Dinesh D'Souza loses the rest of his marbles

[Jonathan Lighter]

Part of the reason  for D'S's whining seems to be that Obama *wrote the
N-word.*

JL

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
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> > I'm not convinced he understands the difference between "nigger" and
> > "house nigger".
>
> D'Souza doesn't even *intend* to understand the difference. He has
> devoted his entire career to demonstrating that he has nothing but
> contempt for anyone who's of known, admitted, or claimed sub-Saharan
> African ancestry, irrespective of that person's wealth or social
> status.
>
> In point of fact, _house_ v. _field_ is a distinction without a
> difference, in any case, even among blacks - any black person at all
> can claim to be of house-slave descent and how can anyone contradict
> him? - because it doesn't matter to white people. It's just noise. Has
> anyone ever heard even a whisper of a rumor that there once were signs
> that read WHITE, COLORED (of house-servant descent), COLORED (of
> field-hand descent), or something similar?
>
> As someone once pointed out on this very listserv, if there was any
> meaningful distinction that had ever been made between or among black
> Americans on any basis, it would have changed the history of the
> United States.
>
> As a redneck/hillbilly character in an animated cartoon asked the
> members of a black family, "If y'all are the same family, why ain't
> y'all the same color?"
>
> Exactly.
>
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