Jan Brewer tarmac tiff touches nerve in black community, some commentators say [for dissing Zero]

Politico ^ | January 28, 2012 | Donovan Slack

[Zakeet]

Reaction to the Jan Brewer encounter is still bubbling, with some black commentators now suggesting the image of the Arizona governor wagging her finger at the President of the United States has touched a nerve in the African American community.

On MSNBC Thursday, Al Sharpton posited that Brewer's treatment of President Obama was another example of disrespect in a list of many for the nation's first black president. His guest, Sirius XM host Joe Madison, said such incidents show that there are people "who cannot stand the fact that this is an African-American who is now one of the most powerful individuals on the planet," Mediaite reported.

An NAACP official went a few steps further in an interview with POLITICO Friday, saying the tiff played on age-old and discriminatory stereotypes of whites being superior to blacks. Hilary O. Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy and policy at the NAACP, said he was particularly disturbed by Brewer telling reporters afterward that she "felt a bit threatened if you will, in the attitude that he had."

"What were you afraid he would do, steal your purse?" Shelton said.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Some just can't stand him, period. Allegedly being African American has not a whit to do with it.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Black Americans need to realize need to realize that not everyone views Obama as the new messiah.

They seem to expect race based approval from everyone and we are expected to ignore actions and proposals.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

After everything Obama has done to Arizona......Fast and Furious, U.S. federal agents killed by Holder and Obama’s gun running scheme to undermine the second amendment.....refusal to enforse federal immigration laws, and harassing Arizona elected officials, including Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who try to do so.....falsely accusing the TEA Party and Sarah Palin of causing the January 2011 Tucson shooting.....turning the memorial for the Tucson shooting victims into a campaign event.....these black radicals have their NERVE complaining about Gov. Jan Brewer!

[Breto]

Im sorry but I am totally burned out with the black thing.. Aint my fault God made them black so getoutamyface and learn to respect yourself for what God gave you.....

[SunkenCiv]

Apropos of nothing concealed carry is a wonderful thing. Thanks Zakeet.

[43north]

“What were you afraid he would do, steal your purse?” Shelton said.

He’s already stolen our children’s and grandchildren’s futures. Why would he bother with a purse?

Black racist morons.

[DesertRhino]

Didn’t Obama walk up and start scolding her? Are American citizens supposed to kneel in fear like he’s a monarch? “F” him.
The thin skinned boy president better be prepared for some Joe the plumber moments in this upcoming campaign.

[shelterguy]

Not only that, hussein is not a black American, African American or any other type of American. He has no black roots in the USA. He is a poser and a racist who will not admit he is white.

[OPS4]

Thanks Jan Brewer these Blacks are with you! Now we can count on a portion of the black vote
http://www.nbra.info/
Congress: Arrest Mr. Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5qxPKQJh-g&feature=related

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blacks-Against-Obama/118214781589696

[sofaman]

Says the anti-Semite. Sharpton is the consummate racist. Tawanna Bradley & Crown Heights place this thug right at the head of the line, along with Jesse Jackboots and our ‘esteemed’ AG. Succinctly put, Sharpton is nothing more than a race thug.

[Oberon]

"What were you afraid he would do, steal your purse?" Shelton said.

Maybe not, but we have good reason to believe that he'll pick our pockets.

[Doe Eyes]

Didn’t Obama walk up and start scolding her?

That's the way it looks to me.

[Stepan12]

He is not even half black: 50% white, 43,75% Arab and 6,25% African negro.

EVERYTHING about this guy is PHONY!

[beaversmom]

Looks like skin color over rides sex. I remember Rick Lazio was considered threatening when he handed Hillary Clinton a piece of paper. I know from personal experience that some blacks get very touchy when they think a white woman has dissed a black man.

[Future Snake Eater]

"Jan Brewer does not care about half-white people!"

[mort56]

The only people who are obsessed about race are those who filter their own lives through a prism that accentuates victim hood. Brewer’s problem is not about Obama’s race but his policies. I realize there is racism out there but it is not limited to the white community. In my lifetime it has diminished to the point of being more embarrassment than barrier. The African American community in this country will never completely move forward until they start looking in that direction instead of one hundred years in the past and stop following “leaders” who are more interested in keeping conflict alive for personal reasons than burying it

[beaversmom]

He is looting the born and unborn’s piggy banks, does that count. Ooh, I said looting. Is that racist?

[FrankR]

Since when does Sharpton and the NAACP comprise the entire "black community"?

The way I hear it, obama attacked her first for using her right of free speech to say what she thought in a book...and because she put her finger in his face and defended herself from the onslaught, the thin-skinned got all wee-weed up.

I'm long past giving a tinker's damn what the reverse-racists think, say, or do. They only play their race card when they are losing, so that says VOLUMES.

Al would do better to fix the leaks in his own boat before pointing at the boats of others.

[Jane Long]

Revised headline...

Jan Brewer tarmac tiff causes Al Sharpton to touch nerve in black community, some commentators say [for dissing Zero]

Resist We Much!

[Lazamataz]

"What were you afraid he would do, steal your purse?" Shelton said.

As a matter of fact, yes.

Not personally, of course -- he will employ the Congress, the Senate, the tax code, and the IRS.

But yes, in answer to your question.