Michelle Malkin
It's Interesting that people from both the Left and Right would prefer minority people, such as Asian, Hispanics, Indians, or Africans, join the Leftists and the Democrats.
That disappoints me because minorities should be allowed to join the Republican party if they want, or any party, even if I disagree with its platforms, its policies, and its rhetoric.
Today is MLK's day, the day when everyone would make a show of joining together, and the colors of your skin wouldn't be important as your character or be used as a racial rattling stick. The Left should not vilify minorities for going to the Republican party, because that diminishes the Left. The Right should not bait-race minorities, because that also diminishes the Right.
I guess one of the problems of the "undefinable naughties", or the 00's decade, is how to survive in a world, and in America, when distinctions are finally blurring together, and yet human beings are still trying to find a way to set the "us" against "them." When you have a Republican President attempting to woo the minorities and simultaneously dissolve the racial lines that section us, it deprives the Left of their favorite weapon of mass exploitation: using the race cards as political fodders.
Having racial distinctions is still important, especially in the health and medicine when we have discovered that certain races are more predisposed to diseases than others.
But every intelligent surveyor of the new landscape after such a tectonic political shift has already recognized that America has changed irrevocably. The ideals are the same, naturally; the ideas of how to apply them are not.
I am not the first to coin the Naughties as the word to call the decade from 2001 to 2011, and my reasoning is based on Physics, not on the fact that the decade was full of naughtiness. Never mind the fact that I never heard of the Wired article.
That disappoints me because minorities should be allowed to join the Republican party if they want, or any party, even if I disagree with its platforms, its policies, and its rhetoric.
Today is MLK's day, the day when everyone would make a show of joining together, and the colors of your skin wouldn't be important as your character or be used as a racial rattling stick. The Left should not vilify minorities for going to the Republican party, because that diminishes the Left. The Right should not bait-race minorities, because that also diminishes the Right.
I guess one of the problems of the "undefinable naughties", or the 00's decade, is how to survive in a world, and in America, when distinctions are finally blurring together, and yet human beings are still trying to find a way to set the "us" against "them." When you have a Republican President attempting to woo the minorities and simultaneously dissolve the racial lines that section us, it deprives the Left of their favorite weapon of mass exploitation: using the race cards as political fodders.
Having racial distinctions is still important, especially in the health and medicine when we have discovered that certain races are more predisposed to diseases than others.
But every intelligent surveyor of the new landscape after such a tectonic political shift has already recognized that America has changed irrevocably. The ideals are the same, naturally; the ideas of how to apply them are not.
I am not the first to coin the Naughties as the word to call the decade from 2001 to 2011, and my reasoning is based on Physics, not on the fact that the decade was full of naughtiness. Never mind the fact that I never heard of the Wired article.
When referring to an initial velocity, we write v0, with the zero as the subscript. However, rather than calling it "initial velocity," physicists use the term "vee-naught." From there, I simply called the 2000 to 2010 the naughties decade, and the 00's.
posted by Alan at January 17, 2005
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