UNCLE TOM OUTREACH INITIATIVE
Headline in the Washington Times today:
Mfume calls black conservatives puppets
So, what else is new?
Well, apparently Latino liberal actor John Leguizamo is dissing Hispanic Republicans along the same lines. At the DNC fund-raising hate-a-thon in New York last week, he jibed: “”A Latino voting for a Republican is like a roach voting for raid.” (Hat tip: Rightwingduck)
All this tired, old “sellout” rhetoric reminds me: I just received my cool new Ted Rall-inspired t-shirts (courtesy of Rachel Jurado, the Banana Republican). I sent a “Self-loathing race traitor” shirt to my brother. And I may wear my “I’m Not ‘White.’ I’m RIGHT” shirt to the next UNITY Journalists of Color conference.
Michael King, who will be on Scarborough Country tonight taking on the NAACP mafia, has his own line of t-shirts, too: Black and Unapologetically Conservative
Get ‘em while they’re hot!
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It has always confused me that one groups thinks they speak for all people. Isn’t that stereotyping (the dreaded word) in and of itself?
Hmmmm…..
Rae
This is old stuff. They’ll continue to call us Uncle Toms and such. It gets much worse. Black columnist Julianne Malveaux even wished death on Clarence Thomas.
“You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person.”
I love how these so-called leaders of their respective communities chide those of their ilk who choose to support President Bush - who probably has the most diverse cabinet in US history - but yet they sing and dance the praises of a party that is controlled, almost exclusively, by wealthy east coast (predominantly Southern) white males:
Kerry,Edwards,Clinton,Gore,Carter,Johnson,Kennedy…
I’ll gladly take the Raid!! Toxic asphyxiation is highly preferable to having these guys as my paymasters
I’ve never been a fan of psychoanalytic babblings. But I’m becoming a bigger believer in “projection” as these historic times unfold. “Puppets” indeed.
D’Oh,
I get linked by Michelle and it gives an error message.
go to http://www.rightwingduck.blog-city.com.
Yes, I went off. I’m sick of people playing the “Minority Card” for votes.
Isn’t diversity and inclusion supposed to be a good thing? Why is it when President Bush appoints Condi Rice and Colin Powell to top tier positions in his administration they are selling out? Isn’t that what the civil right’s movement was all about?
Color me confused.
Who is the Meadow Soprano of the NAACP mafia?
I’ll need to dig through the archives a bit, but Rall had another attack on Powell and Rice called “Uncle Tom’s Cabinet.”
Now we need one for those of who do happen to be WASP’s - how about: “Does being white mean I can’t be white?”
Wow! I screwed that up - hit the post button before I read it! Should have read:
Now we need one (t-shirt) for those of us who do happen to be WASP’s - how about: “Does being white mean I can’t be right?”
Guess What Michelle? Regardless of your”right” wing affilliation………… YOU REALLY ARENT WHITE!!!!! Stop confusing yourself & be proud of YOUR OWN ETHNICITY!!
kdeweb,
To the modern Left, diversity in superficialities (such as appearance and dialect) is a good thing, while diversity of ideas is a bad thing. The “diversity” the Left craves is that of a bag of M&Ms: lots of different colors on the outside, but all identical on the inside. Throw a Skittle in there and they have a conniption fit.
To AWG:
I’d throw a conniption fit too if someone mixed Skittles with my M&M’s. That’s a good way to break a tooth! I once had a girlfriend who put the two together in a concotion she called “S&M.” I broke up with her the next day.
Not that this has anything to do with race and diversity…
Michael says he got bumped from Scarborough Country tonight by Roy Innis. Hopefully, he’ll get on another night. I missed his FOX appearance.
I have a neat story:
In the mid 90’s, I was working here in Downtown Seattle. The state facility I worked at, had a TV. An assistant director, who was black, was watching some speach that Powell was giving. He got all mad and accused Powell of selling out. I asked him how that was possible, and he told me that no black man could EVER rise to the rank he did, without selling out. I asked him how he got to be assistant director and he got mad. I was in the Guard at the time, and told him that I have as of yet to meet ANY officer of rank above Lt. Col. who was not near-brilliant and capeable. Idiots and sell out’s, don’t make it to General. He then said that Powell “Forgot his people”. I asked him to then please define for me what a sucsessfull black man looks like? He couldn’t answer me.
*sigh* I feel so left out. Being a “glow in the dark” redhead can be so unsatisfying. No one ever makes cool t-shirts about us.
Yeah, I love the way people will look at a person and make assumptions about them. I’m a large woman who wears slacks every day and “comfortable shoes” consistantly. Not to mention the long, frizzy, natural hair. People freak when they find out I’m conservative and a gun-nut, especially while I stand in the grocery check-out line with my granola, brown eggs, and gourmet baby lettuce.
What’s wrong with Brown Eggs? I am so out of touch
You’d swear that Mfume and Company are trying to marginalize themselves. I can’t imagine decent persons of any race, creed or color sending them money or any other kind of support after their most recent escapades.
Queasy is an absolute joke. The reason why Rall and others can get away with the bigoted crap that they do is because of asswipes like him.
As I stated on my blog, this served two purposes….1. to warn Cosby, and 2. to try to stem the tide of black people moving out of the Democratic Plantation. These black fascists won’t win.
http://expertise.blogdrive.com
You’ve forgotten. Rice, Powell, Chao, and Paige don’t count as real members of their race because they’re Conservative. It’s all about false allegiances.
This stuff is so played out. We’re used to being called every epithet, slur, and literary figure under the sun.
Wake me up when it’s over.
“Queasy” Mfume. That cracked me up. I’m going to start using that.
Mamamontezz, if I were you, I’d just make my own t-shirts. I’m going to get t-shirts made that say “Consciousness is Temporary so wake-up. Fool.”
I actually think it’d be funny if white people went around wearing “Black and Unapologetically Conservative” shirts. Now that would send a message.
Ha! This is great, thanks Michelle for a pleasant finish to a hard day.
time to buy in bulk and pass out to all my chinese, hispanic, and black race traitor friends here in Miami.
need one for regular old WASP me though
Gee, I was really bummed cuz I’m just a white oppressor, but then I remembered that I’m gay AND fiscally conservative, which makes me self-hating too! I bought the I HATE MYSELF thong to show the world — well, the guys at the gym - that I’m self-hating & proud of it!
They should come meet Herman Cain. He’s a real conservative in every way and beyond inspirational (I just moved from NYC to Georgia to volunteer for him). He’ll puppet them.
More on Herman Cain if anyone is interested: here.
Mfume and Julian Bond are doing their best to make the NAACP an irrelevant orginization.
I think Expertise is right. This vitriol is being spewed out because they know they are losing influence over the black community. What happens when the black community succeeds like the Irish, the Italians, the Asians, the Jews? The NAACP (and the Democratic Party) will be left in the ash bin of history.
Let’s see, the Donks were the pro-slavery Party pre Civil War. Post Civil War they were the Party of Segregation all the way into the late 1960s.
They are the Party that controls EVERY ONE of the big city school boards where minority children are trapped in failing schools while Donks stand in the way of vouchers.
Yes, there are those selling out their race for a seat at the table of power. It ain’t powell and Rice, it’s Infume and Jackson and Bond.
To deny that there are people who join political parties based purely on IDEALS and not REALITY is delusional.
But to deny the REALITY that there are appreciably more racial bigots (defined as a belief in racial inferiority) among the Republican party than in the Democratic is way delusional.
No one will deny that it is in a VMs best interest to align him/herself with the party whose members best exhibit racial empathy.
Ergo…I hope you can understand why many members of visible minorities (and gays, for that matter) are highly suspicious of minority Republicans. The day may come where one can join that party as a VM purely on ideals (I suppose), but in reality, that day is not yet here. It simply isn’t prudent, on a purely practical level, for any VM to join the Republican party.
And then to not only just join that party (quietly), but to scream from the e-rooftops how proud you are about being a member, and defend it hyper-aggressively (when the obvious alternative is to be a right-wing Democrat)? It is (I say it again) a choice based in self-delusion.
You are wise indeed to have chosen to live where you do now as there are Republican counties that might spit on the likes of you just for sport — not for the content of your character (as Democrats might ;-), but simply because of your physical features.
I might imagine that some VM Republicans might think of themselves as political Jackie Robinsons, blazing a trail for future voters of color to follow. Admirable, if inappropriate, but it is difficult to hear the call over all the rabid yelling.
Many of these Robinson-types seem to focus so much of their energy trying to be good chest-out flag-bearers instead of hiking back to build a compelling political bridge for their brethren to follow. Too bad, because it has an I-made-it-to-the-promised-land-find-now-your-own-map stench about it. Not crazy, just selfish.
All that said, one certainly can gain a LOT more attention being a VM Republican. And in this hemisphere, attention is a form of currency. And currency is very definitely in self-interest. Greed (for money or attention) can make a person do strange things.
However, you’re right — it’s unfair to paint all with the same brush. So, fellow left-leaners, the next time you meet a VM Republican ask yourself: Delusional or crazy like a fox?
This whole game, perpetuated by the NAACP and like-minded liberals is sickening. If you are a minority and successful, you are a sell-out. If you are poor and on welfare (or not breaking out in some sense), you are “keepin’ it real.” What’s up with the “Advancement of Colored People” part of their name if they just smash those who do ADVANCE?
Oh, yeah, that’s right, people like Dr. Rice and Colin Powell didn’t ADVANCE according to THEIR plan. Alan Keyes was a Presidential candidate (Republican), but that isn’t cool either. Bill Cosby is making them nervous of late, because he is successful but not walking in lockstep with the “agenda” nor towing the line of victimhood and misery. He is “being real,” just not THEIR “real.”
The NAACP seems to lie in wait, frothing even, for video-taped arrests of black people resisting arrest, any mispoken word, and stuff like that Richard Riordan episode.
I’m not dumb enough to think racism doesn’t exist, but when they look under every rock, nook, and cranny to find a piece of dirt or dust it discredits them and is a disservice to the very people they purport to want to ADVANCE. Deal with the real stuff, and don’t cheapen the issue of real racism.
Because I am not a racist, I am not afraid to criticize the NAACP. I wonder how many liberals can say the same? (Or is it too un-PC to speak the truth, and meanwhile condone suppressive actions but you sound good?)
Liberals spend so much time coming up with new PC words, all the while focusing on skin color/sexual orientation/religion/whatever, and they turn around and accuse Republicans of pidgeon-holing and suppressing people.
Had to have this rant. I think you are awesome Michelle, and I’m so glad you have a blog.
KJC:
BOTH sides are guilty of the nook-n-cranny hunt for ammo. Hell, what is this site but a journal of Michelle’s successful web hunts.
It’s a wash on that score.
The thing to try and figure out, imo, is which party, on balance (because, as a human enterprise, neither can be anywhere close to perfect), has an agenda closer to the kind of world you’d like to live in. Which is more compassionate (if you believe in that sort of thing). Which thinks more about the needs of the many vs. the greed of a few.
I wonder how many of the NAACP faithful know that thier organization didn’t even have a black president until the 1950s. David Horowitz mentioned this a few years ago in an article on the Marxist origins of the NAACP. It would also be a very interesting study to see where the majority of funding for the NAACP comes from. Some commenators have alluded to the big bucks as coming form white leftists. I wonder how much Soros contributes, by way of example?
Maybe Mrs. Malkin should turn her considerable investigate skill to this area. Follow the money trail, as they say. If it turned out that the NAACP’s funding was largely from white elite leftists like Soros, it might be interesting to point out that Queasy is the real sellout.
But to deny the REALITY that there are appreciably more racial bigots (defined as a belief in racial inferiority) among the Republican party than in the Democratic is way delusional.
This gratuitous assertion is easily deniable.
No one will deny that it is in a VMs best interest to align him/herself with the party whose members best exhibit racial empathy.
Rather than worrying about “exhibiting racial empathy” I’d be more concerned with parties and politicians who share my beliefs and concerns. Not all of which is limited to my specific ethnic or racial group- interests and concerns cross such boundaries.
I hope you can understand why many members of visible minorities (and gays, for that matter) are highly suspicious of minority Republicans.
I understand that it’s an attempt by those who are “highly suspicious” of those with different views to enforce an orthodoxy upon that specific group.
It’s still just an excuse to ostracize someone who doesn’t share the same beliefs as what a select group of people “think” they ought to believe.
Whatever happened to “dissent” being patriotic? Does this only apply to anti-American “dissent”?
-”I wonder how many of the NAACP faithful know that thier organization didn’t even have a black president until the 1950s. “-
Is it wrong to advocate strongly for a cause you deem worthy when the rest of the world appears unready for such an earthshaking change?
-”If it turned out that the NAACP’s funding was largely from white elite…”-
Imagine this conversation was about Iraq and there was an inspired rich white leader who wanted to start toppling democracy dominos in a place where the world wasn’t ready to play along. Honesty check. Would your argument change? Stay the same?
Just think, the first installers of Democracy in an Arab land were Americans ? How gauche…
X:
Is it wrong to advocate strongly for a cause you deem worthy when the rest of the world appears unready for such an earthshaking change?
What IS your cause? Honestly. To have black people and other minorities in the most high, respectable positions of power in the only super-power in the world? We are already there. Are the ones who succeed role models or sell-outs? You are the beholder of that call, for yourself. Why does the NAACP and its supporters seem hung up on tarnishing, trashing, and downplaying this fact, and the the ones who have made it to the top?
rwatson, are you white? If not, don’t worry about what I’m about to say. If so, can you be proud of *your* ethnicity, in this country and this day and age? Before you tell others to love themselves, love yourself first.
I know my co-ethnicists have done many wonderful things in the past century (one of them being this magnificent blog) yet I’ve come to the conclusion that being proud of one’s own ethnicity is not really something to be proud of at all. You don’t choose your ethnicity, just as you don’t choose your parents, nationality, or sex. These things just sorta “happen.” You may as well be proud that you breathe air.
Do I hate my ethnicity? No, though sometimes I think I would be less vilified in the eyes of others if I were white–yet self-hatred is a dangerous path, into which unfortunately so many white liberals have plunged.
Rather, I don’t get too caught up in my own ethnicity. That, to me is ego-centric, something which I though all our teacher taught us was a deplorable thing.
Imagine this conversation was about Iraq and there was an inspired rich white leader who wanted to start toppling democracy dominos in a place where the world wasn’t ready to play along. Honesty check. Would your argument change? Stay the same?
Just think, the first installers of Democracy in an Arab land were Americans ? How gauche…
You are playing with a hypothetical distraction that isn’t applicable. We (the U.S.) put Iraqis in power, not a bunch of cud-chewing rednecks.
If you look into why certain nations didn’t want to play along, you’ll get an eyeful of the oil-for-food scandal, not more imaginary scuz on Bush. Actual facts, imagine that.
So, I guess the general message of the left on this issue is that if you do not advocate socialist ideas, then you are either a racist or a sellout. It does not matter if you think that socialist ideas do not work, you still must advocate them, to avoid being a racist or a sellout. Even if you, like say Thomas Sowell, have extensive evidence and arguments against socialist ideas, you must still advocate them to avoid being a racist or a sellout. And of course, you must support the more socialist of the two major political parties, or you are a racist or a sellout.
And by the way, memer, Jackie Robinson was a Republican.
X:
Imagine this conversation was about Iraq and there was an inspired rich white leader who wanted to start toppling democracy dominos in a place where the world wasn’t ready to play along. Honesty check. Would your argument change? Stay the same?
I’ll give you credit for one thing, you went off point enough that I almost missed this. I went off point myself.
Would my opinion be the same? Hell yes. Help Iraqis by treating them as incapable of making it, or teach them how to make it?
What’s your pick? We have introduced democracy, and I hope it sticks. Should they have just stayed down?
What is the NAACP doing to advance the prospects of the inner city kids Mr Cosby is highlighting? The party it continues to support does nothing for these kids. Imagine if the headline stated:
Mfume calls black democrats puppets of the teachers union
Perhaps a heathly debate would ensue or more likely, Mfume’s tenure would soon end.
btw isn’t it African-American?
Uhh, right. So, anyway, back to the original topic.
Lookit, it isn’t about just any old difference of opinion on a particular subject.
In any sufficiently large group, there are sub-groups who disagree with the majority.
There are Republicans who’re just aok with gay rights and abortion. There are Democrats who want to try school vouchers. There is a range of opinion in each party on any particular subject.
The ISSUE is why would any normal human being align himself with a group that has a significant sub-group that hates them.
Ordinarily, it doesn’t make much sense unless you consider delusion or warped self-interest.
Th-th-that’s all, folks.
Memer, I think you’re entire argument is based on a particularly specious assumption; namely, that the Republican party has a large, and by extension, influential sub-group that hates minorities. While I’m sure there are Republicans who are racists, I’m also well aware of many white Democrats who are every bit as racist. If you don’t believe me, go to Boston sometime. It’s quite possibly the most racially divided city in which I’ve ever been (and I grew up in the South), yet it’s also almost uniformly Democrat.
So, the only real difference between the Democrats and Republicans is in the form and substance of their parties’ attitude toward minorities. Democrats say they want educate minority children, yet they maintain their unholy alliance with the teachers’ unions to keep minority children in the disastrous inner-city public schools. Republicans say they want to educate minority children and push for vouchers to give inner-city children the chance to succeed. Which are the real racists? The paternalistic, patronizing Democrats with their smokescreen of racial empathy or the Republicans, who encourage initiative and self-determination?
The left’s belief in Republican racism is impervious to evidence, logic, or any form of persuasion. It’s an essentially religious belief, clung to like a life raft, because the left simply MUST insist on its own moral superiority.
If the left ever admitted the possibility that Republican policies are not motivated by racism, it would force them to examine their own policies, their effects, and THEIR motivations. They simply cannot let that happen, so they treat Republican racism as an axiom.
“The ISSUE is why would any normal human being align himself with a group that has a significant sub-group that hates them.”
You mean like how liberal billionaires, Teamsters, gay rights activists, minority “leaders”, leftist academicians, homeless advocates, Hollyweird personalities, enviro-wackos, tort lawyers, pro-choicers, neo-hippies, and east coast Catholics tend to gravitate toward the Democrat party?
The ISSUE is why would any normal human being align himself with a group that has a significant sub-group that hates them.
The foundation of this premise is the belief that a “significant sub group” exists within that group that hates these members, and the belief that this does not exist withint both political parties.
This coming from someone who insults her own ethnic group. Priceless, Michelle. What do you plan to do for an encore, hmmm?
re boston: i don’t get what you’re saying there. there are racists in boston. boston commonly votes in democrats(?). therefore…? just because there are just enough democrats there to vote democrats into office doesn’t mean those are the ones who’re racist.
I suppose we all, each and every one of us, live in slightly different “realities.” Reality is shaped by experiences and we obviously all have different ones. My reality is different from yours and a (say) typical Black person’s reality is different from a White person’s.
There are shared, communal experiences, realities that overlap. One anecdotal experience piles on top of another and pretty soon, you have the shared reality of a particular group of people.
So if you, as a White person do not encounter racism (again, defined here as a belief in inherent racial superiority/inferiority), then your reality will be different from those who DO experience it.
I don’t think anyone on the planet knows for SURE exactly how many racists there are in the Republican party. Mebbe it was really only Strom Thurmond. Or mebbe there’s a good deal more. I don’t think any rational, half-way optimistic person would think it’s a majority of the Republican party — I mean, c’mawn, 51% of you hate VMs? One out of two? That’s crazytalk. Or at least so we presume.
On the other side, I don’t know there’s much doubt that Louis Farakhan (sp) votes Democrat. He and his group came about in REACTION TO the Strom Thurmonds of the world and overzealously defend Black pride to the point of racism. Is their brand of racism somehow BETTER than Strom’s?
Perhaps. Mayhaps not. But at least a Black person knows that on one side there are those violently opposed to his joining and on another there are those willing to (violently?) defend him. It’s a pretty simple choice, people.
But how many party racists is too many? 1%? 10%? Should the bar be set at 25%? Who the hell knows for sure. Not sure there’s a scientific way to determine the exact number.
At any rate, it’s not enough to be willing to open the flap to your tent, you have to go out and evangelize. Go out and spread the gospel. LIVE the gospel. Preach, brother, because the infidels already have a religion. Get out among the people and do good works. You can’t make converts by mailing out invites from behind gated lawns.
Amen.
DON’T MAKE WHITE MEN HAVE TO PICK A SIDE!!!
-”To have black people and other minorities in the most high, respectable positions of power in the only super-power in the world? We are already there”-KJC
You can’t say the same about the 50’s. Although there had long been desire for redress of past wrongs through advancement among colored people, such was not preordained and one may assume influential non-colored people could play a part. If a white elitist was at some time president of the organization, does that negate its assistance in the general progress? The assumption that NAACP played a marginal role in the opportunities of today might need another look.
-”You are playing with a hypothetical distraction that isn’t applicable. We (the U.S.) put Iraqis in power, not a bunch of cud-chewing rednecks.”-KJC
Not talking about rednecks, talking about white elitists who use high-minded ideas (or other methods) to effect transformation. Hypotheticals help partisans to examine the situation when the shoe is on the other foot.
-”What IS your cause? Honestly…You are the beholder of that call, for yourself.”-
I don’t have a cause and to that end, despite being a manual laborer for 9 years, I have managed to learn 3 languages, volunteer almost a full year of time to disaster relief, housing on an indian reservation, some botanical gradens, and a human rights organization. I’m working on 2 masters now in Int’l Relations and Pub Admin so maybe I can one day pretend I am a rich white elitist who ‘just wants to help’.
Forced to choose, I’d say equality and freedom are vague enough causes to support, but I don’t believe they can be solely achieved at the barrel of a gun.
Et toi, KJC, what’s your ’cause’?
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A fantasy speech by Condi at the NAACP, complaining about the Dem Party supporter Ted Rall calling her a “House Nigga”. And the NAACP raising no objection.
Then listing some House Nigga positions — finally calling the NAACP leaders Dem Party House Niggas [and walking out.]