enjoy your eggs and Butter Julianne and I wish upon you all that you wish upon Clarence Thomas.
Posted on 03/24/2010 10:50:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When the House of Representatives passed health care reform, they made history. Never mind that the victory was a narrow 219-212, with 31 Democrats deserting their party on this vote. Never mind that not a single Republican voted for health care reform. It was about time that the myth of bipartisanship bit the dust, about time President Obama shrugged of the role of conciliator and healer and embraced his mandate as change agent instead. The passage of health care reform is the first improvement in the social contract in a generation. It is a victory for President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), but mostly for the American people.
To be sure, the legislation is imperfect. To paraphrase the president, it is not radical reform, but it is reform. While we will not have universal health coverage, about 95 percent of the population will be covered, up from 83 percent now. Congress will have the possibility of amending current legislation to expand it, so that, in time everyone will be covered. This compromise reflects compromises in other social contract legislation, such as the minimum wage, which excluded private household workers and farm workers. Eventually, these workers were also covered by labor standards legislation, although the struggle continues to treat these workers fairly.
It occurs to me that the very Tea Party protestors who so strongly protested the passage of health reform might be prime beneficiaries of it. After all, the racist and homophobic epithets showered on Congressmen Emmanuel Cleaver, Barney Frank and John Lewis were a reprehensible example of the biases that many in the Tea Party bring to the table. They aren’t so much against health reform as they are against folks they chose to describe in words Congressman Clyburn says he had not heard since the ‘60s. Their language reveals the origins and intent of the Tea Party movement. It also suggests that these folks need a health care intervention.
Racism is, after all, a disease. For these Tea Party members it is a pre-existing condition. My tongue is only partly planted in my cheek when I suggest that these folks need every provision of this new health reform legislation to get the mental health services that they need to overcome their racism. It cannot be healthy for people to work themselves up into such frenzy that they spit on legislators and shower them with epithets. Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) is a more magnanimous soul than I. From my perspective, the spitter should have been prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The Tea Party ugliness does not detract from Sunday night’s victory. It does, however, remind us of the fallacy of post-racialism, and the rigidity of Tea Party attitudes. In the wake of the virulent Tea Party racism, some of the leaders attempted to distance themselves from the worst of the nonsensical Tea Party behavior. Republican National Committee Chairman, the ambiguously Black Michael Steele, said the racism could be narrowed to “just a few ignorant people,” not the whole movement. Why is Mr. Steele making excuses for these people? Does he doubt that they call him the “n” word, too, when they can’t run roughshod over him?
Congressman Clyburn called health care reform “The Civil Rights Act of the 21st century.” His wording reminds us that no civil rights legislation was passed without extreme resistance. No doubt, epithets were tossed around when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, and diversionary tactics were used to attempt to sway votes. No step toward social justice has been made without resistance. From that perspective, the Tea Party resistance is completely consistent with history.
?At the same time, the tone and tenor of Tea Party resistance reminds us how much more work we must do before our nation truly becomes “post-racial.” And it reminds us how much help racists need. Perhaps, thanks to heath care reform, they can get much-needed mental health assistance to help with the fatal pre-existing condition – virulent racism.
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Julianne Malveaux is President of Bennett College for Women. She can be reached at presbennett@bennett.edu.
I wonder what would happen if I started a newspaper called "White American News" or "Caucasian News" or some such? Notice her "Uncle Tom" slam of Mr. Steele?
Along with being a female, right Nancy Pelosi? And boy is SHE the poster child for the women’s rights movement. LOL
They Statists have to discredit the tea partys it’s the only hope they have — Even if it requires they lie. Which is really not too hard for any Democrat, Democrats lie about most everything.
If she wants to complain about racism, she should just look into a mirror!
As the kids say on the internet: “Video or it didn’t happen.”
The hag writes a racist screed to discuss racism.
enjoy your eggs and Butter Julianne and I wish upon you all that you wish upon Clarence Thomas.
Scary that these commie libs have been able to write history for the last 60 years. There is no telling what myths have been created by the MSM/DNC/Hollywood/Academia.
They have also been in charge of teaching our children for the last 30 years.
They lie with such ease, frightening that we have let them run this county for so long.
>> ... the racist and homophobic epithets showered on Congressmen Emmanuel Cleaver, Barney Frank and John Lewis
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. Adolf Hitler
>> ... they are against folks they chose to describe in words Congressman Clyburn says he had not heard since the ‘60s.
Guess he doesn’t spend too much time in the ‘hood.
She calls RNC chair Steele “ambiguously black.”
“In the Soviet Union, psychiatry was used for punitive purposes. Psychiatric hospitals were often used by the authorities as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally; as such they are considered a form of torture.”
Julianne Malveaux on Clarence Thomas
"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."
-- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4, 1994 PBS To the Contrary.
NewsMax ^ | 7/11/05
Julianne Malveaux: USA, Bush are ‘Terrorists’
Semi-regular USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux said Monday that President Bush is “a terrorist” and that America is “a terrorist nation.”
In an interview that began with Malveaux accusing U.S. troops of “beating” terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the controversial author and economist told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity: “Terrorism in the United States is as old as we are. You want me to give you a litany of terrorism? You want me to start with what’s happened to the Indian population? You want to go on to what happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921?”
“C’mon now, Sean,” Malveaux told Hannity. “We are terrorists.”
Asked point-blank if the U.S. was a “terrorist nation,” Malveaux shot back: “Oh, Absolutely.”
In the next breath she added, “The chickens have come home to roost,” in an apparent reference to the 9/11 attacks.
Asked if America was “a good country,” Malveaux responded tersely: “We’re a country.” Pressed on why she omitted the adjective “good,” she replied, “I can’t answer that. I think we have some good and I think we have some evil.”
As the interview was winding up, Malveaux went on a tear about the Iraq war and “the weapons of mass distraction.”
“You know they weren’t there. I know they weren’t there,” she told Hannity. “George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.”
Remember during the Clinton days when this red-haired thing was on TV regularly?
Lie, lie, lie. Total fabrication.
It's easy for her. The wellspring of her Philosophy is urban legend. She might even be delusional and stupid enough to believe the crap she writes.
No, but since when does truth matters? This is just another example of a hypocritical "tolerant" leftest who can't tolerate people with opinions of their own. These people justify throwing out bipartisanship to push their agenda, but it'll be the same people who will be calling for more "bipartisanship" in the next Republican controlled Congress. I only hope that we elect Republicans who see this.
The most disgusting I’ve ever seen of racism from the unable-to-be racist-because-I’m not-white—was when CNN had D.L. Hughley.
He was constant with the cracker chit, I listened a bit, that’s when I decided I will NEVER watch CNN again.
I gave in and watched when Chile’s earthquake happened, until FOX started covering it better.
It doesn’t matter if the Tea Party folk didn’t say the word, it only matters what protected groups say/claim, and they can say cracker all the hell they want, whilst screaming racist at another.
It’s stupid and it’s frustrating for white people but I find it sad for the blacks who are stuck in a prison of ‘victim’ and behaving like trained pets, clucking racist at every turn.
It really does start to weaken the word, almost as bad as those who hurt real rape victims by making false claims of rape.
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