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    Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time

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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    There's a cartoon in the New Yorker, I think. More than one. But this one reminds me of these trendsetters that write for like the NYT and then of course everybody changes their mind (singular) over coffee. Here's a guy driving by a yard in which a sign has been stuck.


    "VOTE FOR HARRY!"


    That does it, says the guy driving by, I'm voting for Harry.

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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    Maureen Dowd's cute black mailman runs the other way every time she asks if he has a package to deliver to her.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    rich white people talk only to other rich people.


    that is all.

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    Image of cassandra cassandra
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    Wait, this is true. Washington is still hugely race-divided, and white people and black people really DON'T speak to each other. She's not being racist. She's writing the truth.
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    Image of Gaytheist Gaytheist
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    You guys are really letting me down. She's mocking you.
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    11/09/08

    @Gaytheist: Yes she is. Which only makes it funnier.
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    Image of thegayrecluse thegayrecluse
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that four years from now not a single member of the NYT op-ed team will be writing, at least in the current forum (whether this is because The Times brings in new "talent" - Bono!? - or because The Times has umm, folded or been bought). Every one of them is an embarrassment in his or her own way, and becomes increasingly less relevant as time passes. One reason for this, obv, is that none of them has a clue about the blogosphere.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/09/08

    @thegayrecluse: Four years is very generous, my friend. Soon come.
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    Image of metropolitan metropolitan
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    wow, the world has changed! maureen dowd is talking to black people!
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    Image of HollingsworthDevereaux HollingsworthDevereaux
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    Dowdy has always been smugly annoying, but I love her anyway. Her column reminds me of the numerous random hugs and congratulations I've received from Europeans here in London. Everyong is now totally into me because I'm black American. One Germanish woman gave me a hug and offered congratulations on "the end of race." At this point, I fear people may start throwing money as an offering of thanks to The One who is also tanned- In which case, I'll have to go all Michelle Obama and smack somebody down. Yes I will.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/09/08

    @HollingsworthDevereaux: Hope you are getting free drinks out of it, doll.
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    Image of loliver35 loliver35
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    This is my vent: I am friends with a woman at my children's school. She is always asking for my opinion on a "black" issue. I hate being the "black" friend, why can't I just be a friend? UGH
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/09/08

    @loliver35: I have a friend who is often in this predicament, and she just says, "I don't care, as long as I can get it with hot sauce." The reaction is hysterical either way: those who don't get it look at her quizzically, and the ones who think they do get it--that "with hot sauce" is some cool new phrase from the hip-hop community--and nod along. She is waiting, I think, for SOMEONE to just crack the fuck up, which would be the appropriate response.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/09/08

    @loliver35: a friend of mine who is black says the same thing. we were out drinking one nite and we listed our views on many important issues, jew/black, prints/checks, soy sauce/wasabi, etc. we were falling out by the end of it.
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    Image of loliver35 loliver35
    11/10/08

    @BookishLookish: I am definitely going to use it! Tell your friend someone in Atlanta is taking her quote and putting it to good use! and Thanks!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/10/08

    @loliver35: ; )
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    Image of Trixie from Toronto Trixie from Toronto
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    Jesus, that's embarrassing. And such bullshit too, this notion that there is no intermingling. Is she out of her mind??
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    Image of DavidWatts DavidWatts
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    Just ask the cab driver! Works for Friedman every time.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    Oh boy! Black people are happy! That means they won't riot or carjack our SUVs and the babies we accidentally left in the back seat.
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    Image of TalbotSmith TalbotSmith
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    I'd tap that (after 4 drinks).
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    Image of Helman Helman
    11/09/08

    @TalbotSmith: Eww
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    Such a sad, sad old woman.
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    Image of IamnotStarJones IamnotStarJones
    11/09/08

    In reply to Maureen Dowd Seizes Opportunity to Talk to Black People For the First Time
    She's not serious. I think she's mocking white people's insularity and the idea of black homogeniety.


    Also, everyone knows Gwen Ifill doesn't even know that Maureen exists.

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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    11/09/08

    @IamnotStarJones: Bingo! You are the first person to spot the sarcasm. She's making fun of people that only interact with black people at the cash register. But I fully expect Gwen to deny being Her Black Friend.
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