The Pink Flamingo :: Defining Racism Down

If there was a rational discussion about racism in this country, what Hispanics are experiencing and what my sister’s neighbor Steve Cohen (extremely liberal) is going through I think the rabble roused by Barack Obama would be a half way decent thing. The problem, though, is he is re-defining racism into something that it is not. No longer is racism a terrible, disgusting thing, but the new definition is any criticism of Barack Obama. It doesn’t matter if he deserves that criticism or not. Any commentary on Barack Obama’s character that comes from a person who is not of his race is construed as racism. Very good, decent people, such as Dave at Oricus basically consider any commentary against Barack Obama as a racist attack.

The problem is when this happens, it's like the little kid who cried wolf. When real racism does rear it's nasty head, will we know how to recognize it?

The other day I was doing a Thursday Thirteen on great baseball players. I was trying to find a clip of Henry Aaron hitting #715. All I could find were clips of that little steroid freak Barry Bonds and commentaries on how white people who opposed him were doing so because of race. I am white. I want to see him under the jail. I am not racist. I am sticking up for Henry Aaron. Have these morons forgotten that Henry Aaron and Barry Bonds are of the same race? I don't know if you remember the racism, threats, and death threats endured by Henry Aaron in his quest for immortality, but when supporters of Barack Obama wring their well manicured little polished hands and cry their fake tears of racism I want to throw up. What Henry Aaron endured, was nothing compared to what Jackie Robinson went through. Think about that one.

Barack Obama is a fake.

BLAME MCCAIN
So now they are trying to turn John McCain into a racist.

“…Wait, it gets worse. According to The Atlantic's Matthew Yglesias, McCain doesn't even need to dog-whistle Dixie in order to be making appeals to racism. Yglesias opines that for McCain merely to talk about his military record is "the best way I can think of to try to take advantage of older people's potential discomfort with the idea of a woman or a black man in the White House that doesn't involve exploiting racism or sexism in a discreditable way" (emphasis his). This is a bit confusing, since it implies that Yglesias believes there are creditable ways to exploit "older people's" purported racial prejudices. Besides, as blogger Tom Maguire points out, anyone who is disinclined to vote for Obama because he is black probably won't have too much trouble ascertaining that McCain is a person of pallor. But you can see where all this is going. If Obama is the Democratic nominee, the liberal message will be that a vote for McCain is a vote for racism. Our guess it that this will not be a winning campaign strategy: Most nonblack voters will be put off by this kind of crude moral intimidation. If McCain wins, liberal mythmakers will insist it is because America is a racist country, and their logic will be as airtight as Stoller's and Yglesias's. Whether for political reasons or out of their own moral vanity, those who claim they want "racial reconciliation" are all too eager to practice divisive, if stupid, politics….”

BULLIES ON THE LEFT
From Today’s WSJ’s Opinion Diary: John Fund

“…Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic Party's 1984 presidential candidate, is still smarting from attacks leveled against her last month for suggesting that Barack Obama owes his meteoric political rise partly to his skin color. She was at Fox News in New York last night to comment on the suspension of Air America liberal talk show host Randi Rhodes for her comments this week calling both Ms. Ferraro and Hillary Clinton "whores" and for comparing Ms. Ferraro to "David Duke in drag." Ms. Ferraro told me in the green room that she doesn't miss having stepped down from Mrs. Clinton's fundraising committee as a result of the controversy, but the charge of racism rankles her. She is contemplating legal action against Ms. Rhodes because her words "were clearly inflammatory.... they come on top of the threats I've been getting for weeks."…”

RE-DEFINING RACISM
Racism is a horrible thing. It destroys lies. It ruins people. It gets people killed. It can be quiet and silent, but still there. It can be overt and in your face. To say there is no racism against Barack Obama would be wrong. There are people who oppose him simply because of his skin color.

Why though, should honest, decent, non racist people be attacked for their honest and honorable opposition to him and to his policies be damned by the racist epitaph?

Who is the worst? The honest person with honest differences or the person who exploits non existent racism for political gain?