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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This was NOT a grassroots movement as Fox and right-Wing news outlets might want you to think. It was the re-emergence of the WHITE POWER MOVEMENT incorporated into the Republican Party — targeting the president of the United States Barack Obama, a black man.

Unfortunately, there are still millions of white supremacists out there — rednecks doing the bidding of rich bigots in suits, both who believe that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds.

This is not a political ideology — it is PURE HATE.

Let no one convince you that this was an economic protest — three quarters of those protesting know nothing about the economic history of this country, other than what they are spoon fed by the Republican Party.

They are being used as usual by the fat cats of the GOP — who have used race to scare up votes since the civil rights era began.

From the end of Reconstruction until the beginning of the civil rights era, the national Democratic Party made room for segregationist members — and as a result dominated the South. But in the 50s and 60s, Democrats embraced the civil rights movement, costing them the white Southern vote.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party successfully wooed disaffected white racists with a “southern strategy” that championed “states” rights. This strategy failed, finally, during McCain’s run for the White House, but it seems the G.O.P instead of re-tooling, have decided to entrench deep into Bigot America.

White Republicans on average are less educated that their liberal counterparts, and therefore are more likely to be led to the slaughterhouse like brainless sheep. Conversely, a Pew research last October found out that Republicans are generally happier than Democrats.

Why not? The majority of Republicans live in the “bush” anyway, away from the hustle and bustle of large cities. They live in small towns ruled by sheriffs and a handful of town committee members. I know because I grew up in the countryside too — There is not much to worry about, except how spooky Jesus will treat you next Sunday.

I have engaged some in political conversations before, and it doesn’t take too long to discover how inadequate and warped their reasoning is. Add their racist feelings to the mix, and there you have suckers — ready to be played by rich Republican Fat Cats — like a Yo-Yo.

What you saw on tax day is far from being called a grass-roots campaign, rather, it was a congregation of whites steaming with racism, bigotry and extreme ignorance, directed at the first black president of the United States — Barack Hussein Obama, ….and the other colored people — Hispanic Immigrants.

The tea-parties were an act of domestic terrorism, as far as I am concerned. A “Talibanist” act. An attempt to eject President Obama from the White House by hook or crook!

The Sad Reality of The Tea-Parties and Janeane Garofalo

Fox News continues with DHS (Department of Homeland Security) freak-out even after Smith and Herridge’s debunking:

On the April 15 edition of Fox News’ Studio B, host Shepard Smith reported that a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report — which concluded that “rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues” — “isn’t about tea party folks” and that “it sounds like just regular old, everyday people who are conservative just got, you know, got their dander up over something that is not applied to that.”

During the same segment, national correspondent Catherine Herridge noted that DHS recently issued “a bulletin that looks at the left-wing groups as well.” Nonetheless, Fox News hosts and contributors have continued to advance the claim that the Obama administration is targeting tea party attendees, as well as conservatives and others, simply because they disagree with administration policies and proposals. [ READ MORE ]

Tea-Parties — Powered By “un-Fair and Totally un-Balanced” Fox News:

From April 6 to April 15, Fox News aired at least 107 commercial promotions for their coverage of the April 15 tea parties. The majority of all the ads — 58 — ran on April 14 and 15.

Page and Robinson Review The Effect of Tea-Parties

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Editorial Reviews

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