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Originally Posted by JimP
Sigaba - well stated and very good points. You are right in the essence of your argument; however, I have neither the time nor the patience to distill the origins of what West CLAIMS is his background to his philosophic approach as applied to his racist/activist belief's and actions. There's simply no coincidence that he and Larry Tribe come from the same academic background and spout many of the same beliefs. He can portray it as a "Christian-based belief structure" but if you've listened to him over the years, it's nothing more than warmed-over victim studies. No doubt he's a smart man but he's smart enough to know that the raw in-your-face-racism of jesse Jackson turns off far more than it serves. West's approach is far subtler, he argues like a typical liberal psuedo-intellectual. I.e., if you don't agree with him you are simply "misinformed" and not of sufficient intellect to absorb the subtleties of racist policies as enacted by America and the ever-present boogeyman affectionately decried as "Whitey" by less sophisticated "colored people".
I'm too old to try to put a PC face on what is clearly a race-baiting charlatan trying to pull a slicky-boy on the public at large. My days of trying to debate these folks are pretty much over. I prefer to call them as I see them. I won't go out of my way to screw with them but i will let them know that what they are selling won't go well with those of independent thought.
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I agree. I watched one video of West and was instantly thinking the same thing. Same idea with Michelle Bachman and her husband. They think that being "conservative and Christian" is the only Right Thing. (I am referring to the way they believe that you can "pray the gay away", same principles as West, IMO, just a different dynamic).
Conservative Christians can have their say, but I just feel like I see things from a different perspective than they do. It's not about religion to me, it's about the REALITY of a situation based on facts.