tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post8763125183043653612..comments2024-03-22T20:34:13.792-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: Rick Perry's Newest Problem: His Fond Memories of "Niggerhead" and Growing Up in a Sundown TownLady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-43475158651717398612011-10-06T08:15:41.338-05:002011-10-06T08:15:41.338-05:00"This could be a teachable moment where White...<i>"This could be a teachable moment where White Americans could choose to look in the mirror and see the collective ugliness looking back at them."</i><br /><br />An ice skating rink will be opened in hell before that ever happens. They have no intention of looking at themselves honestly. They'll carry on with their racism, blaming the victim and living in their white fantasy world until the end of the world.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-14738422366841540232011-10-05T21:35:24.149-05:002011-10-05T21:35:24.149-05:00@CDV, thank you so much. As much as i enjoy readin...@CDV, thank you so much. As much as i enjoy reading your blog, I find that I am nowhere near as eloquent or as well read as yourself and those who comment here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-89207066274760824402011-10-04T11:42:41.756-05:002011-10-04T11:42:41.756-05:00Ric Perry has been in politics all of his life. T...Ric Perry has been in politics all of his life. This, and other information, is over flowing in his closet.<br /><br />But why would it be brought front and center now? Because the money people want him out of the way.<br /><br />Enter, you guest it, Herman Cain to save the day for the social morality of the Tea Party.<br /><br />Ali vs. Frasier .. now Obama vs. Cain! Only Don King could have fixed this fight any better.YogiFishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06850153422370633428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-62160728199454093212011-10-03T09:33:05.964-05:002011-10-03T09:33:05.964-05:00Levit Town had publicity, my town had none. And n...Levit Town had publicity, my town had none. And no cops either Greg, maybe one car and they were parked on a hill overlooking the river, drinking beer. We had one Black couple, not a family, an older couple, who lived in town. The only time you saw them was when they were coming and going from work, at odd hours, and they just walked straight to their apartment near the bus stop on a quiet street near the edge of town. The times I saw them it was after midnight. They came home with groceries that they'd bought in Flushing, they wouldn't even shop for food in my town. It was like that until the early 70's. But if you asked anybody in town, they'd probably have said, "naeh! I ain't got nuttin' against 'da niggas!"fred chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10812811681270634366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-49634406390037452702011-10-03T08:35:27.342-05:002011-10-03T08:35:27.342-05:00@Ohcrap. Saw yours. Who do you think is behind the...<i>@Ohcrap. Saw yours. Who do you think is behind the leak? Rove?<br /></i><br /><br />Anybody's guess. It sounds like Rove, who has pretty legendary animosity against Perry. <br /><br />But as you bring up, which of them <i>doesn't</i> have a Niggerhead Ranch or sundown town in their backgrounds, that they're trying to keep quiet.Oh Craphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08569760594341619659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-10722273881493560422011-10-02T22:51:42.184-05:002011-10-02T22:51:42.184-05:00@Sabrina. We are a hive mind ;) More seriously tha...@Sabrina. We are a hive mind ;) More seriously thanks for reading and chiming in. I bet you have lots of thoughts to offer and just need to put one foot in front of the other and proceed to post.<br /><br />@Ohcrap. Saw yours. Who do you think is behind the leak? Rove?<br /><br />@Thrasher. Just marching with the beat and thanks to how folks like you cleared a path for us.<br /><br />@Fred C. Thanks again. As always your perspective is welcome. Folks forget about the racism--which in many ways was worth in the north and midwest. Remember the mess about integrating Levit Town?<br /><br />@Unknown. That is the funny part ain't it? If he retreats his base will get mad for not defending their "culture."<br /><br />@Werner. Damn you historians trying to complicate things. The good old days were so nice, safe, wholesome, and good. No problems until the blacks and their white jewish agitators and hippy commies started causing trouble! In the wapo story that is what troubled me the most, the older white man who said "there were no complaints." Unbelievable, but sadly true from his narrow point of view.chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-67784154178854276852011-10-02T20:10:13.826-05:002011-10-02T20:10:13.826-05:00CD, you get to the heart of the matter in a way th...CD, you get to the heart of the matter in a way that others in the regular media have not. You're right to say this has a lot to do with a hidden yet crucial part of America's past that needs greater attention.<br /><br />Since I come from a rural plains background similar to Perry's, I feel like I have some insight into this subject. There is indeed an ugly history of racist exclusion in this area, and it is dishonest for Perry to proudly tout the greatness of his upbringing in forming him while distancing himself from the less savory aspects of it, like his old hunting grounds. Conservatives tend to mythologize small town life, treating it like the great repository of virtue and "real America." But you can't have it both ways. You can't make small towns idyllic places and criticize their problems. There are many examples of violent racial exclusion in America's urban areas (the 1919 violence in Chicago, Will Brown's lynching in Omaha in 1919, the draft riots in New York City in 1863, the Boston busing riots in 1976, etc.), but people from these places tend not to turn them into a false ideal. Let's stop two destructive fictions in American life: that violent racism is exclusively a problem in the rural South and West, and that small towns are any more virtuous than big cities.Werner Herzog's Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01918845193415571702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-25350108574380899152011-10-02T19:45:50.175-05:002011-10-02T19:45:50.175-05:00Fred ..
Hello my friend...Super Post....I have ne...Fred ..<br /><br />Hello my friend...Super Post....I have never worried about travels in certain venues but I have worried about the police in many venues from urban hell holes to tony white enclaves..<br /><br />Navigating in America has always been a trip ( excuse the pun)..lol,lolPlane Ideas https://www.blogger.com/profile/13838821721942426785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-36857980633728854552011-10-02T19:40:58.983-05:002011-10-02T19:40:58.983-05:00I can only see this helping him among Republican p...I can only see this helping him among Republican primary voters.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14888954967864938013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-1412391096232713652011-10-02T19:34:29.694-05:002011-10-02T19:34:29.694-05:00We Northerners often like to feel superior to Sout...We Northerners often like to feel superior to Southerners with regard to policies of violence-based exclusion of minorities, but it was often the case in the North too. I grew up in an isolated (on the river) working class town in Queens, New York City, and I can remember two instances when minority families bought a house in town but never got to move in. One Black, one Puerto Rican. One mere threats, one an actual fire. Rough place, you wouldn't want to be "Black after dark" in my town. Hell, I was scared enough being White after dark.fred chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10812811681270634366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-87368804871938425522011-10-02T19:13:50.529-05:002011-10-02T19:13:50.529-05:00The pathology of white racism shelflife continues ...The pathology of white racism shelflife continues to stain everything in our nation..<br /><br />Cain's reaction now apparently will silence his Black critics and the usual white suspects from both the conservatives and liberals ranks will create all manner of excuses etc..<br /><br />CD was on the money again this will pass and the beat goes on....Plane Ideas https://www.blogger.com/profile/13838821721942426785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-1825696655400684132011-10-02T19:03:38.950-05:002011-10-02T19:03:38.950-05:00I'd posted this under the wrong thread.
The w...I'd posted this under the wrong thread.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-perry-20111002,0,3601037.story" rel="nofollow">The whites-first right is preparing the hemp rope for Herman Cain, after his criticism (as it were) of Perry's Niggerhad Ranch.</a><br /><br />Also...posted <a href="http://ohcrapihaveacrushonsarahpalin.blogspot.com/2011/10/niggerhead-ranch-way-to-represent-gop.html" rel="nofollow">this here</a> at my place.Oh Craphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08569760594341619659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-29698741215563469382011-10-02T18:47:43.752-05:002011-10-02T18:47:43.752-05:00I really would like to thank you for your blog whi...I really would like to thank you for your blog which often times says exactly what I think. It takes a particular kind of willful blindness to not be able to see that the societal structure of this country in the past, contributes hugely to the imbalance in the make up of the present. It irks me to no end to hear people state that recognizing this contributes to "victimhood" as if we have stopped being, overtly or covertly targeted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-62236828532237994042011-10-02T15:19:46.465-05:002011-10-02T15:19:46.465-05:00Huh,
Did you read the actual WaPo story. I sugges...Huh,<br /><br />Did you read the actual WaPo story. I suggest you do. Moreover, if your reading comprehension is challenged, he chose to keep the name. Sorry, you own the history then.chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-46080550199364049402011-10-02T15:14:35.651-05:002011-10-02T15:14:35.651-05:00So you are blaming him for what the property was n...So you are blaming him for what the property was named before his family were involved with it? There are a thousand legitimate reasons to distrust him and his motives, but this is looking for offense where none was intended by the party you attribute it to. That's the sort of victim-playing nonsense that brings us down...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com