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Posted on 08/10/2010 4:55:26 PM PDT by maggief
Among the most revealing aspects of life during the Obama presidency is the panoply of responses to a black family in the White House. What made so many of us proud of our country on Jan. 20, 2009, has increasingly provoked expressions of hatred from the far right. That is troubling, but not nearly as troubling as the behavior of conservatives who excuse, embolden or simply pretend to ignore the bigots surrounding them.
Last spring, after unruly Tea Party protesters on Capitol Hill were accused of spewing racial epithets at civil rights hero John Lewis, an African-American congressman from Georgia, conservatives rose up in furious denial. Where was the proof? How could anyone suggest that racial prejudice lurks behind the festering right-wing hatred of President Obama (and his family)? Anger over that episode still lingers in certain quarters, motivating the deceptively edited video attack on Shirley Sherrod and the N.A.A.C.P. by a Web site called Big Government, Inc.
Even if the alleged assault on Representative Lewis and other black congressmen did occur, argued prominent commentators on the right, it somehow only proved that there is no racism in America worthy of concern. A writer for National Review (the conservative magazine that historically opposed civil rights legislation) confided that the whole subject made him yawn:
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It's time to consider litigation. This is libel, pure and simple. It makes my blood boil. He's accusing 50% of the people in this country of being racists. I think we could get a class action suit together that would put a stop to this kind of defamation once and for all. Turn the tables on him. Include as defendents all persons who make an accusation of racism against anyone who merely expresses an opinion or political preference. In other words, create a group who are allegedly guilty by association, just as they have done to us.
And today, since the liberals are losing every argument. That means everyone else is racist.
But for Joe, he knows this and I know this; there are certain places on this planet, that if he were to walk alone, he would be dumped on. Yes, seen as an overfed, overdressed, moneyed palooka. He might be lucky to walk away minus his wallet, his watch and whatever.
Come on Joe, a bit of balance, old chap.
I know how you feel. I have a friend, a man I’ve known for over 40 years, who tended to drop the Nazi analogy whenever he had no other reason for opposing a conservative. I finally called him on it and told him that name calling without facts to back it up meant he had lost the argument and was the equivalent of taking his ball and going home. I’m sure I didn’t change his views, but at least he doesn’t engage in the lazy liberal method of political discussion so readily.
That’s it in a nutshell!
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