Prominent Black Blogger: "We Don't Care What They Think."

[AnnInLa]

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2006/02/spare-us-lectures.html

big snip

When black people were dying in New Orleans, they called us everything but a child of God. We were animals, looters, out of control.

Not one of these people said this was a lie, a slander. Jonah Goldberg laughed at the idea of people drowning in the Superbowl. They cheered the idea of black people being shot in the streets. They said we were too stupid to leave the city when they had no cars and no money

While Bush sat on his hands.

So now, these filthy vermin want to give us lectures . They can eat their lectures.

We don't care what they think. They may have their lackies, and they best keep their mouths shut about this, but 98 percent of blacks have no use for the GOP.

What? They think we don't know they're racists? They hated Dr. King and his wife in life and now in death. They hate that blacks and latinos no longer live in peonage. Only one of their bought and paid for fools would attack how Mrs. King was buried. To the rest of it, it was a fittintg tribute and making Bush sit there for hours was wonderful. He was told the truth and he couldn't run.

They didn't help us back then, they won't help us now, not when they can spit on us, and now they want to give us lectures? Please, please send Lynn Swann, Ken Blackwell and Michael Steele out to denounce this, do us this favor. Tell us how the GOP really likes black people.

Help remind us why blacks vote Democratic.

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2006/02/spare-us-lectures.html

[marmar]

1. Amen Brotha...

The Grand Wizard Party got its status among African Americans the old-fashioned way: They earned it.

:nopity:

[cantstandbush]

58. One thing I am deeply concerned about is the stealth plan to set

blacks and latinos against each other. It's happening in our major cities and prisons. Someone needs to speak to this devisive movement being orchestrated by the RW. I only hope that both groups can see through this. Stop the violence and hate within and between these groups. They would have such power in their numbers and their enterprise if only they could see and understand what is happening and what is planned for them.

[hatrack]

2. Dingdingdingding . . . we have a winner!!

Outstanding!!

[Chimichurri]

3. well said. How is it the republicans and now the white MSM can tell

the black commmunity how to mourn?

[Cha]

16. Like they fucking did

for Senator Paul Wellstone's Memorial! I was watching corporate media back then..I stopped Nov 6, 2002!

[TNOE]

4. Ken Blackwell?

He's only black in color - otherwise he is GOP all the way. He's a useless hack.

GREAT RANT THOUGH!

[ProfessorGAC]

7. I Think That Was The Point

All three of those names belong to right wing idiots who try to feebly convince people that conservatism is good for black people.

I think the blogger's point was that he was daring those guys to come out and defend the GOP to further demonstrate his point that the GOP doesn't care about american blacks.
The Professor

[tblue37]

31. Gilliard DETESTS Blackwell.

He pounds on him constantly. Don't worry, Gilliard knows that Blackwell is one of "them."

[Brewman_Jax]

5. So true

After the fiasco that was the hurricane coverage and rescue, they've lost ALL credibility. They got a problem with it? They can ES&D--sorry bastards!

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Well done.

I warned you all that if the white media commented on this service, like they commented on the Wellstone service, that black Americans would speak up in one voice.

Thanks media, for pissing them off.

[Cha]

17. Yeah, looks like the

corporate media is good for something this time. I'm hoping all these years of LIES will come back and bite them and gobble up their bottom line, BIG TIME!

[Canuckistanian]

8. Good! Don't back down one inch.

That was a perfectly reasonable and honest speech, considering who Coretta Scott King was and what she fought for every day.

Too bad that Bunnypants got his feelings hurt.

[mntleo2]

9. Go Steve!

Republicans are ALL whores!

I read the whole blog entry and I am glad someone is speaking up about this so-called "controvery". Just watch: soon they will drag out Paul Wellstone, and what was said at his funeral as well. God forbid that progressives actually BE progressive instead of pretending to be, while stabbing We The People in the back ~ like Republicans do every day. As Steve said, the GOP is filled with a bunch of old men who hated the very message that the Kings and others inspired by them, spent their lives working to change. In one generation, these dullards have decimated it all with their greed, war mongering, classism, and veiled racism.

What a bunch of hypocrites and liars these helmut headed Suits are! I wish they would just shut their filthy pie holes and let the rest of us grieve. Instead they make a circus out of it solely for their political gain, as they always do.

I am still grieving over Paul Welstone's death, I will *never* forget, and now this... I have no respect for this bunch of elitist pigs. Virtually I am wearing a kilt and I am turning my back, bending over and showing them the moon, starting with the corporate media, the SCOTUS, the Congress, the Senate, and finally, to the Whore House, er White House, where I am baring my white ass!


Cat In Seattle

[Pathwalker]

19. Senator Wellstone was a member of a minority, too.

He was Jewish, so the media's "outrage" is patently bigoted! And the commentators could fit way too nicely into Hitler's ARYAN army, no coincidence, IMO.

[robbedvoter]

10. LOVE Steve Gilliard! Great during the transport strike at revealing

the racism in the GOP MEDIA.
Someone posted here the hateful comments on Lucianne's site re Coretta King. And these Klansmen are now teaching us manners? Gilliard captures my feelings perfectly.
NOT a good idea to follow Katrina with "Welstoning" this. Not even by sending black shills to do it - it's way too transparent.

[Cassandra]

30. I learned a lot from Steve during the strike...

that I wouldn't have found out anywhere else. I post over there, too. Great site!

[DinahMoeHum]

36. I loved Steve's rant in the aftermath of Katrina: "We Told You So"

Link:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:4VTYKxplNA0J:stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/09/we-told-you-so.html+steve%2Bgilliard%2Bwe%2Btold%2Byou%2Bso&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1


:rant:

[raccoon]

73. Thanks for the link. That column kicked butt. nt

[Z_I_Peevey]

11. That's the way every Democrat should be talking.

Every. Single. One.

[Lerkfish]

23. THANK YOU! you beat me to it. ABSOLUTELY!

we should all throw off these shackles.

[mzmolly]

32. Exactly. The main problem with the Wellstone incident is that Democrats

enabled Repukes in their BS. They refused to take a strong "FU" stand and we have to do so now. How dare THEY tell US how to mourn? Republicans are in politics for the money to be made, liberals are in politics because they care, because they are passionate, because they think beyond their small insulated world.

[fishwax]

51. Agreed n/t

[raccoon]

74. Right on, Sister/Brother! nt

[stillrockin]

12. I'm with you.

Didn't watch/listen to their comments and don't care what they think/say.

[Carni]

13. In addition since when are funerals supposed to be tailored...

to suit the needs of people the deceased didn't like in life?

WTF?

First of all...I thought why in the HELL are either bush's attending this thing?

Did either bush's have jack to do with the Kings that was positive?

I would imagine for starters that *41* was up to his eyeballs in the spying FBI business that went on against Martin, yet he had the audacity to show up and speak about how he'd never seen such a funeral and tell the Rev that dissed his son not to quit his day job? Where did he get off?

I guess I want to know why everything is supposed to be tailored to suit the needs of the right wingers at all times--the sheer gall of these people is just astounding.

[Greyhound]

14. Despised by the repukes, and deserted by the Dems... n/t

[Cha]

15. I love this guy!

"But that's because the Republican party, and increasingly the media, have no clue about black America, about progressives, about civil rights, and about what it means to be a committed activist who actually cares about our country and the direction its heading. If Coretta, on the occasion of Martin's death, could launch (and continue) a decade's-long campaign for equality and justice in his name, we should only be so honored to do the same to mark her passing." :loveya:

[bloom]

18. That was a good rant... If there was anything that seemed insulting...

- it was the way Bush was slouching and smirking. He looked completely disrespectful to me.

[Arkansas Granny]

24. As I posted on another thread, this is what happens when

he has to sit with the grownups.

[me b zola]

55. Good observation

Grown ups and/or any thinking person.

[ProSense]

20. I loved when Bush got up to applaud his failed Katrina response. n/t

[blue state liberal]

68. Before he got up to applaud

he was sitting in his seat and smirking while John Conyers was talking about the victims of Katrina. I couldn't believe the dopey expression on his face!

[boobooday]

21. Excellent

Patronizing scumbag media telling people how to grieve!

We need to answer their shameful attacks with even GREATER outrage. How dare you? HOW. DARE. YOU.

How dare you criticize the way her friends and family chose to send Coretta home? Do they come in and tell you what to do at your funerals?

The reaction to Rev. Lowrey's truth would have been the same, I think, in any audience that wasn't handpicked by Bushco, at any event. Coretta King was all about causes that were bigger than the individual, and these Right Wingers want to turn the funeral into just another showcase for Dubya. Well, sorry, but there are lots of things bigger than Dubya. For example, Mrs. King. So sit down and shut up, and take the truth like a man.

God, these little moments when the truth shines through are like breaks in the Bush Cloud that hangs over us all.

[indie_voter]

22. Gilliard is a gem. n/t

[WinkyDink]

25. Swannie is going to lose BIG in my state!

We're not ALL Steelers fans! Or morans!!

[Totally Committed]

26. Amen to that!

Every word of this is the truth.

Kicked and recommended!

TC

[Flubadubya]

27. Kate O'Beirne can look down her crooked, snobbish nose all she wants...

it just makes her look even uglier than ever... if that is at all possible. This woman should be taken to the woodshed and just locked up there. There is no redeeming value to her or her vile words of any kind! :grr:

She reflects the true nature and heart of the GOP... UGLY, UGLY, UGLY!!!!

[Binka]

28. Hey Kate "Prostitutes Aren't Paid To Open Their Pie Holes"

Poor thing she is confused. She has her "holes" mixed up.

[radio4progressives]

70. racists is what she is... n/t

[raccoon]

75. Who is this Kate? a Media ho? nt

[Pithy Cherub]

29. WORD!

Gilliard is representing, just fine. May those who stand in faux high dungeon get off their hobby horses and LIVE their values rather than opine self-righteously what it should be like from their elite perches in GOP land. Black America is taking notes and names of the evil-doers.

[mzmolly]

33. My only issue is the failure to mention Jimmy Carter?

:shrug:

[TygrBright]

34. What. He. Said.

They got away with swiftboating the Wellstone funeral. Minnesota people are overly concerned with being "nice," and sometimes a little confused by controversy and passion (it's not natural to Lutherans, doncha know.)

They will NOT get away with swiftboating the King funeral. They picked the WRONG bunch of people to whale on, this time.

Sca-ROOOOOOO these whiney wheyfaced apologists for the Bushmachine. They can dish it out (oh, can they dish it out,) but clearly, these weasel-ass tittiebabies can't take it.

Red meat time!

angrily,
Bright

[seabeyond]

35. lets kick ass. lets get pissed. lets do something n/t

[okieinpain]

37. a lot of liberials that get on tv, could take a note or two from this

gentleman. it would be so wonderful to have a liberal put some foot in one of those repugs ass, instead of trying to be civil...

[seabeyond]

38. democrats like kerry, dean, boxer, clinton, feingold,

arent being cicil now. and they are getting their ass kicked for everythign they say. carter is the latest. he was not civil. he is being attacked on msm. this is what people will take. gore not civil, now much the nation thinks he is crazy. so instead of attacking our own dems for being too civil, we had better do something to be able to back them as they are attacked, so they will continue to speak out like we all insist.

[okieinpain]

42. good point, but you don't see a lot of these folks on nightly tv.

[seabeyond]

44. except being dissed. that is what our media gives to us n/t

[yardwork]

43. I agree. We need to speak out loudly and often

The mourners at Coretta Scott King's funeral had the right to say anything they pleased. It's not my place and certainly not the media's business to criticize!

How dare they!

This is an outrage.

[Catherine Vincent]

39. Damn, he's good!

:thumbsup:

[Katherine Brengle]

40. damn straight! excellent post. n/t

[autorank]

41. The truth hurts, if you can feel pain. Lizards can't feel pain.

Bush should have stayed away. His vulgarity knows no end.

Iagree with this 100%!

Recommended.

[redqueen]

45. If ONLY our Dem leaders had the guts to speak like this...

maybe more people wouldn't think both parties were so much alike. :(

[GOPFighter]

46. Standing O!

And don't forget Alan Keyes!

Our local suburban paper (now defunct) had a local conservative columnist who would occasionally devote a column wondering why Blacks refused to vote for Republican. He was pathetic.

[Uncle Joe]

47. Excellent column,

he hits the nail on the head.

Kicked and recommended!

:kick:

[savemefromdumbya]

48. This post is so wonderful I am lost for words! Thank you!

Excellent post!

[Child_Of_Isis]

49. He was told the truth and he couldn't run

Isn't this really what all the righteous indignation is about? Shrub was cornered like a pig so he sent all of his lackeys out into the media to complain.

[radio4progressives]

50. excellent post !

k&r

[shaniqua6392]

52. GOP=KKK

Enough said. George Bush does not care about black people. Just ask any black American from the Gulf Coast.

[BronxBoy]

60. Hell

just ask any Black person period.

[quiet.american]

53. Speak, Brother -- you speak for me. n/t

[f-bush]

54. Good Article

We need some of the 60's to return-burn baby, burn!

[babsbunny]

56. Now You Just Have to get rid of voting machines!!!!!!!!!!

:toast:

[muglywump]

57. Who exactly are "they"?

Hello? Who are the "they" so often referred to???

[thebigidea]

59. flip though the news channels, look at the lage friendly fonts

they should have their names clearly indicated for you easy identification.

[proud2BlibKansan]

61. Read the article

"these filthy vermin"

It's right there in black and white.

[CJCRANE]

62. If you click on the link

the title to the article makes it clear, as do references within the article.

[calimary]

63. As far as the filthy vermin he describes here (quite aptly), and their

so f-ing AGRIEVED whining and yammering -

I agree with THIS guy.

I'll shut up when they (the filthy vermin) do.

[Rainscents]

64. Steve Gilliard is right on!!!

I am shocked and applaud, how, main stream corporate whores are trashing the funeral. I am speechless. Corporate whores had no right to commented the way they did! Bush Does NOT care about blacks, poor, disable and elderly, period!

[bluerum]

65. Oh yeah. The truth, with barbs. eom

[lostexpectation]

66. To Condi King was a danger

excellent counterpoint article

http://www.democraticwings.com/democraticwings/archives/civil_liberties/002242.php

[Vektor]

67. Great post, K&R...

[orleans]

69. even ed schultz railed against fox today

(car radio--i'm not a big fan of his--but the chicagoland station plays three hours of him and gives randi a three hour delay)

he pointed out that when any of us arrange a funeral service for our parents we know how it's going to go--we ask someone to speak, maybe ask them to include something in their speech that we would like to be included, we plan it out. and what the hell are these fox spinners thinking when they make their digs. didn't the king children have every right to have their mother's service the way they wanted it? who the hell are these right wingers to pass any kind of judgment on this family?

(but on second thought--they passed a lot of judgment on michael schivo as well, didn't they? gee, i guess these conservatives have cornered the market on what is decent and proper and respectable. cases in point: decent tom delay, proper jack abramoff, respectable michael "brownie" brown.) cough.

[Swamp Rat]

71. POW! Right in the kisser!

[Redstone]

72. Yes. Yes indeed.

I read the rest of it. All of it every bit as good as what you posted here.

I'm putting that blog on my daily-reading list. Not being black myself, it'll give me some real prespective.

Thanks for providing the link.

Redstone