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Anyone still reading Thomas Sowell is in serious need of a brain transplant. It's a race between him and Clarence Thomas to see who is indeed the biggest Uncle Tom in America today.

One word, Katrina, should be enough to stop any black man in his tracks from thinking about helping out the Bush administration and or the Republicans who made Bush-Cheney possible. You can forget race and still have thousands of reasons to hate Bush and his neo-cons with a passion.

In light of recent developments I fully expect Jesus to come out thru the voice of his servant Dr. Dobson and denounce the Bush-Cheney Republicans across the land. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature or Jesus and boy, what wool Bush-Cheney pulled over the wingnut's eyes. As the old sign used to say up on old 71 North, FORGET, HELL!

RIP
Republican Party
1854-2006

I'm with D...and I'll add anyone that reads the editorials of that rag that believes they have an "informed" perspective needs a straight jacket...

Telling people not to think about sex has been tried and tried -- and never has worked once.

I've got a nasty cold and it must have affected my judgement as I read Sowell's column if today's demozette. He's got to be one of the biggest tools in right-wing "journalism". Saying that WWII didn't have popular support is just rank BS. I was a small child during the War but even at that age I absorbed the hatred felt by the adults toward the "Krauts and the Japs" and the desire to crush them.

Sowell has no soul. He sold it to the Devil who in fulfilling the bargain with a twist made him the mouthpiece for some crooked, incompetent, good ol' white boys.
Greenberg has turned the Dem-Gaz editorial page into a joke. When staff writer Cynthia Howell can do a more honest and comprehensive report on the school board elections than Greenberg can do on the editorial page, then I think someone is being way overpaid for his duties as scribe in chief.
Dammit!! I even miss ol' John Robert Starr. That ought to tell you how bad it has become down there.

Be careful!

Criticizing an African-American Republican tool is racism.

Instituting structural discrimination is OK, though.

Thus sayeth the minions of Bush.

I agree with you DBI, Thomas Sowell is running neck to neck with Clarence Thomas as the biggest Uncle Toms in America. Anyone supporting Bush-Cheney must be out of their crazy minds. Not to mention McCain! I had some respect for him, but that was lost when he blamed Clinton for Kim Jon il's stupid ass mistakes. Don't even get me started on Foleygate! Where is the outrage that was displaced for Clinton and the Monica scandel? Foley's old ass was scouting his prey from day one and the Republicans was covering his ass. They would rather have money, and political power than to protect the rights of a child.

Dear Albert Dentay,
Don't make such absolute statements if you can't back them up. I remember once when I was not thinking about sex. It was at the 8th grade picnic right after I ..... never mind.

Sowell and Thomas are poster boys for internalized oppression. They hate being black so much they turn on their own people. They are beyond the reach of mental health professionals and are tools of the Republican Radical Right which controls them.

Republicans. A party of assailants

This Foley thing only gets weirder...

Allow me to preach to the figurative choir for a moment, and make
something very clear:

NOBODY is the victim of their own sexuality. If we suffer as gay
people, we are victims not of our orientation, but of a bigoted
society riddled with misunderstandings, falsehoods, and
preconceptions. Furthermore, being molested does not somehow alter
an inborn sexuality. Yes, evidence supports the theory that most
pedophiles were victims of sexual assault at one point or another,
but it's a matter of of scientific fact that pedophilia has little,
if anything, to do with sexual orientation. Rather, pedophilia is a
disease of violence which compels the perpetrator to assault others
in a sexual way.

The idea that a minor, even one on the brink of adulthood, could
seduce a fully-matured adult disgusts me in ways I cannot begin to
articulate. Adolescents and teenagers, even the most mature of
their demographic, still, by definition, do not yet possess a fully
developed sense of responsibility or an adult sense of right and
wrong. This is not, as some have claimed, a redux of the Lewinsky
scandal, where two consenting adults engaged in sexual contact.
This is, by law, statutory rape.

Likewise, painting Foley as yet another victim of the Catholic
Molestation scandal is just desperate and pathetic. While I make no
excuse for the actions of the Catholic Church in hiding its
violating clergy, somehow trying to attribute the sins of a dirty-
talking, cyber-sexing man to the Catholic Church is a real assault
on the faith and, in a larger sense, one of the most vulgar
instances of gay-bashing in recent memory. Likening homosexuality, a
natural and healthy phenomenon, to pedophilia, even through subtext,
misleads the general public and assaults gay men and women
everywhere.

Holding a gay man accountable for his indiscretions is not gay
bashing. Blaming his crimes on his sexuality is.

My congratulations to the GOP. You've dragged America to a new
low. Knowing about this man's actions as early as 2001, covering
them up to save face for the party and control another congressional
seat, all the while appointing him as a champion of children's
welfare ranks as one of the bleakest, most reprehensible instances
in modern history. The real victims here: The teens, the
Catholics, the Gays, the American people.

Republicans. A party of assailants

American Prison Camps Are on the Way
By Marjorie Cohn
AlterNet, October 9, 2006
Straight to the Source
http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_3122.cfm

Sowell is a Republican lawn jockey. The Repubs seem to think wagging out a black conservative innoculates them from criticism. They're so excited about it that they don't realize guys like Keyes and Sowell are not espcecially deep thinkers. If they were, they would see how thoroughly Uncle Tommed they have become.

I agree with you DBI, Thomas Sowell is running neck to neck with Clarence Thomas as the biggest Uncle Toms in America. - Posted by: Poetry In Motion

Sowell is a Republican lawn jockey. The Repubs seem to think wagging out a black conservative innoculates them from criticism. -Posted by: dogtownius
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This "Uncle Tom" racist characterization might have some credibility if it was used judiciously by you white folk. Apparently any black Republican that is a political leader or a public figure is automatically an Uncle Tom in your eyes. Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Condi Rice (Auntie Tom?) Colin Powell - oh, sorry, now that he is wavering in his republicanism, he is no longer called an Uncle Tom, are all given this label because they disagree with your political viewpoint.

You can disprove my theory by filling in this blank:
Unlike _______ (Insert name of Non-Uncle Tom Republican), Thomas Sowell is qualified to be the new poster child for Oreo cookies.

Oops- the Non-Uncle Tom Republican must be black. . .

"Colin Powell - oh, sorry, now that he is wavering in his republicanism"

Oh Don, I don't think anyone thinks Powell is wavering in his republicanism, he's finally admitting he was wrong, Bush was wrong and he got a dirty deal from his friends in the White House. If the Shoe Bomber started talking about what he did and how it was wrong, would he be wavering in his republicanism? I think not.

I use the term Uncle Tom very carefully because it's not a very nice thing to say about a black person. I can't say I know of any black Republicans who are not Uncle Toms, but I also don't know all the black Republicans. In light of many events, I don't understand how a black person or a gay person could call themselves a Republican.....does not compute.

I don't think Harold Ford is an Uncle Tom, I sure didn't think that the late Barbara Jordan was an Uncle or Aunt Tom, if MS hadn't got her, no telling how far she might have gone. Thurgood Marshal was no Uncle Tom. Barack Obama isn't one either.

I fell out with Sowell back when Clinton was President. The Fort Smith paper always carried his column, maybe still does, I don't read it. Sowell used the flimsiest excuses to jump on Clinton, a man I never voted for, I might add. His words didn't ring true, it was like a paid ad by the Republican Party. Now we know how fond the Republican Party is of paying off journalists, it probably was and is a paid ad for the Republican Party.

Oh, and Charles Rangel is no Uncle Tom, come to think of it. But sorry, can't think of a black Republican who escapes that term. Can you name any?

But sorry, can't think of a black Republican who escapes that term. Can you name any? - Posted by: Deathbyinches
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Personally, I can't name ANY Republicans or Democrats that I would call "Uncle Toms". NONE.

I can think of both Republicans and Democrats that are racists and bigots, but there are blacks, whites and others that are worthy of that label.

But Uncle Tom? This is a derogatory term only used toward black people. This is a good term for use by a racist person with a limited vocabulary that not only can't come up with any specific criticisms of a black person, they can't even think of an articulate way to express their disdain for that person.

Calling a person an Uncle Tom is just a step above calling the person a n*****.

For LWood - why don't you step out on the street and call a black person an Uncle Tom? If you aren't willing to do it on the street, you are a coward for doing it here.