Posted on 02/26/2014 3:43:14 AM PST by servo1969
Full title - "Only Fox Cares: 'Hannity' Guest Confronts Lawmaker Who Called Clarence Thomas a ‘Very Prolific Uncle Tom’"
The plight of black conservatives took center stage during Monday's edition of Hannity, a weeknight program on the Fox News Channel. The segment featured footage of African-American radio host David Webb interviewing Alvin Holmes, a Democratic state representative in Alabama who had used the racial slur “Uncle Tom” to describe Clarence Thomas, the black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Only the Fox News Channel has reported this story on TV.
Holmes said he stands behind his previous statement because Thomas “is a black man who allowed himself to be used to carry the message of a white man, which is against the interests of black people in America. In my opinion, Clarence Thomas is a very prolific Uncle Tom.”
When that part of the footage ended, host Sean Hannity told Webb that he believes Holmes “stands by his ignorance.” His guest replied that this story “is more about exposing ignorance, hypocrisy, bigoted behavior with this feeling that 'we can do it'” and get away with it.
Referring to the power of racism, the black conservative radio talk show host stated: “Alvin Holmes is someone who uses this. He's smart enough to use it because it plays to something that matters to them.”
Webb continued by condemning “the dishonesty in this when you think about someone who knew Martin Luther King, who's been in the House since 1974 in Alabama, who's been through the tough times but yet continues to argue what happened back then pre-civil rights, not now.”
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When the second pre-recorded segment began, Webb reminded Holmes: “You introduced a bill that you made a statement about [Thomas's] marriage to a white woman” whose first name is Virginia.
“Because there was [sic] members on the floor that was saying that,” Holmes said.
“What members were saying that?” Webb asked, but Holmes tried to dodge the question by stating: “Many of them.”
When Webb asked if those members were Democrats or Republicans, Holmes responded: “Both; they not only said that this term, they said it last term.”
“Would you care to identify some of those members?” the radio host asked, and the lawmaker again tried to avoid answering the question: “Well, I don't recall exactly; there's 150 members in the House of Representatives, and right offhand, I don't recall exactly who stated it ... but I wouldn't dare to say something like that.”
Webb then pressed Holmes regarding the incident in which the Rev. William Barber -- head of the South Carolina chapter of the NAACP -- compared Tim Scott, the Palmetto State's junior Republican senator, to a ventriloquist's dummy.
“If you're going to get to be a United States senator, and you're black, and every position you take is the position that the white folk tell you to take, what incentive is that going to be for the young black?” Holmes asked.
“How do you know that the white folk, as you put it, tell Sen. Tim Scott what position to take?” Webb responded.
“Because in every report I have read, he goes by what the white people there tell him,” the lawmaker answered. “If the whites are holding a position, voting against the interests of black people, well, we call them racists. If there's a black in a position and voting against the interests of black people, we call them 'Uncle Toms.'”
After coming back to the live studio, Webb said that after pressing Holmes, it became obvious that “he doesn't really know anything about Tim Scott.”
“It's kind of the old demagogue routine that we can't accept as Americans,” Webb stated. “Back to those representatives is the state house: Does this really reflect you?”
Hannity then turned to an interview of Lorraine Miller, the interim president of the NAACP, who claimed that what Barber said was merely a result of his frustration.
Asked whether he should apologize, Miller said: “I think he's already spoken to that, the Tim Scott issue, quite adequately, and he's made his statement and that's where we are. I can't focus on things like that.”
“So the head of the NAACP can't focus on a black senator being called a ventriloquist dummy?” the FNC host asked in exasperation.
“What's the common thread here?” Webb asked. “Barber, Miller, Holmes -- longtime members of the NAACP. What does this tell you about what was once a great organization on the national level?”
Hannity's other guest, Democratic strategist Richard Fowler, responded that the NAACP has millions and millions of members with a variety of viewpoints.
Fowler then asserted that the Holmes situation is a “red herring” while the head of the NAACP is more focused on serious issues.
“So have we gone back to the NAACP as an organization only for progressives, Democrats and liberals?” Hannity added. “When it comes to advancing the blacks in America, politics shouldn't matter.”
The farther away the US gets from slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow, the more tenaciously Democrats cling to that period of our history.
The “civil rights game” is played for money. Period. Those loud mouths have done more harm to their race than any other element of society. Black people have been used as pawns by these people, laughably called leaders, for half a lifetime.
As someone from central Alabama, I can tell you that Alvin Holmes is a laughingstock. He has a gerrymandered district of black people; hence his unchallenged seat for the past 40 years. And like many “civil rights” leaders, he continuously waves Dr. King’s bloody shirt whenever he can, but always for his own advantage.
To the rest of us, he is an idiot. He says numerous stupid things regularly, and it is always great sport to repeat them as it causes most people to laugh out loud at the idiocy of whatever statement he made.
For liberal blacks, victimhood is the foundation of political and cultural power. For the power to remain viable, white racism must be perpetual, and will be as long as white guilt exists.
This wouldn’t be as much of a problem if the damage were limited to whites, but the victimhood mentality is extremely destructive to blacks individually and collectively.
I sense that this is changing, as whites are tiring of being made the scapegoats, and many blacks are beginning to realize the debilitating effects that victimhood has on black culture.
Bump
Odd how Blacks support Democrats when it was the Democrats who created welfare directed at keeping minorities living in rat-infested tennements for decades with no hope for a better life. The Dems dished out the checks and a rotten subservient lifestyle in exchange for votes. That’s compassion, care, and concern? No, it’s the Democrats attack on minorities. Think about it.
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Black Racists get a pass since they are promoting Marxism.
Pray America wakes up
The Democrat Party gave us slavery, the Confederate States of America, The Civil War, The Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, segregation ,and gun control laws. What else can you expect of a party that has a jack-ass as its symbol?
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