Posted on 06/20/2012 4:35:45 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
According to MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry
9/11 vaulted America into a “nationalist fervor” that was similar to “having post-traumatic stress disorder”
Makes racial joke about African-American men wearing NYPD hats
9/11 provided an opportunity for a new “racial enemy” in America
America “identifies who we are…through our notions of whiteness and of the racial enemies that are the non-whites”
9/11 gave America a chance to shift its racial hate from “Reagan‘s ’welfare Queen’“ to ”imagine” our enemy as ”somehow Muslim, or Arab, or Sikh, or something else.”
Americans an ability to “stomach a kind of horrific racial violence in the name of national security”
Those that are “activating terrorism against us” are “imagined racial enemies”
During a speaking engagement Monday, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry made some startling accusation concerning 9/11 and Americas War on Terror. Perry, who anchors The Melissa Harris-Perry show on the weekends, remarked that 9/11 vaulted America into a “nationalist fervor” that was similar to “having post-traumatic stress disorder.”
The former neighbor to President Obama even used a racial joke to make her point, saying she knew the city was suffering from PTSD because “for about a year, there were African-American men walking around the city of New York with NYPD hats on. That can only be explained as a PTSD response.”
The Tulane Professor of Political Science continued, noting that 9/11 provided an opportunity for a new “racial enemy” in America, explaining:
“Americans in part identify who we are, and who deserves what, through our notions of whiteness and of the racial enemies that are the non-whites.”
She noted that the terrorist attacks gave America a chance to shift its racial hate from “Reagan‘s ’welfare Queen’“ to another ”imagined“ racial enemy that was ”somehow Muslim, or Arab, or Sikh, or something else.” This gives Americans an ability to “stomach a kind of horrific racial violence in the name of national security,” which Harris-Perry notes is a repeating part of American “history.”
Harris-Perry was speaking to the Take Back The American Dream Conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday:
Some quotes from Melissa Harris-Perry:
“Americans of course responded in very typically American ways to [terrorism], something that many people in the rest of the world had already experienced. We began with a kind of nationalist fervor that was justified as reasonable patriotism.”
“I’d like to point out that we clearly must have been having post-traumatic stress disorder because for about a year after September 11th, there were African-American men walking around the city of New York with N.Y.P.D hats on– that can only be explained as a P.T.S.D. response.”
“The other thing that happens in that moment, I don’t want to miss this, is that a new version of what America typically needs emerge, and that is a racial enemy. Americans in part identify who we are, and who deserves what, through our notions of whiteness and of the racial enemies that are the non-whites.“
“And in this moment, the new racial enemy became not so much Reagan‘s ’welfare queen,’ who was imaginary, but instead this imagined other that is somehow Muslim, or Arab, or Sikh, or something else.”
“We became willing to stomach a kind of horrific racial violence in the name of national security. It is something that we have been willing to stomach as a people over and over again in our history.”
“The Patriot Act was not an act of a Republican president acting alone. The Patriot Act was a bipartisan decision by both parties. It was not bought and paid for by corporations; it was bought and paid for by our fear.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/msnbc-host-911-gave-america-ptsd-terrorists-were-imagined-racial-enemy-for-white-america/
Much learning doth make her mad.
I was unaware that Muslims are a racial group. I was also unaware that welfare queens who help suck the taxpayers dry and contribute to rampant crime and other social ills are also imaginary. The liberals are panicked and so they blame and demonize whites.
I’m at a loss for words.
1992?? That was imagined too? Wait, that was nothing, Clinton was Prez.
Why does anyone waste their time watching this piece of shit network anymore?
Why does anyone waste their time watching this piece of shit network anymore?
Thanks Altura Ct..
Say what?
Another day in Obamaland.
Now go pay your taxes. :)
Come on... It’s not like a bunch of Muslims flew a couple planes into the twin towers screaming Allah Ackbar, killed 3000 people and leveled a city block of Manhattan.
People take these things and twist them all out of proportion. It’s disgusting that these rabid right wingers blame this all on innocent muslims when the evil BUSH! is responsible.
The Dems said so.
/s
Now go back to slammy land!
This person is talking garbage. When someone attacks you on your own soil and kills 3,000 people, they are your enemy. When they declare war on you, they are your enemy. She is talking like a fool. We don’t need a revisionist history of 9/11.
Leftist fools never learn anything, and they never go away. The history of the last forty years has demonstrated those facts.
Somehow I knew she would be one of Holder’s people.
“I’ve never thought of myself as biracial,” Harris-Perry says. “I’m black.”[6]
She is a professor of political science at Tulane University. Prior to that, she was an associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University from 2006 to 2010 , , ,
Bitter,
Racist,
Affirmative Action’d Lifer
She must have missed that whole WWI and WWII thing because the enemies we fought there were White.
Some people ignore that Islamics have been attacking the United States long before September 11, 2001. Here is just a sampling:
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis: seizure of US Tehran Embassy, Iran (Nov 4, 1979 for 444 days)
1983 Bombing of US Beirut Embassy, Lebanon (April 18, 1983)
1983 Bombing of US Marine barracks, Beirut, Lebanon (Oct 23, 1983)
1983 Bombing of US Kuwait Embassy (Dec 12, 1983)
1984 Bombing of US Beirut Embassy (again) (Sept 20, 1984)
1984 Kuwait Airlines Flight 221 hijacked to Tehran – American passengers murdered (Dec 3, 1984)
1985 Hijacking TWA Flight 847 hijacked to Beirut (June 14, 1985)
1985 Hijacking cruise ship Achille Lauro, wheelchair-bound American is thrown overboard & killed (Oct 7, 1985)
1986 Bombing Berlin disco frequented by US servicemen (April 5, 1986)
1988 Bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, 100′s murdered (Dec 21, 1988)
1993 First bombing World Trade Center, New York City, 7 Killed, 1,042 wounded (Feb 26, 1993)
1993 Foiled NY Landmarks plot by Omar Abdel Rahman to blow up the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and other New York City landmarks
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr. during visit to Kuwait (April 14, 1993)
1993 Black Hawk Down: shot down US helicopters in Mogadishu, Somalia, during Operation Restore Hope (Oct 3-4, 1993)
1994 Plot to assassinate President Clinton during visit to the Philippines
1995 Failed Project Bojinka by Ramzi Yousef to blow up a dozen US airliners over the Pacific (end in Jan 1995)
1995 Bombing US military headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Nov 13, 1995)
1996 Bombing Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia, housing U.S. foreign military personnel (Jun 25, 1996)
1998 Bombing U.S. Nairobi Embassy, Kenya, Africa (Aug 7, 1998)
1998 Bombing U.S. Dar es Salaam Embassy, Tanzania, Africa (Aug 7, 1998)
1999 Foiled LAX Millennium plot by Ahmed Ressam to bomb Los Angeles International Airport (Ressam was arrested at US Canadian border)
2000 Failed USS The Sullivans bombing that was refueling in the port of Aden, Yemen. (Jan 3, 2000)
2000 Bombing USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, 17 U.S. Navy sailors murdered (Oct 12, 2000) (The USS Cole was not engaged in any combat during this period)
2000 Bombing plaza across from US Manila Embassy (Dec 30, 2000)
2001 9/11 attacks: World Trade Center, Flight 93, Pentagon, 3000+ murdered (Sept 11, 2001)
Melissa Harris-Perry reads like a nut pie. Is she Muslim or non-white?
I hardly ever watch MSLSD anymore even for laughs?
I need to know if she is non-white so I can know whether to hate her.
She’s half, with a rebellious white trash mom like Obama
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