Posted on 12/21/2012 4:06:26 AM PST by Kaslin
When will liberals stop living in the past? Specifically, when will they accept that they aren't all that stands between a wonderful, tolerant America and Jim Crow?
I was in the room when, during the Democratic convention, civil rights hero John Lewis suggested that Republicans wanted to "go back" to the days when black men like him could be beaten in the street by the enforcers of Jim Crow. I thought it an outrageous and disgusting bit of demagoguery. The audience of Democratic delegates cheered in a riot of self-congratulation.
It's bizarre. I spend most of my time talking or listening to fellow conservatives, and I never hear anybody talk about wanting anything of the sort. But to listen to liberals, that's all we care about.
Toward the end of the presidential campaign, various liberal pundits -- a great many of them born after the signing of the Civil Rights Act -- thought it a brilliant and damning indictment to note that Mitt Romney ran strong in states that once comprised the Confederacy. When Barack Obama won, Jon Stewart conceded that at least Romney won "most of the Confederacy."
These states committed the obvious sin of voting Republican while the president was black.
Just this week, in an essay for the New York Times, Adolph Reed attacked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley -- the first female Indian American governor in America -- for appointing Rep. Tim Scott to retiring Sen. Jim DeMint's seat. Scott is a black man and a conservative Tea Party favorite.
So obviously, this is a very clever ploy to restore Jim Crow.
"Just as white Southern Democrats once used cynical manipulations -- poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests -- to get around the 15th Amendment," Reed writes, "so modern-day Republicans have deployed blacks to undermine black interests."
That's it exactly. Indeed, that's what the Tea Party was always about: undermining black interests.
When Herman Cain -- another inconveniently black man -- was the overwhelming preference among Tea Party activists for the Republican presidential nomination, a historian writing in The New York Times suggested that Cain could be seen as proof the legacy of the Ku Klux Klan lives on.
You know you've been pounding a square peg into a round hole for too long when you find yourself insinuating that a black man from Georgia represents the KKK tradition in contemporary politics.
More recently, liberal writers apparently convinced themselves that Republican opposition to Susan Rice becoming the next secretary of state was payback for the Emancipation or something.
"Angry over the reelection of the nation's first black president," vented a writer for The American Prospect, "a handful of old white senators -- one of whom hails from the cradle of the Confederacy -- launch hysterical and dishonest attacks on ... a well-qualified African American woman."
The Washington Post editorial board connected the dots, too, finding it important to note that of the Republican legislators expressing their reservations about Rice, "nearly half are from states of the former Confederacy."
Of course, the same racist representatives of Dixie also thought it fine to confirm Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice for the same job.
It's like a metastasizing cancer of delusion. Jim Sleeper, a lecturer at Yale and once a relatively sober-minded liberal writer, insists that opposition to gun control has something to do with the segregationist mind-set. Or something.
To watch MSNBC is to think the hosts see themselves as the official newsletter of the Underground Railroad.
Sure, there are racists in the Republican Party. (There are some in the Democratic Party, too.) And if you define racism as disagreeing with the Congressional Black Caucus or Barack Obama, the GOP is racist to the bone.
But the inconvenient truth is that conservatives are not only not racist, they aren't a fraction as obsessed with race as liberals are.
Of course, that lack of obsession is no doubt itself proof of conservative racism. And why shouldn't it be? Everything else is.
These conversations should die out as black misery expands under a (half) black president.
“When will liberals stop living in the past?”
When it stops working.
Who hasn’t heard a black person state: We have a loooooooooooong way to go.
“When will liberals stop living in the past?”
When it stops working.
Who hasn’t heard a black person state: “We have a loooooooooooong way to go”.
Race is a proxy for class. Race is the way to class differences, class envy and class struggle.
I remember back in the early 80’s Philadelphia elected it’s first black mayor, Wilson Goode. The negroes were jubiliant at the time and even reelected him to a second term but his fortunes reversed as he drove the city to ruin and disgrace. The people turned against him. He handled a Waco type situation just like Clinton did (MOVE and John Africa)and the people that once loved him became very disenchanted.
They won’t blame him. They will blame us...regardless of what the facts are and no matter what the truth is.
I am sorry, but I don’t think that it will. It is illogical for the blacks to blame conservatives now. I hold no malice but am sick of the racial hatred espoused recently by Jimi Foxx and Chris Rock about the new Tarantino movie. Their words keep many blacks enraged and they will have to answer for this.
Sure, there are racists in the Republican Party. (There are some in the Democratic Party, too.) And if you define racism as disagreeing with the Congressional Black Caucus or Barack Obama, the GOP is racist to the bone.
It may be entirely possible he knows no better, but it's misleading to omit the fact that Jim Crow, lynching, black disenfranchisement, the KKK and even the war to protect slavery were all Democrat issue!
No discussion of the topic should leave out the fact that the Democrat party is Headquarter Central to racism.
The old white Democrats have to use “racism” to keep blacks on their plantation. Jim Crow is alive and well in the Democrat party. Civil Rights would have never passed were it not for Republicans. Remember that fact that is lost in the MSM’s view of history.
*rme*
NEVER, but I sure would like to go back to a time when we tar and feather ignorant, lying politicians of any color or ethnicity.
The American negro population was specifically targeted by the forces of communism throughout the 20’th century, and we are seeing the fruits of those efforts. Martin King was no exception. If one strips away the veneer of rabid anti-white racism from the rhetoric of rap/hiphop lyrics and the prison culture which has pervaded virtually every crevice of American cultural life from movies to product advertisements, it’s pure unadulterated commiespeak. As a demographic, the American black has been so brainwashed they can’t see straight.
Wrong again, ignorant a$$hole! Try and access one of those few remaining cells from that perverted and demented race-baiting excuse of a brain and visualize your alleged "attackers" again; I think you'll find that they were all members of the Demonic Party you are now a part of and, who knows... they may still be active members serving today.
BINGO!
NBC, and it’s mentally-challenged cousin MSNBC, tried venturing into waving the “Racism” flag. Then people pointed out that their lineup was almost exclusively white. They reacted by hiring Al Sharpton and then calling everyone else racist. It’s projection, pure and simple.
The left is good at blaming others at what they are guilty of. This is exactly what projection is.
There is projection inherent in a large percentage of the attacks our Left makes on Conservatives / the Right. It’s not just on the issue of racism.
The Libs were screaming bout the appointment of Scott of SC to the Senate as a token but watch them appoint Kennedy’s widow to the empty seat in MA.
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