'Black and Bluestein'
by Larry Elder
I recently traveled to New York. On the plane, I met an actress named Lenora. During the long flight, I learned that a) she's Jewish, b) she works as an actress, and c) was doing a play in the hyper-liberal city of Santa Monica, Calif. Not exactly, I thought, a Reagan Republican.
She asked about my business in New York, and I told her I intended to do a series of TV shows to promote my new book.
"What is the title?" she asked.
Because so many recoil at the title ...
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Posted by: wade mathias
Comment: #1
Sat May 17, 2008 6:25 PM
I have a great appreciation for people like Larry Elder who refuse to buy into their own victimization. Whereas human nature dictates that it is easy for us to convince ourselves that somebody else is responsible for our problems, it is really nice to find people in the world who take firm control of as well as full responsibility for their own lives.
I have now adopted Larry's term “victicrat” myself to refer to those people who seem to blame all their problems on “whitey”, rich people, or whoever is convenient. But although I tend to strongly agree with Larry and others of his ilk in their views about race and racism, it appears that they might sometimes understate today's effects of white racism on blacks of a lower station in life than their own.
I am currently corresponding online with an individual who claims that Larry is pandering to white people like me. When I indicated to this individual that I agreed with another well known black writer's assessment of some of the so-called “Black Leaders” as poverty pimps he told me that Larry Elder was the real poverty pimp. He claimed that whereas Larry Elder claims that racism is no longer significant in this country, Larry and his staff cried racism when his television show was cancelled. This individual does not strike me as the type to just make up a story like this. Does he perhaps have some wrong information?
I would appreciate it if Larry or any of his readers can enlighten me on this matter. I am emailing this information to Larry. Hopefully those who screen his email will see fit to make sure he sees it.
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Posted by: Matt
Comment: #2
Sat May 17, 2008 8:55 PM
I really like the part (in the play) where the black man says, "I expect you to do the right thing." Simple, yet powerful. I'm going to remember those words. Even today, there's something to be said for appealing to a person's conscience and sense of honor & integrity. For making them understand that they're going to have to live with the consequences of their actions and that they need to do what helps them sleep at night.
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Posted by: wade mathias
Comment: #3
Sun May 18, 2008 1:48 PM
In regard to my previous comment here Larry has responded directly to me and has emphatically denied ever crying racism about having his television show cancelled. As I was the one who brought it up, I want any who read this article and related comments to know that in absence of further comment by me at this site I consider Larry vindicated. He has challenged me to come up with any evidence that he ever so much as hinted at racism when his television show was cancelled, and I have none.
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