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“What people don’t seem to realize, Mr Billy Jack, is that those of us who’ve felt the sting of racism can recognize it by its very timbre. White people seem to think they can hide their fear of the black man in subtle turns of phrase or situational metaphors. But what they don’t realize is that those of us who’ve studied America’s racist history are able to decode such timorous — or, to be generous, at times likely unconscious — formulations of racial bigotry.”* | |
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“True dat. Which is why I think it’s time we start collecting scalps and stringing these white devils up from the nearest tree. |
Was it someone here or on some other blog who said she likes to go around telling her lefty friends that she won’t be voting for Obama because he’s not black enough?
And then watches their heads explode.
That on wins the prize for best retort.
“White men’s greed runs a world in need” or something like that.
You know, Indians owned slaves. Black ones. Just saying…
Oh, Jeff, Lisa is so not going to like this.
They give out the super-secret racial decoder rings , to donors only, at all official Democratic party functions and fundraisers…
I mean, they gotta cover the cost if the rings for the party…
The hell with what they ultimately cost American society !
Oh, and you get one with each Ivy League Diploma…It’s included in the tuition…
That was me, dicentra.
I’m 1/4 Cherokee, can I play identity politics too..?
Oh, we’re not the victim group of the month, eh?
Is there a mailing list I can sign up for…Y’know, so I know what month my turn to hand-wring and whine is..?
But it’s quite possible you might have read it elsewhere, too. If I had the slightest lick of HTML skilz, I’d link back to one of my comments this week, but I don’t and, besides, that would be too self-referential/gauche.
Thou shalt not criticize the black man! It is always about racism. Can’t you people see that?
“Amen, Karen has gone off the deep end. Notice how she doesn’t respond to any conservative posters here with questions for her. She just panders to her fellow liberals. She wouldn’t know what balance and objectivity is if it hit her in the face. I don’t think she used to be this partisan..what happened KT.”
Posted by jimmyjamz | September 19, 2008 7:49 AM
“Jimmy: Happy to answer. What happened is that I saw this ad and the message hit me in the face. I’m old enough to have been covering politics when Jesse Helms ran his now-infamous “white hands” ad, and I was there for Willie Horton, and I covered House races in the South where people ran with slogans like, “He’s one of us.”[]”
Posted by Karen Tumulty, September 19, 2008 7:58 AM
Where’s the halo for the anointed one? Racist!
I’m listening…Jesse, where are you?
Huh.
Jesse’s still jaundiced, eh?
You ofay types just don’t get it – you’re guilty, guilty, guilty and the only way to atone for the collective sin of pallor is to vote the right way.
Kelly:
Please tell me I got your gender right. I was just guessing.
Oh, and congrats for a most awesome retort.
Please bear with me. My friend, who has several post graduate degrees and is a very bright spark, is of the Dem persuasion and forwarded to me the following email:
Now, it wouldn’t register with him that I wouldn’t be putting an X next to Baracky’s name come Nov. because
a) he’s a socialist and
b) I have never voted for a socialist in my life.
Has the country gone stupid, or what? What makes intelligent, rational people swallow this hogwash whole? I am at a loss.
Has the country gone stupid, or what? What makes intelligent, rational people swallow this hogwash whole? I am at a loss.
Because it confirms their political preferences, SW.
I was pushing the not black enough thing, too: Dolemite/Biden: Once you go black, you never go Barack.
But that was probably just in reaction to hearing it elsewhere.
Wrong gender, but thanks anyway.
“Comment by Jeff G. on 9/19 @ 2:02 pm #
I was pushing the not black enough thing, too: Dolemite/Biden: Once you go black, you never go Barack”
These folks agree:
Obama Event Interupted by “Blacks Against Obama” Protesters
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/6831
“So KT,
It is now RACIST to use a picture of a particular person if he happens to be black? PLEASE EXPLAIN, because obviously I am just not getting it.”
Posted by TigerLady | September 19, 2008 11:00 AM
“TL: Please see my explanation at my original post. I have been a political reporter long enough to have lived through Willie Horton, the Jesse Helms infamous “hands” ad and to have covered races in the South where people have used the slogan “one of us.” I know what this stuff looks like. In this case, the McCain campaign chose NOT to draw attention to the very real connections between Fannie Mae and the campaign (Jim Johnson and campaign contributions), and instead, focused on this one. If Raines had been included in an ad that mentioned the others, that would have been well within the bounds of fairness as well.”
Posted by karen tumulty | September 19, 2008 11:04 AM
I want to reply to my friend, and give his talkingpointsmemo email a jolly good fisking, but that would only alienate him, and make me frustrated. Maybe I should just let him wallow in his ignorance, and savour the schadenfreude when the Dems find out the country doesn’t like socialism either.
Silver Whistle, see this pub post.
Ace has it right, as often happens.
What we are seeing is the end of Harry Truman. After all, it would be hard to find a statement with a more obvious racial subtext than “The Buck Stops Here”.
Regards,
Ric
kathytumulty: “In this case, the McCain campaign chose NOT to draw attention to the very real connections between Fannie Mae and the campaign (Jim Johnson and campaign contributions), and instead, focused on this one. If Raines had been included in an ad that mentioned the others, that would have been well within the bounds of fairness as well.—
Seeing as Mr. Raines has advised Bambi on mortgage policy and presided over fraudulent accounting at FM, why shouldn’t he be hung around Bambi’s neck?
Cranky-d,
Wow, I’m not the only one! That makes me feel better, somehow. Although copy/pasting that might just sink our friendship. Cheers, mate. Time for a pint of something.
“Comment by Silver Whistle on 9/19 @ 1:58 pm #
Please bear with me. My friend, who has several post graduate degrees and is a very bright spark”
Obambaism mights one stupid. Passing off Obama spam as original thought is lazy.
mights=makes
I suppose I should be insulted that he thinks I’m such a maroon I might believe that pile of poop. This election cycle has made fools of plenty, it seems.
And here’s an ecard for that O thing
I’m pretty sure I’ve never received an email that persuaded me on an issue of such gravity as whom to vote for in a national election. Unless, of course, you count that time the nephew of the deposed president of the Holy Zimbabwean Province of Ghee persuaded me to send him three grand to help liberate his fortunate. My cut of which fortune, I hesitate to add at the risk of sounding smug, ought to be here any day now. Which is to say, nice knowing you. Suckers.
Fortune! DAMMIT!
Kelly:
D’oh! I’ll make a note of it. Because on the Internet, no one knows you’re an herbaceous woodland perennial.
As your leader, I encourage you to –from time to time and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you’re unconvinced a particular plan of action I’ve decided is the wisest, tell me so. But allow me to convince you. And I will promise you, right here and now, no subject will ever be taboo…except the one that was just under discussion. The price you pay for bringing up either my African or my American or my Hawaiian or my emphatically not Muslim heritage as a negative is, I collect your fuckin’ head. Just like this fucker here. Now if any of you sonsabitches got anything else to say, now’s the fuckin time.”
What you said my leader. Like you said it (as my leader). Orange cream-sickle, please.
O-rage creamsickle.
Two words: Hgwash. Funnel.
Oh, flying FUCK!
Hogwash. Funnnel.
Fuck.
Gotta ask Jeff, is Raines the new Willie Horton?
‘Cuz if so, crying “Racist” about the Willie Horton ads worked out really good for the Dem’s last time. Dukakis’s candidacy took a nose dive after the ads highlighted the recidivist rapist’s shenanigans while on parole.
Don’t the media gurus ever learn?
And if Raine’s ain’t the new Horton, then, well, the Left should make that argument. Strangely, they don’t.
How widely do you get to define what is “the question that was just under discussion?” Should I get a stainless steel collar right now?
urthshu, that’s awful.
And hilarious.
[…] Wow! I must say that I didn’t notice this! A strange end to a long week of race-baiting indeed. Indeed. Indeed. Indeed. Indeed. […]
Bonus NPR link for Happyfeet.
In addition to secret decoder rings, there are also private polls that tease out the racist, hillbilly that hides beneath the surface of racist Rethuglican Amerikkka.
God Damn Amerikkka!!!!
O! O! O! … spurt
Has anybody asked a certain Kleagle Hood what it thinks of the ad in question? Because it’s been around long enough to recognize this stuff, too.
Here’s a disconcerting thought: if Obama loses? Racism. If he wins and fails? Racism. If he wins and does a passable job? In spite of racism.
The only way it won’t be racism is if he gets everybody to vote for him ’cause he’s black.
Superman couldn’t fly around the world fast enough to reverse that irony.
Um, Mr. Obama? What’s up with that $150 million that went down the shitter in that Annenberg thing?
Just asking.
Love,
thor
Sorry, I know I have the attention span of a gnat and am easily distracted by shiny objects, being a GOP woman and all, but WTF is up with that ridiculous “Mr. Dreamy” BHO portrait? Eeeeewwwww!
Shameless self-promotion here: Eagle Prints
All proceeds go to paying for our weekly countermarch in Studio City: printing, banners, signs, flags, gas, etc.
Shhh…don’t be tellin’ thm MSM types, but O! ain’t black!
pass it around to your peeps on the down-low though