Posted on 11/18/2004 11:14:33 AM PST by Miami Vice
" Clarence Thomas is not my idea of what a black man is,” said my wealthy, white, liberal hostess. The fact that this white bread suburbanite should feel qualified to define what a black person is, or is not, was amusing.
Liberals –both black and white - revile black Republicans as Oreo’s or Uncle Toms. Such is the case with Dr. Condoleeza Rice, the recent Secretary of State designate of the Bush administration.
The invective directed at Dr. Rice by liberals is incredible and appalling. Cartoonist Pat Oliphant portrayed Dr. Rice as a parrot being told what to do by President Bush. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau implied Rice is a fool who never heard of Al-Qaeda. Cartoonist Jeff Danziger caricatured Dr. Rice saying, “ I knows all about them aluminum tubes.”
This is nothing new though, USA Today’s black journalist DeWayne Wickham wrote in 2000, “With his nomination assured, George W. Bush has plenty of time to pull away from the right-wing fringe that dominates the GOP's selection process - and their black sycophants - and make a serious effort to build a more racially diverse Republican Party.”
In other words, according to black Democratic Party sycophant DeWayne Wickham, if you do not think like him, you are not black like him. This is merely the African-American version of the white liberal’s Red State/Blue State dichotomy, which posits Red Staters are not quite human and Blue Staters are enlightened.
Wickham was a panelist for a recent symposium about African American concerns about the Bush administration. He said, “The Republican Party is like the South African Nationalist Party of the 1940’s.”
Fellow panelist, African American journalist Donna Britt of the Washington Post said, “ Voting for Bush was irrational behavior.” She claimed Republicans used fear so people will act against their own self-interest. Britt is parroting the white liberal mantra that working class and poor people who vote Republican do not know what is in their own interests.
Why such vitriol for black Republicans? The reason – so the myth goes – is that Republicans did not help civil rights initiatives that liberals and Democrats sacrificed to implement.
This is a blatant lie.
The idea that racial civil rights programs were the sole province of liberal Democrats is an urban legend promoted by Democrats to keep African - Americans voting for them. A cursory examination of history will reveal that civil rights legislation was implemented, proposed and/or endorsed by Republicans.
It was during the Eisenhower presidency that the 1957 Civil Rights Act was passed. Eisenhower’s Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, crafted the legislation in March 1956. Brownell wanted a new division within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. It was because of Brownell that the Kennedy administration was able to intervene on behalf of civil rights activists.
Ironically, some Democrats criticized Eisenhower for pandering to the black vote.
It was Eisenhower who desegregated public facilities in DC during his first term -Truman did not do it. It was Eisenhower who enforced school the Supreme Court school desegregation order in 1957.
Fifty years earlier it was a Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, who invited the African-American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. Contrast this to the Democrat segregationist President Woodrow Wilson.
Republican Senator Jacob Javitz once proposed an amendment to a mental health bill (S.1576) to deny funds to states with segregated mental health facilities. The Democrats denied the amendment.
It was Richard Nixon who implemented affirmative action. A policy about which Jesse Jackson is a fanatic.
James Meredith, brother of the slain black civil rights activist, is an avowed conservative Republican - as are black pundits Armstrong Williams, Leroy Elder, and Deroy Murdock. African-American intellectuals Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele are conservatives.
Steele wrote an essay in 1999 saying that it is lonely being a black conservative. Given the vilification they receive from black Democrats it is no wonder. Black civil rights leaders, who have cast their lot with the Democratic Party, are concerned about being able to deliver Democrats the black vote - the source of their power and wealth. They are concerned about the elimination of their monopoly of the black vote.
The criticism of black Republicans by liberal blacks has absolutely nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with their fealty to the Democratic Party - they are Blue Staters.
African-American liberals are not black - they are blue.
Remember the uproar when the black Mayor of D.C. used the word niggardly and was nearly run out of town on a rail? He too had been called not black enough.
Black Conservative meta-PING
Well written!
This, my friends, is the definition of hypocrisy.
Blacks not vilified by the left MUST BE LIBERAL or they are not even considered Black. They are total anomalies, mistakes of nature. This is repulsive hate speech of the WORST ORDER if ever I've heard it. The SILENT OUTRAGE from the social defenders (ACLU, NAACP) is DEAFENING. Hypopcrites all.
That said, all this is TOTALLY in keeping with the NORMAL BEHAVIOR of the run of the mill liberal. Expecting better behavior from the PARTY OF COMPASSION is pointless.
Modern liberalism requires everyone to look different but think the same.
A white LIBERAL talk show host called Condi Rice *Aunt Jemima *on the air in Madison, WI this week. Where's the outrage? Where's the protests and calls for this guys head?
"The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."
Courtesty of Julianne Malveaux
Bernie Goldberg quoted one liberal in his book "Bias" that said he/she hoped Clarance Thomas's wife fed him lots of starchy foods so that he would get fat and, like so many black men, die of heart disease. Does anyone have a copy handy to look that quote up?
That would be Julianne Malveaux.
"It's kind of like saying no to war, unless a Democrat is President."
Hey, I saw that same line on one of the many signs from anti-war and anti-Bush activists. Those people are UnFriggenBelievable!
"Modern liberalism requires everyone to look different but think the same."
Excellent....can I use that in my tag line?
"James Meredith, brother of the slain black civil rights activist"
Tremoglie might be confusing Meredith (who is also conservative) with Charles Evers, Medgar's brother.
You may.
And don't forget that it was the Republicans who faught the Civil War which ended slavery and passed the civil war amendments that outlawed slavery and discrimination in civil and voting rights on the basis of race.
They said the same thing about women once. Get a degree in math and you're not "feminine". Fly an airplane and you're not "feminine". Become a medical doctor and you become "masculine".
The eye-rolling irony here is amazing.
Have a daughter in a so called man's field. Tell me about it!!!!
Larry Elder?
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