Jim Robinson, the self-proclaimed moderator at Free Republic, posted this in response to the recent flap about the racist remarks posted on a thread about Malia Obama's t-shirt and the young man who was walking with her in the photo.
It's interesting to note that this thread appeared two or three different times and was never really condemned by the moderators at Free Republic.
Dr. Christopher J. Metzler, associate dean at Georgetown University wrote the following in response to Free Republic's racist thread about a picture of Michelle and Malia.
"To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds." Photo caption of Michelle Obama speaking to her daughter Malia posted on The Free Republic.
Disclaimer on The Free Republic: "Free Republic does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government. "
For those of you who have argued vociferously with me that we are living in a "post-racial America" rather than an America in which Jim Crow is on steroids, you apparently have not read the daily diet of racism that the readers and bloggers on this site consume and then regurgitate. The photo caption above was posted with a blog in which comments included:
"Could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there?"
"They make me sick .... The whole family... mammy, pappy, the free loadin' mammy-in-law, the misguided chillin', and especially 'lil cuz... This is not the America I want representin' my peeps.
First, it is easy to dismiss these comments as isolated incidents posted on a right-wing vestige. To do so of course would completely miss the point. Moreover, these comments show the continuing significance of race in a country that has become so enamored with the election of its first Black President. In fact, far too many of us are content only with the symbolism and dismiss the substance. I have heard many say that he can't tackle race in his first term but that he will do it in his second.
In response Robinson wrote the following:
Hey, professor. I don’t call Obama a Marxist because he’s a black man, you useful idiot. And I don’t fear black men. I called him a Marxist because he is a Marxist.
His father was a communist. His mother was a Marxist. His "home" village in Kenya is communist. All of his close friends in college were Marxists. He studied Marxism.
He loves Marxism. He says our constitution is flawed and he wants to use government to enforce economic justice. He hates capitalism. He wants to redistribute the wealth. He’s a freaking Marxist pig!
And he’s in the process of destroying America and freedom for all of us including you and all black people as well as all white, brown, yellow red or rainbow colored people!
Freedom is for all of us and it’s color blind! The rule of law is for all of us and it’s color blind! Justice is color blind! America was founded on the concept that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, including Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness! Look it up!!
Our God-given unalienable rights are color blind and they’re for ALL of us!!
And we fought a civil war to prove it and many wars since to defend it!!
America! Freedom! Love it, relish it, cherish it, defend it!! Don’t and it will surely die.
Advise you study up and find out where socialism, Marxism, communism, etc, leads. It always leads to tyranny, misery, failure, totalitarianism and death to millions! Useful idiots first!
The educated, the teachers, the clergy, the government officials, anyone who might stand in their way are the first to go.
Lennon, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, et al, ruthless, iron-fisted totalitarian rulers and brutal murderers and butchers of millions. And it always ends the same way.
FR is here to defend Liberty and Equality for ALL!!
My name is Jim Robinson and I not only own this more or less socialist-free oasis on the Internet, I approve of this message. And you’re a fricken racist, Marxist loving pinhead.
Seems that Robinson has absolutely no qualms about the racist comments that appeared on his website.