Newt Gingrich thinks because he worked with Colin Powell & Condi Rice, he can teach the NAACP about foodstamps!

Gingrich’s Defense of Racist Foodstamp Statements

Scary: What New Hampshire Progressive Voters Think of The 2012 GOP Field

That’s the classic — “I have black friends, so I am not a racist” excuse! Racists often use this scheme to justify their evil doings — and, it’s nothing new in Republican campaign discourse.

Race-Baiting has been a staple of the GOP’s Southern Strategy Playbook in the last 50 years. In the eighties, Ronald Reagan, the greatest PR swindle in American history, successfully embedded into “frightened” white minds the false notion of “black welfare queens.”

In the eyes of many whites to date — black people are free-loading leeches feeding off the government coffers — paid for by white people.

Wrong! — [ READ HERE ]

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Racial minorities in the U.S. have spent their lifetimes in a society that has traditionally valued whites over them. For hundreds of years whites have dominated almost all aspects of life in the United States — including the key ingredient that holds the institution of racism together — political power.

It therefore didn’t come as a surprise that when Obama broke the “political power streak” — and, for the first time, a non-white president accepted the oath of office — white America rapidly began to lose its grip.

About 12:01 on the afternoon of January 20, 2009, the white American brain finally went haywire in spectacular fashion.

Hello …Tea Party!

Old school Gingrich and Santorum still strongly believe that an all out racist campaign will win them the presidency. Unfortunately for these two troglodytes, America has changed significantly in the last fifty years. Yes, there are still many who are rabidly racist, but they represent a fast shrinking portion of the electorate — which in another 10 to 20 years — will be reduced to an insignificant bunch of old, dying — hungry howling hyenas.

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Huffington Post: On Monday, in response to a question about health care following a routine Chamber of Commerce speech, super-wealthy Romney tried to illuminate the virtues of a free market.

“I like being able to fire people who provide services to me,” he said, his expression altering perceptibly as he heard the words tumble out. “You know, if someone doesn’t give me a good service, then I want to say, ‘I’m going to go get someone else to provide that service to me.’”

Mitt ‘Middle-Class’ Romney: ‘I Like Being able To FIRE People!‘

Romney has been labeled by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart as “the guy who looks like everyone who ever fired your dad.” [ READ MORE ]

Liar Mitt Romney Shamelessly Plays The Role of ‘Middle-Class‘ Mitt in New Hampshire

Greedy Bastard: Mitt Romney is a Model For a U.S. System Gone Bad

Predatory Paper Shuffler: The Bain Bombshell Opens Romney To Attacks

Will Romney’s ‘I Like Firing People‘ & ‘Corporations are People‘ Rhetoric Hurt His Campaign?

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Bonus — Republican Nonsense, Outright Lies, Mis-Information, Bigotry & Racism
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Limbaugh Says The Obamas View The Presidency As An “Opportunity To Live High On The Hog“

Limbaugh: “It’s Very Accurate To Say” That Conservative Republicans Are Bigger Enemy To Democrats Than Al Qaeda, Taliban, Iran [ FOR ONCE I DO AGREE RUSH!! ]

Fox Still Giving Trump A Platform To Promote Crackpot Obama Theories

On Fox, Radio Host Victoria Jones Mocks Fox’s Obsession With Attacking President Obama: “You Know As Long As There’s A Fox, There Will Always Be A Story On [Obama's] Failed Policies”

Fox’s Cavuto Says “We’ve Heard” That Wall Street CEOs Don’t Like Obama Because He Has “Bastardized” Them

Asman: Could Lower Wall Street Bonuses “End Up Hurting The Economy, And As A Result, The President’s Re-Election Chances?“

Ding-Bat Gretchen Carlson: “Independent” Todd Palin Endorsed Gingrich, “So What Does That Say About Independents Going For Gingrich?“

Fox’s Starnes Pushes “The Idea” That There Are “Socialist Tendencies Emanating” From The WH

References:

1. What is Racism
2. Anti Defamation League Defines Racism ] [ 3. Racism Defined in Wikipedia ]
4. 8 GOP Primary Moments That Would Make Jesus Weep

   Columnist – John Sammon
It’s only fitting that the Republican Party, the party that either stood in the way of legislation that would give black Americans equal rights, or turned a blind eye to racist injustice, the party that never passed in 70 years one piece of progressive legislation, a party that is racist and sexist, pro-war and anti-worker, would suddenly have opportunist blacks like Herman Cain carrying its standard.

You’ve got to give credit to Cain. He recognized that a party that has opposed equality at every turn and traditionally shunned blacks for decades pretending like they didn’t exist would be a wide-open field to politically exploit.

Cain recently said that during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, whose centerpieces included the right to sit at a lunch counter with white customers or sit at the front of a bus, that he remained aloof from the movement because he was too young at the time.

Oh, if we only had more like him we could have them all back in the fields picking cotton, singing “Nobody knows, ‘da trouble I seen,” or “Ole’ Man River.”

Cain is the recipient of the first annual Republican-sponsored “Uncle Tom Token Awards.”

Remember, this is the party of Rick Perry, who has a hunting lodge somewhere in the wilds of Texas with a rock that uses the N word to identify the place, something like “Niggerhead.” His family picked that over “Coonsville” and “Jig Acres.” Every man of action, like Dick Cheney with his anemic heart and shotgun, needs a hunting lodge. Hermann Goering had one called “Carinhall,” named after a deceased wife.

I guess Hermann didn’t know any blacks or he might have renamed it “Spook City,” with a picture of a wide-eyed black eating a watermelon.

Cain is also nominated for the “Uncle Tom Best Excuse” Award for making statements that he was too young at the time of the Civil Rights Movement to participate, so he left it up to Rosa Parks, the little murdered boy in Mississippi Emmett Till, along with the three slain Civil Rights activists Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.

In fairness to Cain, I would be a hypocrite if I didn’t say I didn’t participate in the Civil Rights Movement either. But in fairness to me, I was wrong and I was white, and I was the product of a racist household, and I’m trying to atone for it by doing columns like this.

I think although she is largely out of the picture, a “Lifetime Achievement” Award should be presented to Condoleezza Rice for her participation as an African American token during the Bush Administration, as a loyal mouthpiece who justified wars based on false weapons of mass destruction, wiretap spying in the Patriot Act, torture of prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention and all the rest. She has consistently and without fail proved her worth as a loyal Negro stooge to Bush, even though Bush and his henchmen secretly despised her, and her value to the party as a token after former Negro stooge Colin Powell showed a spark of decency and refused to read a prepared script of lies to the public, throwing it on the floor.

And finally, what can you say about Clarence Thomas that hasn’t already been nauseated? Founder of a right-wing group associated with the Tea Party Movement, many of whose members openly despise him for the color of his skin, Thomas is among the most silent of justices on the Supreme Court, seldom venturing a comment, in other words, a “credit to his race” as racists like to say, apparently knowing his place. His lack of verbosity apparently didn’t keep him from making allegedly lewd comments to an attorney, Anita Hill.

To Clarence Thomas goes the “Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows” Award.

Herman Cain To (Hate Merchant) Fascist Fuck Neil Boortz: Liberal Blacks are More ‘Racist’ Than Whites

PLAYLIST: Herman Cain — A Butt-Licking Uncle Tom

PLAYLIST: House Negroes | Butt-Licking Uncle-Toms

From spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

House slaves usually lived better than field slaves. They usually had better food and were sometimes given the family’s cast-off clothing. However, not all slave-owners took this view, Harriet Jacobs reports that her mistress “would station herself in the kitchen, and wait till it was dished, and then spit in all the kettles and pans” to make sure that the slaves did not eat what was left over.

Their living accommodation was also better than those of other slaves. In some cases the slaves were treated like the slave-owners children. When this happened close bonds of affection and friendship usually developed. Even though it was illegal, some house slaves were educated by the women in the family. Trusted house slaves who had provided good service over a long period of time were sometimes promised their freedom when their master’s died. However, there are many cases where this promise was not kept.

Typical Uncle-Tom Behavior Today:

Black Self-Hatred — Explained Here by Professor Chinweizu

‘Nigger‘ Deneen Borelli Emerges From Cave and Into Seah Hannity’s Shit-Hole; Says NAACP is NOT a Civil Rights Organization:

Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli says NAACP is a “progressive group masquerading as a civil rights organization“

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   [By: Eugene Robinson]
Skin color among African Americans is not to be discussed in polite company, so Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s newly disclosed remark about President Obama — that voters are more comfortable with him because he’s light-skinned — offended decorum. But it was surely true.

Color bias has always existed in this country. We don’t talk about it because we think of color as subordinate to racial identification. There are African Americans with skin so light-hued that only contextual clues speak to the question of race. I remember once looking up some distant cousins on my father’s side. They were so fair of hair and ruddy of cheek that I thought I’d gone to the wrong house, until one of them greeted me in what I guess Reid would call “Negro dialect.”

Forgive me if I am neither shocked nor outraged. A few years ago I wrote a book about color and race called “Coal to Cream,” and the issue no longer has third-rail status for me. What I would find stunning is evidence that Reid’s assessment — made during the 2008 campaign and reported in a new book by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin — was anything but accurate.

Advertising is a reliable window into the American psyche, so look at the images we’re presented on television and in glossy magazines. The black models tend to be caramel-skinned or lighter, with hair that’s not really kinky — which is how I’d describe mine — but wavy, even flowing. A few models whose skin is chocolate-hued or darker have reached superstar status, such as Alek Wek and Tyson Beckford, but they are rare exceptions.

Skin color could hardly be a more conspicuous attribute, but we don’t talk about it in this country. That’s been a good thing.

I became interested in perceptions of color and race when I was The Post’s correspondent in South America. On reporting trips to Brazil, a country with a history of slavery much like ours, I kept running across people with skin as dark as mine, or a bit darker, who didn’t consider themselves “black.” I learned that at the time — roughly 20 years ago — fewer than 10 percent of Brazilians self-identified as black. Yet at least half the population, I estimated, would have been considered black in the United States.

This was because American society enforced the “one-drop” rule: If you had any African blood at all, you were black. In Brazil, by contrast, you could be mulatto, you could be light-skinned, you could be “Moorish” brown, all the way to “blue-black” — more than a dozen informal classifications in all. Color superseded racial identification. In Salvador da Bahia, I met a couple who considered themselves black but whose children were lighter-skinned. The children’s birth certificates classified them as branco, or white.

The Brazilian system minimized racial friction on an interpersonal level. The American system fostered such friction, through formal and informal codes that enforced racial segregation. But our “one-drop” paradigm also created great racial solidarity among African Americans, while maximizing our numbers. We fought, marched, sat in, struggled and eventually made tremendous strides toward equality. The most recent, of course, was Obama’s election, which is difficult to imagine happening in Brazil — or, for that matter, in any other country where there is a large, historically oppressed minority group.

Brazil has now begun addressing long-standing racial disparities through affirmative action initiatives. But the upper reaches of that society — the financial district in Sao Paulo, say, or the government ministries in Brasilia — are still so exclusively white that they look like bits and pieces of Portugal that somehow ended up on the wrong side of the ocean.

American society’s focus on race instead of color explains why what Harry Reid said was so rude. But I don’t think it can be a coincidence that so many pioneers — Edward Brooke, the first black senator since Reconstruction; Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice; Colin Powell, the first black secretary of state — have been lighter-skinned. Reid’s analysis was probably good sociology, even if it was bad politics.

Much worse, as far as I’m concerned, was the quote the new book “Game Change” attributes to Bill Clinton. In an attempt to persuade Ted Kennedy not to support Obama, Clinton is supposed to have said that “a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”

I guess the one-drop rule can still trump Harvard Law.

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[Enlarge] About The Author: Eugene Robinson — is an Associate Editor and twice-weekly columnist for The Washington Post. His column appears on Tuesdays and Fridays. In a 25-year career at The Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper?s award-winning Style section. In 2005, he started writing a column for the Op-Ed page. He is the author of “Coal to Cream: A Black Man?s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race” (1999) and “Last Dance in Havana” (2004). Robinson is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and has received numerous journalism awards. More Articles By Mr. Robinson: | Part 1 | Part 2 |

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Mark Silva, SwampPolitics.com: With a shrinking base of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans, the stakes for leadership of the rebooted Republican Party grow higher each day.

Radio’s Rush Limbaugh, whom the Democrats, and particularly the Obama White House, want to anoint as the spokesman for the GOP, has taken pointed aim at another Republican whom some Republicans are calling no Republican at all: Retired Gen. Colin Powell, who endorsed Obama for election last year and says, quite plainly that “the Republican Party is in deep trouble.” — [ READ MORE ]

Limbaugh: “Powell represents the stale, the old, the worn-out GOP that never won anything”

Blitzer brings Limbaugh attacks on Powell into The Situation Room

“Nice try, Wolf”: Blitzer questions Boehner on Limbaugh/Cheney/Powell controversy

Matthews discusses Limbaugh’s “shout goodbye” as “titular head” of the GOP

Testing Steele’s Strength

Steele To GOP: Obama Honeymoon’s Over!

Hypocrite Gingrich Wants Pelosi To resign

Gingrich Blast’s Pelosi

RNC Develops New Strategy?

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