Anyway, I’m glad it didn’t stir further animosity. I just wasn’t going to let something *that* ignorant, insulting, hypocritical and irresponsible, fly. What Luke did is nothing compared to the damage this guy strives to do this country and entire populations of people, every day, whilst thinking he’s a good samaritan. Bullshit, on that.

although while brandon is clearly full of shit, he is right that luke does stand out in a crowd.

Andrew, I take great offense with your casual use of the word rape. I’m not going to argue that Luke messed up and made a regrettable decision that may hurt your character, but comparing that to rape is patently offensive. The repercussions you will feel from this are far milder than the repercussions that one who has been sexually assualted will experience. I don’t understand how people can get so riled up when some political figure is compared to Hitler yet comparing the most minor inconveniences to rape goes totally unchecked.

Jaye, thank you for being rational and insightful in a place that, with all it’s references to hooters, vague homophobic slurs, and misspelled juvenile vitriol, is turning into a men’s room.

I have a huge amount of respect for people who have served in the military, especially during wartime. All of my uncles did, so did my dad, and now my nephew and his bride. But that doesn’t give them Carte Blanche to return home and be pricks. Perhaps our military needs to find a way to reassimilate their people into civilian life?

Previous generations didn’t view with an inordinate sense of pride the amount of killing they had to do in wartime–in fact, it was so repugnant to them that they rarely spoke of it. What does it say of our society that our returning veterans are happy to report on the deaths they have caused–in fact, virtually gleeful about it? What a generation.

Also, interesting that especially *because* of the true context of the Andrew/Coulter conversation, that he, at any point, felt the need to refer to those men as “two black guys”… it actually shows him to be every bit in the particular brand of “diversity” and “affirmative action” and “PC” than most liberals he’s bashing tend to participate in. Specifically, pointing out the gents’ ethnicity as a quota of some kind… the most important qualification for an invitation to their little lynching party (be sure to invite Brandon Welsh too, so he can flash a huge smile, take pictures and sell postcards out of ‘em, to show how killing is easy and oh so satisfying when your individual manhood is lacking).

I know you all feel that you’re doing those gentlemen (and yourselves) a favor by including them, “Look at us… we’ve got some black ones too!” and even if those particular gentlemen are too comfortable hob-knobbing with you to see the disgrace they’re heaping upon themselves and their ancestors by celebrating that they were “good enough” for you to “choose them” – it’s just as ridiculous and offensive and damaging to all of us, as slimy liberals who make the same concessions; “exceptions” for “the good ones”. “They’re not like those other ones, Bob… it’s neato keen-o to hang out with these black guys, because they can *help* us!.” It would suffice to simply say that you have some qualified professionals who would be effective speakers, and stating their names, and maybe a mention of their backgrounds to Frau Coulter. But casually reducing them to “two black guys”… the mere phrasing infers that you don’t necessarily feel that these professional gentlemen are equal to any of you… just dust off the N word and get it over with, for Pete’s sake, ask them to to a tap dance, sing an Old Negro Spiritual, put on a white suit and black tie and finish out the remainder of the event serving food to you and your guests, and speak in some neat-o keen-o Ebonics, but only when spoken to.

Oh, I know, I know… in your heart… you don’t believe you’re a racist, and you probably are without prejudice in a good deal of your dealings, I’ll willing to believe… but just like over-the-top PC liberals… we all know, you would not dare to refer to those gentlemen in the same way if those gentlemen themselves were standing right there with you and Coulter… you would not speak of them in that same manner if you stumbled into the heart of Detroit, South Central, Atlanta, or even the nooks and crannies of where I grew up. You see, “Diversity” *benefitted* me in the inner-city, in the 15th largest city in the country… providing me with opportunities and experiences such a conservative-leaning city threatened to deny me at every turn… shuffling monies to affluent neighborhoods, cutting education and arts programs, so on and so forth. Because of “diversity” that many others fought to provide for me and others like me, I still managed to grow up in a place where very young, I was introduced to and knew the differences and similarities of Vietnamese, Ethopians, Iranians, Koreans, Jews, Puerto Ricans, Australians, Germans, French, Irish, Nordics, on and on.. Many of these awesome people lived in my neighborhood and ALSO would have not idly sat by and nodded in approval if you referred to “two black guys” in our presence, when we all knew them as “human beings. I received a deep taste of both American and Foreign culture, diplomacy, interaction, brotherhood, acceptance, learning, challenges, and teamwork. Because of “diversity”, I had the tools I needed to go to the top of my class, be one of the top ranking students in the state of Ohio and to thrive when I traveled 3,000 miles away.

So Boo to your “exceptions” for blacks of any background and Boo to your Scroogeness with regards to “diversity” — except when it benefits you.

Signed,

Jaye (aka One Black Gal)