…is vastly more racist than “the right”:
Since I was publicly identified with the right, roughly from when I started blogging in 2003 (although it was actually several years earlier in private), I have personally witnessed not a single incident of racism from anyone who could be considered a right winger and heard only one racial slur — and that was from a Frenchman. In the seven years I was CEO of PJ Media, I came to know or meet literally dozens of people who identified with the Tea Party. I did not hear one word of anything close to racism from any of them even once. Not one, ever. This despite their being accused of racism constantly.
…we live in [a] culture where there is considerably more black racism than white racism. Someone like Al Sharpton, clearly the equivalent of David Duke, is far more powerful than Duke ever was. No one pays attention to the execrable Duke, as they shouldn’t. But they shouldn’t pay attention to Sharpton either.
But he’s only a part of the problem. There’s also the mayor of the city of New York, Bill de Blasio, the prototype of the leftwing fellow-traveler racist who assumes someone is more moral or better because he or she is “of color.” Of course this is condescending — and therefore racist — to the people he thinks are so pure. No one is. The whole theory of “white skin privilege” is racist and totalitarian to the core: actually it was invented by totalitarians. And while I’m ranting here, all racial identity organizations like the Congressional Black Caucus are inherently racist and dangerous, just as the White Citizens’ Council was and would be.
That’s been obvious to me for decades. All their accusations of racism are just one more aspect of their psychological projection. And so overplayed has the race card become, by race baiters like Sharpton (and Holder, and Obama), that I now take being called a racist by them as a badge of pride.
[Update a while later]
This seems related:
Now and then, I think back to why I rejected the Left, many years ago — when I was in college. One of the reasons was, they always kept the racial pot boiling. They would never let the pot cool off. It seemed to me they did not want racial harmony. They preferred strife, regarding it as more “authentic” or something. Harmony was for Toms.
Yup.
I like the name that black Republican Congressman J. J. Watts gave to Sharpton, Jackson, and their ilk: “race-hustling poverty pimps.”
And when black people act differently from the hive mind, they are called Oreos. I worked with a black woman who once cried because the other minorities wouldn’t accept her middle class upbringing.
all racial identity organizations like the Congressional Black Caucus are inherently racist and dangerous, just as the White Citizens’ Council was and would be.
A great example of missing the forest for the trees. The problem with White Citizen’s Councils wasn’t that they were racial identity organizations, it was that they were violent groups organized to enforce white supremacy by terrorizing blacks.
One of the reasons was, they always kept the racial pot boiling. They would never let the pot cool off.
For as long as there have been black Americans seeking equality there have been white Americans upset at them for refusing to “let the pot cool off.”
Wow. Talk about missing the forest…
First, the point is that “White citizens councils” were undeniably racist organizations, as you said, while the “Black Caucus” is equally so. Use of violence is irrelevant. Or do you claim that it’s ok to join a avowedly racist group as long as they don’t break heads? Is a non-violent KKK all right by you, then? As far as I recall David Duke never used violence, so you’re ok with his politics, right? Standard prog diversionary defense: “It’s not like they killed anyone!”
Your latter comment demonstrates an unbelievably thick level of obtuseness. Are you claiming that anyone holding Nordlinger’s position is a crypto-racist? That’s right up there with calling those skeptical of the UVA rape story “rape apologists.”
the point is that “White citizens councils” were undeniably racist organizations, as you said, while the “Black Caucus” is equally so.
To some people the lessons of the civil rights movement seem to boil down to: “it’s wrong to consider a person’s race.” If that’s the extent of your understanding, then sure, a “White citizen’s council” and a “Black caucus” are “equally” wrong.
It’s worth remembering how we came to this point. After centuries of using the force of law and government, along with private action, to violently deprive black Americans of their lives, property, and every notable civil, legal and political right, the U.S. narrowly and grudgingly passed laws to ban the open assertion of white racial superiority. Rather than seeing those laws as the absolute least that a country supposedly founded on an ideal of “men created equal” could do, white America has both resisted their implementation and enforcement, and taken them to mean that the historical slate has now been wiped clean.
Freed of the burden of historical memory, in our new post-racial utopia, one can now disclaim with a straight face on the racist danger posted by the existence of the Congressional Black Caucus of John Lewis and company. Surely someone needs to educate Lewis on the dangers of racism.
For as long as there have been black Americans seeking equality there have been white Americans upset at them for refusing to “let the pot cool off.”
How many? Five or six?
Of course. If you’re a collectivist you think in terms of groups rather than individuals. I always tick off “liberal” State-fellators by quoting Ayn Rand’s statement that racism is the most primitive form of collectivism. But they never actually refute it.
And speaking of collectivists, here comes Baghdad Jim: “For as long as there have been black Americans seeking equality. . . ” Other than a moral equality (you don’t coerce me, I don’t coerce you) or equality before the law (I’m not allowed to steal, you’re not allowed to steal, either), a stupid, illegitimate and ultimately futile pursuit. Better to seek liberty. (Not that the servile BJ would understand that.)
As an aside, I am always bemused when a prog uses the term “Uncle Tom” as a racist insult. It is self-evident they have no grasp of the story in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Re collectivism and racism . . .
http://www.redstate.com/2014/12/19/collectivism-presumption-guilt/
And we can’t let the media off the hook. They are the ones who continue to give legitimacy to the Sharptons and Jacksons. They only have influence because the media insists on holding them up as “spokesmen for the black community”.
Then there’s the media’s incessant lies and distortions about the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown cases. I don’t think I heard a single news report about the Michael Brown case that didn’t include the phrase “a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen”. Never mind that the “teen” was 6’4″, 300 lbs., and attacked the police officer and tried to grab his gun. And remember how the media kept showing the photo of Martin when he was 12 years old?
This reminds me of something that my Palestinian roommate told me in 1979 when I asked him why everyone was fighting there. He said, and this is no joke…
“If we weren’t fighting all the time no one would give us any money”.