Np: Rant of the Day

[rich]

one of the troubling things about this white rage debate is it misses
the point--it should be called 'Rich Rage'

and the white liberal confessionary is embarrassing

On 7/17/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> In today's HuffPo, Rachel Maddow takes on Lynch-Man Pat ["Southern
> Strategy"] Buchanan & Jason Linkins gets into a fine, fine lather:
>
> 	So yes. before we rush off and do something foolish like
> 	appoint Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, which would
> 	give Caucasians the biggest sad of their misbegotten lives, let's
> 	try to remember that it was white people that built this city, on
> 	rock and roll (which they stole from black people!).
>
> 	And, look, sure, there was that one time that a bunch of white
> 	people decided to sell a crap-ton of bad mortgages, chop them
> 	up into junk-ass derivative marm, and sell it to one another
> 	while leveraging it all out the ying-yang and getting it bona-fide
> 	ratings from Moody's and backing it all on a daisy-chain of
> 	gossamer horseshit from AIG, only to have the whole
> 	arrangement implode in a furious supernova of massive
> 	systemic risk that nearly destroyed the entire global economy,
> 	but believe me, ALL THOSE HONKY-CRACKERS WERE JUST
> 	HAVING AN OFF DAY, NO WORRIES! And hey, the good news
> 	is that all those white people learned from their experience, and
> 	came up with an awesome plan to get American taxpayers to
> 	put everything right, and make them all unbelievably wealthy
> 	again.
>
> 	You know, there's always someone who'll point out that it's not
> 	fair that there's a National Association for the Advancement of
> 	Colored People, when a National Association for the
> 	Advancement of White People would be decried as racist. But
> 	you know what? There is a National Association for the
> 	Advancement of White People! We just pronounce it, "Troubled
> 	Asset Relief Program."
>
> 	http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/rachel-maddow-takes-on-pa_n_237146.html