Who's pointing the "finger" at America?
Posted on 01/28/2012 9:58:19 AM PST by Zakeet
Reaction to the Jan Brewer encounter is still bubbling, with some black commentators now suggesting the image of the Arizona governor wagging her finger at the President of the United States has touched a nerve in the African American community.
On MSNBC Thursday, Al Sharpton posited that Brewer's treatment of President Obama was another example of disrespect in a list of many for the nation's first black president. His guest, Sirius XM host Joe Madison, said such incidents show that there are people "who cannot stand the fact that this is an African-American who is now one of the most powerful individuals on the planet," Mediaite reported.
An NAACP official went a few steps further in an interview with POLITICO Friday, saying the tiff played on age-old and discriminatory stereotypes of whites being superior to blacks. Hilary O. Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy and policy at the NAACP, said he was particularly disturbed by Brewer telling reporters afterward that she "felt a bit threatened if you will, in the attitude that he had."
"What were you afraid he would do, steal your purse?" Shelton said.
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“folks like Sharpton, Jackson-Lee, and their ilk can take a hike”
They are as un-American as the Kenyan Pirate. 150 years after the start of the Civil War, and the US still hasn’t addressed the war contraband matter.
The only thing Jan did Wrong was using the wrong finger.
What’s to dis?
O’zero is the ultimate cretin.
You just can,t trust any one regardless of color if they say they are a citizen and are not a citizen.
Great point... Obama is no more African-American than Romney!
Also, If it had been an African-American woman pointing her finger at George W. Bush these charlatans would be praising her to high heaven for “speaking truth to power” or some such crap. Sharpton may be the epitome of a racist in America.
Oh no... it might chase the black voters back to the dems...
Oh, wait...
just to complete correctly obama along with being half white and half black that makes him a halfrican and the american thing is still a mote point without a real birth certificate
“Black Americans need to realize need to realize that not everyone views Obama as the new messiah.”
Black Americans need to realize that the more they feign indignation and excuse the inexcusable, the more abortion clinics will be built to drive them to extinction and replace them with Latinos. It is already well underway.
But the saddest thing about him is his followers, who cling to the idea that he is some kind of hero who is going to make the big, bad, EEEEEEEEEVILLLLLLLLLL RICH give up the money they worked to earn, and pay their rent, their gas, their cable bill, and every other thing that the 62% work for at jobs every day. He has failed you in every way, destroyed the chance you have to actually stand on your own feet and provide for your family, and you defend him...based entirely on the color of his skin. In the upcoming month of February, designated Black History Month, you know so little about your own history that you cannot grasp the irony that MLK, Jr. would turn his face in disgust from you...because you are incapable of judging The One's character, having first decided that the REAL thing that counts is the color of his skin. To you, it is impossible that I could completely object to the President on the basis of how he has completely destroyed the greatness of my native land; to you, you Liberal idiots, if I am offended by his lack of character, his weakness, his elitist nature, his complete lack of business experience, his inability to understand high-school level economics, and God help us all, his overpowering VANITY, it cannot POSSIBLY be that I despise HIM, it MUST be that I am a racist. (As is any black person who would agree with me, because he's a racist too!)
The wisest thing I was ever told was this... Q: "How do you know you are winning an argument on facts with a Liberal? A: YOU RACIST!"
JUst get disgusted with his 1/2 cracker geneology. That man is more white than black except for the color of his skin..white mother, raised by white grandparents, as the Rev. Sharpton said before he was elected, that boy ain’t got no slave blood in him, he isn’t down for the struggle, and Jesse Jackson wanted to neuter him when he got caught on an open mike.....these jokers have short memories..Its a shame that the MSM let them talk for the whole community of african americans....
All they see is the free milk and cookies.
Brilliant, so true.
Democrats see everything as a function of race. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be Democrats.
The DNC is the party of race obsession. If you see the world through the prism of race, you belong in the DNC. If you don’t, you are probably either a Republican already, or you are headed our way. Come on in, the water’s fine.
Well, we know he is stealing our purses!
Look up obama pointing finger in images and you find many many photos of his finger pointing ways.
Oh what thin skinned folks will do for attention .
When Black Americans supported Obama, enmasse back in 2008, I told them on this very site, they would come to rue the day they got behind this “flim/flam” man, Barack Hussein Obama!!! Now......Blacks are hurting big time across the board, and...things are still getting worse!!! However, if they choose to hang in there with Obama, that is their choice!!! You can lead a horse to water, but...you cannot make him drink!!! I can assure you, the well being of Black Americans lies no where in the heart, mind and soul of POTUS OBAMA!!! The only thing Obama, the CBC, The Democrat Party want from Black Americans is their vote!!! End of story!!!
I expected more noise from them when Hispanics passed them in number 10 years earlier than projected (in 2000 instead of 2010); it was all over the news, and certainly will cost the Congressional Black Caucus some seats, but they didn’t say anything at all. As they fade to the obscurity of Native Americans, I guess we’ll just see their “leaders” on TV as though nothing has changed. Here in NJ an increasing number of officeholders are Hispanic, in positions formerly held by blacks - and it is happening in colleges, the workplace, the drug trade, everywhere.
Personally, I don’t believe for a bit that he is the blood son of his supposed African father. I expect he’s an American red-diaper baby through and through.
But yes, by modern parlance, he’s clearly at least partially ‘black’.
And? So what?
Kinda salting the earth for any chance of another black president, eh?
We should start calling him a stupid cracker.
Let me help you 50sDad, you are winning the argument when they call you any or all of these:
racist, sextist, homophobic, xenoophobic, fascist, wing-nut, killer-of-baby-harp-seals
My opinion of a person is created by 3 things and it is
not the shape of their eyes, not a person height, not the color of their skin, not the part of the world they came from —— What is important to me, is.....
1. what is in a person's head ...
2. what is in a person's heart ...
3. and what comes out that person's mouth ...
That is how my opinion is formed. (I did not say ‘judged’ - but that is what it really is..)
Ditto. I am way past the point of caring what made up issue black “leaders” like Sharpton say touches a nerve in the black community.
And all but 0.1% are already in Barry’s (read: our) pockets...
The effeminate Kenyan is fortunate that our Governor Jan didn’t take him down and thrash his lying fanny.
So where is the “African American community”? Does it have it's own zip code??
What is the “African American community”?? Maybe it's a country somewhere??
There is only one nation here, and all citizens are Americans.
Jan Brewer is the governor of Arizona, Obama is president of the United States until January.. There is no “African American community” in the borders of the US; so these people complaining have nothing to do with our nation and no standing.
Let them complain within the borders of the “African American community”, or at the UN.
Many in the black community are rabidly blind racists.
EXACTLY
Saying the word “black” pisses off black liberals so who cares what they think. They all vote for BO anyway.
The man is President, he is not God. Treating him like a human being is not “disrespect”.
There are the race-hustlers that must come out and declare this a racist incident, and then there are regular blacks on the street.
Could there be a disconnect here? Remember, Jan Brewer is known for her attempt to control illegal immigration. Blacks in the street are having their jobs taken by illegals. This is an issue on which blacks have consistently been for the conservative solution.
In the visual, Obama towers over her, and is obviously in her face. This makes Sharpton et al, look decidedly wimpy in crying foul. The fact that they have to come to his defense by playing the race card makes Obama appear weak.
To every action, there’s a reaction. I’m not sure keeping this in the headlines is a good thing for the left.
You misspelled "half-wit."
There are the race-hustlers that must come out and declare this a racist incident, and then there are regular blacks on the street.
Could there be a disconnect here? Remember, Jan Brewer is known for her attempt to control illegal immigration. Blacks in the street are having their jobs taken by illegals. This is an issue on which blacks have consistently been for the conservative solution.
In the visual, Obama towers over her, and is obviously in her face. This makes Sharpton et al, look decidedly wimpy in crying foul. The fact that they have to come to his defense by playing the race card makes Obama appear weak.
To every action, there’s a reaction. I’m not sure keeping this in the headlines is a good thing for the left.
They have to do anything they can to get the black vote all riled up and ready to vote for Obama a second time. Every election year there is some manufactured black outrage.
These people are getting as thin skinned as the muzzies. Plus always taking the opportunity to play a race card.
I was watching Juan Williams on some show on FNC and he was off the wall with indignation.
I understood Obama was 1/2 white, 1/4 arab, and 1/4 black. He’s not even half black.
Who's pointing the "finger" at America?
And sympathy is found in the dictionary between shiite and syphilis.
So how come a person who says his momma was a typical white woman is called black -and nobody can say squat about him widdout being called a racist homophobe?
Ping………………………..
The 0b0z0id Marxist goons are making up crap as they go along.
You are witnessing the build-up to the violence come spring/summer.
The only way to reelect 0h0m0allah in spite of him is to invoke Martial Law and cancel the election.
We’ll take our country back. One way or the other, it’s their choice.
Related thread:
The 10 Worst Moments of Disrespect Towards President Obama (Sniff, sniff ... Boo-hoo!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2838995/posts
Al Sharpton offends me.
Sharpton and the rest of the race pimps are only mad because it was a WOMAN that fired back at Obama when he became unglued.
I am so d#@! tired of EVERYTHING being about race. If Jan Brewer was eating a vanilla ice cream cone she’d be called a racist. I hope you’re wrong about “the build-up to the violence come spring/summer” but I don’t think you are.
Me too.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
Well, in my general neighborhood I still see (now and then) blacks wearing clothing with BO's face on it.
A few weeks ago I saw a black woman wearing a jacket with "[BO], King of African Americans" printed on the back of it. I just about did a double take.
Honestly, there really are people out there who think/feel that way about BO, and they voted for him, and they'll still vote for him if they get a chance to do so.
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