Posted on 08/01/2010 8:58:55 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
In an interview with Politico, Mary Frances Berry — a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last reappointed by President Bill Clinton — called the progressive tactic of trying to smear the tea party movement as racist an “effective strategy” that she chose not to denounce.
Berry’s cynical remarks are drawing rebukes for members of the Project 21 black leadership network.
“As an active participant in the tea party movement, I know the movement’s motivation is about Obama’s policies and not his race,” said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21. “Race card politics is the last-ditch effort to shift the debate away from President Obama’s harmful policies such as the government’s takeover of health care and his failure to create jobs — both of which are having an impact on his popularity. This diversion may also help Obama to try to jam through cap-and-trade legislation through Congress. It’s a grand distraction from policies and may unfortunately increase racial tensions.”
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“This is exactly the kind of thing that has irked me all of my adult life, to put it mildly,” said Project 21 member R. Dozier Gray. “This willful and purposeful use of the race card for nothing more than political gain is toxic to race relations, and Mary Frances Berry must know that. But she evidently does not care. Based on her comment, political posturing takes primacy over whatever real issues regarding race that she might pretend are her calling cards. I have seen this all before. I find it shameful.
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It is shameful.
Beyond that.
IT’S RACIST!
Black conservatives? Nobody is even aware of them since the msm refuses to acknowledge them.
I swear, I’m having a girl-crush on D. Borelli.
She’s solid!
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president."The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
"The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
I will bet you the people placed on various “civil rights” and “human rights” and “diversity” committees, commissions, agencies, both government and corporate are amongst the worst racists, sexists, heterophobes in our midst.
Berry is a prime example. Surefraud is another.
Mary Frances Berry has been a dedicated Communist for years. What is left of the civil rights movement are either fellow Communists or just simple extortion artists.
The "racial division" will not be limited to democrats but to whites in general and will cause additional black on white assault.
And then there is Shirley Sherrod. Extortionist and black separatist too.
Also a dedicated Communist. She's the trifecta.
The constant use of the term “racist” will cause the word, eventually,to lose its power to turn normally intelligent people into gibbering fear ridden nothings. Once that occurs then what will the demographic that relies on the terms ‘sting’ going to do?
Isn’t Mary Frances Berry over her lifetime oxygen allowance yet?
No eventually about it. The word has already lost its power. We hear those allegations now and just snort in derision and say, “is that all you’ve got?”
It has lost SOME of its sting. We have a ways to go. We will know we have arrived when some clown says to a major politician you are a “racist” and the major Pol says in return “whatever” and goes on talking.
I suspect she will never actually sue Breitbart.
She has too much to lose. Already there is talk about that big settlement to black farmers. Many many more farmers than actually existed.
You’re expecting pols to have cojones. No, it’s lost its power because normal Americans already say “whatever” when the term is thrown at them. The only way pols will get to that point is when they see other pols tarred as “racist” and that slander having no effect on their poll numbers (or increasing those numbers). But for the rest of us, the term is already risible.
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