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Sep 16, 2009 | Posted by: Inisa Love

Desperate And Insecure, Whites See Country Slipping Away

Full story: www.finalcall.com

“What is interesting here is that for decades, there was a stereotype of the angry Black male and now we are seeing something that looks like the rise of the angry White male,” the respected policy analyst and author told The Final Call. “If one were to psychoanalyze this situation it may be that in Barack Obama, you see the president of the United States symbolizing for them an end of an era, and that is an era where they were actually able to limit competition for prestigious positions, posts and opportunities just to other White men,” Dr. Rockeymoore Cummings added.

Anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise agreed, saying the severe economic downturn, a Black president, demographic shifts and a change in pop culture have been “jarring” to the collective White psyche causing widespread anger, fear and insecurity and an identity crisis among those who have enjoyed a privileged existence in America.

“It's sort of like a collective nervous breakdown on the part of large segments of White America,” said Mr. Wise, who also authored the book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama. “Looking at double digit unemployment isn't all that rare for Blacks and Latinos, but for White folks, that has not even been close to the reality since the days of The Depression, so when you have had two or three generations of Whites who have never had that kind of insecurity, that is very jarring, I'm sure for folks who have gotten used to taking for granted a fairly solid opportunity structure.”

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inconsequential puff piece with no pretense against its far left bias. substantivley, it is simplistic and inaccurate to try to suggest the "angry white man" is a result of his having fallen down a few pegs, and sour grapes over a black president. one doesn't have to look far in the culture to see major decline, across the boards. turn on the radio and listen to the glorification of crime and a life of sleaze in gangsta rap, a music produced and listened to by both blacks and whites.
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Hahahahahahaha stop please, hahahahaha

Nervous breakdown, desperate, insecure?

Dream on! Dream on!

Thanks for the belly laugh though.
Jawga Boy

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I can't believe a NOI member, believing in a hooked nose Jew comments!
TheTruth

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White people will always run this country. And yes, blacks will always have to be tolerated, unfortunately.
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The mistake is in speaking of a "collective" white America. The mood described applies to the right, to the white racists, to the dittoheads... but this article pretends that THOSE are all of white America!

Where are all the LIBERALS in this comment... I wouldn't think they're bothered by a black President, since they VOTED FOR HIM!

Of course, this came from the NOI, so it is not a LEFTIST piece, duh, it is a RACIST one.
Moderate Clam

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Haven't we always heard that white folks don't understand because they haven't walked a mile in black folks' shoes?

And yet Ms. Rockeymoore Cummings knows what white people think?

Yet another double standard......
Phil

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White people control the government, always have, always will, Obama is just a puppet. Haven't you heard of the the Illuminati and Bilderberg group?
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Jawga Boy

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White people are already secure!

Negroes are the ones INSECURE!

Thus the daily rant about whites.

Only an insecure race would go on and on about another race!

Negroes have NO power!
White Collar Crime

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Sep 17, 2009
 
WALL STREET IS BEHIND REPUBLICAN DICK ARMEY AND THE TEA BAGS!

How corporate P.R. works to kill healthcare reform
Health insurers have become expert at using P.R. to get what they want. I got out before the latest round
Editor's note: Wendell Potter, formerly a communications officer for the private health insurer Cigna, is now the Senior Fellow on Health Care for the Center for Media and Democracy. He delivered the remarks below at the Center for American Progress.
By Wendell Potter / http://tinyurl.com/r49pex
Sept. 15, 2009 | It is easy to think of efforts to influence lawmakers as the exclusive domain of K Street lobbyists. Much has been said and written about the millions of dollars the special interests are spending on lobbying activities and the hundreds of lobbyists who are at work as we speak trying to shape healthcare reform legislation. Very little by comparison has been written about the millions of dollars that special interests are spending on P.R. activities to accomplish the same goal and that are vital to successful lobbying efforts.
One of the reasons I left my job at CIGNA, where I headed corporate communications and was part of the Legal & Public Affairs division, was because I did not want to be involved in yet another P.R. and lobbying campaign to kill or gut reform. I finally came to question the ethics of what I had done and been a part of for nearly two decades to influence decision making and bill writing on Capitol Hill.
When I testified before the Senate Commerce Committee in late June, I told the senators how the industry has conducted duplicitous and well-financed P.R. and lobbying campaigns every time Congress has tried to reform our healthcare system, and how its current behind-the-scenes efforts may well shape reform in a way that benefits Wall Street far more than average Americans. I noted that, just as they did 15 years ago when the insurance industry led the effort to kill the Clinton reform plan, it is using shills and front groups to spread lies and disinformation to scare Americans away from the very reform that would benefit them most. The industry, despite its public assurances to be good-faith partners with the president and Congress, has been at work for years laying the groundwork for devious and often sinister campaigns to manipulate public opinion.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/...

Hardball - Health Care wankers Freedom Works' Max Pappas on the spit
http://tinyurl.com/lc4j5z
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Rachel Maddow investigates Freedom Works
http://tinyurl.com/l2esp9
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Jawga Boy

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And Wall Street will continue to be at the forefront!

I read this book forty years ago, AND DISCOVERED THE REAL TRUTH!

http://www.namebase.org/sources/dZ.html

The list you see below, CONTROLS THIS COUNTRY ECONOMICS.......PERIOD!
Amused

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"If one were to psychoanalyze this situation it may be that in Barack Obama, you see the president of the United States symbolizing for them an end of an era, and that is an era where they were actually able to limit competition for prestigious positions, posts and opportunities just to other White men," Dr. Rockeymoore Cummings added.

Funny article. "They" (white Americans) are the ones who voted Obama into office, a fact that Dr. Cummings and Mr. Wise conveniently ignore. Keep dreaming, gentlemen.
pinky 42

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obama has about 3 years left..then back to white presidents...white people voted for obama just to "get it over with" so to speak

Since: Jun 09

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We are hardly insecure. This nation is dying by the day. I guess the neo-com's think being patriotic is being 'insecure'. The insecure support affirmative action because they know they won't be hired without it.

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Sep 17, 2009
 
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the rise of the ape civilization en route to their dominating planet Earth.

Ha ha. So true. They cannot succeed unless the white liberals make it happen.
Jawga Boy

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Sep 17, 2009
 
I still say, READ THE LIST!

1% OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY, OWNS 90% OF THE WEALTH!

And there's not a damned thing you can do about it!

These people COULD CARE LESS, IF A REPUB, OR DEMO is the president!
White Collar Crime

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No tears for Reagan
June 8, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/558r6l
Excuse me if I don’t shed any tears over the passing of former President Ronald Reagan. While the news of the 40th president’s death brought on a flood of sentimentality over the nation’s media this past weekend, I could not help but recall what the Reagan presidency really meant for Black Americans. Similar to what occurred upon the death of Richard Nixon, amnesia has set upon journalists as they recall Reagan’s era; choosing to indulge in idol worship rather than serious reflection on the former president’s policies.
http://www.blackamericatoday.com/article.cfm...

Ronald Reagan: The Great White Redeemer
http://tinyurl.com/6jljhm / June 10 2004
Only 12 years elapsed between the glorious military victory over the Confederate Slave States in 1865 and the definitive defeat of Reconstruction in 1877. In many important respects, the Reconstruction period was even briefer than that. By 1870, when the last of the southern states ratified the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, Tennessee had already rejected biracial democracy and installed an all-white “Redeemer” government.“Redemption” then swept through Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/94/94_cover_r...

Reagan's heart of darkness
June 9, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/28ytj
PRESIDENT Bush proclaimed: "Ronald Reagan believed that God takes the side of justice and that America has a special calling to oppose tyranny and defend freedom." In the first three days of news reports on the death of the former president, not a single major American newspaper, television station, or politician has dared to exhume this counterpoint to the Reagan's legacy: "Immoral, evil, and totally un-Christian."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_op...

Reagan, White As Snow
http://tinyurl.com/6lujee
Last week, as we’ve heard, the Republican presidential candidates praised the name and heritage of Ronald Reagan 40 times during the televised Show and Tell at the Reagan Presidential Library. That none of them mentioned Reagan’s legacy of white supremacy and support for apartheid is a little like invoking Jefferson Davis and not mentioning treason or slavery. Actually, a lot like it.
Ronald Reagan was a white supremacist to his very core, and left enough traces over his lengthy political career so that it’s evident for anyone who cares to look—which apparently few do.
Domestically, he opposed every legislative remedy for African Americans, betraying a meanness of spirit and an open racism. As Sidney Blumenthal wrote in The Guardian in 2003:/ http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/08/r...

Trent Lott, Ronald Reagan and Republican Racism
Dec. 14, 2002 / http://tinyurl.com/d9w75
Southern Strategy: The race question has haunted Reagan and the GOP for decades
The same could be said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away from the Democrats. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its race-baiting habit really stands out.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,859...
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American black males today are becoming increasingly angry. black males are becoming increasingly unhappy. black males are envious. black males are racist. black males are often bitter, sensitive, defensive - evidence is all over the non-internet world [recent belleville schoolbus] but especially ON the internet. not just via creation of this thread and not just on the Topix network, even tho it appears that the creation of this thread is essentially the work of the common racist black male mindset trapped inside another body.
White Collar Crime

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ACORN Head Bertha Lewis Vows Action on Employee Misconduct, But Warns Group Targeted by “Modern-Day McCarthyism”
September 17, 2009 / http://tinyurl.com/l693au
The anti-poverty group ACORN is coming under a firestorm of criticism after the group’s workers were caught on camera appearing to offer advice to a pimp and prostitute. The video was a major strike for conservatives, who for years have accused ACORN of voter registration fraud during presidential elections. Republicans are calling for a complete cutoff of all federal funding to the group, which helps poor people fight foreclosures, fix tax problems, and register to vote. We speak with ACORN chief executive Bertha Lewis.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/17/acorn_h...
The Moor

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Sep 17, 2009
 
Jawga Boy wrote:
White people are already secure!
Negroes are the ones INSECURE!
Thus the daily rant about whites.
Only an insecure race would go on and on about another race!
Negroes have NO power!
you took the time out of your life to come to an AA forum to say that..right?

Think about that azz crud!

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