As I was reading this entire thread, I stopped reading that reprobate’s words at his very first act of name-calling. Philosophy 201 educates us that such acts are called “ad hominem” attacks—with the keyword being attack; not debate, or polemic or a discussion—but, rather, an attack. There are rules (as in Robert’s ) and in this medium it is simply the job of the moderator to eliminate attacks.

If dude wouldn’t say it to someone’s face in an intimate setting, why should we dignify it up in here when folk come here for the eloquent words of many, such as Tariq’s?

T3 – You’re right. It still boggles my mind that it even bears discussing. Chum and sharks, indeed.

if the dude is ignorant then by all means correct em, but do that shyt with some tact and class.. I am not saying you dont have class or anything
but those sinking down to his level calling the dude Nigger and sh6t is not cool.
How do I explain to my European friends that the word Nigger should not be used but I got peeps on here who instead of using a little class sink to calling him that.

I have a lot German, Turkish,CZech friends who read this blog as well but are to shy or to afraid of their language skills to comment
but they ask me why this or why that.

How do we break the image that peeps have of us over here , that black people are not more than crabs in a bucket or when push come to shove we
lack class, we lack the intelligence to debate and express our views.

I have witness yall shut DMAC down before with intelligence and tact without reverting to fu^kng name calling.

instead of allowing the person who opposing your views to stay, you ban him…what does that prove.

So what if the minority does not agree that Malcolm should be held in some high regard…so? lay your facts why he should. combat ignorance with facts and back that sh6t up.

That’s my beef.

It’s your blog man…You have to do what you have to do

Work in Europe has kept me away from my intake of this blog

I was very patient with DMac.

I don’t mind dissent but dude crossed the line so many times I had to ban him. I lost some of my best readers because I didn’t pull the switch earlier. You have no idea.

Thanks everyone for your comments.

So if on the anniversary of Sept. 11, I decide to come on and say something like “Al Qaeda is only responding to American terror”, which is “true”, by the way, then I assume you would say that nobody should “mob up” on me, right?

Of course, in this fictional scenario, people SHOULD “mob up” on me, because regardless of how f*cked up American policy is, nothing justifies thousands of dead civilians, so, in that case, I should just shut the hell up or, better yet, pay my respects.

By the same token, I have no objection to someone opposing an idea that Malcolm promoted. You have the right to disagree with Malcolm. You DON’T, however, have the right to call a great man names, to call his family “pathetic” and to trivialize the man’s entire existence.

And as for me, I really don’t let what someone like DavidMac says affect me, because it’s not true. All of what DavidMac said merely reflects the ignorance of the speaker, nothing more.