Kicking. Squealing.
Toure has emerged, in many peoples’ eyes, as the most annoying of the punditocracy – mostly for his ramblings on the Trayvon Martin case. Toure was right about one thing – according to an FBI investigation George Zimmerman was estranged from his family before the shooting. Toure is vindicated in his argument against Piers Morgan on that point. Toure said that Zimmerman’s younger brother came out of the woodwork to defend George on national TV and that Morgan should have done more to press him on that count. But Toure has been wrong on so much more that it is only natural that he would pat himself on the back for getting at least one snippet of the narrative correct.
Because – though mysteriously absent from the news cycle – the FBI determined that George Zimmerman did not act with racial bias in his pursuit of Trayvon Martin, and we all know that this was the only reason that the Trayvon Martin shooting gained national attention. And, as I mentioned yesterday and which to me is a HUGE finding, Sanford PD’s lead investigator Chris Serino claims he was pressured by two black law enforcement agents and one white female law enforcement agent (who has a black husband) to arrest and charge Zimmerman with a crime. Team Trayvon had run with Serino’s supposed suggestion because it indicated some sort of chicanery in Sanford PD. But now it seems that the only identifiable racial bias might have been the one coming from these law enforcement agents.
But to get back to Toure, here is a TED video of him speaking on “the internal response to racial slights”. Among other things I noticed in the video, the ease with which “white boys” rolls off his tongue tells me something as does his immediate assumption that a Harvard poet asking him why he’s attending a writer’s retreat in Italy carries racial undertones.
And (of course) he’s married to a non-black woman. That’s hilarious.
“You got into Brown because you’re black”
These would be pretty easy to get rid of if we nixed affirmative action but that can’t be allowed because then there wouldn’t be as many black people on campus. It’s easier to just blame white people.
Who? Never heard of em.
Hard to find anyone more off-putting than that poseur.
What a jackass. I think he may have put something in his underwear to accentuate that area.
Wouldn’t it be to a person’s advantage to have their intelligence underestimated? It seems like it would.
He’s like a frenzied bitch that’s flailing to be called out on her shit-test. He is black leadership class writ-small.
Daniel Tosh should have dealt with that bitch the way Joe Rogan dealt with his feminist heckler – mercilessly
Toure is a classic affirmative action baby with an axe to grind (against white people). Like fellow public negro Ta-Nahesi Coates, Toure is perfectly happy to live with the benefits provided by a society built and maintained by white people, but he can never quite bring himself to say it. However, this underlies everything he writes, and has to be kept in mind as backdrop against his rather standard modern style mau-mau journalism. I find him mostly boring and somewhat strident, which is in keeping with what I consider to be a mediocre intellect (thanks, affirmative action!).
Remember, on 3/22/12 Toure got fooled on Twitter by people saying that A&F was selling “n—-r brown” pants (it was obviously a pirate site) So paranoid and gullible that he fell for it.
“But *do* make sure there’s a poster of yourself on the wall… in your mind.”
I love how clever he thought he was being. Yo, Toure, we ‘white boys’ don’t underestimate your intelligence; you overestimate yours.
Yeah Yeah we know affirmative action has nothing to do with you Toure. It’s just there just in case sort like of like hate crime laws, quotas, minority laws etc. Thanks for pointing out the tired old “race is just a social construct”. I can tell you realllllllllllly believe that.
“What a jackass. I think he may have put something in his underwear to accentuate that area.”
Or the adoring audience gave him a hard-on.
looks like a nappy-headed Obama
“And (of course) he’s married to a non-black woman. That’s hilarious.”
i think this is so incredibly relevant, hilarious, sad, and hypocritical. this man lives and breathes “black pride”, it is his reason for being — and yet even *he* can’t force himself to marry an angry black woman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/fashion/weddings/27vows.html
man, i would PAY to hear toure talk honestly and candidly about what it was like — or wasn’t like — dating entitled, angry black women, and explaining exactly why he ended up choosing a middle eastern woman as his wife.
or maybe he didn’t even date black chicks, and only went for white girls?
after all, if he became a writer to “expand the complexity of the discussion of black people”, i think there is nothing more complex than a black pride soul brother marrying outside his race.
come on toure, don’t be weak, don’t hide, talk to us.