http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:45:36 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/11/23/140348.php#comment-100130 usually 100130@blogcritics.org Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:45:36 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/11/23/140348.php#comment-100086 I do not consider the term 'Aunt Jemima' racist if it is used appropriately. That would mean using it to describe someone who is subservient or who is the comforting black image projected by a powerful white organization. However, as I said in both my entries, there are usually better ways to criticize people than relying on crude characterizations. 100086@blogcritics.org Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:12:22 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/11/23/140348.php#comment-100082 somewhere in there is an admission by you and by Sylvester that his comments were racist - I'll leave it at that 100082@blogcritics.org Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:00:36 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/11/23/140348.php#comment-100081 None. . .if you can support your remarks by showing them behaving in a way similar to those characters. Which you can't, since all three are assertive men. You might want to apply those terms to the black 'con-servatives' white folks use instead. 100081@blogcritics.org Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:52:35 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/11/23/140348.php#comment-100079 The issue is racism and nothing but racism. I take it from your posting that you have no difficulty with referring to Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel and Jesse Jackson, then, as Amos, Andy and Kingfish? 100079@blogcritics.org Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:39:02 EST