 privileged class you can’t be a racist. If you’re a member of an oppressed class, you can hate based on race all you want and that doesn’t count. Go listen to all of Sherrod’s speech and decide whether she thinks this is right or not.
My definition of racism is much simpler: hating people because of their race. By my definition, as a racial group, black people are the most racist people in America. Except perhaps for the Japanese, who keep it under their hats instead of using it for begging rights.
Ok, now, the main event…
In defense of Shirley Sherrod:
Watch her whole tape or don’t argue with me.
Shirley stood up in front of a (friendly) crowd and honestly, sincerely, said politically incorrect things to try to move them in her direction. Sure, in some of her speech she pandered to the crowd. Like people on the right don’t? Like Sarah Palin isn’t more pander than human? (Seriously, I’m so sick of Sarah that I’m thinking I must have an unconscious crush on her.)
Sherrod led with rehearsed shtick slamming Republicans to get crowd armor down for what she really wanted to say.
She wanted to admit mistakes, tell personal stories, get people to move more to less racism.
And for that she was crucified.
She spoke very seriously, without malice, about her own racism, about her regrets. There’s no question she was trying to do good and meant NO HARM. I’d have cheered her were I there.
I am sick and fucking tired of everyone who refuses to let those who mean no harm when speaking about race escape without being destroyed.
Al Campanis, Jimmy the Greek, Shirley Sherrod..
If you don’t get what they have in common, you’re a racist race monger.
Hey, Andrew Breitbart, you’re one of my heroes. But this is more than inflicting collateral damage and revenging yourself on the NAACP for calling the Tea Party racists. Way too much.
Andrew, you’re now a member of the lynch mob going after anyone who speaks honestly and without malice about race. I don’t give a flying fuck whether you only got a clip of the video and couldn’t wait to post it till you had the whole context. That’s what a lynching is–stringing someone up before you have all the facts. You lynched this woman, and I mean that with every bit of racial subtext and context that can be attached to the word “lynching.” I’m really interested to see what you will say about this fuckup. If you go all defensive and nitpicky, you’re dead to me.
The NAACP has had a great week and honest people have to admit that Mark Williams’ unforced error (see my previous post) proves them right about racism in the Tea Party: Mark Williams had 400,000 members of his Tea Party Express. Williams is a racist piece of shit. I hope almost all of Williams’ followers are as shocked as I am. Until they repudiate him, fuck them. Williams hadn’t outed himself as a vicious racist before Ben Jealous threw down the gauntlet. And then the racism boiling over in his sad little soul just boiled over like a boiling over thing….I’ve been watching too much Red Eye.
The Left was right. There’s significant racism in the Tea Party. True until otherwise proven, you 400K Mark Williams followers. What say you? Seriously, you Tea Party Express people need to do something.
UPDATE: Mark Williams has resigned from the Tea Party Express, gracelessly, dishonestly and exactly like the little bitch he is.
Hey, Eric Fuckwad Holder, you say Americans are cowards when it comes to talking about race, but I haven’t heard you yet defend this gutsy woman. I don’t care if you do it later this week–too little too late, as usual.
Hey, Barack and your SecAg Tom Shitsack. You fired this woman like she was radioactive based on You-Tube. Everyone says you jumped too soon. Well, yeah, governing by You-Tube is pretty pathetic.
But nobody I’ve seen yet has said this: You jumped too soon because you bought the original story hook line and sinker because you felt, deep in your heart, that it was true. You know goddamn well that black racism is a virulant undergrowth in mainstream black organizations. “Killing cracker babies” is way more a mainstream sentiment among blacks than you dare admit. You found Sherrod guilty because that’s what you expected to find.
Barack, this story felt true to you. Christ, you over-privileged little racist punk surrounded by all your little racist punk advisors.
Oh, and for everyone denying that the pressure to fire Sherrod wasn’t from the White House…
Barack Obama is a goddamn liar.
Robert Gibbs is a goddam liar’s bitch.
Tom Shitsack, Secretary of Agriculture, is trying to take one for the team. He’s after 72 virgins in heaven, which in America, is cushy jobs and perhaps an ambassadorship. Christ, we’ve become so third world when it comes to our privileged class. From now on, I’ll call him Secretary Bwana Shitsack.
I hate most everybody this week except Shirley Sherrod. Sure, she’s a racist. Sure, she’s done lots of bad things and made a career from race-mongering. But she’s the only person this week I’ve seen actually speak truth to power. And then she outed the liars in the White House who tried to keelhaul her. And she’s trying hard to think about her racism and talk about it and be honest.
You go girl.
UPDATED because I kept calling her Sherryl instead of Shirley Sherrod. My affinity for alliteration is absolutely asinine.
You’re wrong about Breitbar. See:
More context, please? The link didn’t change my assessment.
Sherrod is a partisan, opportunistic, professional apparatchik racist. Too bad that Breitbart had to bust her the one time she wasn’t guilty.
I don’t know if Breitbart had only the initial clip when he posted. I assume so, because there’s much more in the rest of her speech to convict her. He’d have used that, right? If he had it.
Let me be clear: Privileged black people in power rushed to judgment and fired Sherryl’s ass. Now they’re getting Uncle Tom Shitsack to take the heat for them, I’m 100% sure that SecAg Shitsack’s got a lot more gold in his parachute after this weekend.
People on the right hung back. O’Reilley showed the clip on his nightly WTF? segment (I forget what it’s actually called) and shrugged. Glenn Beck actually talked about not rushing to judgment till we knew more. Too bad Obama and his incompetent White House hacks didn’t take their talking points from Beck that day.
Ben Jealous was probably stampeded by those bovine morons who infest this White House, so he also jumped the gun and lynched Sherryl.
No question, this was a black lynch mob lynching a black woman who thought she might try to give a little speech in front of a black audience to encourage her friends to cool it a little.
There can be no question in anyone’s mind that the thing Breitbart posted to condemn her was this woman’s finest moment. Who did the editing?
Rewind some, and her speech is standard issue lazy federal bureacrat ass-kissing race-baiting horseshit.
Hit Play after what Breitbart posted and you realize what she was trying to get to. She made the mistake of speaking off the cuff, admitting her guilt before starting to talk about the lessons she learned, the changes she made. She wasn’t on message, she wanted to speak from the heart. Pretty good heart.
I should say here, I don’t hate Sherryl, even though I’ve been harshing on her pretty hard. I do hate the white racist Georgia motherfucks who made her easy prey for socialism and stupidity because they did everything they could to trip up people like her.
And I hate people who ignored simple obvious human justice when blacks were peacefully seeking it in the first half of the last century.
I was raised in a John Birch Society household in the 1960’s. My parents weren’t overt racists. They never said nigger. They thought that Martin Luther King was a Communist dupe. They thought the Civil Rights movement was a Communist excuse for disrupting American society. They never ever thought that black people had a point. They never ever wanted to think about black people.
As an adult, I asked my parents what they thought about the injustices against blacks, why they didn’t take over the Civil Rights movement if they thought the Commies were just exploiting the issue?
Cut to the chase, that’s when I learned that they cared as much about blacks being daily humiliated, slapped down, denied basic rights like opening a business, or about blacks being lynched as most people care about Sarah McLachlan’s animal cruelty ads.
To them, blacks didn’t exist in America until they became Commie cannon fodder. It never occurred to them that they drove blacks away from the American mainstream. To be fair to my parents, after I confronted them