It’s Friday and what better way to close the week out than with some good old race baiting by House Representative Sheila Jackson Lee. The time has come in this nation to root out this evil. I don’t mean to dismiss the problems of discrimination, but many on the left can’t articulate any argument without shouting racism. It’s offensive and it its way has turned racism into a joke. Basically if you disagree with Obama you’re a racist.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) used the race card this afternoon to assess blame in the debt ceiling fight. Jackson Lee, a black Congresswoman, believes the disagreement over raising the debt ceiling is because of President Obama’s race.
“I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president, only this president, only this one has received the kind attacks and disagreements and inability to work. Only this one,” Jackson Lee said on the House floor this afternoon.
“Read between the lines.”
“What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?”
Real Clear Politics has the video. When President Obama was a senator he voted against raising the debt limit. Apparently Sheila Jackson Lee didn’t notice. She also didn’t notice that the Democrats blocked Bush’s judicial appointments and took the unprecedented step of blocking Bush’s Federal Reserve appointments. The left opposed and stonewalled Bush at every turn. President Bush never demagogued his position like President Obama has done on countless occasions. Obama has even called out the Supreme Court during a State of the Union speech.
Who cares, right? It’s all just partisan nonsense. Lee’s comments are ignorant. What attacks has Obama received that are unprecedented? What kind of nation are we living in when elected officials give speeches like this?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past four years the economy isn’t doing well. Unemployment is at the highest level since before I could tie my shoes. Chronic unemployment is worse than it was during the Great Depression. Typically, crime goes up when the economy tumbles. It’s certainly the case these days. Even here in Sarasota the change is evident.
I’ve gone to Siesta Key to visit the beautiful beach every year since I moved here in 2004. The amount of unruly behavior at the beach has increased dramatically the past two years. This is happening all over the country. Thanks in part to the increase in minimum wage youth unemployment is at record highs. Is it really surprising that youth violence is getting worse? The Drudge Report shed light on all the violent incidents all over the country during Memorial Day weekend. Apparently, this is racist. I know this because David Frum thinks it’s racist.
Who has a word to say when the popular home page of the DrudgeReport strings together local news headlines of college-student rowdiness over Memorial Day to create a (false, obviously) image of the Obama administration licensing a nationwide eruption of African-American anti-white violence?
Is there anyone who hates themself more than David Frum? The quote above comes from an article about the GOP’s prospects in 2012. When I saw the headlines I did what any rational person would do… surmise that violent crime among young people is increasing because of widespread unemployment. David Frum saw the headlines and linked college rowdiness to race and the President. Is Frum a closet racist? Apparently he’s not the only one.
It’s too bad that progressives are obsessed with race. Instead of focusing on the race straw-man perhaps they could rethink their support of minimum wage laws that help contribute to this mess. Unfortunately, most progressives aren’t part of the reality based community. David Frum isn’t a progressive, but he wants to be loved by them, hence Frum’s facincation with nonsense.
The inside the beltway types don’t understand that crime is a problem. I guess they only associate crime with minorities. Isn’t that racist? When a white guy busts a banjo on the head of another beachgoer on Siesta Key the man’s race was irrelevant.
Here’s another entry in the “you can’t make this up” files. The Supreme Court in Delaware overturned a Human Relations Commission (whatever the hell that is) ruling that made a movie theater pay $1,500 to 33 members of an audience who felt that the tone of manager David Stewart was racist.
Apparently, a member of the thought police, a.k.a., Human Relations Commission was in attendance and she felt that asking a mainly African-American audience to silence their cell phones was racist. I’ve been to several opening night shows where the theater was jammed packed and a theater representative asked everyone to behave before the show. These were mainly white audiences so I guess they were immune to the racist tones inherent in asking someone to be quiet.
Now I understand that certain members of our society suffer from a victim mentality. What’s so outrageous about this situation is that there’s a stupid Human Relations Commission that feels obligated to dish out fines if there’s a tone they feel is racist. That it ever reached the Delaware Supreme Court is embarrassing. In a bankrupt state the fact that taxpayers fund a Human Relations Commission is ridiculous. That commission should be abolished.
I have been purposely been avoiding Palinmania because I’m suffering from Palin fatigue. I don’t understand either side of this phenomenon. Many on the left hate her for no reason and many on the right love her because she’s so despised. The whole thing is juvenile. Now that Palin has a book out, the madness continues. Anyway, CNN has an editorial by LZ Granderson a senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com. There have been some stupid columns written about Palin, but this ranks near the top. Evidently, Palin is insensitive to minorities because her book tour doesn’t stop in minority areas.
It just seems that in going to few diversely populated cities, she’s purposefully steering clear of minorities. I mean, what author with a $5 million book deal avoids promoting books in large cities? Palin’s curious tour schedule takes me right back to some of the more disturbing displays during last year’s campaign, when people at some campaign rallies at times made racist remarks. This is not to say I believe Sarah Palin is a racist. But she said or did very little to address the racist ugliness around her during the campaign.
Did Hillary Clinton say or do anything about the “racist ugliness” around her during the campaign? This whole “angry racist crowd” is another myth from the 2008 campaign. What’s so sad is that people like Granderson are so willing to believe such sensationalist nonsense. Granderson, who went to a Palin event, obviously didn’t see any racism, otherwise he would have wrote about it. Instead, he says, “I did get a lot of strange looks from the line, which I guess was to be expected. After all, I’m a black man with dreadlocks and, judging by the racial makeup of most of the cities Palin has scheduled for her tour, it doesn’t seem I’m her target audience.” I guess “strange looks” are open for debate. What does a “strange look” look like? I think this observation says more about Granderson than the crowd itself.
Why should Palin visit areas that have no interest in seeing her? Will that make Granderson feel better? McCain made a series of trips to minority areas untouched by previous Republican campaigns and it didn’t help at all. I wonder how much longer the Democrats will get away with this “Republicans are racist” nonsense. On social issues African Americans share more in common with the religious right than with the Democratic party. The Democrats do have an upper hand when it comes to spending money on government programs to supposedly reduce poverty. For those scoring at home the percentage of people living in poverty in the United States was steadily decreasing for decades before the “War on Poverty.” Since the 1960s the U.S. has spent trillions of dollars and the poverty rate has remained unchanged. Here’s one last bit from Granderson:
As a Midwesterner with some Southern roots, I actually have a lot in common with Palin. I’ve hunted with dogs, fished, had a kid in hockey, I go to church on Sundays and, having worked in New York and L.A., I’ve had my fair share of run-ins with elitist, liberal snobs. This is why I am so profoundly disappointed with her. Instead of using her popularity and influence to highlight our similarities and move the nation forward, she has allowed some of the nation’s most painful wounds to be re-opened to advance her career.
Huh? What has Palin done to re-open wounds? Granderson needs to look outside of his soapbox. He’s trapped like many other Americans in a perception soapbox and unable to decipher fact from fiction. Palin’s only crime is being Republican in a political system that has exonerated Democrats from being racist, I guess because Democrats treat minorities like children and come up with programs that ensure their slavery to the state to the detriment of the individual.
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