The Republican Party, if one looks closely or not so closely, at it one will see few black faces among its ranks. There is a reason for this. The Republican Party courts the white racist vote, a vestige of our sad Anti-Bellum Civil War South this time in the state of South Carolina which has the dubious distinction of being the first to secede from the Union in that era.
The Republican Party is happy to welcome disaffected white racists who think the election of a half black president gives them license to appeal to those Confederate flag wavers north AND south to send a message that the nation is being taken over by persons of color and that something must be done to stop it. The Party of interposition and nullification then is the party of it now as they block and gum-up-the-works of everything the half black president wants to pass. The president, to his detriment, tries to play in their neighborhood but they do not want him. They have kicked dirt in his face by rejecting or stalling nearly everything he wants.
The racism they protest for the shootings and killing of innocent church goers and their minister is the protest of hypocrites. Steven Scalise, the new House majority whip of the GOP-dominated Congress, spoke at a gathering hosted by white supremacist leaders in 2002 but, no matter, he was kept on as Republican majority whip in Congress. Republicans who protest what happened at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday are hypocrites. White supremacy is alive and well in this nation and is given a place of honor in the larger Republican Party.
What message does this send to persons of color in our nation? It sends the message that the Republican Party does not want them in it except a few, of course, for television image. The media and others will bloviate non-stop about how this hate must change. They are the mendacious bloviations of showmen and other charlatans who do not mean a word of it.
The Republican Party salt and peppers in a few persons of color when its candidates speak in front of a TV camera but the true change of ideological systemic belief that is needed to right this morally putrefied Party would make an already compromised Party useless and that cannot happen fast enough for me
Which means we MUST stop them from grabbing huge power by ALL means necessary. GET OUT TO VOTE AGAINST THEM. It is your most powerful act against HUMONGOUS MONEY and their monied attempt to STEAL elections and fix the vote. Republicans who rail against voter fraud are in truth the ones who perpetrate it. DO NOT LET THEM. ACT before it's too late!!!!
Totally 100% correct. We play the ball where it lies NOT where we wish it to lie. Romney/Ryan spells DEATH, that is ALL it DOES spell. As George Carlin presciently said in his American Dream Youtube: "They are coming after all of it, social sec., Medicare and ALL programs that lift people out of poverty and the streets! Romney/Ryan is LETHAL. There is a clear choice no matter how much this administration has not done all that progressives want. How would YOU do given this rancid Republican obstructionist Congress. It is amazing the things he HAS done. The glass for this administration is 3/4 FULL. Lacking one quarter is NOT due to Obama it is due to this rancid Tea Bagger Congress. GROW UP and deal with the world as it is not as you would like it to be. 100% is impossible for the BEST politician to achieve!
This is a MOST excellent piece. It should be required reading for students everywhere in this country OR simply passed out on a street corner for everyone to read.
The voices of reasoned intellect are always a joy to read. I love receiving Prof. Cole's "Informed Comment" and find it more often than not a breath of fresh air in the polluted stream that is American politics of this ever- more-increasingly-dangerous era!
Super, GREAT suggestion. Keep posing it when the RepublicRAT "debates" roll around!
I think you mean Jessie the rancid racist Helms.
The Republican Party, if one looks closely or not so closely, at it one will see few black faces among its ranks. There is a reason for this. The Republican Party courts the white racist vote, a vestige of our sad Anti-Bellum Civil War South this time in the state of South Carolina which has the dubious distinction of being the first to secede from the Union in that era.
The Republican Party is happy to welcome disaffected white racists who think the election of a half black president gives them license to appeal to those Confederate flag wavers north AND south to send a message that the nation is being taken over by persons of color and that something must be done to stop it. The Party of interposition and nullification then is the party of it now as they block and gum-up-the-works of everything the half black president wants to pass. The president, to his detriment, tries to play in their neighborhood but they do not want him. They have kicked dirt in his face by rejecting or stalling nearly everything he wants.
The racism they protest for the shootings and killing of innocent church goers and their minister is the protest of hypocrites. Steven Scalise, the new House majority whip of the GOP-dominated Congress, spoke at a gathering hosted by white supremacist leaders in 2002 but, no matter, he was kept on as Republican majority whip in Congress. Republicans who protest what happened at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday are hypocrites. White supremacy is alive and well in this nation and is given a place of honor in the larger Republican Party.
What message does this send to persons of color in our nation? It sends the message that the Republican Party does not want them in it except a few, of course, for television image. The media and others will bloviate non-stop about how this hate must change. They are the mendacious bloviations of showmen and other charlatans who do not mean a word of it.
The Republican Party salt and peppers in a few persons of color when its candidates speak in front of a TV camera but the true change of ideological systemic belief that is needed to right this morally putrefied Party would make an already compromised Party useless and that cannot happen fast enough for me
Which means we MUST stop them from grabbing huge power by ALL means necessary. GET OUT TO VOTE AGAINST THEM. It is your most powerful act against HUMONGOUS MONEY and their monied attempt to STEAL elections and fix the vote. Republicans who rail against voter fraud are in truth the ones who perpetrate it. DO NOT LET THEM. ACT before it's too late!!!!
Totally 100% correct. We play the ball where it lies NOT where we wish it to lie. Romney/Ryan spells DEATH, that is ALL it DOES spell. As George Carlin presciently said in his American Dream Youtube: "They are coming after all of it, social sec., Medicare and ALL programs that lift people out of poverty and the streets! Romney/Ryan is LETHAL. There is a clear choice no matter how much this administration has not done all that progressives want. How would YOU do given this rancid Republican obstructionist Congress. It is amazing the things he HAS done. The glass for this administration is 3/4 FULL. Lacking one quarter is NOT due to Obama it is due to this rancid Tea Bagger Congress. GROW UP and deal with the world as it is not as you would like it to be. 100% is impossible for the BEST politician to achieve!
This is a MOST excellent piece. It should be required reading for students everywhere in this country OR simply passed out on a street corner for everyone to read.
The voices of reasoned intellect are always a joy to read. I love receiving Prof. Cole's "Informed Comment" and find it more often than not a breath of fresh air in the polluted stream that is American politics of this ever- more-increasingly-dangerous era!