Posted on 09/17/2009 5:55:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
'Bro', 'Brother', 'Dude', 'Cool Daddy', 'CAT",
are all names that I've personally been called in the past to clearly annotate that I was the different one in the room, the meeting, on the team, or at the social event. President Carter's words are being parsed, "segregated" and dismissed as poorly timed, when in actuality they apply all the time.
President Bush's latest off the cuff comments about then Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, as recanted by Matt Latimer, were yet another confirmation of just how pervasive and true the point that President Carter was trying to make was. I don't know President Bush, nor am I implying that he is a racist. But I do believe that he as well as the overwhelming majority of whites in this country would never refer to another white man as a "Cat!" Not only was President Bush calling Candidate Obama unqualified (which is his right do so), he was also separating Obama from the herd of "real" potential candidates. He was so overtly but unsuspectingly putting the then Senator on a rung below the rest of the field.
I've been in many circles where I was the only black person and have had the group at large come up with some prefix, connotation, or current colloquialism to use in referring to me, the one who is accepted but sill different. It's flatly clear to me when whites are talking about another black person on their job or in another circle because there is always a peculiar preface about the person, or an intentional extra adjective such as "Dude", "Cool", or otherwise added to the conversation. I know the nomenclature, I know the after stare to check to see if I object to the mal-reference, I am well aware of the rationalization to follow if I ask why the person made the mal-reference.
The easy defense tactic for many is to play the false equivalency game by showing that if there is one Teabagger, Birther, Deather or any other group member that opposes the President who is not a racist, then President Carter's entire argument is false. Well unfortunately, no only were President Carter's properly framed, he did not in any way charge that all who oppose the President were racists, or racially motivated.
President Carter's main point was that many in this country are now engaged in purposely diminishing and disrespecting the office of the Presidency because it is more comforting to them to delegitimize President Obama than to oppose his policies on the merits. President Carter is acknowledging the fact that many who consider themselves as the most Patriotic Americans find it more comforting to discredit the office of the Presidency rather than to accept a person different from themselves in that office. President Carter is acknowledging the fact that nowhere other than a bar, a brawl or some other venue that has no rules of etiquette at all would it be acceptable to discredit a persons office or occupation the way ease and ambivalence that many do today.
If the idea of a Black Man being President is so far a mental leap for a former President, that he could so flippantly dismiss the candidate that has earned more money than any other in political history, then it is no wonder that probably 1/5th of the country that he leads shares that same mindset.
So while the Obama WhitehouseAdministration rightfully sees President Carter's remarks as a distraction and knows that his words could be used divisively, the Bush Whitehouse has clearly confirmed just how wise President Carter is.
For those of us in the slow lane: what was the quote?
Excuse me Mr. Black man. If racism is so persistent, then why would white people racists allow you around to see their moments at ease? So how the hell do you know if they’ll call somebody “cat”.
I’m fairly certain that that phrasing was pretty popular in Texas over the last few decades.
In other words. You’re a moron who just makes it up as you go. In the words of CFP, you’re race card has been declined.
The obama campaign was constantly focused on his “race”.
Excuse me? Did he not just demean and belittle millions of Americans by inferring they were sexual deviates? He did use a term for a vulgar sex act to describe them.
So, we carefully parse words and shades of meaning to affirm that someone is a racist while WE refer to our opponent as a “teabagger”! WOW! I bet he doesn’t try that face to face with an actual conservative. The hypocrisy is stunning!
Carter: ‘Overwhelming proportion’ of animosity to Obama based on race
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341161/posts
Bump to ridicule later when I’m not on a blackberry...
He’s absolutely correct. I opposed Hillary Clinton’s attempt to take over the health care industry because she’s black.
If she were white, I’d have gone right along.
And also, people criticize Romneycare for the same reason- he’s black too. Were he a white man, people would praise him for his cleverness and emulate his ideas in every state.
Ted Kennedy, staunch supporter of government run health care, failed in his life’s goal because people were opposed to him, not his ideas, but rather because he too is black.
This is very pervasive in our society.
Rush played a clip of Carter calling Obama “boy”. Shouldn’t Carter be considered racist?
Is it too farfetched to think that maybe blacks in this country WANT to be like the majority whites?
Is seeing a racist under every bed their way of coping with their blackness in a white dominated society?
Is it such a jump to imagine that blacks are perverting their envy of white society into a disgust by white society of them?
When communist foot soldiers take over a government through revolution they generally destroy the very things they covet, which are all the trappings of wealth.
Is this the underlying motivation of racist accusations? To destroy the very thing they covet? Whiteness?
If I'm off base on this, I'll shut up and go to bed.
That’s racis!....
Poppycock!!! [Bull freaking shiite, if you wish] Listen to Michael Waltrip for 10 minutes and you will likely hear it. It is the Self-Reference Criterion run amok. No clue as to the cultural "norms" of whitey and forgets GWB grew up in the 50's.
Instead, they slap down the race card in total ignorance.
I don’t care if he’s white or black or yellow or red. If he or she is a ...
1) nihilistic
2) flippantly arrogant
3) awarded a position for any reasons other than results
4) dum dum
... that’s an idiot I don’t want to see or hear or work with or be under. Dr. Martin Luther King said he looked forward to the day that all would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Obama was supposed to be a post-racial candidate who would unite us. Jesus said, “By their fruits you will know them”. Obamas fruits are division, poverty, theft, rancor, lying, baseless invective, and name calling.
Obama is, by his fruits, known. I defy the left yet lie and call us racists, proving what they are. Note the tagline on why they will.
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