One Cheer for Rev'm Al (classic racism from the National Review)

[CShine]

The link will take you to a column by John Derbyshire of the National Review who pathetically tries to blast Al Sharpton for talking like a black man. Click the link only if you're ready to barf.

http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200312050844.asp

[Catholic Sensation]

1. what really annoys me about this type of garbage

is that this guy, and those like him, would probably get mad at someone for making fun of how Bush speaks.

[HawkerHurricane]

2. Al Sharpton talks like he's black? Horrors!

Who does he think he is?
(sarcasm mode)

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. LOL!

Ssssh! The American public doesn't know!

[DrWeird]

3. Nothing stupider than racist wanna be linguists

that make fun of other peoples accents.

[oustemnow]

4. this is the same guy who expressed regrets that Chelsea Clinton couldn't

be executed, because she is a Clinton. He's a fucked-up psycho.

[Enjolras]

6. That snobby elitist!!

"I feel sure, in any case, that Al Sharpton speaks the way he does because he wants to speak that way. It's part of his public persona, his shtick."

Try replacing "Al Sharpton" with "George W. Bush", and see how well it still fits. How else does the priveleged son of a wealthy New England family, a graduate of Andover, Harvard, and Yale, who is no more familiar with Wal-Mart than Paris Hilton, manage to portray himself as a "plain-spoken, man of the people", while painting his political foes as elitist? Would Derbyshire hack on the pres for his legendary "Bushisms"? Naw, that dog won't hunt. He doesn't want to sound elitist.

Would he make fun of the diction of the rural, white, southern working class? No, that elitism would anger National Review subscribers. Perish the thought!!

[shoopnyc123]

7. Yo, thas some...

sick shit. How retarded.

[12 12 2000]

8. I emailed Derbyshire...

the following and he got right back to me with a very high-minded response as shown below :)


My email:
The point, sir, is not that Mr. Sharpton does or doesn't "speak like that." The point is that you would make such a big point of an entirely pointless point. The malaprops, syntaxical pretzels and just plain idiocies (e.g. Condi Rice "unsticks things...I guess you can call her an unsticker.") that steadily stream from your president's mouth apparently pass for eloquence in your mind. You bigots truly amaze me with your utter stupidity.


His reply:

Yep. Amazing leftie dorks is what we DO!



John Derbyshire
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http://www.olimu.com

[Demonaut]

9. well, if he was a WhiteTexan with that distinctive southern drawl

and of course republican we'd be all over him. I think that when Sharpton addresses his black supporters he speaks like them and when he speaks to average whites he again speaks as they do, at least it shows he's flexible. We all know and agree that those who articulate their thoughts with the Queens English are considered at least better educated if not more intelligent than those who either through regional or ethnicity distort the language,take the "valley girl" or the hispanic "esse". I only mean those who are taught the same English in schools.