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Remember the days when racism was bad? Those days are long gone, baby, unless you hold to the currently fashionable fiction that only white people can be racist at all. If, on the other hand, you still live in the real world, you know that everyone can be racist, and that racism is making a strong comeback in American society today. That’s not because Bull Connor has unleashed his dogs once again and Lester Maddox is back waving his axe handle; instead, it’s because it has become acceptable in woke culture to bash white people in ways that, if any other group were being discussed in the same terms, would ruin careers and shut down networks. But racism against white folks is not just acceptable today; it’s a sure-fire means of career advancement.
On MSNBC’s The Cross Connection on Sunday, the show’s host, Tiffany Cross, asserted that white people didn’t understand why black people were telling them not to comment upon Will Smith’s still-resounding slap of Chris Rock in front at the Oscars last week. Her guest, TheGrio columnist Michael Harriot, then claimed that it was “hard to explain to a white person what’s the difference between an open-handed slap and a punch.”
Oh, pick me, sir! Pick me! An open-handed slap is, well, uh, a slap with the open hand, and a punch is delivered with the closed fist. The slap is generally considered to be a gesture of profound contempt, but somewhat less aggressive than a punch. Now, I’m white and all that, and I’m heartily sorry for that, but was my answer correct?
Cross, however, didn’t even consider the possibility that some white people might know what she was talking about, declaring that “they,” that is, those silly, stupid, benighted whites, “consider it all violent.”
Well, yes. That’s because it is all violent. But according to Cross, idiot whites are missing the fact that there was “nuance to what happened.” She then launched into a bizarre story that was apparently meant to illustrate why those who have the misfortune to be white should say nothing about the slap. “I will try to put this in context for our white fellow countrymen as best I can. And really, truly, black America, there’s a commonality amongst us all. And if we went to a white person’s home, and it was their family dinner, and we were sitting at the table, and the mother hauled off and slapped the father. And everybody at the table has an opinion. You know, the sister is like, ‘Mom, you always do this.’ And the brother is like, ‘I can’t believe you’re doing this.’ And Dad is like, ‘You’re terrible.’ If I weigh in as the guest in this home and I say, ‘Yeah, you guys are terrible.’ Everybody’s like, ‘I’m sorry. When did you get an opinion? This is our family table.’”
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Westman says
Every “family” has the option to not participate in violence, white or black. Tiffany Cross’ illustrative story implies quite a different meme than she intended – instead of “It’s none of your business”, the takeaway is avoid Smith’s “family”, it has violent.tendencies and thinks violence among family members is normal. But, of course, there are no statistics to support such an accidently-implied meme.
somehistory says
Well put.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Westman.
Pray Hard says
I’ve worked with blacks. Blacks live in a different world than whites do. Take it or leave it. Next we’ll hear that there is no thug culture.
Infidel says
I think it varies state to state. In California, the Blacks I encountered were thugs. In Georgia, the ones I encountered were perfectly nice people
gravenimage says
There are decent Black people here.
But there is no doubt that thug culture is a real thing–and is a threat to everyone, but most especially other Black people. To normalize this as moral idiots like Cross and Harriot are trying to do is sickening.
mike says
one thing is for sure the more I read and hear. Will Smith will no longer be on my watch list
Sid says
The previous comments have ignored the fact neither celebrity attempted to bite the other’s face off.
Civilization works!!
somehistory says
She’s an idiot. society is a mixture of people. society is not a small **family** where a *guest* can come in and make decisions for the family members.
However, there are White families that would not be so rude as to tell a guest to mind his own business if violence was used at the dinner table at which the guest sat and witnessed.
she’s trying to say that Whites have no business telling Blacks what is right or wrong…but of course, she feels free as a Black woman to tell Whites what we should and should not do. Isn’t she stepping outside her “family” in telling Whites not to talk about the violence of Blacks, Black on Black.
Well, fool, what about the White cops in chicago who are called out to stop Black thugs from shooting little Black kids sleeping in their beds, or sitting at the dinner table, or doing homework, or swinging on the porch? Should all of the White authorities just look the other way while little Black kids are being slaughtered because those doing the murders are Black?
And what about the complaints by many Blacks that there is not the same news coverage for a Black woman who goes missing and a White woman who goes missing? Perhaps it’s that some Whites got the message a long time ago, that Black violence is no business of Whites.
Just as they deny that they are racists, they want it both ways when it comes to reporting on crime between Blacks. They want the coverage, but not condemnation of the violence.
Infidel says
She’s from MSNBC. What did you expect? In the late 90s, Microsoft and NBC formed a partnership following the launch of Windows 95, and created this channel. Like everything else from Microsoft, and indeed all of Big Tech, it quickly became a Left wing platform
Nowadays, I find myself rooting for the economic demise of companies that I used to admire back in the 90s. How things change!
somehistory says
Since I don’t listen to msnbc, I didn’t expect anything. then, I read it here and not surprised by her stupidity. Stupidity is as rampant as violence.
Chrissie01 says
Actually, I think this is good news. Whites are seen as guests at their tables. Means: Blacks decide rules and whom they invite. Thank you. Acceptable then, that blacks, in turn, too, are guests at white folks’ table. White decide rules and whom they invite. Everyone has freedom of association, right? Finally, we are getting there!
gravenimage says
Whites are seen as guests at their tables. Means: Blacks decide rules and whom they invite.
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Good point, Chrissie. I don’t think these creeps see this working the other way, though.
Chrissie01 says
actually, she is not black. She is mulatto, a potpourri. Why doesn’t she acknowledge the white percentage? Weird!
somehistory says
just as “bo” didn’t acknowledge that he was …as he hates Whites, likely he hated his mother. In the past, back in the 50’s and 50’s, they would have claimed Whiteness if light enough.
somehistory says
60’s
James Lincoln says
Chrissie01,
Perhaps she hates the “percent of her” that is White – and it’s the “cognitive dissonance” that makes her so unhappy.
gravenimage says
This is very common, Chrissie. One drop seems to make someone Black–remember when this was considered a racist thing?
CogitoErgoSum says
Actually, I wish I could just eat by myself. If not, sitting at the kid’s table would be okay.
somehistory says
I have sat at the kid’s table many times since becoming older than considered a ‘kid.’ I never did so without having some fun and stimulating conversation between bites. I prefer it. I can ignore the size of the seat.
GreekEmpress says
If Chris Rock and Will Smith were white, should black people not be allowed to comment?
What tripe—
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
MSNBC: White People Are Too Stupid to Understand Will Smith’s Slap
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Ah, yes–because slapping someone upside the head is just too difficult to grasp…
Of course, if it had been a *white* member of the audience slapping Chris Rock, it would be very different–this would have been roundly condemned by everyone, also deemed racist, and no one would have applauded this thuggery,
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On MSNBC’s The Cross Connection on Sunday, the show’s host, Tiffany Cross, asserted that white people didn’t understand why black people were telling them not to comment upon Will Smith’s still-resounding slap of Chris Rock in front at the Oscars last week.
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Trying to shut people up–we see this *all the time*. Then, if Will Smith had wanted to ensure that no one would discuss his assault, why did he *do this in front of an Academy Awards audience*? Surely he *wanted* this to be public.
Even with the recent precipitous slide in viewership (for good reason), the Oscars are still widely watched, and watched by a wide range of the public.
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Her guest, TheGrio columnist Michael Harriot, then claimed that it was “hard to explain to a white person what’s the difference between an open-handed slap and a punch.”
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What crap. Yes, a slap is not as violent as a punch which is not as violent as stabbing or shooting someone–although it is, as noted, indicative of a greater element of contempt.
But yes–sane people consider this all violent, because it *is violent*. This wasn’t a warm gesture, and wasn’t meant to be.
Not a whole lot of “nuance” there.
And note that Michael Harriot is sneering at Americans concerned that Ketanji Brown Jackson is soft on crime.
And here is is, saying that blacks making white peope feel bad is a sound political strategy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS9jN1DEPos&ab_channel=BNCNews
Note also the Marxist idea that if anyone doesn’t think that if people want to be self sufficient rather than have taxpayers fund them that they are “voting against their own interests”.
And Cross using the instance of domestic violence at a dinner where there is a guest is bizarre. In what circumstance save embarrassment–or fear of being the object of violence themselves–would someone keep quiet in the face of an assault? Then, would this family really assume that this person would not dare tell any friends or family members about the violence? Unlikely, certainly.
Then, Tiffany Cross assuming that domestic violence is the norm is deeply disturbing–as is the idea that everyone should be quiet about it.
Is she suggesting that Black-on-Black violence is not to be mentioned–and is to be regarded as the norm, because they can’t help themselves? Isn’t *that* racist?