Re: [AsburyPark] Why Katrina is misused as a Race Card

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 19:06:22 -0700

In reference to BB82's comment:

There is
a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to
get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only
an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through
which to make themselves prominent before the public.
Your post sounds as though it came from one of the bloviators on conservative talk-radio: a broad concept made without naming names or offering any evidence, and which in itself plays the race card and the politics of division.
 
I'll give you a name: Ken Mehlman, Republican Party chairman.  He apologized this year for his party's use of the "southern strategy"  since the Nixon era.  His party, he says, was quilty of "trying to benefit politically from racial polarization."  The right has been winning elections for thirty-some years using that card (e.g., the Willie Horton ads).
 
If you try hard, you can probably find some anecdotal evidence that the left has used mirrored versions of the race card, but before you start throwing out accusations,... something like "pots calling kettles," and "people in glass houses."
 
BTW:  If you Google the quote above, you'll get only about 400 hits, and only 4 from Google news when thousands of hits are typical at Google.  So much for the so-called "liberal media"
 
mjd
 

========Original Message========
Subj: [AsburyPark] Why Katrina is misused as a Race Card
Date: 9/3/2005 8:20:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the
troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the
public.  Having learned that they are able to make a living out of
their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising
their wrongs – partly because the want sympathy and partly because it
pays.  Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his
grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. And, There is
a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to
get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only
an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through
which to make themselves prominent before the public.




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