Over the years I've observed that there is a bizarre strain of "Left" minded white person who thinks that because they aren't right wingers...that they can talk about black people as if they are one.
It keeps happening over and over again...and it's ALWAYS UGLY.
Whether it's calling in to question President Obama's "blackness" by saying if he were a "real" black President he'd be willing to bust a cap in Republican's asses like criminal thug Suge Knight.
Using Black Face to attack politicians you don't like.
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Or saying that they are only reminded that he is black when they see him playing basketball.
They could barely contain their joy when Cornel West launched a viciously RACIST diatribe about how Barack Obama was simply a white man in black face.Making ludicrous claims that Obama was afraid of "free" black men and only comfortable around white jewish men. (Get it...he's a puppet of Jew Bankers...no anti-semitism here..SMH). I guess "brotha" Cornel forgot about the times when young Barack was dodging stray bullets on the South Side of Chicago trying to help under privileged black folks.
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For some reason these white folks think that THEY TO can join in on the fun and accuse black folks of being "House Niggas" and "Uncle Tom's"
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Guess what... You can't (well technically they can...but we're not gonna let them get away with it)
Over the last few days idiot right wingers have been tripping all over themselves to say stupid shit about Nelson Mandela...but almost none of them have said anything as dumb and revealing as this.
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"The lionization of Mandela follows a familiar pattern. Radicals and revolutionaries who betray their former militancy to become accommodationist scoundrels win Nobel Peace Prizes, high office and nice tweets after their die. That’s why former “terrorists” like Mandela, Gerry Adams, Gandhi and Yassir Arafat who stop fighting for their causes and accept establishment sinecures get lionized. Those who hold firm and keep fighting for the people, like Malcolm X, are scorned — compared to the relatively safe/peaceful MLK. The media loves the sellouts, hates the heroes."
It's really hard for me to fathom the ignorance, arrogance and privilege that could lead a white man to utter such bullshit.Mandela, MLK and these other great leaders risked their lives to uplift their people. In many cases they
GAVE THEIR LIVES to the cause of freedom and equality.They were beaten, imprisoned & assassinated for their causes.They showed great courage and for that they are remembered as heroes the world over.
The idea that someone who has NEVER had to undergo the hardships that these people have...could arrogantly mock them as SELLOUTS is beneath contempt.
The RACIST resentment leaps off the page. This is Stormfront shit.The kind of stuff you read in the Ron Paul Newsletter.
Ironically trying to mask it as being Hipster - hyper black power nonsense isn't fooling anyone.
Attempting to wrap this hate-filled bullshit in "progressive / leftist" sheets only serves to undermine the left.The fact that large numbers of "progressives" claim to PROUDLY consume this type of media and passionately defend it...is deeply troubling.
When you can't tell the difference between something a teabagger has written about a black leader...and a "progressive" critique...we have a problem.
9:28 AM PT: For those of you DESPERATELY trying to dismiss this diary by claiming it's all about Ted Rall.
Take Note: I made references to
Jane Hamsher
Bill Maher
Ralph Nader
Cornel West
Chris Matthews
If one of them goes in to a racist rant about Mandela & MLK being sellouts tomorrow...I will write about that as well.This diary is about racist acceptance on the left.