Showing posts with label Racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Racism. Show all posts

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Racism Accusation Reigns on O'Reilly

I usually find Bill O'Reilly entertaining, funny and sometimes thought provoking. However, as I've mentioned on this blog before, O'Reilly seldom has the wits to match his guests. He's no dummy, but he's also not as clever or as brilliant as the people he brings on.

The left, of course, is in the "You're Racist" mode, trying to sell the already-passed Health Care System Demolition Program to the American people with the idea that Health Care reform is great because anyone who opposes it is racist.

On Tuesday, O'Reilly had two guests on his program that played the race card effectively. Al Sharpton was invited by O'Reilly to respond to a Miami Herald opinion article which charged that the "Tea Party had an element of racism running through it." Sharpton defended the statement by playing semantic games with O'Reilly, and O'Reilly obviously never caught on.

Sharpton cleverly rephrased what the opinion writer said and told O'Reilly that there were, indeed, "elements of racism within the TEA Party movement," a phrase using similar language but which changed entirely the meaning of the author. He then argued that if even two or three people out of millions of TEA Party activists are even the least bit racist, then the TEA Party has "elements of racism" within it. After making this point, which O'Reilly had trouble arguing, he slipped back and forth between "elements of racism within" the movement and "an element of racism running through" the movement, which implies that the TEA Party has an inherent racist element in it's fabric and that every member must be, to some degree, racist to be associated with the party.

While I think Sharpton is un-American, a Marxist, and uses the cloak of religion for credibility, (while he, himself has no problems with lying to achieve his own ends), he's certainly no idiot, and has a great command of the language. He knew what he was doing. O'Reilly was no match.

In a later segment, Alan Combs appeared. Combs seems like a smart enough fellow, but seems to view his job as spouting whatever the democratic talking points for the week are. If Gibbs and Pelosi and Reed were to come out tomorrow and say that the sky is red, Combs would be telling us all exactly what shade of red the sky is and how racist it is to deny that the sky is red.

This week, of course, the talking points are that ObamaKare is Great because the TEA Party is racist. It's a theme, apparently. And in the segment, which was not about race at all, Combs started his argument stating that (essentially) anyone who opposed ObamaKare does so because they don't like having a black man in the White House. Monica Crowley, his "co-guest' (if there is such a thing) started to argue with Combs, but O'Reilly was insistent that Combs have his say, even though he pointed out there is no evidence to the contrary.

I find these things very offensive.

In fact, I'm going to make a statement that many will probably disagree with, but here goes: I think that making the accusation of "racist" to someone for whom there is no real evidence of racism, is as offensive as using the "n-" word.

There, I said it.

Watch for more accusations of racism over the next few months (and probably years) as the left continues to try to peddle the idea that voting against democrats is a racist move. They will continue to tout the "fairness" of their programs against the "racism" of the Republican ideas.

Frankly, I think it takes a twisted sense of morality to define "fairness" as taking stuff away from the person who has worked hard to get it, in order to give it to the person who has not worked for it.


... but then again, I'm racist.


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Friday, February 5, 2010

Racist Sign at NBC?



How do you suppose people would respond if the above sign were posted "in honor of Black History Month" in our schools, homes or place of business?

I don't know about you, but I can see where this sign MIGHT be considered racist.

This sign actually appeared yesterday in the cafeteria at NBC studios.

NBC.

The owners of MSNBC.

The leftist/socialist/enlightened NBC.

The ones who call everyone who disagrees with Obama a racist.

THAT NBC.

So is it racist or is it not? I can't say for sure, but the sign was actually created by a black cook at the cafeteria, who apparently wanted to do her part. In an interview, she seemed genuinely shocked that anyone would consider the sign offensive.

I don't know if it's racist or not, but I will say this .... that's a lot of food for $7.50.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

More Perspective on Reid's Racist Comments

These comments are a week or so old, but I just ran across it. (Yes, I'm behind in my reading.) Likely, some of you have already read them. In case you hadn't, it's an excerpt from a blog by Ann Coulter (who is seldom wrong on anything) and it puts a humorous, but painfully accurate twist on the revelation that Harry Reid made blatantly racist comments about Barack Obama while at the same time insulting the American electorate by accusing us all of being racist ....



As long as we're mulling the real meaning of Reid's words and not just gasping in awe at the sorts of things Democrats get away with saying, I think Reid owes America an apology for accusing the entire country of racism. A country, let us note, that just elected a manifestly unqualified, at least partially black man president.

On the other hand, Reid couldn't have been expecting Republicans to vote for a Democrat, so I gather Reid was accusing only Democratic voters of being racists.

I don't disagree with that, but I'd like to get it in writing.

I think the Democratic platform should include a statement that the Democrats will not vote for dark-skinned blacks with a Negro dialect. Check with Harry Reid on the precise wording, but something along the lines of "no one darker than Deepak Chopra."

The "whereas" clauses can include the Democrats' history of supporting slavery, segregation, racial preferences, George Wallace and Bull Connor -- and also a precis of their treatment of dark-skinned Clarence Thomas.

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Monday, November 23, 2009

The Girl Who Cried Racism

Apparently, it's RACISM DAY, here at "Handbasket." I found this little gem over at Spectator." I particularly like the title. A take on "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," it is easy to see how our society has become jaded to cries of racism that people don't even pay attention any more. This whole situation is an example of the racism is trivialized, making real issues of racism "back-burner" issues.



The Girl Who Cried Racism



Kennett, Missouri, is best known these days as the hometown of pop rock diva Sheryl Crow. Sheryl Crow and now Heather Ellis. The latter is no rock star, but she is a bona fide celebrity (or one famous for being famous). Ellis, 24, the celebrated Wal-Mart line-cutter, earned her 15-minutes of celebrity when she accused a Wal-Mart shopper, cashier, assistant store manager, security guard, and Kennett police officers of racism. By the second day of the trial -- which ended last Friday in a plea bargain -- it was clear from mainstream media coverage that pretty much the whole town of Kennett was racist.



The facts were these: Ellis, then a college student, was in line at the local Wal-Mart, when she decided her lane was moving too slowly. She then joined her cousin in a faster moving lane, cutting in front of a line of waiting customers. The customer she cut directly in front of, Teresa Kinder, objected, especially when Ellis repeatedly shoved Kinder's merchandise back down the conveyer belt. The assistant store manager and a security guard arrived and asked Ellis to leave. When she refused, police were called. Ellis was later placed under arrest, and charged with disturbing the peace, trespassing, resisting arrest, and felony assault of police officers.



Not surprisingly, there are two very different versions of what happened. Ellis and her aunt say she was pushed by Ms. Kinder and called racial slurs. They say police roughed her up, tore her jacket, and told her to "go back to the ghetto." Police, store management and witnesses, meanwhile, say that Ellis was belligerent, and that she kicked officer Albert Fisher in the shin and hit Sgt. Joe Stewart in the mouth, splitting his lip. Whatever the truth, it is obvious that a minor instance of rude behavior and bad manners escalated into a felony assault on a peace officer.



The mainstream media was quick to indict Kennett as a racist community. An ABC News headline read: "Heather Ellis Could Face Prison Time After Cutting the Line at Walmart." Not for assaulting police officers, mind you, but for "cutting the line." CNN's Randi Kaye went after the entire town of Kennett, accusing it of being "a community known for racial tension." CNN showed more bias when it suggestively referred to Kennett's "predominantly white police department." (In fact, Kennett has two minority cops, which accurately reflects the percentage of minorities in the town.) Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Christian Leadership Conference noted that the town's police have been accused of racial profiling minority drivers, a charge that has been leveled, one time or another, at just about every American city and town with minorities.



Needless to say, racial tensions exploded after Ellis made her accusations. White supremacist groups began slithering into town to spread their hateful propaganda, while big name minority activists flew in from New York and Washington DC, to further heighten tensions. Ms. Ellis's father, a local Baptist preacher, called the trial a "big, racial discrimination cover-up," which seems an odd comment since trials are supposed to promote justice, not cover up the truth. (Perhaps the state judicial system is racist too?) Ellis and her various coalitions and supporters quickly hired the top criminal lawyers in St. Louis: Scott Rosenblum and T.J. Hunsaker. When asked by reporters to comment on the charge of racism, Rosenblum would say only: "I'm not going to go there."



The fact that Rosenblum and Hunsaker had to settle for a plea bargain suggests Ellis didn't have a prayer in beating the assault charge, regardless of the extenuating circumstances. In the end, Ellis was convicted of the lesser charges of resisting arrest and disturbing the peace. The plea bargain stipulates she must attend two hours of anger management class.



"MANNERS ARE OF MORE importance than laws," wrote Edmund Burke. "Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend." But good manners are today considered passé, a quaint and spurious remnant of our dark past. So many of today's young people simply do not care how their rude or anti-social behavior affects others. It is almost like no one else exists but himself or herself. I experience this form of anti-social behavior on a daily basis, whether it is the young hoodlums in the street outside my window playing loud and obscene music at 3 a.m. or young people talking loudly and obscenely on their cell phones during a movie. And you can see where they get it. I have attended theater productions where adults bring their toddlers and allow them to chat endlessly throughout the performance, no doubt finding this behavior "cute."



If our young are not taught good manners, they are well-schooled in resentment studies, during which they learn the various benefits of victimhood and the importance of political correctness. Good manners will never get anyone 15 minutes of fame, but bad manners and crying racism is almost guaranteed to buy you fifteen minutes and then some.



The tragedy is that by rushing to Ellis's defense, by excusing her actions, and by concocting blanket racism charges against an entire community, the "various coalitions" and civil rights groups have done great damage to the laudable goal of combating racial prejudice.



Perhaps now that the rock star has returned home to Louisiana, the Ellis-and-mainstream-media-created racial tensions will cool and Kennett, Missouri, can get back to being what it was: a normal southern town trying to deal with serious economic problems.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Seven African American Lawmakers Being Investigated

The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice Department hadn’t asked the committee to stand down.



Not a single white lawmaker is currently the subject of a full-scale ethics committee probe.



The ethics committee declined to respond to questions about the racial disparity, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus are wary of talking about it on the record. But privately, some black members are outraged — and see in the numbers a worrisome trend in the actions of ethics watchdogs on and off Capitol Hill.



The situation reminds me of an acquaintance of mine who has a boyfriend of "mixed race." The two of them were stopped because a headlight on their car was out. When the policeman walked up to the car, he smelled the distinctive odor of weed. He asked to search the car and found .... more weed. This acquaintance complained that the whole incident occurred because he boyfriend was black . . . a fact that the policeman probably did not know when he stopped them, because it was at night. Never mind that they were driving with a headlight out in a car where the boyfriend had recently smoked pot.



If the Congressional Black Caucus or any other group wants to read racism into these ethics complaints, I'm sure they will. Of course, the fact that will be lost is that if they don't want to have the ethics investigations, they could always ..... you know .... OBEY THE RULES.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

I Am A Racist; And Proud Of It


Am I a racist? I never thought so. But lately, those on the left have been redefining racism, just as they have been redefining our Constitution and American institutions. According to them, I guess I am now a racist. We cannot stop the radical and irresponsible charges of racism coming from the left, but we can dilute them.



If you objected to the TARP bailouts, you were not considered a racist. But if you object to the Stimulus bailouts, then you are a racist. What’s the difference? If you object to the government takeover of private banks, that qualifies you as a racist. And if you complain about the government takeover of the auto industry then you are certainly a racist.



You say you don’t want a Cap and Trade law that will kill the traditional energy industry and double your utility bills and costs of living? That earns you a racist badge. And now you want to object to government run healthcare? Well, under the new definition, you are not just a run-of-the-mill everyday racist, you are obviously a diehard racist.



Do you support or attend tea parties or participate in pro-constitutional rallies? You guessed it, you’re a racist, maybe even a Nazi according to some on the left! You probably have hoods and white sheets stored in your closet. Do you watch Fox News or listen to conservative talk radio? You might as well just admit it, you’re a hopeless racist.



If all this make me a racist, then I guess I’m a racist, and proud of it. The left has tried to redefine conservatism as “racism” but the facts don’t bear that out. The history of racism in America has predominately always been in the Democrat party, from the days of slavery right up to the present.



Rep. Joe Wilson correctly called Obama a liar when Obama was lying about "his" healthcare plan.



Obama actually doesn’t have a healthcare plan, but Congress has a number of discombobulated pieces of something they call a healthcare plan written by their special interest groups. Wilson was called a racist because he opposed these plans and called Obama on his lies. The left-wing fringe media (formerly mainstream media) tried to smear Wilson for a week until they had used up all of the hate rhetoric posted on the liberal blogs.



Instead of trying to be politically correct, let’s be honest for a change. People are naturally drawn to their own kind; it’s human nature and perfectly natural – unless you happen to be like Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. But she was the exception, not the norm.



People want to gather with other people with whom they share things in common – like ethnicity, culture, music, language, and personal history. This is natural. Whites do it. Blacks do it. Hispanics do it. Asians do it. There is nothing wrong with that. People have the right to discriminate in their lives, that is called freedom of choice. There are always going to be certain ethnic groups that individuals will favor or disfavor because that is human nature and a matter of personal choice.



The government cannot legislate human nature, although the left continues to try with political correctness and experiments in social engineering. When that doesn’t work they resort to smearing anyone who doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid. We see this tactic constantly from the left, but rarely from the right. Maybe that is because conservatives are not followers of Marx and Alinsky who taught these tactics and how to use them. Nor are they followers of Barack Obama and other community organizers who promote and capitalize on racism within the black communities.



Is ACORN a racist organization? ACORN is Obama and Obama is ACORN. When does ACORN ever reach out to white people except when it’s to help them set up a brothel with illegal, underage girls and avoid paying taxes on the income, or to register people to vote Democrat whether they are alive or dead?



So does that make Obama a racist? I don’t know. Is his close friend and pastor, Jeremiah Wright a racist for blaming everything that‘s wrong in the black community on whites? What I do know is that throughout his entire campaign, Obama’s words were directed at black people and unions, as well as low income whites who didn’t see through it, when he talked of hope and change, and redistribution of wealth. Blacks knew exactly what he was talking about but whites remained a little confused.



He blames the successful and productive whites for creating wealth through capitalism and thinks they should be punished for it. His policies are designed to benefit 3 groups of people: blacks, environmentalists, and unions, at the expense of those who have benefited from capitalism and their own hard work. You can put those in any order you see fit, but the one thing they all have in common is Marxist socialism.



What is racism? The dictionary defines it as: The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others; hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. Few in our society today hold these beliefs. We tend to judge people on the content of their character and accomplishments, not the color of their skin.



An expression of racism is when someone intentionally tries to hurt those of another race with hateful words or deeds that demean and belittle them because of their skin color and nothing more. These words and acts are extremely rare today and were primarily engaged in by the Ku Klux Klan, but you would never know it by listening to talking heads in the fringe media or the Democrat party. Racism now means any opposition to Obama and his Marxist policies, according to them.



Race is one of the main reasons that Obama was thrust into the White House by the Marxist machine that ran his campaign, so that any criticism of his policies could be painted as racism to shut up the opposition. Don‘t allow yourself to become a victim of this tactic. Don’t be fooled by it, and don’t be afraid of being called “racist.” You know if you are a racist or not, not the name callers.



Let’s just call every choice and preference we make in our lives “racism” and insist that we have the right to discriminate in who we like and who we don’t like – based on culture and character, not the skin color. The more commonplace “racism” becomes, the less it will be taken seriously. We all need to become immune to being called “racist” and throw it right back in the faces of those who would use this tactic for political advantage.



Most of us feel uneasy about Islamists living in America. Not because of how they look, but because of their culture and belief system which is incompatible with American laws and way of life. We all, to some extent, worry that Muslims gathering in Mosques in America may be involved with terrorist cells.



Does that mean that we are all racist against Muslims? If that is considered racist, then isn’t that “racism” justified by the deaths of 3000 of our citizens? Skin color aside, there are other reasons for disliking some people.



Muslims are free to practice their religion in America but there is a difference between religion and Islamic laws that have no place in America. I don’t care if you choose to worship in a Mosque, but leave your Islamic laws and culture in the Islamic country you came from and try to be an American.



Remember that we have God, the Constitution, and American history on our side when we defend our rights to freedom and liberty. That history includes the freeing of slaves and the Civil Rights Act. It also includes our 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression and our right to discriminate between what we like and what we don‘t like. We have grassroots protests from millions in the silent majority who have finally found their voices.



What does the left have on their side? They have unions and ACORN, and the criminal element in society. They have their dishonest smear tactics, their childish name calling, and their lies. They have the communist teachings of Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky. And they have the racism against whites that has been bred into the black communities by people like Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama, and groups like ACORN and Organizing For America.



Stand up for what you believe in and don’t let them intimidate you with their false accusations of racism. Hit back with your constitutional rights to discriminate in your personal life and make your own personal choices. After all, that is all the word “discriminate” really means. Let them know how absurd they really are for making claims of racism simply because you oppose socialism and communism along with the people who promote it.



If they want to label you a “racist” for being discriminating in your choices and political decisions, then wear that badge proudly. I know I do.

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Race To the Bottom



Last year Geraldine Ferraro called Barack Obama's race an advantage. "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she said to a California newspaper, the Daily Breeze. "He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." Now Jimmy Carter says his race is a disadvantage. Which is it?



Bill Clinton cast Obama's early primary success in the South as a Jesse Jackson-style fluke. Now the same liberals who defended Clinton against race-baiting charges attribute Obama's lack of success to racism in the South.



Carter says Americans don't think Obama is qualified to lead. So did Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries. So did her feminist supporters. Gloria Steinem said Obama enjoyed an unfair racial and gender advantage over Hillary: Black males, she noted acidly, got the vote before women. George McGovern agreed, saying "I have a feeling that in this country where we're at today in our thinking, it's going to be harder to elect a woman than to elect a black man."



Where was Carter then? Obama faced more racial discrimination during the Democratic primaries than he faces today. Conservative opposition to him these days is based on policy differences, as Obama himself acknowledges; liberal opposition to him during the primaries wasn't.



Many liberals agreed with his policies, but out of a kind of white liberal paternalism thought that he should wait his turn. Hillary at one point condescendingly implied that Obama could serve as her apprentice for eight years. And long before the "birthers," one of her chief advisers, Mark Penn, thought it preposterous that America would elect someone with Obama's foreign-sounding name and time spent in Indonesia.



If anybody saw Obama as an Affirmative Action president waiting to happen, it was the running mate of Jimmy Carter's vice president. If anybody is assuming the worst of a race reflexively, it is Jimmy Carter himself. And how is it that one of the most unsuccessful politicians of modern times could have such an acute understanding of the people's moods and preferences?



The left sees racism in conservative opposition to Obama's health care proposal even as they cast it as an identical replay to opposition under a white president, Bill Clinton. They have seen it all before, yet somehow it is new and racist.



But then, almost anything qualifies as racism in their eyes. Even that old opposition to Bill Clinton. Author Toni Morrison saw racism in his impeachment proceedings, which transformed Clinton into the "first black president."



In the left's "conversation about race," evidence is irrelevant. Conservatism is automatically equated with racism. Jimmy Carter's malicious and willful assertion would never be treated as front-page news otherwise. Nor would NAACP President Benjamin Jealous be able to say without any proof whatsoever to the Washington Post that an "ambiguous, uncommitted middle" of racists exist in the country, which the "Republican Party's far-right-wing contingent is definitely fighting hard for."



It says a lot about the twisted victimology of left-wing identity politics that the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons are more inclined to embrace Obama as a "black president" in his failures than in his successes. Recall that as Obama went from strength to strength in the Democratic primaries, Jackson was caught in an off-camera moment disparaging him as a sell-out upstart in the crudest terms imaginable, a comment that makes Joe Wilson's look tame. Now that Obama is failing they feel more comfortable with him.



The Democratic primaries pitted feminists against racialists and blacks of Jesse Jackson's generation against those of Obama's. The nation had largely moved beyond race. But the Democrats hadn't. They were still, as Ferraro revealed, "caught up in the concept."

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