Harry Reid and the Racist Democrat Party
"I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' no baby, Miss Scarlet!"
That memorable line by Prissy, Butterfly McQueen, in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind never struck anyone as being racist, but that was over 70 years ago.
Today, in our far more enlightened age and thanks to ceaseless racial agitation, almost any slip of the lip can evoke charges of racism, charges that have a way of sticking to Republicans and are quickly shaken off by the historic party of racism, the teflon-coated Democrats.
Apparently, we're not nearly as enlightened as we'd like to think. The more things change...
Without stressing ancient history back to Lincoln the Great Emancipator versus the slave-owning Democrats of the Confederate South or even back to FDR who never met a racist he didn't like, in his Cabinet or on the Supreme Court, race in America today has become a defining feature of our lives and culture.
And that despite the high hopes of a "post-racial America" following the election of the first bi-racial president a year ago.
The Democrat Party has had a lock on the Black vote in this country since FDR's New Deal, which is ironic since "coloreds" suffered most from that raw deal. Another influx of "Negroes" into the so-called Party of the People came after LBJ inaugurated his Great Society, which is even more ironic since nothing in the last century contributed more to "African American" woes and to the disintegration of African American families.
Sufferings, woes, and disintegrations notwithstanding, Blacks continue to stick to the Democrats. Last November, some 98% voted for Barack Obama and the man who said during the primaries that he was a "bright and clean" African-American, Joe Biden. "Bright and clean" as opposed to the more typical dumb and dirty African-Americans, Joe?
Such language from a Republican would have caused him to be drummed out of politics.
That drumming happened to Mississippi Senator Trent Lott when he praised former Democrat segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond at the latter's 100th birthday party.
Lott apologized to no avail. The crime had been committed and there would be no remission of such a Republican sin. Fortunately for Trent, Robespierre was long gone and Lott's head is still attached.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid need have no trepidations over being beheaded or over any other repercussions to his latest racial faux pas. His standard issue teflon coating will save him after he was outed in a new book, Game Change, for uttering what for a Republican would be an unforgiveable, racist comment.
He first lied and denied saying it but his words were right there in black and white: "He (Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama- a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one:' " http://bit.ly/6Ry69r
My, my, my. A "light-skinned" African-American who could turn his "Negro dialect" on and off at will? What does the shade of Obama's skin have to do with anything? Was Reid suggesting that a "dark-skinned" African-American would be problematic? And what's this use of the now-derogatory word "Negro?" Isn't that racist? And did Harry mean that Obama was a language fraud who tailors his rhetoric and dialect to his audience?
Needless to say, Senator Reid wasn't asked those questions.
As with Trent Lott, Harry also apologized. Unlike Trent Lott, his apology was accepted forthwith. After all, Reid's not a Republican.
Next: The Racist History of the Democrat Party
That memorable line by Prissy, Butterfly McQueen, in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind never struck anyone as being racist, but that was over 70 years ago.
Today, in our far more enlightened age and thanks to ceaseless racial agitation, almost any slip of the lip can evoke charges of racism, charges that have a way of sticking to Republicans and are quickly shaken off by the historic party of racism, the teflon-coated Democrats.
Apparently, we're not nearly as enlightened as we'd like to think. The more things change...
Without stressing ancient history back to Lincoln the Great Emancipator versus the slave-owning Democrats of the Confederate South or even back to FDR who never met a racist he didn't like, in his Cabinet or on the Supreme Court, race in America today has become a defining feature of our lives and culture.
And that despite the high hopes of a "post-racial America" following the election of the first bi-racial president a year ago.
The Democrat Party has had a lock on the Black vote in this country since FDR's New Deal, which is ironic since "coloreds" suffered most from that raw deal. Another influx of "Negroes" into the so-called Party of the People came after LBJ inaugurated his Great Society, which is even more ironic since nothing in the last century contributed more to "African American" woes and to the disintegration of African American families.
Sufferings, woes, and disintegrations notwithstanding, Blacks continue to stick to the Democrats. Last November, some 98% voted for Barack Obama and the man who said during the primaries that he was a "bright and clean" African-American, Joe Biden. "Bright and clean" as opposed to the more typical dumb and dirty African-Americans, Joe?
Such language from a Republican would have caused him to be drummed out of politics.
That drumming happened to Mississippi Senator Trent Lott when he praised former Democrat segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond at the latter's 100th birthday party.
Lott apologized to no avail. The crime had been committed and there would be no remission of such a Republican sin. Fortunately for Trent, Robespierre was long gone and Lott's head is still attached.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid need have no trepidations over being beheaded or over any other repercussions to his latest racial faux pas. His standard issue teflon coating will save him after he was outed in a new book, Game Change, for uttering what for a Republican would be an unforgiveable, racist comment.
He first lied and denied saying it but his words were right there in black and white: "He (Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama- a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one:' " http://bit.ly/6Ry69r
My, my, my. A "light-skinned" African-American who could turn his "Negro dialect" on and off at will? What does the shade of Obama's skin have to do with anything? Was Reid suggesting that a "dark-skinned" African-American would be problematic? And what's this use of the now-derogatory word "Negro?" Isn't that racist? And did Harry mean that Obama was a language fraud who tailors his rhetoric and dialect to his audience?
Needless to say, Senator Reid wasn't asked those questions.
As with Trent Lott, Harry also apologized. Unlike Trent Lott, his apology was accepted forthwith. After all, Reid's not a Republican.
Next: The Racist History of the Democrat Party
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