The old “coconut” smear: Another white liberal bigmouth with race issues
A few readers asked me why I hadn’t commented on MSNBC’s latest attack on the Tea Party as RAAAAACIST. Been there, done that. Over and over and over again. (The Dallas Tea Party posted an excellent rejoinder video here.)
The whole right-wingers-are-racist and minority-conservatives-are-race-traitors-wrapped-in-color thing is getting really, really old. Staler than last year’s Halloween candy, Diane Keaton’s wardrobe, and the Smothers Brothers’ show. It’s gotten so old that yet another white liberal bigmouth has now resurrected a smear I first heard in college: “Coconut.” (See here and here for my past musings on the vile bile minority conservatives have put up with over the years.)
Newsbusters reports:
MSNBC and CNBC contributor — and professed Charlie Crist admirer — Donny Deutsch used racially charged language on Monday night, smearing Republican senatorial candidate Marco Rubio as a “coconut.” Deutsch appeared on HLN’s Joy Behar Show and used the word, which both the New York Times and Urban Dictionary define as a “person who is tan on the outside” and “white on the inside.” Rubio is the son of Cuban exiles. [Audio available here.]
Deutsch employed the derogatory term while hitting politicians with no experience. He noted the success of such candidates and derided, “…You almost need that blank piece of paper. That’s the new model. Like, you know, this coconut Rubio down in Florida.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brown on the outside, white on the inside. What is this? Sophomore year at Oberlin? Guess this bottom-feeder didn’t get Van Jones’ civility memo yet.
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On a related note: Jon Stewart mocks CPAC as a “festival of whites.” And I’m sure the studio audience and demographic breakdowns for his nightly shows are a veritable rainbow of fruit flavors.
On another related note: Website Lists Clarence Thomas, Robert Mugabe & DC Sniper as “Embarrassing” Blacks.
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Quick primer for those of you unfamiliar with the “coconut” insult:
If you are a conservative with Latino/Pacific Islander/Filipino heritage, you’re a coconut (brown on the outside, white on the inside).
If you are a conservative with Asian heritage, you’re a Twinkie or banana (yellow on the outside, white on the inside).
And if you are a conservative who happens to be black, you are an Oreo (black on the outside, white on the inside).
Okay, who is getting hungry?
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Update: My great blogger friend and fellow coconut Val Prieto at Babalu (who I had a pleasure to meet in person last week in D.C. at a blogger bash) has an update on the story — Donny Deutsch is now playing dumb. Not that it’s such a great stretch…
Here’s the direct link to Deutsch’s Tweet. Sure, of all the words to come out of his mouth, “coconut” just happened to roll off the bitter tongue…
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Their obsession with race is, well, spooky.
Fortunatley nobody watches that show. Well, I stand corrected, it does get more viewers than olberman gets. So almost nobody watches.
What an idiot.
Well,
liberalsimsocialism/fascism is a mental disorder, among the many, many symptoms and signs of which are perpetual adolescence; massive, on-steroids projection; and a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose attitude.That is not only insulting but horribly ignorant. Cuban-Americans have historically been very conservative. If anyone’s a coconut, it’s… um, Perez Hilton?
I guess the implication is that ALL minorities should be liberals. No, make that all ethnic people, be they Cuban, Jewish, Korean or Polish.
The lib media can insult, demean, and crack jokes about ethnic groups and no one raises a fuss. I just don’t get it.
Wait…this is coming from the party that condemns racism?
Democrats expect an awful lot. They expect all gays and minorities to be liberal-voting Dems. They don’t ask anymore, it is simply expected. Didn’t you know? The Democrats are the only ones looking out for you!
Gag me.
The sophomoric insults are getting old and transparent.
Children (usually) out grow this immature behavior…
wish the Alinsky worshipers would too.
Shocking, right? This is what you would expect from the party that embraces it.
Thanks Michelle, you hit all the important food groups except cheese popcorn. Looks like I’ll have to hit the 7-11 on the way home.
Hungry? I want to hurl.
Well, from what everyone who seems to know her says about Michelle’s personality, I’d be hunting for a food comparison that’s tough yet appealing on the outside, and sweet on the inside.
Don’t know what it’s called, but that’s the food item that she’d be.
If, as I suspect, aproximately 85% of the US is “white” CPAC had about the right mix. The other political groups that are mixed racially, say 30% black 25% latino, 10% “other” would have to be considered the minority representatives. Since when is it politically incorrect to be in the majority?
If you are a non-white, non-male in America, NSDAP (the Neo-Socialist Democrat American Party) owns you. Race is NSDAP‘s unified field theory of causation for everything from poor test scores to hurricanes. You will act right: step outside their plantation and you will be brought down. On the other hand, if you step and fetch for them real good-like, you may be rewarded handsomely. Or maybe not. But if not, that is one grievance they could not care less about.
Donny DORK ! Please tell me why this guy has ANY reason to think so highly of himself?
He’s another one that I see from time to time while I change channels. EVERYTIME I see him he says something so arrogantly and self righteously stupid that I PUKE!
The only one that sticks is on them, ‘watermelon’ – green on the outside red on the inside.
I know he is not conservative but I thought Oblamer was considered an OREO.
Hey! I’m white on the outside and white on the inside. I want a food group, too!
(Of course, to be technically correct, I am somewhat olive on the outside and a collection of none-too appetizing colors on the inside.)
I’m Scots-Irish so I suppose I’m a whisky-soaked potato.
… and oh so yummy…
isn’t it amazing that msnbc people can get away with calling tea party conservatives “teabagger”, latino conservatives “coconuts”, black conservatives “oreos”, and asian conservatives “bananas”, if white conservatives ever used the “n word” to describe blacks, they would be pillaried. Another case of dual standards.
RSS: Oh, a STAFFER acts stupid and you get your thong in a wad.
How about we talk actual politicians and their little “acts” — like Harry “dialect” Reid, Robert “Grand Dragon” Byrd, or Bill “serve us coffee” Clinton.
That’s just for starters, ’cause if you recall, the Jim Crow era was brought to us by the democRATS.
Sucks to live in a glass house when you like to throw rocks, doesn’t it?
1. Donny Deutsch was on Joy Behar which means for the majority of cable news viewers, this was their first chance to see this CNBC loser. This also means his ratings are still behind many self respecting 3:00 AM infomertials
2. Deutsch employed the derogatory term while hitting politicians with no experience. I’m very sure Obama wasn’t mentioned, as was the term “Oreo”, “Moonpie” or “Mallowmar”
3. “…You almost need that blank piece of paper…” Plenty of blank pieces of paper lying around, especially if you’re busy writting down Donny’s intellectual greatest hits.
It’s funny but the last time I looked I am not really “white” even though I am an an Anglo. But I tan really well in the summer and when in the tropics. I have even passed for a Columbian while visiting Ecuador (until I opened my mouth and tried to speak Spanish).
What in the world does that make me?
Do these leftist morons have a list or something I can refer to?
Colorblindness quietly became politically incorrect once the leftist race baiting industry got profitable.
jjmurphy: Sounds like you are a marshmallow!
Slightly OT, but when my Dad was a battalion commander at Ft Benning, GA, my Mom and the other wives were responsible for making the decorations for the Wive’s Club tea at the O’Club one month.
They made small trees with birds (made from marshmallows) sitting on the branches. The birds had eyes, lips, hair, etc. painted on and representing the various wives in the organization. My Mom was a firecracker and decided some of the ‘birds’ should be toasted to represent those who weren’t lily white. ALL of the wives (even those who were not lily white) got a big kick out of it!
Thanks Donny and Joy, you’ve taught me a new racist term!
Could someone let Donnie know that his shipment of Ovaltine is on backorder? It’s been in such high demand lately.
Gladz
I’ve only skipped past Joy Behar’s show but it seemed to me she’s trying to outsleaze the sleaze. What a waste of oxygen.
What is someone who is orange outside and white inside? (Crist, I’m looking at you)
My patrilineal ancestor came to “the colonies” in 1674 as an indentured servant. Can I still be a conservative, Christian gun owner? What would I be called? A macaroon or divinity?
ECS
Angelfood cake.
…and if so far as you know you are just plain Conservative Caucasian-no filler- you are a Racist by default…
You are right Michelle, this crap is older than Halloween candy.
sandspur: A creamsicle!
Woohoo, I’m a marshmallow, though slightly “burnt”.
Thanks, nail49. It is good to know what my food group is.
There was a time when calling me a racist would have been the worst thing anyone could do to me. Now, that weapon has been used so much that it’s about as sharp as a nerf ball. Coconut, Donnie? Really? Nerf ball. Oreo?? Nerf ball. Banana (snort)? Nerf ball. Now call me a “Donnie” and I’ll drop the gloves!
There must be a metaphor that suits Deutsch.
How about “diaper”: white on the outside – disgusting on the inside.
I’ve always wondered why they call them ‘oreos’–wouldn’t they be more like a Junior Mint?
I should be something green, ’cause I’m so money
That ain’t all.
Someone explain why y’all tolerated — no, lionized — Rush Limbaugh who has spent the last two years yammering about how Obama’s not really black, then once Harry Reid says something that’s undeniably true, you jump down his throat. Huh?
Looks like I picked a bad day to start watching my cholesterol.
DamnCat: FIFY
I’m proud to be a Morenkopf.
Coconuts, bananas, Twinkies, Oreos, Junior Mints, Diapers: You guys are cracking me up!
Racism: what fun!
You forget to add AniMEL’s ending to that.
I think you should have recognized the sarcasm.
We all know which party truly embraces racism and which party attempts to get past it.
Preach it, brother! I’m so utterly sick and tired of white liberals trying to patronize me with their talk about how I, of all people (being black) need to realize which party is the home of racism. Well, good news! I HAVE and I’m not a Democrat anymore.
God bless you, Major O. Welcome aboard.
It is really rather sad that the left has nothing to stand on; no platform, no morality, and no common sense. They all sound like the defenders of Islam.
I listen to Rush weekly and I have yet to hear all this supposed racism. And news flash: I know it’s hard for some of you white liberals to understand, but Obama is HALF-BLACK. The one drop rule died out years ago. He’s just as much “white” as he is “black.”
Rush has simply been playing the black liberal game of deciding who is authentically black based on where they went to school, how they talk, and other cultural bonafides and arguing from that the Obama isn’t “authentically black.”
The only time I hear someone HONESTLY yammering about who isn’t authentically black, it’s the foaming-at-the-mouth racist blacks and white liberals who still can’t SHUT UP about Clarence Thomas or Condoleeza Rice.
Amen Hangfire, AMEN!
Refreshingly different on the inside!
We all know very well what the Democratic Party has done for minorities and race.
I’m not alone. My mother, my sister, and my loooong time flirting-with-black-militant-ideology brother are now rock solid conservative (they always were socially, but politically they voted by color). I get more “Obama Needs to Go!” e-mail from both of them than from anyone else! And that’s just speaking of my immediate family.
In a sense, Obama’s presidency has been salutary in that it has helped some black folks learn how to separate the fortunes of black folks in general from a particular candidate. As my mother puts it, “I don’t care what color he is, he’s destroying this country!”
I second that!
I had always thought that the term ‘coconut’ as used by the black students at my college was used to refer to black people from the Caribbean Islands. OK, there might be another definition of the term.
Moreover, Deutsch’s use did not seem to have racial overtones. Brown on the outside and white on the inside does not describe Rubio. Niether does ‘oreo’ of which I am more familiar. Deustch IMHO was flinging invectives to slight Rubio as possibly crazy, or a ‘nut job’.
I have never heard the term ‘banana’ before, and am gratefully unaware of any derisive term for latinos. And, I have never heard the term ‘twinkie’ used as a perjorative for any group.
Yep, we have come a long way with regard to race, and still have a long way yet to go.
Finally, not everything is racist.
Or 3rd or 4th it ….
I LIKE YOUR MOM!!!
So let me get this straight.
Coconut
Twinkie
Banana
Oreo ?
I’m just plain ol’ white bread?
What gives?
I wanna be called something sweet and tasty from now on!
rightwingmom: I believe we can all say AMEN to that!
vanilla ice cream???
vanilla ice cream
What is WRONG with these people? They are seriously mentally unstable.
How could somebody call Rubio that? I just don’t get these people.
I had never heard of the term ‘twinkie’ to describe an oriental person who acts white.
My wife, who is chinese, has taught me about the term banana. She uses it more when she is jealous of a chinese movie star or some other successful chinese individual.
Anyways, I don’t think of myself as white. I am caucasion, but I think of myself as more of a pinkish hue than white. I mean, snow is white and bleach will turn your clothes white, but my skin colour doesn’t represent snow nor bleached-damaged clothes at all. Oriental people are more of a beige colour than yellow and black people really don’t look like my car tires after I apply some Armor-all Wet Shine to them; they look closer to the colour known to the world as brown, if anything.
Hey, I thought a ‘Twinkie’ was a very young, gay ‘escort’.
It is funny how left-wing idiots like RSS ignore their fellow leftists who make racist cracks at people and then turn around and blame Rush Limbaugh for pointing out what the left-wing idiots said in the first place!
If leftists didn’t have double standards they would have no standards at all.
If RSS really believe this then he is an idiot. If he doesn’t believe it then he is a liar. Of course, RSS may just be an idiotic liar repeating the MSM mantra that Rush is a racist…
Gay Escort? How did you come to learn the definition of that term spaceycakes? Just jokking. Anyway, for the definitive answer on what it means, go to urbandictionary dot com.
Someone should stick a bar of soap in Donny Deutsch’s filthy mouth and wash it out (thoroughly). These pathetic liberals proudly show their lack of good manners daily, and the sponsors of those networks need to hear that we are really sick and tired of democrat racism.
Okay I just checked at the website I suggested other visit. Sorry if this is inappropriate to post, but to answer another poster’s inquiry as to the definition of twinkie, I found this:
American Gay Term: Refers to a young pretty gay boy that is very fun to look at, play with, filled with white creme but has no nutritional (intellectual) value whatsoever. Twinks are usually referred to by older men. Has a mixed intent, can be meant negativaly as in “Damn twinks dont have the sence god gave a rock” or positivly “Man that twink is hot, wish he’d come over and __________!”
I thought I was the only one that had to endure the punishment of soap in the mouth for using foul language as a child. Nice to see I wasn’t alone.
No, no, he’s a newspaper – black and white and Red all over.
Thank you for saving many of the rest of us the trouble….
We have the same mother!?
Ahhhh memories….
Dove soap tasted horrible!
Don’t get me started on Irish Spring!
Dial wasn’t all that bad.
I was a soap connoisseur by the time I was 10.
Good times.
Surveyor–you should try Lava soap, or *gak!* homemade lye soap.
BTW; I leaned about Twinkies from my friends & my various trips to Las Vegas.
It’s also a good place to learn about Ho-hos…
Just be thankful they didn’t have the Body Shop around when we were kids.
Ho-hos?
Ohh man! LAVA soap?
Now thats just child abuse I tell ya!
By the way….do spaceycakes have cream inside like eclairs?
I’m not mentioning Twinkies….I will never look at one the same again.
And just in case I hear anything from the peanut gallery….I’m talking about the Hostess ones…not those Vegas kind.
LOL–it’s just not fair, I tell ya.
I also had to use the outdoor toilet!
wahhhhh
Vanilla fudge ice cream? How can you tell which is on the outside and which on the inside? I’m tryin’ to be a good conservative racist but I get so confused.
Did anyone check Danny Deutsch’s ratings when he was at CNBC? He replaced the John McEnroe Show (yep, Mac had a talk show on CNBC. And it was that bad). But Danny D’s show was even worse! Most of the time Danny groveled before Donald Trump or Donald’s children. His ratings were lower than test patterns. Donnie Deutsche could not draw flies. If Deutsche gave a fireside chat, the fire would die.
The color “YELLOW” for asians started back in the late 19th century.
Cartoonists used colors in their drawings of the different races. White and Brown people were easy mixes of color, but orientals weren’t brown and weren’t white. The shade that they used to depict orientals was a very pale yellow.
Many people in rural American had never seen Asians. Some actually thought that Asians had yellow skin. It wasn’t until Japanese were shooting 7.7mm rounds at them from a few yards away that many discovered the fact that Orientals weren’t yellow.
In fact, many Koreans are whiter than I am, and I’m a burn-in-the-sun Celt.
Color? I hate people who do not part their hair to the right.
Which of course means I hate all bald people.
Who the #*%&#*%&#%&V ever thought anything could be based on the level of melatonine in your body? How 17th Century is that?
Oh Swede……….. PLEEEEASSSSSE.
If your are going to be ethic AND a raaaaaacist then the criteria is this:
If their name ends in “son” good, if it ends in “sen,” then, “By gollie that fella, he ain’t gunna be datin my daughter, you betcha….”
I had never heard any of those terms before, and yes…I am now hungry.
Jus’ call me an “Apple Pie”, cuz ah’m jus’ an American!
Truer words was never spoke! Ya hey?
Let me channel my inner zziggey:
Hey, politics is rough.
If you can’t take the heat stay out of the kitchen.
Am I wrong?
Nov 2 is going to be SO FUN!!
I can’t wait for all the crying and wailing and insults from these MSNBC creeps and their ilk once we clear out the House and Senate.
it’s amazing and funny how clueless the liberals are about how much of an electoral bloodbath they are going to be subject to. but I guess it’s “screw the voters” as much as they can as they commit political suicide. and all for the leftist cause by committed leftists posing as our elected leaders. thanks a lot you leftist scum, voting you out is too good for you, you should be hung up by your thumbs, the lot of you.
Hey, Local Malcontent, what food group is an Indian who acts white?
Yep, we never got away with bad language, but my parents and grandparents were merciful, they used Ivory Soap!
Are you sure he was gay? Maybe you didn’t tip him enough.
Tonight, MSLSD will report that “right-wingers at Michelle Malkin’s site are writing post after post using racial and ethnic slurs.”
(I’d add “just kidding,” but with that network, I may turn out to be right!)
Bunch of coconuts.
From what I’ve read over the decades about the origins of various “people” groups, American Indians would be considered a type of banana, msince their ancestors came to America on a land bridge from East Asia (Siberia); and India Indians would be “marshmallows’, as they are caucasians.
*If you are a Scott Brown conservative from Massachusetts, does that make you a masshole?
*If you are a Susan Collins conservative from Maine, does that make you a maniac?
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An Indian who acts white is just a well trained call centre rep helping you fix a problem with your computer.
Hmm, I remember not to long ago the liberal MSM were saying that the word Socialist was the new N-word. They went on their nutty little rants when people called Barrack one.
That is in fact what we New Hampshire natives call them….