Bashir: Conservatives Cool With Slaves Building White House But Can't Accept Black President There

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

The odious Martin Bashir is at it again. On his MSNBC show today, Bashir suggested that conservatives, racists that they are, were happy to have slaves help build the White House, but can't accept a black president living there.

View the video here.

[liberalh8ter]

Hey Bashir....you better brush upon factual history and which party would have been completely happy to keep slavery going through to modern times. Hint....they're not conservatives.

I'm so sick of this sh-t. If I could be queen for a day, I'd make a proclamation that all people have to pay a million dollar fee to accuse someone of racism. I'd also make a mandatory 25 year sentence if you are caught revising history.

[matt1234]

Ain’t it great livin’ in obama’s “post-racial” America?

[Tublecane]

“Was the WH in fact, built with slave labor? That thought had not occurred to me before. I’m not sure what difference it makes anyway.”

It was built in slave territory (obviously), in exchange for Southerners accepting Hamilton’s debt assumption plan (what a crappy deal). Slave territory, by the way, eventually became the cradle of the Democrat party.

“I’m pretty sure slaves were not used when it was gutted and rebuilt during Truman’s term.”

Did the armed forces participate? Because they had involuntary servants.

[tumblindice]

I’m just sick of the race-baiting. The same knuckleheads feel they’ve won the argument when they call us `Nazis,’ then they lean back in their chairs smiling, having `poisoned the well’/violated `Godwin’s law.’
They’ve just lost, we all lose, and they’re clueless. Argument is reasoned debate tested by doubt. A public discussion with these people is like arguing with a roomful of African gray parrots.
Nothing but `squawking’ points, memorized insults and undigested pap that they yak up and spit out. This one is a standout, too. Slaves and the White House! It’s like listening to Barry talk about SCOTUS “discretion”.
BLOAT!

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

but isn’t Obama a mulatto?

No. That term has gone by the wayside....like "Oriental." BUT, since George Zimmerman is a "White Hispanic" Obama should now be referred to as "White African-American."

[Sir_Humphrey]

It has nothing to do with his color and everything to do with his character. Exactly what Dr. King fought for.

With all due respect (because you seem very sincere) that is incredibly naive. With the civil rights industry it never is about content of character or any other St. Marty soundbite. It's all about money and power. face it, hating whitey is big business these days. You can live like a king (a la Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton) or at least get you a paid gig on MSNBC. There is an entire academic industry built around "African American Studies" or "Diversity Implementation" that in a sane world would be scoffed at.

[Tublecane]

“Those were democrat slaveholders, just like today.”

No democrats to speak of, at least not when construction started (can’t say how long it went on). There was continuity between Jeffersonian Republicans and Early Democrats, but they weren’t the same party.

[Tublecane]

“just as for racists throughout liberty”

Whoa, I have no idea why I just wrote that. “Liberty” should be “history.”

[DecentAmerican]

Hey racist liberal pig Bashir....you mean the slaves that the Democrats fought so stringently to maintain, and the Republicans fought to set free and give civil rights to? You mean when Lincoln freed the slaves, and the Democrats formed the KKK, and then ended up killing thousands of blacks and Republicans who defended those blacks. Those slaves?

Goodness Gracious, so MSNBC has this racist nutjob, and race baiters Jackson and Schultz, all certifiable ignorant, uneducated , racist morons.

DEAR NBC - UNIVERSAL.....honestly, do you get together in board rooms and think of ways of FAILING?

[Chipper]

400 slaves built the White House and Capital. 300,000 white men died freeing them.

[Yosemitest]

RACE BAITER LAME Stream Media's at it again, trying to stir the pot.
But they don't say one word about their Fabian Fascist ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF's attempts to start a RACE WAR.

Take notice of how Barack Hussein Obama II reminds himself everyday, to play the "Race Card".

... in a hallway outside the Oval Office, he has placed a head-turning painting depicting one of the ugliest racial episodes in U.S. history.

Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With,” installed in the White House last month, shows U.S. marshals escorting Ruby Bridges, a 6-year-old African-American girl, into a New Orleans elementary school in 1960 as court-ordered integration met with an angry and defiant response from the white community.

... His choice of the Rockwell painting was a more private statement. Obama has never mentioned it in a speech or public event. And while White House aides confirmed that Obama approved bringing it to the West Wing, they declined to discuss how the decision was made or why.

But in an interview with POLITICO, Bridges, now 56 and still living in New Orleans, said she began reaching out to the president last year — through Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick — to move the painting to the White House because she believed the image would resonate with Obama.

“It did have a lot to do with this particular president,” Bridges said. “He is a president of mixed race. So I believe he is about the same things that I am. You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin. … I did feel if anyone would hang the painting, it would be him.”

Last month, Bridges stopped by the White House to see the painting in its new — though temporary — home.

“I think it’s fair to say that if it hadn’t been for you guys, I might not be here, and we might not be looking at this together,” Obama told her, according to a videotape on the White House website.

Bridges says the work conveys a message of integration and “bringing people together,” but on its surface, Rockwell’s painting depicts jarring cruelty, hatred and fear.

“The N-word there — it sure stops you,” said William Kloss, an art historian and expert on the White House collections. “There’s a realistic reason for having the graffiti as a slur, [but] it’s also right in the middle of the painting. … It’s a painting that could not be hung even for a brief time in the public spaces [of the White House], I’m pretty sure of that.”

... “It is jarring to see it in this piece of art, but … it provides the context of the time,” said Roland Martin, an African-American radio and TV host and political commentator for CNN. “When you see that word, you see her, you see the soldiers, you realize, ‘I really get this.’”

... Still, at 3 feet high and nearly 5 feet wide, the painting is by far the most striking civil rights-related art in the White House. Rockwell painted the image in 1963, and it appeared on the cover of Look magazine in January 1964. ..."

[Jemian]

I don’t think the construction crew in Truman’s term was not military. I haven’t researched it and so manors peaking with authority.

[Ol' Sox]

Martin,

We do not judge by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

Best Regards and welcome to our homeland,
The American People

[jersey117]

Such BS. I’d be perfectly happy with Allen West, Alan Keyes, Herman Cain or any other patriotic American of color. As long as they’re legit. Wish we could deport Bashir. I’m sick of these foreigners telling us how to run our country.

[Vaduz]

First question how many black slave owners supplied the slaves?.

[OpusatFR]

I’m gobstopped! So the Scot stonemasons who worked on the White House and Capitol were slaves?

[jersey117]

Wow. Enough said.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Clinton isn’t President any more.

[NTHockey]

>>Technically yes, but the word “mulatto” is obsolete. He is in fact “black” or African-American or whatever else you want to call him.<<

How about half-breed, or is that forbidden also?

[NathanR]

I am sure that would be even more so. LOL

[dps.inspect]

to Bashir, "is that all you got... IS THAT ALL YOU GOT!!"

Any time these leftists want to lay down that gauntlet, our comeback aught to be just that, "is that all you got" then lay into O's failed presidency...

[Gator113]

Yes, it’s THAT bad and much more. What Obama and these worthless dregs have started will not end well, for them.

[Secret Agent Man]

We just can’t accept a socialist in the White House, regardless of color. Color is immaterial. I’d vote for Walter Williams in a heartbeat.

[Yosemitest]

Liberals can't abide the truth!
Watch this.

The First Slave Owner In America Anthony Johnson, A Black Man !!!

Also read:

The COLORED PATRIOTS of the American Revolution

Join THE BLACK ROBE REGIMENT!

And remember, NEVER TRUST A LIBERAL!

LIBERAL GOES BALLISTIC IN CUCOS (my title)
Monday, Apr. 02, 2012 | ED KEMP

HATTIESBURG -- Investigators said Monday night they still were piecing together what motivated a man to open fire at a Hattiesburg restaurant on Monday afternoon, wounding five customers and employees.

“We don’t have anything that we can release right now,” Hattiesburg Police Department spokesman Lt. Eric Proulx said.

Suspect Scott Tyner, 44, of Hattiesburg, was apprehended by Hattiesburg Police officers a short distance from the restaurant. Tyner lived nearby on South 21st Avenue.

The shooting came suddenly, seemingly without provocation, for the employees and patrons inside Cucos, a Mexican restaurant on a frontage road facing U.S. 49.

Proulx said the shooting happened a little before 3:30 p.m.

“There was no confrontation,” Proulx said. “There was no exchange of words.”

Emergency responders arrived on scene about 3:31 p.m. Five victims with blood-spattered clothes were rushed out on stretchers and taken to Forrest General Hospital. One victim, a middle-aged white male, appeared to be spitting up blood.

Tyner was booked in the Forrest County Jail on five counts of aggravated assault Monday night. Bond was not set.

Hattiesburg Police did not release any other information on Tyner, other than to say Tyner was not a current employee of the restaurant.

According to the Hattiesburg American archives, Tyner was a member of the Forrest County Democratic Executive Committee as late as 2006, an Iraq War protester and an avid letter writer on political topics.

But while Tyner called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and decried tax policies that favored the rich, he also opposed amnesty policies for illegal immigrants.

One letter he wrote in 2010 questioned the reasoning behind celebrating Cinco de Mayo because of the large number of illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States.

“Mexico doesn’t care for its people; it exports them,” he wrote.

Onlookers at the crime scene expressed shock at the violence that seemed to come out of the blue.

Brian Foxworth was among about a dozen folks who stood pressed against the police tape in the Payless Rent to Own store parking next door to Cucos.

Foxworth, the Payless store manager, said he didn’t hear the shots, but hurried out of his store as soon as he heard the emergency responders arrive.

While he said he’s seen police come to Cucos twice before in his five years at Payless, he said he never expected to see the business next door crawling with police and ambulances.

“I don’t know what to say about it,” he said. “I’m just stunned by the whole situation.”



AP PHOTO/HATTIESBURG AMERICAN, RYAN MOORE Hattiesburg Crime Scene Investigator Jeff Byrd, left, and Sgt. Junior Burnett speak at the Cucos Mexican Restaurant on Monday in Hattiesburg, where a mass shooting occurred. Police arrested a man and charged him with aggravated assault in the shooting of five people.

[Vaduz]

The First Slave Owner In America Anthony Johnson, A Black Man !!!
True many blacks OWNED slaves yet the liberals shame the white man but not the black man.
They never talk about the blacks that sold slsves,it’a the norm for libs to only tell one side of a stery.

[mriguy67]

Im willing to bet 90% of conservatives would have no problem with Colonel Alan West there and 90% of liberals would have a problem with him

[Alas Babylon!]

Yosemite, I sadly shake my head at Bridges comment: You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

And yet, isn't that EXACTLY why blacks are so favorable toward Obama, including herself? As she says in the VERY NEXT sentence: I did feel if anyone would hang the painting, it would be him.

They HAVE judged him by the color of his skin, and because his skin is colored the same as theirs, they therefore support him and vote for him.

Yet this is not racism?

Suppose I only voted and supported people who had MY skin color?

[mriguy67]

Im willing to bet 90% of conservatives would have no problem with Colonel Alan West there and 90% of liberals would have a problem with him

[Gargantua]

"I must be missing something, but isn’t Obama a mulatto?"

Nah, he's an Oreo. LMAO!!!

[tophat9000]

If it was built by slaves they were owned by Democrats...historically...republican didn't own slaves......if fact what was the first political different between republican and Democrats...slavery....lib will slam the country history on slavery...but claim the political party the historically fought for it....if slavery =Jews in Germany them the democrat party = the Nazis party...the GOP= the Resistance

[Forward the Light Brigade]

OK—For the last time-— As a Conservative I have no problem with Obama’s Race (or half race as he’s half white) I would love to see a black man in the White House—Like Cain! Or Ms. Rice—hey even Bill Cosby. I object to his POLITICS—I don’t like his neo-Socialism and radical means of getting what he wants over the wishes of the American People of all colors. Nuff Said.

[SunTzuWu]

He is in fact “black”...

Actually, no. His father was half Arab and half African. His mother was white. That makes zero 1/4 black, 1/4 Arab and 1/2 white.

[NathanR]

Uh... which makes him “black” by the usual rules.

[Bigg Red]

The only color Dear Leader has that bothers me is his Commie Red.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

For years, these racist scoundrels, like Martin Bashir, have been getting a pass from Republicans and conservatives, who positively cringe when they should call racists, “racist”, even when these racists are spouting horrible racial hatred and bias.

It is obvious why Republicans and conservatives, who frequently face *unfair* and *lying* accusations of racism, are so hesitant to call others racists. But when they actually *are* racists, they should be called racists to their face, and whenever their face pops up.

In fact, perhaps the most damning accusation of racism against Republicans and conservatives is not that *they* are racists, but that they do not condemn real racists, and thus tolerate racism “by omission”. That is, if you do not condemn *real* racism when you see it, you contribute to it and support it. You give it a platform.

So when you speak of Martin Bashir in the future, be sure to say, “the racist Martin Bashir”.

And when you speak of Jesse Jackson in the future, be sure to say, “the racist Jesse Jackson”.

And when you speak of Al Sharpton in the future, be sure to say, “the racist Al Sharpton”.

And there are so many more Democrats who cultivate their racism without criticism by Republicans and conservatives, who need to be called out about their racism.

Republicans called out Democrats when Democrats supported slavery. And when Democrats supported Jim Crow laws. And when Democrats supported segregation. Democrats need to be punished for their racism, their antisemitism, and all their other vile actions.

Don’t give them a pass, or you are part of the problem.

[wardaddy]

lol...hilarious

[wardaddy]

words are never obsolete

but today everyone wants to be black

i am now black too come to think of it

i can will myself to be a tropical african negroid if i just concentrate

i’m already there in some respects

[rawcatslyentist]

BHO isn’t black he’s RED! With the blood of murdered innocents.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Yep, we’d be just fine and dandy with a WHITE communist in the White House. "

vote Romney

[wardaddy]

I am proud that so many more freepers today resist white guilt and all that it encompasses than was the case 12 years ago

but it amuses me that in spite of that many still cannot resist the kneejerk siren calls even when now with a newfound courage to be defiant and unafraid to be called racist

quoting King and aping the call for more blacks to run for GOP office misses the point and sticks a leg back in the “trap”

throwing bones to those who tweak you is a tar pit...not a briar patch

[RedMDer]

Click

[CatherineofAragon]

I’m sick of the slave crap. SICK OF IT. I’m a Southerner and I’ll be the first to say it was wrong, but it ended 147 years ago. Black people, are you listening? GET THE HELL OVER IT. The Holocaust happened 70 years ago, but you don’t hear Jewish people constantly complaining (and they would have a right to!).

[CatherineofAragon]

"OK—For the last time-— As a Conservative I have no problem with Obama’s Race (or half race as he’s half white) I would love to see a black man in the White House—Like Cain! Or Ms. Rice"

But why would you "love" to see a black man in the White House? Or red, or green, or plaid? Color shouldn't even matter in your preference. I would love to see a conservative there, and I don't care what color he is. Race is not a selling point for me.

[TChad]

Herman Cain, leader of the Real Clear Politics poll average for the Republican presidential nomination for three weeks, from October 20 to November 10, 2011.

[ken5050]

Mark, I suspect MORE people will reply to this thread than watch his show..

[sauropod]

You speak truth, brother.

[Yosemitest]

" They HAVE judged him by the color of his skin,
and because his skin is colored the same as theirs, they therefore support him and vote for him.

Yet this is not racism?

Suppose I only voted and supported people who had MY skin color? "

It IS Racism!
It's plain for ALL to see.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits.