Shirley Sherrod and the right’s new weapon
Soon, we will forget about Shirley Sherrod. But not the fallout from her smearing.
Sherrod might go back to USDA. She may give more speeches. But, while she has handled herself with aplomb, one could hardly blame her if she’s ready to step out of the Klieg lights.
As for us, we’ll promise not to rush to judgment next time, and to finally have that National Conversation about race. Maybe the president will even convene a Race Summit. Maybe, having already hosted last summer’s Beer Summit to atone for another hasty racial conclusion, he’ll seek the learning end of this Teachable Moment.
But one thing has changed.
Our politics increasingly resembles a cold civil war, and the Sherrod story was like the right’s first successful A-bomb test. Accusations of racism have long been the left’s, and only the left’s, most explosive weapon. No more.
I don’t make this observation with admiration or pride. I understand that this could turn out badly.
It’s not as if the right had unilaterally disarmed when it comes to political attacks. Far from it. But until now, charges of racism detonated only when dropped on the right.
George Allen’s “macaca” moment cost him re-election to the Senate. Trent Lott’s praise for Strom Thurmond cost him leadership of the Senate. Fabricated quotes, approving of slavery, pinned on Rush Limbaugh cost him a chance at partially owning the NFL’s St. Louis Rams.
Joe Biden called Barack Obama “the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”; he became vice president. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid theorized that Americans accepted Obama because he was “light-skinned” and spoke “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”; he kept his job.
A real National Conversation about race would acknowledge that humans often say things that later make them wince, or worse, and that liberals like Biden and Reid aren’t the only ones who deserve the benefit of the doubt, of context, of grace.
In fact, I suspect most of us already reached that conclusion, or would have if not for the political point-scorers.
But there are points to score. And while I don’t condone what he did, I believe right-wing provocateur Andrew Breitbart when he says he posted the video of Sherrod to make a point about the NAACP, which days earlier condemned tea party groups for their “racist elements,” and that the effect on Sherrod was essentially collateral damage.
Breitbart is clear about his desire to turn the tables on liberal media and activist groups. That’s why he went after ACORN, and why it makes sense that he’d set his sights higher than an obscure bureaucrat.
It worked. Some of the people quickest to denounce others as bigoted, as we saw, do so a little too quickly.
But besides haste, we can detect some defensiveness. Did the administration’s rash reaction betray worries that it’s become vulnerable to charges of reverse racism? That when Obama presumes a white cop “acted stupidly” in arresting a black Harvard professor, and his Justice Department handles the New Black Panther Party with kid gloves, it undermines his post-racial appeals?
In any event, it’s clear that the left’s monopoly on these most powerful attacks is over. Perhaps, instead of retaliations that ensnare more Shirley Sherrods, we’ll recognize our mutually assured destruction. Perhaps we’ll pull back from the brink and let relations thaw.
Perhaps.
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Chris Salzmann
July 25th, 2010
1:55 pm
BTW Kyle, http://www.politifact.com rated this notion of yours, similar to Bill O’Reilly’s, as false. But don’t let facts get in your way, right?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jul/23/bill-oreilly/bill-oreilly-blames-obama-administration-not-pursu/
AWM
July 25th, 2010
1:58 pm
What Dusty fails to mention (intentionally) about the guy in our White House and his cronies in Congress:
“Many have thoroughly documented Obama’s radical left roots, from his openly communist father, to his Marxist mother, to the Communist Party’s Franklin Marshall Davis who mentored Obama through adolescence, while his parents were off pursuing the cause around the world.
Obama’s own books disclose that he was drawn to radical left Marxist professors in college and law school. And all of this was before Obama the adult hooked up with 1960s Weatherman bomb thrower Bill Ayres, the anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright, and the far left radical front group ACORN.
This is all well-established public information, as hard as that should be to believe.
But Obama is not the only one.
Ultraleft San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi, a nice lady whose feet are not firmly planted in the real world, serves as House Speaker.
Far Left Henry Waxman, the Congressman from Hollywood, serves as Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Uberliberal Barney Frank, the Congressman from Boston, serves as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
Leftover ’60s liberal David Obey, a self-described Robert La Follette Progressive from Wisconsin, serves as Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Charley Rangel, the Congressman from Harlem, serves as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. John Conyers, the Congressman from Detroit, with his own past Communist Party ties, serves as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Until recently, ultraliberal Howard Dean from Vermont served as Democrat party national Chairman. Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont, as liberal/left as they come, serves as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Even these folks are not left enough for Vermont, with the other Senator being openly socialist Bernie Sanders.
Calculated Deception
The American people never voted for such a radical left takeover of America.
Barack Obama ran on a net spending cut at the federal level, a tax cut for 95% of Americans, a promise of a new era of post-partisan political peace, and a pledge to sweet talk Iran out of “unacceptable” nuclear weapons.
Obama was greatly aided by the history of Bill Clinton, who after 1994 mostly just went along with the Gingrich Congressional majority Republicans, resulting in solidly conservative economic, defense and foreign policies. Many voters were consequently deluded into thinking Obama and the Democrats would just be a reprise of Bill Clinton and the 1990s.
But what should be brutally obvious by now is that Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton, and those analysts who think he may be on the same political trajectory as Clinton are badly deluded as well.
The Democrats took over the Congress using the “Blue Dog” Democrat trick. In district after district, Democrats ran claiming to be pro-life, Second Amendment, tax and deficit cutting, fiscal conservatives, more Reagan than the Republicans.
But all they have done is empowered the above radical left takeover of the Congressional leadership. And when their votes were necessary to pass the radical left agenda, such as with the socialized medicine bill, or the unjustifiable cap and tax House bill, just enough of them voted for it to pass, with the rest still trying to maintain their cover. Even enough of those supposedly “pro-life” Democrats in the end sold out on abortion in the health care bill to the ruling left-wing party leadership.
The Blue Dog Democrat scam was aided by the above-noted history of Democrat Congresses run by Southern conservative committee chairmen. Too many voters thought as a result that the Democrats could be trusted with majority congressional control again.
Winning power through such consistent, thorough deception, the Democrats have no mandate for their left-wing extremism, and are just further angering and rousing voters as a result. That is another huge dark cloud indicating the coming political tsunami.” The American Spectator
Dusty
July 25th, 2010
2:24 pm
To Kik@1:10 from Dixie Chick
Don’t worry about my coworkers.and friends that are black. THEY have character,
You, my friend, are a boiling pot of unhappiness filled with hate at those who “ruin” your life. Better do something about it. Hypertension is a prime health hazard for blacks and you are running yours higher than a kite. Take it easy, Bud, before you blow a gasket!!
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:33 pm
“OMG please call the wahhhhmbulance for crybaby Kyle. His poor (or rather well-off) lily white ass has never experienced one iota of racism.”
Like I said, left wing retards have low IQ’s.
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:34 pm
UGAY Barbie,
I’m shocked that you can even read. Your inbred folks must be so proud that their inbred daughter can read. Can you hold a newspaper with your webbed fingers?
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:36 pm
“However, the vitriol being spued regarding BHO is unprecedented. There are personal attacks on the man himself, not just his policy. One cannot help but think this is motivatied by race. The birthers, Tea Party Express, Breitbart, Fox News, and others have become catalysts for a kind of vocal hatred not seen in a long time. There may have been a time when many of us chose to keep our feelings on race under a seething exterior”
Just another example of stupidity on the left. If Obama was white, they’d say that the Tea Party etc are Nazi’s.
Hey Karen, go sell stupid somewhere else.
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:37 pm
“You are right about one thing, President Obama is my messiah.”
FYT
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:39 pm
“Ms. Tucker knows exactly what she is doing.”
Most race pimps do know what they’re doing. Just ask Jackson and Sharpton. They’ve been living off of MLK since the 60’s even though MLK hated Jackson and said that he was an extreme nut job.
ImHappynBP
July 25th, 2010
3:42 pm
If the media wasn’t so blatantly biased, there would be no reason for Breitbart to exist.
Skep41
July 25th, 2010
4:16 pm
Isnt it funny that no one in the Journo-List left-wing media questioned that a black government official would have the attitudes wrongly ascribed to Ms. Sherrod? The mainstream media and the White House and even the NAACP (which presumably had a copy of the entire tape and didnt bother to go back and look at it) immediately assumed that the charges were true. Meanwhile Limbaugh and Beck, both victims of dozens of out-of-context smears, backed off. What the left knows is that racial resentment is part of the liberal curriculum at most universities and the words of Ms. Sherrod and those of people like Rev. Wright, Farrakhan and Al Sharpton are just reflections of an entire culture of resentment. The ongoing pattern of reverse racism by the Obama Administration, or its perception by a growing number of white voters, has the Demos a little gun shy so they jumped all over Ms. Sherrod to try to show that it wasnt true. It is true. Its true until the Obamunists prosecute the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation.
BIll Norton
July 25th, 2010
4:28 pm
I have friends both black and white. When I am with my white friends, the subject of racism never comes up. When I am with my black friends, it almost never comes up. When I watch TV news, it’s everywhere.
A friend of mine from Cameroon asked me why everthing in America is about race. My answer to him was that everything in America isn’t about race. Except for black politicians and opportunist journalists, I rerely hear anything about it. After some thought, he agreed.
elephant4life
July 25th, 2010
4:57 pm
I don’t care how “reformed” Sherrod is now trying to present herself. She LAUGHED at having had power over Whitey, and she basked in the applause and adulation of the NAAColoredP after having said it. And her speech didn’t happen twenty years ago, it happened less than six months ago. If a White person had done the exact same thing, whether twenty years ago, or fifty years ago, he would be pilloried and run out of town on a rail – especially if he was a Republican or Tea Party member, that is – and he wouldn’t even have had to gloat about it in front of a group of his “own kind”. The left would have dug it up and hung him with it. Why not just admit that she is not only of the correct skin tone, she is of the correct political affiliation? This racist person deserved to be fired for not having left her racism at home when she went to work. Period. But I suspect that the USDA official’s job was threatened if he didn’t do a mea culpa and grovel at the feet of the poor oppressed black civil servant.
Julie
July 25th, 2010
4:58 pm
Your comparisons are not equal. For example, what Reid said was not racism – it was fact. Reid did not mean to harm anyone.
elephant4life
July 25th, 2010
5:46 pm
“When I turn the tv on and here black people calling white people all sorts of names and marking it down as artistic liberties with no ramifications, it concerns me. Also, what concerns me about Ms. Sherrod speech was the fact that when she admitted withholding services to the white farmers, the mostly black audience chuckled. Real understanding!”
Few weeks ago, was called an f—ing white bitch by an out of control black woman who was, I have to admit, an EEO aggressive driving ahole in a local shopping center, nearly running over me and my kid and nearly colliding with a couple of other vehicles and shoppers However, when I called her a n—– in return, she ran across the parking lot to attack me and my kid from behind, screaming I had no right to “disrespect” her. Now, I really want to know – why should someone feel that because of their race they should be permitted to abuse and endanger others with impunity, feeling they cannot be called to account, and then have the effrontery to act offended and attempt violence when they are called on their behavior and/or treated in kind?
John Custis
July 25th, 2010
5:49 pm
Well spoken. First, we need to define racism. It is a term that is often thrown around when one seeks to disparage another. Better to have a clear definition. Then we can actually investigate to see if the charge is true. Then, we also might be able to be more forgiving about statements when there is no intent to promote or express a racist view and when there is no track record or context for racism.
emperorclothes
July 25th, 2010
5:52 pm
I think there is reverse racism, and I think that is what people are trying to claim when it seems this emerges as a common forward accusation. A huge new number of African Americans went to the polls in 2008 and voted for a black man for President. And they voted for him because he is black. There are several members of Congress who are there because they have black districts (Guam is going to tip over if too many people inhabit it?). You can deny all you like, but I believe racism could clearly have elected whites at times as well. I don’t think anyone is color-blind. Blacks and whites must acknowledge this. Havving been the victim of racism does not make you immune. In fact, at times it does the opposite.
elephant4life
July 25th, 2010
6:02 pm
AtticusFinch ;”it was my ancestors and yours that is the cause of this. ..” Sorry, Atticus, it was not. My ancestors were Native American, and the United States was paying the Buffalo Soldiers to slaughter my people when we still were not regarded as humans, only “nits” who “make lice”. Tell me any black man who can recount in his ancestral folklore regarding his peoples’ decimation babies being smashed against rocks, women whose private parts were cut out and stretched over saddle horns as trophies – this list of atrocities against my people goes on forever. Don’t blame me and mine for the enslavement of the black man that originated in his native land, perpetrated by men of his own race who sought to profit thereby. And, lest anyone forget, Obama’s blood never set foot on American soil until he came here to preach how to undermine our way of life, and found a gullible white woman to do his bidding. Since his people remained untouched in Africa, it is probably likely they were on the business end of enslaving their own race. Maybe that’s why he’s so busy making reparations at our expense.
goonie
July 25th, 2010
6:05 pm
It’s so much fun to listen to these liberal/progressive Slimes talk about how the right lies simply by uttering a word. They have no argument to debate their side so they call us racists, I mean, used to call us racists.
Bill
July 25th, 2010
6:25 pm
Probably the best commentary I’ve read about this whole sordid affair.
Middeek
July 25th, 2010
6:29 pm
All you liberals and straight journalists should be apologizing to Sarah Palin for conspiring to demonize her and her family with the Pro-Obama, journ-O-list email server.. you shoul dbe shamed of yourselves.
valwayne
July 25th, 2010
6:32 pm
Playing the race card worked so well for Obama during the the primaries against Bill and Hillary Clinton, that they may be forgiven for trotting it out so often. It was already losing it effectiveness from constant overuse when the NAACP decided to join in and use the race card against the Tea Party movement. Let’s hope now that fanning the flames of racial politicis has blown back and burnt the White House so badly that they will retire that card from the deck. Its doubtful since the left plays that card so automatically that they may not even know how to play without that card, but we can hope!!!
Ed Driscoll » ‘Our Politics Increasingly Resembles a Cold Civil War’
July 25th, 2010
6:32 pm
[...] Wingfield, presumably one of the few self-admitted conservatives writing at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution notes: Our politics increasingly resembles a cold civil war, and the Sherrod story was like the [...]
JDW
July 25th, 2010
6:40 pm
I’m still baffled as to why Obama spending 20 years in a church whose preacher is a black nationalist anti-semite who obviously resents America (”Amerikkka”) was no big deal.
Maxbert
July 25th, 2010
6:53 pm
The Republicans didn’t fire Sherrod; Obama did.
Wil
July 25th, 2010
6:55 pm
Mr. Breitbart did not smear Ms. Sherrod. He simply showed people what she said, as she said it, in her own words, with no editing, commentary or misrepresentation of any kind. Since when is showing a video of a person giving a speech, considered smearing that person?
On the other hand, liberals routinely smear conservatives by dishonestly putting words in their mouths, or by making viscious, completely unfounded and unsupported accusations. Liberals can’t show any videos of conservatives making racist speeches, because those speeches simply do not exist.
Liberals constantly expect the freedom to speak and act in extremely racist ways, and then they are astonished and angered on the few occasions when they don’t get away with it.
JTower
July 25th, 2010
7:01 pm
Lucy
July 23rd, 2010
9:23 pm
Clueless.
J.
July 25th, 2010
7:25 pm
The rights first test. Bull. Test based on a lie. I remember back in the 1960’s when the right had Dr King on a bill board telling a lie that he was a communist. If one tell the history of America, and some nut, pick out a few second part, you want get the correct picture of America. If you stop the story after, “at a certain point in history, African were slave.” That would not be the whole story. That clown publisher knew he was telling a lie.
VIETNAM VET
July 25th, 2010
7:28 pm
Statement and question to those who look for AND ACCUSE BLACKS OF reverse racism. It is a proven fact fact that the AG DEPT has for YEARS DISCRIMINATED against BLACKS. Question: HOW MANY WHITE PEOPLE AT THE AG DEPT WHO DISCRIMINATED AGAINST HAVE BEEN FIRED?
Dusty1
July 25th, 2010
7:42 pm
Breitbart may have been sleazy in his approach, but the reaction speaks to an endemic characteristic of the Obama Administration, and that is a rush to push through an agenda or response without taking the necessay required time. Whether it be a stimulus bill or health care bill (both of which neither Party had time to review) or last years police/professor affair leading to the beer summit, this Administration shoots first and asks questions later.
Dan
July 25th, 2010
8:01 pm
very well written. Don’t let these idiots get to you, probably nutroots plants and union thugs. Your absolutely right, and I hope we have this discussion soon. Republicans have, and always will be, the party of real colorless civil rights.
Freedom
July 25th, 2010
8:06 pm
There is one point missed in all of this. While Sherrod was telling her story about how she limited her help to a white man and sent him to his own kind, the members of the NAACP were openly laughing. The loved the fact that she stuck it to whitey. Now if someone was telling a similar story at a tea party event, this would be used as evidence that they were all a bunch of racists. The fact is that the NAACP is a racist organization. They see everything as black and white and make race issues worse not better. This origination was useful at one point. Now they are an obstacle to progress.
Recovered Demoholic
July 25th, 2010
8:08 pm
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KiknUSquareWell..UKnow
July 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
Well Dusty here is my life of “ruin” if it will make you feel better:
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No really what it’s more like is helping you to realize that there is nothing you can do to stop me from making my way, and I owe you no thanks either. Like I said, throw some of your garbage some of your co-workers way and notice the results. I scan AJC boards from time to time and you are by far one of the most ignorant people I have seen on these boards. You win the most miserable person award HANDS down. We all know it is YOU who are angry. In all honesty, I take great joy and humor in the whole situation, because when it’s all said and done you know you are miserable. That’s why your rants are of all the same theme on every board that I have seen.
bflat879
July 25th, 2010
8:18 pm
I would love to think that the warning Breitbart sent to the left would actually stick, but to the left, this isn’t a charge of racism, it’s merely a tactic to be employed to win elections. They could care less about the lives they hurt and the people they tear down, no it’s just politics.
If we think it’s bad now, just wait until 2012, anyone who answers a poll that they are voting for someone other than Obama, will be accused of being a racist. In the long run, we’ll have 2/3 of the country being accused of racism.
What an opportunity this president has wasted. He had a chance, when he entered office, to address all of this stuff. Instead, he chose to shut out Repubicans from the process, even saying their policies were the policies of the past and had caused all the problems we had. He had a better idea and he wasn’t going to listen to all those tired ideas.
Are you better off today than you were the day Barack Obama took office? That question is coming and, if he doesn’t start listening to some republicans soon, he could be on the hind end of that question in 2012. Perhaps he can ask the president some people are reminded of with his policies, President Carter, how it feels to be there.
Dusty
July 25th, 2010
8:20 pm
Dusty1
Dusty1 is not DUSTY. So quit using my ID in yours. I speak for myself, thank you.
Bob Dobalina
July 25th, 2010
8:27 pm
Sadly, Ms. Sherrod’s subsequent comments – that Brietbart “want to take blacks back to slavery” illustrates that she too is a garden variety race baiter. This article makes a great point – that using the race card has been a favored tactic of the left, particularly when it is too lazy or ill-inclined to engage in a serious debate of the issues. Brietbart’s target was the NAACP, which had inflamed the issue with its own ill-advised resolution condemning Tea Party activists.
Maybe we can start judging people by the content of their character. I know a lot of conservatives that live that maxim as well as liberals too. As far as I am concerned the NAACP and the White House created their own problems, Breitbart played the left-dominated media like a fiddle.
EGB
July 25th, 2010
8:28 pm
Kyle,
You address this subject very evenhandedly, unlike some of the over-the-top commenters here. The use of the race card is simply a tactic used to shut up your opponent and you are right that the Liberals have mostly, incorrectly, thrown it at their political opponents unchecked for a long time. Now that Obama has been elected President, Liberals can no longer use it with impunity and not expect to be held accountable for it. What goes around comes around.
I do not think in terms of race when it comes to politics or anything else. I judge people on their work ethic and their character. I look forward to the day when the race card is made irrelevant. You can’t constantly talk about the past as if it still applies today. Liberals like to say that the constitution should be interpreted to today’s reality. Well, I say, the issue of race needs to applied to today’s reality.
Those of you who attack others with race, sex and other stupid narratives are irrelevant to serious discussions about the direction our country should head towards. I honestly believe that you get your kicks out of just typing that drivel.
Karen
July 25th, 2010
8:29 pm
Kyle, Excellent piece except for your use of the expression “reverse racism”. By using this term you continue the inaccurate narrative that word “racism” is the exclusive domain of whites. Racism is racism no matter who is doing the judging or discriminating. There is no such thing as “reverse racism”. Blacks have a long history of bigotry and discrimination towards Jews, Asians and Hispanics. It’s about time they get called out on their racism.
Dusty1
July 25th, 2010
8:34 pm
Dusty1 is not DUSTY. So quit using my ID in yours. I speak for myself, thank you.
Well, I was going to use “Hyberclym Vibersteen”, but that was taken.
CJ
July 25th, 2010
8:36 pm
Enter your comments here
Rhymes With Right
July 25th, 2010
8:53 pm
Kyle, I happen to agree with you on 90% of what you have written here — all except for your defense of Sherrod herself. Her words in the whole video — and her subsequent call for censorship of media organizations that don’t support Obama and accusation that Breitbart wants nothing less than a return to slavery — are evidence that she still carries the malignancy of racism deep in her soul, even if some of her best friends are white.
But setting that aside, the reality is that the Left has not learned from this incident. As such, the MAD analogy that you propose is flawed. So I stand by my suggestion — http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/303827.php — that the Right play the race card with brutality and ferocity (and without apology) every time we find liberal hypocrites engaged in speech and behavior they would not tolerate from the Right. Only by making the Left so frightened of the backlash that they will only cry “racism” in cases where it is clearly appropriate will we get beyond the worst racial climate of the last 40 years — a racial climate created and exacerbated by Obama and his supporters.
Illinois Rez
July 25th, 2010
8:53 pm
If tea-party racism is so easy to find, why then does lefty media have to doctor evidence?
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Contessa Brewer, c r o p p e d out the black TEA party member with the gun, trying AND failing to paint TEA Party as racist with guns:
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THINK PROGRESS Caught using Liberal-Manufactured Signs from “Crash the TEA Party” as Evidence of TEA Party Racism:
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John Podesta anyone?
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Crash the TEA Party p o s i ng as TEA Party m e m b e r s trying to p a i n t them as racist:
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The man was a supporter of fringe DEMOCRATIC activist Lyndon LaRouche,
http://www.tiny.cc/ccyva
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Inconvenient links of the week: Obama and the LaRouche poster
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TEA Party Racism?
GREAT video from the TEA Party.
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The Photo the MSM won’t show you:
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I urge ALL OF YOU to look at that entire page on my link.
It will open your eyes to the HATE on the left.
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Mr. Nads
July 25th, 2010
9:07 pm
I totally agree with ”AWM ”………..
I am sick and tired of Affirmitive Action………….
Have exoerienced it and had enough….
The current regime and their cronies must go…And they will..
CJ
July 25th, 2010
9:14 pm
“the reality is that the Left has not learned from this incident.”
I’d be curious to know what “Rhymes With Right” thinks the left is supposed to have learned from an incident in which a right-wing blogger edits a video with superimposed lies to make it look as though the woman is discriminating against whites in her current position as a federal employee.
If the lesson is that the Southern Strategy is alive and well, then lesson learned.
CJ
July 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
For fun, go to Breitbart’s original post of the video and read some of the comments responding to his post and the video:
“I guess this is reparation time with the Kenyan man.”
“I hope Megyn Kelly get’s a crack at the racist Shirley Sherrod.”
“People like [Sherrod] deserve to lose their pension or worse for dereliction of duty.”
“Remove this obviously bigoted person from her employment and replace her.”
“I’m from Albany, GA. Shirley Sherrod is from here. Her & her kind have destroyed the great little city of Albany.”
“This type of overt state-sponsored racism is nothing new.”
“That woman needs to be fired and her whole department investigated right now,…”
“That is criminal,to say the least! I’m shocked that this could be happening in this day and age,Obama wants to take us backward,and that Black Liberation Theology might work in Africa where the blacks way out number the whites,won’t work here,I have to hand it to Obama and his crew,they are giving it a nice try,”
“Not only is this woman a moron, true bigot , corrupt she is also a criminal. I hope she has lost her job and done some time. ”
This idiocy goes on for pages and pages. Yet, somehow, the left didn’t learn their lesson? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Glenn Koons, Long Beach, Ca
July 25th, 2010
9:39 pm
It is a fair article but remember, the Left has been using this for decades with racism against Bob Bork, Justice Thomas, and of course, Ronaldus Magnus. The Left’s blogs are filled with smears and hatred each and every day but finally, some people are realizing that all this race baiting is counter-productive. I will still bet that the Dems will use some of it in 2012. Perhaps with the Journo list , the obvious policy failures of Obama and his Dem minions, people will not have leverage to use such stuff on any side and issues of the economy and international dangers will prevail. If so, Dems do not stand any chance with common sense voters.
Lucas
July 25th, 2010
9:49 pm
So you are asking the left to not falsely use the race card anymore? Dream on. That’s the only “argument” they have. What else are they going to talk about?
Afghan Whig
July 25th, 2010
9:49 pm
Summary: “Now that progressives have felt first-hand the damages that can be done with cynical and irresponsible charges of racism, they’ll stop, allowing the racial divide to slowly heal.”
Judging by the comments section, I doubt it.
fistbiscuit
July 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
The racists are losing this argument, and that’s a good sign for this country.
Posts like some above just shows the desperation in the hearts of leftists.
They are grasping at straw to keep the race card as a weapon.
Prime example:
“I’m from Albany, GA. Shirley Sherrod is from here. Her & her kind have destroyed the great little city of Albany.”
interesting that CJ’s mind went straight to race, on that comment.
When I read that, I understand that “her kind” refers to the race-baiting leftists, like CJ who are poisoning our culture with their hatred.
“I guess this is reparation time with the Kenyan man.”
Ah…the old “birther” attack.
The only thing that I don’t agree with in that statement are the words “Kenyan man”, even though he could be, for all anyone knows. It really doesn’t matter when your a year and a half deep in to an assault at his hands, now does it?
I have absolutely no problem with any other comment quoted, as they are all either valid opinions, or verifiable…thus true
Chief Diversity Officer
July 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
Honk if you’ve had your diversity training today! Honk honk.