Posted on 05/17/2011 11:33:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
If you just assume EVERY cry of "racism" in politics is illegitimate, you'll only occasionally be wrong. That's a consequence both of liberals thinking all conservatives are racist, sexist, homophobic and generally awful people by virtue of being conservative and because yelling "racism" is at the crux of the Left's political appeal to black Americans.
Black Americans have been voting heavily Democratic for almost 50 years and it has been an utter and complete disaster for them. Never has any constituency in American politics been so loyal to a political party with so little to show for it. Yet, all the Left has to do is say, "Those Republicans are racist," and it locks in 90% of the black vote. Until black Americans stop falling for the single most transparent ploy in all of politics and start basing their votes on who supports policies that will actually make their lives better, that's not going to change.
So, with Barack Obama coming up for re-election in 2012 and the Democrats knowing black turnout is one of the keys to his re-election, expect the charges of racism to be practically endless between now and November of 2012. And, folks, as you're about to see, when it comes to extremely silly charges of racism, there are practically no limits to how far the Left will go.
1) Resigning over the word "niggardly:" One day, David Howard was working for the government of D.C., but then, he used the word "niggardly." The next thing you know, such a furor rose up that Howard had to resign because so many ignorant people didn't know the difference between the word "niggardly," which means stingy and the N-bomb.
Eventually, after D.C. became a laughingstock over the incident, Howard did get rehired by the same mayor who originally said he "thought it was the best thing for the city and the administration" for Howard to resign. For using the word "niggardly." Yes, really.
2) Black hole, black whore, whatever! It was a cutesy talking Hallmark card for graduating high school students that referenced the solar system and a black hole. Who could have a problem with that?
It turns out the NAACP did because it insisted the words "black hole" on the card were actually "black whore." That makes perfect sense, right? After all, the words "black whore" obviously go with solar system references much better than the words "black hole" -- oh wait, no, they don't. Too bad no one alerted the NAACP.
3) Black Barbie is cheaper than white Barbie? Must be RACISM! It all started with Wal-Mart cutting the cost of "black Barbie" to almost half that of the "white Barbie" and next thing you know, people were publicly worrying about whether we "value blackness less than whiteness."
Of course, that explains it all! Somewhere in Bentonville, Arkansas, in the bowels of Wal-Mart headquarters, someone said, "Let's degrade the self-worth of black children all across America by slashing the prices of black Barbie dolls!" It was a clever plan, Wal-Mart, but not clever enough!
4) You own a gun because you're a RACIST! There's a reason the 2nd Amendment is called the most racist amendment....ehr, as far as I know, nobody actually calls it that. But, they might as well if Michael Moore is right.
…I am loathe to bring up what is in our head because we don’t like to talk about it so much. But on this particular day, on Martin Luther King Day, I think this needs to be said. That imaginary person that’s going to break into your home and kill you, who does that person look like? You know, it’s not freckle-faced Jimmy down the street, is it really? I mean, that’s not what really, that’s not what really people, we never really want to talk about the racial or the class part of this, in terms of how it’s the poor or it’s people of color that we imagine that we’re afraid of. Why are we afraid? What is that, and it’s been a fear that has existed for a very, very long time.
So, there you have it. You bitter gun clingers bought your weapons of death because you're racists who imagine black people breaking into your house.
5) Will those water buffaloes ever shut up? It all started with a gaggle of annoying sorority women at Penn disturbing people by being deliberately loud. Among other people, one Eden Jacobowitz yelled out of his dorm room window at them. Unfortunately for him, instead of cursing, he got creative and called them "water buffalo."
A few minutes later, the campus police were in his dorm room. Soon thereafter, Penn was prosecuting him for racist "hate speech." Fortunately for Jacobowitz, the story got national attention, including on the Rush Limbaugh show, and instead of his getting steamrolled, the sorority women dropped the charges and ambled off into a mudhole or whatever it is that water buffaloes normally do to relax..
6) If the first name you think of when you hear the word "slave" is LeBron James, you might be Jesse Jackson. LeBron James, who was practically the king of Cleveland, humiliated Cavs fans with the way he left the city. Predictably, this spurred a wave of loathing from Cleveland sports fans and an angry written tirade from Cavs' owner Dan Gilbert.
This gave Jesse Jackson a chance to do what he does best -- get TV coverage by accusing people of being racist.
(Gilbert’s) feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship — between business partners — and LeBron honored his contract.
The amount of money James left on the table by fleeing Cleveland? As much as $133 million. If that's slavery, a lot of Americans are probably wondering where they can sign up.
7) Dallas is playing a prank on us, right? "Devil's food cake" is racist? When the name of the game is pretending to be offended by racism, there are always a few people who are willing to go that extra mile to find an affront. One such person is Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.
Initially, John Wiley Price got upset because one of his colleagues used the "racist" term "black hole." He actually asked for AN APOLOGY for the use of the word. The next day, as the controversy grew, Price added "devil's food cake" and "black sheep of the family" to the lexicon of racist words we should apparently never say. At this point, we have no word on whether "blackout," "blackball," and "dark chocolate" are all forbidden racist words, but the safe money would have to be on "yes."
Incidentally, John Wiley Price is STILL a Dallas County Commissioner and he made news earlier this year for publicly saying, "All of you are white. Go to hell" to some of his constituents.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
And yet, not a WORD or a peep from Al Sharpless or that bastard Jessie Jackass about Rap CRAP music full of references to “Nigger” this or “Nigger “ that...
Friggin damned hypocrites.
I work in a racially diverse environment, and that kind of nonsense isn’t indulged in. However, I once told a joke to a mixed assemblage involving “galley slaves.” I got not so much as a chuckle from the black folks in the group—evidently they associate all slavery with black slavery. I didn’t bother correcting them.
“Don’t forget the tool who claimed the word ‘picnic’ to be racist because, he claimed, it originated in ‘pick a nigger’ to lynch.”
Wouldn’t that be “picnig”?
yup. and they’ll play those songs with those words on mtv.. but what happens on the rare occasion that someone airs blazing saddles? half the movie is bleeped out.
A Dem strategist who once worked for Kerry, I think her name is Maryanne March, was on Fox News this morning saying that Trump's asking about Obama's college records was racist on his part. It was amazing hearing her say that since the Republican female analyst (can't remember her name) who was debating her was black. The Republican female took her to task for using that as an example of racism. How stupid are these white Dems to even bring up the race card in front of a black Republican?
Even the word ‘boy’ is iffy.
i’ve caught it a couple times.
it’s only tolerable if you make a drinking game of it, and do a shot at every bleeped out word. :)
I had a good laugh last week after standing in line to pay a cashier and talking with my kids about hearing the hound dogs hunting coons up at my parents place decades ago.
Turned around to face a black cashier who didn’t bat an eye at what I’d said.
Funny to find humor in that I briefly worried about it.
Liberals do not consider black conservatives to be black.
It’s all they’ve got left. Theior immoral “lifestyles” have diseased their brains, and the only ideas that they can come up with, are the same ones they’ve been spewing for the last 60 yeats...that, and turnspeaking successful righy wing attacks that have been made agaibst *them*
The DimoTards are left with only the brainpower to be reactionary. They can’t anything more than to mimic us.
Their “intellectual elite” are all brain dead.
“The black vote switched to overwhelmingly and permanently democrat in 1936, there is no “almost” and there is no “50 years” and there is no “Kennedy” as is usually mentioned, or in this case, implied.”
Yes, the New Deal saw black voters switch from overwhelmingly Republican to overwhelmingly Democrat (starting in 1934; in 1932 most blacks still voted for Hoover and reelected black Republican Congressman Oscar Stanton DePriest to his congressional seat in Chicago’s South Side), but the black vote did not become monolithic (85%+ Democrat) until the late 1980s IIRC.
“...what should I call it, African-American coffee?”
I once read an article that was written here in the US and discussed something happening in Africa. I can’t remember the actual subject, but I do recall reading the phrase “African-American Africans.”
I still laugh about that every now and then.
They know they'll get away with it. There is no such thing as a black Republican or a black conservative, to liberals (of all skin colors). "Black" and "Democrat" are inseparable.
***Even the word ‘boy’ is iffy.***
One of Cab Calloway’s best songs begins...”Hey Boy!”
“Jim jam jumpin’ with the jumpin jive...”
I saw one in the San Diego Union that was “African-American Peruvian” or (Brazilian or something) in an article about a story in that nation.
Looks like a ballot initiative is needed here: Change the name of this town in Pennsylvania.
I believe Eisenhower got something in the mid-to-high 30s range (Nixon in ‘60 was the last time it was at or above 20%). The Black vote also depended upon where it was coming from, with Northern Blacks going Democrat before Southern Blacks did. Interestingly, Blacks weren’t still necessarily monolithic Democrat even during that transitional period into the early ‘60s. Such as in the 1950 Maryland Senate race, Baltimore Blacks voted overwhelmingly for Conservative Republican John Marshall Butler over liberal Democrat and racist anti-McCarthy antagonist Millard Tydings. However, the year before in a 1949 Special election in NY, Republican John Foster Dulles in the Senate race apparently received only around 1/10th of the Black vote, more what we tend to see these days.
One interesting fact I learned about the 1934 House race in IL-1 that featured the first election of a Black Democrat (Arthur Mitchell) over the Black Republican incumbent Oscar DePriest is that Blacks did NOT provide the Democrat the margin of victory. It was an almost uniform vote of Whites coupled with a minority of the Black vote in the district for Mitchell that gave him a victory (moreso when Mitchell won, he took the rather “Conservative” position that he just simply wanted to be viewed as “A” Congressman, rather than a “Black” Congressman and automatic national spokesman for the Black community as DePriest was). It was Mitchell’s refusal to act in such a role that saw him replaced by 1942 by William Dawson, who nearly beat Mitchell in 1938 as the Republican nominee. The GOP still got above 40% of the vote as late as 1946, but after the 1950s and disintegration of the Chicago GOP did the vote dwindle to virtually nothing (1956 was the last relatively decent year when Ike did well). From 1964 onwards, it came down to the level we’ve mostly seen since.
You still had another examples of Blacks providing the margin of victory in the Birmingham Mayoral election in 1967 for the Republican and other isolated or unusual incidents (the infamous Miami-Dade Mayoral when Blacks broke for the Republican Art Teele almost entirely while Cubans voted for the Democrat winner by similar uniform margins).
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