This is Not Martin’s Dream
By Michael Fletcher | Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | Catch-AllI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963
Forty-seven years ago next month, Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered those inspiring words to an estimated crowd of 250,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A little more than a year later, a forty-seven year old Senator and former Ku Klux Klan Exalted Cyclops filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 hours. When Robert Byrd passed away recently Bill Clinton eulogized him as “country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia…trying to get elected.”
That’s a nice sentiment, if it were only true. But this is not about speaking ill of the dead. Volumes will be written about the life and legacy of Robert Byrd. Rather it’s about the hypocrisy of the American left and their compatriots in the mainstream media.
Recently, if you were paying attention, and perhaps watching FOX News, we’ve heard the coverage of how Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice dropped a fraud case - that it had already won – against New Black Panther leader King Shamir Shabazz. Shabazz, by the way, who can be seen on You Tube calling for the murder of “cracker babies.” That’s cracker, as in white, babies, not crack babies.
Former Justice Department Attorney J. Christian Adams resigned his job because he said he and other DOJ attorneys were told, “Drop the charges against the New Black Panther Party.” Adams has said that “There is a pervasive hostility within the civil rights division at the Justice Department toward these sorts of cases.” [FOX News]
Fast forward to this week when the NAACP introduced a resolution condemning the Tea Parties as racist. As Michelle Malkin said, “In just a few short decades, the stalwart strivers for equality have turned into coddled whiners for hypersensitivity. The NAACP is a laughingstock. The group no longer represents the best interests of oppressed minorities, but the thin-skinned whims of the black elite and the ravenous appetite of the Nanny State. Establishment civil rights leaders now use their once-compelling moral authority to hector, bully and shake down corporate and political targets.”
Black Tea Party spokesman Lloyd Marcus says, “The NAACP Resolution proclaiming the Tea Party Movement to be racist is motivated by hate and fear. Though well disguised in intellectual rhetoric, underneath festers hate and fear. Along with their underlying resentment of whites and non forgiveness of America’s sins of the past, the NAACP has become zealots for the religion of Progressivism which preaches victimhood-ism and entitlement. The NAACP are the true racists whose secret motto is ‘Keep Hate & Victimhood-ism Alive.’”
You see, the problem here is the mentality of the left that says only whites can be racist. That’s simply absurd. The only thing more absurd is the notion that the “Tea Party” is a racist organization.
The first problem with that is that the Tea Party is not one organization. It’s hundreds, if not thousands, of activist groups across the country. People like your next-door neighbor, your Sunday school teacher, your co-worker. They come in all shapes, sizes and colors.
The message of the Tea Parties is simple: Government is too big, taxes are too high and Washington is out of control. That message crosses party lines, gender lines, religious lines and yes, racial lines.
Are there racists in the Tea Party? No doubt. But the stories of widespread violence and racial epithets remain unproven.
What is really at work here is a coordinated effort by the left to discredit the Tea Party and minimize the building electoral tsunami that is coming in November. “Charge Your Opponent with Racism” is straight out of the Democrat playbook, coming just after “Accuse your opponent of defunding Social Security.” It’s an age old game.
And it’s a game of hypocrisy. You see, legendary racists like Robert Byrd get praised, violent racists like Shabazz get dismissed. Why? Because they support the Democrat agenda.
Radio talk show host and columnist Michael Graham perhaps puts it best, “The difference is, when you’re looking for loonies at a Tea Party rally, they’re on the fringe. When you’re looking for them at liberal events, they’re on stage.”
The problem of course is that hateful rhetoric spewed by Shabazz, Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright and others does nothing to diffuse racism. It only feeds the beast.
As a southern, white male, I am readily willing to admit that there’s a whole lot of ugly racism in our past. But I’m also willing to acknowledge it as the past. Until people of all races recognize the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. and make it their own, we’re not going to make any progress.
On her Facebook page this week Sarah Palin invoked Ronald Reagan who believed that “the glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past.”
Palin said, “Isn’t it time we put aside the divisive politics of the past once and for all and celebrate the fact that neither race nor gender is any longer a barrier to achieving success in America – even in achieving the highest office in the land?”
Yes, inequality still exists. In an imperfect world, it always will.
As a follower of Christ I understand that it is my charge to be reconciled with my brother. Years ago, when Promise Keepers was still a vital movement, I heard African American Pastor Wellington Boone say, “If God is your Father, then I am your brother.”
Whether or not you follow Christ, there is an underlying American principle here as well. We recently celebrated the 234th birthday of our nation and were reminded of Jefferson’s words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
As a nation, we haven’t always lived up to that. But we’ve made progress and remain the greatest land of opportunity. Even though we haven’t reach Obama’s “post-racial” America, and even though we disagree with him politically, we can celebrate the election of the first African American to the highest office in the land. It cannot be denied that is a huge step forward.
But if we allow Eric Holder to sweep the hate filled rhetoric of men like Shabazz under the rug, and if we allow the racist-filled resolution of the NAACP to go unchallenged, we’ll be walking backwards again.
And when that happens, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream becomes a nightmare.
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Thank you Micheal for this piece. I was raised in the deep south and all of my family were very racist. I gave my heart to Christ at 8 and could see early that hate was wrong. Secretly in my heart Martin Luther King was one of my inspiring heroes and when he was killed I cried. Our family moved to Indiana shortly after Reverend King’s death and I had to walk to school. Almost every day my twin brother and I were attacked by the same black children because we were white. I knew at 10 years old they didn’t hate me for me but because of the color of my skin. They were taught hate by their parents.
I have very close black friends now, but sadly, I am the only one in my family to do so, except my children who have many friends without color distinction. Until and unless everyone, no matter what color, sees humanity without color, things will not change.
As far as having a black President, that’s a good thing, I would have preferred Colin Powell.
Shabazz, Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright are not representative of the majority of blacks, just like the KKK is not representative of the majority of whites. We have come a long way in the 50 plus years I have been on earth and over reacting to a few off balanced heretics only fuels their fire. If they didn’t have any media coverage, what would it profit them in their quest of 15 minutes of infamous attention?
Shabazz, Farrakhan, and Wright are making our hero Martin Luther King turn over in his grave.
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Oh, and I love Bishop Jackson’s response:
Bishop E.W. Jackson, Sr., President of STAND, Chesapeake VA -
“While I have great admiration for the historic contribution the NAACP once made toward equality and justice for black Americans, they have lost their way. Instead of seeking justice, they play racial politics and march lockstep with the far left. They were once independent. Now liberals say jump, and the NAACP says, ‘How high?’
“The NAACP was silent during the hateful, racist, anti-Semitic rants of Jeremiah Wright and the New Black Panther Party. Instead of defending Kenneth Gladney’s right to freely express his political views as a black American, they were silent when he was viciously attacked at a Tea Party rally and called the “N” word by SEIU thugs. It seems that the NAACP is only for the advancement of liberal “colored” people. Therefore it has lost credibility as a true civil rights organization.”
Doesn’t anyone remember this?
“The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has threatened to suspend officers of its branch in Compton, Calif., unless they rescind their endorsement of the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/09/us/naacp-battle-over-thomas.html
That was an advancement they weren’t interesting in being for.
Please come join me to see Bishop E.W. Jackson who is speaking in Virginia Beach tomorrow. He spoke at Freedom Fest and was AWESOME!
Saturday, July 17
8:00 a.m. doors open, 8:30 meeting begins
Crowne Plaza Hotel, 4453 Bonney Rd., Va. Beach VA 23462
$8 for full breakfast; $4 for continental breakfast
Bishop E. W. Jackson, Sr. is an author and the founder of Exodus Faith Ministries in Chesapeake. A year ago, he launched STAND (Staying True to America’s National Destiny), a national grassroots organization dedicated to restoring America’s Judeo-Christian history.
After the U.S. Marine Corps, Bishop Jackson graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts, finishing in just three years, and from Harvard Law School, also studying theology at Harvard Divinity School. His career includes radio talk-show host, attorney, deputy commissioner of banks, minister, law professor, and more. In 1996, he led “The Samaritan Project”, a national outreach and racial reconciliation effort for churches victimized by arson. In recognition of his national leadership, he was consecrated a Bishop in 1998.
Bishop Jackson’s media appearances include ABC’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Politically Incorrect, Hardball with Chris Matthews, C-Span’s Washington Journal, ABC Radio Network, National Public Radio, Janet Parshall’s America, and Tony Macrini’s morning show. His work has been reported by the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, and many other publications.
Michael,
Given that the NAACP hasn’t even released the text of the TEA Party Resolution yet, how do you claim to speak authoritatively on it?
Henry
Because first, before they refused to release the full text of the statement they released a statement saying that “Over 2,000 NAACP delegates today unanimously passed a resolution—as amended—called ‘The Tea Party Movement,’ asking for the repudiation of racist Tea Party leaders.”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/are-tea-parties-racist-is-al-qaeda/
I didn’t even have to quote FOX to find that one. It was only after the backlash that they refused to release the statement and revised the rhetoric to say “repudiate racist elements of the tea parties.”
This is a direct quote from NAACP President Ben Jealous.
“Expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take the responsibility for them and their actions, We will no longer allow you to hide like cowards and hide behind signs that say ‘Lynch Our President’ or anyone else.”
I’ve not seen those signs Henry, have you? Certainly not at any Tea Party events I’ve witnessed, either in person or on video.
Beyond that, you’re missing the point.
Mr. Ryto, do you mind if I, too ask the questions?
Like whoever said only whites can be racist? Moreover, can someone tell me what percentage of the Tea Party is black, latino or Democratic? And why are you blaming Democrats for charging their opponents with racism when you lead off with a story of a Bush-appointee who is charging the Obama Administration of racism? Is that putting “divisive politics” aside? And when Michael Graham talks about the left fringe on stage, does he mean the ones like Shabazz who we would have never have heard of if it weren’t for the quick work of a McCain-Palin campaign worker?
But why would you say racism is in the past but earlier admitting to racist in the Tea Party?
Carl Tate, a black man in the Tea Party says this:
http://www2.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/opinion/editorials/article/a_tea-partier_of_bright_hue/58231/
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A tea-partier of bright hue
By The News Virginian Staff
Published: July 16, 2010
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Carl Tate wears the mien of a sober-minded man the way an ideological hero of his, William F. Buckley Jr., wore his beliefs: on his sleeve accompanied by hard thinking and an easy smile.
Some people are born into their conservatism, while others get it later. Tate fits into the latter category, but precociously. He recalls that at around 10 or 11 he began reading Buckley and satirist extraordinaire P.J. O’Rourke and others.
This led Tate to Liberty University, Bush-era jobs in the departments of commerce and homeland security, a run for public office and a tea-party rally in Staunton where he was joined by peers of like mind though not of like color.
Tate and his conservatism are one, the philosophy as much a part of him as his skin. This is slightly remarkable because Tate happens to be black. Raised by a single mother in public housing in Staunton, Tate determined early in life that his ticket out would be his vigor of spirit and mind. “I believe in hard work,” he says.
That drive is unrelenting today as he pursues a law degree at the University of Richmond, making hour-and-a-half drives one way to attend classes. He has a year to go after which he plans to return home and open a law practice in his hometown.
No one puts the lie to the farce of racism in the tea-party movement like Carl Tate does. Not even Michael Steele, the Republican Party chairman who also is black but whose conservatism is considerably more dubious than Tate’s. This is a man who knows precisely what he thinks and why and can explain it all in crisp detail.
“The tea-party movement,” he says, “is a great movement. It’s about limited government and reducing overspending and overregulation.”
Of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People does not concur. The organization Tuesday issued a resolution condemning what it referred to as “racist elements” within the tea-party movement.
“What we take issue with is the Tea Party’s continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements,” the NAACP said. “The time has come for them to accept the responsibility that comes with influence and make clear there is no place for racism and anti-Semitism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry in their movement.”
Well, what of hard evidence? The NAACP presented none. That leaves us to presume that this is that special kind of racism identifiable solely by opposition to the policies of President Barack Obama, who also happens to be black. “This is about giving Obama cover to use race in this election,” Tate says.
The NAACP’s resolution smacks of leftist desperation. Carl Tate is a man of conviction as well as color. This gives him vision that reaches beyond his own skin. He sees what tea-partiers see: a federal government gone awry. Others, laying race cards over their eyes, remain blind, willfully so.
TQ,
What?
This morning at the Republican breakfast Bishop Jackson was AWESOME!!!!!
A video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy — video that now has forced the official to resign.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/19/clip-shows-usda-official-admitting-withheld-help-white-farmer/
I think it is very sad that the racism encountered by Dr. Martin Luther King is being compared with the so called racism encountered by blacks today. He faced true and horrific racism peacefully with strength of character. I agree with Palin when she said, “neither race nor gender is any longer a barrier to achieving success in America – even in achieving the highest office in the land?” Accepting racial hatred from Shabazz or anyone is wrong. Eric Holder needs to examine his character and do the right thing.
“because you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.”
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday stood by his decision to demand the resignation of a Georgia official over a controversial YouTube clip, though the ex-official claimed afterward that the Obama administration never gave her a chance to tell her side of the story.
Sherrod added that an administration official “harassed” her with warnings about the attention she was going to receive after the video surfaced.
Cheryl Cook, deputy undersecretary for Rural Development, called her several times on Monday to eventually demand her resignation on behalf of the White House. Sherrod was driving at the time and said Cook told her to pull over to the side of the road to resign, “because you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.”
She said the whole video would reveal that she eventually came to work closely with the white farmer and that she was trying to impart a lesson about how important it is to get “beyond the issue of race.”
“I went on to work with many more white farmers,” she said. “The story helped me realize that race is not the issue.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/20/ex-ag-official-says-video-showing-white-farmer-story-excludes-key-context/
Agriculture Secretary Offers to Rehire Ousted Civil Servant
“I accept full responsibility with regret,” Vilsack said at a news conference. “She’s been put through hell. I could have and should have done a better job.”
The offer comes after White House spokesman Robert Gibbs apologized to Sherrod on Wednesday “on behalf of this entire administration.”
Sherrod, in a TV interview Tuesday morning, said she lost her job because the Obama administration overreacted to the original story.
“They were not interested in hearing the truth. No one wanted to hear the truth,” she said.
As for the white farmer Sherrod helped, his wife told FoxNews.com on Tuesday that there was no discrimination. She said the administration should not have forced out Sherrod. “She’ll always be my friend,” Eloise Spooner said.
She said the incident Sherrod was referring to happened more than two decades ago and that she and her husband Roger worked together closely to keep the farm out of foreclosure.
“I don’t think they gave her a chance to tell really what happened,” Spooner said. “I don’t think they’ll find anybody that can fill the job any better than she did. That’s my opinion.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/21/gibbs-offers-administration-apology-ex-agriculture-official/
President Obama apologized to former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod Thursday and expressed “regret” over the administration’s handling of her dismissal two days ago, according to the White House
Sherrod also initially said she was not certain that Obama “fully” supports her but would like the opportunity to teach him some life lessons, describing him as “not someone who has experienced some of the things I’ve experienced in life.”
The ex-official spoke following a whirlwind 48-hour period in which the Obama administration completely reversed its position toward Sherrod. The former Georgia director of rural development was compelled to resign Monday after a brief video surfaced showing her telling a story to an NAACP audience about how she once withheld support to a white farmer. Vilsack said he, not the White House, urged her to resign. The NAACP also initially condemned her.
Sherrod reserved her criticism for blogger Andrew Breitbart, who posted the video clip Monday. He argued that he posted the clip to show that racism exists at the NAACP, since members in the audience laughed as she told the story.
“He was willing to destroy me … in order to try to destroy the NAACP,” Sherrod said Thursday of Breitbart, saying she still hasn’t heard an apology from him.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/22/sherrod-says-inclined-turn-outreach-job-usda/?test=latestnews
The things that fox news are NOT reporting are much more interesting. Will wait until all of this quiets down first.
But remember Sherrod said that she was fired “because you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.” and she was fired before any mention of her was made on fox news.
Pure propaganda – the NAACP NEVER said that the Tea Party was racist – the NAACP said that there are racist elements within the Tea Party that the Tea Party should take responsibilty for – and eliminate – which is without any doubt true. The Tea Party has racists within its ranks – and while for years Cons have called on the NAACP and other organizations to eliminate such racists within their ranks, so the converse is equally appropriate.
The only hypocrisy is with the right wing, which always sees the spec in their brother’s eye – while missing the log in their own.
Sherrod said that she was fired “because you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.”
I would prefer to write about all of this when it is finished.
However WHO gave that tape to blogger Andrew Breitbart ???
racism
1.The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2.Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Discrimination
1.an act or instance of discriminating.
2.treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
3.the power of making fine distinctions; discriminating judgment: She chose the colors with great discrimination.
4.Archaic . something that serves to differentiate.
Captain Freedom, would you not consider the following comments to be an example of discrimination with a bit of racism tossed in ??
“the Tea Party, a populist movement in favor of rich people paying lower taxes, poor people having less access to health insurance and credit and Wall Street not being hampered by pesky federal regulations. Oh, and “taking our country back,” presumably from the folks who were lawfully elected to run it.
While most Tea Party activists are just conservative swho are so ideologically confused they can’t tell the difference between Keynesian economics and socialism or run-of-the-mill Republicans who George W. Bush embarassed out of the party, a small percentage are dangerous nuts.
They are people who talk about a second American Revolution and mean it. Their political rhetoric is full of talk of “treason” and “executing” said traitors, be they Obama or members of Congress. They are angry, old, heavily armed white people who can’t come to terms with an African-American in the White House. In calmer times they’d be confined to militia groups that would be eyed warily by the FBI. Now, they are being welcomed into the Tea Party and its parent organization, the Republican Party.”
The issue is more the DNC controlled media which will endlessly echo any attack on conservatives from their ranks and which uses the term racism as a political club. At the same time they will actively suppress any similar or worse comments from their own members.(The G Allen – Webb campaign was a perfect example of both.) The JournOlist left wing media club recently uncovered shows their methods quite clearly. Its no different than what McCarthy did with communism – taking a significant issue but only to use it politically.
Then Mrs. Sherrod goes on CNN with Anderson Cooper and says she thinks that Andrew Breitbart wants America to return to slavery for the blacks. And that is the last mainstream television seems to want to present of Mrs. Sherrod live and unedited.
Cry Racism! and Let Slip the Dogs of Politics
In the last fortnight:
1) The NAACP called the tea party racists; 2) Andrew Breitbart called the NAACP racist; 3) Shirley Sherrod called Republican opponents of Obamacare racists; 4) Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack called Shirley Sherrod racist; 5) many in mainstream media called
Andrew Breitbart racist; 6) Howard Dean called Fox racist; and, 7) it was revealed that liberal journalist Spencer Ackerman proposed calling Fred Barnes and Karl Rove racist.
Thus, through a confluence of bizarrely unlikely events, the vicious act of falsely accusing people of racism became a laughing stock. It went
from being a career killer to a punch line; from villainy to vaudeville; from knife in the back to pie in the face.
It started at about noon Monday when Andrew Breitbart publishes on his website an edited video of Shirley Sherrod (giving a speech to an NAACP audience this spring), which he describes, in part thusly: “Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”.
“She refers him to a white lawyer. Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement.”
The week before, the NAACP, without evidence, had attacked the tea parties for alleged racism in its rank and file. This is part of a running
smear now about a year old, by prominent Democrats such as Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and legions of Democratic Party support groups that the Tea Party (now identified with by about a third of the country) is racist, Nazi, un-American, etc.
Breitbart strikes back, with evidence (in the form of the video of the audience reaction to the moment in Sherrod speech before she talks of
racial reconciliation) demonstrating anti-white racism in a NAACP audience. The story of the week is thus launched.
Notice, by the way, that he alerts the viewer that “Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help.” It’s in
the video and it is in the text of Breitbart’s original post on the topic. But the mainstream media selectively edits out this exonerating fact in
virtually every story about Breitbart. So the subsequent charges against Breitbart by the mainstream media that his editing was misleading was itself misleading and wrong.
In a seemingly unrelated story just after midnight Tuesday morning (July 20) Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller reported on leaked emails from the
liberal media cabal Journolist in which, when the Rev, Wright issue first emerged during the 2008 campaign, one of the participating liberal
journalists, Spencer Ackerman, proposed defending Obama by using a racial smear tactic:
“If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us.
Instead, take one of them-Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares-and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.”
At last, we have the smoking gun that proves to the American public that at least some liberal reporters are quite prepared to make false
charges of racism to advance their liberal political agenda-and to conspire with other like-minded character assassin journalists in the so doing.
So far, there are just two web site stories. But then the White House panics, and turns a couple of, until then, minor web stories into one
of the worst political weeks for any White House since Nixon’s many sad examples of terrible political weeks in 1974.
According to Mrs. Sherrod, she is forced to resign her post immediately at Department of Agriculture under pressure from the White House
which was afraid that Glenn Beck was about to report the story of her NAACP speech. (In the Obama version of FDR “The only thing we have to fear is the Glenn Beck Show itself– -nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”
The compliant NAACP then itself apologizes. The next day, more of Mrs. Sherrod’s speech becomes available, where she describes how she over comes that first instinct of racial bigotry three decades ago and helps out the white farmer. The white farmer’s wife then goes on CNN and says what a nice and helpful lady Mrs. Sherrod is.
The White House panics again and instructs the Sec. of Agriculture to apologize and offer her job back to her. The NAACP then withdraws its
apology and says it was “snookered” by Breitbart (even though it was their event with a room full of their members available to the NAACP last week.)
Then some more of her speech-after the reconciliation of the races section-is made available and includes the following sentences: ” I haven’t
seen such a mean-spirited people as I’ve seen lately over this issue of health care. (Murmurs of agreement.) Some of the racism we thought was buried — (someone in the audience says, “It surfaced!”) Didn’t it surface? Now, we endured eight years of the Bushes and we didn’t do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black president. (Applause) ” (Text courtesy of National Review).
In other words, she is accusing up to 70 million Americans (registered Republican voters) of opposing Obamacare because the President
is black-rather than because we disagree with the policy-as we did with Hillarycare in 1994. That is a broad-brush bigoted attitude by Mrs. Sherrod against all of us who opposed the president’s healthcare policy. She implicitly accuses all 70 million of us of being racist.
Then Mrs. Sherrod goes on CNN with Anderson Cooper and says she thinks that Andrew Breitbart wants America to return to slavery for the
blacks. And that is the last mainstream television seems to want to present of Mrs. Sherrod live and unedited. After dominating the news for the week, the eloquent Mrs. Sherrod is not invited to a single Sunday show.
And so did the rank cynicism of overplaying the race card turn that dreaded knave into a joker.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_tony_blankley/cry_racism_and_let_slip_the_dogs_of_politics
It was inevitable… “racism” has moved from the main stream to the playground. I was at a teacher conference today and heard some 5th graders calling each other “racists”. “You’re a racist… no YOU’RE a bigger racist… Na Uh, you’re the biggest racist… well, your parents are racists and watch Glen Beck, No they don’t… your mother is married to a racist….” And so it goes…. Not so much different than organizations and “adults” flinging the term “racist” at each other on the playground of the media.
Eventually the pop culture and commercial companies will capitalize on the “racism” joke to produce “racist” rappers, “racist” gum, “racist” caffeine drinks and the beer companies will make “racist” beer for Rednecks with Sherrod’s picture on the can… kind of like “Billy Beer” during the Carter years. Maybe Burger King or McDonalds will make a new “racist” burger made from pork and Denny’s will make a “Grand Slam Racist Platter”. The commercial potential is endless…..
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