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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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Now. Let’s give some context to the race pimping sentiments expressed by Mistuh. Jimmy and White Mo, sentiments that are clearly focused on judging others by race.
What’s important to understand here is the hand-in -glove aspect of all of this. The life-giving necessity of racism to the political existence of progressivism. It is now and has always been the very oxygen provided by the first that gives the second the room to breathe.
There simply isn’t space here to list the entire history of those who, in a fashion ranging from the cold-blooded to the casual, have displayed in word and/or deed their fervent belief in the progressive-race pimping way of political life. Here’s a small sampling:
• Woodrow Wilson, a white man who served as the progressive President of Princeton University, Governor of New Jersey and President of the United States. Wilson, a rabid segregationist, segregated the federal government while creating the progressive “New Freedom.” He created the Federal Reserve, supported tough anti-trust laws, establishing the federal farm loan program, and — yes — the “progressive” federal income tax.
• Josephus Daniels, a white man who was the leading progressive journalist of his day as the publisher of the Raleigh News-Observer in North Carolina. In this capacity he was a strong supporter of progressive causes such as child labor laws public education and government ownership of telephones, telegraphs and all private radio transmitters. Mr. Daniels was also Secretary of the Navy under Wilson and Ambassador to Mexico under FDR. Like Wilson a rabid segregationist, Daniels segregated the United States Navy.
• Theodore Bilbo, a white man who served as Senator and Governor of Mississippi. Called “Bilbo the Builder” as governor because of his devotion to public works, including a state highway and hospitals. He also outlawed public hangings. A staunch defender of the poor, the unemployed, farmers, veterans, and public schools, he was a fierce opponent of bankers and the rich. Once elected to the Senate he was a strong supporter of FDR’s establishment of Social Security, providing his vote for it in the Senate when the program was created in 1935. Bilbo was a notorious segregationist, member of the Ku Klux Klan and author of Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization.
• J. William Fulbright, a white man educated at Oxford University, a Rhodes Scholar, the progressive president of the University of Arkansas, Congressman and Senator from Arkansas, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A segregationist, as a Senator he was a signer of the infamous “Southern Manifesto” which proclaimed opposition to integration, specifically the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.
• George Wallace, a white man who served as the progressive Governor of Alabama. Focused on a progressive platform of jobs and education (he established the Alabama junior college system), he famously promised “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
• Howell Raines, a white man who served as the progressive Executive Editor of the progressive New York Times. Raines was a strong proponent of the latest progressive trend in journalism known as “advocacy journalism” and pushed the Times in that direction. He resigned in disgrace from the Times when it was discovered that he had hired reporter Jayson Blair because of his race — Blair is black — and that Blair was in fact plagiarizing his work. Warned of Blair’s unqualified work, the Times was force to admit Raines deliberately kept Blair at his post because of his skin color.
• Al Sharpton, a black man who is a progressive activist headquartered in New York City. A staunch supporter of all things progressive whether the issue is jobs, health care, the war in Iraq or education, to name a handful. As with Carter, Bilbo, and Wallace, he targets a racial audience, in this case black Americans, to build his political following for progressive causes. Using the language of anti-Semitism, (“diamond merchants”) to black followers, he has led a march through the streets of heavily black Crown Heights in Brooklyn with protesters yelling of Jews “Whose streets? Our streets!” He was a staunch supporter of what proved to be the false rape allegations of a 15-year-old African-American girl Tawana Brawley against a white cop and inveighed against the “white interloper” in what Sharpton considered to be black territory — Harlem.
• Van Jones, a black man who served until recently as the progressive “Green Jobs Czar” in the Obama Administration. An activist in all manner of progressive causes from crime to the environment, his use of race pimping techniques extended from his support of cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to the environment, as evidenced in this now infamous race pimping quote unearthed by Fox commentator Glenn Beck: “The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities because they don’t have a racial justice frame.” “Racial justice,” of course, is pimp-speak for judging others by skin color.
• Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic woman who has just taken a seat on the United States Supreme Court. A life-long progressive, she actively supported the concept of judging others by skin color as far back as her student days at Princeton. Whether belonging to Acción Puertorriqueña, a student group formed on racial grounds, or as co-chair at Yale Law School of a race-based group for Latin, Asian, and Native American — but not white or black — students, or her famous remark that she views her role on the bench as a racial one of being a “Wise Latina” Sotomayor has made plain her devotion to race as a yardstick of measurement in American society.
Each and every one of these “progressives”, and countless others unmentioned, race pimped their way to political power by pitting one race against another. They race pimped for the presidency, governorships, and Senate seats. They race pimped in the name of giving people jobs, educating children, taking care of veterans, building hospitals and highways, cleaning up the environment, ending wars, and creating a life filled with “justice” for you and me. So who cares how they do it? The cause is worthy, right?
We end with our favorite, White Mo. She of the white owned New York Times with the white run editorial board and the majority white columnist crew. White Mo, who looked at the chief executive of the United States delivering a serious policy speech on health care and saw…yes indeedy, surprise surprise…a black president. Not the president of the United States. Nooooooooooo. Not our White Mo. She saw, in her words, “a black man” who is president of the United States. Not a president of the United States who happens to be black. And hearing a congressman shout “You lie!” she saw race there too.
But of course she did. As the late Jack Kemp might say, “White Mo knows a lot about black people. She met one once.”
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: