A mighty pale newspaper
This is Charles Blow. Blow is an African-American columnist for the New York Times. He flew down to the Dallas Tea Party to see what he could see. He saw what he wanted to see and he might as well have used the new smear term from Tea Party-bashers that I noted last week: “Tea Klanners.”
The title of his screed? “A mighty pale tea.”
Blow used his column from his hallowed perch at the Times to malign minority conservatives as minstrel tokens and puppets for the movement. How…original. He singled out my friend Alfonzo “Zo” Rachel — the young, delightfully talented conservative comedian — and essentially accused every non-white activist who opposes endless bailouts, massive new entitlements, and Obama’s culture of corruption of being incapable of thinking for himself/herself:
The juxtaposition was striking: an abundance of diversity on the stage and a dearth of it in the crowd, with the exception of a few minorities like the young black man who carried a sign that read “Quit calling me a racist.”
They saved the best for last, however: Alfonzo “Zo” Rachel. According to his Web site, Zo, who is black and performs skits as “Zo-bama,” allowed drugs to cost him “his graduation.” Before ripping into the president for unconstitutional behavior, he cautioned, “I don’t have the education that our president has, so if I misinterpret some things in the founding documents I kind of have an excuse.” That was the understatement of the evening.
I found the imagery surreal and a bit sad: the minorities trying desperately to prove that they were “one of the good ones”; the organizers trying desperately to resolve any racial guilt among the crowd. The message was clear: How could we be intolerant if these multicolored faces feel the same way we do?
It was a farce.
You want “farce?” I’ve pointed out many times over the years that the loudest preachers of skin-deep diversity work for media institutions that fail to practice their own social engineering sermons.
See, for example: The indelible whiteness of MSNBC.
Or: White anchor at indelibly white network decries “white tribalism”.
Or: Let’s make a holiday gift guide for New York Times executives.
In that last post, I poked fun at the Times for publishing a separate but equal gift guide for people “of color” — and pointed to the Fishwrap of Record’s own “practice diversity as we say, not as we do” philosophy as illustrated by its own board of directors:
I noted then that the NYTimes editorial board is similarly complected.
Blow, of course, is silent on the tokenism practiced by his mighty pale newspaper.
And as Tom Maguire at Just One Minute notes, by the Times’ own measure, the Tea Party movement is “a lot more diverse than the Times Board.”
Live by bean-counting, die by bean-counting. The monochromatically-dominated liberal media never learn.
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Related: Do these two “doughy white men” not realize how asinine they are?
Bill Maher and Chris Matthews, on Wednesday’s Hardball, denigrated Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann as merely “attractive” women with very little smarts with the HBO host even going as far to use a vulgar euphemism to describe them as he claimed: “They’re attractive especially to the Republican Party, which is not known as a party that really does well with the opposite sex. Usually they’re doughy white men and I think they look on Michele Bachmann and, and Sarah Palin, as you know, M.I.L.Fs and I agree, they’re Morons I’d Like to Forget.”
I mean, really. Can you get any “whiter” or “doughier” than those two?
Oh, wait.
Yes. Yes, you can.
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Update: Listen to Blow(hard) make a fool of himself on the Laura Ingraham show.
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I never said it was an issue. I said it was a fact.
By the way, no one has ever said that this.
let’s move along then….
battleaxe did, or at least certainly came close, when he started throwing out demographic statistics to explain who makes up the Tea Party.
The misunderstanding of the 3/5ths of a person is intentional on the part of our educators.
The southern, slave holding states wanted the black slaves to count as a whole person. The northern states did not want to count them at all. The reason is for the purposes of representation in congress. If the black slaves were counted for representation purposes, the southern states would have been very powerful in Washington.
Any of these newspaper geniuses know that the KKK’s members were nearly all Democrats?
mmmmkay…
As I see, it does not matter. What difference does it make if the incidence of blacks involved in Tea Party activities mirrors the general population?
And why would be a surprise if there are fewer blacks at Tea Party rallies than they occur in the gen. pop???
Blacks are more likely to be liberal democrats per polling data.
What is offensive is that prejudiced, bigoted opinion of people like Charles Blow, Chris Matthews and that other idiot, insinuating that tea party people are racist simply because they happen to mostly be white.
Seems to me that we are finding a lot of racism on the left.
White Guilt, and a DNA-level Persecution Complex, are the only two weapons remaining in the Leftwing aresenal.
Unfortunately, that ordnance remains both powerful and volatile.
Thus, Conservatives will always have the tougher challenge when trying to convince VictiCrats that their lunch is not free after all.
Oh by the way, since Obama was elected president…there is a disproportionately amount of blacks in TV commercials now. Before you get your panties in a bind Chap – I couldn’t care less.
No need for Wiki – did that B-4 my earlier post.
Maybe I should have made my point more clear. Having a dialog with black people as to what really holds them back from trusting white people is good. Maybe he was a Moby but, I found the caller’s reason enlightening, regardless of what really did take place in history. Black studies programs may not tell people the whole story and Sharpton/Jackson are not moving the dialog forward.
When I was working at the local newspaper I learned that the people there considered CNN and the NY Times to be the ONLY credible news sources on the planet.
Outside the news profession (and people like politicians whose career models are based on the news) hardly anyone pays much attention to them.
But there also seems to be a small core of Conservatives who keep reading the Times just so they can get mad at it. Stop it! Stop supporting the damned rag and let it die, willya?
The other question is whether people of color are hesitant to participate openly for fear of reprisals and/or denigration in their communities. Oreo, Uncle Tom, token, sell out…etc.
Allen West to Pelosi: “Give me that damn gavel.”
To add to that thought.
Disproportionate.
To what base line?
The general population? Why would someone compare the tea party to the general population? Why not compare the Democratic party to the general population. Perhaps we would find the general population disproportionally black?
If you want to compare the tea party to anything, maybe the closest group would be the republican party?
And for all the left’s blather on this, the tea party welcomes people from all walks of life. Race is irrelevant.
This is yet another red herring thrown up by the left to try to attach the label RACIST to the right. They have been trying to do it for a long time. They have no plans to stop.
Can’t wait to meet up with some journalism students. Haven’t in a long time.
Can’t wait to go again into a college book store to see what the required reading is for Political Science. Rules for Rads???
That is the real issue!
Why yes. Yes you do in today’s out of control PC environment.
Frankly, I am tired of hearing the whining about diversity, or lack thereof, in every single business, government, jobs, education, …….. IMO, society goes way out (too far most times) of it’s way to include all minorities in everything. If they don’t take advantage of the opportunity, too d*mn bad. I am not going to hand hold them or give it to them on a silver platter.
Oh I believe so, remember Colin Powell?
When do we quit talking about black people?
Speaking of Zo Rachel, here he is responding to his hate mail. Wouldn’t be so much easier for him to join the left, avoid the harassment, and be a “good one”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCrss-bXSNo&feature=channel
Swede, that’s a good question. It seems such denigration is documented. It wouldn’t be surprising at all to find that some people don’t get involved in the Tea Party for that reason. Yet they support the principles of the tea party movement.
Perhaps this form of denigration is a tool being employed by liberals to accomplish that goal. “Keep the callin’ em Uncle Tom’s so they stay out of that dman Tea Party.”
Would we really be surprised?
It seems to me that a representative sample of our country would be majority white, wouldn’t it?
Why does the color of our skin invalidate the content of our discontent?
Our Savior in Chief is half white but he doesn’t want to acknowledge that too often. Suppose he gets more mileage out of the other half. Exploiter in Chief.
Or they get their arses kicked ala Kenneth Gladney.
I suppose when we all get so tired of the ‘back and forthing’ that we all just raise the flag of surrender and shake hands. Can that happen soon???
GK – I wish it would hurry up! I think when there is no longer a payoff making it “THE” subject, it will end. It can’t come soon enough for me.
The New York Times – I’ve heard of that paper…didn’t they go under, yet?
No more new continents to escape to and occupy.
Soooooo, the next Revolution’s gonna be a big one!
An un-Civil like war.
…the “fact” does NOT matter. I choose to judge people (and in this case a grass-roots movement) by the content of their (its) character and not the color of his (its) skin. I am as interested in skin pigment as I am with how many left-handed versus right-handed, how many have brown, blue, or green eyes, or how many brown, black, blonde, or red-heads there are. Mr. Blow, feel free to make skin-color your issue – we’ll stick with character!
Must concur w/ RedPill.
Slave owners wanted slaves to be counted for apportionment of House seats, thus giving the slaveowners disproportional representation.
Is Chap looking for blacks in the Tea Party movement? The Frederick Douglass Foundation is a good place to search–read through some of the links. Many blacks supportive of it remain silent to avoid attack within their communities.
Liberals claim conservatives are racist because there are no black people. When a black conservative is actually shown, they claim he’s just a “token”, a “sell-out”, “oreo”, “Uncle Tom”, or other derogatory term.
Liberals are paranoid that someone, somewhere actually has an independent thought.
On April 19th, 2010 at 12:42 pm, plymouthacclaim said:
Thanks. The Northern states had no issues with counting blacks as “whole” people… as long as they were “free Persons”. The Northern states wanted the Southern states to free their slaves, and then they could be counted among “the whole Number of free Persons”. The Northern states knew that if slaves were counted for representation purposes, the Federal Government would be controlled by slave owners, so the Northern states didn’t want slaves counted until they were freed. A free black in the South was counted as a “whole person”, not 3/5. It wasn’t an issue of race, it was an issue of Freedom.
Even an indentured servant was counted as a whole person because there was a date on their freedom… they were only “bound to Service for a Term of Years”, and then they would be free. So, they were counted whole, becuase they weren’t slaves.
The issue was about how much influence slave owners would be given in the Federal Government. It was not about race or racism.
But rather than fight a battle that would have destroyed our infant nation in 1787, they found a compromise and left the disagreement over slavery for a later resolution… the Civil War.
…and by the way, it was the Republicans who freed the slaves, and the Democrats who formed the KKK.
Well said.
I wonder how many blacks would like to attend a Tea Party event, but do not out of fear, because of the scorn and ridcule they would face from their neighbors and community leaders?
The Left has no tolerance for dissent. Anyone with views they dislike is instantly villified. “Incorrect thought’ is universally punished. Within the Democrat party, conservatives have been driven away or silenced. Now imagine what an average person who was also black would face?
Then why the ef did you bring it up? Is it an ingrained kneejerk thing? Do they teach this in law school?
Fact: Al Sharpton does not wash his hands after taking a pi$$.
Does that fact mitigate or enhance the discussion with regards to him being a race hustling poinyoin, or despicable being in general?
The FFs also knew that nations like England, France and Spain were just “waiting in the wings” for the nation to fall apart into 13 separate nations. It would be easier to move in and control them. Plus, show the failure of a no-monarchy government.
Face it…it comes down to a two-word phrase:
Uncle Tom
Those who participate are labeled as “Uncle Toms”, (or, in this case, the “minstrel” insult), and as others have said, I think it hinders participation from the black community. There is a strong sentiment for labeling those black conservatives as “Uncle Toms” or “acting white”. If you oppose the handouts of the government cheese, you’re kissing up to the white man.
Couldn’t be more true. I live this fact just about every day. I can say without hesitation that all the racism I’ve even knowingly encountered has come from people on the Left.
Glad you showed up. Was thinking of you in the context of the dialogue. Appreciate your perspective.
What’s so utterly fascinating is that if you really want to see the “Uncle Tom” pathology in action, it’s on the LEFT. That’s what is so incredible to me.
It’s the liberal black who is the one being patronized, put in his place and given favors provided he/she tows the party line and brings in the vote. Talk about “working for the man”!
That Rasmussen poll said while blacks are 11% of the population they are 6% of the Tea Party movement. I don’t recall seeing Asians in the poll.
Everyone I know who’s name or nickname is “Blow” has a nasal drug problem.
It’s stupidest manifestation is the “studying is a white people thing” idea. Truly, truly stupid. Martin Luther King would be appalled.
Thanks for providing that link. Excellent site!
We lived in a racially mixed suburb of ATL many years ago and everyone on our street looked out for one another. Today’s government finds it useful to promote racial divisiveness, suspicion and mistrust where little or none exists.
Marine Sgt. didn’t deploy to Afghanistan 4/14, delayed by volcano ash. Our military has more integrity, love of country and intelligence than the whole of Congress and the current administration. God bless and help America.
USMCgramma,
Yes indeed, I ask God to be with our men and women in our wonderful military and their families. I feel so sorry for these men and women having this bho as cic. They deserve a better person, IMO.
L
I’d be curious to see the demographic bereakdown of the following:
1. Democrat Party
2. Tea Party
3. 53% that actually pay taxes.
There’s an article I’d like to see written.
Heh
Administration to Tea Parties: We’re on Your Side
http://www.foxnews.com/
There is nothing as pathetic as a pawn, Mr Blow.
Yes Conservatives are racist but Liberals are the ones of everything race. Yes the TEA Parties I have attended are “disproportionately white” if you wish to put it that way. But they are not as white as the PMSNBC line up, Times board or Bill Maher’s liver.
And most of the Bitter Clingers I know are white-and ALL the gun grabbers I know are white. THEREFORE gun control advocates are racist trying to keep people of color down. All you can do with such racist is get them jobs at the New York Times or PMSNBC where they will never be heard from again except by Michelle Malkin researching a story.
Weren’t Bill Clinton’s “lady” friends white? Just another racist cracker if you ask me. Race in America is best dealt with by humor least we cry.
There were these two Japanese,Chinese, Mexican, Afro, Jewish Americans who went to the Library………..
Why did he go to Dallas? Why didn’t he just go down the block? Think of the CO2 he generated to write that article?
Next, who reads the New York Times? Stop doing it.
Finally, I heard a discussion between two black men over issues. One who was conservative pointed out to the liberal that a Mexican, illegal, can cross the border and in a short time be able to buy a car, a house and send money back home. At the same time, a black man can not get a job. What is the deal?
You KNOW this is a FACT. However, we have one poster that will spin this in some other way and I will not reply to his spin.
If they get their picture taken or a video camera catches them and they are “outed” ….their very life, limbs, and property is most likely in jeopardy in some fashion and its NOT in a positive way.
Yes, I confess – We went to the Daytona 500 every year ’till Dale Sr. bought it.
Oh, wait. Did you mean…
Er: I feel better now? Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly
Remember good people: Never accept a diner invitation from Hannibal Lecter or any other Democrat.
I went to a taco place for lunch. There were no black people at the time, therefore, everyone there must be a racist.
Talladega
Question: If the majority of white people are politically conservative, are the liberals “Uncle Toms”? Apparently, it you have an opinion opposite your group, you are a traitor to the cause.
Jus’ sayin’…
Today is the 235th anniversary…
I would say that it only mattered if blacks or any other minority were specifically excluded. That has never been shown to be the case, nor is it the case. One would have to speculate as to the amount of peer pressure blacks and other minorities might experience by going against the Democrat party as being a factor in their non attendance. Was the “Million Man March” racist because it was composed primarily of blacks? I think not.
One indisputable fact is the Democrat excessive preoccupation with race, whether for real reasons or political ones. If the constant observations about the composition of the Tea Parties is any indicator…
What’s next affirmative action for Tea Parties? It’s all about the numbers with these people.
Charles Blow is delusional fool.
He thinks he is the liberated person of color with independent minded thinking.
He is nothing but a House Negro for the New York Times.
The best graphic I have seen of the Tea Party is this. If you trust Gallup to give you a fair assessment – look at the numbers the Tea Party is a fairly accurate representation of the US in general.
Major O #147 – My lovely spouse, who happens to not be white, gets negative feedback from African-American people who are primarily LIBERAL because he is unafraid to say he is a Ronald Reagan conservative. He absolutely cringes when he hears Americans being identified with a “hyphen”. He will not allow it, but refers to himself only as an American. I’m proud of him. He is the guy holding the sign at the Denver Tea Party that says, “I didn’t serve 22 years for Socialism” (Couldn’t get the link to work).
Ms. Malkin – I am proud of my maiden name and I know you are proud of yours. Don’t let the incredibly stupid idiots in the MSM slander your family name. I was so saddened to read the article as I was unaware of it previously.
As you certainly should be!
I’m reminded that Michelle has been a constant target of bizarre racial and sexist threats and attacks for years, and has had to move at least once – if not twice for the safety of her family. Which side of the political spectrum does the real racial/sexist vitriol and intolerance come from?
And speaking of Tingles Matthews, I wish Michelle would go back on Hardball now. In the ’04 interview, she seemed off balance and almost surprised he wouldn’t talk substantively about her book “In Defense of Interment.” Watching her completely control the narrative on The View last year was sweet. I think she’d have Tingles for lunch now.
I may have found the reason Charles Blow saw no diversity in the event.
A wise man once told me that if two people agree on everything, only one of them is doing any thinking.
Over 95% of blacks voted for Obama, the only demographic group that voted in such unison. Based on that idea, I think it is safe to say there wasn’t a whole lot of thinking going on amongst that group.
Oddly enough, by his own definition, Chris Matthews must be a racist because on any given week his guests are mostly, if not exclusively, white…
Matthews is such a dolt. Does anyone watch him or Cooper or Uberdork?
Charles Blow is a racist.
Letget – Thank you! The cic paid a “surprise” visit to Bogrom where grandson will be. This administration would prosecute its own military for doing the job they were trained to do. Everyone at the air base knows that.
I believe the abuse of Constitution (states’ rights) and Oath of President is sufficient for impeachment.
Local NY Times branch has a new “regional editor” from another state! Hmmm…another bailout?
Thank you, Michelle, and your family, for all you endure for writing and speaking the truth.
Could someone tell me what the correct proportion of black to nonblack is supposed to be? Is it 80%, 50%, 10%, 2%? I looked it up on Wiki and couldn’t find it anywhere.
I would also like to know what the percentage is for head coaches in pro sports, % of pro athletes, % of professors, % of CEOS, etc.
Then, if you could, please show me what the correct percentages are for women, latinos, eskimos, and scandinavians.
We must get this fixed immediately. Also, we can make sure that there are not too many minorities in any given field either. For instance, too many Latino head coaches may not leave enough room for the Vietnamese coaches we will need to get the percentages right.
Of course, I was thinking that maybe we should never look at someones race, color, or gender etc, when making these decisions. It could be seen as based on race, otherwise known as racist.
Everyday, we have more examples of the intellectual vapidity of the left. It’s very tiresome thinking one can even argue or discuss concepts of liberty with people who have really never had to use any intellectual rigor to support their beliefs, but who paint others as racists because they can’t muster the intellectual strength to defend their ideas. Quite simply, we’re just well beyond these dolts and I can’t think of any reason to entertain them except that they must be defeated of their drive for power.
regularguy,
Maybe its not an act…they may not have the intellectual chops to do so. At least the minions don’t.
It was also about the direct taxation clause. The Northerners wanted the slaves freed before counting and the Southerners wanted them counted regardless. The problem that both the Northern and Southern states faced was that the slaves were property. If the north wanted the slaves taxed as property, they had to agree to some type of representation. If the south wanted representation, they had to agree to the direct tax. The three-fifths compromise was just that; the north got their taxes without too much representation and the south got their representation without too much in taxes.
Yes, it does always boil down to money. By the way, the slave holders (democrats one and all) did well with the 3/5s compromise. Congress has never passed a direct tax. Ever.
MLK’s dream is dead with this generation of fools. They don’t get it, nor ever will get it. It’s a world view that is alien to all.
It’s scary leaving the plantation, you know.
I wrote the following almost 2 years ago:
Leaving the plantation is one thing, but quite another when threatened with welfare cuts.
Did anyone see Charles Blow at the Dallas Tea party? Does he have proof that verifies he was there, say in the form of airline ticket stubs, receipts, photos of him taken with people that can vouch he was there, etc?
Maybe he wasn’t there at all. Maybe he just “armchaired” his column from his apartment in Manhattan … two weeks before the actual event.
Nah. That couldn’t happen at such an august paper as the NYT. Oh wait, there was that Blair fellow a few years back. He was a pompous black man too.
Hey, this racist stuff is contagious. See what you started, Charles?
That’s how the left covered the Iraq War…pay Islamo-fascists to give them their news, but never themselves be there to cover the news except in an air conditioned Hotel in the Green Zone..
On April 20th, 2010 at 12:56 am, Member-VRWC said:
Excellent point! As Ronald Reagan would said:
He is a Politically Correct Black/AfroAmerican, Properly Leftist and Jives for the Times therefore he shall not be questioned.
Except by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Bitter Clingers and such.