there....fixed it.....the plantation system continues unabated...
Pretty much.
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Posted on 03/24/2010 5:55:29 AM PDT by NoDRodee
My 1st thread Post: Let me know if anything wrong
A few months ago, former President Jimmy Carter was widely denounced for pointing out that racism is an element in the fiery opposition to President Obama’s policies. Carter’s critics included Democratic pollster and pundit James Carville, who insisted that polling showed no such racism.
It’s too bad Carville wasn’t on the grounds of the Capitol on Saturday, when tea party protestors hurled the N-word at two black Democrats, U.S. Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). A protestor spat on another black Democrat, U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).
(As if to demonstrate that they hold a deep-seated animosity toward all minority groups, the crowd of angry protestors serenaded U.S. Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, an openly gay Democrat, with anti-gay slurs.)
Lewis said the tea-partiers — gathered to protest sweeping legislation providing universal access to health care — reminded him of ugly anti-integration crowds in the 1950s and ’60s.
“There’s been this unreal, downright mean spirit that’s sort of loose in the land. It reminded me of some of the pictures you saw in newspapers and magazines in the 1950s and ’60s when little black children were trying to integrate schools. It reminded me of Central High (Little Rock, Ark.) in 1957,” he said.
Despite the chants and epithets, Lewis and his colleagues were undeterred. On Sunday, Lewis locked arms with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and two other Democrats, faced down the protestors (with protection from Capitol police) and walked across the street to the Capitol for a vote Lewis deemed “historic.”
Republicans were undeterred, as well. Never mind the race-baiting and anti-gay slurs. Never mind the chants of “Go back to Africa” as President Obama’s motorcade drove by last Saturday. Republicans eagerly embraced the protestors, fusing the party of Lincoln with a movement fueled, in part, by bigotry.
Oh, Republican leaders managed to summon a bit of displeasure at the racial epithets when TV cameras were rolling. On “Meet the Press” Sunday, House Minority Leader John Boehner called the outbursts “reprehensible” before dismissing them as “a few isolated incidents.” Similarly, Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, who is black, said, “It’s certainly not a reflection of the movement or the Republican Party when you have idiots out there saying stupid things.”
Oh, but it is a reflection on the Grand Old Party, whose members openly incited the tea partiers to ever-more-outrageous levels of hysteria last weekend. Republican members of Congress stood on the House balcony during the debate on the health care reform bill, waving their own signs — “Kill the bill!” — at the protestors. Worse yet, Republicans cheered two hecklers who yelled from the House public gallery before they were arrested.
Some Republican Congressmen said they didn’t see any reason to get upset about a few epithets. “Well, I think that when you use totalitarian tactics, people, you know, begin to act crazy,” U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told C-Span’s Washington Journal.
U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who was a speaker at one of the weekend protest rallies, was not troubled, either. “I just don’t think it’s anything,” he said.
Perhaps the oddest reaction, though, came from Fox News’ Glenn Beck, patron saint of the tea party movement, who denounced Lewis and Pelosi for their walk to the Capitol. “They locked arms because they wanted to compare themselves to the civil rights activists. How dare you!” he fumed on Monday.
Beck doesn’t know that Lewis was a hero of the civil rights movement? It’s telling that he displays such ignorance about the nation’s recent racial history.
None of this can do the Republican Party any good. The Democrats were virtually shut out of the White House for decades because they were closely identified with their fringe. The GOP, with its base of birthers, tenthers and tea partiers, faces a similar fate.
When will Cynthia Tucker comment on the racist remarks of Senator Byrd (D-KKK)?
Let’s say we agree for the sake of discussion that the Republican Party “is stained by the racism of its fringe”.
No mention is made of the fact that the Democrat Party is steeped in racism to its very core.
The Democrat party has been the Party of Slavery since its founding two centuries ago.
Early on, they used people of African ancestry to convert cotton seeds into cotton bales. Then, for a century, the KKK, made up of Democrats (a former Klan recruiter sits in the Senate to this very day) terrorized people of African ancestry to “keep them in their place”. Today, the Democrat party uses people of African ancestry, effectively enslaved on the Urban Plantations, to convert (other people’s) dollars into votes.
The implicit motto of the Democrat Party: “Slavery Yesterday, Slavery Today, Slavery Forever!”
In recent years, they’ve shown that they’re Equal-Opportunity Slavers, trying to extend their grasp to the entire population.
I'm sorry Cynthia, but nobody cares.
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Pretty much.
There is no video. Maybe someday Apple will invent a cell phone that takes video. Maybe someday reporters will have camera crews. Maybe someday there’ll be a channel called C-Span that can record such events. By the way. The only time I hear the “N” word spoken at the TV is from union, state employees who are loyal Democrats.
Of course comments on the AJC blog link are closed so no one can send her a link to the material below of other videos. But here’s her twitter account info if anyone wants to send the link in my post above to her. (I don’t have a twitter account myself.) http://twitter.com/ctuckerAJC
Couldn’t the same argument be used to imply that, because all terrorists are Muslim, then all Muslims are stained with the terrorist brand?
It’s all strategy. The timing of the amnesty rally on Sunday, just as they were wrapping up the health care takeover, is a sure sign that every thing they do, every move they make is meticulously plotted.
This CBC incident was planned days before it “happened”. Branding the Tea Paties as racist has been their objective since day one. Now it’s about to be amplified as amnesty comes into sharper focus. The ultimate goal is to make Hispanics a lock-step leftist voting bloc like blacks have become. If they succeed, game over. We have one party rule for the rest of our lives.
Umm..what decade is that?
” The GOP, with its base of birthers, tenthers and tea partiers, faces a similar fate.”
/sarc Yeah..that's why we convincingly won in NJ, VA and MA, all states that 0bozo carried by huge majorities just a year ago.
Here’s a well-known Democrat using the N-word on TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0
(RIP, Tony Snow, you are missed.)
There are two videos on HotAir.com and no such thing happened when these race baiters walked through the crowd.
It never happened and they should sue him for defamation. They know they need to destroy the Tea Parties before the election.
Pray for America
The incident was contrived, planned by communists to give themselves their favorite avenue to attack the opposition, an accusation of racism.
The true racists are the communist democrats.
The House Hispanic caucus was promised a push on amnesty for their final HR vote. A week before the vote they announced they were opposed to the final bills, then announced Obama promised to aggressively push immigration reform for their vote. I saw the leader say this on Cavuto and Kelly's shows.
Yea I noticed that “No Comments”. Coward.
Yes, those alleged incidents were conveniently created and concocted to impress upon the gullible or ignorant a greater triumph of the Marxists.
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