By: Paul Scott
With the announcement of Rush Limbaugh’s failure to purchase part of the St Louis Rams football franchise, the Right went on a safari to track down the ever elusive, black racist. As usual, the race hunters came up empty. The best specimen that they could capture was Fox News Channel’s token black commentator, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill with a picture of former Black Liberation Army member, Assata Shakur on his website. Hardly, evidence of a violent plot to take over America by spear wielding black militants.

The reason why the Right Wingers have never been able to successfully cage a black racist is simple. They don’t exist.

Now this may be a hard pill to swallow for those who, wholeheartedly, believe in a warped version of the law of opposites.

If there is white racism, surely there must be black racism. If whites have, historically, enslaved and oppressed blacks, there has to be some remote island out in the Atlantic where Bobby Whitman is being forced to pick cotton and sing Barry Manilow songs while Tyrone Jackson stands over him with a whip and a tall glass of Country Time Lemonade.

However, this Bizarro World of black supremacy only exists in the minds of Ultra Right talking heads and those who set their watches by the Glenn Beck Show.

For years, the Right has used the charge of “reverse racism” to hide their collective fears that they are losing control of America. Oddly enough, many people who scream racism don’t have the foggiest idea what the word means. While the definition of “racism” may be a doctrine of racial superiority, the functional definition is the power of a group to exercise this doctrine over others. Therefore, as author Nelly Fuller wrote “the only form of functional racism that exists among the people of the known universe is white supremacy.”

The doctrine of white supremacy is so entrenched in this society that even an African American president of the United States is not exempt.

So, sorry folks, by this definition, African Americans cannot be racist. We can be a lot of things; prejudiced, bigots, etc but the one thing that we cannot be, for social and economic reasons, is racist.

It must be noted that in order to find a black racist apologists for white supremacy have had to reach back centuries.

In his book, “The Ice Man Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism and Aggression,” Canadian author, Michael Bradley traces the foundation of the myth of black racism back centuries when the Bantu-speaking people conquered the Khoikhoi and the Saan. Because anthropologist CS Coon divided the Africans into two separate races, some have used this as evidence of “black supremacy.” However, Bradley also quotes anthropologist Ashley Montague as saying,” The modern conception of race owes its widespread diffusion to the white man. Wherever he has gone he has carried it with him.”

America’s search for black racists carried into the Civil Rights Era when Mike Wallace introduced America to Malcolm X via the documentary “The Hate that Hate Produced,” which, like future programs,confused reactionary racial rhetoric and calls for black self empowerment with black socio-economic supremacy.

This was also evident in the late 60’s and early 70’s, when those attempting to label the Black Panther Party as “racists” ignored the fact that Panther ideology was based on Marxism which downplayed race in order to organize the oppressed working class and also the fact that the party had many white supporters including celebrities such as Jane Fonda and Marlon Brando.

This frantic search for black supremacy continued into the 80’s and 90’s when black leaders such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Minister Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Al Sharpton were labeled racists as well as entertainers such as the rap group, Public Enemy.

We see the same trend continuing over the last year as Conservatives tried to link black racism to the Obama administration by their attacks on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Even the Latino community was not spared as Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor was portrayed by the conservative media as a brown racist.

So, it is not black racism that is the problem, it is conservative talk show hosts such as Sean Hannity, Mike Savage and Rush Limbaugh who spew their hate filled venom across the planet via their satellite powered pulpits, 24 hours a day.

If Limbaugh and his ilk want to see a real racist, they need to look no further than their own bathroom mirrors.

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Ronald Wilson Reagan assumed office at the age of 69, served two terms, and left office in 1988 at the age of 77. Shortly after he left office he was “diagnosed” with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is the most common form of dementia a.k.a. senility. It is an incurable, degenerative, and terminal disease, generally diagnosed in people over 65 years of age.

The earliest observable symptoms are often mistakenly thought to be “age-related” concerns, or manifestations of stress. In the early stages, the most commonly recognized symptom is memory loss, such as difficulty in remembering recently learned facts. As the disease advances, symptoms include confusion, irritability and aggression, mood swings, language breakdown, long-term memory loss, and the general withdrawal of the sufferer as their senses decline. Gradually, bodily functions are lost, ultimately leading to death.

Did Ronald Reagan have this disease while he was President?

When Reagan disclosed in November 1994 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, many people could not help suspecting that the illness had begun to rob him of memory while he was in the White House. Throughout his years in Washington, Mr. Reagan had been portrayed by many pundits and political opponents as absent-minded, inattentive, incurious, even lazy. And his Presidency was marked by a succession of very public mental stumbles — most notably his dismal performance in the first debate of the 1984 campaign, and his confused and forgetful accounting of his role in the Iran-contra affair — during which the Reagan dictatorship funded of CIA death squads to safeguard the corporate thievery by US multinational companies in Latin American countries. | Ronald Reagan Videos |

Were his doctors playing “Hide and Seek” for him? ……[ read more ]

Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk, a prominent neurologist and psychiatrist believes that Ronald Reagan was indeed starting to display early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease as the time of the presidential debates between candidates Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan in 1984.

A close look at McCain during this election cycle clearly reveals that there is definitely something wrong with his thought processes, very similar to Reagan’s, probably worse. He is having difficulty in expressing simple ideas and thoughts, sometimes stumbling in a dazed and confused stupor — He mis-pronounces, forgets and mix up facts and names, in some instances he fiddles with hands for extended periods of time before “gaffing” an answer.

McCain Dazed and Confused

McCain’s widely documented bouts of anger over the years could be attributed to PTSS (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) — after the beatings he suffered at the hands of the VietCong. Anger as we all know always affects decision making — in a negative manner. In McCain’s case — judgement about issues such as war, and the use of nuclear weapons, etc.

McCain’s tendency to blame everything on adversaries (read Obama), the “blatant lies” and innuendo is alarming. When asked why he has been hurling lies like a “Goat-Herder” in the middle of nowhere in Africa, McCain’s only answer has always been — “Its a tough campaign.”

Author Lloyd Richmond, Ph.D., on “Psychological Honesty,”… says: “Even a pathological liar carries deep in his heart a desire for goodness and honesty and yet, because of painful emotional wounds, believes that the world never has, and never will, recognize his pain. And so, to hide that pain from himself, he uses all the lies he can concoct to hurl at the world as he runs in fear from his own goodness.”

Joe Klein of Time Magazine says: “Almost every politician stretches the truth….but McCain’s lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent’s character and policies, featuring a consistent–and witting–disdain for the truth.” Klein adds: “Worse than the lies have been the smears. McCain ran a television ad claiming that Obama favored “comprehensive” sex education for kindergartners. (Obama favored a bill that would have warned kindergartners about sexual predators and improper touching.)” …[ Read More ]

Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal Editorial page, a Republican, asks: “Is John McCain Stupid?” [Read More]

Henninger talks with Kelsey Hubbard about McCain’s strategy

Paul Abrams, writing for the Huffington Post demands: “McCain, has a greater obligation, putting “country first,” to have an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) because he chose Sarah Palin to be a heartbeat, or degeneration or metastasis away from the Presidency,”…..to provide assurance that, for now at least, he has no brain metastases, due his frequent bouts with melanoma, which is a cancer that can spread widely in the body to almost any organ, including brain, lung, bone and liver.

McCain is Risky

Reagan the Serial Liar who made Americans feel good about themselves, was not only ill informed but probably partially senile most of his second term. His denial of knowledge of the details Contra Scandal may have been sincere — for the “semi-senile” president was being manipulated by the criminal war-profiteering cabal surrounding him.

Some have suggested that The Iran-contra affair was actually a gun-running, drug smuggling operation run out of Mena, Arkansas, under the direction of Vice President Bush (SNR), leader of the The Criminal “High Cabal.”

These things were happening under the nose of a “semi-senile” president Reagan.

It is the same Cabal that surrounds the current puppet president — George W. Bush, who is not senile but is equally decrepit, due to his inability to grasp complex issues — instead dangerously and recklessly hiding behind GOD, to camouflage poor reasoning, and an in-adequate intellectual capacity needed to conduct domestic and world affairs.

McCain is not as dumb as George Bush, but as senility sets in — and if he is elected president, with the present global economic and military turmoil, the rate of “aging” will quadruple — and he may even die in office. With Alzheimer’s and Melanoma eating into his “Cold-War” brain, “Maverick” McCain would turn out to be costlier to the United States than George Bush.

Bush’s eight years of ignorance and outright stupidity MUST not be replaced by four years “senility.”

A “half-brain dead” McCain is likely to become a puppet of the Neo-Con Cabal — which, right now, is very busy trying to sneak into a possible McCain administration hidden behind Sarah Palin’s skirt!

And, his choice of Sarah Palin as his running-mate does not help things at all. At a time when America is facing very serious domestic and international constraints, the choice of Palin, who so far has distinguished herself only as a “Feisty” cheerleader borders on insanity — further evidence that McCain cannot think clearly and/or he is just another charlatan, practising “quackery” or something similar, to trick the American people — the SANE one’s at least — and not, the “Energized” “Conservative Base” — The most ignorant and racist quadrant of America, who have never hesitated in supporting and glorifying willful ignorance, in order to advance their agenda of intolerance.

References:

1. Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama….George F. Will, Syndicated ‘Conservative‘ Columnist. | READ MORE |

2. War Profiteering and the Concentration of Income and Wealth in America — Escalating Military Spending. By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh