Thursday, August 20, 2009

Whites Are People Too

Posted by Jack Hunter on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote last week of the town hall protesters: “Instead of a multicultural tableau of beaming young idealists on screen, we see ugly scenes of mostly older and white malcontents.” Fellow Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote of the protesters “they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is.” Krugman believes the protests reflect working class whites’ “cultural and racial anxiety.”

Imagine during the Jena 6 controversy in 2006, a national columnist had written of the African-American protest “mobs” organized by Al Sharpton, “we see ugly scenes of mostly black malcontents.” Imagine that during any of the rallies in support of amnesty for illegal aliens in years past, a prominent columnist had written that at root, the “ugly scenes of Hispanic malcontents” weren’t expressing frustration with citizenship policy, but were reacting negatively to a white president.

No national columnist would have written such dribble. Not only because it wouldn’t have made any sense, but because it’s politically incorrect to ascribe racist motives to minorities. For liberals, there’s no such thing as a black or brown “malcontent,” only justified grievances.

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Your case would be stronger if not for the fact that people at these rallies carry signs equating President Obama with a genocidal Nazi leader. At tea parties in South Carolina and around the country, I've seen people display rebel flags and signs protesting white slavery. You have people like Glenn Beck saying ridiculous things like Obama is racist against white people, the very people who raised him as a child. If you watch cable news interviews with health care protesters you quickly come to find that many of them are birthers. It is these false. xenophobic, and virulent racial overtones in their protest that I think really bother people, not that they disagree with the stimulus plan or health care reform or any other measure put forth by the President.

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Posted by Price on August 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM

Speaking of "drivel" . . . .

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Posted by Mario Delgado on August 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM

Very Good Jack exposing these Hypocrites makes my day!

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Posted by Cajie on August 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM

Actually, given the fact the health care bill seems to be little more that a continuation of the Federal Government's insatiable desire for Consolidation of everything under the sun into its clutches, I'm not all all surprised to see the Government's opponents flying the banners of previous Anti-Consolidationists.

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Posted by Col. Dixie on August 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM

price, stop taking those green pills in place of the blue! The outrage Americans are expressing has nothing to do with race and everything to do with stopping the socialist destruction of our economic system. My outrage is more focused on the Democrat Congress and that is overwhelming comprised of white, bigoted, intolerant socialists.

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Posted by travelah on August 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM

these are the people who think Palin would be a viable president... really showing off your intellect!

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Posted by diggerbarnes on August 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM
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