The Tea Party: Who Are The Real Racists? [VANITY]

FreeRepublic ^ | May 10, 2010 | Gargantua

[Gargantua]

If we look at the 2008 General Election and break down the voters by racial demographics, one fact becomes instantly clear: As a group defined by race, an overwhelming percentage of blacks voted for Obama. More than 90% of all blacks cast their votes for Obama, apparently for purely racial reasons.

It would be a convenient argument to claim that they were swayed by Obama’s impressive track record, or shining list of accomplishments but for one small glitch… he didn’t have any. There was no compelling substantive reason for anyone to vote for Barack Obama on his merits, because he had no list of qualifications or successes to which one could point to justify his candidacy. Except, that is, that he is a Black man.

There is considerable ginned-up controversy currently swirling among the elite Leftist circles about the supposedly “racist Tea Party.” This accusation is based primarily upon the fact that most Tea Party crowds are predominantly White. Absent that one point, no Tea Party gathering to date has ever done anything to suggest that their base is racially motivated. If any Tea Party group had ever presented any racist-tinged activity, it is safe to assume it would make headlines across America for weeks on end. None ever has.

The fact that most Blacks are so unshakably pro-Obama (despite his destructive Socialist policies, job-killing government programs, and anti-American platforms) prevents their even considering joining The Tea Party in fighting against Obama’s overreaching Marxist agenda. Hence, there are a relatively small number of blacks who openly associate themselves with The Tea Party.

This fact does illustrate one particular group as being quite decidedly racist by their inherent nature, but that group is not The Tea Party. The most openly and obviously racist group in America are her Black citizens. To blame The Tea Party for the thus-proven racist leanings of America’s Black population is the very height of hypocrisy. It’s kind of like criminals blaming the police for their criminal records.

While it is true that, without the police’s actions, the thieves would not have criminal records, that fact is quite misleading and not at all the reason why criminals have records. It is the behavior of the miscreants which creates this reality.

In both examples.

[Gargantua]

Flame-retardent suit on... fire at will.

;-/

[period end of story]

A racist, is a racist. One is not necessarily a racist for voting for someone, or not. Obama is half black/white.

[Canedawg]

The most openly and obviously racist group in America are her Black citizens.

It's an inconvenient truth.

[unkus]

I agree.

[Just mythoughts]

Just like old BJClinton famously explained, “Depends on the meaning of ‘is’”, so does the word ‘racists’ depends upon whose mouth or hand the word gets uttered or penned...

I think there is a disorder of the mind being exposed by the left. Under Clintons they called it compartmentalization, where they would have been more to the point and direct if they had just said schizophrenia.

[ETL]

"Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal".--James (Jim) Cone,
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

[The Future 2012]

Wait a second... ten percent of blacks didn’t vote for Obama? I have yet to meet one. Besides the celebrities. Where are they?

[dsrtsage]

This is a stupid argument. 90% of blacks always vote for the candidate that has a D after his name.

[dsrtsage]

I was thinking about a little ironic thing. We are told constantly that we need diversity. However, if 90+% of a certain “racial” group think exactly the same, then you only need one of them to be truly diverse, since the second will have the exact same opinion, thus will contribute nothing new or original from the firsts opinion.

[Mortrey]

True words, well spoken.
There is a chip the size of Everest on black ‘s shoulders.
Never understood it. (Catholics, Jews, Women, and now white men are being discriminated against.) Blacks don’t “OWN” the discrimination mantle anymore!!!! They encompass the most affluent (Oprah), mayors, governors, business CEOs, lawyers, multi-million dollar athletes, entertainment giants(depending on your tastes), media whores (Sharpton and Jackson) in the country and haven’t a DAMNED thing to complain about.
I’m sick and tired of their bitch*n. They live in the greatest country in the world, have every opportunity to excel and HAVE (or, refuse to try.)
ENOUGH! It won’t “work” anymore. People are sick to death of the bitch*n.

[nathanbedford]

The curious matter of the double standard continues-or more to illustrate the truth of the Maxim: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

Obama garnered well over 90% of the African-American vote yet this virtual unanimity of one race on behalf of its own has not been condemned as racist by the establishment media. But when the tea party conducts a rally in the open air the fact that a smaller proportion of the attendees are white is held up by the same media as evidence of racism. The establishment media is inconsistent on many levels.

First, it calls the tea party patriots racists because, judged by the standards of the media, insufficient numbers of African American have participated in rallies. There is no allegation that they have been excluded because they could not be, the rallies being conducted in the open air and in the public square, and no one is excluded because there is no physical opportunity to exclude anyone. All one has to do to participate is simply to walk in among the crowd. Yet, somehow, those who do not exclude by race and who have no power to compel races to join them are nevertheless labeled racist. The classic example of responsibility without power.

Second, the establishment media does not apply the same standard to blacks who vote their race. It does not even apply the same standard to African-Americans who, as jurors, engage in jury nullification based on race. The African-American race is motivated and acting based on race and the white tea party patriots are not. Yet it is the latter who are being labeled racists.

But this double standard, actually the inversion of rational standard, is not limited to the media's judgment of the tea party but it is across the board. Here is a reply made just after the election of Barack Obama:

What do I say? I say the African-American race in America has been the victim of demagoguery and has suffered as no other race as a result.

I think the substance of the article is true. I've expressed my feelings as they relate to the Ku Klux Klan and General Forrest in my about page. Please note that page ends with what I hope is a transcendent note of repentance and forgiveness.

The irreplaceable predicate for forgiveness is repentance which my Bible tells me is a breaking of the heart, a true contrition, a turning away from sin, a change of behavior, and a new course. When the repentance is real and when the trespasser throws himself on the mercy of the eternal judge, the penitent absolutely receives forgiveness. I think this is applicable in the case of Nathan Bedford Forrest but is it applicable to the Democrat party and especially to the race pimps who demagogue this issue?

I'm not sure that it will avail anything by way of changing the black culture to recite the long course of American history in which the Democrat party condoned enslavement and segregation of African Americans. The time horizon of African-American voters is probably not more than a generation and I believe for most of them the world started with the inauguration of Barack Obama. But the author unaccountably fails to deal with more recent history. I don't think there are many community activists in the African-American world who will be easily moved by a review of 19th century politics. Nevertheless, a few reminders about more recent history would not be amiss for the rest of us.

In the sweep of American history the Democrat party was virtually unanimously on the the other wrong side of slavery and the wrong side of segregation up until about the time of Franklin Roosevelt. Interestingly, it was Franklin Roosevelt cousin Teddy who scandalized society by entertaining at first African-American in the White House at dinner, but said he was a Republican. Franklin Roosevelt himself was a patrician and probably a racist but his wife was the public face of the administration on the issue and she captured the hearts of America's Negroes.

Harry Truman began seriously to take affirmative steps to undo Jim Crow, for example, he integrated the armed services and acted where he could on a federal level. Eisenhower was no less "correct" in his treatment of the subject but he was prudential and circumspect in the small steps of progress he made. He was nontheatrical, as distinguished from Eleanor Roosevelt, and so never won their hearts back. It was really not until John F. Kennedy, especially through the activities of his brother Robert, popularly understood through his phone call to Martin Luther King in jail, that African-Americans began to move solidly into the Democratic camp.

Lyndon Johnson, for all of his faults and crimes, was in fact the "Master of the Senate" and as majority leader and as President, Lyndon Johnson guided the great civil rights laws through the Congress-but only after having sabotaged them early on. As the article points out, Johnson had to make treaty with the Republicans against his own party and many instances to get his civil rights legislation through. But the popular perception among African-Americans is that it was Republicans who resisted civil right movement. And this impression has stuck to the point where nothing the Republicans can do will shake in the slightest this fixed opinion of 12% of our population or about 10% of our voters.

Sensing this dichotomy, Johnson famously turned from signing the legislation into law and predicted, "we have lost the South for a generation." Nixon was accused by the left of concocting a Southern strategy based on bigotry. Actually Nixon was in many ways proactive on behalf of civil rights but the perception stood.

Much of this I think has to do with demographics and the great moves by Southern blacks off the sharecropping acres of the South to the great industrial factory towns of the North during the First and Second World Wars. At the end of that migration trail they found themselves in a new world in which the cities were utterly controlled by the bosses and the bosses were all Democrats. These bosses operated on patronage and the seduction of the African American race began as they were induced to become addicted to entitlements.

It is human nature to rationalize one's trespasses and it would be unnatural for a whole race to be possessed of the strength of character of a man like Nathan Bedford Forrest who demonstrated his physical courage and his moral convictions time and again throughout his tumultuous life. But such was his intellectual and moral honesty that in the end he came to the place where he honestly confronted his sins and repented of them. As the African-American "community" descended into a vortex of self-destruction fueled by entitlements, they were conveniently supplied with the demagoguery by their own preachers to rationalize the very behavior that was and is killing them.

It is not by accident that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are "reverends" because for generations the cloth was one of the very few paths out of the underclass for blacks. If one thinks of the parish as a precinct and a preacher as a ward healer, the nexus from the Democrat bosses to the most important social institution in the African-American world becomes an easy connection. The bosses were corrupt and they were eager to suborn their ward healers. That meant that black preachers have to deliver the vote and to do that they have to engage in the demagoguery which we know only too well.

As the Democrats contrived to move control of patronage from city bosses to Congressional Committee Chairman, the allegiance of the African-American society moved to the national Democrat party from the local Democrat bosses. Every step of the transition was facilitated by demagoguery, victimology, and entitlements.

In the long sweep of American history the Democrat Party for most of its existence was on the wrong side of the original sin of America: slavery and segregation. Today, race demagoguery is big business and big politics. It becomes bigger and bigger as the Democrats manage to federalize everything. I believe it has just put an African-American in the White House. I know of no way that the demagoguery which so affects the African-American world can be washed clean because I see no disposition whatever in the demagogues to come clean.

That is another way of saying that I know of no way that African-Americans can be made to vote against the Democrat ticket for the foreseeable future. Therefore, Republicans and conservatives should look to different demographics. But most of all, Conservatives should articulate a conservative message which is so compelling that races of all flavors will be drawn to it.

The irony is that the founding Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan should present a model of repentance. The tragedy is that the men of God in the African American community do not.

[Vaduz]

The fact that most *liberals* are so unshakably pro-Obama (despite his destructive Socialist policies, job-killing government programs, and anti-American platforms).Proof that logic is something not everyone has.

[Gargantua]

"A racist, is a racist. One is not necessarily a racist for voting for someone, or not."

A smidgeon of truth there, but a tiny one.

To vote for someone regardless of their race is to be racially neutral, i.e., not racist. To vote for someone only because of their skin color is racist, pure and simple. There is no gray area here; for good or ill, the matter is black and white.

;-/

[Bob J]

It may have been a mistake to immediately follow up your assertion that Black Americans are racists with a cop-thief analogy.

[laotzu]

The overwhelming majority of tea-partiers are white.

All hatred, and criticism, directed at them is ipso-facto racist.

[Gargantua]

Any truly sane, logical interpretation of the observable data available would insist that "Reverend Wright" is one of the most blatantly racist, race-hate-filled people alive today. That anyone can claim the Name of God or Jesus in his preachings, and then spew the venomous vitriol that this man lives for is beyond reprehensible.

We know that he's just using race as his calling card, because it sells so well to the inner city Blacks whom he victimizes with it. It fills his pews and his bank accounts, but it is devoid of God or the love, forgiveness and compassion that were Christ's amazing message.

He knows exactly what he's doing, just like Calypso Louis Farrakhan. Hate sells, especially to the ignorant or uneducated. Their teachings are Hate Crimes of the highest, vilest order. While it is unlikely that they will ever face prosecution for them here on earth, their Judgement indeed awaits them.

;-/

[Gargantua]

"90% of blacks always vote for the candidate that has a D after his name."

Not true. More like 67% are incurable "D" voters. Not 90+. What is "stupid" is making grand statements with no basis in provable fact.

;-/

[ETL]

Both Farrakhan and “reverend” Wright advocate Black Liberation Theology. BLT uses concocted religions to advance the cause of revolutionary-communist “Liberation”. The Weather Underground, the Black Panthers (new and old), and of course the murderous Black Liberation Army all advocated “Black Liberation”. The Black Liberation Front was formed in Cuba in the mid 1960s. The Weather Underground, close allies of the BLA, received training from the KGB while in Cuba.

[Gargantua]

"It may have been a mistake to immediately follow up your assertion that Black Americans are racists with a cop-thief analogy."

Perhaps.

On the other hand, your appraisal is only salient if viewed through a cynically racist filter... whereby you could be assumed the racist for interpreting it thus. It is therefore probably best to assume that the individual(s) is/are not racially motivated until they prove otherwise.

I'll gladly extend you that courtesy.

;-/

[Bob J]

“On the other hand, your appraisal is only salient if viewed through a cynically racist filter... whereby you could be assumed the racist for interpreting it thus.”

I see.

I mention that you may have may used an unfortunate comparison and the first thing you do is call ME the bigot.