“I’m particularly offended by these people who want to take the nation back… If you read the Republican Contract with America, you can see the bigotry in between every line.” – Maida Odom [8], “One Nation Working Together” rally attendee, October 2, 2010
In a desperate, last-ditch attempt to salvage their miserable midterm election prospects, Democrats have been tarnishing Republicans and Tea Partiers with the smear of—wait for it… racism!
Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth…
At a recent rally in Philadelphia, President Barack Obama warned [9] the audience, “They’re counting on young people staying home and union members staying home and black folks staying home.” Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Harold Jackson declared [10] that the Tea Party is the ignorant, Negrophobic reincarnation of the pro-slavery wing of the Know Nothing Party.
Zora Neale Hurston, Ida B. Wells, Roy Innis, Eldridge Cleaver, Samuel B. Fuller…
Actually, Democrats have been crying racism throughout Obama’s whole presidency [11]. For example, New York Times columnist Frank Rich has been using this trick to try to fool Americans into thinking conservatives oppose ObamaCare [12] because they don’t like black people such as bill architects Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Maureen Dowd proposed [13] that Joe Wilson’s exclamation regarding coverage for illegal Mexican immigrants was… anti-black. Leftist civil rights leaders sullied their reputations by falsely [14] accusing [15] Tea Party protestors of calling Representative John Lewis the N-word and spitting on Representative Emanuel Cleaver. Obama supporter Henry Louis Gates, Jr. falsely accused [16] a poor working-class cop in Massachusetts of racial profiling.
Martin Luther King, Sr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Alveda King…
Democrats have been playing the race card since even before Obama was elected, as in their ludicrous claim [17] that failure to elect Obama would lead to race riots. Such efforts have done miracles for Obama’s promised improvement in race relations: Rasmussen recently reported [18] that perceptions about black-white relations have gotten much more pessimistic since Obama took office.
Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder, Shelby Steele, Mychal Massie, Deroy Murdock, John McWhorter, Erik Rush…
To hear Democrats tell it, you would think there were no African American historical figures, civil rights leaders, commentators, politicians, judges, authors, athletes, or celebrities who are Republican, conservative, libertarian, right-leaning, or Tea Party supporters. Or if there are, that they’re all misguided, brainwashed, Uncle Toms.
Armstrong Williams, Lloyd Marcus, Stanley Crouch, Angela McGlowan, Amy Holmes, Sonja Schmidt, Alfonzo Rachel…
You might also think that such organizations as the National Black Republican Association [19] and The Alliance of Black Republicans [20] were apocryphal, mere fictional entities.
J. C. Watts, Gary Franks, Alan Keyes, Lynn Swann, Ken Blackwell, Rod Paige, Allen West, Star Parker, Tim Scott, Ryan Frazier, Isaac Hayes, Robert Broadus…
Because Democrats view individuals as voting blocs and interest groups to be Balkanized along racial and ethnic lines, they’ve been caught engaging in some appalling acts in recent years. Since Obama took office, we’ve been treated to the spectacle of the NAACP applauding [21] Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod for reporting that she had once racially discriminated against a white farmer; Barbara Boxer condescendingly lumping [22] ideologically opposed black groups together based on skin color; and Bill Clinton defending [23] Robert Byrd’s Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops positions as necessary for getting elected to public office as a Southern Democrat.
Clarence Thomas, Janice Rogers Brown, Ward Connerly, Colin Powell, Michael Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Michael Steele…
It’s hard to discern who exactly is supposed to be offended by these smears. Any thinking black person is surely aware of the black conservative movement, and any unthinking black person is clearly uninterested in the movement and mindlessly committed to the Democratic Party.
Jackie Robinson, Don King, Ernie Banks, Karl Malone, Jerome Bettis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Herschel Walker…
And any thinking non-black person waits for leftists to produce actual evidence of conservative racism and reserves judgment until that time. Any non-thinking non-black person is happy to accept lies about Republicans spread by race hucksters and reject evidence to the contrary.
James Earl Jones, Jimmie Walker, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, L. L. Cool J, 50 Cent…
When accusations of racism are thrown around often enough, with as little evidence as they typically are, in place of discussion of the issues people really care about, the net effect can only hurt one-trick pony politicians who know that running on their record and their positions will hurt rather than help them.
…and on [24] and on [25] and on [26] and on [27].
But if Democrats want to spend their dwindling political capital on a charge so old and worn-out even they don’t believe it, hey—I won’t let myself be prejudiced against their strategy.
