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Title: 10 Ways Republicans Hide Their Racism (editors note, this is a liberal nutjob article)
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URL Source: http://SearchWarp.com/swa580860-10- ... ublicans-Hide-Their-Racism.htm
Published: Apr 29, 2010
Author: John Sammon
Post Date: 2011-02-17 10:11:51 by Godwinson
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Comments: 16
10 Ways Republicans Hide Their Racism
by John Sammon
Sammonsays
Republicans are stupid, but they don't know it, which is one of the reasons the tea party movement of the far right chose as their symbol the Boston Tea Party of the pre-Revolutionary War, a cowardly act of mob vandalism against an unguarded ship carrying British tea in Boston Harbor.
The tea partiers of today never study history, and those few who have never evaluate it. They think the Boston Tea Party was a heroic action.
Some things never change. The colonials of that day were protesting taxes as they do now, but the mob in 1773 dressed as American Indians. Numerous times in American history entire villages of Native American (Indians) were wiped out, men women and children, because they were suspected by the nearest Anglo community of some depredation. The only thing that saved Massachusetts Indians, those few still alive after the Boston Tea Party, was that the colonial's dress-up act was so goddamned clumsily stupid it fooled nobody.
What a fitting symbol for today's tea baggers.
With about as much subtlety as a blunt-force object, members of the far right try to mask the blatant racism that has always defined them. Here are 10 ways they do:
1. State's rights. This has always been a bulwark against attempts by the federal government to legislate equality. States having rights isn't the issue, misusing the rights they've been given is. Officials in Arizona recently criminalized stereotypical Latin-looking skin (if you're a citizen you have to produce papers showing you're not an illegal immigrant), for the same reason officials blocked the school door at Little Rock in support of school segregation. Fear of homogeneity. States rights have always been used to advance racism long before Civil War Confederacy slavers championed it.
2. Racists calling someone with whom they disagree racist. Republicans call the president a racist. This is a smokescreen, or the pot calling the kettle black. Have blacks ever run or promoted a segregationist society? Limbaugh, O'Reilly and myself all grew up as boys in a white-only world. The only blacks we saw were servants on TV. That conditioning is hard to un-do.
3. Lumping blacks with government handouts. Traditionally, black Americans had to look to the federal government for enforcement of equality, because individual states wouldn't. Republicans view blacks and people of color as welfare-sucking leeches. Remember those children's cartoons where the hungry lion looks at a guy and the guy turns into a roast turkey? When conservatives look at a black person, they see a butler or a shoeshine boy with his hand out begging.
4. Small government. How can Republicans harp on how they're for small government, when they set record budget deficits during the Bush years and conduct endless nation-building wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Small government to conservatives means profligate spending on wars and weapons, but none on Americans, especially those of color.
5. Use of tokens. Conservatives realize they can't totally ignore minorities. Thus, the continuing parade of token non-white people in symbolic meaningless posts from Uncle Tom Michael Steele to Bobby Jindal, or as the Roman Emperor Caligula used to say, "use a dog to catch a dog."
6. The threat of violence and lynching. This is a right-wing hallmark with a history that needs no explanation.
7. The use of mindless symbolic euphemisms with no basis of reality. Lightening rod symbols are important to conservatives. Thus, they fixate on words like small government and taxes (see#4 above), even though they themselves spend like drunken sailors on weapons and wars. They accuse the president of being born in a foreign country, and endlessly cite his Arabic-sounding name, a Freudian give-away that in addition to their belief that blacks should know their proper underling place, the only good Arab is a dead Arab.
8. When a disaster happens to mostly people of color, like the earthquake in Haiti, or the debacle at the Superdome in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, watch conservative pundits, politicians and pastors. They will forget their occasional caution and say things like "they deserved it," or "it's God's will, they're in league with the devil because they practice voodoo."
9. Use of icons. Republicans mythologize Ronald Reagan and John Wayne because they represent a white-only simpler time when blacks knew their place. They describe this as American or "family values." The family doesn't include blacks.
10. Republicans even though they won't admit it, believe in a caste system with whites the top tier. They hide this by saying they're protecting the rights of tax payers and "average" Americans. Average means white.
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#1. To: Godwinson (#0)
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What a stupid fucking naive white guilt filled cracker who probably thinks he's doing the darkies a favor by packing them into inner city Section 8 housing and giving them free cheese. Congratulate him on hitting just about every high point of race baiting dumbass liberals with some kind of superiority complex. I hope he goes to the inner city to tell his beloved moolies how much he loves them and they stab him and steal his wallet.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
No matter how hard you try, the racism just gushes.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
8D
As if this was your last day on the planet: "“A sense of being home,” but that comes closest, I believe, to what I have wanted to say. Not home to a place, but home in its largest sense, perhaps the Kingdom of Heaven, the Golden Land, the Shambhala sanctuary. That is what I am after here. It is hard to describe, more like music perhaps, when a Bach Aria or Cantata is so perfect you know the notes could never be arranged otherwise. Or the song of the bird outside my window this morning, who even in the dark before dawn, has no choice but to sing his song, and the perfect way it floats on the dark air, into this room, and into this letter to you. Can you hear it? I know, I write out of obscurity, like a voice from another planet. To draw on a metaphor, sometimes I talk to you in “Plain Text.” Sometimes I use “HTML,” a hypertext of consciousness which borrows the forms and voices of my deep self. You are meeting me in these many forms, and yet, you also know the form behind the formless, the essential reality of who I am when the theater goes dark and the players stroll away into the night, to their cafes and ordinary lives. So if this were in fact the last day of my life, I would spend the morning writing to you of happiness, and miracles, and wonder, and the blessings. I would write of these things. And I would write of love, the love that weaves itself through these words to you now, the love that infuses each poem and pixel, each breath I breathe in and out. I would write my heart out in the few hours left. And my words would be an offering to you, they would be sweet exotic fruits and flowers on the altar, candles for forgiveness lighting the dark chapel. My words would be a celebration of all that has been, and all that will be in the next chapter, Enshallah.
Once again, you demonstrate that LEFTISTS are the ones who continuously bring up race. WHY? Because it is the LEFTISTS who are racist. No matter how much you resort to smoke-and-mirrors tactics, that FACT just won't go away.
Socialist ass-hats think "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." And yes, that IS from LF's answer to Ben Bernanke, go65, leading disfunctional and delusional socialist of the forum. "You want me to kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, I'll kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, Rebs, or Sioux, or Cheyenne... For 500 bucks a month I'll kill whoever you want. But keep one thing in mind: I'd happily kill you for free." Algren, "The Last Samurai" More nonsense from you. What a surprise. The Democrat Party has always been and still is the party of racism in America. Prior to the Civil War, it was Democrat politicians who protected slavery. The segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s were all Democrats, e.g., George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Bull Connor, etc. Democrat Senator Robert Byrd used to run a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. He was a still a Democrat Senator when he died last year. Today, the Democrat Party is the party that groups us and divides us by race for the purposes of their political manipulation. Of course, if one disagrees with a Democrat at some point they will get called a racist by Democrats, just like the author has done in this article. The Democrats are the true racists in America. They always have been. They still are today.
That was true until Reagan welcomed racists into the Republican party with open arms.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
The segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s were all Democrats, e.g., George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Bull Connor, etc. Democrat Senator Robert Byrd used to run a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. He was a still a Democrat Senator when he died last year. Yea, these racist DIxiecrats eventually became Republicans due to Nixon's Southern strategy.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
That was a continuation of Nixon's Southern Strategy,
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Hillary ain't never been called a "nigger".
That's right. So she would not know how that feels.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
I've called Rodham a dyke before, so has her hubby Bill. No doubt she & Janet Reno know how it feels to share a double dildo .
Horse shit. George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Bull Connor, Robert Byrd and the rest all died as Democrats.
Yea, but their voting blocks moved on to the GOP. That's why the South keeps voting Republican and the blacks no longer vote Republican.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
another day, another stupid comment, gee it must really suck to be as dumb as you
#2. To: no gnu taxes (#1)
I hope he goes to the inner city to tell his beloved moolies how much he loves them and they stab him and steal his wallet.
#3. To: lucysmom (#2)
#4. To: Godwinson (#0)
#5. To: Godwinson (#0)
#6. To: Godwinson (#0)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#7. To: jwpegler (#6)
The Democrat Party has always been and still is the party of racism in America.
#8. To: jwpegler (#6)
Prior to the Civil War, it was Democrat politicians who protected slavery.
#9. To: lucysmom, jwpegler (#7)
The Democrat Party has always been and still is the party of racism in America. That was true until Reagan welcomed racists into the Republican party with open arms.
#10. To: Godwinson (#0)
Alternet’s Racist Tirade Against Herman Cain: “Black Garbage Pail Kid,” “Monkey” – CORE Condemns
#11. To: Godwinson (#0)
#12. To: Happy Quanzaa (#11)
Hillary ain't never been called a "nigger".
#13. To: Godwinson (#12)
(Edited)
That's right. So she would not know how that feels.
#14. To: Godwinson (#8)
these racist DIxiecrats eventually became Republicans
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#15. To: jwpegler (#14)
Horse shit. George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Bull Connor, Robert Byrd and the rest all died as Democrats.
#16. To: lucysmom (#7)
That was true until Reagan welcomed racists into the Republican party with open arms.
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