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(MSNBC)   If calling Colin Powell an "Uncle Tom" doesn't get you fired, give calling Condoleezza Rice "Aunt Jemima" a shot   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line 819
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2004-11-19 01:08:28 PM
She is an Uncle Tom. She loves the money.

/shrugs...
 
2004-11-19 01:09:52 PM
"Sylvester, who is white..."

Thus the controversy.

on the flip-side, I would be amused if Bill O'Reilly
or other "real" political commentators began referring to
the guys in congress as "Crazy honkies".
 
2004-11-19 01:12:38 PM
I just don't get the anger towards the two. African-Americans want other AA's in power positions and then when they are people call them Uncle Tom's. Do they want Chris Rock in office or something?

Besides, the white people won them in the racial draft. I think we got screwed though when the Asians won Wu-Tang Clan.
 
2004-11-19 01:13:02 PM
And again, smooky rubberstamps racism so long as it's targeted at someone who has opposing views.
 
2004-11-19 01:15:55 PM
Ummm... does not this asshat know that Powell's son is kinda like, ummm..., going to spank him around a bit?
 
2004-11-19 01:16:09 PM
The Wu-Tang clan ain't nothing to fark with.
 
2004-11-19 01:18:48 PM
2004-11-19 01:13:02 PM FortuneCookie [TotalFark]

And again, smooky rubberstamps racism so long as it's targeted at someone who has opposing views.


I knew you'd say that. You think that I called her an Uncle Tom because she's Republican.

You're very wrong. Sorry buddy.
 
2004-11-19 01:19:49 PM
mialynneb - Asians winning the Wu Tang was a big deal until ODB passed. Now it is a little more even.
 
2004-11-19 01:19:58 PM
I prefer to think of her as Buckteeth McForehead.
 
2004-11-19 01:20:06 PM
Let me put it to you this way.

If "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison were real life, she'd be Bledsoe.
 
2004-11-19 01:20:25 PM
And Black women in this profession
As for playin' a lawyer, out of the question
For what they play Aunt Jemima is the perfect term
Even if now she got a perm.
 
2004-11-19 01:20:33 PM

C'mon, if Condoleeza was really an Aunt Jemima, then wouldn't she have ran with John Kerry the Waffler ?


/Hungry for breakfast now.

 
2004-11-19 01:20:35 PM
OMGWTFBBQ!!! PUBLICITY STUNT!
 
2004-11-19 01:21:05 PM
uhm, I blame Bush
 
2004-11-19 01:21:16 PM
What's the politically incorrect term for "Cold-war focused "yes-woman" to the president who screwed up as NSA?"
 
2004-11-19 01:21:32 PM
Sheila Jackson Lee is a crazy honky.


/true story
 
2004-11-19 01:22:17 PM
I don't get what the point is... saying that Powell and Rice were kind of subservient to Bush. He is their boss! Of course they kissed his ass. All of the white advisors did the same thing. This guy just wants to start some shiat.
 
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2004-11-19 01:22:20 PM
Aunt Jemima was competent, she made some damn good syrup. Condi was completely incompetent as National Security Advisor.
 
2004-11-19 01:22:21 PM
Whats up with the huge font-size on MSNBC? Perhaps its Opera, no clue, but its annoying.
/W3C validator came up with "only" 129 errors.
 
2004-11-19 01:22:29 PM
Smookyfufu:

I knew you'd say that. You think that I called her an Uncle Tom because she's Republican.


You called her an Uncle Tom and gave silent approval to her being called "Aunt Jemima". Must be a nice world you live in where the term racism can be selective and applied at whim.
 
2004-11-19 01:22:30 PM
Did he mean the old Aunt Jemima bottles or the new ones?
 
2004-11-19 01:22:32 PM
Bush had two AAs in arguably the two most powerful positions in his cabinet and somehow they are in a "subservient role in the Bush administration". What type of logic is that? I think that it is racist to believe that AAs can only think one way.
 
2004-11-19 01:22:56 PM
How about the Extreme Court Justice, Fat Tony Scalia's pet...

Clarence "Uncle" Thomas
 
2004-11-19 01:23:00 PM
Oh come on, it's not that he doesn't like blacks, hell he slammed the wetbacks as well.

/What? HR wants to see me? What did I do???
 
2004-11-19 01:23:03 PM
mialynneb: It's an insidious form of internalized racism. Surely any African Americans who succeed have sold out, no? Hardly.

I certainly wouldn't have picked her for Sec. of State, especially given her admitted distaste for diplomatic duties. But I would never claim she's not capable. Misguided, perhaps, but capable.
 
2004-11-19 01:23:19 PM
Hmmm..the NAACP had no immediate comment? No surprise...I imagine NOW will be equally silent.
 
2004-11-19 01:23:23 PM
But how does she taste on pancakes?
 
2004-11-19 01:23:32 PM
That's not racism. He's talking about the behavior of two individuals, not all black people.
 
2004-11-19 01:23:47 PM
Actually, he didn't call Colin Powell an Uncle Tom.
He referencey Harry Belafonte, who *DID* call Powell one.
 
2004-11-19 01:23:53 PM
Liberals can't be racialist. Cause they are better than the rest of us who don't share their twisted worldview.
 
2004-11-19 01:24:09 PM
The closest I've ever come to having sex with a black woman was beating-off to a box of Aunt Jemima pancake mix.
 
2004-11-19 01:24:11 PM
2004-11-19 01:22:29 PM FortuneCookie [TotalFark]

You called her an Uncle Tom and gave silent approval to her being called "Aunt Jemima". Must be a nice world you live in where the term racism can be selective and applied at whim.


It must be a nice world when you have no idea why myself and most of the African American community agrees with me no matter how much we try to explain it.

Now go have a cookie, we're busy here.
 
2004-11-19 01:24:34 PM
Can we call her House Negro?
 
2004-11-19 01:24:37 PM
palexc

"What's the politically incorrect term for "Cold-war focused "yes-woman" to the president who screwed up as NSA?"

How about what you just said. While I disagree with what you said at least it is a legitimate criticism instead of racist.

/How is she a yes woman? Do you attend NSA meetings?
 
2004-11-19 01:24:41 PM
My great great uncle lived next door to the woman who was the model for Aunt Jemima.
 
2004-11-19 01:24:44 PM
This wouldn't happen if she were a Democrat. She'd be lauded as a pioneer for African-American women everywhere.
 
2004-11-19 01:24:50 PM
Dubya and Condi = Jungle Fever

Poor Pickles is too zonked out on Xanex and Grey Goose to notice that her husband is banging the servants.
 
2004-11-19 01:24:51 PM
truth hurts...
 
2004-11-19 01:24:53 PM
LaserBrain:

That's not racism. He's talking about the behavior of two individuals, not all black people.

So tell us what behavior the term "Aunt Jemima" connotes?
 
2004-11-19 01:25:31 PM
At least we don't have to deal with OJ any more.

//Elian Gonzales?
 
2004-11-19 01:25:34 PM
Mrs. Butterworth unavailable for comment.
 
2004-11-19 01:25:51 PM
thanks for the advice! I'll give it a whirl!
 
2004-11-19 01:25:56 PM
Obviously she was put there for visual reasons, purely political. I'm most definately sure there are about a million other retards out there that could have held the position better.
 
2004-11-19 01:25:57 PM
Geez -- FReeper's paradise today on FARK.
 
2004-11-19 01:25:57 PM
I am not be any means a racist, but, I think that she and Powell were in Bush's cabinet to show that Bush and the republicans can like blacks too. Condi did say there was a report titled "Osama determined to attack in the US" that the admnistration ignored before 9/11...Hmm
 
2004-11-19 01:26:11 PM
xolik

"This wouldn't happen if she were a Democrat. She'd be lauded as a pioneer for African-American women everywhere."

most.obvious.statement.ever

/Wonder if this guy thought the same thing about Betty Currie?
 
2004-11-19 01:26:35 PM
I hear Condi started the riot at the Vibe awards

Condomleeza Ice
 
2004-11-19 01:26:58 PM

from DailyHaiku





Colin's moving up:
a cabinet level post,
with the Wu-Tang Clan.


Nothing to fark with...

 
2004-11-19 01:27:06 PM
Condoleeza Rice has done more harm than good for Afro-American women in higher government. Not to be confused with Colin Powell's political suicide with his involvement with the Bush administration.
 
2004-11-19 01:27:18 PM
I would say out of the two, you would have to go with Rice...
She is definitely a yes woman, look at her in front of the 911 commission, just a mouthpiece for the administration, none of her own thoughts in her head. Now that she will be taking over for Powell she is just going to be thrown to the lions again except the lions will be hungry not sleeping.

Powell was the level headed, stubborn one out of the group. If anything Powell was definitely not an Uncle Tom ...
 
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