Racism Doesn’t Go Just One Way [UPDATE]

UPDATE: We’re with you, Dalton Hatfield, all of 11 years old, of Williamson, West Virginia. We are WITH you!

When Hatfield presented former President Bill Clinton with a check for $440 after Friday’s rally at the Williamson Fire Station, the man who was once the leader of the free world seemed to nearly come to tears.

“You sold your bike to get this?” Clinton asked the McAndrews, Ky. native.

The reply was “yes” and a whole lot more. … Read all.

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Unlike the Obama ostriches — in hiding from the West Virginia vote — Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and her volunteers are flooding West Virginia in anticipation of its Tuesday primary.

Barack chooses to IGNORE an estimated 1,816,856 residents, perhaps because only 3.49% of the population is black. And perhaps he thinks these kinds of voters are hopelessly ignorant and incapable of voting for him.

The Obamedia joins in — and ALWAYS (isn’t it amazing?) highlights some white voter who expresses views that the punditry and latte elite class can point at and mock. Here’s the latest from the Financial Times — these are paragraphs one and two of the FT’s top story today, “W Virginia keeps distance from Obama”:

Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.

“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.

WHAT A PATHETIC, PREJUDICED IGNORAMUS! WHAT A SMALL-TOWN HICK HE MUST BE!

The reporters no doubt chuckle about the millions of e-mails being circulated among white Christians throughout this nation — and I do mean MILLIONS of e-mails — that raise numerous questions about Obama’s true allegiances. Some of the e-mails contain factual errors but there are also many truthful statements in each of them, sufficient to warrant concern by any patriotic American who worries about handing the code for the “football” to this man.

It was thanks to my daughter’s observations, a couple months ago, that I began noticing how these effete reporters zeroed in on people who might make misrepresentations of Obama as the TYPICAL WHITE VOTERS against whom Obama must fight uphill in a desperate struggle against prejudice and racism.

It was the Sunday night that 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft, in a story on the Democratic race between Clinton and Obama, interviewed a white family which had been devastated by job losses and by serious health problems. But Kroft immediately went for the jugular against the white husband, who said he thought Obama was Muslim. Kroft righteously corrected him, and lectured the man that it wasn’t true. My daughter was appalled by Kroft’s behavior, given that the man was sobbing with grief over his inability to help his very ill wife, and that he was fighting his own health problems, yet was unable to find work, let alone health insurance.

In other words, my daughter observed, Kroft chose the self-righteous path of correcting the man’s suspicions about Obama instead of focusing mostly on the man’s nearly hopeless medical and financial problems, and his utterly broken spirit and his tear-drenched face.

Wherever they go, journalists seem able to find, and highlight, some white voter who claims Obama is Muslim. And they LOVE to write up such people, mocking them, denigrating their worries, essentially writing them off as racists.

And they thereby write off the millions of those “typical white voters” — no matter their own crises, their financial woes, their health plights.

As Truthteller wrote below, about the citizens of Kentucky:

“Typical white people” matter, even if Obama, Brazile and other Washington, DC, elites denigrate and dismiss them. Or perhaps Obama really does despise the “typical white people” of Kentucky. After all, he and his wife listened to the following again and again when they attended the “God Damn America” Church in inner city Chicago for a full twenty years: …

It’s early, and I need more coffee before I write more. But my two primary theses are these:

(1) These “typical white voters,” no matter what opinions they may have of Obama, are entitled to their views and are understandably wary of a candidate about whom they KNOW VERY LITTLE — and that is in good part because the effete media, with the exception of Fox News and a few other outlets, has not adequately explored this man’s shadowy past.

I.e., their suspicions (and what they’re saying really is more an expression of suspicions rather than hard-core beliefs) are not laughable until such time as they are comfortable with proof that the views are untrue.

As Larry Johnson so smartly pointed out last evening in “Some Questions Obama Refuses to Answer“:

The puff piece (some might call it an act of journalistic fellatio) on Barack Obama in the Sunday New York Times is but another reminder that most of the mainstream media have gone AWOL when it comes to getting Barack Obama to tell the truth about his past. …

“Typical white voters” read these puff pieces and see them for what they are: An elite press force-feeding a view of Obama on us that is SIMPLY NOT TRUE.

(2) These “typical white voters” are being further alienated against Obama by a press and a Democratic party that treats them — in knee-jerk fashion — as if it is THEY ONLY who are capable of racism.

NEWS FLASH: Racism is an attitude that ALL people are capable of having, why even — gasp — Barack Obama, his pastor, his fellow parishioners in particular.

NEWS FLASH: There is racist treatment against white people too.

NEWS FLASH: When the “typical white voters” of West Virginia and Kentucky hear, on the news, the vicious, racist words of Jeremiah Wright and Obama’s other spiritual advisers, they are ACTUALLY WISE to be suspicious of Obama’s true attitudes about white people and about his allegiances.

On April 13, 2008, the night of the CNN “Compassion Forum” — a phony and artificial event that betrayed any honest discussion of true compassion — I wrote a warning about what to expect:

During tonight’s forum, I wonder if Barack Obama will be asked about his highly controversial comments about small-town Pennsylvanians, and if he’ll be asked about his 20-year close association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright as well as his other spiritual mentors, including Rev. James Meeks, Rev. Otis Moss, and Father Michael Pfleger.

From Saturday’s Chicago Sun-Times, “Rev. Jeremiah Wright criticizes media at Eugene Pincham funeral“:

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While discussing “seven lessons the judge taught me,” Wright never mentioned church member Obama, who has rejected some of Wright’s comments, which included denunciations of America for its mistreatment of black people and claims that America’s promotion of terrorism abroad helped prompt the 9/11 attacks. But Wright did take the opportunity to bash some of the critics of his controversial statements, including Fox News personalities Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.

And while Wright made no mention of terrorism, he did revisit the topic of America’s mistreatment of blacks, saying America’s founding fathers “planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this republic,” and adding that Thomas Jefferson wrote, “ ‘God would punish America for the sin of slavery.’ I guess that makes Thomas Jefferson unpatriotic,” he said to the cheers of the congregation.

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Escalating into full-preaching mode, Wright thundered, “Fox News can’t understand that. [Bill] O’Reilly will never get that. Sean Hannity’s stupid fantasy will keep him forever stuck on stupid when it comes to comprehending how you can love a brother who does not believe what you believe. [Pincham’s] faith was a faith in a God who loved the whole world not just one country or one creed.”

At that point, congregants nearly drowned Wright out with a booming standing ovation.

Wright also referred to Fox News as “Fix News.” …

Well, well. It is, at best, politically expedient to pass off all blame on Fox News when, in fact, commentators for dozens of major media outlets and innumerable bloggers of all political stripes have objected strongly to Rev. Wright’s hateful, racist and inaccurate attacks on America and the American people. …

So, when “typical white people” hear that Rev. Wright received a “booming standing ovation” for his hate-filled speech, why should we NOT be suspicious? Why should we not be wary?

SADLY, the day before, there was a black preacher in Virginia who attempted to set the record straight and to let EVERYONE — INCLUDING TYPICAL WHITE PEOPLE — hear what an expression of TRUE compassion is.

But his event, despite his efforts to gain publicity through a nationally distributed press release, was largely ignored.

Had the “typical white voters” of Kentucky and West Virginia heard, and read, the words of this black preacher, they would have agreed entirely with him — and the color of his skin wouldn’t have mattered one bit to them.

You see, the truth is that probably 99% of “typical white people” are able to see past skin color.

All they simply want are 1) not to be ridiculed for their worries, 2) to be told the truth and 3) be reassured that the candidate is indeed a true American patriot.

Here is what I wrote about that Virginia black preacher’s efforts that night:

Here’s some detail on the protest yesterday by Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., of Norfolk, Virginia’s Exodus Faith Ministries who “like Wright also a former Marine and also African American will sound a very different note than has been heard from Wright’s sermons”:

Black Minister in Norfolk Area Declares ‘Unity & Patriotism’ Day as Counter-Balance to Jeremiah Wright’s Speech at Norfolk Church

Bishop Jackson Calls for Unity Based On Ideals & Patriotism – Not RACE

Sunday, April 13th, 11:30 Am – 1701 Park Ave. (Hoover Ave. Entrance), Chesapeake, VA. at Exodus Faith Ministries

Contact: Bishop Jackson, 866-573-0772, 757-546-7587

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Wright has been quoted as saying “God damn America”, accusing the Government of creating the AIDS virus to kill blacks, and calling the United States a white supremacist country.”

Says Bishop Jackson, “Last Friday I buried a young African American soldier who died from wounds suffered in Iraq”. “Before he went on that mission – his second voluntary tour – he told his mother he was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for his country. Seen in that light, Rev. Wright’s remarks are beneath contempt and denigrate the sacrifice of Sgt. Jevon K. Jordan and many other Americans, black, white and every other ethnic background.”

Bishop Jackson has begun a campaign to counter the remarks of Rev. Wright and those who defend him. He argues that Wright’s so called “black liberation theology” is not representative of what African American preachers are offering in pulpits around the country. “We preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, not hate your country, hate other people and avoid ‘middle class-ness’. The Anti-American, Anti-Israel, pro-Farrakhan message that Wright teaches is heretical to the Bible and Christianity. Christians are too busy teaching what God is doing for us to become obsessed with what real or imagined enemies are doing to us. God commands that we forgive.”

Bishop Jackson is an unapologetic patriot. …

An unapologetic patriot.

That is what these “typical white voters” want to know about their candidate.

That is why “typical white voters” are alarmed that Obama has refused to wear the flag pin.

That is why “typical white voters” were horrified when they saw the footage of Obama — unlike Hillary Clinton, Bill Richardson, John Edwards and the other Democratic candidates — refuse to put his hand over his heart during the playing of the national anthem.

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And with that in mind, let me remind you of the story that a very dear friend told me about what occurred at the King County Democratic convention last month, in the ridiculously P.C. liberal city of Seattle.

The delegates had to wait for a speaker to arrive — a speaker for Hillary Clinton. Most of them, a MOB of them, were there to vote for Obama.

The convention chair suggested activities to pass the time while they waited, more and more impatiently, for Hillary Clinton’s speaker to show up.

The convention chair suggested that the group rise and say the Pledge of Allegiance.

The mob of Obama supporters booed so loudly, says my dear friend, that they drowned out the chair’s comments trying to get them to calm down.

Yes, they BOOED THE SUGGESTION TO SAY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

Why should any truly patriotic American want anything to do with Obamabots who boo a simple suggestion that they pay homage to their own country?

Why?

And that is what the God-fearing, patriotic “typical white voters” of West Virginia and Kentucky sense about both Obama and his supporters: That they are NOT patriots. That they do NOT want this country, as it exists, to continue. That they do NOT share their values of loving this country which, despite its history, has done MORE for the rights of human beings than practically any country in the entire history of mankind.

NO ONE has been more critical of this country, at times, than I. At the “orange place,” I wrote diary after diary decrying the treatment of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, the practice of extraordinary rendition, the bombing of civilians, and on and on.

But never once — never — did I stop loving this country, and appreciating all that it has given to all of us.

After all, when my daughter was in the second grade in a Seattle public school, I asked the principal why the students didn’t say the Pledge of Allegiance each morning — as was always done when I was a child in another Washington state town — and as is REQUIRED by state law. The principal informed me that “we don’t do that at this school,” and that “this school” disagrees with U.S. policies, and therefore did not wish to recognize the country in a positive light.

So it is an act of conscience that does not permit me to support Barack Obama, his disappointed-in-America wife Michelle, and his AmeriKKKa-hating preacher Jeremiah Wright. EVER. Because I DO NOT TRUST what they would do with the power they would be given if Obama should become president.

If that man in West Virginia — who the Financial Times chose to mock today — feels wary about Obama — I join him proudly in his wariness. He may have a fact or two wrong about Obama, and he may not be able to articulate his wariness as well as he might, but he is CORRECT in worrying. I join him in worrying plenty about Obama.

As Larry Johnson has warned us, in article after article, there is plenty to worry about: His associations with racist preachers, his associations with slumlords, his associations with a criminal Iraqi billionaire, his associations with Hamas leaders, his associations with known and unrepentant terrorists like William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and on and on.

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Another consideration about West Virginia:

Also critical is that Democrats consider West Virginia a “swing state.” Bill Clinton won West Virginia “by large margins in 1992 and 1996″ but voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, with Bush winning “the state’s five electoral votes in 2004 by a margin of 13 percentage points with 56.1% of the vote.” The overwhelming factor there was that Bush’s campaign was able to convince West Virginians that John Kerry was too effete, too liberal, and too unpatriotic, partly through the Swift Boat strategy.