Daily Kos Week in Review: What's Your Favorite Color?
In the 1990s, some argued that Bill Clinton was, figuratively, our first black president. This week, two Kossacks opined that Herman Cain would be, in effect, a white president, or at least a white nominee. One claimed that if it's Cain vs. Obama, the Hermanator will serve two purposes: punching bag for the invincible incumbent and insulation for Republicans from charges of racism. The other flatly accused Cain of selling out his fellow blacks.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
chaunceydevega: Cain parrots white resentment and bigotry
...[T]he more Herb [sic] Cain is criticized by African Americans for his role as a professional racism apologist the more popular he will become with his White Conservative reactionary audience and sponsors. Call it the black conservative patted on the head by their white masters corollary to Newton's third law of motion...
...There is an argument that black conservatism is actually none too far ideologically from black nationalism. In another person, at another time, with a different history, could Herman Cain's barbershop pain have resulted in him becoming a Black Nationalist as opposed to a race traitor who serves as a human parrot for racially resentful and bigoted White Conservatives?...
Beetwasher: Racist Republicans will sacrifice Cain
...[O]n some level they realize that Obama is indeed going to clean their clocks in Nov, so if you need to offer up a sacrifice, well, may I remind you of Colin Powell?
I'm telling you, I think it's going to be Cain. I'm getting that feeling they are going to "offer him up"...
Since it IS racism that motivates them, they MUST shield themselves from those charges by nominating their "black friend"...
BrooklynBadBoy: Occupy Wall Street stands for the American dream
...[OWS protesters] still believe in the 18th Century notions of agrarian rebels. Liberty for these youth does not mean freedom from a British sovereign, but the ethic is the same. They want liberty from being thrown to and fro by a financialized economy that rewards gambling, fraud, and theft but punishes work, thrift and invention. They want liberty from a political system which not only ignores, but actively seeks to disenfranchise them. They want liberty from a global economy that benefits only a handful of people fortunate enough to be global citizens with private jets. They want liberty just as much as Americans did two centuries ago. They are doing what those young people of old did: assembling for their inalienable rights.
What we are witnessing is the rebirth of the American Dream in a new generation...
Hunter: Conservatives' responses to OWS are crazy...
Reactions [to the Occupy movement] from conservatives and the financial sector are picking up, perhaps because they realize this thing isn't just going away on its own. Significantly, much of the reaction falls into the "delusional, possibly insane" category, which perhaps speaks to a wee bit of panic in the upper echelons. Or maybe they've just lost the ability to come up with any responses to anything that aren't delusional and/or insane...
MinistryOfTruth: ...and childish
...Instead of having an honest conversation these shills would rather throw a hysterical hissy-fit. It's like arguing with a 4th grader...They only hate discrimination if you discriminate against the rich or corporations, every other kind of hatred is to be promoted...
Lenny Flank: OWS is non-violent, but subtly threatening
...One good example of an effective new tactic was the New York march to the homes of the wealthy CEO's. That action expanded our horizons beyond just occupying city parks, it brought new attention to the movement and allowed us to reach more people, it directly focused people's anger on some of those who deserve to have that anger focused on them. And its deepest accomplishment was entirely un-said but also noticed by everyone who it was directed at---"we know where you live". The one thing the super-rich fear more than anything is poor people with pitchforks, and you can bet that every rich fuck in the country got a chill up his spine when he heard about that action...
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So, who are the racists ?
Submitted by creekrat on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 6:38pm.
Is it just me, or do I read racism in all those statements ?
Creekrat
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 6:43pm.
You must be mistaken. Apparently the determination as to who is black still rests within the power of the white Democrats, as it always has.
This is a variation of the "One Drop" rule, but they're now deciding based on who acts like a black person is supposed to.
My guess is that those Kos bloggers are white . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 8:03pm.
. . . but they feel qualified to call Cain a race traitor. They're like Maher and Special Ed Schultz, taking upon themselves to attack black conservatives in order to appease he likes of Sharpton.
BrooklynBadBoy actually
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 7:34pm.
does a good analysis about what the OWS crowd wants even if they are too clueless to understand it themselves. Their only problem is they are fighting a losing battle. Even with all its imperfections, the reason why the Capitalist Free Market system has lasted all these centuries and expanded to almost every country in some form is that its the best economic system that exists.
Huh?
Submitted by Brad90956 on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 7:42pm.
Beetwasher: "...[O]n some level they realize that Obama is indeed going to clean their clocks in Nov..."
What planet does this moron live on? Not only does it look like the Republicans are poised to take the Senate, Obama's approval ratings are in the low 40's. GWB's approval rating on election day 2004 was 48% and he got 286 electoral votes. The only way Obama wins reelection in 2012 is if the economy miraculously turns around and unemployment dropped significantly....otherwise, he's toast.
OK, I'll admit that now I'm
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 8:03pm.
OK, I'll admit that now I'm REALLY confused!!! Der Schlickmeister was, and is, white trash that made it big. I don't know why the 'blacks' weren't insulted when Clinton was referred to as a 'black president'.......
And Herman Cain is a legitimate American 'black' man who has a long history and roots in the American 'black' experience, dating back to the era when 'black' Africans were bought from Arabic slave traders by many different countries in this world, and not just the Colonies Yet somehow he's a 'white' guy and a 'sell-out' to the 'black' race????
And Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama is half-white, and half mixture of African Arabic and 'black', and is descended from the very people who were SELLING 'black' slaves all around the world...........and he has NO history in the American 'black' experience whatsoever (well, he married Mooooooooochelle, and didn't listen to another white 'black' guy, Jeremiah Wright, so I guess that makes him legit, huh???)...............and somehow that makes him a REAL 'black'???
I guess I'm not 'nuanced' enough to understand this whole train of thought.........
Actually . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 8:39pm.
. . . black Americans were not comfortable with Toni Morrison crowning Clinton as the "First Black President;' they knew it was BS and that Morrison is an elite idiot. A few celebrities may have echoed her nonsense; I think Oprah did. My black friends scoffed at the idea, and Morrison stated years later that she wish she hadn't written it.
The Race Industry generally kept mum, because they remembered Clinton's "Sister Souljer' moment, and they were well-aware that he had no black among his inner circle.
Good, I'm glad to know
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 8:46pm.
Good, I'm glad to know that..........and to know that common sense is still alive and well in our culture, even though it's been under attack for years.
Of course the bloggers are
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 11:36pm.
Of course the bloggers are white, they stick to the liberal line that the "stupid negroes cannot survive" without their big white brothers help and need to have someone make their decisions for them. They need the racism to survive.
Imagine
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:46am.
a world where everyone wore full-face masks so their race was unidentifiable. What would liberals have to talk about?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me