Yes, Democrats Can Be Racist

Daily Beast ^ | 5/6/13 | Peter Beinart

[Impala64ssa]

And at the moment, they appear to be in denial about it. Peter Beinart on an outrageous Democratic attack on Nikki Haley—and why Democrats need to strongly denounce it. Dick Harpootlian were a Republican, liberals would be jumping over one another to call him a bigot. In 2002 Harpootlian called Lindsey Graham, then running for a South Carolina Senate seat, “light in the loafers,” thus fueling a nasty whispering campaign about Graham’s sexual orientation. Last Friday he struck again, telling activists to “send Nikki Haley”—South Carolina’s Indian-American governor—“back to wherever the hell she came from.”

[Impala64ssa]

FTA: The point is that liberals need to realize that Democrats aren’t immune from racism. In politics, bigotry isn’t always connected to ideology... The worst racists I've had the displeasure of knowing were liberals. Leftists/socialists/communists were just as racist as the klan, until the 1940's when, encouraged by Stalin, they realized the untapped propaganda potential of exploiting the, as it was called then "Plight of the Negroes."

[freedumb2003]

Can be? CAN BE?

By definition, liberals ARE racist! It is baked into their philosophy of pandering, head-patting and sense of superiority!

[JudgemAll]

Advocating the shotgun instead of the rifle like Biden does IS RACIST. IT is a means to avoid hurting bystanders when going after material targets that bothers them.

They do not want us to have this political ability in the showdown with the fascist state to win hearts and minds by going after their material targets instead of the humane ones they are going after to enslave in death camps.

[Sherman Logan]

In pre-WWI South Africa, the communists and radicals fought for the right of the (white) workers to continue to exclude black competitors from the mines and factories.

Just finished reading a looonnng book about the philosophies behind the Lincoln/Douglas debates. The author points out that throughout American history, at least up to the 1950s or so, the party generally on the side of “the little guy” as opposed to The Man, was almost without exception more racist (anti-black, anti-Indian, etc., than its comparatively pro-business and upper-class rival.

Throughout this period, the party that appealed to “the little guy” was the Democrats, while their rivals were first the Whigs and then the Republicans.

As you say a large component of the Democratic Party switched sides on this during the 30s and 40s, though I’m a little more conciliatory than you and assign much of the switch to a reaction to the obvious example provided by Nazism of where racism leads.

[Slings and Arrows]

Apparently Alvin Greene was the smart guy in the SC Democratic Party.

[C. Edmund Wright]

LOL!!! Well done.

[Impala64ssa]

the communists and radicals fought for the right of the (white) workers to continue to exclude black competitors from the mines and factories.
That's been a dirty little secret in the US as well. I belonged to the Mailhandlers union, which, to make a very long story short has its roots in what was called The Alliance, a union of Black RR mail clerks and porters that formed around 1900. The reasons they organized was not only to protect themselves from Vanderbilts and other eeevil RR barons of the day, but because the White socialists at the forefront of the labor movement wanted nothing to do with Blacks. For a long time unions were practically "Whites only" clubs.

[Slings and Arrows]

Thank you kindly.

[Sherman Logan]

Not all unions.

The UMW was integrated from its beginning in 1890.

But I agree that most were.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

Obama attended a black nationalist church for twenty years. Holder is only interested in looking out for “my people”. Sharpton has a history of racism, but is now received as a legitimate voice in Liberal circles. Of course Liberals can be racist.

[SampleMan]

Can be racist? When aren’t they racist?

[Louis Foxwell]

FReepers have this well in hand. No help needed here.

[upchuck]

Related: Outrage After Democrats Insult Nikki Haley's Indian Heritage Saying They'll Send The Republican...

That article title mentions Democrats, plural. Turns out, it's just one RAT, one of South Carolina's biggest a$$holes, Dickie Boy.