tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post3666865094250124591..comments2024-01-17T15:05:50.120-06:00Comments on AngryBlackBitch: By request – Debunking Acceptable Blackness through the second coming of the Rev. Wright drama…Shark-Fuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-12693842068667335922008-05-05T13:31:00.000-05:002008-05-05T13:31:00.000-05:00Great post ABB! I agree with Maven, Wright has ne...Great post ABB! I agree with Maven, Wright has never gotten this much attention in his life and is doing so at the expense of Obama. He could wait until November. There's much more at stake than just the history of electing a Black man President. Thought about the Supreme Court lately? Went to see Lawrence Fishburne in Thurgood in NYC this weekend and in the play it was said that Nixon appointed four justices and hoped Thurgood would retire (which he didn't), but let's think about who will appoint the next batch of Justices who will make the law for life, after Bush, Hillary, Barack, etc. Wright's woeful lack of foresight on a very large implication of Barack's loss in an effort to showboat, do his constituents and the Lord a disservice. If his actions lead to another four years of domination by the right, and lifetime appointments of Justices who think the same, then he is guilty of doing wrong to God's people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-56909846669070303332008-05-04T19:58:00.000-05:002008-05-04T19:58:00.000-05:00IMHonestO, part of the problem with the USA is tha...IMHonestO, part of the problem with the USA is that liberation theology is seen as "hard-left".jsb16https://www.blogger.com/profile/15026570673498674977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-28102637612556254912008-05-04T17:00:00.000-05:002008-05-04T17:00:00.000-05:00Yet another in a continuing series of your posts p...Yet another in a continuing series of your posts printed and handed to my daughters. Acceptable blackness is a constant source of conversation in our house.<BR/>I love you, Shark-fu, I truly do.Yankee, Transferredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06627693160131161133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-55806166070563439832008-05-04T16:26:00.000-05:002008-05-04T16:26:00.000-05:00Watched Meet the Press today and it is indeed time...Watched Meet the Press today and it is indeed time for an anti-chaos or reality lives campaign. All the White Media wants to talk about in Rev. Write. I see white people everyday with their Obama campaign buttons on and still can't believe I am seeing white people in America proudly supporting a black man. So they see the reality Obama's time has come, he is the right person at the right time. And through it all, he sticks to what he believes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-77935095712729288002008-05-04T14:28:00.000-05:002008-05-04T14:28:00.000-05:00thank you ABB!Only last week a coworker came into ...thank you ABB!<BR/><BR/>Only last week a coworker came into my office (after a staff discussion on race and gender) to moan about how "unproductve" the anger of POC is.<BR/><BR/>I guess I passed her Acceptable test.<BR/><BR/>grrrrr<BR/><BR/>We're caught coming and going, slotted into some narrative that has nothing to do with the reality of complex human beings. We're Acceptable or we're Angry.<BR/><BR/>I think in need to cultivate Angry.rrphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01597764473889958956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-33330484463560958982008-05-04T07:49:00.000-05:002008-05-04T07:49:00.000-05:00I'm a black female and I do not agree with Rev Wri...I'm a black female and I do not agree with Rev Wright's philosophy nor do I care for his histrionics/antics. As far as I'm concerned, the man is a 'buffoon.' Okay... I'm going to call a spade a spade.... Rev Wright and his cronies are jealous of this young man's, Barack Obama, run for president of the USA. Rev Wright was compelled to 'strut his stuff.' He had to show everyone how intelligent he is with that 'history lesson' he gave at the Detroit Chapter of the NAACP and continued at the National Press Club. Nobody denies some of the stuff he says is true, but to add other stuff that has not be proven is a 'miscarriage of justice' on his part, not on the "former slave masters or descendants of slave masters" to put it in his vernacular. <BR/><BR/>Rev Wright needs to go somewhere, anywhere, and sit his butt down and shut up. Since he "cusses" in the pulpit I'll just add that he needs to 'STFU.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-35467048261339476622008-05-04T00:33:00.000-05:002008-05-04T00:33:00.000-05:00There has been so much said and so much not. I am ...There has been so much said and so much not. I am trying to undertand my own thoughts about this. I do think bill Moyers has said something that speaks to this latest entry.<BR/><BR/>http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05022008/watch.html<BR/><BR/>It spoke to me. Thanks for this site.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-68709643525199952622008-05-03T22:09:00.000-05:002008-05-03T22:09:00.000-05:00Great post! You nailed it. I am still laughing.Great post! You nailed it. I am still laughing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-69051193792107593902008-05-03T19:28:00.000-05:002008-05-03T19:28:00.000-05:00I think this is an adjunct to this blog. I love th...I think this is an adjunct to this blog. I love this site, I'm Irish, Mexican and Native and I hear you.<BR/><BR/>http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05022008/watch.html<BR/><BR/>I think Bill is trying to explain it to the white audienceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-10543752740511516042008-05-03T17:07:00.000-05:002008-05-03T17:07:00.000-05:00Amen sister.Amen sister.RainaWeatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00576541708313523384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-87689093431942052022008-05-03T14:40:00.000-05:002008-05-03T14:40:00.000-05:00Just trying to spread the word:Operation Anti-Chao...Just trying to spread the word:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=1144" REL="nofollow">Operation Anti-Chaos: The Narrative on 'White Voters' is FICTION</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/opinion/03blow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" REL="nofollow">A Blacklash?</A>rikyrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10982657053583534299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-85404964162092996412008-05-03T14:24:00.000-05:002008-05-03T14:24:00.000-05:00Well... Barack did choose a church with a black-na...Well... Barack did <EM>choose</EM> a church with a black-nationalist mission and a pastor steeped in the hard-left ideology of "liberation theology."<BR/><BR/>Perhaps he should've foreseen that such an association mightn't play well in Peoria.<BR/><BR/>Or perhaps, being a biracial out-of-towner, he needed to buck up his "black man" credentials to get elected in Chicago in the first place.<BR/><BR/>Shit... it's tricky to rock a rhyme that's right on time...Undercover Black Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08704721024820668555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-25100269428059578892008-05-02T18:02:00.000-05:002008-05-02T18:02:00.000-05:00faith,Where did you get the idea that Obama has gi...faith,<BR/>Where did you get the idea that Obama has given Clinton a pass? I'm pretty sure Obama's campaign was a source of the idea that Hillary's tears before NH were staged. Obama has made comments about Clinton being "periodically mood" (as if other people[men] <I>aren't</I>). And Clinton hasn't come out and said that Obama's faking his commitment to peaceful justice, which Wright did, so I'm not sure I see <B>why</B> Obama should be swinging at Clinton in exactly the same manner as he swung at Wright. Clinton, and even McCain, are Obama's competition for the White House. Wright, by making the claim that Obama really agrees with Wright no matter what Obama says, put himself into the category of Men-Who-Won't-Take-No-For-An-Answer.<BR/><BR/>As for rude awakenings... Obama's human. And he's drawn to power. I'm cynical enough to believe that anyone in his situation got there by being acceptable to those who already have power in some way.jsb16https://www.blogger.com/profile/15026570673498674977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-48413751417855942532008-05-02T06:46:00.000-05:002008-05-02T06:46:00.000-05:00jsb16: "If it's no racism, why are Rev. Wright's p...jsb16: "If it's no racism, why are Rev. Wright's paranoias (the US gov't, having perpetrated Tuskegee, wouldn't've had an ethical problem spreading AIDS to blacks) so much worse than Rev. Hagee's paranoias (Katrina was God's punishment on NOLA for daring to allow homosexuals to party)?"<BR/><BR/>After writing my own post on the topic, having been inspired by this one of Shark-fu's yesterday, I can say that this is another case of how whites are allowed to be individuals, but non-whites are not. Thank you big time, Shark-fu, for getting me going with that useful concept of acceptable blackness.<BR/><BR/>http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2008/05/hold-black-people-to-higher-standards.htmlmacon dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-75260165516167808972008-05-02T04:40:00.000-05:002008-05-02T04:40:00.000-05:00But I have to wonder if Obama is soooo interested ...But I have to wonder if Obama is soooo interested in building bridges that he's the car that will bypass all the black people to get to the whites. Why did he come out swinging against Wright to defend himself but give Hillary and McCain a pass? Why didn't he publicly come out swinging for his wife when she was attacked? I was willing to brush these things aside before but you know that's a dangerous thing to. I see Michelle as an authentic person...a real 'sister' so to speak. She was a BIG part of why I support him. I wonder if I've misplaced my support? When we project what we want to see in a person we set ourselves up for a BIG letdown after the fact. I was reading dailykos and Kos posted why he was upset at Obama for going on Fox and that he made an unnecessary compromise. Well it got like 700+ comments and most people vehemently disagreed with him. But...I wonder? Are those of us who support an Obama candidacy in for a rude awakening? I'm not going to support Clinton regardless, but I think I ought to look into the Green party and Cynthia McKinney's run.Faith at Acts of Faith Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02150553143062604249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-56764324393747698912008-05-02T00:19:00.000-05:002008-05-02T00:19:00.000-05:00Anyone who thinks racism is dead in the US of A ne...<I>Anyone who thinks racism is dead in the US of A needs to contemplate why it is that Rev. Wright's anger merits so much public handwringing</I><BR/><BR/>Who is denying that racism or any other type of "-ism" is dead?<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it is naive of me to think this, but I think once we start thinking of each other in terms of WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS, and focus on those things that unite us as humans, rather than pointing out our differences and past injustices, we, as a society are doing nothing but spinning our wheels.<BR/><BR/>As Dr. King said:<BR/><BR/>[...] <I> In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.</I>[...]<BR/><BR/>"Content of character." That's ultimately what we all should be concerned with, black, white, whatever. <BR/><BR/>There's nothing disciplined in Wright's speech. Nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-36923681427557479592008-05-01T20:46:00.000-05:002008-05-01T20:46:00.000-05:00Nancy P...I think we've got dog shirts, but I'll h...Nancy P...<BR/><BR/>I think we've got dog shirts, but I'll have C-Money check on that.<BR/><BR/>Hmmm, I fear that I may have two Acceptably Black pets! Clearly they should be small to medium of size non-threatening dawgs that are not pure bred (Lawd knows an Acceptable Black person can't have elitist dawgs).<BR/><BR/>Sounds like a sorta-beagle to me.<BR/><BR/>Who knew?Shark-Fuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-3594581031355129252008-05-01T19:38:00.000-05:002008-05-01T19:38:00.000-05:00Anyone who thinks racism is dead in the US of A ne...Anyone who thinks racism is dead in the US of A needs to contemplate why it is that Rev. Wright's anger merits so much public handwringing, but Rev. Hagee's merits none. If it's no racism, why are Rev. Wright's paranoias (the US gov't, having perpetrated Tuskegee, wouldn't've had an ethical problem spreading AIDS to blacks) so much worse than Rev. Hagee's paranoias (Katrina was God's punishment on NOLA for daring to allow homosexuals to party)?<BR/><BR/>Personally, I just wish the two Dems (and the media) would quit beating on each other and compete to see who can come up with the best attack ad on McCain. I'll give money to any candidate who can convince McCain supporters that McCain's <B>not</B> a maverick, not honest and true to his 'principles', but a crank who's worse than Dubya in ever so many ways.jsb16https://www.blogger.com/profile/15026570673498674977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-49821927559093960692008-05-01T19:04:00.000-05:002008-05-01T19:04:00.000-05:00Halp! What's "an acceptably Black" pet? (C-Money, ...Halp! What's "an acceptably Black" pet? <BR/><BR/>(C-Money, here's your cue for ABB dog sweaters...)<BR/><BR/>NancyPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-88645523213265929152008-05-01T16:07:00.000-05:002008-05-01T16:07:00.000-05:00What concerns me here, and I sat and watched CNN l...What concerns me here, and I sat and watched CNN live when Pastor Wright was speaking this week. And I have to say it downright scared me. SCARED ME, I dare say! <BR/><BR/>I would be naive to say that the pastor doesn't speak for others; because he does. Otherwise he wouldn't have a following.<BR/><BR/>This is not to say that he speaks for Obama per se, or that he speaks for all Black Americans. But he is a controversial, provocative orator.<BR/><BR/>It would be naive to think that there are no Black Americans who think and have the same type of prejudices and rage that Pastor Wright has. Because there are. Otherwise he wouldn't have a following.<BR/><BR/>I am not sure what scares me more:<BR/><BR/>1. Pastor Wright's blatant media whoring (at the expense of his association of Mr. Obama); OR<BR/><BR/>2. His intentional "stoking of the fire," his instigating and perpetuating the inherent/multi-generational HATE-ON certain (and certainly NOT ALL) Black Americans have for past injustices, and his OUTRIGHT NEGLECT of his pastoral committment to teach the Gospel of Jesus, which I might want to remind Pastor Wright, is about LOVE. <BR/><BR/>When you couple up the fact that there is nothing LOVING in Pastor Wright's words, and there is nothing inherently Christian about his VITRIOL, the only conclusion I can come to is he's a HACK, and it's downright insulting, black OR white, to think that this man speaks for anyone BUT HIMSELF.<BR/><BR/>He should lay off the Jesus Juice before speaking in public.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-54229578008192369892008-05-01T15:02:00.000-05:002008-05-01T15:02:00.000-05:00Anonymous...Senator Obama should resort to cross b...Anonymous...<BR/><BR/>Senator Obama should resort to cross burning? Yeah...ummm, how about no.<BR/><BR/>I think you have invested too much importance in Rev. Wright and too little responsibility in the media and public who are giving too much importance to Rev. Wright.<BR/><BR/>Blink.<BR/><BR/>And this bitch thinks Rev. Wright has done enough damage to his own reputation.<BR/><BR/>Mercy.<BR/><BR/>And when did calling someone Judas become the new it diss?Shark-Fuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-71854855053460097602008-05-01T14:12:00.000-05:002008-05-01T14:12:00.000-05:00I did not know that there was such a thing as acce...I did not know that there was such a thing as acceptable blackness until I started pointing out "racial problems" and attitudes of co-workers at my first place of employment when I was a wee lass. It was amazing to me how they immediately saw me as some angry person I was not. I never even raised my voice when I spoke about these issues it was bizarre and these were people who had known me for years. So they knew I was not angry by nature but it was easier to tag me as angy than to look at their own attitudes. DISTURBING!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-51692875592122174412008-05-01T13:21:00.000-05:002008-05-01T13:21:00.000-05:00Barack was pretty Pd-Off at a certain back-stabbin...Barack was pretty Pd-Off at a certain back-stabbing Preacher yesterday. Barack would be fully jusitfied to apply for honorary membership in the Ku Klux Klan for this occasion. If I were Barack, I'd lead a Torchlight Procession of the Klan to Wright's new $10 Million residence, burn a Cross, and do what needs to be done to that Judas of a Preacher. The "Reverend" Jerry Judas Iscariot Wright hung Barack out to dry. Barak should repay this <B>DIRTY ROTTEN TRAITOR</B> back in kind for trampling upon the hopes of any Black who ever aspires to the Presidency.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-13907910526240080352008-05-01T13:07:00.000-05:002008-05-01T13:07:00.000-05:00I will try to verbalize what I feel about this mes...I will try to verbalize what I feel about this mess/issue/bullshit:<BR/><BR/>I believe Rev.Wright has the right to say whatever he believes to be true. As long as he isn't screaming fire in a crowded theater, he can say whatever trips his egotistical trigger. <BR/><BR/>When I watched him last Friday on Bill Moyers, I was still behind him..but when I saw the show he put on in Detroit and then the Press Club, I was struck by carnie-like atmosphere he seemed to be enjoying. <BR/><BR/>But I still support his right to say what he feels is right..regardless of whether I agree with him or not. <BR/><BR/>That the media and the population at large draw a direct correlation between what Rev Wright believes/espouses and what Mr. Obama believes/espouses is so fuckwitted, I am floored at their ignorance.<BR/><BR/>Being your brothers keeper has taken on a whole new meaning it seems. And that is doing a horrible disservice to Mr. Obama and what he is trying to accomplish. <BR/><BR/>And its wrong on <B>every</B> level for <B>anyone</B> to hold Mr. Obama accountable for the thoughts and actions of his brother Rev. Wright. I am appalled at what has transpired in our nation within the these last few weeks...but then I remember..we are talking about a man of color..and the rules are still fucking different for we people of color. Equality...where for art thou?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-85921016258661882462008-05-01T12:47:00.000-05:002008-05-01T12:47:00.000-05:00Thank you Shark Fu for your take on this mess/issu...Thank you Shark Fu for your take on this mess/issue/bullshit. Your eloquence is stunning to me. How I wish I could verbalize my feelings as well as you do.. but I just get worked up and let my emotions get the best of this ol brown bitch.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.com