Rick Perry's 'N-Head' Problem and the Fourth Estate's Hypocrisy

American Thinker ^ | October 5, 2011 | David Paulin

[Cincinatus' Wife]

..The mainstream media and fellow travelers in the lefty blogosphere have a hypocrisy problem -- one underscored by the Washington Post's recent race-hustling piece on Gov. Perry: "At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered."

In her disingenuous article, young reporter Stephanie McCrummen cleverly suggests that Perry suffers a potential character deficiency: he grew up in a "segregated era" and "mostly white world."

[snip]

Liberals and conservatives debate the reasons for the problem of "whiteness" in the newsroom, as one journalism professor snidely put it in an article in trade magazine Editor and Publisher. (Many conservative media analysts contend that it's due to a lack of qualified blacks and Hispanics in a highly competitive field.) But one thing is certain: if you use the standards that liberals themselves use, you have to conclude that the reason the nation's newsrooms are mainly white (in the past and even today) is because they are, well, racist. Or at least racist in the way that liberals now define racism -- that the ethnic and racial composition of America's newsrooms fails to reflect the communities they serve -- that there is not, in other words, appropriate "diversity" in them.

Even the Fourth Estate's aggressive affirmative action and "diversity efforts" have failed to resolve this "problem," although they have brought into newsrooms people like journalistic huckster Jayson Blair, the disgraced former New York Times reporter.

...... Yet while America's journalists worked in white worlds, that definitely was not the case with respect to Rick Perry and the world he inhabited.

[snip]

If history is anything to go by, expect the Washington Post and others to engage in lots more race-baiting of Republican presidential candidates.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This is an article everyone needs to read.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Texas Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson Says Ranch [Rock] Furor an Overreaction

Rick's Rock vs. Rev. Wright

Beating the Racism Card [snip] ...."This tells us how to handle these accusations. You don't go along with the script. The script is there to humiliate and destroy, and that is all. Instead, you defy it. Stand up to the accusers and run them off. Since their only power comes from numbers, use numbers against them. The next time an attack occurs during this campaign (as it inevitably will, and probably aimed at Perry), all the candidates must stand as one against the accusers..... The candidates, through public media statements, must make clear their full support of the intended victim. No weasel-wording, no equivocation, no ambiguity. A general statement, signed by all of them, should then be released, presenting a succinct and logical argument as to why such accusations are unacceptable, with each swearing that he or she will stand by the others in any such situation, and ending with a condemnation by name of the accuser.

This can be taken further by conservative columnists, bloggers, and talk-show hosts. The accuser(s) should be keelhauled. The goal will be to make them as miserable as they intended their victims to be, which would act as a form of aversion therapy, forcing them to think twice and then three times about ever pulling the same trick again. (Need I add that the process would also prove valuable in cases involving Congress, industry, state politicians, media, and anywhere else such accusations may arise?)

What will happen is that the accusers will retreat. They are bullies, and that is what bullies do. (Even Andre Carson, a blowhard and loudmouth of the first order, has thought better of his "lynching" comment.) The media will give the GOP candidates all the publicity any pol could want. The GOP voters will go wild. Any further accusations will be unlikely, a benefit to all candidates equally. It would mean a cleaner campaign, an easier victory, and who knows? Perhaps even a step toward a more civil society.

For too long, too many blacks have wallowed in their own private sumps of self-pity, collapsing into whimpers every time somebody mentions blackmail, blackouts, or black markets. It's a pathetic epilogue to the heroism and grandeur of the civil rights movement. It's past time this adolescent posturing was put aside.

It will take some effort to accomplish this. (We'll refer only to the fact that the current incumbent has made no such effort whatsoever.) But the black grievance-hunters are no better than the Dixiecrats of old, using the same methods to keep Americans on edge, in fear, and overcome with anxiety. Using racism for political gain is a cheap and coarse tactic no matter who is involved. It needs to be ended." [end]

[okie01]

This is an article everyone needs to read.

And good as it is, Paulin failed to bring up what I believe is an important point.

"Niggerhead" is the vernacular for a common Texas wildflower -- a variety of the Black-eyed Susan. In other words, the property was named for a wildflower that probably grows (or grew) in profusion there.

In other words, there was no racial connotation whatsoever about the name when it was painted on the rock.

"Insensitive", yes. But not at the time. It is only after the fact -- for the convenience of certain journalists -- that the name takes on a racial connotation.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007

[goron]

This is nothing new. The NAACP forced the Aughinbaugh Canning Co. to change their brand name to Negro Head Oysters; which obviously was perfectly acceptable to the NAACP. Perry should have changed the name to Negro Head Ranch and avoided all this controversy.

  If the black leftist poverty pimps are consistant, they would protest Australia! I dare y'all NAACP members to click this:

http://ipicture.mobi/?c=as&UF=340784&UN=423468&DG=RK

[miss marmelstein]

That’s really ugly. Really ugly. And not too funny before breakfast. Yuck.

[ViLaLuz]

I demand crackers be renamed. Flat crispy biscuits or something else.

[Venturer]

On my way to Ohio from Maryland I drive over Negro Mountain, does that make me a racist?

[BilLies]

“...suffers a potential character deficiency: he grew up in a “segregated era” and “mostly white world.”

If he were brought up in that unsegregated area called Detroit, he probably would have a positive, well rounded racial attitude; if he were still alive and well.

[RetroSexual]

According to a Maryland state senator, yes it does:

Maryland Bill Seeks to Rename Negro Mountain

Fortunately, this bill was thrown out of the committee - this time.

[BilLies]

In Atlantic City, for a short while, there was a historical marker on the beach in front of Caesars Casino noting that the beach was frequented by Negros and used to be called “Chicken Bone Beach”. They removed the historical marker and I never found out if it was removed because people objected to the implication that it was a dump and untidy, or because people did not want to be reminded of de facto segregation. I tend to the former.

[momtothree]

I know of Big Negro Mountain (is Negro mountain the smaller one?) We’ve seen it on our way to Deep Creek Lake.

[Venturer]

You got me there.

I truly do not know.

[momtothree]

I looked it up and saw Big Savage Mountain and Negro Mountain. I have always heard of it referred to as Big Negro Mountain but maybe that is a blend. Either way, there is a group wanting to change both Mountain names to “prettier” names. That is sort of sad to me because there is a historical reference to both... not a derogatory one. I wish they would leave the name alone and figure out how to stop my ears from popping like popcorn when I drive over. LOL!

[Caipirabob]

The “N-head” story from 1983 is so blantently and digustingly contrived it discredits any media source that carries or even acknowledges it. I dismiss the entire story outright.