October 9th 2008
Speaking In Code
Y
esterday at a political campaign rally, Sarah Palin thrilled the mostly white audience when she said,
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At least that’s how the Black Congressional Caucus heard it, the New York Observer tells us:
“They are trying to throw out these codes,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York.
“He’s ‘not one of us?’” Mr. Meeks said, referring to a comment Sarah Palin made at a campaign rally on Oct. 6 in Florida. “That’s racial. That’s fear. They know they can’t win on the issues, so the last resort they have is race and fear.”
Meeks is the race-monger here; trying to get blacks and people with politically correct hyper-sensitivity to turn away from McCain/Palin (as if that was a big problem to Obama/Biden ticket). He understands that the “He’s not one of us” comment was made in the context of the Obama-Ayres association, and had to do with his opinon of America, not the color of his skin.
Another Black Caucus member with a name you’ll recognize took another tack:
“If McCain’s attacks don’t cross the line, they’re certainly teetering on it,” said Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois. “He is certainly appealing to people’s fears and not their hopes.”
Mr. Jackson took issue with the McCain campaign’s attack on Mr. Obama’s connection to Mr. Ayers, who committed acts of domestic terrorism when Mr. Obama was 8 years old, and contrasted that with Mr. McCain’s long relationships with erstwhile supporters of segregation in the Senate like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond.
“Should McCain be held responsible for having served with segregationalists when he was 8 years old, 18 years old, 28 years old, 38 years old, 48 years old, 58 years old, 68 years old?” Mr. Jackson said. “Did he ever meet with any of them? Did he ever conference with them or work with them? Did McCain quit the Senate instead of work with them?”
Of course Jackson overlooks something rather obvious in his far-left (that’s GovTrak’s assessment, not mine) rhetoric. Thurmond was elected to Congress; Ayres blew up Congress. Oh, and BTW, did Jackson resign from the House because Thurmond was in the Senate? After all, they served in Congress together form 1995 to 2003.
Yvette Clark saw racism in another common line from Palin’s speeches:
“Some may say their true colors are showing,” said Representative Yvette Clarke of New York. “Others may say they’re just not being thoughtful. But certainly a lot of the language I’ve heard I consider to be incendiary. I believe it is meant to generate a certain sentiment within their base that engenders fear and certainly appeals to a group of people within our society who would pursue this along racial lines.
“It’s very clear,” she said.
Ms. Clarke also found a racial subtext in Ms. Palin’s repeated appeals to “Joe Six-Pack” and “hockey moms.”
“Who exactly is Joe Six-Pack and who are these hockey moms? That’s what I’d like to know,” she said. “Is that supposed to be terminology that is of common ground to all Americans? I don’t find that. It leaves a lot of people out.”
Saying Joe Six-Pack cannot be black is racist in itself. Who exactly decreed this? What does Clarke think? Black men don’t work? It has to be Joe Crack-Rock to be black? And if Clarke thinks that basketball moms can’t see themselves in hockey moms, she’s got some pretty impenetrable walls in her perception; besides, the expression clearly comes from Palin’s personal history; it is not code.
Finally, NY State Senator Kevin Parker added this:
“If you have to remind people that Barack Obama is African-American, you have reached the bottom.”
From the quotes above, we see reference to a white terrorist, a white Senator, blue collar workers and everyday moms. I’m not seeing here, nor have I seen on any tapes of any McCain or Palin presentations, any reference, direct or indirect, to Sen. Obama’s race. So who exactly is reminding people that Barack Obama is African-American?
From the very outset of this campaign, most of us realized that any criticism of Obama would be cast as racist, and the Black Caucus is proving us right. Here they are in an America that by all indications is on the cusp of electing a black man president, an America where their own Frank Raines is $20 million richer thanks to our system, an America where TV commercials routinely show mixed-race couples, and all they can do is cry “racism.”
If I call them stupid and pathetic, does it make me a racist?
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October 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
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October 9th, 2008 at 8:04 am
The Black Congressional Caucus members who stated unequivocally that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were just fine, thank you very much, should be removed from office. Oh, and they should pay back to the American people those tens of thousands of dollars they received. A drop in the $700 billion bucket, I know, but what ever happened to principles? The latter seem to have disappeared from the Dem (my former) party.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
The fact that so many different comments are interpreted as “racist” by this group ought to tell you who the real racists are.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Greetings:I have long thought that to be a liberal one had to have missed out on two of my favorite fairy tales.
The first is Chicken Little’s “the sky is falling!” If something scares or negatively impacts me then, ipso facto, it’s the end of the world as we know it.
The second is the Princess and the Pea. No matter how much is done to ameliorate a situation, it will only be fixed when I say it is fixed.That written, let’s leave the Negroes alone.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Served 22 years in the military and I defy anyone to find anyone of any race that I treated differently than any other race. Have never voted a streight ticket in my life. Now I’ll never vote for another democrat or any race other than white. Hessein O and his crowd have taught me that at least. Calling me a racist because I think the man is unqualified for anything higher than busboy at McDonalds and his past associations prove he cares nothing about America and is set to help turn it into a third world hellhole will have an unintended result for other politicians, and I don’t forget.