Posted on 02/20/2009 8:56:21 AM PST by Michael Eden
It's hard for white people not to be viewed as racist now that they elected the first black President. And, of course, it's impossible for conservative whites.
First we had our first black attorney general tell us we that we weren't only racists, but cowards as well:
WASHINGTON – Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, said Wednesday the United States was "a nation of cowards" on matters of race, with most Americans avoiding candid discussions of racial issues. In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.The only way to avoid being labeled as a racist is to talk about your racism, which ... wait a minute - that would make you racist, too."Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," Holder said.
Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, but "we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race."
Face it. You suck, whitey. Just recognize it, embrace it, and wallow in your guilt like a pig in mud.
And now we're being told that to oppose the Generational Theft Act is also racist.
Clyburn: Opposition to stimulus is slap in faceRush Limbaugh is a scourge of the left because he understands their little rodent minds and exposes them for what they are. Way back on April 24, 2008, Rush said:By PAGE IVEY, Associated Press Writer Page Ivey, Associated Press Writer
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The highest-ranking black congressman said Thursday that opposition to the federal stimulus package by southern GOP governors is "a slap in the face of African-Americans."
U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said he was insulted when the governors of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and his home state, which have large black populations, said they might not accept some of the money from the $787 billion stimulus package.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday he would accept the money, and none of the others has rejected it outright. The Republican governors of Idaho and Alaska also said they had reservations about whether the money would come with too many strings attached, but Clyburn said he was particularly taken aback by southern governors who said they might decline it.
"These four governors represent states that are in the proverbial black belt," Clyburn said.
A spokesman for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford accused Clyburn of playing the race card.
RUSH: I can't tell you the number of people who have called me over the course of the recent past, months or so, and she said, "Rush, I'm thinking about Obama. If Obama wins, doesn't that mean that there's no more racism in America? Doesn't that mean it's over?" Oh, no! Just the opposite. You have to understand that racial discrimination is a business in this country to people like the Reverend Sharpton and the Reverend Jackson, and any criticism of a black president is going to be said to be racist!Make that any criticism of a black president's $3.27 trillion dollar socialist porkulus generational theft act is racist. Make that a nation of cowardly racists because we can't "Mea culpa" enough to satisfy an attorney general who pardoned a tax cheating commodities trader (Marc Rich) who did business with terrorists in Iran and then fled the country to avoid facing the music. When he wasn't pardoning actual terrorists.
I guess it's part of being "racist," but I despise being morally lectured by weasels like Eric Holder.
And House Majority Whip James Clyburn thinks it's racist for governors to oppose accepting porkulus bill pork money because it will supposedly hurt black people, but he didn't have a problem hoping that the war - with a bunch of black people fighting it - would go poorly so he and his fellow Democrats could demagogue it as a political issue.
"If Obama wins, doesn't that mean there's no more racism in America?"
You stupid moron. Of course not. Hard-core racists will always see people of different skin colors as evil.
Anybody who thought that should have paid attention to the fact that Barack Obama spent 23 years in a racist church, then had the unmitigated chutzpah to deliver a speech lecturing the country on racism. In that speech he piously proclaimed of his racist spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright:
“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother.And then threw Wright under the bus the moment he became more of a political liability than a political asset. And only twenty-three years too late to matter.
Anybody who thought that should have listened to the race-card-dealt-from-the-bottom-of-the-deck preemptively racist charge against Republicans from Barack Obama:
Anybody who thought that should have listened to Rep. John Lewis' totally unmerited poisonous racist bile against John McCain and Sarah Palin:JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him…“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
Anybody who thought that should have listened to Rep. Bobby Rush's totally hypocritical and totally over-the-top racist charges shouted to demand that white Senators be shamed into approving corruption-ridden (and now ousted) Governor Blagojevich's pick of Raymond Burris simply because the man was black:“I am deeply disturbed by the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign,” said Lewis, an Obama supporter, civil rights icon and Georgia Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.“What I am seeing today reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse,” he said.
Noting that Wallace, a divisive political figure in his day, had also run for president, Lewis said, “He created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights.”
“Sen. McCain and Governor Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all,” Lewis said.
This is a matter of national importance. There are no African- Americans in the Senate, and I don’t think that anyone — any U.S. senator, who’s sitting in the Senate, right now, wants to go on record to deny one African-American for being seated in the U.S. Senate. I don’t think they want to go on record doing that. And so, I intend to take that argument to the Congressional Black Caucus.
“I will ask you not to hang and lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer.”Eric Holder - self-righteous hypocrite that he is - pompously lectures the nation that "we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race." Maybe that's because there are way too damn many people like you who are just waiting to jump all over any white person who dares to risk saying something that will give a bunch of hard-core racist black leaders a chance to jump down their throats with the charge of "Racist! Racist! Racist!"
Maybe it's because black "civil rights" leaders have turned "race issues" into the equivalent of a communist show trial, in which this white person, and then that, is frog marched before the tribunal, and assumed guilty until proven innocent.
And maybe it's because we've heard the "racist" thing - rather like the boy who cried wolf - so many damn times that we're frankly fed up with dealing with one pseudo crisis after another (I think back to perennially-outraged race-card peddler Jesse Jackson leaping to pile condemnation on the innocent Duke Lacrosse team players, while giving the lying accuser financial aid).
People like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton destroy lives with their racist charges, and then move on to the next press-garnering episode.
And their racist attacks are always politically-motivated, with conservative blacks like Condileeza Rice, Colin Powell, Bill Cosby, and Michael Steele not needing to apply for sympathy as they are called "Aunt Jemimahs", "Uncle Toms", "happy Negroes" and "race traitors" for being conservative or Republican.
At some point, with the deck stacked by a kangaroo court, white people just shut down and quit talking, Mr. Holder. And it's not their fault; it's your fault.
I personally am to the point that if I am called a racist, I merely respond by saying, "What a racist thing of you to say, you racist bigot." How else should I respond to people who use a label to attack, undermine, discredit, marginalize, and hurt me not because of my attitudes toward race, but rather because of my attitudes toward politics.
If there's one good thing that comes out of the election of Barack Obama (and I'll wager that no OTHER good thing will come out of it), it's that the myth that "black people can't be racist because racism demands power" has now been officially exploded. A black man is the most powerful man in the country. And another black man is the nation's highest law enforcement officer. That's more than enough power to qualify even by the ridiculous and twisted standard and utterly self-serving standard routinely offered by racist black intellectuals.
I would welcome an honest conversation on racial issues. But it has to begin with an honest self-assessment from every participant and from every group involved. The days when black leaders can use race as a club to bludgeon white society into submission need to end.
Today, as I write this, there is another of an endless series of examples of generated racial outrage over a political - and NOT a racial - issue. The New York Post used the story of the crazed chimpanzee to mock the crafting of the stimulus bill. Barack Obama didn't write a single page of the bill - yet somehow the Post is being accused of comparing Obama to a chimp.
Governor Bobby Jindel and other Republican governors are not racist or out to hurt black people for being hesitant to accept the so-called "stimulus" money. Rather they are "concerned about Federal strings and the long-term impact of the borrowed money." Theirs is a principled stand, NOT a prejudiced one. In the end, they will probably all take the money, for the simple reason that this massive package will have to be paid for by every citizen of every state, regardless if they wanted it or not.
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I don’t wanna! No! No! No! Bow to Socialism? I will now use Das Capital as toilet paper. Been wanting to get rid of it for a while
It’s people who complain about racism today that are the most racist in general. How ironic.
What Mr. Holder fails to understand is that it is not cowardice, it’s fatigue. It’s been on the hearts of most Americans to the point of “Whatever.”
It’s not about the public relations of everybody coming together. It’s about, “I’ll continue to treat everyone with the respect accorded to each person I meet. Everybody starts out with a blank slate with me. They have to work at it to lose my respect.” It’s “I’ll save my breath to cool my soup.”
Cowardice, no. Reciprocity, yes.
Oh, and as to socialism, it’s “Thank you. No.”
I’d go back to my old tagline if I could.
“Its racist not to bow to socialism?.....”
a very tired argument! I don’t give a rats ass what you call me anymore when you try to take over my democracy and freedoms. I’m way beyond being called a racist! You are an extreme danger to my liberties! Don’t F with me because I take them very seriously!
From personal experience, I would suggest you use a few pages of Das Kapital to wipe your butt, then transition to a soft toilet paper, and cycle back and forth.
Otherwise there’s a lot of chafing.
Turns out that Das Kapital is almost as bad a toilet paper as it is an economic system. :)
Black racists have used communism for years as a race baiting tactic. It was a way to say “If we are communist, we are all equal and we can all share in the wealth of whitey”. Which was a great idea in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s for blacks. But now we have very very wealthy black people. I wonder how they feel about sharing the wealth with their fellow black race? And now sharing that same wealth with poor whitey?
P.S. I recognize how racist this whole paragraph sounds and I don’t care anymore.
Being a white guy, I’m already considered racist by default.
So.... to hell with socialism!
You “get” it.
White people now know as a “scientific fact” that they can’t “win” if they participate in discussions about race. Hell, they won’t even be allowed to lose with grace or dignity.
“Race” is a zero-sum game for our “civil rights” leaders, and the “ZERO” goes to white people who are forced to flagellate themselves with heapings of guilt for the crime of having been born.
I never owned a slave. My family goes back a long way in this country, and none of them ever owned slaves. As a matter of fact, my ancestors fought for the Union to end slavery.
Interestingly, there were several thousand black slaveowners in the American South. And even today, it is blacks and Arabs who own slaves and who engage in slave trafficking, rather than white people.
If black leaders (and note I’m speaking of “leaders” rather than “all black people”) took a moment to quit blaming white people for all their problems and look at their completely dysfunctional society, Americans of ALL colors would heave a huge sigh of relief and lend a helping hand. But they won’t. Racism is ingrained into their DNA.
“I don’t give a rats ass what you call me anymore when you try to take over my democracy and freedoms.”
That’s where I’m at. I’m just tired of it and frankly fed up about the relentless tactics to play the race card at every single turn.
And it’s funny,but Americans elect a black president, and the racial attack from blacks gets even WORSE, as though they know we’re weak and their going for the kill.
That’s ok I like it ROOUUGGHH! LOL!!!!
When I was in the first grade a kid named Eddie came to my school during the semester (or whatever they called it in first grade). The two of us hit if off right from the first because we liked all the same stuff. Of course, he was black. He was the first black kid I even remember talking to in my neighborhood.
My parents had never said an unkind word about anybody on account of their skin color. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as “racism” before I met Eddie.
There were a few kids who didn’t like Eddie, but I didn’t care. I’d never liked the kids who didn’t like him. One time we were going home to my house, and were taking a shortcut through a drainage ditch. And about 5 kids followed us.
We ran (because we weren’t stupid) and got in a rock fight with the other kids. We both could throw farther and better than the other kids, so we pretty much destroyed them - and THEY ran away.
Eddie didn’t say, “Thank you, Massah whitey.” He didn’t give me any lectures about race or tell me, “You’re just like the kids who chased us because you’re white, too.” We were just a couple of kids who were friends.
Eddie’s mom was nice. She always baked something for us when we went to his house. His dad was a truck driver - which was just COOL to me. And his dad was the coach in flag football. Yeah, he made Charles QB, but he could throw - and danged near always to me. We were also in the same Cub Scout pack. And my dad and Eddie’s dad went with us on a camping trip and pretended to be lost wild men yelling, “Help!” in the dark.
Eddie moved away 3 years later, and I lost track of him. I’ve thought about him often in the years since, and always with fondness. He was one of the best friends I ever had.
Years later, as a young man, I heard a woman shout for help outside a bar. When I ran over to help, I got jumped by about 5 black guys. I got a couple shots in, but they pretty well kicked my ass. You want to talk about “unequal power relationships,” I’ve been on the “powerless” side a time or two, myself.
My attitude never changed, though, because I realized at a fundamental level that there were good people and bad people. And “good” and “bad” was not a function of skin color, but of character.
And anyone who accuses me of thinking otherwise pisses me off to no end.
The communists are trying to provoke racial hatred to further their consolidation of power. A nasty conflict is brewing.
Sorry, I refuse to feel guilty. I disagree with collectivism, determinism, and the doctrine of innate ideas.People need to be judged individually by the way they use their faculty of reason, and choices and evaluations they make, and the actions they take.
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