Posted on 09/13/2015 9:05:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
...Nobody can doubt that virtually all of the president's political enemies would vehemently defend themselves against a charge of racism. Virtually all of them observe the forms and taboos of political correctness. If any very visible one of their own should insult the president by a recognized racial slur, they would all join in the predictable outrage. But the paramount fact of this moment in the history of racism is that you don't have to denominate the president by a recognized racial slur when his very name can be used as a synonym.
This subtilized racism is not only a perhaps unignorable lure to Republican politicians; it can also be noticeably corrupting to Democrats.
In Kentucky, for example, where Obama is acknowledged carefully to be "unpopular," candidates of both parties have been, and still are, running "against Obama." If the president comes into the state to visit, some Democratic candidates, like Republican candidates, become conspicuously busy elsewhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...
I must have missed this guy's articles condemning the multiple racist attacks we have against Elaine Chao we seem to have every election cycle from prominent Democrats in this state. He must also have not noticed the family photos of the Republican nominee for governor, Matt Bevin, nor noticed the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor, Jenean Hampton.
I would not vote for Obama if he were as white as Elizabeth Warren.
I would not vote for Obama is he were my son.
How does make me a racist?
Obama sat in a racist, communist, Black Liberation Theology, so-called ‘church’, for over 20 years.
(((YAWN))) Another sobbing and whining liberal throwing the race card again. Clowns like him are a dime a dozen. I don’t like America-hating Marxists who are hell bent on the destruction of America and capitalism no matter what color their epidermal layer is.
His Commie Mommie would approve of his machete hacking of the US.
On February 10, 1968, Berry delivered “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam” during the Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft at the University of Kentucky in Lexington:[14]
“We seek to preserve peace by fighting a war, or to advance freedom by subsidizing dictatorships, or to ‘win the hearts and minds of the people’ by poisoning their crops and burning their villages and confining them in concentration camps; we seek to uphold the ‘truth’ of our cause with lies, or to answer conscientious dissent with threats and slurs and intimidations. . . . I have come to the realization that I can no longer imagine a war that I would believe to be either useful or necessary. I would be against any war.[15] ”
On June 3, 1979, Berry engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience against the construction of a nuclear power plant at Marble Hill, Indiana. He describes “this nearly eventless event” and expands upon his reasons for it in the essay “The Reactor and the Garden.”[16]
On February 9, 2003, Berry’s essay titled “A Citizen’s Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States” was published as a full-page advertisement in The New York Times. Berry opened the essay—a critique of the G. W. Bush administration’s post-9/11 international strategy[17]—by asserting that “The new National Security Strategy published by the White House in September 2002, if carried out, would amount to a radical revision of the political character of our nation.”[18]
On January 4, 2009, Berry and Wes Jackson, president of The Land Institute, published an op-ed article in The New York Times titled “A 50-Year Farm Bill.”[19] In July 2009 Berry, Jackson and Fred Kirschenmann, of The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, gathered in Washington DC to promote this idea.[20] Berry and Jackson wrote, “We need a 50-year farm bill that addresses forthrightly the problems of soil loss and degradation, toxic pollution, fossil-fuel dependency and the destruction of rural communities.”[19]
Also in January 2009 Berry released a statement against the death penalty, which began, “As I am made deeply uncomfortable by the taking of a human life before birth, I am also made deeply uncomfortable by the taking of a human life after birth.”[21] And in November 2009, Berry and 38 other writers from Kentucky wrote to Gov. Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway asking them to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in that state.[22]
On March 2, 2009, Berry joined over 2,000 others in non-violently blocking the gates to a coal-fired power plant in Washington, D.C. No one was arrested.[23]
On May 22, 2009, Berry, at a listening session in Louisville, spoke against the National Animal Identification System (NAIS).[24] He said, “If you impose this program on the small farmers, who are already overburdened, you’re going to have to send the police for me. I’m 75 years old. I’ve about completed my responsibilities to my family. I’ll lose very little in going to jail in opposition to your program – and I’ll have to do it. Because I will be, in every way that I can conceive of, a non-cooperator.”[25]
In October 2009 Berry combined with “the Berea-based Kentucky Environmental Foundation (KEF), along with several other non-profit organizations and rural electric co-op members” to petition against and protest the construction of a coal-burning power plant in Clark County, Kentucky.[26] On February 28, 2011, the Kentucky Public Service Commission approved the cancellation of this power plant.[27]
On December 20, 2009, due to the University of Kentucky’s close association with coal interests in the state, Berry removed his papers from UK. He explained to the Lexington Herald-Leader, “I don’t think the University of Kentucky can be so ostentatiously friendly to the coal industry … and still be a friend to me and the interests for which I have stood for the last 45 years. … If they love the coal industry that much, I have to cancel my friendship.”[28] In August, 2012, the papers were donated to The Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, KY.[29]
On September 28, 2010, Berry participated in a rally in Louisville during an EPA hearing on how to manage coal ash. Berry said, “The EPA knows that coal ash is poison. We ask it only to believe in its own findings on this issue, and do its duty.”[30]
Berry, with 14 other protesters, spent the weekend of February 12, 2011 locked in the Kentucky governor’s office demanding an end to mountaintop removal coal mining. He was part of the environmental group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth that began their sit-in on Friday and left at midday Monday to join about 1,000 others in a mass outdoor rally.[31][32]
In 2011, The Berry Center was established at New Castle, Kentucky, “for the purpose of bringing focus, knowledge and cohesiveness to the work of changing our ruinous industrial agriculture system into a system and culture that uses nature as the standard, accepts no permanent damage to the ecosphere, and takes into consideration human health in local communities.”[33]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry
Mr. Berry,
People don’t approve of anything Mr. Obama does, because everything that Mr. Obama does is reprehensible.
Except for one thing: I admit that there is one thing he has done which I support. His use of drones to kill Muslims.
Do you support him on that? Please let the world know.
Sincerely,
Ben
Let me see if I get this.
If you don’t say or do anything racist, that in itself is a sign that you are racist?
These apologists are too busy deflecting the most obvious issue. Obummer is just a piss poor president.
We all predicted that once Obama was elected criticizing the president would be considered racism. Nice to know that we are all prescient.
It bears repeating:
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”- Voltaire
If posting that makes me a “racist”, I can live with it.
This nut-job is still alive ? Like Trump would say: total loser.
Not one mention of his policies. Stunning.
Let’s face it - 0bama is a Mulatto at “best”.
His Commie Mommie would approve of his machete hacking of the US.
Good one!
I get it.
The insults and scorn regarding Bush were well deserved.
Any insults and scorn tossed at Obama is racism.
Hmmm !!!!
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C’mon, Berry; Janeane Garofalo is ahead of you by six years with respect to the race card. (Her career vanished not long after, too.)
Thus spake uber-racist Wendell Berry...
This guy misses the fact that Obama is a total POS. If he were a white guy, he would still be a total POS, but he would even know he existed, because he would have never gotten elected, and this guy would not have supported him if he did.
So, who is the racist?
Right. If Obama were white (i.e., more than half-white) I would be just fine with chopping up babies, and socialized medicine, and giving nukes to Muslim terrorists.
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