Showing posts with label Racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Racism. Show all posts
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
False Racism - The Legacy of the Obamanation?
President Obama's supporters have attributed racist motives to opponents of his health care plan for weeks, but former President Jimmy Carter is the highest-profile person to push that claim.
Former President Jimmy Carter drew widespread criticism Wednesday for saying that Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst last week was "based on racism" and that an "overwhelming portion" of similar demonstrations against President Obama are rooted in bigotry.
Obama's supporters have attributed racist motives to some opponents of his health care plan for weeks, but Carter is the highest-profile person so far to push that claim.
While some anti-Obama demonstrators have been seen carrying over-the-top or racially offensive signs, administration critics say Carter is flat wrong to claim that those fringe protesters make up the bulk of Obama's detractors.
"I don't see race as an issue. It's all about the policies that are coming out of the current administration," said Deneen Borelli, a black conservative who spoke at the protest rally held in Washington Saturday. Much of the condemnation of Obama's critics has come as a response to that protest, where tens of thousands demonstrated against big government and over-spending.
"I just see this as the race card being used once again to distract the American people from the core issues," Borelli said.
Adam Brandon, spokesman for protest organizer FreedomWorks, said Carter's comments were "absurd." He noted that the protest featured about a dozen black speakers.
"To say this crowd was racist is absolutely absurd when black speakers were probably the most popular speakers," he said.
"I think it's very destructive for America to suggest that we can't criticize a president without it being a racial act," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told FOX News.
The suggestion that race is behind criticism of Obama has been made by New York Gov. David Paterson and Reps. Charlie Rangel of New York, Diane Watson of California and Hank Johnson of Georgia, among others. (BA - the same Three Stooges behind most racial inciments!)
But a poll released Wednesday by Rasmussen Reports showed that just 12 percent of voters believe that most opponents of Obama's health care reform plan are racist. The survey of 1,000 likely voters, taken Monday and Tuesday, found that 67 percent disagree with that contention, while 21 percent are not sure. The survey had a margin of error of 3 percent.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
(Yawn) More Obama Criticism Met With Cries of Racism
From Philly's OTHER fishwrap-worthy paper:
Recession, race blamed for increased threats against president
Every American knows that politics can be an ugly business, rife with mudslinging, underhandedness and, in the worst of times, outright sabotage.
Like it or not, the collective American voting public is as much inclined toward emotional reactionism as it is rational reflection.
The former is a trait that both political parties, at times, do their best to exploit; and the conservative right is doing a heck of a job at it right now, dredging up fears of non-existent “death panels” and rationing in an attempt to derail, or at least dilute, Democratic health-care reform initiatives.
Most of us have come to accept the worst politics has to offer as a price worth paying for a democratic system in which every voice, no matter how repugnant, has the right to be heard. But lately the level of hostility directed at President Barack Obama and progressive lawmakers from some corners of society has crossed the line from disturbing to downright scary.
From “birther”-led citizen grand juries charging the president with fraud, to gun-toting protesters outside presidential events, organized opposition to the new administration and its policies has taken on a decidedly radical bent, giving rise to the unthinkable: What if some lunatic, or a group of them, decides to transition from vicious rhetoric to violent action?As the president works through his first year in office, those charged with protecting him from such a potentiality are finding they have their work cut out for them; and lately some commentators have taken to questioning whether they are fully up to the task.
Recession, race blamed for increased threats against president
Every American knows that politics can be an ugly business, rife with mudslinging, underhandedness and, in the worst of times, outright sabotage.
Like it or not, the collective American voting public is as much inclined toward emotional reactionism as it is rational reflection.
The former is a trait that both political parties, at times, do their best to exploit; and the conservative right is doing a heck of a job at it right now, dredging up fears of non-existent “death panels” and rationing in an attempt to derail, or at least dilute, Democratic health-care reform initiatives.
Most of us have come to accept the worst politics has to offer as a price worth paying for a democratic system in which every voice, no matter how repugnant, has the right to be heard. But lately the level of hostility directed at President Barack Obama and progressive lawmakers from some corners of society has crossed the line from disturbing to downright scary.
From “birther”-led citizen grand juries charging the president with fraud, to gun-toting protesters outside presidential events, organized opposition to the new administration and its policies has taken on a decidedly radical bent, giving rise to the unthinkable: What if some lunatic, or a group of them, decides to transition from vicious rhetoric to violent action?As the president works through his first year in office, those charged with protecting him from such a potentiality are finding they have their work cut out for them; and lately some commentators have taken to questioning whether they are fully up to the task.
Monday, June 1, 2009
The 11th Commandment?
Apparently, its "Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of the Obamas"
How else to explain this uproar?
From Black Voices Blog:
Bottom Line with Dr. Boyce: Michelle Obama Dissed By a Comedian
Dr Boyce Watkins and Charlamagne tha God (morning host for 100.3 "The Beat" in Philadelphia and former co-host of The Wendy Williams Experience) discuss the words of a comedian who called Michelle Obama "a big dude", and compared her to Count Dracula. Did this comedian go over the line or are Barack and Michelle Obama fair targets for comedic exercise?
Click below to check it out!
How else to explain this uproar?
From Black Voices Blog:
Bottom Line with Dr. Boyce: Michelle Obama Dissed By a Comedian
Dr Boyce Watkins and Charlamagne tha God (morning host for 100.3 "The Beat" in Philadelphia and former co-host of The Wendy Williams Experience) discuss the words of a comedian who called Michelle Obama "a big dude", and compared her to Count Dracula. Did this comedian go over the line or are Barack and Michelle Obama fair targets for comedic exercise?
Click below to check it out!
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