"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,"
Posted on 10/11/2011 7:24:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
“You don't get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success,” a critic of President Barack Obama said last week on “Fox News Sunday.” “I've earned my right to fly private if I choose to do so. And by attacking me, it is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy.”
Who was this member of the flying gentry ginning up a class warfare denunciation of the president on Rupert Murdoch's network? Karl Rove? One of the Koch brothers? A white-robed leader of the tea party?
None of the above. It was Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television. In a 2008 profile, the Washington Post noted Johnson had made more than $2 million in campaign contributions since 1990, 99 percent of which went to Democrats.
Internet commentators labeled Johnson an “Uncle Tom” and “Oreo.” Reprehensible as that is, he is immunized against the accusation of racism that is routinely hurled at Obama critics.
Not so long ago, criticizing the president was regarded as an admirable expression of political dissent and the highest form of patriotism. Now almost any untoward reference to Obama can be justification in polite society to label you a racist.
Slate's Timothy Noah lambasted a Wall Street Journal story on Obama's skinniness as a coded appeal to racism because “any discussion of Obama's physical appearance is going to remind white people of the physical characteristic that's most on their minds.”
Karen Hunter, a journalism professor and MSNBC analyst, said an Associated Press transcription of an Obama speech was “inherently racist” because it accurately recounted the president's deliberate dropping of Gs —“Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'.” — a rhetorical device he frequently uses to sound more folksy.
Melissa Harris-Perry, a Tulane professor who also does commentary for MSNBC, declared that a failure to re-elect Obama in 2012 would be proof of the irredeemable racism of even liberal America. “If old-fashioned electoral racism is the absolute unwillingness to vote for a black candidate,” she wrote in The Nation, “then liberal electoral racism is the willingness to abandon a black candidate when he is just as competent as his white predecessors.”
This is moonbattery. But nowhere is the racist calumny more cheaply employed than in the left's ritual smearing of the tea party. And what did those alleged tea party racists just do? According to a new CBS poll, they put Herman Cain in a tie for the lead in the GOP presidential race. About which unfunny comedienne Janeane Garofalo quipped to the even less funny Keith Olbermann, “Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party.”
You see how this works. If you don't vote for the son of a globetrotting couple — one of whom was white — who was raised in Indonesia, attended an exclusive private school in Hawaii and went to Columbia and Harvard, then you're a racist. But if you do vote for the son of a chauffeur and a housekeeper who grew up in the Jim Crow South and went to Morehouse College and Purdue, you're also a racist.
The latest racist accusation involves Rick Perry, for hunting on a lease on which sits a racist rock. If true, does it demonstrate the kind of insensitivity and poor judgment that renders him unfit to be president? Before you answer that question, ask yourself if sitting for 20 years in the pews of a church led by an anti-Semitic, conspiracy theorist should disqualify a candidate from being president.
Sadly, real racism and bigotry continue to exist. The desperate attempt to save a sinking presidency with despicably false accusations makes it harder to battle the real thing.
And now as the nation turns its attention to Fast & Furious, will we also be accused of being racist as we seek the prosecution of Eric Holder?
Of course we will.
This kinda posting will get you on an Attack Watch list, HATER. /s
Have they never heard the story of the boy who cried wolf?
Therefore, you must be a racist!
/s
Actually, the real - and worst - racism is far stronger in the black and liberal communities. But few will call it so.
Lies. Liberals lie and deceive. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t exist.
Jesus said “you are the children of your father, the devil. He is a liar and the father of lies...”
Ann Coulter got it right in Demonic........
I loved Gurwitz’s commentary on the Occupy Protestors.
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/the-arena/2011/10/the-tea-party-this-isnt/
Actually, the real - and worst - racism is far stronger in the black and liberal communities. But few will call it so.
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True.
I sometimes listen to pop music on the radio. I am appalled at the levels of violence, racism and misogyny they play.
But since it’s all “sung” by blacks - they are given a pass.
And the token white boy - Emenem? He can spew out the garbage with the best of them. But ain’t it funny how he never uses the N-word over and over as do the others?
Didn’t Jimmuh Carter refer to the Emasculated One as the “Black boy” during his run for Prez?
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This is more like the boy (the left in general) who got so intellectually lazy that he couldn’t defend what he believed so instead cried “racist”.
“False racism charges reach ridiculous level.”
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Yeah, by 1972 that was certainly true...
Yes, but - you haven’t lived in their world. I have. I’ve lived and worked in the hood. Yes, they see things through colored glasses, but if you had grown up in their world, most likely you’d see things as they do as well. Their world, in general, is much darker in every way than we can imagine.
Thanks to the Dems and all their social welfare programs, liberal whites have totally destroyed the black family. 50 years ago black families were intact for the most part. With strong, Christian morals.
All gone because of what white liberals constructed - the welfare system and state.
It strikes me that it sounds as if the majority of black Americans are suffering from a life-threatening case of Stockholm Syndrome.
Excellent point and description.
No question they are deceived by their captors....good friend who is black conservative deals with it every day....
Excellent point and description.
No question they are deceived by their captors....good friend who is black conservative deals with it every day....
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