{"id":249,"date":"2009-09-28T22:29:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T04:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-09-28T22:29:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T04:29:24","slug":"democratic-racism-bubbles-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Racism “Bubbles Up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Try to imagine the 4th<\/sup> congressional district of Georgia.\u00a0 It is a mostly black district represented by second term Congressman Hank Johnson.\u00a0 The district was represented for many years by one of the most celebrated nutcases in congressional history, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.\u00a0 It is a district which proves, if nothing else, that fools and idiots have a right to be represented in Congress just like everyone else.<\/p>\n

After being defeated in 2002, McKinney served as a member of the 9\/11 Commission\u2026 apparently under the theory that only another insane person could possibly understand the insanity of flying planeloads of innocent people into large buildings just to make a political point.\u00a0 Then, in 2004, McKinney was one of 100 prominent Americans who signed a petition calling for new investigations into the 9\/11 disaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After being reelected in 2004 she took up where she left off two years earlier, criticizing the Bush Administration over the 9\/11 attacks and introducing articles of impeachment against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice<\/a>.\u00a0 However, her congressional career came to an abrupt end when she punched a Capitol Hill Police officer who failed to recognize her as a member of Congress. \u00a0Although it is hard to imagine how the voters in her district could be outraged by any aberrant behavior, apparently the act of striking a police officer was too much even for them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She was defeated by the incumbent, Hank Brown, in the 2006 Democratic primary and Brown took her seat in Congress.\u00a0 According to a September 15 article by Atlanta Journal-Constitution writer Cynthia Tucker, \u201cUntil now, Hank Johnson, a quiet (even boring) Buddhist, has been the perfect antidote to Cynthia McKinney\u2026 But today, he went off on a little McKinney-like tirade<\/a>. \u00a0He told reporters that he supports a resolution reprimanding Joe Wilson (R-SC) because Wilson\u2019s heckling (of Barack Obama) could lead us back to the days of the Ku Klux Klan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referring to Wilson\u2019s \u201cyou lie!\u201d challenge to Obama, Johnson said, \u201cIt did not help the cause of diversity and tolerance with his remarks. \u00a0If I was a betting man, I\u2019d say it instigated more racist sentiment, feeling that it\u2019s OK, that you don\u2019t have to bury it down\u2026 I guess we\u2019ll probably have folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside, intimidating people. \u00a0That\u2019s the logical conclusion if this kind of attitude is not rebuked.\u201d<\/p>\n

That incendiary remark was followed by an equally racist statement by former President Jimmy Carter.\u00a0 When asked by an NBC reporter about the growing animosity toward Obama and his radical healthcare reform proposal, Carter said, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama<\/a> is based on the fact that he is a black man,”<\/p>\n

He went on to say that this \u201cracism inclination still exists. \u00a0And I think it’s bubbled up to the surface because of the belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. \u00a0It’s an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such racist statements could only come from Democrats.\u00a0 They represent thoughts that simply do not pass through the minds of conservatives and Republicans.\u00a0 It was, after all, Republicans who fought and died to eliminate slavery in America.\u00a0 It was Republicans who wrote and passed the 13th<\/sup>, 14th<\/sup>, and 15th<\/sup> Amendments, outlawing slavery and giving blacks citizenship and the right to vote.\u00a0 It was Republicans who consistently wrote and supported civil rights legislation, from 1854 through the civil rights era of the 1950s and \u201860s, against strong Democratic opposition.<\/p>\n

It was Democrats, northern and southern, who supported the extension of slavery through the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.\u00a0 It was Democrats who opposed the 13th<\/sup>, 14th<\/sup>, and 15th<\/sup> Amendments.\u00a0 It was Democrats who wrote and passed the Black Codes and the Jim Crow Laws as a means of keeping black people \u201cin their place\u201d in the post-emancipation era; and it was Democrats who created the Ku Klux Klan as a paramilitary arm of their party, designed to murder and\/or intimidate blacks and white Republicans.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an uncharacteristic moment of candor, Carter once admitted that he had \u201clusted in his heart\u201d after women other than his wife.\u00a0 It is entirely possible, even likely, that as a lifelong Democrat from the deep South, Carter\u2019s racist remarks are nothing more than a \u201cbubbling up\u201d of his own deep-seated enmity toward blacks, burned into his heart and soul throughout his lifetime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It should not go unnoticed that Carter\u2019s own well-documented anti-Semitism, coupled with what appears to be a latent streak of anti-black sentiment, coincides quite nicely with much of the Ku Klux Klan handbook. \u00a0Add just a touch of homophobia, an attitude toward sexual orientation that he almost certainly holds, \u00a0and his personal manifesto on race, ethnicity, and lifestyle would be indistinguishable from that of the Third Reich.<\/p>\n

Is it possible that racist attitudes are at the root of some of the anti-Obama fervor?\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 But it does not come from Republicans and conservatives; it comes from an ever-growing disenchantment among members of his own party.<\/p>\n

In the early months of Obama\u2019s term he enjoyed the enthusiastic support of nearly 60% of the U.S. population.\u00a0 They were people who voted for him either because he was black, because he was a Democrat, or because they agreed with his radical left agenda.\u00a0 Those who voted for him because he was black, or because they agreed with his radical left agenda, are largely still with him.\u00a0 It is the other one-third or more of his support base\u2026 the \u201crednecks,\u201d the \u201cyellow dog\u201d Democrats, discerning Independents, and a significant number of moderate to conservative blacks who didn\u2019t just \u201cfall off the turnip truck\u201d\u2026 that he is losing in large numbers.<\/p>\n

The remaining 40% of the population, conservatives and Republicans, were never with him and it was NOT because of the color of his skin.\u00a0 That was a non-issue because they would have enthusiastically supported a black woman, Condoleezza Rice, as a candidate on the Republican ticket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many of those whose support Obama is now losing were Clinton supporters\u2026 middle and lower income whites, poor whites, unionized factory and construction workers, \u201crednecks,\u201d and \u201cyellow dogs.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 They were people who, during the long primary season, found it difficult to refer to him without mentioning the color of his skin.\u00a0 However, once Hillary was defeated by the party\u2019s far left fringe, almost all of those \u201chereditary\u201d Democrats experienced a \u201ccome to Jesus moment.\u201d\u00a0 Because they were Democrats, and because the Democratic Party is more of a religion to them than the church they attend on Sunday, they swallowed their pride and pulled the lever for Obama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They were joined by a great many independents who simply chose to overlook his radical left agenda, his open-ended promises of \u201chope\u201d and \u201cchange,\u201d his plans to \u201cspread the wealth,\u201d his promise to \u201cbankrupt coal-burning power plants\u201d and drive electric power costs \u201cthrough the ceiling,\u201d his enthusiastic support for \u201ccap-and-trade\u201d legislation, and a host of other promises, any of which promised to do severe damage to our economy and to our republican form of government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But then, after seeing Obama\u2019s runaway spending, and after coming face to face with the notion that, under his cap-and-trade proposal their taxes, heating and cooling, gasoline, and electric power costs could rise by as much as $3,000 or $3,500 per year, per family, they began to have second thoughts.\u00a0 And when Obama moved on to healthcare reform and promised to do the impossible\u2026 insure some 47 million uninsured, while reducing costs and improving quality\u2026 they suddenly knew they\u2019d been had.\u00a0 Even those who can\u2019t seem to figure out that minimum wage increases are always a \u201cwet blanket\u201d on the economy, and invariably cause millions of entry level workers to lose their jobs, were \u00a0suddenly able to figure out that Obama was just another fast-talking snake oil salesman.<\/p>\n

For many of those dedicated Democrats Obama is no longer the \u201cglib young black guy with a teleprompter.\u201d\u00a0 He is back to being, simply, \u201cthat black s.o.b.\u201d\u00a0 To the extent that race enters into Obama\u2019s falling poll numbers, the losses are essentially all within his own party. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The American people are smart enough to know who is being honest with them and who is not.\u00a0 And they are smart enough to recognize what has become a standard Democratic card trick.\u00a0 They see that whenever Democrats can\u2019t win on the merits of the issues, they invariably play the race card.\u00a0 It\u2019s getting to be a tiresome old trick and the voters will likely decide to change the game when they enter the voting booths in November 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Taken together, all of these reactions are evidence of one thing.\u00a0 The American left is coming apart like a cheap sweater and Barack Obama is the guy who is pulling the strings.\u00a0 Jimmy Carter seems to think that racism has \u201cbubbled up to the surface\u201d because many white people believe that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country.\u201d\u00a0 Well, Jimmy, you\u2019re only partly right.\u00a0 I could name a number of black men and women who would be capable of leading our great country.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Barack Obama is not one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American left is coming apart like a cheap sweater and Barack Obama is the guy who is pulling the strings. Jimmy Carter seems to think that racism has \u201cbubbled up to the surface\u201d because many white people believe that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. Well, Jimmy is only partly right. We could name a number of black men and women who would be capable of leading our great country. Unfortunately, Barack Obama is not one of them.<\/p>\n

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