About 45 people showed up at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Georgetown last Friday. That's where former Black Entertainment Television commentator Tavis Smiley appeared to promote his latest book, "How to Make Black America Better."
Just what did his mostly-black audience learn about Tavis Smiley?
When he goes to sleep at night, he asks himself, "What did I do to help black America today?"
"Black man kills a white man, he gets executed, especially in Texas. White man kills a black man, we have riots, like in Cincinnati."
He thinks Republicans are "determined at all costs to turn back the clock on the progress we've made." He later described black conservatives as "self-hating" and "disturbed."
On being black: "Every black person should think black first all the time."
Now let's pause for a minute to think what would have happened if a white author had said "every white person should think white first all the time." Or if he asked himself, "What did I do to help white America today?" There wouldn't just be a few dozen onlookers. There'd also be a couple hundred protesters accusing him of racism!
Yet it's somehow okay for Tavis Smiley to rip into conservatives, imply that black conservatives are sellouts, and instruct his followers to "think black" all the time. What a politically protected class black Democrats have become.
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Just what did his mostly-black audience learn about Tavis Smiley?
When he goes to sleep at night, he asks himself, "What did I do to help black America today?"
"Black man kills a white man, he gets executed, especially in Texas. White man kills a black man, we have riots, like in Cincinnati."
He thinks Republicans are "determined at all costs to turn back the clock on the progress we've made." He later described black conservatives as "self-hating" and "disturbed."
On being black: "Every black person should think black first all the time."
Now let's pause for a minute to think what would have happened if a white author had said "every white person should think white first all the time." Or if he asked himself, "What did I do to help white America today?" There wouldn't just be a few dozen onlookers. There'd also be a couple hundred protesters accusing him of racism!
Yet it's somehow okay for Tavis Smiley to rip into conservatives, imply that black conservatives are sellouts, and instruct his followers to "think black" all the time. What a politically protected class black Democrats have become.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/inpolitics.htm
