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Race Pimping With Mistuh Jimmy and White Mo
The shamefully cold-blooded marriage between progressivism and race.
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After a couple hundred years of American politics, there are so many candidates for the trophy of Most Outrageous Race Pimping Progressive that space limits. But here’s a small sampling of those who have given the progressive race pimping tradition a special glow, all honored and cherished in some fashion in their day for their handiwork.
Let’s start with Mistuh Jimmy himself, so you can get a feel for how the marriage between progressivism and race pimping works in practice.
Here’s the tale as presented by then-New York Times reporter Jim Wooten, who knew Mistuh Jimmy “for a long time” before he ran for president because Wooten started out as the Atlanta bureau chief of the Times. As a matter of fact, it is Wooten who reports on why and from whom Jimmy Carter acquired the name “Mistuh Jimmy.” This tale emerges from Wooten’s 1978 biography of Mistuh Jimmy titled Dasher — after Mistuh Jimmy’s Secret Service code name. Also sourced here is Mistuh Jimmy’s own tale of his life in his 1976 campaign biography Why Not the Best?
In 1970, Mistuh Jimmy is taking his second — and winning — crack at the Georgia governorship. What was Mistuh Jimmy running on back there in 1970? What political view was he pushing from one end of Georgia to the other? Why — progressivism, of course. Mistuh Jimmy was for progressive penal reform, reorganizing in progressive fashion the antiquated Georgia state government, zero based budgeting, updating the state constitution, hiring the disabled to work as radio operators for the state police. He just loved progressive ideas about tax equalization, education, historic preservation, and so on and on and on. He was a fountain of “progressive” ideas about how to help the people of Georgia.
But of course, since progressives must tend faithfully to the racism side of the marriage, Mistuh Jimmy was nothing if not a star at race pimping. Specifically, this meant he would work with another man actor in the progressive-racist racket.
Mistuh Jimmy needed Mistuh Roy, actually Mistuh Roy Harris.
Mistuh Jimmy had lost the Democratic primary first time out when he ran for governor, back in 1966. To the infamous axe-handle wielding racist Democrat and progressive populist Lester Maddox. Maddox was prohibited under the Georgia constitution from serving a second consecutive term, so Mistuh Jimmy needed to pimp harder to win the Maddox racist vote. Why? His opponent this time around was the much better known former governor Carl Sanders. So it wasn’t enough just to pimp race in any average fashion, bad as that might be. No, sir. Mistuh Jimmy had to do much better — to out pimp the legendary Lester Maddox. So he lined up ex-Democratic governor Marvin Griffin, the man who responded to the idea of integration in Georgia by saying: “Never, no, never!” Now, Griffin’s endorsement in hand, he sought out Mistuh Roy.
Mistuh Roy had fairly well defined views on race as well. How defined? This defined, according to Jim Wooten, who quoted Mistuh Roy’s beliefs on the subject:
“Niggers are niggers and no amount of crossbreeding is going to help them any. The tiniest drop of nigger blood will spoil a man. History shows that. Everybody knows that, and those who don’t know that have probably got some nigger blood in them, that’s all.”
Alrighty then!!! One thing you can say about the people who race pimp, they sure don’t beat around the bush, do they?
As if this kind of race pimping was not enough to get Mistuh Jimmy’s real message across, he decided to race pimp the kids. The well-choreographed visit to a segregated academy in Swainsboro, Georgia, where Mistuh Jimmy was “warmly applauded” by an “all-white” class of sixth graders as he delivered his message that he would do “everything” he could for both this school and similar institutions across the state. In other words, he race pimped sixth graders! Sixth graders!
Then there were the photos distributed. Photos? What photos? It seems that when Carl Sanders was Governor of Georgia, there had been a moment of glory for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. There was a playoff win and the usual champagne dousing of players ensued. On this particular occasion Governor Sanders had shown up to help celebrate. Photos were snapped of the Governor surrounded by jubilant Hawks players, coincidentally all black players, spraying and dousing away in happy victory. The Carter campaign saw yet another chance to race pimp. So “thousands of copies” of a photo of the white Sanders whooping it up with black athletes were distributed across the state. Mistuh Jimmy won. And he won, as no less than the New York Times would acknowledge, by appealing directly to “the white racist vote.” That’s Times-speak for “race pimping.”
Heartwarming, no?
No.
Because the harsh pull-back-the-curtain fact was that Mistuh Jimmy clearly shared Mr. Roy’s “let’s judge others by skin color” attitude or he would have been making an issue of Mr. Roy, not “riding through Augusta” on a “steaming morning in September 1970” race pimping away to get the support of a man whom Wooten described as representing the “mean recalcitrance of a slave-based society, challenged by decency and the United States Constitution.” There would have been no visits to race pimp segregated academies or race pimp a photo showing a white governor with a bunch of black athletes unless Mistuh Jimmy shared the idea that the color of one’s skin was somehow a big deal and race pimping wasn’t a big deal. That’s why he was called “Mistuh Jimmy” in the first place.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Steve| 9.22.09 @ 7:12AM
Shout it out, brother!!!
*One cannot get inside the heads of these people*
Actually, I think one can. They are bifurcated thinkers, forever splitting people into two groups based on a variety of criteria, including race, class, wealth, education, etc.
This mental gymnastic allows them to comfortably macro-break society into two groups: us (the ruling elites) and them (the great unwashed). And they will do whatever other groupings are required in order to maintain the primary split of Us versus Them.
Race-baiting? Class warfare? Whatever it takes.
Pingback| 9.22.09 @ 8:22AM
More on the Democratic/liberal race-baiters | Worth Reading links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Timothy L. Pennell| 9.22.09 @ 8:25AM
It's just 'PROJECTION'. Democrats ALWAYS project their inner Demons on to everybody else. Like when the RAPIST was in the White House. When he got caught with his pants down, literally, and then he went around LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH about it. The big RAPIST even LIED TO A FEDERAL JUDGE, UNDER OATH. And what was the LEFTS' response? "It's no big deal. EVERYBODY does it." CNN even whent so far, as to run a SPECIAL' on 'Why Lying Is Good'.
Then there was the whole Bhuddist Monk, Chinese Restaurant, Red Army ILLEGAL Campaign Cash thingy. Caught RED HANDED, breaking every Campaign Contribution Law on the books, we were told by the LEFT, and their good buddies in the NON BIASED PRESS, that it 'wasn't really the RAPISTS' fault, it was the CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS that were to blame. And, of course, that EVERYBODY DOES IT.
Now we get 'lectures' on how RACIST we all are. NEWSWEEK even did it's best CNN imitation, with a cover story on how ALL WHITE PEOPLE are BORN RACIST. I don't know about you, but I love getting my lectures on RACISM, from a World Renowned ANTI-SEMITE, and a Magazine that is only available in the Dentists' Office Waiting Room, and the floor of the Gas Station Mens Room.
As for the Spinster at Pravda, Miss Dowdy, she WISHES she had a 'BOY'. Or a Man. Or any Male of any species. Whenever I hear HER SPEAK, and I know it's not fair, but I hear, "I agree with you about Dick Cheneys' evilness, and if you want to go in that closet over there, I have a joint and some condoms. PLEEEEEASE. You don't understand how long it's been." Don't you?
Charles Jackson | 9.22.09 @ 10:29AM
BRAVO!!
d brockman| 9.22.09 @ 8:41PM
I loved this. It made my evening!
Jobe| 9.22.09 @ 9:35AM
These two, Dowd and Carter, know full well that race has absolutely nothing to do with the antipathy that normal working Americans feel toward the poseur in the White House. He is abhorred for the simple reason that he seeks to change the basics of our nation, to sovietize it. He wants a massive, heavily indebted, centrally planned government in the face of overwhelming evidence that this approach to nationhood has always failed by producing so much misery that the miserable finally rebel.
Richard Baker| 9.22.09 @ 10:56AM
Remember, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were only passed due to Republican support. So much for racism. That the regressives want the blacks on their voting plantation is not hard to discern.
WeeWillie| 9.22.09 @ 11:15AM
There is nothing new under the sun. Progressives create a problem and the blame others as they try to "solve" the problem. Federal Civil service was integrated in 1910. The American Military was significantly integrated in 1910.
After accepting Negro support in 1912 Wilson segregated civil service and the military and set race relations back 40 years.
Mrs. Wilson as her presidential wifely duty went around Washington DC and repainted the "colored signs on water fountains and restrooms.
bobmontgomery| 9.22.09 @ 11:29AM
The truth shall set you free.
Alan Brooks| 9.22.09 @ 11:31AM
Liberal guilt. Eating Jim and Mo up. See how sick they both look.
Liberal guilt ate my parents up-- a wonder they both died at 80 instead of 70.
bobmontgomery| 9.22.09 @ 11:31AM
See also Thomas Sowell today.
Anthony| 9.22.09 @ 12:08PM
I guess white MO and Mistuh Jimmy forget that there was a time when Republicans and conservatives were gaga over the prospect of Gen. Powell running for president as a Republican.
In the leftist world of hallucinations, this inconvenient fact would not register with either of them. Hegemony is a rigid construct, no room for divergence.
As much as I've come to be completely repulsed by Powell over the course of the past few years, nonetheless, his presidency might very well have precluded that the incompetent who now holds the office would have been elected. Of course, Powell would have had to contend with MoDo and her hate filled fellow wingnuts at the Times. I bet a Powell presidential run would have caused multiple MoDo auditory hallucinations. Might she have heard phrases like "Uncle Tom" or "sell out"? Let's ask MoDo and see which personality of hers answers.
Pingback| 9.22.09 @ 1:53PM
Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : Race Pimping With Mistuh Jimmy and W links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Marc Jeric| 9.22.09 @ 3:04PM
Imagine my surprise after arriving to America, having escaped from a communist hell, to read the NY Times and the Washington Post, and finding no difference between them and the Moscow Pravda and Izvyestiya. And that was back in late 1960's.
Michael L. Hauschild| 9.22.09 @ 4:11PM
Mr. Lord,
I will categorically state that in the case of this submission you should plead temporary insanity. Who are you talking to? Who are you trying to persuade? A wordsmith of your craft certainly does not need to resort to the buzzwords contained in this piece, and certainly should be able to get his point across without using the horrific quote you included. It is gasoline on the fire and will be fodder for all the Huffingtonettes with the cut (out of context) and paste (with your by-line) who seek red meat.
You certainly should be able to communicate and we conceptualize what you write without resorting to including, even in a quote, the most offensive epitaph possible.
Pingback| 9.22.09 @ 4:48PM
Steele Slams Jimmy Carter about Democrats’ ‘Pathetic Distraction’: “This Isn’t about links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Angel| 9.22.09 @ 4:57PM
"White Mo." Perfect name for the frigid, thin-lipped shrew, Dowd. Ouch!
Jeffrey Lord| 9.22.09 @ 5:15PM
Michael L. Hauschild...
The "horrific quote" appears intact and exactly in Mr. Wooten's book on Carter, which was at the time (1978) well received and well within the mainstream. Mr. Wooten. then a NY Times reporter and later a correspondent for ABC News, did not flinch, as the quote exactly demonstrated the kind of man with whom Jimmy Carter quite deliberately sought out to help get him elected.
It is indeed offensive, and originally I did the "N...." bit. But in fact, I was disturbed by Mr. Carter's casual attack on those whose only sin is to disagree with their elected president (Obama)on a major issue of the day. These disagreements are certainly not about race. The casual nature...and it was casual...of Carter's latest words dictated that the accurate - the dead accuarate - sentiments of a Carter ally be expressed in the original. Suffice to say, I found them extremely offensive. Having spent considerable time in the political world, the notion of dealing with someone like this is something that would never, ever be on the board. It was for Jimmy Carter...and there are people aplenty today who have no idea of his record.
Now they do. It is not pretty, and I for one refuse to clean it up. This is his problem - a problem that I believe he still has, or he would not so casually and apparently without concern impute that millions of his fellow Americans are racists because they have a different view on health care.
Jimmy Carter is, self-evidently, shameless. I have no hesitation in shining a light on the exact historical record to remind with precision - a precision supplied by Mr. Wooten - just how Mr. Carter got where he is.
Apologies if you take offense. I share the offense. Jimmy Carter does not - and the generation of today needs to know.
Angel| 9.22.09 @ 6:28PM
Don't sugarcoat the truth, Jeff: Jimmy Carter is an ugly human being--and so is Maureen Dowd. It's about time we fight fire with fire. I'm sick and tired of having the cr@p kicked out of us.
I, for one, admire your courage; keep it up. You have lots of fans!
Michael L. Hauschild| 9.22.09 @ 7:32PM
Apology accepted.
Nobama| 9.22.09 @ 8:40PM
Now, will someone PLEASE apologize for the existence of Carter and Dowd? That's what I call offensive!
American of the ages| 9.23.09 @ 1:59AM
Wow. Even your regular racist commenters are staying away form this trainwreck.
I have heard that Jeffrey Lord like sucking cocks. I support this.
Nobama| 9.23.09 @ 3:29AM
Typical liberal--no argument, just vicious personal attacks. Another perfect example of a piece of human excrement liberal.
Pingback| 9.23.09 @ 10:32AM
“Carter Is a Blowhard”: Mark Levin’s Take on Jimmy Carter’s Racism Remarks, ACORN’s links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
drudge ette obama| 9.24.09 @ 6:58AM
I remember reading a story in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution sometime in the 1980s about the starvation problem in Africa. Jimmy Cater was quoted something to the effect that he didn't know how many black children's lives would equal one of his Amy's life. I have tried very hard to find that quote, but haven't been able to yet. I remeber at the time how bizarre it sounded - a rare moment of candor from Jimmy which revealed his white guilt and probable racist underpinnings.
Pingback| 10.13.09 @ 7:03PM
Ed Driscoll » The Faith-Based Encyclopedia In Action links to this page. Here’s an excerpt: