Comments on: What Makes a Real Man: An Interview with Ward Connerly

By: momof3

momof3 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:18:01 +0000

JackT, I am part native american. I demand that you give up your land and every penny you or your parents or family ever made, and set sail at once. You are here illegally. I am also part Irish. We underwent plenty of discrimination when we first came. Who’s going to pay us? Quite whining about the past and get off your ass and do something today!! And what do you mean you doubt seriously women will ever be free? Did I somehow fail to notice I am incarcerated? No, that’s right, I am too busy living and doing what I want to do to remember to be a perma-victim.

And another little point forgotten by blacks when they cry reparations and affirmative action-it wasn’t white people hunting down and catching blacks in africa for slaves. It was OTHER AFRICAN BLACKS doing it for money. They caught them and sold them. So much for the “glorious african heritage” nonsense.

Anyone not pleased with their current life is free to move themselves up in the world, or leave.

By: Sir Milk Snow

Sir Milk Snow — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:12:47 +0000

18. James “And why do you most of you assume that the people who come here are “white people”?”

Reply – yo, why u gotsta axe a kweshun like dat for?

By: JackT

JackT — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:23:07 +0000

It’s funny how white people never had a problem with discriminating against blacks, but as soon as you talk about preferential treatment to make up for centuries of black oppression, they cry reverse discrimination. I can do it to you, but don’t do it to me. And btw, I seriously doubt if women will ever be free.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:44:43 +0000

Agreed

By: James

James — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:43:41 +0000

“Ward is a blessing to a lot of us white people looking for common sense from other races”. “I saw two comments here railing about discrimination against women”.

Why is color/gender definition so important to you guys? And why do you most of you assume that the people who come here are “white people”?

By: Nedarc

Nedarc — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:52:29 +0000

Ward is a blessing to a lot of us white people looking for common sense from other races. God bless you Ward.

By: Marc Malone

Marc Malone — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:36:33 +0000

Common sense refers to the old system of nobility. The lords lived in the manors, while the peasants lived and worked in the commons (communal areas), thus, “commons’ sense”. Even then, the elites had their own twisted sense of things, devoid of common sense. It is always about working the system, rather than making the system work.

By: Marc Malone

Marc Malone — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:30:35 +0000

I saw two comments here railing about discrimination against women. Are you trying to say women need affirmative action? Are they actually inferior so as to need such preferential treatment? What are you thinking?

By: Confused in Virginia

Confused in Virginia — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:09:08 +0000

Great interview. It is sad that there are few people nowadays who truly believe that their word is their bond. Most people who say they believe that, when what they mean is that their word is their bond when it’s easy or convenient, but when things get difficult, they go back to taking care of number one first.

There are those of us who believe in an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; however, we have to be very careful to balance that with union rules – even the unwritten one of not doing more than is absolutely necessary.

As to keeping or getting rid of Affirmative Action, I don’t think it really matters that much anymore. We are now a land of victims. If we are denied anything, it could not possibly be that we are unqualified or undeserving, so it MUST be that we are – fill in the blank – a minority, a woman, too tall, too short, too young, too old, etc. With that kind of mentality, how will we ever get to the question of content of character?

By: anon

anon — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:32:48 +0000

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