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Name: TGen

Comment: I'm beginning to wonder Mr. Phillips, if you're not just being facetious in the tone of your articles, or if you really are just ignorant. I haven't figured which it is yet. Let me enlighten you and other Black Republican operatives on Affirmative Action. Black people who support AA do NOT have an inferiority complex, as you suggest, they DON'T believe they cannot compete on equal footing with Whites and others, they DON'T lack faith in their own abilities. Kay? What the DO lack faith in is the "SYSTEM," one that has proven time and time again to be unequal and biased. When Black folks start trusting the "SYSTEM," THEN they will entertain the idea that AA is not needed. But your ire is with the wrong group. Don't point the finger at Black folks, point the finger at the SYSTEM created by "others" to undermine them. Why do you think so little of Blacks? Why do you think they are only interested in charity? Why not give them the benefit of the doubt and azzume they have good REASONS for their positions? This is the disconnect I have with a lot of "conservative" Blacks, the continued undermining the intelligence of the Black populace. Do I think the students should have welcomed you? Yes. But I don't understand why they person they wanted to speak in order to counter your position was not welcomed also. (Maybe I read it wrong), but it seems like the CR's were the ones attempting to shortcut free speech. *Shrug*

Name: dcdouglass01

Comment: On the John Stewart Show yesterday, he showed some comments by actual people in West Virginia stating the reasons why they wouldn't vote for Barack Obama. One white lady said that he was of a different race, and that basically that was enough of a reason for her. Another woman proclaimed he was a Muslim. Yet another woman said that his name is Hussein and that there'd been enough problems with Husseins. In a different news report, a white man in Georgia is selling Obama T-shirts with a picture of a monkey on the shirt as Obama. So that's just a infinitesimal sampling of where we are on race in America in 2008. And as far as affirmative action goes, that was put in place for the salvation of (some) white people, because the shortcoming (racism) was on their end. By the way, once college entry is obtained, you still have to EARN the degree. But let's go back even further, before the college application process begins, to the secondary school level. How much is spent per student, average, white vs. Black? Once that's been on par for a generation, then perhaps I'd be open to a discussion on the removal of affirmative action as it pertains to college admissions.

Name: DOne

Comment: Also, once they do away with point systems that award students who come from certain schools and children of alumni, then we can talk. No one says a thing when colleges search predominate black high schools for the football and basketball teams; and give them a free ride when many of them can't even diagram a sentence; that's good and dandy, but god forbit if they go looking for a black kids who excells in math or science.

Name: oshun

Comment: "It is truly a sign of how mixed up the world is when a Black man telling Black students that there is no monopoly on brain power is decried as a sellout..." HERE HERE! that kind of thinking never ceases to %*$! me off! and i don't always agree with j.c. phillips. on this, however, we see eye-to-eye. i am so tired of this complacency with low standards and low expectations some of tend to have. i wanna see another black hero in the mathematics, scientific, financial or literary arena just as much as we see them in athletics!

Name: dcdouglass01

Comment: "It is truly a sign of how mixed up the world is when a Black man telling Black students that there is no monopoly on brain power is decried as a sellout while White folk that believe Black students are only in attendance on campus because of lowered standards and that without lowered standards they would not be in school at all are seen as comrades in arms." Brain power isn't the issue. It wasn't the issue in 1962 when James Meredith entered the Univ. of Mississippi as it's first Black student (he eventually earned a degree in Political Science at that school). It was racism. I know some Black people (such as JCP) don't feel complete until they've been coddled by white people. But racism still exists. And attempting to relieve this country of its guilt by saying higher education no longer needs to police itself isn't the move to make just yet, i.e., let's deal with more substantial issues first (such as racial diparity in our justice system; racial disparity in the public school systems, etc.).

Name: ChiDiva9

Comment: Come on give me a freakin break Phillips. This is NONSENSE to the nth degree. I went to the University of Michigan in the 80's. You know the shcool that got sued over their affirmative action policy. Well I was told that same junk by my white contemporaries. However my Grandmother attended college. My Mother and father attended the University as well. At least 12 people in my family have attended the dang place and whites still say oh you are there because of affirmative action. Well then again maybe they are correct - we are becoming a dynasty at the place and we are getting some of that George Bush Yalie treatment. However the point is idiots are going to say what they want on face value not knowing a damn thing about you and where you come from. White people assume far too much.

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: JCP, you were shown the respect level that you have earned . . . . . in a reality where everything affirms whitey, we have to strive to bring our aspirations to fruition against the backdrop of prevalwent racism in America which causes us to simultaneously be on guard on many levels . . . . . . believe this: no one gives us anything . . . . . you and I were not glimmers in our parents' futures when the WWII GI bills for education and housing affirmed whitey while leaving behind AAs and efforts to play catch up since then [notice, I don't go back to slavery] are greeted with disdain by people like you who have benefited where benefit can be had . . . . . AAs have made tremendous progress in some areas with markedly less success in other areas and we know that we can make positive progress but we don't invite naysayers such as yourself to our table because you don't tell us how to move forward, rather, you tell us how we should appease whitey

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: if I wasn't suffering from WTF? brain freeze, I would have told you a straight up "fvck you, sucka" and not have written a single other word

Name: DrKnowItAll

Comment: JCP, why are you preaching anti AA to groups of people who are not majority black?? If this speech was given at Howard or Jackson State or Fisk or some HBCU then you may have more crediblity. But giving an anti AA speech to a presumably white organization serves what purpose?? I can understand your argument, if this were a perfect world. But it is not. Race means just as much today as it did 60 years ago and for you to preach against the very policy that allowed most of the black students to even be on campus makes very little sense to me. The point is to be on a campus receiving a higher education. It's not going to destroy the white man by allowing black students higher education, no matter how they get there. I don't know if AA played a role in my education process or not. I don't care. The education was the important thing. It's discouraging to see a black man trying to undo the work that so many fought for, died for, cried for.

Name: NYCSis

Comment: Sigh. I hardly ever click onto his stories to avoid the feeling I get when I read him. He obviously has way too much faith in the goodness of and desire for fair play in white people. He will have his "OJ moment" one day.

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: I just read an article that reminds me of JCP and here's the excerpt that did it: So the next time you're struggling to root out consumer insights . . . targeted at African Americans, and an articulate black person captures your imagination, you might want to think about it the way Andre put it: "I don't talk white," he said, "I talk like I've got $100,000 of education invested in me."

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: Guess What, America? There Is a Black Middle Class And You Should Learn How to Speak Its Language . . . . . Posted by Moses Foster on 05.19.08 @ 07:50 AM

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