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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Psychopathy is a disorder in which people struggle to control their impulses, and behave manipulatively, aggressively, dishonestly or exploitatively towards others. They rarely show remorse for their actions.

In the new research, a team led by Professor Declan Murphy, Michael Craig and Marco Catani, of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College, London, compared the brain anatomy of pscyhopaths to that of ordinary people using a new scanning technique called diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI).

The team found that a white-matter tract called the uncinate fasciculus (UF), which connects parts of the brain called the amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), differed significantly between the psychopaths and the control group. People who had been diagnosed with more extreme psychopathy showed greater degrees of abnormality in this tract. [ READ MORE ]

Janeane Garofalo seems to grasp this concept pretty well: [ VIDEO ]

Read More: The TeaBag ‘Terrorist’ Suckers Are The New ‘White Power Movement’

…and here is a sample of the psychopathic behavior of Republicans:

| Images of Right-Wing Psychopathic Terrorism in America |

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By Norman Chad

America remains a complex work-in-progress, full of amazement and contradiction.

Item 1: There is only one person who can be president of these United States at any given time, and as of Jan. 20, 2009, that one person will be black.

Item 2: There are 119 head coaches in division I-A college football at any given time, and as of this moment, only three of them are black.

Those are two equally improbable feats.

The nation’s voters recently told Barack Obama: Yes, You Can.

The nation’s colleges always tell black coaches: No, You Can’t.

Geez. If a person of color can run the entire country, you’ve got to figure a person of color can also run the West Coast offense.

There were eight black head coaches — an all-time high — in 1997. Now — after the November firings of Ty Willingham at Washington and Ron Prince at Kansas State and the resignation of Sylvester Croom at Mississippi State — there are three in 2008. This projects to two black coaches in 2013 and none by 2020, at which time all 119 major college programs will be headed by either Bowden progeny or Joe Paterno.

To some people, this is a tired issue. But here’s the tired reality — somehow, in a game filled with black faces, only white ones call the shots.

This simply could be an offshoot of what is commonly referred to as the “good ol’ boy network,” where you only do business with your own kind, which, you know, pretty much excludes the other kind.

Indeed, we tend to surround ourselves with those that have a similar background. This isn’t necessarily racism, it’s just a comfort level.

(For instance, if I were starting a company, I would be predisposed to hiring odd-looking fellows with a 1970s-style mustache, eyeglasses, a big nose and large ears who attended the University of Maryland and complain about it to this day.)

Meanwhile, I heard a talk radio host suggest recently that maybe there aren’t that many black coaching candidates or blacks who want to coach. In football? Most of the players are black — what, after they’re done playing, all of them go into aluminum siding? We’re not talking the National Hockey League or the John Birch Society, where you don’t expect to find a lot of African Americans in upper management.

Here is the truest statement I will utter all year:

Over the course of most of our history, good things happen to white guys.

Example A: When Lane Kiffin was 31, he became the youngest head coach in NFL annals with the Oakland Raiders, even though he had no NFL experience. He was fired in September with a 5-15 record. Now, at 33, he is about to become the youngest active head coach in division I-A, with Tennessee, even though he has no college head-coaching experience.

Example B: In 2003, Karl Dorrell, who is black, took over at UCLA. He cleaned up the program, adhered to the school’s newly rigorous academic standards for recruits, went to a bowl game all five years — and was fired. He was replaced by a white man, mercurial pied piper Rick Neuheisel, who seems more suited to infomercials than institutions of higher learning. Neuheisel is 4-7, but he has a great smile.

So, how do we break this racial cycle?

Ah, I stumbled upon a solution the other morning, while enjoying PBR in a can:

Why don’t we elect our college coaches? By the will of the people, a black man just broke through centuries-old social barriers and made it to the White House. By the will of the people, maybe a black man can make it to Ann Arbor or Tuscaloosa.

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By: MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Professor, Georgetown University

Race Has Affected the 2008 Presidential Election

There is little question that race has affected the 2008 presidential election, though often through inference and innuendo.

Initially, Barack Obama’s historic quest for the highest political office in the land was rife with suspicion from white and black quarters.

Eventually, millions of black voters signed on to his campaign after relinquishing skepticism about his being black enough and after he proved in Iowa that he could win over white voters.

Educated white voters followed suit, though Obama has had a far more difficult time effectively wooing working class white voters.

That has to do in large part with the effective, if cynical, effort of conservative activists to falsely paint Obama as an unpatriotic figure who pals around with terrorists because he is secretly a Muslim.

The manipulation of the public image of Obama as a subversive presence who hates the nation rests on racially coded inferences about unreliable blackness as it tinges the face of American politics.

Few quarters in American life have been tolerant of the complex black identities that constitute African American communities.

Republicans — Backward, Bigoted, Racist and Nativist FILTH of America

As a result, a punishing and narrow range of stereotypes have obscured the fact that black struggle for social equality and racial justice was never antithetical to the best interests of the nation.

Because black people loved the nation so much, they fought hard to make sure that it lived up to the true meaning of its creed, as Martin Luther King said.

Barack Obama represents both the maturing of black American politics, and the increased willingness of significant portions of the white population to embrace a worthy black presidential candidate.

Whether that is sufficient to propel Obama to the presidency remains to be seen. Still I am cautiously hopeful that it is.

[Enlarge] About The Author: Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American writer, radio host, and professor at Georgetown University. Dyson has a Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University. He is an ordained Baptist minister. Dyson taught at DePaul University, Chicago Theological Seminary, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University and Brown University, before going to the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. There he was the Avalon Professor of Humanities. Since 2007, Dyson has been University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, teaching courses in theology, English, and African American studies. A University Professorship is said to be the highest position that a faculty member can have at Georgetown. From January 2006 to February 2007 Dyson was the host of a daily syndicated talk radio program, The Michael Eric Dyson Show, which aired on weekdays from 10AM to 1PM (EST) on the Syndication One Radio Network (owned and operated by Radio One). He is also a regular commentator on National Public Radio, CNN, and the HBO TV program Real Time with Bill Maher. Dyson is best known for his commentary on American culture, particularly as it pertains to African Americans. Dyson uses the terms “Afristocracy” and “Ghettocracy” to describe a bifurcation in American black society. He is also a leading scholar on hip-hop music and the culture that surrounds it, as well as its roots in African and African-American cultures and influence on American popular culture. Dyson is well known to repeat his famous line, “Go Ahead. Axe me a question.”

He created the MONSTER — Smearing Obama, by using a “CHARACTER ATTACK STRATEGY.” A strategy in which McCain sought to paint Obama as UN-PATRIOTIC, ALIEN — “NOT ONE OF US.”

McCain seems to have painted himself into a corner, and now his RIGHT-WING HATERS are hating him back — for backing down, from FEEDING THEM THE “OBAMA HATE JUICE!”

Today, in Minnesota, during a Town Hall “HATE-MEETING,” an incredibly ignorant idiot of a woman told McCain: “…I don’t trust Obama….I have been reading about him…he is an ARAB.”

To which McCain replied: “No….he is a decent family man, citizen…with whom I have differences….Obama is a person you do not have to be scared of.”

The racist partisan crowd booed him immediately.

On the other hand, Sarah the GOON has ceased being the MORAL ADVOCATE for the McCain campaign. She now has ZERO credibility, after being found GUILTY of abusing her power, by a bi-partisan Alaskan Legislative task force.

Palin violated a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

Sarah Palin has been formally found in VIOLATION OF THE PUBLIC TRUST!

It has been established that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state’s public safety commissioner, to settle a family dispute.

Monegan, the commissioner, says he was dismissed for resisting pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce with the Palin’s sister.

Palin could face impeachment for breaking state law.

References:

1. The Southern Strategy — In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican method of carrying Southern states in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century by exploiting racism among white voters.
2. ‘Straight-Talk’ Xenophobia — McCain’s ‘Neo-Klan’ Lynch Mobs