NQ First Responders: UK on Racist America, Joe Klein on Racist America, and Michael Wolff on Racist America plus a Chappelle’s Show classic (VIDEO)
By LisaB on September 18, 2009 at 12:01 PM in Current Affairs
1) The Telegraph (UK) takes a look at “racist America” and isn’t so sure the label sticks.
But wait a minute. Mr Obama convincingly prevailed over John McCain in last November’s election, an event that many American liberals argued could never happen in “racist” America. He has, moreover, not been shot by a redneck, giving the lie to an almost routine pre-election assertion in Europe that a black man could never be elected President, and if he was, he would be assassinated.
The election was a little over 10 months ago. Has America really turned around and stumbled back into the sulphurous swamps of racial hatred?The short answer is no. Mr Obama is becoming a much less popular figure than he was when he entered office, partly because of the usual laws of political gravity, but also because of the unrealistic expectations he encouraged and the number of mistakes he has made.
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Similarly, Mr Obama has been anxious to avoid being boxed into the category of “first black president”. But he foolishly waded into a controversy over the arrest of a black Harvard professor by a white policeman, trying to score an easy political point by criticising the seemingly blameless officer.More seriously, Mr Obama is the leader of a Democratic party that is now coming dangerously close to proclaiming that any fervent opposition to him must spring from a racist impulse.
So, it’s not just the racists in the US who see this for what it is. Thank heaven.
2) Joe Klein at Time tries to redefine racism, since the old definition doesn’t seem to get what he wants.
First of all, I tried to make it clear that I wasn’t talking about classic white-black racism, though elements of that are present, to be sure. My sense of the teabaggers is more complicated: they are primarily working-class, largely rural and elderly white people. They are freaked by the economy. They are also freaked by the government spending–TARP, the stimulus package etc.–that was necessary to avoid a financial collapse. (I’m not sure Keynes is taught in very many American high schools.) But most of all, they are freaked by an amorphous feeling that they America they imagined they were living in–Sarah Palin’s fantasy America–is a different place now, changing for the worse, overrun by furriners of all sorts: Latinos, South Asians, East Asians, homosexuals…to say nothing of liberated, uppity blacks.
In that sense, Barack Obama is the apotheosis of all they fear. He is a child of what used to be called miscegenation–a mixed marriage. His father was a Muslim, his mother was sort of a hippy. She raised him in Hawaii, which is just barely American and in Indonesia (which is very suspicious).
Dadgum. Could the guy be more condescending? How could Joe Klein of Time magazine have the slightest idea what “freaks” a rural, elderly working-class low-melanin person? Generalizing much?
Maybe he thinks he’ll scare people by using such words as “apotheosis” and “miscegenation.” Certainly this little piece is full of slurs, suggesting these people are nearly too stupid to live and they see high school as the apotheosis of education. And Hawaii is a scary place. All those evil tiki idols (I saw that on The Brady Bunch).
Racist, ageist, classist Tool.
3) Over at Newser, Michael Wolff says that the problem is really semantic. You just need to use something other than the “r-word” to label somebody who disagrees with you.
Since all those racist people clearly aren’t Bull Connor reincarnated, perhaps a better word would suffice to describe them, with the added benefit of not having to defend use of “racist” to describe nearly everyone you know.
Has anyone, besides the self-aggrandizing loony fringe, ever actually admitted to being a racist? Nobody ever says, black people are so inferior (or when they are effectively saying this, they have a baroque rationale). Or, ohmygod, you’re right, it hadn’t occurred to me, I must be a racist. (At least when you accuse someone of being an anti-Semite, you can sometimes sense on their part a moment of self-doubt. Am I?)
When you accuse some of being a racist, they stare you down. You’ve gone over the line. You’re too crude—or else you’re a paranoid fantasist.
How dare Wolff assume someone might not appreciate being called a racist? All racists should know what they are and meekly accept the label - even if it’s news to them. Of course, since it’s likely to be news to the individual racist that s/he is one, Wolff kindly offers a “definition” on his terms.
Racism now is less about virulent intolerance than lingering suspicion and discomfort. It’s existential more than atavistic. We’re talking about some pretty primal sense of competition, about fear of change, and fear of the future, and everybody’s own vast disappointments and unhappiness, which are somehow not helped by there being important black people.
It is one of the singular perceptions of the Obama people that there was no political value in the notion of racism and that, in fact, the imputation tended to unify racists in their insistence that they are not racists. Accordingly, the White House is acting very cool about Jimmy Carter’s weighing in on the subject—and even rolling their eyes.
“Singular perceptions.” Yeah, singular all right. And no, I don’t agree. But this idea of racism not knowing it’s racism has been discussed before.
Last October, one of WaPo’s best wrote a column saying that BO’s defeat in the November election would be only due to “unconscious racism” among whites. So, that meant ANYONE could be racist. I covered that one for NQ in “Who Are the Racists and How Do You Know?”
Here’s WaPo:
If Obama loses, I personally will feel disappointed, frustrated, hurt. I’ll conclude that a fabulous opportunity has been lost. I’ll believe that American voters have made a huge mistake. And I’ll think that an important ingredient of their error is racial prejudice — not the hateful, snarling, open bigotry that terrorized my parents in their youth, but rather a vague, sophisticated, low-key prejudice that is chameleonlike in its ability to adapt to new surroundings and to hide even from those firmly in its grip.
I said:
So a racist doesn’t even have to know he’s a racist? He can hide it from himself and unconsciously come up with fake reasons not to vote for Obama? So anyone not voting for Obama will have to spend the rest of whatever time is devoted to hashing out this part of American history trying to prove a negative.
———-Saying racism is the ONLY reason Obama might not win assumes both that Obama is completely unassailable as a candidate and that a majority of whites are unassailably racist in their hearts. Neither is true.
———-Saying a national election can be lost due to (white) racism indicts a majority of that population before any vote is cast, particularly since no one can legitimately point to exactly WHICH whites would be responsible. So, they’re all potentially guilty. That’s simply prejudice.
Well, it’s still prejudice, no matter how carefully you label it and no matter how carefully you select the population you dislike.
4) Since we’ve all been talking about race in the last few days, I thought I’d post one of my favorite bits from the sadly defunct Chappelle’s Show. The classic Racial Draft. Note: NSFW - language and NOT PC.
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Is the netroot’s beloved Howard Dean a racist for slamming the Obama-Baucus bill?
This is the anti-abortion anti-immigrant pro-lobbyist crap Obama used the netroots to spy on Americans for.
Ka nee che wa, bitches!
Lisa,
That was the icing on the cake. A tasty treat.
Well done, LisaB. Brava.
These condescending tools really have no idea what they are talking about, merely holding forth to their frields in some swank inside-the-Beltway bistro. They have no clue what people are upset about. Klein and the rest remind me of an acquaintance of mine who worshipped at the foot of Obama’s HOPE poster and never saw beyond the pabulum and media branding — she bought his rhetoric hook, line and sinker and didn’t bother to do any research whatsoever into his real record.
She was shocked! Shocked! that there were those among us who could reject him. Naturally she came to the same idiotic and factually bereft conclusion that these pundits have.
Thanks!
seriously ironic (don’t cha think?)
LOL what ever happened to Dave? His impersonations are a total HOOT!
He quit his own show. Never really understood why.
Great compilation! Thank you! The Chappelle bit was hilarious! leave it to the Brits to get it right again.
So are we to assume that a racist can be, oh, I don’t know,…anyone at any time? The term has been declassified into a word with no meaning at all.
A big thanks to all the pundits.
The “racist” tag is the new McCarthyism.
The UK? HA! At least we have a WRITTEN and historic Constitution! What do they have? A handshake?
No, they have British Common Law. Based on the Magna Carta and historical rulings. Is it perfect? No.
We had a Constitution and slavery at the same time. Does that mean the Constitution is worthless? Of course not.
Of course, what that has to do with this subject puzzles me.
Disgusted and Candyman…
First the are huge differences between the two documents. One is a written document and the other is a series of laws, orginally to favor the rich and powerful. Yes our Founding Fathers based our Constitution and Bill of Rights on parts of the Magna Carta but if you think that they are both equals in protections and formation of the governments, think again.
And two, The UK? What the heck does the Telegraph know about racism in America? The paper should focus on its own racial problems rather comment on another Countries. Is America racist? That answer depends on where you live for the most part. Try answering that question living in States like Mississippi these days. And yes its a twin edged blade…
Our Founding Fathers based our Constitution from the Magna Carta. Before you comment you had better get a little history lesson!
Our Constitution was written during the Enlightenment. Many, many ideas came together to form the thinking of the people who wrote our Constitution. We do owe a gratitude to England, which gave us the Magna Carta.
But there were many, many theologians and philosophers who papve the way for us.
And last, let’s not also forget the Iriquoise League. I’ve read much to suggest we owe quite a bit to these non-Europeans.
Just for clarification, the above “Just Me” poster is not the Just Me that frequently posts on here, and apparently not the regular poster JustMe~~, with wings.
You will never see this Just Me (myself) making smart azz remarks, nor trying to agitate.
As to the post topic, Lisa, you did an excellent job.
The Obama campaign, and their lapdogs, introduced racism into the primaries, based on a long planned script. They used it successfully, to the amazement, and consternation, of all of us that knew, and know, what true racism is.
Now that tired, false, illogical meme is all they have, and they become more desperate each day. Hence, the psycho-babble efforts toward redefining the meaning.
Incompetence, perniciousness, and deception know no color, race, creed, religion, nor ethnicity. First Bush, now Obama, is ample proof of that. You could paint either of them blue, green, whatever, and you would still have the underlying character flaws. Racism plays no part in the over-all scenario.
Flawed is flawed, and failure is failure.
First of all this “Just Me” not the ~Just Me~is being a smart jazz mainly because of the hypocrisy of many of the political (not the intelligence or terrorism)postings here. Its really a hoot to look at some of the posters and their postings now and what they posted all during the election cycle.
Its easy to be critical and sit anonymously behind a moniker and post on blogs rather that get into the arena and try and make a difference, (and yes I have been their)
So remember Teddy Roosevelt…..
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
And I give Obama and other Presidents credit for even trying….
LisaB:
Great piece! I love your Brady Bunch tiki line.
Cracked me up.
Outstanding post, LisaB - thank you so much. I love how you have pulled together these different reports.
Oh, and note to Klein - that whole “teabagging” insult? Just a TAD homophobic. But that’s okay, right, as long as it’s not racist?
Well done!
Agreed, RRRA. I couldn’t believe he used the word teabagger. Has he been under a rock??
Joe Klein under a rock? You bethcha! I believe it’s his primary domicile.
Calling someone a racist no longer has the biting stinging reaction it once got. The over use of the word by pundits and the media calling people who disagree with the president has made it that way. The word “racist” now is just like calling someone an asshole. Two years ago, I would have been mortified if someone called me racist. Now, with the over use of the word, it doesn’t really mean anything to me, because I know I am not one. I just disagree with some of the things our president is trying to do. So big deal. I’m a racist.
It is incorrect to say that America has an African-American as head of state without somewhere indicating that the head of state is Black (Negroid race)(actually mixed or Mulatto) as opposed to being white (Afrikaans of Dutch/German origins).
Mulatto (from Spanish mulato – young mule)
–noun
1. the offspring of one white parent and one black parent. (Note: Obama is the offspring of one white and one black parent.)
2. a person whose ancestry is a mixture of Negro and Caucasian.
Read article:
Newsweek’s Kelley: Protests Against Obama Are Because He’s Black
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/09/19/newsweeks-kelley-protests-against-obama-are-because-hes-black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB6AsQmPtuU
THANK YOU, Anthony!
Thanks! Great video.
I laughed out loud when Charles said about Maureen Dowd that they had a term for people who heard unfinished sentences back in his other career–they called them patients!
Wasn’t that great?!!!
Krauthammer is a national treasure. While I’m sadly aware of his physical limitations, he could still kick Obama’s skinny butt in a debate.
Amy:
And the MSM keeps using that word over and over.
Why don’t they just call everyone blowjobbers or some other sexual term?
No matter what sex act it is, it’s low class to use it.
And they know it.
Absolutely, Tammy - you got that right. And they HAVE been told, so since they KEEP using it, I can only assume it’s to get some homophobia in there. Regardless, yes, it’s low class, and JUVENILE.
Btw, I wouldn’t give them even more ideas! No telling with what they’ll come up next…
Good points. BTW where is the GLBT community on this?
Under the bus since any action on DADT or DOMA was swept under the carpet.
Well, I’m here and I don’t like what they’re doing. It’s the playground equivalent of calling some kid you don’t like a “sissy.” It’s really pathetic that these mouthpieces get huge salaries to be unexacting, lying, juvenile, talking points mimics.
Unfortunately, the GLBT organizations sided with the Hollywood liberals and the leftist nationalists so they’re afraid to criticize Obama for fear of being labeled racists.
Okay, I don’t like what’s happened to the U. S. Crazy, I know, but I seriously liked living in a First World country where I wasn’t a prisoner of third world, ethnic street crime in every town and city in the country.
I guess I’m just too sensitive about stuff like child sex slaves, the corner drug dealer, welfare for robbers and burglars. I probably haven’t listened to enough Rap music to get myself acculturated to the new America.
well, you better get up to speed in a hurry, tek; wrong is now right, and we’re all going to just have to like it (if the Obots have their way).
“He has been discriminated in his time, received death threats and is dating a white woman…sounds like a black guy to me..” LOL
After reading the second abd third items, I have to wonder: is LisaB collecting material for a new book that would be called something like “Too Stupid to Live - American Mainstream Media in the 21st Century”?
“and”, not “abd”. Obviously.
jwjr,
I don’t have time enough in my life to do a book like that.
There does seem to be a lot of material that would have to be included in it.
A coffee table book that would break the table.
Just a heads up LisaB….the links to the articles aren’t working.
Thanks Karma,
I’ve fixed them all. Silly mistake. My bad.
Links go wonky all the time….no need to apologize.
It is one of the things I love about NQ authors, all the articles that you source and dissect with both humor and logic.
And the links to past NQ articles in current ones helped me catch up to speed on past research when I first got here.
Love all of it.
Thank you.
Hey, “Post Mortem Media.” Lets go down memory lane and see who the racist is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI77cU3jsFs&feature=player_embedded
Great post!
Loved the Chappelle video!
And I probably won’t be listening to any…ever. Someone has to appreciate Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, Dylan, Lenon/McCartney. I’ll pass on the slug culture and low language.
Joe Klein is so full of crap.
Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat, Joe Klein could be the Skinbag of Scat. Although,…… I’m so self amused by my new insulting appelation (inspired by you oowawa of course) that I may wish to reserve it for a more influential individual, and simply fall back on an oldie goldie for Klein, ……Shithead.
So, what exactly is Wolff trying to say with the Anti-Semite remark? That we’re okay with that, will consciously query ourselves on that one [maybe even showing our discomfort], but are deluding ourselves about racism by not withering with all the race-baiting or the elite press insisting that racism is at the heart of any or all political dissent.
That whole section is lame. And btw, I’d be insulted and would stare anyone down who called me an Anti-Semite.
These people just do not get it. Call me a racist a thousand times and yes, I will ignore you. But please, spare us the psycho-babble about unconscious, latent racism in the heart of anyone who thinks Obama’s policies stink.
And Klein? What a bunch of BS. I guess this is why these guys are so loathe to do any reporting. It’s so much easier to sit at your keyboard and create condescending nonsense [which very few people read--Hello?].
I think the US press is stretching to come up with a reasons that “their” choice, Obama, is not scoring homeruns with the public. Of course, had they done their jobs to begin with we wouldn’t be here. And neither would Barack Obama.
Give the Brits a thumbs up.
Peggy Sue, I continue to wonder what makes your posts so appetizing to the Almighty Spam Filter. Go figure.
Michael Wolff’s remarks are laughable:
Yes, I have to confess that I have experienced some “lingering suspicion and discomfort” lately. I don’t trust politicians or the MSM, and I confess that discomforts me. I’m a little puzzled to hear that this is “existential” more than it is “atavistic,” because I really cannot figure out what that means. I’m also confused as to how all this applies to “racism,” because this “suspicion” and “discomfort” applies to pretty much all politicians and the MSM, and not just Thee One, who, though I will concede is of a tan complexion, exudes so much radiance that he appears much brighter than most humans.
i think it means that ‘racism’ is always and has always been a part of people (presumably those who don’t agree with the author) rather than a recurrence of a heretofore thought extinct character flaw.
in other words, we is bad.
What is also bs, is Klein pointing to Indonesia as ’suspicious’.
Many people who actually would be suspicious of that country are suspicious of the govt and not the common man there.
It isn’t racism but the same concern over bad apples or an oppressive govt that they have with bad apples in our govt.
Paying attention to our govt is our civic duty it isn’t racism. And people around the world are the same.
The sooner these race baitors accept what most people already know, the better
should be….race ‘baiters’
Lisa, I had another spam gobble. Please retrieve if you can. I mistakenly hit the post button before saving.
Btw, great group of articles. Made me so mad I could spit nails! Thanks for putting them up.
Excellent, LisaB!
ROFL! I can’t decide who is funnier, Joe Klein or Dave Chappelle. Oh wait, Joe Klein is not a comedian…..
I had a former good friend recently ask me if my anger toward Obama could stem from the fact that maybe I was racist???? It stopped me in my tracks. I just looked at her for a second, and asked her - could the fact that you like him so much stem from the fact that you’re a child molester? Her mouth fell open! I said - that’s just as stupid as the statement that you just made to me.
Needless, to say, we no longer speak.
I couldn’t believe that a 40 year friend, now former, accused me of racism. It was beyond comprehension. I think he just wanted to fling any insult handy at me when I couldn’t go along to get along. Sadly to say, I had to bust him for his misogyny toward Hillary as well…come to think of it, maybe that was the trigger.
Martha:
Good riddance to the slimy woman-hater.
So sorry you friendship suffered for that unworthy one. May I just ask that, if your friendship was valuable, that you give it some time and keep an open mind? Eventually your friend will realize what you already know to be true and will need a wise ear to help deal with the betrayal.
Now if this friend is too stubborn to admit the error of judgment, then you’re better off without the frustration.
Steel Magnolia: My twenty-something niece just texted me from NY that she is at a Happy Hour and somebody said to her that anybody who opposes the current health care legislation is a racist and just doesn’t want a black man as President. She said she was speechless. I copied your post and sent it to her so she wouldn’t feel so alone (and would have a good comeback line…) Thanks!
Steel Magnolia, “that” was a most excellent response! Match the stupid query with one just as outrageous.
Like your style :0).
Btw, I had a really good friend ask me the same thing. I wasn’t quick enough on my feet. I just snapped back, “no.” But to be honest, I was deeply offended because this person has known me for years.
But your answer? Nips it right in the bud. And if it causes a fallout? Too damn bad.
Thanks for the witty comments on the racist round up LisaB. Very funny and love the clip too.
Good to know that the Brits still see things more clearly from across the pond than some of the clowns over here do.
And truly, a special thanks to Klein for filling us in on Hawaii. I would have never known without him.
Hawaii…LOL. A place famous for their hospitality is scary.
So I’ve been told I’m a racist so many times I decided to check. I closed my eyes and thought of the first word that popped into my head when I thought of Obama. I figured if the word was black, I was racist. But the word was stupid, followed by crook, so I think I’m ok.
Be careful, Lana: soon you’ll be labeled a “stupidist” or a “crookist” and a proponent of stupidism or crookism: anything you see when you imagine Obama will be off limits if it in any way undermines his Greatness.
It seems that any number of us have been called racists because we don’t care for The One. Thanks for this post, LisaB.
Here is my latest signature:
Signed, a moron raaaaaacist, troublemaker, evil monger yahoo astroturf stupid disruptive righwingnut hick kkk applicant.
Excuse me, Daisy, but that’s MY signature!
Oh, well, I’ll just add “woman” on the end of that signature and be hated even more.
Tammy,
I think I’ll copy your signature now and add “woman” to mine. Everyday this sig. gets longer. I was asked today if I’d been fitted for a KKK hood yet. But the person asking said she couldn’t decide between that and a burqa.
Signed, a moron raaaaaacist, troublemaker, evil monger yahoo astroturf stupid disruptive righwingnut hick kkk applicant woman.
Yep–I hear Dogpatch is full of folks like that–a-clingin’ to their guns and religion and suchlike.
Wolf bombs on Jeopardy….well that explains a lot of the coverage we’ve all been complaining about. The ‘journalists’ are too stupid to hold their own jobs.
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0909/wolf_bombs_on_jeopardy.html
LisaB–Great post. Thanks for your research, and great way to end it with the Chappelle Show video. That show had some good stuff!
(Wasn’t there one once where a white kid was raised by a Black family? I can’t remember the details–just remember thinking it was hilarious.
Don’t know about that but Chappelle did one with a Black KKK member. He was blind and didn’t know he was black. Neither did the other sheet-wearers.
It was funny too.
No, yours is the one I was thinking about. I had it backwards–and I really think it could go either way. The point was simply how race hatred is so stupid and often just a product of non-thinking acceptance of ideas handed down.
I do know that this was the first show he did and it got him on the wrong side of many AA leaders right away. Other shows also caused him to lose credit with the AA community because he often skewered some AA stereotypes (and, I think, the simplistic thinking of some liberals.)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d0d0fd4c-a47b-11de-92d4-00144feabdc0.html
Do you thing articles like this one make people think every one is racist.
If you are a senior no matter what race, gender,or religion this bill is worrisome. It has not been explained properly. Where will the cuts in medicare come from, how will if effect senior health care.
If you are a low income senior still raising a family as many are, due to drugs affecting some parents and grandparents having to raise children again how will it affect you.
This is not a color issue in any way shape or form.
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE, MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS, EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
Wow, what a surprise. Good for them, unity among the racists! woohoo!
Joe Klein, longtime Washington, D.C. and New York journalist:
Michael Wolff is “an American journalist, specializing in writing about the New York-based media. . . former columnist for New York magazine and currently is the media columnist for Vanity Fair magazine as well as a television commentator on CNBC”:
Barack Obama (you know where he’s from, kind of):
Now who really is prejudiced?
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Spammed, dagnabbit! Please retrieve my humble post. Thanks very much.
I’ve been called a “racist” so many times by friends and foe alike because of my opposition to Obama first during the dem. primaries (I liked Hillary better and feared Obama’s lack of experience and then known unsavory pals) that I no longer care what I’m called.
I’m no psychologist but Carl Jung, the great Swiss psychoanalyst, made some very astute observations about human nature. He observed that when we are unaware of our “shadow” we tend to project it onto others whether the shoe fits or not. I suspect that all those who cry “racism”, “teabaggers”, “gun-totin, bible-thumpin, small town hicks, etc., etc., ad nauseum” secretly or not so secretly harbor a lot of animosity towards lots of people because they are runnning away from a lot of denial in themselves.
As another famous observer of the human condition told his followers, maybe these name-calling pseudo-intellectual, pompous windbags need to “pull the planks out of their own eyes before they pull the specks” out of the “elderly, racist, tea-baggers.”
This is EXACTLY what I thought when I heard that Jimmy Carter called people who oppose Obama’s policies “racists.” Remember when he admitted to -what was it, Playboy? - that he had “lusted in his heart”? So - he had to admit his lusts to a magazine that thrives on lusts, as if he were trying to mitigate his own sins by admitting them to sinners. In this latest episode, he accuses others of a sin - racism - that he himself harbors, thus putting him in a larger universe of sinners, and mitigating his own guilt. Only problem is, I don’t accept the sin that Carter is imputing to me and I think he has a helluva lot of nerve dividing America just to solve his own psychological problems….
Well, at least Obambi is bringing out the inner psychologist in all of us….
Most white southerners of my generation have felt that the less said, the better, in regard to racism.
Apparently it is now open season on those of us who have spent a lifetime avoiding “perceived” slights!
I have had enough!
If the black members of Congress, who have made these outrageous statements in recent days, are the smartest people from their precincts, white people are NOT their problem!
roflmbo - omg good point!
woo a bit unsettling 2
America is a democratic country and not a dictatorship; people have different opinions and are allowed to express them. If it were Hillary trying to push her healthcare reform, bet you’re a** she would have received the same treatment… or maybe in this case anyone who opposes Hillary is a chauvinist? These people don’t want to pay higher taxes and believe in small government and are trying to stop what they think is wrong.
Did everyone forget the Bush years? The dissenters were even brutal, besides calling him a monkey, Hitler and Satan, people burned his effigies and the MSM lynched him. Some referred to Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom, because the idea of an African American who has different political views was inconceivable to them, who are the racist now?
The racists are those who don’t criticize Obama even when they know he’s wrong (he betrayed his own party on many issues). These are the people who treat him differently because he’s black, not the town hall crowd.
I saw a headline a couple of months ago on a major newspaper, it read: “Recession to blame for whites still in majority”