Chris Stewart: "white America doesn't care about black people"

If we are to believe a crackpot, hare-brained, Minneapolis politico-hopeful, then not only are we to buy that line of nonsense, we are also to urge folks to repeat it openly and often (just the way the party of Rahelio likes to vote). At least, the self-proclaimed reverend Chris Stweart/Rahelio Soleil wants black celebrities to tell that story from up on the mountain.

A year ago after Hurricane Katrina destroyed most of New Orleans, Kanye West awkwardly and emotionally blurted out "George Bush doesn't care about black people" on live television, it did more than rattle Mike Meyers and draw the usual indignation of media talking-heads.

More notable black personalities should grow a Kanye-sized pair and start telling the truth.

It might seem a little radical, but it exposes a basic truth we should state openly and often, in even broader terms: Indeed, white America doesn't care about black people.

No need to put sugar on it or wish it weren't so. It's true, get over it!

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America's party line says slavery was good for black people; 30 years of affirmative action repaid 400 years of dehumanization, and women with short skirts deserve rape (unless they are white women, in which case a national boycott against Aruba is best).

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