Hateful rhetoric fanning the flames of rage, inciting violence. Pure hate speech, swirling around a black man in power, and around his wife. Brutal accusations of Nazism; of being a "House Negro."
And all of it spoken on the radio. When will it stop?
Just read what white LEFTIST radio personality (and MSNBC guest) Mike Malloy recently had to say about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his marriage to -- stop your ears! -- a white woman:
The latest from the crazy people in the teabag movement is, uh, a story about, um, Virginia Thomas; she is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; and she’s setting up a teabagger nonprofit group. Now this will be interesting because the teabaggers are essentially racist; and how they're going to deal with a very dark Clarence Thomas and a very white Virginia Thomas setting up subdivision of their crazed teabagger party; how they're going to deal with that will be great fun to watch.
Now Clarence Thomas has always adopted the attitude of the House Negro, so perhaps he'll do it this time also. Clarence Thomas, in all the years he's been on the United States Supreme Court, I don't think has ever, ever written an opinion that became the rule of the court; he has never been the lead author.
He has - I don't think he's even spoken for the past six years! He just looks at fat Tony Scalia; and if Fat Tony farts, Uncle Clarence farts; if Fat Tony burps, Uncle Clarence burps! This is the guy who George Herbert Walker Bush said was the most qualified man in America to be on the Supreme Court.
... [Virginia Thomas is] in for a big surprise, when the inherently racist nature of the teabagger movement slams her in the face. She’s a very, very, very, very, very white Omaha, Nebraska woman married to a very, very, very, very black South Georgia man. And when the pictures of the two of them together get out, you can almost hear the squealing right now from the real teabaggers." [bold mine, added to emphasize bigoted remarks and homophobic slurs]
Newsbusters writer Tim Graham notes one risible mistake Mr. Malloy makes in his historical analysis: Clarence Thomas has indeed not written a single opinion for the court, he's only written over 140.
It always bemuses me when I hear Democrats or sundry leftists accuse Republicans (or conservatives) of being the party of prejudice. The historical facts point decisively in the other direction: the party that supported slavery and segregation is the Democratic Party. Republicans have been decades ahead of Democrats regarding issues of racial equality. There is no denying this, unless, of course, you are a revisionist. And there are a lot of revisionists.
The only racist at work in Mr. Malloy's world is Malloy himself. No Tea Party member has mentioned Clarence Thomas' "miscegenation" let alone worried about it. I personally don't know a single conservative who balks at inter-racial marriage. But the dark heart of uber-liberal Malloy has conjured up racism with ease. Apparently he can manufacture bigotry and impute it to others without compunction, or a sense of irony.
Rachel Maddow, a soft-spoken, shy, diminutive and ever-restrained left-winger who hosts an always-temperate eponymous show on MSNBC, recently gushed over Mr. Malloy's words:
I love your dark thoughts. We all love you for your dark thoughts.
They all love dark thoughts.
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Thanks to Mr. Tim Graham of Newsbusters.
3 comments:
However, Barry Goldwater (the 1964 Republican nominee for President) opposed the Civil Rights Act and won the hearts and minds of the Deep South states (Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina). They gave him their electoral votes in 1964, setting the stage for the later resurgence of the the Republican Party in the South (the "Southern Strategy").
LBJ even said after signing the legislation (it was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by the way) "We have lost the South for a generation".
You're right, SE, and as Wikipedia also notes, "all this [Goldwater's views on states' rights] appealed to white Southern Democrats."
If I have this right, all the states you just cited were Democratic Party strongholds. It was those Democrats who supported Mr. Goldwater.
If I have this right, all the states you just cited were Democratic Party strongholds.
Yes, Bill, and I thought you might point that out. I was really responding to R. Sherman's comment, because if the Republican Party was the party of Civil Rights, why did they gain so much support in the South after Goldwater, to the point that most of the states of the old Confederacy finally became reliable "red" states?
By the way, I happen to think Goldwater, on Constitutional grounds, was right to oppose the 1964 Act, and I don't think he had any racist motivation.
I also believe that the Confederate cause was right, and consider it a tragedy that they lost the War of Northern Aggression.
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