By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, BETH STEBNER and JEREMY OLSHAN
Last Updated: 1:17 PM, November 10, 2009
Posted: 2:57 AM, November 10, 2009
A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday.
Police busted Lionel McIntyre, 59, for assault yesterday after his bruised victim, Camille Davis, filed charges.
McIntyre and Davis, who works as a production manager in the school’s theater department, are both regulars at Toast, a popular university bar on Broadway and 125th Street, sources said.
The professor, who is black, had been engaged in a fiery discussion about “white privilege” with Davis, who is white, and another male regular, who is also white, Friday night at 10:30 when fists started flying, patrons said.
LIONEL McINTYRE "Unfortunate event."
McIntyre, who is known as “Mac” at the bar, shoved Davis, and when the other patron and a bar employee tried to break it up, the prof slugged Davis in the face, witnesses said.
“The punch was so loud, the kitchen workers in the back heard it over all the noise,” bar back Richie Velez, 28, told The Post. “I was on my way over when he punched Camille and she fell on top of me.”
The other patron involved in the dispute said McIntyre then took a swing at him after he yelled, “You don’t hit a woman!”
“He knocked the glasses right off my face,” said the man, who would only give his first name as “Shannon.” “The punch came out of nowhere. Mac was talking to us about white privilege and what I was doing about it — apparently I wasn’t doing enough.”
McIntyre had squabbled with Davis several weeks earlier over issues involving race, witnesses said. As soon as the professor threw the punch Friday, server Rob Dalton and another employee tossed him out.
“It was a real sucker punch,” Dalton said. “Camille’s a great lady, always nice to everybody, and doesn’t deserve anything like this.”
Davis was spotted wearing sunglasses yesterday to conceal the black eye. Reached at her Columbia office, she declined to comment on the alleged attack.
McIntyre was released without bail at his arraignment last night.
“It was a very unfortunate event,” he said afterwards. “I didn’t mean for it to explode the way it did.”
Into the Looking Glass: Seeing the Face of Racism Today
New York Governor David Paterson
According to an article by Kenneth Lovett, Albany Bureau Chief of the Daily News, Governor David Paterson “blamed a racist media Friday for trying to push him out of next year’s election – launching into an angry rant that left even some black Democrats shaking their heads.”
For a long time, though, people have been shaking their heads in disgust, if not disbelief, with regard to the way the race card is so casually played in America, today. It seems that any time anything reflects poorly on “people of color” (which is, by the way, the new politically correct term for African-Americans and, it would seem, every other minority), the race card is the first one dealt from the bottom of the deck.
The question I think we should ask ourselves is this: When will reasonable people wake up to the realization that simply being a “person of color” is no longer a valid explanation for the vast majority of the bad things that happen not only to “people of color,” but that could happen to anyone in similar (socio-economic) circumstances?
Now, we are nearly nine months into President Obama’s first term, and there are still politicians “of color” who have the audacity to say that, “We’re not in the post-racial period.” Those are Paterson’s words.
The other day, I wrote an original piece demonstrating that many of President Obama’s supporters are racists. It’s as if there is something in the water, you know? I mean, I write an article about how some of Obama’s black supporters are racists, and, like magic, some popular black media icons reinforce what I’ve written by spouting off racist rap lyrics at the Inaugural Celebration.
So, if you think I was way off in the land of Oz with my article the other day, think again. Here’s the evidence:
Here’s Bill O’Reilly’s commentary / analysis on this. I put it here, mostly, for the sub-titles he adds to the video, so you can literally see what Jay-Z and Young Cheeshead (again, what’s this moron’s name?) are saying. I know Bill Cosbyhas some trouble with the young black kids’ street lingo these days, and I’m in the same boat as him, so subtitles are nice.
Racism is “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.”
Wikipedia gives a more comprehensive treatment of the term:
Racism is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. People with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their racial groups. In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or get preferential treatment. Racial discrimination typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, even though anybody can be racialised, independently of their somatic differences. According to the United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination.
While it would be difficult to prove conclusively that the only reason the majority of Barack Hussein Obama’s supporters backed him is his race, it is not difficult to justify the beliefs that:
Most black people who voted for Obama voted for him because he is black (see video embedded below) AND A DEMOCRAT (“separate but equal” motivations, in my estimation); Blacks usually vote Democrat in bloc, but the racial component in this election is too great to ignore.
Most white “moderates” (neither self-identified liberals nor self-identified conservatives) who voted for Obama did so because he is black; the Anti-Bradley-Effect
The mainstream media influenced Americans to have a positive view of Obama because he is a black, liberal Democrat and a negative view of John McCain because he is a white, conservative Republican
By supporting racists, you are, by extension, a racist.
I believe that most of these beliefs are either demonstrable by looking at the facts and/or held by the majority of clear-thinking, honest Americans. I could be wrong, but that is the impression my intuition gives me.
The irony is, that Obama’s top advisor on race issues says, “Even if you vote for Obama, you’re still probably a racist.” So, I hope white liberals, who are trying to assuage their racial guilt by supporting black candidates like Obama, know and understand that. I doubt they do. I doubt they’d admit it to anyone – possibly including themselves – even if they did.
Even if you disagree with all the other bulleted points, above, it is impossible to honestly disagree with the last three points.
Voluntary support for an idea requires agreement with the idea. Being a racist means having, communicating or acting on the racist ideas one possesses. In the same way that voluntary support for an idea requires agreement with the idea, voluntary support of a person -particularly and especially a political candidate- implies agreement with their ideas, worldview or guiding principles.
Premise: Barack Hussein Obama is a racist.
Premise: If you support racists, you are a racist.
Conclusion: Barack Hussein Obama’s supporters (or, at least, those who are aware of his racist views and statements) are racists.
If you disagree with the first premise of the above argument, read the excerpts, below, from “Dreams From My Father,” by Barack Hussein Obama. If you still disagree with the argument, your disagreement is irrational.
The first bit, I admit, is a paraphrase (but an accurate one, in context and including direct quotes from “Dreams From My Father,” by Barack Hussein Obama):
Obama tells a story about taking two white friends from the high school basketball team to a “black party.” Despite their deep-seated, unconscious hatred of blacks, the friends readily accepted. At the party, they managed not to scream the N-word, but instead “made some small talk, took a couple of the girls out on the dance floor.”
But with his racial hair-trigger, Obama sensed the whites were not comfortable because “they kept smiling a lot.” And then, in an incident reminiscent of the darkest days of the Jim Crow South … they asked to leave after spending only about an hour at the party! It was practically an etiquette lynching!
So either they hated black people with the hot, hot hate of a thousand suns, or they were athletes who had come to a party late, after a Saturday night basketball game.
In the car on the way home, one of the friends empathizes with Obama, saying: “You know, man, that really taught me something. I mean, I can see how it must be tough for you and Ray sometimes, at school parties … being the only black guys and all.”
And thus Obama felt the cruel lash of racism! He actually writes that his response to his friend’s perfectly lovely remark was: “A part of me wanted to punch him right there.”
The paraphrase continues, with analysis that’s worth repeating:
Wanting to punch his white friend in the stomach was the introductory anecdote to a full-page psychotic rant about living by “the white man’s rules.” (One rule he missed was: “Never punch out your empathetic white friend after dragging him to a crappy all-black party.”)
Obama’s gaseous disquisition on the “white man’s rules” leads to this charming crescendo: “Should you refuse this defeat and lash out at your captors, they would have a name for that, too, a name that could cage you just as good. Paranoid. Militant. Violent. Nigger.”
Obama, speaking of his mother in “Dreams From My Father”:
“It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved — such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.”
Another great quote from Obama in “Dreams From My Father”:
“Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.”
Obama also says that black people keep to themselves because it’s “easier than spending all your time mad or trying to guess whatever it was that white folks were thinking about you.”
Another paraphrase (again, in context, and with direct quotes):
In college, Obama explains to a girl why he was reading Joseph Conrad’s 1902 classic, “Heart of Darkness”: “I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.”
By contrast, Malcolm X’s autobiography “spoke” to Obama. One line in particular “stayed with me,” he says. “He spoke of a wish he’d once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged.”
As the above quotations from his book demonstrate, Barack Hussein Obama is unquestionably a racist, and if you knowingly, intentionally support someone you know is a racist, you are a racist. Now ask yourself, who did you vote for in 2008? Might be time for some tough introspective analysis.
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