Posted on 07/22/2010 4:44:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there's no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African-Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.
A few of the purveyors of this bigoted nonsense might actually believe it.
Most of them, however, are merely seeking political gain by inviting white voters to question the motives and good faith of the nation's first African-American president. This is really about tearing Barack Obama down.
Sherrod, until Monday an official with the Department of Agriculture, was supposed to be mere collateral damage. Andrew Breitbart, a smarmy provocateur who often speaks at Tea Party rallies, posted on his Web site a video snippet of a speech that Sherrod, who is African-American, gave to a NAACP meeting earlier this year. In it, Sherrod seemed to boast of having withheld from a white farmer some measure of aid that she would have given to a black farmer.
It looked like a clear case of black racism in action. Within hours, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack had forced her to resign. The NAACP, under attack from the right for having denounced racism in the tea party movement, issued a statement blasting Sherrod and condemning her attitude as unacceptable.
But Breitbart had overstepped. The full video of Sherrod's speech showed she wasn't bragging about being a racist, she was telling what amounted to a parable about prejudice and reconciliation.
For one thing, the incident happened in 1986 when she was working for a nonprofit, long before she joined the Obama administration. For another, she helped that white man and his family save their farm, and they became friends. Through him, she said, she learned to look past race toward our common humanity.
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Yes she is a racist and a communist. The more she speaks the more she proves that.
(Sent to Eugene)
Dear Eugene,
You message, as always, is completely wrong.
The Tea Party represents a return to Founding Principles of self-reliance and freedom which it the antithesis to the tyrannical Communist Utopia that you support. Tyranny via legislation, taxation, litigation and political correctness, not to mention a Department of Justice, Congress and White House directly opposed to the will of the People who pay their bloated, unionized lifetime salaries and benefits.
Please don’t forget, a Progressive is merely a Marxist in drag, and I see your stilettos.
Eugene, you are wrong, your charges of racism are wrong and everything associated with Liberals is fundamentally incorrect.
You're right, IBD usually labels that type of article as opinion. Since I saw it online I assumed the worst. In the New York Times this same article would be listed on the front page above the fold as news.
Heard of Obama’s Civilian Force (SA/SS/KGB-type organization)? They would be armed and able to jail you.
You would have to fight back to survive.
I fear this most of all.
Eugene, you are full of s_it
Even before I opened the link, I knew from the title it had to be either Eugene Robinson or someone equally looney - Joe Conason, Joe Klein, etc, ad nauseum (emphasis on the nauseum).
This section is in the IBD Editorals
Stick it Robinson, you ignorant asswipe.
You mean the thugs from the inner cities and union thugs. Let them dare to carry arms and step outside their rotten ghettos or whatever they come from and then we will see what would happen.
what meeting was it, union or healthcare rah rah, that they had a kid up there talking about how much the healthcare bill would help the mother cause she had cancer or something?
What they didnt say was that the mother was not at the meeting because she was getting the treatments she needed for free from the hospital.
I think what goes around comes around.
IBD is not using Joe Conason and Joe Klein as
Hey, when it's the only card you have, you don't dare let it out of your sight!
that should have been IBD is not using Joe Conason and Joe Klein as contributors
They are not only impulsive, irreponsible and angry, the inner city dwellers usually are filled with a sense of entitlement via the politicians, media and education.
And yet the thugs know their limits very well and how not to step outside their ghettos no matter what. We know it and they know it.
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