redneck Bard Bocephus:
Cause you can’t starve us out and you can’t make us run
Cause one them ole boys raise a shotgun
And we say grace and we say ma’am
And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn
We’re from North California and South Alabam
And little towns all around this land
We can skin a buck, run a trot line
Country Boy can survive
Country folks can survive
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Calm down with your silly lists, Mr. Caine. These betters of yours, unlike fools whose self-absorption can’t grasp even playful irony – excluding Jackson with his fondness for slaughtering women and children, of course, not to say the abortion hungry Chiles & Yarborough – all had a rich sense of humor. And, like Faulkner, all knew that character isn’t specific to race. The cracker soul Mr. Cowden-Guido has so delightfully evoked, finds expression in, to be sure, the world’s Teddyboys & Metzenbaums, but no less their minions like you & Mr. M. above who are happy to fling libels, unhappy when called on it.
And who the hell is Thomas Sowell?
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“Whoever say to his brother thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire”
Matthew 5:22
Thomas Sowell is a Hoover Institution Fellow (Friedman Chair), US MArine, and Clarence Thomas’s intellectual Godfather. He wrote a libelous book called “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”. I’m sure you would enjoy it given your Marxcon tendency to refer to paleocon white people as “Crackers”
You’re right about Chiles. He did veto the Florida “Choose Life” license plates. Got carried away on that one by “walkin Lawton’s” proud self description as a “Florida Cracker.” Pace you, he was damn funny.
And infant mortality declined 18% while he was Governor of Florida, so he balanced the Warren Burger caused Roe deaths somewhat during his tenure. May God have mercy on his soul.
Ralph Yarborough was defeated for reelection several years before Roe v Wade. However, the man who ran as the Republican nominee aganst hime, Clarence Thomas’s ultimate political benefactor, Poppy Bush, was so pro- Rockefeller Foundation, oOne World population control he was known in the House Republican cloak room by the nickname “Rubbers.”
Didn’t know Bill Monroe and Alvin York were noted comics.
Nobody ever said “character was specific to race” except you and your MArxcon buddies. Frederick Douglass was a great man. I would note Willima Faulkner did make approving comments about citizens of Lafayette County, Mississipii “getting their shotguns and going down the road shooting Negroes” during the Ole Miss deseg. crisis.
For the record, I find that neither funny nor moral, not to mention the distinctly un-Neocon implications on the link between race and character. Nice try.
Humor, like patriotism, is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Neocons don’t like it when country folk know their history. So they denigrate it with womanly sarcasm such as “lists” and “gibberish”.
I will keep coming with my “lists” as long as F.J. Sarto and my keyboard allow.
Did you hear the one about “you might be a redneck if you don’t take crap off elitist snobs with funny French names.?”
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Virgil Caine, who served on the Danville train what you are missing here in your numerous arguments is that Clarence Thomas was never questioned in the senate hearings on his fitness from an intelectual standpoint to serve on the supreme court. It would have been quite funny indeed to see the panel arrayed against him to question his fitness to serve based on a lack of intelect or for having dodged the draft. Wether or not the man had viewed pornography or not was of no consequence and had no place in his confirmation hearings unless the purpose of those hearings was in fact to display the unfittness of a black man to have the proper moral character to serve. If reject the notion as elitist that there is some special intellect that is required to serve on the court. It is my understanding that all men can come to know right from wrong wether they be educated or not much less Yale Law School educated.
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that is I reject as elitist. I also wish to add that I agree that what Bush should probably have done is to re-appoint Bork. The actions of the senate committee wer as RCG correctly points out in this article to destroy a decent human being who had the audacity to be both black and conservative and for being a benificiary of the wellfare state but an ingratefull one who would not pay homage to it.
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Nice going guys!
I just love it when you fling the dirt at each other. It certainly teaches me new ways to abuse the English language. Thanks!
Seems that Mr. Thomas is not very well liked by Mr. Caine. Did he steal your girlfriend? What other reason could be there to fling so much dirt upon the man, starting with the accusation of looking at a porno. Well Mr. Caine, if you claim to never have done that, you are a bloody liar!
Anyway, keep up the faux indignation. It is funny to read.
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@ Libori
Anita Hill, a couple of hot young things from EEOC, and Mayor Barry used to come by Logan Circle crib for porn and crack parties back in the day. That is until Justice T stole them away.
Judging by your other posts, I don’t think you need any edification on the abuse of the English laguage.
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“Libel” disclaimer to Guidoites re last post:
I was 12 years old when “Justice T” was at EEOC. He may have stolen a former girlfriend or two, but, if so, I am not aware of it.
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@ Nucci
That was a great-great-great uncle Cain who served on the Danville train. He was later killed in the famous Wreck of the Old 97.
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Virgil your great-great uncle was a great man and the song that commemorated him is equally great. It was indeed a sad night that they drove old Dixie down. I realize now why there was such a furor over the Confederate flag. It wasn’t because it represented slavery like we have been told by the msm, but that it represented a small reminder of what we once had...states rights. Don’t want anyone remembering that anymore.
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