Posted on 12/18/2012 10:45:48 PM PST by dead
WHEN Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina announced on Monday that she would name Representative Tim Scott to the Senate, it seemed like another milestone for African-Americans. Mr. Scott will complete the term of Senator Jim DeMint, who is leaving to run Heritage Foundation. He will be the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction; the first black Republican senator since 1979, when Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts retired; and, indeed, only the seventh African-American ever to serve in the chamber.
But this “first black” rhetoric tends to interpret African-American political successes — including that of President Obama — as part of a morality play that dramatizes “how far we have come.” It obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress.
The cheerleading over racial symbolism plays to the Republicans’ desperate need to woo (or at least appear to woo) minority voters, who favored Mr. Obama over Mitt Romney by huge margins. Mrs. Haley — a daughter of Sikh immigrants from Punjab, India — is the first female and first nonwhite governor of South Carolina, the home to white supremacists like John C. Calhoun, Preston S. Brooks, Ben Tillman and Strom Thurmond.
Mr. Scott’s background is also striking: raised by a poor single mother, he defeated, with Tea Party backing, two white men in a 2010 Republican primary: a son of Thurmond and a son of former Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr. But his politics, like those of the archconservative Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, are utterly at odds with the preferences of most black Americans. Mr. Scott has been staunchly anti-tax, anti-union and anti-abortion.
Even if the Republicans managed to distance themselves from the thinly veiled racism of the Tea Party adherents who have moved the party rightward...
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And it begins. Tim Scott has a giant bulls-eye on his back; he’s the highest profile black conservative politician in the country now. He better get ready.
As a black woman, I feel that I can point out the two types of racism against blacks. There is the “I am better than you because I am white”-racism. Then there is the “You need my help because you are black, poor you”-racism. Either one is bad.
Behold the labyrinthine workings of the liberal mind. They just can’t see how anyone not labeled a white male could possibly have views that do not correspond with the typical quasi-Marxist worldview shared by morons like himself.
Notice the quote about “black interests.” Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I would think the interests of black Americans are the same as all other Americans. The idea that black American interests are somehow separate or more worthy than the interests of other Americans is by itself racist and divisive.
The NYT has the biggest collection of neo-Nazi racists ever assembled in a single newsroom. Every one of these KKK sympathizers lives miles away from any black folks.
The New York Times believes that people should be defined by their skin color, and any black person who refuses to do so is uppity.
We black plantation escapees put the lie to the left's carefully constructed social prison and expose them for the racist bastards they really are. Consequently, we're the most spurned and vilified conservatives there are. Our very existence proves the unworthiness of their entire ideology. You bet they hate us.
I have long marveled at how the media uses “reconstruction” in ways to avoid using republican or GOP and imparting a general public knowledge of republican firsts, and history in politics, in regards to blacks.
Even the wiki page on black Senators manages to avoid listing party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_United_States_Senators
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