A Shame For The Black Man

9:25 pm EST February 3rd, 2010 | News | 12 Comments

Having a “debate” between Michael Steele and Harold Ford almost undoes the racial progress of Barack Obama’s election.

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12 Responses to “A Shame For The Black Man”

  1. Randy Brown says:
    February 3, 2010 at 10:29 pm

    Steele and Ford? Hey, I don’t see any “b;ack men” in the vicinity.

    And as a pre-emptive shot to the resident wingnuts: suck ours, too.

  2. Randy Brown says:
    February 3, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    “b;ack” = “black”. Dammit!

  3. Leota2 says:
    February 3, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    Who the hell is left?
    This is going to be like two footless men trying to kick each other to death.

  4. calling all toasters says:
    February 3, 2010 at 11:59 pm

    Subject of the debate: “CREAM– Get the money, dollah dollah bill yo?”

    Both will argue the affirmative.

  5. Dr. Monkey says:
    February 4, 2010 at 12:23 am

    How can the same person debate?

  6. Parthenon says:
    February 4, 2010 at 12:36 am

    “As prominent leaders representing both sides of the political spectrum, Harold Ford Jr. and Michael Steele will engage the audience in the most hot-button issues that will shape our nation’s future,” said Jan Austin, director of the school’s Office of Campus Life

    Which spectrum would that be? Right and righter?

  7. Leota2 says:
    February 4, 2010 at 12:46 am

    And what’s with the “prominent” and “leaders”?

  8. jr says:
    February 4, 2010 at 8:41 am

    Harold Ford’s the only person that makes Steele sound like a liberal

  9. rat_bastard says:
    February 4, 2010 at 9:26 am

    For an hour I may forget they’re black.

  10. Connie says:
    February 4, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    I have no love lost for Harold Ford. Having said that it may be interesting. He’s got to win over New York and it’s progressives, and he just may make such a debate interesting. He may be a hypocrite, and he probably will not win a Senate primary in NY, but his talking points just may cut Steele ( cut Steele, tee hheee, i like that). Anyway, Harold Ford is no slouch when it comes to debate, and Steele is just an idiot. So, I’ll get my popcorn ready and pull up a chair.

  11. SalHepatica says:
    February 4, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    I think you’re wrong about this debate’s relationship to racial progress. I don’t remember who said it first, but it went something like this:

    America voting for an exemplary black man for a position of power over a mediocre white man is indicative of little more than common sense. Racial progress can be best demonstrated when a mediocre black man can win such a position. In this sense, the Supreme Court can be said to be as completely race-blind as is possible to be, and the Republican party, in giving its leadership over to Michael Steele, might even be considered racist against white people. /snark

  12. rip says:
    February 5, 2010 at 12:52 am

    Sadly, Michael Steele is probably more fun to be around than Harold Ford, but yeah, this debate doesn’t really span the political spectrum the way Alan Keyes vs. Al Sharpton would (that spectrum being completely bugshit crazy to self promoting hustler)