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Serwer in the Sewer
Race-baiting accuser should look in mirror.
The cheapest, most trite, and most vilely dishonest refuge of a leftist sycophant is to suggest that conservatives’ motives are racist. It’s an especially tawdry trick when it’s used to hide racialist (note the difference between the two words) actions by their lefty brethren. In that context, meet Adam Serwer, hack scribe for the American Prospect and blogger for the Washington Post, who won’t answer substantive correctives to his own flawed work but who repeatedly makes bald assertions, without evidence, that conservatives long for the days of Jim Crow — or maybe apartheid. The truth, however, is that the conservatives and centrists fighting for election integrity and equal enforcement of the law have impeccable records on civil rights, while the Obama Justice Department for which Serwer so avidly covers up has a demonstrable record of mendacity, lawlessness and bias.
Serwer ordinarily wouldn’t be worth bothering with, except insofar as his idiocies provide a case study of how left repeatedly uses the wolf-cry of conservative racism (see: Obama says Tea Party is racist) to poison the well — yes, destroy the “civility” — of public discourse.
Serwer’s March 9 post accusing Republicans of a War on Voting was typical. He starts right in like this (my emphasis added): “The GOP generally supports felony disenfranchisement laws because they disproportionately affect blacks who tend to vote for Democrats.” How does he know this is the motive? He doesn’t say. What evidence does he cite? He doesn’t. He just makes the blanket assertion, unmoored to any actual facts. Or maybe the right isn’t purely racist, but still vilely political: “Florida Republicans are moving to restrict the voting power of a Democratic constituency in a presidential swing state, nothing more, nothing less.” Then this: “Republican legislatures all over the country are actively pursuing policies that could disenfranchise thousands of people because they are more likely to vote for the other side.” This is actually somewhat less offensive an allegation as the ones from earlier columns that there is a “feverish alternate universe of racial resentment in which some conservatives seem to reside” and that “conservatives’ priorities here speak for themselves, and they aren’t what anyone could describe as ‘race-neutral’.” Finally, the real aim of conservatives, he has written, is “discrediting the whole concept of civil rights enforcement.”
This is slander, pure and simple. Why the Washington Post allows it, even in its blogging pages, is a mystery. It’s also absurd.
In his most recent column Serwer again insinuates that these supposedly bad motives are the key explanation for why “Republicans treat the New Black Panther voter intimidation case as an outrage.” Okay, fine: Let’s examine the history of those on the right and center who have insisted on keeping the Black Panther case — and, more importantly, the window it opens into Justice Department mis-practices — in the public eye.
Start with the first key witness to the Black Panther intimidation at the Philadelphia polling place. (This aspect of the case has been well publicized, but please bear with me.) Bartle Bull, who called the Panther incident “the most blatant form of voter intimidation I’ve ever seen,” was a Bobby Kennedy lieutenant who did legal work for black civil rights activists in Mississippi in the 1960s. He was a former owner/publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, and Ted Kennedy himself gave Bull a gold medal in 2003 for his civil rights work. Yet, to believe Serwer, Bull is at least knowingly in league with those whose goal is “discrediting the whole concept of civil rights enforcement.” Right.
And who might those evil, anti-civil rights crusaders be? Well, of course, there is the original whistle-blower, J. Christian Adams, mortally suspect because, gasp, he was hired at DoJ (as a non-political career attorney) during the Bush administration. Worse, Adams went to law school in South Carolina. Oh, he must be a racist. None of which, though, squares with the facts of his record at the Civil Rights Division of DoJ. It was a record of consistently good reviews, cash awards for excellent work, and promotions — including a promotion, signed off on by the Obama appointees, just weeks before he resigned in protest. Most to the point, Adams won a special commendation for his work on behalf of black voters in Georgetown County, South Carolina.
One of his colleagues on the immediate attorney team on the Black Panther case, Robert Popper, also won a special commendation from DoJ, his for work enforcing the part of the “Motor Voter” law allowing welfare recipients to register to vote at government aid offices. Then there was the top attorney on the team, fellow whistle-blower Christopher Coates. As has by now been well-publicized, Coates is no Kluxer . A former staff attorney for the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project (gee, how reactionary!) and winner of the Thurgood Marshall Decade Award from the Georgia NAACP in 1991, his career within DoJ on behalf of civil rights was similarly distinguished, including selection for the Walter Barnett Memorial Award for Excellence and Advocacy.
In Congress, the chief pursuer of answers about the Panther case has been Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., who once bucked the entire rest of the Virginia delegation and Cavalier State newspapers to support civil rights legislation. On the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, all five of the commissioners pushing the investigation into the skullduggery have distinguished records. Probably the most vociferous driver of the inquiry was Todd Gaziano, who started his career on the staff of (and served as official biographer for) liberal Democratic Sen. Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, who voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 even as fellow Mountaineer State Democrat Robert Byrd filibustered the bill for 14 straight hours. Fellow commissioner Gail Heriot started her career by clerking for Illinois Supreme Court Justice Seymour Simon, aptly described in the Chicago Tribune as a “liberal Democratic icon.” The three other commissioners — Gerald Reynolds, Peter Kirsanow, and Ashley Taylor — all happen to be black men. Unless one believes in the mythical self-hating black man along with mermaids and centaurs and the Gorgons, it’s hard to believe they are out to disenfranchise black voters. All three boast tremendously distinguished legal careers, and all have steadfastly insisted that the Obama/Holder team’s conduct in the Panther case has been abominable.
Finally, while a column should not be about the columnist, I feel compelled to note that no professional journalist has written more words on the Panther case than I have, ever since I helped break the story on May 29 2009. (Credit where due: I later found out that the indefatigable Michelle Malkin broke the story in cyber-print a day earlier.) And I’ll take a back seat to nobody on fighting for black rights and interests. Among a much longer list of activities I could cite, I served as a leader on three different fronts of the effort to stop the then-meteoric political rise in Louisiana of former KKK Gran Wizard David Duke — including being on the original ten-person board of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, which earned international acclaim for its successful work against Duke. As a columnist in Mobile, Alabama, I crusaded against white racism in the private sector, repeatedly took up the cause (when almost nobody else would) of the overwhelmingly black town of Prichard (which had gone bankrupt but which I argued could make a comeback), and tacitly endorsed black Democrat Sam Jones to be mayor of majority-white Mobile over a white Republican — and wrote about it at the New Republic.
If just one or even two people heavily involved in investigating the Black Panther case had a decent civil rights history, perhaps Serwer could explain away that record and still assert that the overall effort was born of malicious racial intent. He cannot, however, explain away all of this. Those of us who focused so hard on this case — and, more importantly, on the far broader issue of race-based double standards and mal-enforcement of the law at the Obama/Holder DoJ — have long, long résumés proving sincere concern for minority rights and interests, and opposition to rubbing racial resentments raw. We also repeatedly have cited have cited facts and narratives that consistently have proved true, while critics of the case have repeatedly refused to address key issues and/or ignored their own previous statements about the seriousness and appallingness of the various issues involved.
In Serwer’s fevered imagination, though, we’re all racists. In his warped mind, there can be no explanation for our positions other than racial animus or political advantage. We cannot be sincere.
“Felony disenfranchisement laws,” he writes, “serve no civic purpose — no one ever stopped themselves from committing a crime simply because they might lose the right to vote. The formerly incarcerated have served their time, the argument for punishing them post-release by denying them the right to vote is pure politics masquerading as tough-on-crime moral uprightness [sic — run-on sentence].”
Does it never occur to him that conservatives actually believe that felonies are disqualifying, in themselves, from the full privileges of citizenship, at least until further proof of reform has been shown? Across the board, conservatives tend to treat felonies as less forgivable than liberals do. Our entire worldview is less forgiving of violent law-breaking, and less willing to ascribe such grave transgressions to “cultural influences” or poverty or “youthful mistakes” or other nonsense. Why should conservatives believe any differently when it comes to voting rights than we do when it comes to being otherwise tough on serious crime? When it comes to voting privileges after incarceration, it would indeed be philosophically inconsistent for us not to insist that those privileges must be re-earned. Just because somebody has spent time behind bars doesn’t mean he has proved to be a good citizen; only once he has been back in the world of freedom without further transgressions has he proved he again merits the sacred right to vote on how our government will be run.
Yet to Serwer, we just want to suppress Democratic votes. That’s offensive.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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drudge ette obama| 3.14.11 @ 6:17AM
You have taken Serwer apart, piece by piece, leaving only a pool of dribble behind with the name Serwer.
I expect that Serwer would have run backwards with his tail between his legs (an interesting sight) if he had encountered the Black Panther thugs at his local polling place.
Serwer is not of the men who went West and forged the growth of this country. I hope there aren't too many Serwers out there.
ENOUGH ROPE| 3.14.11 @ 1:52PM
Thank you Mr. Hillyer for proving Serwer a liar.
Lies, coercion, and corruption are the tools of aspiring totalitarians such as Obama, Holder and their co-conspirators. Expect no virtue from the left; their chief goal is to attain power by ANY means without getting caught. Once in power they will collectivize the rest of us.
Obama is a SMILING COBRA.
Alan Brooks| 3.14.11 @ 10:56PM
Now that you can't pick on blacks or Latinos anymore, you want to pick on gays. There's always the 'Other', the scapegoat-- in the Mideast rthe scapegoat/Other is Israel, in America the scapegoat/Other is now gays.
Publius| 3.15.11 @ 12:44AM
Come on, Alan. You can do better than this. It's weak even for you.
beebop| 3.15.11 @ 5:29AM
How is it the left uses the term for a deviant sexual act practiced by gays -- who they pretend to applaud and adore -- as a smear for the tea party? Doesn't sound like flattery to me. And yet? No one in the gay community sees it as a slam? Funny ....
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.14.11 @ 6:49AM
I do find myself predjudiced against cemetary residents voting.
Am I a racist?
Stammon| 3.14.11 @ 8:10AM
You're zombieist.
You should be ashamed.
Braaaaiiins!
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:16PM
You mean, like in, say, Chicago? The dead voting there?
These are people who are cardiac and respiratory-challenged, Ken, rather than that judgmental word, dead. For shame denying them their right to vote! They're more brain active than some of the posters on this site (JHarp, Clint, Tim* come rapidly to mind).
Clint| 3.14.11 @ 7:37PM
The Fixated Israel Firster Troll Tool Job is all Atwitter & PMS'y because Our Tea Party Mission Statement & Our Tea Party Senator Dr.Rand Paul & Our Tea Party's Co-Favorite with Sarah Palin, Dr.Ron Paul , The New House Financial Services Committee Monetary Sub-committee Chairman Don't Asskiss Tool Job's Personal Israel Firster Agenda.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
Alan Brooks| 3.15.11 @ 10:54PM
Israeli-firster? Moishe Dayan.
He was an eagle-eye.
IDF-lady? Golda Meir.
Jason Brutus Kane| 3.14.11 @ 7:03AM
It seems to me the left is the racist constituency. We have millions of able bodied men and women in this country who are unable to work. Unable for two reasons: first they lived without developing any life skills except breeding ( that they do prodigiously). Second the democrats pay them NOT TO WORK. Thus democrats have supported, since the days of LBJ an economic slavery of many poor whites and perhaps a near majority of Americans of African descent.
The cost to depriving these poor disaffected people in subsistance housing and food has been catastrophic. The housing layers thousands of ignorant young men with nothing to do. Throw in crowding, filth, and depression and violence is a pandemic. Education is the savior, but the democrats say "these folks are just not up to par so we'll lower standdards for them". Great! Now even with an education they aren't readily employable...who knows what they learned?
Try the military model. In the military, everone rises or sinks based on his or her abilities. But success, social and financial, for welfare recipients would destroy the democrat party. They will not permit that!
Clark | 3.14.11 @ 8:08AM
So is there any evidence of, you know, voter intimidation in this voter intimidation case? Your civil rights legend, who waved his medal around while calling Obama a "hustler" on Fox News seems more concerned with keeping people from voting.
Deborah D | 3.14.11 @ 11:34AM
You want "evidence"? Then go here: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/.....imidation/
Don't just watch the video. You can read actual testimony. The only people most normal Americans want to keep from voting are dead people, illegal aliens and those who are ineligible to vote in specific districts (i.e. New Yorkers who vote in NY and in FL).
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:16PM
How do you "Intimidate" a Zombie?
Nancy in NC| 3.14.11 @ 8:20AM
If one removes the R, the name would be more appropriate...Sewer.
Another home run, Quin.
Nancy in NC| 3.14.11 @ 8:23AM
On a local newspaper blog when I was accused of being a racist, I responded if that we the case, why did I admire Thomas Sowell and Allen West so much. The reply...who are they?
The left can not fathom a black man that does not agree with their warped ideology. Who is the racist?
Mitch Angoop| 3.14.11 @ 8:32AM
Serwer is the perfect example of WHY we have racism. Actually, he IS the problem. The vast majority of racism in America today is BLACK RACISM, driven and perpetuated by white liberal guilt over some perceived discrimination some poor soul suffered at some time.
Back in 1915, my grandfather arrived in America from Dublin to a multitude of NINA signs. (NO IRISH NEED APPLY) Of course, if today's attitudes had prevailed, the newly arrived Irish would have thrown tantrums, broken things, and emotionally beaten every Black American over the head with the plight of the Irish; calling every American, including Blacks; "Racists"!
But, what they did back then was to take the work they COULD get, worked very hard or started their own business, and moved on. Not exactly what Serwer would have demanded. He'd have blasted every Black person for racism and tied them to every race based slight in written history.
Because of perverted stupidity like "Motor Voter" laws, we have millions of people voting who do nothing but steal the hard earned tax money from their fellow Americans. My own daughter-in-law received a voter registration card in the mail after she got her driver's licence. She is a legal immigrant who did things the right way and went through the long and tedious process to start on her American citizenship. When I told her that she had a voter's card she was appalled. She immediately destroyed it because she knew it was wrong for her to have it. The idiots at the Georgia Bureau of Motor Vehicles just send out voter cards to EVERYBODY who applied for a driver's license! How many thousands of illegal voters are in our Country?
But, back to the topic at hand. Dangerous fools like Serwer are one of the main causes of social and political division in our Country. Like the vast majority of libs/dems; he never bothers with facts. He just writes what incendiary garbage he thinks will cause the most damage and then makes a pathetic attempt to throw in a few facts to support his dangerous opinions.
Barry the muslim, with the enthusiastic support of trolls like Serwer, is presiding over the most divisive regime in american History. It could be said that obama is working tirelessly for class and race war so he can call out the militia and stomp the "Whities" out for good. The only nagging problems are the inconvenient facts and the Second Amendment. But; I'm sure his little minions are somewhere behind closed doors working on getting over these two minor hurdles. Be afraid, be very afraid.
JimH| 3.14.11 @ 8:53AM
I don’t know if this is true in other states, but here in Florida the loss of civil liberties resulting from conviction of a crime also prevents the ex-con from obtaining the state license necessary for far too many trades. I’d have no problem if this was limited to things such as a stock broker. But it includes such occupations as beautician and running a lawn service. I think this is counterproductive to rehabilitation and ought to be treated separately from a restoration of voting rights.
Ned| 3.14.11 @ 12:00PM
Don't know about you, but I don't want anybody with a felony conviction hanging around my house with a truck and a supply of hand tools while I'm not around, even if the grass does get a bit too long... but you are correct, voting rights and state business licensing should be separate...
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.14.11 @ 8:59AM
Serwer just got OWNED!
Louis Jenkins| 3.14.11 @ 9:01AM
From appearances sake the Philadelphia incident is being swept under the rug. I guess we can go back to sleep.
Teaghan| 3.14.11 @ 9:31AM
If the current occupant of OUR White House wasn't half black, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Sickening.
p-squared| 3.14.11 @ 9:51AM
Bravo, Mr. Hillyer! Well played, sir.
Grzmlyk| 3.14.11 @ 10:10AM
I feel sorry for Quin. He seems to be operating under the misapprehension that facts matter to liberals.
Facts do not matter to liberals. If facts mattered to liberals, there wouldn't BE any liberals.
Liberals pride themselves in deconstructing the mythology that is intertwined with America's rise to global dominance. You know, America the Good, The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, Manifest Destiny, American Exceptionalism.
What liberals don't understand is that they are simply exchanging one mythology for another - so instead of the fiction of an America that was foreordained by God to be the shining city on a hill and a beacon of freedom for the world, they work feverishly at their own brand of mythmaking: America as the world's incorrigible bully, the selfish, gluttonous, domineering, swaggering, ignorant, racist hell hole populated by ogres, boors, rubes and bigots, and a cozy home for the avaricious plutocrat.
Or, as Newsweek's Evan Thomas put it during the Duke rape case - in which the mainstream media's role in fabricating this alternate mythology was exposed perhaps most nakedly - "The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."
It is no coincidence that the Washington Post owned Newsweek at the time.
Liberals don't care one whit about facts. It's the narrative that perpetuates the mythology that America SUCKS that matters.
This is very obvious in their portrayal of conservative attitudes toward minorities, but it is no less on egregious display with their frantic myth-making when it comes to fiscal matters.
Funny how, during Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, the media's message was, "Bush has steered us into the worst economy since Hoover." Never mind that Bush's highest annual deficit back then is now DWARFED by Obama’s, or that unemployment was running at a very reasonable 4.5%. Now, however, even as the economy collapses before our eyes, they are hard at work spinning the myth of "economic recovery," the success of Keynesianism and "non-existent inflation;" who are we going to believe? The Washington Post or our lying eyes???
Hence the recent risible defense of public service unions in the wake of the Wisconsin caterwauling. These vainglorious fops are defending parasites who are bleeding the body politic dry! Greed? What greed? No greed going on here! Greed is for Republicans, not Democrat-voting union members!
Never mind that the more power the unions get, the less efficient, more profligate and less effective they become at performing the functions they were chartered to perform. They are nothing but one more gravy train parked in the great rail yard of Big Government – a monstrous edifice that comprises nothing BUT gravy trains.
So the more teachers fail at teaching our children, the more money we should give them. Yeah, that makes sense. In Liberal Land.
And the more Democrats divide and conquer blacks, sequestering them into easily-manipulated ghettos, the more dependent and despondent they become at the hands of liberal policies, the more conservatives are to blame. And all because little shits like Serwer feel the twinge of racism in their own hearts and feel compelled to transfer it to you and me and then beat the hell out of us in an effort to expunge it from themselves.
This country has been demolished by the moral vanity of the elite classes and the greed they enable.
Paul McGrath| 3.14.11 @ 12:13PM
"And all because little shits like Serwer feel the twinge of racism in their own hearts and feel compelled to transfer it to you and me and then beat the hell out of us in an effort to expunge it from themselves."
Exactly Mr. Grzmlyk.
In fact, it has become almost a cliche that every single time the left accuses the right of something, you can be sure that within a week or two they will engage in that very behavior in a blatant, demonstratable way.
Two recent pathetic examples: the left accuses the right of encouraging the Arizona assassin; less than two months later they themselves engage in violent behavior in Wisconsin.
And Schiller, the NPR clown, accuses the tea party of racism. In the VERY SAME conversation, he makes racist comments about Jews.
They truly live in a fantasy world.
Grzmlyk| 3.14.11 @ 3:03PM
Yes, it really is Alice in Wonderland - they live in a bizarre inside-out fantasy land where good is bad and bad is good, up is down and down is up, real is fake and fake is real.
I mean, look at this utterly bizarre support for radical Islam. Could there BE a movement on this planet that is LESS "progressive" than fundamentalist Islam? The violence, the drive for empire, the xenophobia, the institutional misogyny, the imposition of incredibly strict religious observance.
And yet the liberals pull out all the stops in helping to spread this poison in the U.S., even though it is utterly antithetical to everything they pretend to stand for.
The truth is, liberals don't ultimately stand for anything except the direct opposite of common sense; all of these phony, counter-intuitive stances are simply manifestations of their all-consuming drive to bend the immutable truths of the universe to their vanity-inflated, collective will.
I've become convinced that if something happens in the world, a liberal will figure out the most outrageous, indefensible position that one could possibly take and then go out and defend that very position with every ounce of energy they can muster simply because it is the most outrageous.
I think there are no deeper philosophical underpinnings to liberalism than that, frankly.
And the mass media follow like the trained lapdogs they are because they, too, want to bend the universe to their will - that's why they get into "journalism" in the first place.
It is utterly amazing, and it is a toxic acid that has already corroded the institutions that once held this country up.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:20PM
Actually, Bush's economic record is much better than Carter. Carter had the worst record since Hoover, until Obama came along. Now, it's a question of debt.
Clint| 3.14.11 @ 10:11AM
Serwer says he comes from a privileged middle class biracial family.
Apparently, he's one more race hustlin' agendist with an ax to grind.
Doctor Right| 3.14.11 @ 11:07AM
One of his parents is not human?
How odd.
martin j smith| 3.14.11 @ 10:21AM
People who are felons regardless of race are accurately perceived as untrustworthy. Thus I believe it is required that THEY are the ones who must prove that they are trust worthy. There is no real method by which a person who has a felony record can do this in a socially recognized way.
Or is there ? Perhaps someone may know of one ?
If there is no there should be. But of course this is not about race because we have all kinds of felons like for instance Bernie Madoff say.
Now if you have a political party which does not give a damn about the criminal behavior and record but more about getting voters by appeasing their to their interests against society ( i.e. law abiding voters ) why should they be given the right to vote--just to give on Political Party that uses people for their purposes ? Each individual must prove they are an trust worthy citizen first over many years before this PRIVLEDGE OF BEING A NORMAL CITIZEN IS GIVEN. Haven proven they are trust worthy they can vote for who ever.
Asa for the case against the BLACK PANTHERS, these goons are criminals pure and simple and our DOJ are aiding and abetting criminal conduct.
Further, lets look into Obama's role in this. Racist ? Who cares what the LEFT thinks ! They are not worth trying talk in ratonall terms with. And do not expect to be able to ever !!!!!!!!!!
Doctor Right| 3.14.11 @ 11:05AM
I'm past worrying about what every sniveling little left-wing punk thinks and blogs about Conservatives.
Our success is not grounded in the opinions of the left's incurables. They will ALWAYS be with us; the important thing is to make their philosophies irrelevant and impotent, not worry about their infantile, unexamined thoughts and impulses.
Leslie| 3.14.11 @ 11:08PM
I'd agree with this but I've just realized that I AM a racist. Never in my life did ever think that would happen, however, the atrocity of the murder of children in the name of Allah has turned me. The family that was murdered in their homes, the children and infant all in the name of what? They're Jewish? And the left, not a sound about this or they'll try to justify it somehow. So, yes, this conservative is a racist. Not because of someones color, I don't care if the person is black, red, brown or polka dots, as long as they live the right life, not stealing, not slacking, feeding off my tax dollars, drugging up, etc but because, dare I say it, their religion! Yeah, that peace loving so-called religion of Islam. In this country, don't they lock up people who hear voices telling them to murder innocent victims all in the name of religion? Or that they'll get a whole bunch of virgins when they die if they sacrifice their lives all in the name of Allah? It's almost laughable that the dems/libs/progressives side with these barbarians; they'd probably be some of the first bow to allah or else! What a bunch of hypocrites.
The Bruce| 3.15.11 @ 12:32AM
Ah, but you see, those feelings don't make you racist. Something else, perhaps, but not racist -- the correct term escapes me at the moment. I know of no race that owns a particular religion.
Oldefarte| 3.14.11 @ 11:13AM
As indicated about, I also must be a racist since I'd favor laws mandating that everyone allowed to vote MUST POSSESS SOME DEGREE OF INTELLIGENCE [but I'd no doubt be in the minority from same]. Liberals/progressives scream racism as a political weapon against conservatives [or anyone else disagreeing with their point of view]. If there is no rational/logical argument possible, they simply use the one-word branding/labeling/crusifying arrows of condemnation instead. YOU'RE GUILTY OF RACISM, GENTRIFICATION, DISENFRANCHISEMENT, DISCRIMINATION, HOMOPHILIA, SEXIST, or whatever. In a nutshell [or word], they're STUPID! Concerning racial issues, I'm of the opinion that NOW there should be no racial quotas, preferences, set-asides, etc simply because, with the current federal, state and local laws in place, there should be no political-correct discrimination allowable for any group/sector/race. It's called REVERSE DISCRIMINATION when it is implemented, and it's immoral and wrong. If one group is unqualified due to their own ineptness [ie lack of intelligence due to non-efforts in a free public educational system], then that is their fault [and society at large should no longer be blamed for their failures in life]. There was a time [and many places, as Quin describes thoroughly] where the playing fields of life were not level, but [mostly] no longer. The time is now when this fact should be recognized and established by law and by sociatal mores in general!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deborah D | 3.14.11 @ 11:17AM
Hey Quin -- This is just Alinsky tactics at work here. They don't care what the facts of the case are. Alinsky believed in lying to further the ultimate goals of the Left. That's where conservatives always get tripped up. Many of us think we are playing with people who believe in the rules. They don't believe in the rules that normal Americans believe in. Their rule is more of the general "everything is fair in war."
They are at war with us, so we need to start treating this as such. Go back a re-read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Number 5 reads: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." -- heck they even talk in war terms. The continuation of that thought is: "There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions." We are the enemy!
Go read them all here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6916.....r-Radicals
Petronius| 3.14.11 @ 1:49PM
I've had more than enough of white people, (considering complexion alone), who are ashamed of themselves for that reason alone. The real problem is that they live here, plunder our resources, and are the bane to the existence of honest industrious Americans. Any charge of racism on the part of such a pathetic loser is a grasp for the last and lowest decaying fig leaf as his motive. He will never countenance the natural given requirements for success in life nor acculturate to them. Any imposition from without is an unjust obstacle placed before him by others and therefor a crime on their part. So unqualified acceptance to and of him and all who hold his beliefs is a birthright. And should he get his way through the destruction of traditional social conventions and morality, he will rue that day. In a lawless world, such feckless creatures are least equipped to survive and will perish soonest. Let it come.
JimG3| 3.14.11 @ 1:56PM
I'm so confused. As a black man should I worry about the Democrat Party that treated me as one not worthy of full citizen, or these new Demos that think of me as some sort of house pet?
Alan Brooks| 3.15.11 @ 12:35AM
Pretty much the same thing.
Just call a spade a spade.
Publius| 3.15.11 @ 12:47AM
And now this, Alan? Have you taken your meds today? Weak, weaker, weakest.
Richard Baker| 3.14.11 @ 2:26PM
Why are we surprised at this joker's lying? His Patron Saint, The Blessed Vladymir Ilyich, once said "Treaties are like pie crusts, made to be broken." Is it any wonder that these pukes do the same?
Mimi| 3.14.11 @ 3:11PM
We must become paradoxical when it comes to race. To treat the Black citizen, who is full fledged like they need a leg up is to diminish , and to look on themselves as less than. In 2011 all civil rights nonsense should end....enough already!
It is declared...by GOD and in this NATIONS ..Declaration of Independence...Life, Liberty, and Property..(right to make a living and provide for oneself). Yup, We are all BLESSED !!!
George S| 3.14.11 @ 4:32PM
If you call someone a racist, it doesn't make him so. But keep repeating it and eventually the narrative overshadows the reality. This has an effect on people and it translates into action at the voting booth. Look at our intrepid Republicans, afraid to personally call Obama and his ideology a danger to the American way of life. The marxist ideology is a very danger, but carried on the shoulders of a black man makes it unassailable. But the Tea Party arose out of that fear of marxism; hence the preemptive strike of calling us racist to prevent us from attracting millions more Americans into our fold who fundamentally agree with our philosophy (or at least do not disagree with us as much as they vehemently disagree with Obama). Still, every day brings another equivocation of Tea Party and racism. It must, in order to make Tea Party association repulsive.
Since the tactic works, the next logical application of the racism bomb is the redistricting process, for that is the most powerful tool to dilute the voting pool. Liberals know that their numbers do not form anywhere near a majority, so it is critical that all liberal voters need to be shepherded together. To fight any assault against their power bases, they need to strike the fear of racism into the legislators. That's the only alternative open to them until the next election -- which may not go their way forever if the redistricting is artfully done. This is why the Republican victory was huge last November and didn't deserve the finger pointing after the O'Donnell and Angle defeats.
Never underestimate the charge of racism. It makes everyone hesitate about what they think and taking a course of action. Even Clarence Thomas used it to a devastating effect ("high tech lynching") in silencing critics. This redistricting is, IMO, doing more to rankle the Obama Family than anything else. This dweeb of a reporter is the opening salvo in defense of his masters in the Democrat party.
Steve B | 3.14.11 @ 6:09PM
I wonder if someone accused of being a racist could sue for libel/slander?
One could argue for that for an academic, the accusation does real and measurable harm to ones career.
And then sometimes I wonder (theoretically speaking) if someone were to demand a public apology, and if it were not forthcoming to beat the accuser half to death - then offer temporary insanity as a defence.
After all, if we agree that being a racist is an unutterably vile thing, then wouldn't the accusation be enough to drive one temporarily mad and not responsible for one's actions?
Or would the lefty race-baiters then have to argue that it's not that bad?
Jeff| 3.14.11 @ 7:19PM
It's the social contract really. I will not be governed by those elected by felons.
Wayne | 3.14.11 @ 9:34PM
"... disproportionately affect blacks" Richard J. Daley was a master a making his vices look like virtues. He was caught giving his son 300,000 dollars in commissions on sales of city real estate (though William Daley was too stupid to actually pass a real estate exam). Daley's response: "Who can blame a father for helping his own son? " So blacks are disproportionately guilty of doing violent crimes, and therefore are disproportionately tried and convicted of these crimes and therefore disproportionately democrat and therefore disproportionately as felons denied the right to vote (democrat).
Now I want to know: Why are felons so likely to vote Democrat? Hmm, seems like that is the real vice.
GavInTucson| 3.15.11 @ 12:46AM
"Now I want to know: Why are felons so likely to vote Democrat? Hmm, seems like that is the real vice."
Why ask the question when you clearly know the answer?
tedh754| 3.14.11 @ 9:39PM
Why do these over-educated no-common sense assclowns like Serwer always appear to come from central casting?
Richard Baker| 3.15.11 @ 5:27PM
Wayne:
Seems as if breathing disproportionately affects blacks. Medgar Evers and Dr. King died for this helpless ranting from black leaders/people? I think of the hardcore senior NCOs I knew in the '70s who suffered real discrimination in the '50s and kept driving on, regardless.
Creative Recreation | 8.11.11 @ 12:35AM
is good