One useful insight to emerge from the Shirley Sherrod
episode is that
it puts into high relief the endemic "negrophilia" of much
of the Democratic Party.
Essentially this is a form of reverse racism and "liberal
white guilt" made into
some kind of virtue.
Personally, I am sick of it, am disgusted by it, and angry
about it.
There are other manifestations of the same thing which have
effected me
all along, like Rap so-called music, which is ubiquitous in
some circles.
But it can be seen in many other contexts, everything that
can be called
a form of affirmative action, including, or especially, in
the mass media.
Other ethnic groups do not receive this kind of treatment,
and need to
achieve things in life strictly on merit. This is true of
Indian-Americans,
Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, and you name it. It
was true
for my dark skinned step-father, it was true for my
sister's ex-husband
who is Jewish. For that matter, a good number of black
people do, indeed,
make it to the top because of merit.
Alas, a significant % become ":successes" because people
in power
want to look good , then promote the incompetent because
they are
black, and black people are the face of America's "sinful
past" and
should be compensated accordingly.
What unmitigated crap. Especially since --and , believe
me, I have known
all too many-- a notable % of black people devalue
education and devalue
traditional American culture, and deliberately disdain
achievement in school
or civil society. And the rest of us are supposed to accept
this sort of thing
and regard it as perfectly OK ?
Howard Dean called Fox TV "racist." Not exactly the first
Lefty to do so.
And, while I have little use for some Fox programs, Glenn
Beck and Hannity
come to mind with no trouble at all, and sometimes
O'Reilly, the news show,
"Special Report,"is the best news and analysis program on
TV.
Yet Dean characterizes Fox as racist. Special Report
regularly features
Juan Williams, as black as anyone gets, and as smart as
anyone gets, also.
It also features Charles Krauthammer and Bill Kristol, who
are Jews,
and Mara Liason, a white liberal woman, among others.
Seems to me that the Howard Dean wing of the Democratic
Party is pathological.
Just my humble opinion.
Billy
Howard Dean: Fox News 'absolutely racist' in Sherrod
flap
By Matt DeLong
In a heated discussion on "Fox News Sunday," former
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said
that Fox's conduct during the Shirley Sherrod firestorm last
week was "absolutely racist." From the
transcript:
Let's just be blunt about this. I don't think
Newt Gingrich is a racist, and you're certainly not a
racist, but I think Fox News did something that was
absolutely racist.
They took a -- they had an obligation to find out what
was really in the clip. They had -- they had been
pushing a theme of black racism with this phony Black
Panther crap and this business and Sotomayor and all
this other stuff. You -- I think you've got to be very
-- I think the -- look the Tea Party called out their
racist fringe, and I think the Republican Party's got to
stop appealing to its racist fringe. And Fox News is
what did that.
Host Chris Wallace shot back that Sherrod had already
been forced to resign from her post at the U.S. Department
of Agriculture before Fox News mentioned her name on the
air, after a misleadingly edited videotape surfaced on a
conservative website that appeared to show her telling an
NAACP crowd in March that she withheld assistance from a
white farmer because of his race. An unedited version of
the tape later showed that Sherrod had actually used the
anecdote to show how she had overcome her own racial
biases in the mid-1980s. Sherrod later received apologies from
the White House was offered her old job
back.
Dean later appeared to cede that Fox had not aired the
edited tape before Sherrod stepped down, but said it was
irrelevant.
I don't think it matters whether it was before
or after. The question is you played it. You didn't do
your job ...
And there's been this ongoing theme about black racism
in America. I agree with Newt [Gingrich] that racism has
no place in America, whether it's black, white, Latino,
or anything else.
Fox has drawn criticism from the left for fueling racial
tensions with its heavy coverage of a voter intimidation
case involving members of the New Black
Panther Party in 2008. Critics of the Obama administration
have pointed to the case as an example of the White House
ignoring the civil rights of white voters.
Appearing opposite Dean, former House speaker Newt
Gingrich (R-Ga.) said the Sherrod incident demonstrated
the White House's "continued incompetence." Gingrich
deflected criticism of his own rush to judgment on the
Sherrod affair, in which he called Sherrod's comments
"viciously racist" before the unedited tape came to light,
saying that he was "operating in the context of the
secretary of agriculture having summarily fired her, and
therefore there was no reason to disbelieve the clip."
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