Servants' Quarters (Wolcott on "macaca")

[kskiska]

Conservative New York radio talkshow hothead Bob Grant once said on the air that then-New York mayor David Dinkins (a far more elegant dresser than Grant, by the way) reminded him of a "men's room attendant".

On Imus in the Morning, Imus or one of his crew once joked about the pre-Washington Week in Review Gwen Ifill: "Speaking of reporter Gwen Ifill, he's said, 'Isn't the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.'"

A week ago, Mickey Kaus's arm candy wrote, "Congresswoman Maxine Waters had parachuted into Connecticut earlier in the week to campaign against Lieberman because he once expressed reservations about affirmative action, without which she would not have a job that didn't involve wearing a paper hat."

And now the cover of the latest Weekly Standard brings us Al Sharpton as a Driving Miss Daisy faithful retainer "who dares not look his master in the eye."

Washroom attendant. Cleaning lady. Cafeteria worker. Chauffeur.

Notice a pattern?

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[KT2000]

1. Oh my God.......

that is disgusting.
These people are splitting at the seams. Their masks are falling off.

[Ken Burch]

2. Knowing them, though, they have other masks underneath the outer masks.

Sickening but totally unsurprising. Makes me feel even greater sympathy for Colin Powell and the kind of shit he musta heard every day from these clowns. They probably call Condi "girl".

[On the Road]

3. Teddy Roosevelt

was coming back from a diplomatic trip in the Caribbean (Haiti?). He mentioned that the prime minister they had met with was quite a physical specimen and would fetch an excellent price at a slave auction. His companions all thought this was an outstanding joke and laughed heartily.

Nothing new under the sun. But if there's an area where people need to "watch what they say," this is it.

[Love Bug]

5. Proof that Jim Crow was damaging to us all

No excuse for Roosevelt's comment, but 100 years ago was a different world, a different planet entirely.

For anyone to have those kinds of attitudes TODAY, after being exposed to the civil rights movement, the 60s, Martin Luther King, etc., etc., etc., well -- one can only assume that that kind of bigotry is deliberate rather than born out of ignorance.

[MADem]

4. And this guy makes an interesting commentary

http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2006/08/pre-minstrel-syndrome-driving-mr.html

Wolcott sure doesn't spare the horses when discussing Fred Barnes, does he>

Fred Barnes wouldn't know a "rich seam of thought" from a river of raw sewage, but let it pass. At the end of his love-letter lunch with Allen, he relays what the mission statement of an Allen presidential campaign would be: "securing our freedom, making sure this is a land of opportunity for all people, and making sure that we preserve our foundational values." I'm going to assume going forward that "foundational values" is one of those conservative code phrases intended to connote the noble white pillars of the old Southern plantation.

[Cha]

6. Imus is fucking idiot who

if looks designated where you should be would be hawking shell games at the traveling circus.