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Title: Drowning Out The Hate Hustlers: Sarah Palin And Glenn Beck Cannot Steal America's Soul
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NY DAILY
URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions ... ing_out_the_hate_hustlers.html
Published: Aug 30, 2010
Author: Stanley Crouch
Post Date: 2010-08-30 12:57:09 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 20068
Comments: 12
Now that irresponsible opportunists have brought many of the misled to Washington, we can begin to contemplate what makes bigotry so appealing. Surely, being able to exclude is one of the great joys of the species because it can give a grand identity to the average person.
That identity as one of the elect made the red glow in Southern white necks. They felt part of a civilization in which they were looked down upon until they put on their costumes, screamed loudly at mob gatherings and committed acts of violence.
While bigotry is as American as apple pie, its shelf life is now rather short. The easily dismissed lies that Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich have used to fire up the true believers will not work. After race-baiting as clearly as they could on the issue of a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero, all of them have attempted to "clarify" what they actually meant.
The reason that opportunists from the right have had to tread carefully is that nobody today desires to be called a racist. And so they've reframed their Islamophobia as an issue of constitutional rights. This is a variation on the purportedly genteel Southern racists who claimed that the real issue during the civil rights movement was not ethnic exclusion, but the rights of states.
That was a ball of dung big enough to play soccer with. It was Ron Paul who surprised everyone on the left with an actual understanding of the Constitution - and support for the Islamic center. American politics is not about whether someone likes the rights that document ensures. Liking has nothing to do with the basic laws of our social contract.
To live and let live under the rule of law underlies our national identity, as Paul pointed out in a statement that sunk many Republicans in a pool of wack.
The real issue then, cry the race hustlers, is not the constitutional right to build the Islamic center. It's about sensitivity to the 9/11 families. Yet reason always separates itself from the emotions of the moment. That is why the Constitution remains a universal model for the highest social ideals.
The majority of Americans know what the likes of Beck and Palin are really about, no matter how loudly they ring out their message from the propaganda fount we call Fox News. Being seen as a moose-hunting career woman with spunk - or a passionate commentator who loves America so much that he routinely breaks down and cries on air - will only persuade like-minded bigots. These bottom feeders have swum as low as they can. The pressure of deep water will crush them sooner or later.
In "The Confidence Man," Herman Melville describes the passengers on a Mississippi steamboat. They are of different ethnic groups, beliefs and religions. But as long as they're careful not to harm one another, they are doing the right thing. This is who we are at our best, like it or not.
Those on the right will gain nothing if they continue selling out to the redneck agenda that arose with Richard Nixon's divisive "Southern strategy" and persists today. Nixon's intention was to welcome swine who had left the Democratic Party, which they could no longer stomach due to its liberal ideas. Of course, they didn't stop reeking of garbage just because lipstick was applied.
These are some trying times, but the American soul will come through. Soon it will not matter what religion one believes in as long as the rule of law is respected, and those superficially unlike ourselves will not suffer from manipulative hysteria. In the end, as Melville suggests in his novel, we are all unique but defined by our human commonality.
Acknowledging that complexity is an identity that Americans love, and will continue to use as a shield against the constant march of bigotry as futile as it is intense.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
I hope so.
"Were you ever in the music or song writing business?" ... e_type_jagoff to Mudboy lol ..... AND ....... "But his decent into vile absurdity is still actually kind of sad and pitiful really" .... mad doggie
I fixed your category for you. You're welcome. ;)
Hysterically funny. You can't make this stuff up. Hey Brian - while Beck and Palin won a HUGE PR battle and were busy winning hearts and minds in a sea of 300,000, Sharpton, the NAACP and the other professional whiners played to a crowd the size of a crowded 7/11. Their screeching message was about the usual - "WAAAAH, WE'RE STILL VICTIMS!! WHITEY DONE USC WRONG!! GIVE US MO' MONEY, POWER, AND FREE STUFF!!"
LEFT WING LOONS See other LEFT WING LOONS Articles OUCH! That's gotta hurt. Bwaahaa! You're an Evil Conservative®, Stoner.
{{{yawn}}}
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
{{{yawn}}}
The majority of Americans know what the likes of Beck and Palin are really about
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: Brian S, Panicky Leftist Wankers (#0)
The majority of Americans know what the likes of Beck and Palin are really about, no matter how loudly they ring out their message from the propaganda fount we call Fox News.
#4. To: A K A Stone, Brian S (#2)
I fixed your category for you. You're welcome. ;)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#2)
#6. To: A K A Stone (#2)
"Lets [sic] rent a room." ~ Tull to Rotara
#7. To: Brian S (#0)
(roaring with laughter)
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#8. To: Brian S (#5)
You and Freddie get more sleep. Lack of it makes you both stupid.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#9. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
The rights for me over thee crowd are indeed boring and immature. They remind me of many of the mentally ill inmates at the local bughouse.
{{{yawn}}}
"Look you leftist pervert, make sure you keep your Mr Winky away from your family's new addition or I will send some fellow salad tossers to square away your sorry butt. Got it??"
The good "cop", Jethro Tull explaining how to prevent a Palin family tradition in YOUR family.
#10. To: mininggold (#9)
How are you and your fellow lunatics doing whiningskag? Here's a quote from the author of the above article. "What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward." Stanley Crouch Back to slavery Stanley? Another lunatic!
They remind me of many of the mentally ill inmates at the local bughouse.
#11. To: whiningskank (#9)
Chuckles........leave it to a filthy needle tracked cratered teeth 4 dollar a ride whore like you to provide the observation.
They remind me of many of the mentally ill inmates at the local bughouse.
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is the latest Dwarf revelation: ...."the shorts and bibs I wear are of a carbon/lycra/nylon composition......and maaaaaannnnnn....just letting everybody know that makes my balls SWELL......I'm just tooooooo sexy for you all!!" ....Dwarf August 2010.............. And one from the bluehair 2-legged GPS "I always get the Carolinas mixed up for some reason." ......Fred Jerx (who will doubtless figure out intricacy of that tricky "North / South" thing someday.
#12. To: A K A Stone (#2)
Good job AKA....:)
I fixed your category for you. You're welcome. ;)
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is the latest Dwarf revelation: ...."the shorts and bibs I wear are of a carbon/lycra/nylon composition......and maaaaaannnnnn....just letting everybody know that makes my balls SWELL......I'm just tooooooo sexy for you all!!" ....Dwarf August 2010.............. And one from the bluehair 2-legged GPS "I always get the Carolinas mixed up for some reason." ......Fred Jerx (who will doubtless figure out intricacy of that tricky "North / South" thing someday.
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