Huffington Post: Preceding the president’s speech to a gathering of House Democrats, thousands of protesters descended around the Capitol to protest the passage of health care reform. The gathering quickly turned into abusive heckling, as members of Congress passing through Longworth House office building were subjected to epithets and even mild physical abuse.

A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn(D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) had been spat on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a “nigger.” And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a “faggot,” as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president’s speech, shrugged off the incident. [ READ MORE ]

Politico: They came pouring in from Union Station, toting lawn chairs and smelling of sunscreen, wearing Bermuda shorts and straw hats, holding signs historical (“Mr. Obama tear down this bill“), comical (“Kiss my astroturf“) and menacing (“Down our throats in March, up yours in November!“). There were signs portraying Obama as the Joker; as Mao Zedong; as Bernie Madoff; as a surgeon in effigy. [ READ MORE ]

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NOTE: Clyburn, Cleaver and Lewis are all black. Barney Frank is openly gay.
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MediaMatters: Kitchen sink — Fox’s last-ditch effort to rally opposition to health care reform; With a possible vote to finalize passage of health care reform approaching, Fox News has thrown everything but the kitchen sink to rally opposition, with guest host Laura Ingraham proclaiming, “Let’s kill the bill.” For example, Fox News personalities have portrayed the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office as unreliable, falsely claimed that a 2006 earthquake did not occur and attacked an 11-year-old and his family that support reform. [ READ MORE ]

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The bitter truth of this healthcare fiasco — is that most of the thirty million to be covered by Obama’s bill are black and brown — and some whites do not like it!

The Republican politicians are exploiting the anger and racism of a certain segment of white America, especially the tea-partiers, who would are threatened by a changing America. An America in which exclusive “White Privilege” is greatly diminished.

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore of Global Policy Solutions, puts it in proper perspective: “Anger explodes in the face of a black president as whites struggle with changing realities in America.” [ READ: THE RISE OF THE ANGRY WHITE MALE ]

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References:

1. Joan Walsh: “The tea party movement is disturbingly racist and reactionary, from its roots to its highest branches. On Saturday, as a small group of protesters jammed the Capitol and the streets around it, the movement’s origins in white resistance to the Civil Rights Movement was impossible to ignore.” [ READ MORE ]

2. Healthcare victories — and defeats — through history. Slide show: As a fateful House vote on President Obama’s plan nears, we look back at the efforts of past presidents

3. ‘Tea party’ protesters accused of spitting on lawmaker, using slurs

4. Five myths about the politics of health-care reform

5. Charles M. Blow: “Regardless of whether the health care bill survives, Obama has demonstrated that he can. And if the reform bill passes, and his numbers rebound, I’m going to take to calling him Barack the Unbreakable.” The empty-headed chattering class has speculated that the president’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest yet. Silly pundits.

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Palin says Obama is “without the experience” to “get policy through” — “it’s a bit over his head“ LOL!

Previously:

•   Hannity on Palin: "I think she’s smarter than Obama"

•   Kilmeade hits Palin for being disrespectful by calling Obama a "guy with charisma and a teleprompter"

•   While some conservatives merely praise Obama’s Nobel speech, Sarah Palin suggests she deserves credit for it

•   O’Reilly ignores conservatives’ digs to blame "the left" for perception that Palin "is dumb"

•   CBS asserted "Democrats and many in the media" question "Palin’s readiness to be president," but not that many questions came from conservatives

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   By: Prof. Jonathan L. Walton
… in Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, “Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,” and, of course, everybody says the white kid deserved it, he was born a racist, he’s white. Newsweek magazine told us this. We know that white students are destroying civility on buses, white students destroying civility in classrooms all over America, white congressmen destroying civility in the House of Representatives. — Rush Limbaugh, Sept. 15, 2009

Ever the statesman, and often candid to a political fault, former President Jimmy Carter said recently that much of the animosity directed toward President Barack Obama is “based on the fact that he is a black man.”

A lifelong Southerner, Carter acknowledged that the inclination of racism still exists, and that “it has bubbled up to the surface because of the belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African Americans are not qualified to lead this great country.”

Though courageous, the former president’s pronouncement will surely be considered controversial to many Republicans and Democrats alike. Some will view Carter’s comments as politically inexpedient.

The topic of race in general, and charges of racism in particular, is political dynamite that typically explodes in the hands of the accuser — just ask [Harvard] Professor Skip Gates, [New York] Gov. David Paterson, or Obama (whom I will return to momentarily).

Unless someone is wearing a Klan hood while yelling, “Nigger, Go Back to Africa,” the charge of racism seems to offend the accused these days more than the actual victims.

This is true, in part, due to the most prevalent view of the problem of race and racism in this country. In the eyes of many, the responsibility of moving beyond racial conflict in America is placed at the feet of minority communities of color, as opposed to the dominant society.

We’ve all heard it. America will move beyond race to a colorblind society only when minority groups cease dwelling on difference. Such a view permeates the melting pot ideal of American folklore, the myth of meritocracy and even the “post-racial” dimension of electoral politics.

Thus, for Carter to call out this segment of the white community, he is disrupting the conspiracy of silence concerning racial injustice that demands the allegiance of politicians on the national scene.

Think about it. Is this not the racial bargain that Obama accepted to become the nation’s first African American president? Matters pertaining to race have been avoided unless absolutely necessary (cough, cough, the Rev. [Jeremiah] Wright).

And in terms of policy, obstacles faced by any particular group, like disproportionate unemployment among communities of color, for example, are obfuscated by anemic and ineffectual broad-based prescriptions. Rising tides lift all boats, right?

Yet Obama’s enormous success in life, whether as a highly educated community organizer or as America’s commander in chief, exposes the paradox this sort of faux post-racialism presents.

It’s a one-sided deal for people of color; as “post-racial” in effect means post-black, post-brown, post-red and post-yellow, while leaving the normative racial framework of whiteness intact. Race is the challenge people of color must confront and, dare I say, “get over.”

But a post-racial America does not demand the same of those who identify with, and claim the social construction of, whiteness and perceived privileges and cultural superiority therein.

This is why, it would seem, Obama’s body standing behind the American presidential seal has a critical segment of America losing its hold on reality — a reality, I would argue, few have ever been forced to acknowledge up to this point.

Whether it’s the birthers, tea-baggers, deathers, indoctrinators, or “You lie!”-ers, they have neither veiled their racial animus nor cloaked their white nationalism. The prevalence of racist images of Obama brandished by protesters juxtaposed with calls of “taking our country back” are reminiscent of D.W. Griffith’s fictional America as depicted in the film Birth of a Nation.

And the pride with which this segment of society has rallied the troops around its shared sense of whiteness reveals that their skin color is the one true object of pledged allegiance and determinant of professed patriotism. [See "Unregulated Capitalism and Christian Fervor: Report from the 9/12 Rally at the Capitol" from Sept. 17.]

Herein lies Carter’s perceptive point. Obama can’t win with these folks, because they are blinded not just by his race but also by an uncritical devotion to their own. His pigmentation rather than his policies cut against the grain of what these persons wrongly consider “natural” or “American.”

More specifically, his very being is a haunting rejoinder to such white Americans of what they are not — indeed what they have never been. This African American man with an Arabic name has dared to usurp all of the cultural and cognitive tropes that white supremacy has historically claimed for itself. He is calm in the face of their unrestrained emotion. The more illogical they act, the more rational he comes across. And, of course, the more eloquent and erudite he presents himself, the more he provokes the Joe Wilsons of the world to mindlessly blurt out, “You lie!”

In the process, Obama has transformed such opponents into the racial other, an uneducated and uncultured blob of white (and largely Southern) backwardness that is beyond the pale of social redemption or acculturation. Wilson and the remaining Sons of Confederate Veterans have, in effect, become this “black man’s burden.”

Maybe this helps explain Glenn Beck’s ridiculous yet probably heartfelt assertion that the president has a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”

Beck: Obama has “exposed himself as a guy” with “a deep seated hatred for white people“

The president reminds Beck, along with those who identify with Beck’s form of white neo-nationalism, of the lie of their own professed superiority — a place of comfort and privilege in America that was neither deserved nor ever attained, yet still claimed based on the pinkness of their skin and straightness of hair. Obama’s apparent success only further dismantles this lie and pours salt in socially insecure wounds.

Similar can be said of those who need the president to be Adolf Hitler. If Obama is Hitler, that means protestors can liken themselves unto the Jews; only this time it’s a victimized-yet-devout group of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who want nothing more than to restore a nation that God, or more appropriately, Jefferson Davis, decreed as divinely their own.

The ability to make such ludicrous claims on conservative radio, Fox News, and on Capitol Hill, however, represents the kind of power that they unduly still possess. As tasteless as Wilson’s heckling of the president was, it still takes an immense level of privilege to be a jerk on the floor of Congress.

My point here is simply that the problem of race in America has never been solely or predominantly a minority issue. It is first and foremost, as Carter said, a problem of whiteness.

Just as racial segregation in Wilson’s fond memories of idyllic South Carolina was less about black people but a matter of white phobia, the lie of whiteness projects its fears upon minority bodies like the president’s in hopes of maintaining its own unhealthy and unrealistic sense of being in charge.

This is why James Baldwin rightly suggested years ago that “the vast amount of the energy that goes into what we call the ‘Negro problem‘ is produced by the white man’s profound desire not to be judged by those who are not white.”

I believe this applies to our current president and his most vocal critics. If he is framed as the foreigner, incarnate evil and indoctrinating Nazi, many won’t have to acknowledge that he may just be smart, sophisticated and a devout patriot. God forbid.

And if he is, what does that make them?

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KKK Fliers Put on NewsPapers

 Columnist – John Sammon
The Swift Boat Veterans, an arch conservative veterans’ group who formerly smeared Democratic presidential candidate and Vietnam Veteran John Kerry by attacking his war record, convene a meeting on how to go after Barack Obama.

Chairman – “Okay, the meeting will come to order.”

“Yeah, let’s get that nigger (Obama).”

Chairman — “Herky! Herky! How many times have I told you not to use the N word?”

“But he is a nigger.”

“I know. I know. But we can’t get rid of the nigger if we don’t change our tactics. Our style. Understand? Easy does it. We don’t want to give Obama anything he can use. So for the purposes of this meeting, he (Obama) will be referred to from now on, as the Illinois darky. Okay?”

“Okay?”

Chairman — “Now, we’re all agreed that we can’t assassinate his war record because he doesn’t have one.”

“Yeah, he’s one of those college niggers.”

Chairman — “Herky?”

“Sorry.”

Chairman — “We’ll smear him because he never served his country. McCain did, and he has God on his side…and us.”

Attendee — “What if he says you don’t have to serve in the military in a democracy, or something like that? That it’s a free country. Or something like that?”

Chairman — “It won’t matter. We can still paint him as a disloyal Arab-lovin’ liberal with an A-rab name (Obama). Free country? Freedom isn’t free. He owes his freedom to me. And this is not a democracy. It’s a republic.”

Herky — “Okay, but what are we gonna do about that bitch (Sarah Palin) McCain picked as his VP?”

Chairman — “Herky. How many times have I told you not to refer to that bitch as a bitch? If we describe her that way and it gets out, it could cost us votes. She’s not a bitch if she’s right-wing. From now on, we’ll just call her the token Hillary.”

Herky — “Okay.”

Chairman — “Okay, moving along, Obama didn’t serve in the military like McCain and that negates his right to be president. He’s too yellow to serve.”

Herky (chuckling, elbowing, the attendee seated next to him) — “Too black to serve. I saw him (Chairman) hide under the mess hall once at Da Nang during a rocket attack. His butt was up in the air. Then later, he filled out the paperwork himself and gave himself a Bronze Star.”

Chairman (admonishing) — “Herky? Are you in this meeting? Will you pay attention?”

Herky — “Sorry.”

Chairman — “Now, we’re also decided to go after Obama because he’s a friend to Al-Qaeda. He’s a communistic liberal who will give away things to minorities and women. It’s hard to be a white man in this country. Ever since Jack Johnson beat Jim Jeffries in a boxing match, we’ve been going down hill. The liberals and their dope smoking, sodomizing, lesbian faggot pals are going to sell this country out. Agreed?

The crowd — “Agreed!”

Chairman — “Okay, let’s get out there on those talk shows and get those emails and literature cranking out there. Let’s send Obama back to the slums back to his own kind.”

Crowd cheers.

“Meeting adjourned!”

Copyright 2008 Sammonsays.

   Swift-Boating John Kerry

REFERENCES:

1. Jet Ski Veterans for Truth! — How to Swiftboat McCain
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From The NBRA:

…..therefore Black People, please vote Republican — because Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. Meanwhile WE of the NBRA have launched Racial Anti-Obama Ads — like the ones below:

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What can I say, other than repeat what I have posted in this blog a thousand times: Black ReTHUGliTOMS demean blackness, hopelessly.

Today, it is pretty clear that African American interests are “better” served by the Democrats than the Republicans.

It is also true that Democrats have supported vicious confederate slavery in the yester years, but they, to a large extent rectified this in the sixties, beginning with the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

Some Democratic legislators from the southern epicenters of White Racism opposed President Johnson’s Civil Rights Act of 1964, due to “KKK Hangover,” but most did support it. This Act drove a significant number of white voters away from the Democratic Party, and the Republicans instead of joining with the Democrats to reform America, pounced on the opportunity — grabbing the “Southern Vote” a.k.a the “Bigot-Vote.”

Up to date, the Democratic Party has a far much better Civil Rights record than the Republican Party, for without the “Bigot-Vote,” the Republican party has no footing.

Consequently, race-baiting smothered in fear-mongering became a staple of the modern Republican Party.

Republicans, and in this instance ReTHUGliTOMS like “re-living the past,” oblivious of the fact that modern Republicanism is just a new name for pre-sixties “Dixie-Cratism,” ….spun around, modernized and “Stealthified.”

The “Bigot-Vote” is the main-stay of the Republican Party, and they pander to it incessantly, with the help of the “putrid dung” excreted by Talk-Radio (Rush Limbaugh and Co.) and Fox News (O’reilly, Hannity and Co.)….to name a few of these vicious hyenas.

Hillary Clinton tried to dip her filthy finger into the “Bigot-Pot,” failed and got beaten by a “Black Man,” called Barack Obama.

And why is Obama “Black” and NOT “White” — for he is an offspring of the union of a white mother and a black father.

Simple answer: RACISM — perpetrated by “some” Democrats and a “large majority” of Republicans.

Evolutionary Scientist Richard Dawkins states: “It is the height of injustice to think of a person as “black” just because his blood is “tainted” with “black,” whereas, if “taint” is what it is, then his blood is equally tainted with “white,” in which case, he equally qualifies also as white. Philip Ochieng, a prominent Kenyan intellectual examines Dawkins’ assertion very thoroughly in this piece titled: Why Obama is Black, not White. — Excellent Read!

True, some white Democrats are Racist too — as evidenced in the 15 month Clinton/Obama duel (see text and video postings elsewhere)

Depending on your view, it could be a matter of who is the “lesser of two evils.” ….Republicans or Democrats?

To me the Republican party is “super-evil.”

I won’t pen the language I am tempted to use, because someone else offers a more eloquent and “tighter summary” of what the ReTHUGlican Party represents:

From EvilGOPBastards.com

Click here for more: 41 things you have to believe to be a Republican today

Back to my Black Brothers & Sisters — The National Black Republican Association.

The late Khalid Abdul Muhammad was blunt and dramatic about you: “When white folks can’t defeat you, they’ll always find some Negro, some boot-licking, butt-licking, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized, homogenized Nigger that they can trot out in front of you.”

Not to be outdone, movie director Spike Lee called people like you: “Handkerchief-heads, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Toms.” — a statement I have “Pluralized,” from the original that was directed by Mr. Lee at the “Big Kahuna” Uncle Tom — The one and only “Long John Silver” Justice Clarence Thomas — A ReTHUGliTOM Smothered In “Uppity Niggerdom” a.k.a “NegroPhobia Syndrome.”

That said, the National Black Republican Association is just but a congregation of frustrated slaves crawling back to the plantation, so to speak! “Virulent Oreo Phenomenons,” “Punk-Asses,” and “Uncle Tom Calamities.” — Thanks to Historian John Henrik Clarke and Author June Jordan.

Your ADs above are a big joke — and an insult to the black community!

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SPECIAL TREAT: How the Right Uses People of Color to Foster Racism

For your consumption:

   This cartoon was drawn by a White Republican Student – At The University Florida

It caused an uproar.

LOL! …only in America.