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thank President Obama.
National Review writer Jonah Goldberg is usually in the position of dismissing racism as a paranoid fantasy. But on Friday, the conservative magazines senior race reporter had some news: Dr. Ben Carson is black.
Goldberg, in a column on the magazines website, criticized the media for not talking enough about Carsons race, suggesting that its intriguingly rare to hear people talk about the fact that hes black. Forget the ample discussion among the media about Carsons race and Republican politics -- if Goldberg hasnt come across it on Breitbart, it doesnt exist.
But heres the kicker: Like Rupert Murdoch -- who recently made waves by saying Carson would be a real black president -- Goldberg said he thinks the retired neurosurgeon is more authentically African-American than President Barack Obama.
One could argue that hes even more authentically African-American than Barack Obama, given that Obamas mother was white and he was raised in part by his white grandparents. In his autobiography, Obama writes at length about how he grew up outside the traditional African-American experience in Hawaii and Indonesia and how he consciously chose to adopt a black identity when he was in college.
And they say conservatives dont get race.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-review-jonah-goldberg-ben-carson_5633dc40e4b0631799127b6c
WTF is wrong with these people!!!
emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)Never gonna forget how this one and his mommy exploited and used Linda Tripp to manipulate her friend Monica L. Despicable.
Initech
(100,081 posts)still_one
(92,219 posts)isn't.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)not.
fuck him.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)still_one
(92,219 posts)RobinA
(9,893 posts)What color Goldberg is, what exactly is "authentically black"?