If you were under the impression that the constant cries of racism by liberals would ease up after the election, you might be wasting your time wondering. Just over the past few days, it's been suggested that the reason the GOP is against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice becoming the next Secretary of State is because she's black. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns claimed that the current secession movement wouldn't be happening if the president wasn't black. Do these people really believe that an entire political party has it in for all minority groups, and does it even matter?
Ken Burns suggestion that secessionists are all black-hating Tea Party members is a joke. You can bet there are plenty of stereotypical "rednecks" waving their confederate flags, but the truth is, they would probably be there no matter who the Democrat in office was. They want their freedoms, not more government control. If you listen to journalist Jonah Goldberg, comments like those by Burns are here to stay. He says the liberals must continue to peg the GOP as racists and it will only get worse. Granted, it's Jonah Goldberg, author of books titled The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat In The War of Ideas and Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, but he does have a point.
Take the accusations by the Congressional Black Caucus regarding Rice. The newly elected chair, Rep. Marcia Fudge, said, "There is a clear sexism and racism that goes with these comments being made by unfortunately Senator [John] McCain and others." McCain was obviously referring to Rice's speech regarding Benghazi, where she was supposedly using talking points provided to her by the CIA. If McCain was actually talking about Rice's intelligence, frankly, he's an idiot. Why can't this be about her judgment? Even with Petraeus admitting the CIA provided the account, as United Nations Ambassador she didn't question that information, even several days later? We know that the White House knew the attacks had nothing to do with the anti-Muslim film; there's no way that four days after the attack she still had no information on the facts. Believing that Rice was being dishonest is neither racist nor sexist.
Goldberg goes on to provide pre-election examples like when Romney visited Michigan and made a crack about not needing a birth certificate. Michael Eric Dyson said it was "The basest and the most despicable bigotry we might be able to imagine." Ridiculous, yes, but like Goldberg's other past examples, it doesn't support his idea that the more the GOP tries to appeal to black voters, the more accusations of racism the liberals will toss out. As bad as it got over the past year, it seemed to ebb out shortly before the election. Maybe the Democrats realized the public was sick of hearing it after Chris Matthews claimed "Chicago" was a racist code word?
In reality, complaints about the "racist, sexist, white man only GOP" don't really matter at this point. The public has spoken loud and clear. If Goldberg or anyone else thinks that the GOP simply needs to "appeal to black voters," they are sadly mistaken. Unless they drastically change the party, they won't need to worry about appealing to anyone. Many conservatives who want change are starting to see the big picture. Something needs to change, and it needs to happen soon or they risk losing the less socially conservative and the "freedom-loving" members to the Libertarian's or end up with members who just don't care anymore.
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© Margie Wilson-Mars 2012
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Comments: 35
We see this amplification of accusations of racism most recently in the sudden development of "code" talk where the Progs can call you racist for saying nearly anything, they claim your words as "code" for racism, so you don't even need to say any thing racism for them to consider you a racist.
Just makes it so much easier to attack those who stand in the way of your agenda.
Statistics answers that. I do find it interesting that the American blacks vote 95% democrat and I wonder, is that a reflection of the Bell curve?
I think one of the problems for conservatives is the echo chamber effect. You choose like-minded sources like Fox News and Talk Radio for your news and information and it deluded you into believing that there is this universal agreement with your extremism. This is how you arrive at statements like: "In reality, complaints about the "racist, sexist, white man only GOP" don't really matter at this point."
In upholding your narrative about the supposedly non-racist basis for your criticism of everything to do with the Obama administration, and in this case of Rice, you always ignore known facts. In this case you ignore the known fact that the CIA wanted the administration to stick to the story about the spontaneous riot to protect intelligence operatives and keep sources unknown to those terrorist upon whom they were spying. Rice, and the administration, we're protecting American interests.
But your anti-Obama hatred, largely race based for most conservatives, won't let you acknowledge facts that don't fit the narrative.
No!
Typical Prog crudeness.
Circle jerks get kudos for being non-reproductive sexuality.
And BM is a fertilizer that promotes growth.
See - social conservatives actually are environmentalists.
Ad hominem attack.
Sven, I think it's just Tony trying to be clever.
In that case, un-clever attack.
All the time. You should try it.