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TIME MAG- Racism is Fun? Why Rick Perry's flirtation with birtherism is racist
TIME ^ | 10-27-11 | Touré

Posted on 10/27/2011 9:01:27 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Earlier this week, Rick Perry said, “It’s fun to poke at [Obama] a little bit and say, “Hey, let’s see your grades and your birth certificate.”” And why shouldn’t he find birtherism fun?

Racism is supposed to be fun for white people who choose to engage in it. I mean, it’s gotta be fun to be powerful and dominant and flaunt white privilege. Right?

In a country where lynchings once doubled an occasion for barbeques — the strangling and perhaps burning of a Black body as the central performance act at a pleasant Southern picnic — why shouldn’t racism be fun for white people?

Birtherism is absolutely racism. It’s a clever, coded, politically-correct way to remind people Obama’s Black and untrustworthy and not one of us. It’s otherization: making him into an other makes him easier to demonize. For a candidate to say, “Obama’s Black, don’t vote for him,” would be too naked, impolite, and distasteful. But that same message is activated by the suggestion that he’s not like us because he’s not from this country.

See, racism seeks to put Blacks in a second-class position and to say we’re lesser than: lesser intelligence, value and/or humanity. We’re not one of the real Americans. Birtherism subtly says to the audience, “Obama’s not really one of us Americans. We can’t be sure he’s really from here. Is he a full-fledged American? We just can’t be certain.”

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Oh boy.. HERE WE GO AGAIN!! Another ignorant racer speaks!

WHY are idiots like taken seriously, by anybody?

1 posted on 10/27/2011 9:01:31 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

I’ve been to a lot of southern picnics. Not once have I seen a lynching. And by the way, there are plenty of “black” southern picnics. Great food!


2 posted on 10/27/2011 9:05:42 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Where is the OPPOSITION party? I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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Gov. Perry GOES UP with his speaking out about this.

AMERICANS WANT THE REAL BC or an impeachment
(or an arrest of Congress for THEIR misprision of felony).


3 posted on 10/27/2011 9:08:11 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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If Herman Cain calls Barrack HUSSEIN 0bamao’s ancestry into question, will they call him a racist, too?

Cain is a descendant of African slaves who pulled himself up by the bootstraps and became a successful business man, helping to create and KEEP jobs. A REAL American.

0bamao is the descendant of African slave-TRADERS, mentored by communists and anti-Americanists all his life, never worked a real job, and has put MILLIONS out of work with his stupid central-planning, time-proven-failure Marxist policies.

Who ya gonna trust?


4 posted on 10/27/2011 9:10:47 AM PDT by Westbrook
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Any critcism of Obama is by definition ‘racism’ according to dim bulb Toure’. Question his corrupt dealings with the likes of Rezko? Racist...Question his membership in Rev Wright’s church? Most definately racist!....Ask him about ‘that guy in the neighborhood, Bill Ayers? Racist again...Question the gov’t for spending $80k to buy Barry’s books? That’s racist!

Toure’ is just gearing up for the 2012 campaign, where the likes of him will be the protectors of the OBama, claiming any criticism of him is racist.

The NYSlimes is out today with another attack piece on Herman Cain. Barry and his minions have to destroy Cain or their whole 2012 strategy will blow up. They have already tried to play the race card on Cain and found it is not so easy to do. Cain is an authentic black man from the south who overcame real racism. Barry was raised in Hawaii and overseas in a much different environment than the average black person.


5 posted on 10/27/2011 9:11:07 AM PDT by milwguy
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Is he a full-fledged American? We just can’t be certain

Yeah, we can. He's not. Based not on his color, his birthplace, or his parentage. Based on his contempt and hatred for America, her people, and what they stand for.

6 posted on 10/27/2011 9:16:36 AM PDT by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man. Never trust anyone who hasn't been punched in the face)
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They wore the racism card out in 2008 and during Obamacare fight. It only reflects desperation back at Obama camp.

The eligibility issue sure hits a nerve, they want this squashed before election time.

7 posted on 10/27/2011 9:16:52 AM PDT by opentalk
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“Birtherism is absolutely racism.”

That statement is absolutely racism.

FU, chump. You jerks have burned me out. From now on, I don’t even care if people think I’m racist. FT.


8 posted on 10/27/2011 9:17:14 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: tcrlaf

I saw this guy on MSNBC several times. He NEVER talks about anything without injecting racism into it. This guy is another elite trying to incite. He doesnt seem to understand that the white people presently in the U.S. do not own slaves, neither did our parents or grand parents. The question is, why have they worked so hard to keep this issue alive 150 years after it was resolved? What peoples have been enslaved at some point in history by another people? Pretty much all of them. What previously enslaved peoples have moved on? All but one.


9 posted on 10/27/2011 9:17:14 AM PDT by marstegreg
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This article may be the definition of `fatuous’ and embarrassing, even to lefties, in its shameless kowtowing to liberal cant, but take it easy on the guy—he can’t seem to hold a job and can only afford one name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour%C3%A9


10 posted on 10/27/2011 9:19:00 AM PDT by tumblindice (Don't tread on me)
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Time once again illustrates why its circulation is shrinking.


11 posted on 10/27/2011 9:22:24 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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He doesnt seem to understand that the white people presently in the U.S. do not own slaves, neither did our parents or grand parents.

Or great grandparents or great-great grandparents. It's been 150 years right?
12 posted on 10/27/2011 9:23:50 AM PDT by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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WHY are idiots like taken seriously, by anybody?
 
They're not. They are as common as the boy who cried wolf. Daily we are saturated with these racists calling ANYONE who disagrees with Obama a racist.
 
I say - let them alone. They are useful idiots doing themselves more harm than good.

13 posted on 10/27/2011 9:24:27 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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One of my favorite local colimnists wrote this recently.
 

 False racism charges reach ridiculous level


14 posted on 10/27/2011 9:27:01 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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“In a country where lynchings once doubled an occasion for barbeques — the strangling and perhaps burning of a Black body as the central performance act at a pleasant Southern picnic — why shouldn’t racism be fun for white people?”

Do you have any idea how many white people were lynched? Of course you don’t, you ignorant, racist, bigoted moron.

Funny, isn’t it: when ranchers catch rustlers and string them up from the nearest tree, that’s the romantic Old West.

The difference, of course, is that every black ever lynched was completely innocent of everything. Saints, every last one of them.

The white people who were lynched, though, were demons: guilty, guilty, guilty.

This article is blood libel.


15 posted on 10/27/2011 9:29:21 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: tcrlaf

“In a country where lynchings once doubled an occasion for barbeques — the strangling and perhaps burning of a Black body as the central performance act at a pleasant Southern picnic — why shouldn’t racism be fun for white people?”

Do you have any idea how many white people were lynched? Of course you don’t, you ignorant, racist, bigoted moron.

Funny, isn’t it: when ranchers catch rustlers and string them up from the nearest tree, that’s the romantic Old West.

The difference, of course, is that every black ever lynched was completely innocent of everything. Saints, every last one of them.

The white people who were lynched, though, were demons: guilty, guilty, guilty.

This article is blood libel.


16 posted on 10/27/2011 9:29:56 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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“WHY are idiots like taken seriously, by anybody?”

Hey, it worked for (previously unknown) song-shouter Kanye West!
Not to go off-subject but as a matter of morals—like our immigration policy (`salutary negelct’)—Toure is an example of what happens when you reward bad behavior.

He should be spanked and sent to bed without his tofu and bean sprouts, but instead he will be invited to cocktail parties where he will expound upon his courage in holding opinions which are shared by every other person in the room.


17 posted on 10/27/2011 9:38:35 AM PDT by tumblindice (Don't tread on me)
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the strangling and perhaps burning of a Black body as the central performance act at a pleasant Southern picnic ...

The word "bigot" is too gentle for the pseudo-journalist that wrote this bit of dreck.

18 posted on 10/27/2011 9:46:35 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (I'm an AmeriCain!)
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In a country where lynchings once doubled an occasion for barbeques — the strangling and perhaps burning of a Black body as the central performance act at a pleasant Southern picnic — why shouldn’t racism be fun for white people?

I bet this moron couldn't back this statement up with even one single historical example. Can a country sue a guy for libel?
19 posted on 10/27/2011 9:50:08 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: tcrlaf

Having a white man run against a black President is racist. Yes, Mr Cain is black but he is not “authentically black” according to the left-O-meter (runs on magic unicorn farts)


20 posted on 10/27/2011 9:52:02 AM PDT by Leep
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