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 did major newspapers stop requiring substantiation of claims?
The biggest racists I know are “yellow dog” Democrats and Obama isn’t Black but a “yellow dog” in their eyes!
Surely he meant the Democratic Party.
Because black democrats are the only ones I know that vote for people based on skin color anymore.
No and neither has Tucker. She’s just another affirmative action puppet, spouting the lines fed her by her left wing slavemasters.
Make up the lie then let water carrier Tucker spread the lie.
We follow MLK: We judge our leaders by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Race has nothing to do with anything and they know it. We cannot let them change the conversation.
GREAT first post NoDRodee!
Are we playing the race card again, Miss Tucker?
Bla...bla...bla....racism....
When are these people going to come up with something new.
Hey, I don’t blame them so much...
after all, WE trained them to use it because it worked EVERY TIME they shouted “racism”
we backed down and stopped pressing our point.
Well then, I guess it’s all settled - the GOP just a bunch of white racists. Let’s just start up the NAAWP, UWCF, LUWAC, and make clothes for our own “FUBU” line.
If the prez is racist so am I and it’s not illegal!
Use it to tell them what gutless wonders they are, I did.
You know it’s a staged event from their own story.
They claim they herd it 15 times. Meaning they counted.
Problem is, if you are walking through a crowd of people that are shouting at you the only people you will be able to hear are the people right beside you.
Unless everyone you are walking by is shouting it or the one person shouting it is walking with you, you wouldn’t be able to hear it so you could count it.
Hey first I've heard that Africa thing. They made up a new lie! I suggest "go back to Kenya" instead.
"NOT ONE OF US" signs, and physical (but non-violent) removal of the miscreants must become standard practice at our events. Also lots of photos and videos of the morons, for later ID to aid in police investigations of their sorry @$$e$ when we report that they may be a threat. We need to be harassing them into another line of work!
Let’s see the Black Caucus a race based group(calling Mr Orwell) is whining and we are supposed to be concerned and run around in circles over thier racial feelings? Wonder how much they are concerned about mine?
When whites in particular, and the right in general quit trying to point the finger of who is the racist, quit trying to outdo the left by playing thier game and let this crap roll off like water off a duck’s back we can then move forward. The outright lies and monumental hypocrisy of the left is well known. Otherwise this constant defensivenss is doing nothing for us but spinning our wheels and actually moving us backward. Trying to play the Marxist game is a losing proposition.
Yes.
I’ve read a very good analogy of this.
Talking about “moderate muslims” is a non sequitur, just like talking about the Germans who weren’t Nazis in WWII.
They don’t matter one bit and aren’t worth talking about if if they aren’t opposing/speaking out against the radicals.
Conservatives/Tea Partiers DO stand up and denounce racism when some radical shows up at a rally (if it ACTUALLY OCCURS AND ISN’T SIMPLY A MADE UP LIE).
Would someone please explain to me WHY people seem to WANT to experience persecution and racism?
The socialists are stained by the racism of their mainstream. Obama is stained by the racism of Rev. Wright. Al Sharpton is stained by the racism of his own image in the mirror. Don’t fall for this crap anymore.
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