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Jen the Michigander


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An outstanding article. I included many quotes here, but you really should read the whole piece.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/30/its_not_racism_its_our_politics_104975.html

New York Times columnist Frank Rich argues that opponents of Obama's healthcare legislation are motivated by racism. The Washington Post's Colbert King believes Tea Party activists "forerunners" are Southern segregationists. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution's Cynthia Tucker views racist incidents as a "reflection on the Grand Old Party" overall.

We heard the same arguments last September. Liberals were struggling to make sense of the angry town hall meetings. "An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man," Jimmy Carter said. Days before, the Times' Maureen Dowd concluded that the "shrieking lunacy of the summer" had "much to do with race."

Gratuitous charges of racism are no sideshow. They capture an enduring mistake of modern liberalism. And that mistake disserves liberals most.

There are 187 million white adults in the United States. Only 39 percent of whites approve of Obama, according to Gallup. That means about 114 million white adults do not approve of this president. The largest Tea Party rally represented .0006 percent of these whites.

Only one-third of white women and white men approve of the healthcare law, according to Quinnipiac. If Rich is correct, and opposition to the healthcare overhaul concerns race, then roughly 125 million white adults are racists.

For decades, leading liberals explained white concerns about urban upheaval, crime, welfare, school bussing, affirmative action and more recently, illegal immigration, as rooted in racism. Not safer streets or safer schools. Not concern about taxes for welfare, as working class whites (like all races) struggled in their hardscrabble lives. Not regular men who never knew "white male privilege" but were on the losing end of affirmative action (recall Frank Ricci). Not job competition or economic class. Instead, leading liberals constantly saw the color of the issue as the only issue.

Ironically, the healthcare debate is far less racially loaded than welfare or affirmative action. Yet it's still explained in racial tones.

But this racism charge is also a unique matter. It creates a whirlwind that always hurts liberals in the end. Many liberals still presume whites' politics are racist rather than reasonable. Pretty soon, many whites stop listening to liberals. And in time, the overuse of the race card dulls the impact of the charge itself.

Obama won roughly the same share of, if not slightly more, whites as Al Gore and John Kerry. Obama polled like Gore and Kerry throughout the race. Yet many analysts, including those tossing the race card today, saw Obama's white troubles in racial terms – despite the facts.

Obama's approval rating has fallen 24 percentage points with whites, since his first week. How these whites see Obama has changed. Obama's race has not.

Fringe activists are often a story of fringe activists. Democrats have exponentially larger problems. They have not won a majority of white men or white women since 1964. Obama's gains with white men in 2008 are gone, and getting worse. The sooner many liberals seriously consider why Democrats are struggling with whites, all over again, the sooner they will win some back. Until then, calling them racist won't help.

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Excellent article and so true.  I think its time for the race card to be played only where real racism exists.

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Yep, that sounds just like Frank Rich. He should go back to reviewing plays, most of his political opinions are predictable and dated. A Democrat president usually polls low among white Americans, Clinton was the exception to the rule.biggrin

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Good article, Jen. What the latte libs fail to see is that their own racism is at the core of their unwillingness to tolerate a critical review of issues they perceive as unique to the AA community (which is racist in itself, since all races are involved in crime, receive welfare, etc.). Similarly, it was their own latent racism which motivated their demands that people blindly and without question support Obama. Anyone who asked a legitimate question was deemed racist by the closet racist liberals.

Just as Obama didn't fully get why he had insulted rural America when he called people of the Mid-West bitter, pistol packing, hicks, the latte libs don't get that in their zeal to protect AAs (because, after all, they are in need of protection, according to latte libs), they have revealed their own racism. They have essentially said that poor people and minorities are weaker than the hyper-educated, wealthy, sophisticated ultra-liberals who would protect them. They assume that because they have the best interest of AAs and low-income people at heart, it doesn't matter that they perceive themselves as superior - because.. well... after all - they are (in their opinion).

This is generalizing at it's worst. Respect is not about lumping people into a category and proclaiming them in need of protection. Respect is about giving people the opportunity to be held to the same standard as everyone else. It's about recognizing the strength in individuals. Each of us, whether AA, white, Hispanic, etc. is an individual first and foremost. Granted, we may be part of a particular group - whether a church, a race, a neighborhood, whatever, but we are first, individuals.

The Ultra-libs have proven themselves to be out of touch with both blacks and whites in middle-class America.

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A little story... My sister used to live half a mile from the trailer park where they filmed the movie "8 Mile". My niece went to the same elementary school as the trailer park kids. The school and its surrounding neighborhood was racially mixed, but the trailer park was almost all white. Yet, even within that one trailer park, the whites who owned their trailers acted superior to the whites who rented their trailers. ("We're not white trash, it's those renters who are the white trash. Not us!") The residents of the slightly more upscale trailer park located one block away-- and one block farther removed from 8 Mile Road-- considered themselves superior to the people who lived in the 8 Mile Road trailer park. ("Our trailer park is OK. The white trash all live in that other trailer park over on 8 Mile Road.") Whites who rented a house were above those who lived in trailers. Whites who owned their homes were above whites who rented. And the farther from 8 Mile you were, the higher-up on the "we're not white trash" food chain you were.

The latte liberals are playing this same game. They're not white trash, those rednecks who voted for Hillary are the white trash. But if you put those latte liberals next to a bunch of upper-middle class Republicans, the Repubs will be calling the liberals white trash. ("They drink their coffee at Starbucks, can you believe it? They don't even belong to a country club!") And so it goes. Wherever you find white people, some of them will be ragging on poorer white people. It's part of The White Experience in America.

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Freespirit I think the Libs think that just because you claim to be for the poor people then you must be for African Americans.  First of all to equate Poverty and African Americans is racist and wrong these same people often overlook the poor whites that live among us.  These same Libs will "forgive" an African American for being poor but you better not be white.  Do you know what the difference between a poor white person and a poor African American or Hispanic.  Nothing poor whites are also trapped in poverty but society sometimes think that their white skin protects them or should but poverty doesn't give a damn about skin color.
The African Americans who live in the hood they understand this.  Emenin, Paul Wall and Bubba Sparks are all poor white rappers and all of them are accepted by the hood.  Rappers like Drake and Ludachris are rich black dudes but the street doesn't accept them like they do the white rappers.  I guess the Libs don't see it like that. Marshall Mathers should have pulled himself by his bootstraps and how dare he become the best rapper in the world.
I am for poor people and I don't give a damn what race you are.

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Drake is from Canada and started out as a child actor. His real name is Aubrey Graham and he used to play Jimmy on "Degrassi: The Next Generation." I love that show, and he was great on it. But he has about as much street cred as any other kid who was on a show on Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel.

Marshall Mathers grew up in the suburb of Warren. At that time, the neighborhoods he lived in would have been all white, but still poor. As a young adult, he lived in various neighborhoods in Detroit, including one where my friend used to live. She moved out after she witnessed the drug dealers across the street getting gunned down while sitting inside their car in the driveway. So yeah, Eminem's the real deal.

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Jen the Michigander wrote:

Drake is from Canada and started out as a child actor. His real name is Aubrey Graham and he used to play Jimmy on "Degrassi: The Next Generation." I love that show, and he was great on it. But he has about as much street cred as any other kid who was on a show on Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel.

Marshall Mathers grew up in the suburb of Warren. At that time, the neighborhoods he lived in would have been all white, but still poor. As a young adult, he lived in various neighborhoods in Detroit, including one where my friend used to live. She moved out after she witnessed the drug dealers across the street getting gunned down while sitting inside their car in the driveway. So yeah, Eminem's the real deal.


A ghetto is still a ghetto no matter what the race is of the people who live there. LOL my kids were visiting over in McKees Rocks that is Pittsburgh's white ghetto.  The kids were amazed that this ghetto were mostly whites.

 



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