Yes, use the urban dictionary to prop your arrogant ass up, so that you can feel comfortable upon your high horse- Just remember that the rest of us know you are just an intellectual midget in need.
I appear to be again in the majority with regards to seeing your posts as race baiting~
Arrogance in a man is only proof of his hatreds and insecurities- not his righteousness and strength.
Pointing to congress only proves Obama can't be defended on his record.
Excuse me? You claimed "Neanderthalic" not to be a word. I proved that, at least in some circles, it "is". So, yes, my arrogant fine ass is propped up, and commanding attention from the likes of you and your ilk.
Intellectual midget? I've have run rings around you cretins, with almost every post. You all are singing the same song, and it's getting old. Me, a black man, 58 years of age, gay, liberal and intellectual, is embarrassing the heck out of the conservatards of yet another forum, and they have all lost their monkey minds trying to cope. Sort of like what Barack Obama is doing to the right.
As for race-baiting, that is your feeble response and attempt at trying to silence me, because everybody knows that whenever a person of color speaks out when they feel that race has been used unfairly in determining how they are treated, that some bigot or racist will, invariably, "throw out" the race or race baiting card . It is one of the most dangerous weapons in the White privilege toolbox, for it implies that a "non-person of color" would know better when something is truly racist than someone who is constantly subjected to racism. And I'm supposed to believe that you, a complete stranger, and faceless words on a political debate forum would know better than I????? LOLOLOL.
This didn't happen overnight. You've been entrenched in your own racism and bigotry all your life, having learned the behavior from racist and bigoted parents, who learned it from theirs. Though my mother, and my family have been subjected to maltreatment most of their lives, she told me, that you don't judge people by the color of their skin, or their religion, or their lot in life......you judge them for their character and their hearts, or the lack thereof. Where does "race-baiting" fit into that equation? It doesn't. Now don't you feel like a fool?
Arrogant? After so many put downs by whites, less than me? You damn straight I'm arrogant, knowing that I can use the English language so competently, that I've made a career out of writing. I studied music and music theory under a world-class musician, who played Bach, like Bach. Which has afforded me a career as a musician, songwriter and producer. Arrogant? You damn straight.
In my tenure as a healthcare professional, knowing that I had to be at least as twice as good as my white counterparts, to simply keep my job. And when you are so good at it that the top physicians personally request your services? Arrogant? You damn straight.
Then finally recognized by the white gay community ( which is at times more racist and bigoted than the white straight community, undoubtedly, for various and sundry reasons), as a poet, writer, and performance artist was the Pièce de résistance...because there is nothing like being recognized by your peers and your community. Am I arrogant about it? You damn straight.
michael.barnathan.name/papers/In%20Defense%20of%20Arrogance.doc
Since an arrogant person perceives his own values to be correct in the face of a societal clash, they are not negotiable. Rather, it is society that is wrong, and society that must be changed. Therefore, arrogance lies at the heart of social advancement. The scope of the change is determined by one’s degree of self-efficacy: those with low self-efficacy will conclude that the problem is with themselves, since their belief in their own ability is very weak. Those with higher self-efficacy will blame the practitioners within the system, believing that they are inaccurately expressing a concept that is fundamentally correct (“if I did this, it would be better”). Those with the highest self-efficacy have such confidence in their own ability that they frame the clash as a problem with the system itself and, being very confident in their ability, set out to change it.....
Between these extremes lies the healthy range of self-efficacy, for this is the range in which one has the necessary convictions required to begin reconciling the world with one’s vision. At the low end of the spectrum, one only shapes oneself, realizing that there is a problem with one’s current ability but retaining enough self-efficacy to believe it can be improved through changes to one’s values or behavior. This crisis is ultimately resolved when self-efficacy is sufficient for a feeling of self-contentedness; completeness in one’s own knowledge that his value system is effective and inline with his goals. Following this crisis, one moves on to the level of other individuals and begins to express his own values in dialogue, subjecting them to scrutiny and debate by others. Positive resolution of a clash at this level would take place through acceptance of others’ views, with a degree of self-efficacy capable of realizing that they present no threat to one’s own. Next, one begins tackling the problems one perceives within a local community. This stage never truly ends until one leaves the community altogether (and could possible continue even then, depending on the nature of the community), as for the first time one is taking up the problems of a system, rather than those of its individual members. As one’s self-efficacy grows through successes within the community, the size of the community one attempts to change grows with it. Finally, one takes up the problems of society itself near the upper limits of the healthy range of self-efficacy. It is from this group that the visionaries that shape society come. It is this group that has aspired to – and reached – the height known as arrogance.
I happen to believe my self-efficacy to be in the healthy range
So, bitch, you got a tiger by the tail, and don't know it. You're starting to bore me, though.
