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Bouie In: ‘Off-Beat Tales Of Racism And The Master Baiter; Wax On, Wax Oft’

Posted on | August 24, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Via Jim Treacher’s Twitter feed, we have Jamelle Bouie Racism Plays a Big Part in our Politics. Period. This piece is so wretched that I won’t link it directly; you’ll have to swing through Google. And why might that be? Let me help: the Raaaaacism Industrial Complex (RIC) derives too much power from the status quo, that’s why. This is not to say that there wasn’t:

  • A massive historical example of racism known as slavery.
  • A 1787 Constitution that horribly enshrined the evil of slavery.
  • A bloody Civil War fought to correct the injustice of slavery.
  • A Civil Rights movement, led by Republicans like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leading to a Civil Rights Act championed by Republicans like Donald Rumsfeld.

Now, I’m not going to contend that you can’t find some Nazi-tattooed jackwagon in a compound somewhere ranting on about our precious bodily fluids. But the RIC is so far out there, I would be unsurprised to discover that the RIC supports the neo-AZI swine. Because if integrity is just another abstraction, anything is possible. However, as a veteran who has served with the entire rainbow spectrum of Americans, across the country and around the world, I’d like to share six letters:

ENOUGH

A sampling of Racism Plays a Big Part in our Politics. Period.:

Bouie Smitty
The power and symbolism of Obama’s election is compromised by the extent to which his presidency has been shaped by white expectations and white racism. Obama can’t show anger, he can’t propose policies tailored to African Americans and he can’t talk about race. In other words, he can’t remind white Americans that their president is a black man as much as anything else. On what basis, other than your pointed finger, do you base ‘white racism’? Are Thomas Sowell and Allen West racists? Both have criticized BHO. But if Obama had the wisdom of the former and the raw American courage of the latter, Barack would be giving any comer the Mondale treatment in November. Barack probably also wouldn’t govern like a miserable Commie.
Barack can show all the anger he wants, if he first puts forward something like an adult idea. When budget proposals earn zero (0) votes in Congress, one is tempted to question: should budgets be written in the political equivalent of crayon? (Aside: is Jim Clyburn a racist for failing to support BHO?)
Barack needs to convince Americans he is a sober adult. Then we can throw on some Ray Charles, or whatever, with the fellow.
At the risk of sounding cynical, I expect that Coates will inspire howls of unfairness from the Right. It’s almost forbidden to discuss the role racism has played in shaping opposition to Obama. Conservatives dismiss such concerns as “playing the race card”—and use it as an opportunity to accuse liberals of racism—while more neutral commentators note that Bill Clinton also faced a rabid conservative opposition. But as Coates points out, no one called Clinton a “food stamp president” or attacked his health care plan as “reparations.” Local lawmakers didn’t circulate racist jokes about the former Arkansas governor, and right-wing provocateurs didn’t accuse Clinton of fomenting an anti-white race war. I am not howling that this piece is ‘unfair’. Fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus; and no amount of racist Affirmative Action is going to create enough racial feng shui to retire the Racism Industrial Complex.
Indeed, it is a fantastic thing that this tired trope’s trotted out. So that the false charge of racism can be crushed.
The unrepentant Bill Clinton faces opposition from honorable men who cannot abide philandering scum. When Bill brings forth fruit meet for repentance, he’ll merit being given the time of day.
Clinton may not have been called a “food stamp president” because his welfare reform was one aspect of his administration that did not involve suction. Obama, however, blows that.
And fomenting a race war? How about we ask George Zimmerman just who is fomenting what, m’kay? Jamelle, you’re either obliviously ignorant, or a hack’s hack, and a tool for hacking forth more hacks from the hack stash, if you refuse to recognize what this administration has done in its effort to squeeze another swipe from the race card.

You can track down the source and read the entire, despicable thing if you want. I’ve got enough. . .matter stuck to my shoe for the nonce. As a palate cleanser, here is that chestnut from, of all people, Jon Stewart:

Here me, you Lefty jackwagons: false claims of racism have the merit of an Elizabeth Warren genealogy claim. Bring forward a specific case of purely DNA-based decision making (i.e. racism) and I’ll cheerfully call it like it is. By the same token: Stuff. Your. False. Generalizations. I’m calling out dishonest arguments wherever, whenever I see them.

The good nature of honest Americans has been thoroughly abused by academics and politicians in the RIC. But the Jamelle Bouies of the world have cried wolf too many times: Blitzer has reached the saturation point, CNN’s ratings are parked in the toilet, and sincere Americans are pushing back against the lies of the RIC.

By the way, Jamelle: you’re not a bad writer, style-wise. Now, please quit perverting your talent with this RIC filth. Let me double down: come on down to CPAC 2013 for some Road to Damascus action. Find out what conservatives are really about. Meet some genuinely great women and men like Alfonzo Rachel:
The only loser here is the Raaaaacism Industrial Complex. If you hate racism, take time to grab another paragraph from Jamelle’s lame exercise in finger pointing, laugh at it, and send me the link. Racism and the RIC have got to go.

Update: great follow-up post at The Camp of the Saints.

Update II: thanks, Hogewash!

Category: Barack Obama, Racism

Comments

12 Responses to “Bouie In: ‘Off-Beat Tales Of Racism And The Master Baiter; Wax On, Wax Oft’”

  1. Bob Belvedere
    August 24th, 2012 @ 8:30 am

    RE: Your first Fisk:

    One can show anger, but maintain one’s cool. In public Joe Cool Obama has done this.

  2. Bob Belvedere
    August 24th, 2012 @ 8:46 am

    …Racism and the RIC have got to go.

    As long as Leftism exists and is seen as a legitimate philosophy worth listening to, the RIC will exist, because dividing the Society, sowing Chaos, is an essential component of the Leftist plan to build their Utopia, to Immanentize The Eschaton – it is one of the necessary first stages.

    The Left knows it cannot succeed in America through legitimate and ethical means – Americans resist such attempts – so it seeks to undermine our Society by pandering to the worst [the fallen] angels of our nature. And in a Culture that has been dragged [of it’s own Free Will] into the gutter, this easily occurs [Could This Be One Explanation?].

  3. Bob Belvedere
    August 24th, 2012 @ 8:47 am

    Helter Skelter [Charles Manson must be ROTFLHAO].

  4. JohnInMA
    August 24th, 2012 @ 9:16 am

    What the heck are ‘white expectations’? Why do those whose sole aim is to define racism as the source of all evil analyze and explain their position in such simple minded ways?

    It looks like the racialists in our society actually want many aspects of non-white culture, life, and accomplishment to remain different and separate (but equal????). I don’t have the stomach this morning to read through Bouie’s screed or to listen to a clip, but I suspect his way of rationalizing all claims of racism requires the listener/reader to accept that being black or looking at anything while NOT being black requires different standards and measures. What kind of world do such simpletons want? A world where there is a separate expectation based on skin color or country of origin? Good grief!

  5. Red
    August 24th, 2012 @ 9:46 am

    I’m so over cries of raaaaacism from the Left because conservatives/libertarians/common sense-arians exercise their G-d-given ability to think for themselves. I can’t take that alarm seriously. At all. Anymore. Ever.

  6. Dai Alanye
    August 24th, 2012 @ 10:23 am

    Of course racism is important in today’s political scene. We have a racist President and a racist Attorney General among other federal officials — how can we possibly avoid racial politics?

  7. richard mcenroe
    August 24th, 2012 @ 11:39 am

    Remember, the Nazis marched with Occupy…

  8. W. J. J. Hoge
    August 24th, 2012 @ 11:41 am

    Perhaps Jamelle Bouie would think Prof.Sowell and Rep. West are raaaaacists because they criticize a president who is half white.

  9. The Raaaaacism Industrial Complex | hogewash
    August 24th, 2012 @ 12:04 pm

    […] Smitty appears to have had enough of these people, and he expresses his frustration today with a partial fisking of a piece by Jamelle Bouie. Mr. Bouie’s essay at The American Prospect asserts race is a principal driver in Republican opposition to Barack Obama. Smitty points out that the opposition to the President is principled, and that it is very unlikely conservatives such as Allen West and Thomas Sowell … oh, go read Smitty’s post. Share this:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailPrintLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. This entry was posted in Main Stream Media, Political Correctness, Politics and tagged Jamelle Bouie, Raaaaacism, Racism Industrial Complex by wjjhoge. Bookmark the permalink. […]

  10. K-Bob
    August 24th, 2012 @ 4:22 pm

    rac·ism [rey-siz-uhm] n.
    1. a term one uses to indicate a wish to have the microphone now. Considered a desperate attempt to gain attention.
    2.(archaic) the belief that skin color indicates levels of human ability and a natural order of intellectual prowess.

  11. Bouie
    August 27th, 2012 @ 11:49 pm

    This site is fucking gay, but McCain rules!

  12. Chris Matthews: Pecksniff : The Other McCain
    August 28th, 2012 @ 8:52 am

    […] exists in your head, it applies neither outside that head, nor the place the head is lodged. You, Jamelle Bouie et al.  are cordially invited to stated any current, actual racism (DNA-based decision making) […]