The Obama Administration's Rampant Racism

American Thinker ^ | January 20, 2010 | Greg Lewis

[neverdem]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's remarks during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama would have a good chance to be elected because he is "light-skinned" and speaks with a "Negro dialect" only by choice are ugly and insulting. But the real consequences of Obama's and Democrats' selective "forgiveness" of Reid go much deeper and are much more damaging than merely demonstrating that they hypocritically apply a political double-standard where criticism of "inartful" remarks is concerned. Taken together with the actions and comments of other Obama appointees, including especially Attorney General Eric Holder, they reveal the deep-seated racism that informs the president's every policy and pronouncement and threatens to turn the United States into a 21st-century version of pre-Civil Rights America.

The racist bias of the current administration cuts both ways. The fact that our president accepted Reid's apology as if he (Obama) were the only one damaged by Reid's remarks speaks to two things: the president's own narcissism and the fact that he agrees with the underlying racist premise that speaking with a "Negro dialect" is negative. Obama was sending a subliminal message to tens of millions of African-Americans that they weren't damaged by the implication that they're inferior and not politically marketable as national leaders because they speak differently from white massas like Harry Reid. Reid's comments were insulting to every "Negro" in America, and Reid should have apologized to all of the country's African-Americans, not just to the president.

Obama's spineless and insensitive acceptance of Reid's apology was tendered without so much as a beer summit of the kind he convened to repair the damage (to himself) caused by his racially tinged remarks ("the police acted stupidly") about Cambridge, MA police sergeant James Crowley in the Henry Louis Gates incident. Obama never did apologize to Crowley, though he invited him to beer.

The president was one of the leaders of the lynch mob that eventually succeeded in getting talk show host Don Imus fired from his post for the sin of calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed ho's." Then-candidate Obama declared that "[Imus] didn't just cross the line, he fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America." Thank God Harry Reid wasn't guilty of that.

By appointing a racist as his Attorney General, Obama effectively cemented history's judgment of his administration's racialist policies. Eric Holder, who called Americans "cowards" because they were unwilling to engage in a public debate about "race," has proven himself to be both a coward and a racist. When it's politically convenient for him to support blacks, he'll subvert the law to do so, as he did in dismissing the prosecution of members of the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation on election day 2008 in Philadelphia. The Justice Department had won the case by default when the defendants failed to respond to the charges, yet Holder dismissed the charges against all but one of the miscreants. The one against whom the charges remained was told not that voter intimidation was illegal, but that he had to wait until after 2012 before brandishing a nightstick at an election site again.

Holder is the Obama administration's "Bull" Connor. Where Connor called out firemen and policemen to prevent blacks from demonstrating in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, Holder tacitly condoned behavior equivalent to that of Connor's brownshirts by dropping prosecution of members of the New Black Panther Party when they brandished weapons and shouted insults at white voters, intimidating them in a way similar to that of Connor's thugs 45 years earlier. The difference is not in the degree of the offenses committed, but in the fact that in this case, when committed against whites, the offense doesn't lead to punishment.

Reid, Holder, and Obama all cling to deeply racist convictions, not only in branding those who disagree politically with them as racist, but also in their own attitudes toward African-Americans, whom they implicitly see as inferior to whites and "light-skinned" blacks. Their selective condemnation of "racism" by their opponents is deeply disturbing because it reveals, without their apparently being aware of it, that they themselves harbor the same racist convictions as those they excoriate for being racist.

In their cynical exploitation of blacks through accusations of racism for political gain, contemporary liberals are following in the footsteps of leftist predecessors dating back to the 1920s with the publication of communist activist Josef Pogàny's pamphlet, "American Negro Problems." In "American Negro Problems," Pogàny framed the "Negro question in America" as an issue that was best understood "in its relation to the liberation struggle of the proletariat against American imperialism." Thus was introduced into blacks' struggle for equality in this country the cynical overlay of their cause's being used to advance the agenda of the ruthless and imperialistic political movement that communism was rapidly becoming.

Ralph Ellison's main character in his masterpiece Invisible Man is indoctrinated into the ways of "the brotherhood" (a surrogate for the Communist Party). After he's delivered a particularly effective speech, he's told that "you mustn't waste your emotions on individuals, they don't count." He's chastised for speaking in terms of "race" and for his sympathy for "the old ones," whom history has passed by and who must be "pruned like dead limbs" so that the tree can sprout new growth. He's questioned about why he "always thinks in terms of race." Later, when the wife of one of the leaders of the Brotherhood asks within his hearing whether he's "black enough," it becomes clear that this fictional iteration of the Communist Party is using race cynically as an issue to advance their Marxist cause.

In his book Rules for Radicals, professional pain-in-the-ass Saul Alinsky proposes one of the most cynical, demeaning, and disgusting tactics for using blacks in an effort to help them gain civil rights when he proposes buying "one hundred seats for one of Rochester[, New York]'s symphony concerts. We would select a concert in which the music was relatively quiet. The hundred blacks who would be given tickets would first be treated to a three-hour pre-concert dinner in the community, in which they would be fed nothing but baked beans, and lots of them; the people would go to the symphony hall -- with obvious consequences. Imagine the scene when the action began! ... Here you would have a combination not only of noise but also of odor, what you might call natural stink bombs. ... The law would be completely paralyzed." The reaction of the wives of the important citizens whose cultural event had been disrupted would be to say to their husbands, "John, we are not going to have our symphony season ruined by those people!''

Much like the Marxist whites whose co-opting of the civil rights impulse of the 1940s Ellison fictionalizes in Invisible Man, it is the leftists who have used and continue to use blacks unmercifully to disrupt "establishment events," and it is blacks who are rightfully insulted -- not to mention demeaned -- by the left's shameless use of them to promote not racial understanding, but the advancement of their anti-capitalist agenda.

Don't get me wrong. I think that Obama acted appropriately in accepting Reid's apology, even though he did so for the wrong reasons. The problem is that the president and his Democratic cronies don't apply their "principles" even-handedly. Reid's offense doesn't warrant his being forced to step down, and neither did Don Imus's.

It won't be long -- certainly by November of this year at the latest -- before the administration's rampant racism becomes another of the reasons American voters drum Democrats out of office in droves.

[screaminsunshine]

I did not see a big black turnout last night.

[abigailsmybaby]

I noticed during his speech dissing Scott Brown at Clucky’s support rally he was using the Negro dialect. He’s so clever.

[Zack Attack]

In his book Rules for Radicals, professional pain-in-the-ass Saul Alinsky proposes one of the most cynical, demeaning, and disgusting tactics for using blacks in an effort to help them gain civil rights when he proposes buying "one hundred seats for one of Rochester[, New York]'s symphony concerts. We would select a concert in which the music was relatively quiet. The hundred blacks who would be given tickets would first be treated to a three-hour pre-concert dinner in the community, in which they would be fed nothing but baked beans, and lots of them; the people would go to the symphony hall -- with obvious consequences. Imagine the scene when the action began! ... Here you would have a combination not only of noise but also of odor, what you might call natural stink bombs. ... The law would be completely paralyzed." The reaction of the wives of the important citizens whose cultural event had been disrupted would be to say to their husbands, "John, we are not going to have our symphony season ruined by those people!''

Please tell this is either satire or some joke someone remembers from third grade.

[cwb]

Good read. There’s just something instinctively evil and hypocritical about a group of people who believe that all Republicans are racist, while they (Liberals) countinue to believe that Blacks couldn’t make it on their own...without their help.

[Jack Black]

The author is way off base on this: "the president's own narcissism and the fact that he agrees with the underlying racist premise that speaking with a "Negro dialect" is negative.

It is NOT a 'racist premise' that 'speaking with a Negro Dialect is negative. That is (sadly) yet another example (as if one is needed) that many in the Conservative movement are in fact deeply liberal, and have drunk the from the mothers milk of liberalism for so long that they don't even know when they are being liberal.

A key concept of Conservatism is that Standards Matter and that Excellence is not purely subjective. We have spent trillions of dollars integrating (by force) every aspect of our society: we have used the Army to integrate high schools in the 1950 and 1960s. We have used painfully racist affirmative action programs to integrate our colleges and places of employment.

We are all taught the same standard American English in our schools. We all have the opportunity to hear it spoken correctly on our television. Anderson Cooper and Brit Hume sound very similar, despite disagreement on many issues. David Gregory, Rachel Madow, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh -- all manage to speak a conventional, grammatical, understandable English (while still tossing in the occasional stylistic slang).

The black assault on the American English is part and parcel of their defective culture. It is of a piece with the rampant criminality, violence, misogyny, racism, celebration of the same, and willful ignorance.

Real conservatives *MUST* speak out against the ignorant, ugly, racist patois that is "ebonics". We are well without our rights to reject it outright, and refuse to condone it. That isn't racism, it is basic cultural conservatism. All cultures are not equal. Baby mamas are not a substitute for wives. Section 8 is not a substitute for paying your own rent. Welfare is not a substitute for a job. And "Negro Dialect", whether deployed strategically and falsely by a lying Ivy League educated mulatto pretending to be a ghetto black, or by the genuine gang-bangin', ho-slappin' pimp daddy real thang is not an acceptable alternative to American English.

This is so basic it is pathetic that a "conservative" commentator has completely missed the point.

If Obama really was saying "ebonics isn't acceptable" that would have to rank as one of the more gutsy and useful things he's done.

Sadly, as evidenced by his own opportunistic use of black-isms he has not rejected it, only taken the easy way out of the Harry Reid problem.

So, Obama is still a lying weasel and race baiting creep. And ebonics is still the classic self-identifcation of ignorance, miseducation, and over identification with failure.

[Gene Eric]

>> Article: “... that they weren’t damaged by the implication that they’re inferior ... because they speak differently from white massas ...”

This is the issue that I have with the comment - not the word ‘Negro’, but the discriminatory characteristic that the candidate does not speak in a particular dialect. In other words, as I interpret Reid’s comment, the candidate is more favorable because the candidate is not dark skinned, and sounds like an English speaking Caucasian.

I don’t believe Reid intended to invoke racism, but his remarks suggest that a percentage of Obama voters are racist as they would not have voted for Obama if he were dark skinned and spoke in ‘Negro dialect’.

Fortunately, all those who did not vote for Obama, according to Reid, are not racists.

[orinoco]

After twenty years with his America hating pastor Wright, Obama thinks the pulpit speech style is so effective.

[facedown]

Please tell this is either satire or some joke someone remembers from third grade.

Nope. It's known as the Rochester Symphony Attack strategy.

alinsky rochester symphony

[MrB]

he was using the Negro dialect

but "only when he wants to"...

clever? deceptive?

[neverdem]

MUST READ! It's a detailed chronology.

The New Black Panthers and the White House

The more the Obama administration fights the subpoenas from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and denies congressmen’s requests for answers concerning the inexplicable dismissal of the voter-intimidation case in Philadelphia against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), the more reasonable people wonder what the administration has to hide. And so it is appropriate now to ask: What did the White House know and when did it know it?

--snip--

Because the DOJ by statute is supposed to enforce the commission’s subpoenas, and instead is actively thwarting them, the DOJ is caught in an outrageous conflict of interest that cries out for condemnation.

Why The Great And Growing Backlash? (Victor Davis Hanson On The Scott Brown Win Alert)

It’s the Enemy, Stupid - National-security strength lifts Scott Brown.

A clash of cultures or ideologies?-Wahhabism, founding of America were contemporary events.

Some noteworthy articles about politics, foreign or military affairs, IMHO, FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[LucyT]

Check out #11, and don't miss the article, "The New Black Panthers and the White House". It will jumpstart your afternoon, and keep you awake tonight.

[Thanks, neverdem.]

[Candor7]

Effig Fascists. America is not used to dealing with them We have grown far too "civilized" and noodley. That will change quickly once these "Panthers" swing into action. Holder and Obama are greasing the rails for Florida. Thats where the showdown will be, Black Panthers, SEIU, and 200 thousand Haitian new immigrants with a few Somali/Nigerian/Yemeni jihadists thrown in for fun.

Can we handle them? YEP! ( but we have to wake up first) Crist is about to damn himself to absolute political death.

[GOPJ]

The more the Obama administration fights the subpoenas from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and denies congressmen’s requests for answers concerning the inexplicable dismissal of the voter-intimidation case in Philadelphia against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), the more reasonable people wonder what the administration has to hide. And so it is appropriate now to ask: What did the White House know and when did it know it?

They are looking guilty... acting guilty... maybe - maybe they are...

[STE=Q]

Reid's comments were insulting to every "Negro" in America,

Every Negro?

Not really.

His comments only "insulted" those blacks that haven't mastered the English language.

The premise that he insulted ALL blacks is(to be kind)the epitome of condescension.

STE=Q

[STE=Q]

Reid's comments were insulting to every "Negro" in America,

Every Negro?

Not really.

His comments only "insulted" those blacks that haven't mastered the English language.

The premise that he insulted ALL blacks is(to be kind)the epitome of condescension.

STE=Q

[STE=Q]

What did the White House know and when did it know it?

Actually, I'd be more interested to find out what the New Black Panther Party knows that would inoculate them from prosecution?

STE=Q

[PGalt]

Good article; good post. Reid is a useful idiot for the divide & conquer meddling marxists, thus a pass for Harry POS Reid. The race-grievance collectivist wing needs to lynch someone not on the team for their teachable moments. The coalition of collectives can always trot out a not-too-delusional comrade to amplify causes for other collectives important in their grandiose scheme.

[BIGLOOK]

This ain't O-taay!