16. Cenk,

I agree with the majority of the people who are unfortunate enough to have read your small-minded article. YOU are the Cook.Journalist integrity does not mean anything to you does it?
We the people need to start some sort of outlet for news and opinions of liberty to be spread.
Cenk, you will be Hannitized. I will now go about ending my relationship with aol.

LIBERTY!

chris at 3:01AM on Jan 11th 2008

17. Keep in mind that this is the same fool who threw a big hissy when Colbert supposedly "stole" one of his jokes...

The people who are propagating the lies about Ron Paul know the truth full well. They don't care about the truth: they have an agenda to push. It should come as no surprise to anyone that Medved and guys like this clown find it useful to repeat lies in the hopes that someone who doesn't know any better will believe them.

David Rink at 3:01PM on Jan 9th 2008

18. This is ridiculous.. if the newsletters were legitimate, they probably would've been released immediately instead of strategically right before the New Hampshire primaries. You are almost as bad as the people who wrote the newsletters, because this has already been debunked in the past and numerous sites have written it off 24 hours ago... yet you keep fueling the fire.

Andrea at 3:04PM on Jan 9th 2008

19. This group should be renamed:
.
............The Punk Jerks..............

Lon Horiuchi V at 3:18PM on Jan 9th 2008

20.






I'll start from early on in my evolution... I am a biracial man whose father is African-American and mother is Caucasian. My parents met in 1959 when my un-wed mother was in a nursing school where my father was employed as a nurses aide... my mother was engaged to a white man who was attending engineering school. My father had an African-American wife and (5) children at the time of his extra-marital relationship with my mother. At some early point of my mothers pregnancy with me she made the decision to marry her fiance, and to lie to everyone about who the father of her un-born child was... she achieved this by claiming that I had been afflicted with a skin-disease called "melanism".
My mother and step-father had four more children together in the space of nine years after I was born, and we grew up together in a middle-class household in white america where the subject of "race" was never discussed. My earliest recollections of having to be aware of race was when I was asked questions about the color of my skin by other classmates in first grade... "Why was my skin dark?", "Was I adopted?" race was certainly a hot-button issue in 1965-66 when I began school , but any awareness that my mother and step-father had achieved from growing up in their white neighborhoods in the 40's and 50's was insufficient in preparing them for raising a biracial child... and to complicate things, they were both in complete denial of their complicity in my mis-education. When I came home from school after having been asked questions by fellow students from my all-white school district, my mother then explained "the skin-disease story" to me... "other kids with this disease usually have dark blotches all over their bodies, so you should feel fortunate". When I would tell my mother about other boys and girls who would call me names or act aggressively for no apparent reason, I began to understand that I would get no further assistance from her to explain this rationale... my step-father was even more removed from the conversation and would only add, "You know what your mother said".
By the time that my step-father transferred jobs and our family of (7) had moved from the all-white Cleveland, Ohio suburb of Stow to the all-white school district of Portville in Western up-state N.Y. it was the spring of 1970 and I was in fourth grade, and already the veteran of many racial incidents and altercations between myself, classmates, and even some adults. My four younger siblings had also been told the same story, and had to explain the same things to their friends when asked why they had a brother who was black... "Hey, did your mother fool around a little bit??" I remember how much that hurt me when I heard it, and I'm sure that they felt just as badly when they did... nonetheless, this was a "subject" that we never discussed as a family, not once, at least in my presence.
I was taught through my observations of my mother and step-father to keep quiet about things that I wasn't sure about, and I was also taught to ignore the obvious.
As I matured into my teen-aged years and began to experience societies issues and insecurities in coming to terms with this countries racial in-equalities during the 70's, I felt an increasing need to rationalize and then codify the information that my mother had given me, regardless of what I was beginning to realize inside... I felt an increasing discomfort, yet there was noone in my life to offer any prospective... I had learned that black people were a part of society that we didn't talk about. ( There was a black family in my small town, and they were poor and lived in a run-down house near the river...I never had any opportunity or reason to associate with them)
I was a "B" student and also began taking an interest in sports where I was above average. Meeting other schools and student athletes were opportunities to then be exposed to populations that had not been inured by my story yet...I was just another black kid to them.
Communicating my experiences to my mother and step-father was difficult because they had no experience with racial prejudice, therefore when I had problems with other children it would be looked at as an issue that "I" had in getting along with others(as well as intra-family sibling issues).
Because "race" was being ruled-out entirely, by my mothers denial of my father, she could not logically use that rationale to explain any conflicts that I would have. My step-fathers complicity in this was to blindly support my mothers viewpoint.
The "white" viewpoint has always been that blacks(black society) were pretty well cared for, and what contact they did have would be polite and careful... What, with the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts being passed, the playing field had been leveled.(re: my mother and step-father's generation)
The feelings and comfort of my mother were apparently what was important, and her inculcation had to have been partly comprised of the idea that white society acted as the gate-keepers and care-takers of an infantilized black population.




questions:

How has black society formed its identity?

What role models have been used, and how does white society react to positive
black role models today? (Are they held to a more critical prism??)

Is there enough information readily available for black people to easily form a
positive racial identity?

Is it important that black society is able to connect accurately the dots of its social
evolution in America? and is it also important that white society can connect those
same dots??

What is White Privilege?

What is White awareness?

What is Whiteness?

What about Affirmative Action?

Is Race just a social construct?

How do we improve our society in America?

Is there any other way(besides the attrition of the old guard) to achieve this??



Dave Myers
www.discussrace.com

Dave Myers at 3:22PM on Jan 9th 2008

21. If you were a politician, and someone was publishing something under YOUR name, would you not have one of your staffers check what was being written?

I have no doubt that the NR story is true.

And it must be made public.

Linda at 3:30PM on Jan 9th 2008

22. Dave, you have the most interesting story...

However, as you can tell, it's going to fall on deaf ears in this country.

Haven't you heard? We're going to be in war for 10,000 years and Ron Paul's being called a racist.

Just be glad you're dad's not Muslim.

Rhys at 3:44PM on Jan 9th 2008

23. Finally, Uygur gets something right. All of the Paul supporters are racist Nazis coming out of their "closet." To put an exclamation point on Uygur's observations, Paul didn't accept welfare/Medicaid patients in his practice as an obstetrician. I know; not all welfare patients are minorities, but Paul's actions smack of racisim.

lizard at 3:52PM on Jan 9th 2008

24. Sure, he's the complete idiot who made it through medical school. Of course he's stupid and not an intelligent lawyer/politician. Everybody knows that Libertarians are racist and not "fair" like Democrats & Republicans. Your extremely low IQ is clearly indicated in your ravings.

Pat Fouche at 3:56PM on Jan 9th 2008

25. The NR - truth - are you kidding????
The coropate and political giants that own this country will use any means necessary to destroy a threat to their control. Ending the Iraq war and cutting the Pentagon's budget just isn't in their plan. You think the facts are something they care about? Try sending us to war,killing our young, destroying another country, and spening trillions based on nothing. They could tell the press anything and they'd report it as fact.
Until the American people realize our country has been stolen, that our Constitutional rights have been by passed - Democrat or Republican mean nothing.

Trey at 6:09PM on Jan 9th 2008

26. Linda,

If, If, If. Dr. Paul has already addressed your what if concerns. Please, do your research. It has been public for YEARS and refuted for YEARS! IF, IF, IF, you are that concerned about bringing to light truth and making things public, please tell us your stance on the media censorship of FOX news that has been exposed time and time again, most recently by the exclusion of Dr. Paul in from the FOX candidate forum.

Please open your eyes and see that this "story" is a lame attempt by a no name media outlet to try to dig up some scrap of junk on Dr. Paul to justify the false claims of extremism that the old media seem to want to run with in regards to Dr. Paul's platform and support.

Don't propagate lies, and don't encourage what if stories to be the basis of intelligent investigative journalism.

John in FL at 3:56PM on Jan 9th 2008

27. Ron Paul is Ross Perot on steroids. Two midget lunatics that only appeal to other midget lunatics.

Thomas J Gassett at 3:59PM on Jan 9th 2008

28. Mr Uygur,
I believe you wrote this article just to stir people up. Journalists and I use the term lightly, seem to like to do that. If you don't like Ron Paul then don't vote for him. But quit trying to drag his name through the dirt just because you don't like him. Remember what happened to John Kerry and Dan Rather. When will people learn?

LambLion58 at 4:06PM on Jan 9th 2008

29. Journalism is a dead profession. Tabloid exposes are all that's left.

Why don't you go catch a predator or something.

John at 4:12PM on Jan 9th 2008

30. This kind of stuff is to be expected....Ron Paul isn't a candidate who will uphold the status quo of the Left or the Right, so they have to smear his name. They'd rather have business as usual.

Oh, and I'd like to know how all the small government proponents who support Ron Paul can be labeled Nazis...who were the ultimate supporters of total government.

AndrewV at 4:38PM on Jan 9th 2008