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I'm old enough to remember when only black people called black people "Uncle Tom." Democrats, however, long expanded the category of who can play the race card and on whom. Call them equal opportunity race-card players.
As with black race-card hustlers -- say the Revs. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or any given host on MSNB-Hee-Haw -- white race-card players label others “racist” for the crime of disagreement. As with black race-card hustlers, white race-card hustlers need not name names. And, as with black race-card hustlers, the mainscream media will not bother to ask the white race-card hustler to identify said racists.
Here are some recent examples:
Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y.: When asked if his Republican colleagues were racist, Israel responded, "Not all of them, no. Of course not. But to a significant extent, the Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism." “Not all” implies one or more are “animated by racism.” He never bothered to name names, let alone what “animated” the racist(s). The host did not ask.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.: The soon-to-retire senator says that given “the ease of the fact that I’m not running again,” he can now speak out about the number of Republicans who oppose Obama because of his race: "It's an American characteristic that you don't do anything which displeases the voters, because you always have to get reelected here. I understand part of it. It has to do with -- for some, it's just we don't want anything good to happen under this president, because he's the wrong color."
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, D: He recently said that “a big reason” he switched parties was because of the way “some” people in his former party -- Republican -- treated Obama: “I couldn’t be consistent with myself and my core beliefs, and stay with a party that was so unfriendly toward the African-American president.”
Feminist attorney Gloria Allred, Democrat: After the election of George W. Bush, Colin Powell and Condi Rice were considered likely to join the new administration. Allred, on her radio show, referred to them (without using their names) as “Uncle Tom types.”
As you can see, Democratic Party blacks -- and whites -- can and do charge Republicans with hating children, gays, sick people and the elderly. But mostly, they say Republicans hate blacks -- except they don’t ID the haters.
The Republicans-hate-blacks narrative remains crucial to maintaining the monolithic 95 percent Democratic black vote, without which the Democratic Party cannot succeed. Economist Thomas Sowell writes, “If Republicans can get just a fourth or a fifth of the black vote nationwide, that can shift the balance of power decisively in their favor.” As recently as 1956, nearly 39 percent of blacks voted Republican in the presidential election.
Thus, Democrats must routinely characterize the Republican Party as "racist," no matter how vague, absurd or outlandish the charge. The Obama-loving/leftist media/academia/Hollywood crowd cannot brag during this off-year election cycle about economic growth. So look for more diversions like “income inequality,” climate change and the battle against the “racist” obstructionists across the aisle.
Sigh.
The next time a Democrat speaks darkly about these anonymous “racists,” ask this question: Don’t Israel and Rockefeller, currently in office, have a duty to “out” these racists? Why allow these bigots to remain in government? Doesn’t Crist, running as a Democrat for his old job, have a moral obligation to identify and help remove these elected racists? Aren’t these “racists” -- whose IDs are being protected -- detrimental to the interests of the nation and in violation of their oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution? Doesn’t the lawmakers’ oath mean protecting and defending the rights of all constituents irrespective of race -- and outing those who refuse to do so?
Why protect the racist(s)? Why conceal their identities? Out the SOBs!
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I'm so tired of liberals...in media, celebrity or politicians...being able to smear the entire GOP, or conservatives with this
ReplyDeletebrush. They are NEVER asked to be specific abut either names or incidents. When pressed, they fall back on talking points
and vague urban legends. Think all the way back to the "spitting on black congressmen" claim. If it's a story that portrays conservative whites as racist, it is automatically believed. Actual recorded or video proof of a liberal being racist, however, is dismissed and shrugged off.