"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country, unless the President is Black!"
I paraphrase, of course, the late and great President John F. Kennedy, who died at the hands of an assassins bullet after being demonized by the far right and it's John Birch Society conspiracy theory cranks.
Of course, if these words were spoken then by an African American President, well, that would have never happened. African Americans were barely citizens, barely had the right to vote or sit in a white man's restaurant, let alone run for or win the Presidency, but one could imagine that if an African American President at the time had said the same quote as JFK, it would be followed by the Republican addendum, unless the President is Black!".
In only 7 months, 7 Damned Months we have seen the following blatant acts of racism and race baiting by the Republican party, and not once, NOT ONCE, has a single adult among them stood up and said ENOUGH OF THIS, I WILL NOT ALLOW IT.
Not once.
The evidence to the GOP's racism and racist projection is both prolific and obvious.
Wonkette notes that a racist e-mail was sent out by a legislative staffer for Tennessee GOP state senator Diane Black. The staffer, Sherplatfvormri Goforth, e-mailed this composite picture of the country’s 44 presidents, which represents President Obama with only a set of eyes:
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Of course, America's So Called Liberal Media/Right Wing Noise Machine has had it's own hand in the racism/race baiting game, including the perpetuation of the birthers by Fox and CNN's Lou Dobbs, who tipped his own so called Independant hand in this Gods awful moment.
CNN’s Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, "My wife will love this!" A photo shows Dobbs with a box of the mix in his hand.
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GOP politicians have not been ashamed of themselves enough to bite their tongues either. They praise right wing terrorists, they advocate violence and the threat of violence against those whom they oppose, they refuse to tell their base to act like adults and civilized people, and their base just goes farther and farther every day.
"I Want My Country White Back!!!!!"
And the media does not call it out, other than a few hours a night on MSNBC. Instead, they ignore or encourage it.
Limbaugh plays "Barack the Magic Negro" on his show
Limbaugh calls Sotomayor, POTUS Obama Racist
The master of the RWNM and the GOP's official mouthpiece, of course, is Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and it's television propaganda arm, Fox News, who didn't even wait for Barack Obama to win the Presidency before they played the race baiting charge, a card they keep hidden up their sleeve in order to cheat the American electorate out of a intelligent political conversation every chance they get.
After the fair and free election where Americans overwhelmingly rejected the Republicans candidates and elected President Barack Hussein Obama, the GOP's media propaganda arm didn't stop the racism there. They can't help themselves. It is who they are. It defines them.
And, of course, the coup de grâce
"This guy (President Obama), is, I believe, a racist."
And this is ONLY after 7 months into the first African Americans Presidency in US History. There is much I have missed and certainly more and worse to come. This makes me SICK AND MAD AS HELL, and it should make you mad, too.
By refusing to denounce and fire Glenn Beck, Fox News and News Corp has chosen to endorse Glenn Beck's racist projection and race baiting. By refusing to denounce racist statements made by their own party members, the GOP has chosen to endorse racism and race baiting. The only national African American figure, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, in the Republican party who might take offense at this has chosen to turn a blind eye to this racism. I wonder if Micheal understands that the moment he stands up to this blatant and obvious racism he is out on his ass. Fortunatly for Mr. Steele I am sure his landing will be cushioned by the big fat wallet in his back pocket.
It is obvious by now that one of the main objections to this President that his opposition has is rooted in his skin color and his ethnic heritage. The fact that he is Black has "broke their brains", thuugh, one must assume the average Republican still has a brain if they are hanging on to the elephants corpse still.
To deny this is naïve and/or foolish. I deeply dislike the phrase it is what it is, but it is. It is racist and the endorsement of racism. It is proof positive that the Republican party is racist and condones racism as a part of their political platform. To quote one Kossacks screen name Silence Is Complicity, and in this and many other cases, the GOP is guilty as hell.
So, let's decode the Conservative message if we can.
- Obama is going to spread the wealth around, to lazy minorities like President Obama
- Obama is a reverse racist and hates white people, because he is black and hates everyone who isn't like him, just like you.
- Obama is a socialist who will give your hard earned money to brown people just like him.
- Obama is NOT an American citizen, but in fact is a Kenyan and you can tell just by looking at him.
- Obama is a fascist Nazi who wants to kill your grandmother, baby in a death panel and take all control in a violent tyranny that will kill millions and millions and end freedom tommorrowbecause we all know that people like him are violent.
Of course, I don't hold these views myself. This is just my poor attempt to peek into the shrinking minds of the few Republicans who are left in the GOP, an increasingly southern, old, white and uneducated party who is now encouraging parents to keep their children home from scholl instead of subjecting them to a speech by a Black President.
Amazingly, wingnut and OBVIOUSLY WHITE parents are going to oblige. Why?
Maybe it is because they can't trust their children with someone like that.
And all the non white children who go to school that day and don't see as many white students as they will the rest of the school year will know why. They may not know why exactly, but they will know.
Maybe the first questions we should ask Republicans when we engage them in conversation is how they feel about President Obama. I have a feeling their answer will tell us quite a bit about them and how they really feel.
So, as the elected GOP officials, the Right Wing Media outlets and Republican voters calls the legitamatly elected (unlike President George W. Bush {R/War Criminal-Texastan} President Obama a
A Cult of Personality
Elitist
Secret Muslim
Socialist
Communist
Marxist
Fascist
Nazi
Tyrant
Authoritarian
Oligar(c)h
Kenyan
Racist
Reverse racist
UnAmerican
Terrorist friendly
FEMA camp planning
Traitor
and Non American citizen
And worst of all as our fellow Kossack Vyan so clearly points Obama is a damn dirty Liberal
and who knows whatever hell the else they'll be calling him tommorrow, a week from now, a month from now or a year from now,
Just put in the one word they will NEVER speak except by accident, the one word we ALL KNOW is behind all the other names, the one word they dare not speak, and if one should, it will certainly go without consequences as Republicans and their voters sit silent, but their children will know, and they will not need it to be explained. The children are the closest thing to adults in that party.
and that word is soooo ugly I will not repeat it myself, once is too much.
My advice to you, Republican voters, elected officials and the right wing media, can be summed up in six simple words.
GROW UP AND GET OVER IT!
Crossposted at Docudharma.com, The Wild Wild Left.com and The Progressive Electorate.com
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