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InvisibleConservationist
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Conservatives should not oppose Afrocentricism
    #9088529 - 10/16/08 08:24 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

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Carruthers makes a good point. No ethnic group feels happy unless it rules itself. No ethnic group feels comfortable ruling itself, unless it has a consensus on values and direction, which is what we call "culture." It helps to have customs, rituals, languages and a heritage in common; in fact, it is essential. We can't advocate such things for white people or we get called racist, but what these conservatives are doing is essentially turning the tables on black America and calling them racist. Wait, what?

Consider that Carruthers is right, and that his ideas apply to every ethnic group. None of us want to be from a group that because it is mixed lacks heritage, so culture becomes an option and so disintegrates because it's easier to have no culture, leaving a grey race of people who get their values and customs from television and advertising. We all want to be what we are, what our ancestors labored to make us and what -- in our saner moments -- we admit we like being. Multiculturalism just doesn't work. Carruthers is pure sense; Obama is clarity in supporting him; Stanley Kurtz, while sometimes quite astute, is off-base here.

Afrocentrists are at their core conservatives in the oldest sense, before we start arguing over small gov't, taxes, free markets and defense spending. Conservatives conserve; they preserve the past, assert its place, and uphold its values. If whites can do these things, why can't African-Americans? If this is the best assault conservatives can come up with, this election will have grim results for them, because this double standard assaults our basic sense of decency and fair play.

Afrocentricism is National Socialism for African-Americans -- and separation from whites.





This makes sense to me.

If you're a conservative, conserve, even if it's not you own culture.


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InvisibleDieCommie


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Re: Conservatives should not oppose Afrocentricism [Re: Conservationist]
    #9088532 - 10/16/08 08:25 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

Nah... doesnt sound good to me.  Race should not be equated to culture.  Thats how the old world works, I think the new world is better than that.  Or at least, can be better than that.


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InvisibleMinstrel
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Re: Conservatives should not oppose Afrocentricism [Re: DieCommie]
    #9089125 - 10/16/08 10:06 PM (15 years, 4 months ago)

The article reads like doublethink.  It written intentionally to be wholly ironic?


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