Breitbart hits NAACP with promised video of racism
posted at 12:55 pm on July 19, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
The NAACP is about to learn one of the most basic of all lessons in life — those who live in glass houses should avoid provoking a stone-throwing war. After the civil-rights organization threatened to issue a condemnation of Tea Party activism by equating it with racism (a position from which they ultimately retreated), Andrew Breitbart announced that he would publish at least one video of the NAACP itself cheering racism. Breitbart delivers on that promise today at Big Government, showing USDA official Shirley Sherrod explain to an appreciative NAACP audience in July 2009 how she deliberately withheld information from a white farmer in Georgia trying to save his land and his business:
We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.
In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.
Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.
Actually, if Sherrod had a different ending for this story, it could have been a good tale of redemption. She almost grasps this by initially noting that poverty is the real issue, which should be the moral of the anecdote. Instead of having acted on this realization — and perhaps mindful of the audience — Sherrod then backtracks and says that it’s really an issue of race after all. It certainly was for Sherrod, who admits that “I didn’t give him the full force of what I could do.” Notice that the audience doesn’t exactly rise as one to scold Sherrod for her racism, but instead murmurs approvingly of using race to determine outcomes for government programs, which is of course the point that Andrew wanted to make.
Andrew has a second video, which is more relevant to the out-of-control expansion of the federal government than race. Sherrod in the same speech beseeches her audience to get work in the USDA and the federal government in general, because “when was the last time you heard about layoffs” for government workers? If Sherrod is any example, it’s been too long.
Update: I forgot to include the link to Andrew’s site — my apologies!
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Interestingly enough before the Democrats got a hold of the black community black out of wedlock child births were lower than whites, and family retention was higher.
DFCtomm on July 19, 2010 at 5:26 PM
You’re right about the threadjack. I’ll stand down.
Mary in LA on July 19, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Using the term “own kind” doesn’t need context. It’s a bigoted statement on it’s face.
ButterflyDragon on July 19, 2010 at 5:27 PM
I agree that before we throw her under the bus we need to hear the whole story. But even without all that we can gasp collectively at the manner in which her story was received…in
2009!2010!LEBA on July 19, 2010 at 5:16 PM
Fixed it!
LEBA on July 19, 2010 at 5:28 PM
Mary in LA on July 19, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Not your fault, Mary. I’ve been trying not to get aggravated by the Trolls, myself.
kingsjester on July 19, 2010 at 5:28 PM
Is there a better thread or forum to discuss “race relations”? I thought your comments were appropriate.
ButterflyDragon on July 19, 2010 at 5:31 PM
And while the “poor” fight “rich”, “conservatives” fight each other, “blacks” fight “whites”; this obama-created, marxist-inspired diversion and division is more entertaining than a barrel of Paul McCartney concerts.
And the Looting of the Nation keeps rolling along.
tigerlily on July 19, 2010 at 5:31 PM
1. Um, a bunch of Hotairheads are speaking against bigotry right here in this thread. Why would they think it’s a liberal thing to speak against bigotry?
2. How do you prove otherwise? Are you claiming to be a conservative?
Would it be a racist remark to tell you that whites are more racist than blacks?
blink on July 19, 2010 at 5:33 PM
I should learn to proof-read. That should have read:
BlueCollarAstronaut on July 19, 2010 at 5:33 PM
This one may go mainstream sooner than later. Drudge has a link up – and it points to a story on WCBS-TV, CBS’s flagship station in NYC.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/tea.party.naacp.2.1812710.html
Curmudgeon on July 19, 2010 at 5:36 PM
I’m not a liberal. Adjust your statement, get back to me. Ciao now brown cow.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 5:45 PM
equally racist
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 5:46 PM
That question is really insulting considering the amount of wordspill I’ve dumped here at HA. You must ignore about 99.8% of my actual wording and only read the words “bigotry” or “racism.” If you asked me that in person, you see the stunned look on my face as I said “huh? Screw you.”
It’s like you have read every thing that I write through a slit in your hand. Come on, if you really want to believe that stuff about me just because I take an occasional viewpoint with which you disagree suit yourself. However know that from this point forward I will ignore any comment direct toward me by you that blatantly ignores the obvious.
I love discourse. I can’t stand talking to someone when they are lying to me. Any more willful ignorance will be treated as a lie.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Logic…the kryptonite of liberals. And this, blink, is the super-duty, concentrated kind.
BobMbx on July 19, 2010 at 5:51 PM
A non-answer.
BobMbx on July 19, 2010 at 5:52 PM
Gibberish….the kryptonite is working.
BobMbx on July 19, 2010 at 5:54 PM
You forgot racial-resentment, prejudice, anti-Black, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, anti-gay, anti-Christian, sexist, ethnic-haranguing, racializing. Aside from the endless derivatives and mutations of those specific words, am I missing anything?
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 5:54 PM
English. Your education is not.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 5:54 PM
I love discourse. I can’t stand talking to someone when they are lying to me. Any more willful ignorance will be treated as a lie.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Congratulations on being named the third monitor of this site. Didactic cuss, ain’t ya?
kingsjester on July 19, 2010 at 5:55 PM
Blood flow to your frontal lobe?
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 5:56 PM
I have never seen anyone on HA use more words than TRC to say so little.
Yikes.
ORconservative on July 19, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Do you think racism is inherent within all humans equally rather culturally influenced?
blink on July 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Surgery to yours?
kingsjester on July 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM
I wonder if this lady will transfer over to the Obamacare Division so she can advise on healthcare benefits. Even if she fired today, the damage she has done is incalculable.
meci on July 19, 2010 at 5:58 PM
Praytell might King of Ombudsmanship aka Concern Troll toll bridge attendant, what is the punishment in your kingdom for lying?
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Did he just insult himself?
re:
BobMbx on July 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM
1. How was my question insulting? I was willing to consider your answer objectively.
2. How can I lie by asking you a question?
blink on July 19, 2010 at 6:04 PM
glad to see that drudge is finally getting around to linking this issue.
ted c on July 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM
Don’t be too hard on TRC, he’s just prejudice against blacks. He harasses us about our white conservative racism because he believes we can achieve something the black community can’t. He expects more from us than his own, and it really is a form of twisted compliment.
DFCtomm on July 19, 2010 at 6:08 PM
I believe he is suggesting that he has covered all the possibilities in the history of his discourse.
Cindy Munford on July 19, 2010 at 6:08 PM
So you think he might have been insulted by the fact that I’m not familiar with the history of his discourse?
blink on July 19, 2010 at 6:11 PM
This is really shocking.
NTWR on July 19, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Insulted might be too strong of a word. He thrives on vague remarks and insinuation. I don’t play anymore, he makes sure he is always playing offense and the rest of the world on defense. No one owes him anything.
Cindy Munford on July 19, 2010 at 6:27 PM
I’m sure Charles Johnson will be all over this.
The Therapist on July 19, 2010 at 6:31 PM
Do you just mean the beliefs or behaviors? The question is pretty broad for me to make such an acute declaration. The distinction between behavior and belief helps to focus my thoughts. At least you will totally-misunderstand me correctly.
I do love a good post-lunch barfing. So let me give you something to mock for later.
Racism is not “inherent” like an internal-organ. Does a newborn know to judge people by race? Put any color tit in any hungry newborn’s mouth and you get suckage. Racism is not instinctive like hunger/thirst or sex. Do people wake up with a need to discriminate-racially? No.
It’s not even an it. Racism, that covers a lot of ground for one word.
I like where this is going but you people won’t let me forget how dumb I am. Tell it to me like I am that dumb. I know you’re smart enough.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 6:32 PM
WHO THE FUCK IS “his own?” This is race-propaganda 101 stuff.
I don’t have a “kind.” Hell, I’m barely human as it is. Don’t go entangling me with others because we look the same in low-light. I don’t discriminate racially. I don’t like being referred to thusly. I am ambivalent about my use of the word “thusly.”
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 6:36 PM
He needs to worry about his own crew and their late night marauding.
Cindy Munford on July 19, 2010 at 6:36 PM
WHO THE f*ck IS “his own?” This is race-propaganda 101 stuff.
I don’t have a “kind.” Hell, I’m barely human as it is. Don’t go entangling me with others because we look the same in low-light. I don’t discriminate racially. I don’t like being referred to thusly. I am ambivalent about my use of the word “thusly.”
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM
Well, both parties have let blacks down. All the GOP did was fight the Civil War and push through the Civil Rights Act.
hawksruleva on July 19, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Racism may not be instinctive but most young think that they are the norm. Age usually brings about the ability to not only accept but appreciate differences seen beyond the mirror.
Cindy Munford on July 19, 2010 at 6:41 PM
That’s true, but I don’t believe that children make any distinction based on the differences. They see a difference, and may even comment on it, but they don’t adjust their expectations about a person up or down based on those differences. Until/unless they learn otherwise, differences in skin color are no different than differences in hair color.
hawksruleva on July 19, 2010 at 6:44 PM
The fact that she even mentioned “race” as it relates to Farmers in her state, is, by any definition, Racist.
The fact that she stated “how” she dealt with this farmer was based on “HIS race”, is, by any definition, Racism.
All Government policies must be Race and Gender Neutral.
Your Private companies policies must be Race and Gender Neutral or you will Face fines from the EOD!
DSchoen on July 19, 2010 at 6:47 PM
I knew that one would push your button, but I was only half kidding. Do you think you engage in some soft racism and expect more of the white community than the black?
DFCtomm on July 19, 2010 at 6:48 PM
I don’t think children hate because of differences just that they usually consider themselves the model, including hair color and features. Appreciating differences usually comes around the same time that they wish they could change themselves.
Cindy Munford on July 19, 2010 at 6:50 PM
Well, tell me how you define racism. You’ve already stated that you don’t think racism is inherent in all humans.
So, do you think that racism, as you define it, is influenced by culture?
I’m not sure why you’re so paranoid. I have no idea where this is going because I don’t know what answer you’ll give. Why would I?
blink on July 19, 2010 at 6:52 PM
RE: the video
This is very weak sauce. The woman is actually talking about realizing that race should not be a determinant factor in her liberal-agenda setting. She comes around to using class-warfare instead. Awww.
This is the bombshell that the GOP is going to use as justification from now on? Dude, that lady is a racist but the way this is being pushed is phony and that’s what will stick. I still don’t get how so many conservatives can be so dumb on this and similar issues.
Why can’t the right come up with a smart racial-agitator? WTF? Really. Racial-agitation is an accepted and winnning political-tactic now. Why not just be smarter about it?
I think Breitbart really enjoys the spotlight and being a youngish, celeb in conservative-circles. I think he’s a bored, rich kid grown up.
I was pushing him as a source way back when. Fake journalism- what a disappointing-evolution. I thought we had enough of that.
Other than the Tennessee flag confusion and correction he seems to hold his own. I have yet to see any worthwhile response to his RSM dust-ups.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 6:52 PM
I think racism is a product of the way our brains work. We look for differences, group, evaluate, and quantify. This is very helpful if your looking at fruit, or statistics. This function explains why we so readily divide things up into groups. The second half is our instinct to group together, and form communities, and at times defend those communities from other communities. The first I don’t think we’ll ever be able to do anything about, but the second. If we get enough perspective, like say space travel, then we might be able to expand our definition of our group to include everyone.
DFCtomm on July 19, 2010 at 6:53 PM
You might be right, but it’s the word he used.
blink on July 19, 2010 at 6:54 PM
I knew what you were doing and knew you would have some follow up. Nice.
I don’t base my case on race. ::Cochran moustache w fro wig::
Really though. I am certainly hard on my own camp. Initially it was out of high-expectations. I used to expect more from Republicans but that has changed. So now it seems like I’m just harder on them without the loving-expectation that people will rise to my call.
That’s wrong too, inaccurate. (swerve)
I’m hard on Republicans and conservatives for not being collectively-diligent in the anti-racist posturing. For whatever reason, Republicans are more tolerating of race-baiting and insulting in campaigns. Dems are more adept at playing the victim against bigots and racists. That’s a losing battle until the right takes a hard stance.
IMO, there are just as many, by percentage, of bigot-dems and repubs. Why then does it seem that I not as hard on Dems?
I’m not on a dem site and don’t hang out in those caves. I get to do most of my agitating of the left in real life.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 7:03 PM
I knew this was coming — long discussion. You sound like you’ve thought about it deeply.
Way OT…more than usual. I’ll buy first round at 1st HotAirhead conference. We can talk fruits and nuts then.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 7:06 PM
It’s a tactic. He will argue with himself. In the video Ms. Sherrod stated that the farmer in question was trying to “act superior” to her. I would think that most people who find themselves in serious financial trouble are defensive and are probably rehashing every bad decision they have ever made with money. She states that she realizes it is “poor” not skin color but she obviously felt personally insulted. I would be willing to bet that she has helped all manner of people at her job to the very best of her ability. It’s a shame that she felt her audience would be receptive to one of the few times she wasn’t a stellar public worker.
Cindy Munford on July 19, 2010 at 7:06 PM
If they have one, then I’ll be there, and I’ll hold you to that.
DFCtomm on July 19, 2010 at 7:09 PM
The Race Card the reality is – you see racism almost everywhere. You have a great imagination.
Now pat yourself on the back. Your chest got all puffy and you feel better than everyone now. Good for you./
CWforFreedom on July 19, 2010 at 7:15 PM
No Mary you proved mine – despite the overwhelming number of fatherless white kids compared to black kids you cannot get off your scree about how blacks are causing all the problems and leeching off the government. I don’t however see you bemoaning all the whites without fathers seeing a sense of entitlement in whatever government programs are available.
When that day comes and you can address it as an economic phenomena rather than a racial one you will have achieved some enlightment.
But you like so many self professed conservatives cannot help yourself when someone of color makes some admission like this woman did. The gleeful, almost childish happy dance you do when a potential black racist is pointed out makes you look small and narrowminded.
Bradky on July 19, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Poor KJ – just can’t help himself from trying to expand his flock.
Bradky on July 19, 2010 at 7:26 PM
You people? To whom do you address? Every single person that has posted at Hot Air? Are you implying we are all the same? Think the same? Respond the same? That seems prejudiced to me. It is a slippery slope from there. Could you expand on your definition of you people?
IowaWoman on July 19, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Doesn’t “The Race Card” have a World of Warcraft event to attend or something?
Kjeil on July 19, 2010 at 7:34 PM
According to Fox News, she’s been forced to resign.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/19/clip-shows-usda-official-admitting-withheld-help-white-farmer/
lansing quaker on July 19, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Bunch of damned pinheads debating how many racists can dance on the head of a budgetary sinecure.
/while Rome burns again.
rayra on July 19, 2010 at 7:35 PM
So, she was given an opportunity to see a dis-confirming instance of “white privilege” but it does help her help black farmers most and first.
While not being completely racist, it is [i]discrimination[/i] on the basis of race.
Now, it just depends on how much you can take her word that he was expressing to her his superiority.
Axeman on July 19, 2010 at 7:39 PM
Even if that wasn’t the goal, it is what she perceived. It’s unfortunate that she decide not the be the better person. I hope the report that she has had to resign in wrong.
Cindy Munford on July 19, 2010 at 7:43 PM
You have completely misunderstood me. Nowhere did I say that blacks were leeching. In fact, there are more white people on welfare than black people — not just proportionately, but in absolute numbers.
I have no interest in achieving “enlightenment” by your terms. I want to see the world as it is, not distorted by a lens of political correctness.
Can you read??? Just how shallow are you? Twice I called it tragic. TRAGIC. How in the hell is that doing a “happy dance”? Where have you ever seen me rejoicing in the terrible damage the “Great Society” and the welfare state have done to people of all colors, but (and the statistics bear this out) black people most?
Mary in LA on July 19, 2010 at 7:45 PM
Poor KJ – just can’t help himself from trying to expand his flock.
Bradky on July 19, 2010 at 7:26 PM
What flock, Skippy?
kingsjester on July 19, 2010 at 7:55 PM
I am small and narrowminded.
Bradky on July 19, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Now that we have that clear let me explain. There are more total white fatherless children because whites way outnumber blacks in total OK? Blacks make up approx 13% of the population. Their rate of fatherless children is appalling. Are you convinced yet? I thought not. Why don’t we move on and discuss the robbery and rape rates committed by black males. Do you want DOJ stats?
You and other libs lose all credibility by your inability to just come out and say this lady and her audience was wrong on so many levels.
I watched a black candidate for congress from SC the other night named (I think) Tim Scott on goofy Hannity. You and other libs cannot comprehend the grief that people like him have to endure for not thinking like a “real” black man. Mr. Scott is the real deal alright and makes me think there is still hope. If I ever met him I would not just shake his hand I would hug him like a brother. Not only did he have to endure hard times because of his skin color, he then gets crap from his own race.
Are you even troubled that blacks vote >90% democrat. So the herd mentality is ok?
arnold ziffel on July 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Well as long as everybody is parsing their name so carefully today, I’d have to suggest that they have always been been about advancement than equality or justice. Just look at their name. I guess it’s just a matter of asking ‘advancement from where?’
ElRonaldo on July 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM
Mary, you simply have no proof to support that. Conjecture yes but nothing more. Are you saying that no conservative has encouraged bigotry for dividing and conquering?
You miss the point by wearing your party blinders instead of looking at the bigger picture. If it were that simple why haven’t blacks come over in numbers to the GOP?
wow what mad internet skillz you have to change a comment…
Why your Harp flock Preacher.
Bradky on July 19, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Why your Harp flock Preacher.
Bradky on July 19, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Oh, you mean the people on Facebook you creepily harrassed?
And, by the way, you’re not quite adequate. While I have sung in churches for 30 years and led services, I’ve never gone to seminary and I’m not ordained.
kingsjester on July 19, 2010 at 8:13 PM
Oops, sorry. I meant to say accurate, not adequate. Or did I?
kingsjester on July 19, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Bradky on July 19, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Thanks for the complement but could you address the points I raised or is that all I get? Work with me here.
arnold ziffel on July 19, 2010 at 8:17 PM
Looks like the USDA’s Shirley Sherrod (known to her close friends as The Urban Avenger) was canned today.
Maybe the NAACP will give her a job. They’ll like the cut of the old girl’s jib.
Cicero43 on July 19, 2010 at 8:22 PM
You know, if putting words in people’s mouths were an Olympic event, you’d be a gold medalist. To say that Democrats always lie is not to say that Republicans always tell the truth, and you know it, nor did I ever make any such claim.
As for proof, this poor thread is already hijacked enough, but I’ll give you one source to look at:
Shelby Steele’s book “A Dream Deferred.”
Because Lyndon Johnson dazzled them with glittering promises of free money from the state and the Democrats have been lying to them ever since, that’s why. Up until then, large numbers of black Americans were indeed registered Republican.
Mary in LA on July 19, 2010 at 8:24 PM
Watch closely to see who hires her now.
wren on July 19, 2010 at 8:27 PM
a truly staggering amount of DENIAL is going on with the Libtards these days.
so many of their cherished myths are being busted:
- only whites can be racist
- women have to be ugly and mean to succeed
- Obama isn’t going to destroy the country
so many myths…so little time
Justrand on July 19, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Such statements give pimps a bad name. I sooner trust a pimp with my female friends and family members than anyone appointed by these criminals in Washington. I think they’d be LESS likely to be f’d over by the pimps oddly enough.
Yakko77 on July 19, 2010 at 8:34 PM
Your opinion.
Not sure why you had to go on like that. Our minor difference in opinion didn’t warrant a flame war in my mind. I’m guessing the thread was very important to you. Maybe some night we’ll have a topic we’ll agree on.
hawkdriver on July 19, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Barry will instruct Eric Holder to investigate discrimination in her “resignation.” If that falls through she will land a job somewhere in the Won’s kingdom of racial affirmative hires.
wepeople on July 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM
That was truly fast. Makes you wonder whether her bosses were as appalled as folks commenting here or whether it was damage control for their department.
hawkdriver on July 19, 2010 at 8:53 PM
Hi, hawkdriver! I’m glad you’re back!
Mary in LA on July 19, 2010 at 8:58 PM
LOL
2Brave2Bscared on July 19, 2010 at 9:12 PM
It was a good time to leave for a while anyways. Had to pick up my taxes and go to work for a few hours. I see she resigned.
hawkdriver on July 19, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Yep — that was fast! There’s a new thread for it, too, right here.
Mary in LA on July 19, 2010 at 9:17 PM
lols
2Brave2Bscared on July 19, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Uppity blacks are the worst of the racists.
God, please Breitbart have possesion of that WHITEY video from Michelle Obama!
SouthernGent on July 19, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Every single comment on this thread and others is verbatim from the liberal playbook. You claim to not be a liberal (why do all liberals need to lie about their political affiliation?), but knowbody is buying it and it just further demonstrates how dishonest you are. You can’t even admit your ideological persuasion. Sad and pathetic. YOu fail to make one cogent argument and do nothing but lie.
Monkeytoe on July 20, 2010 at 8:03 AM
That is beyond factually untrue. If you believe that, you are completely ignorant. The republicans don’t do ads claiming that their presidential candidate is for dragging a black man behind a pick-up truck by chains as was done against W. We don’t have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as honored figures in our party (Tawana Brawley). We don’t claim that every argument by the other side is “code language” for racism.
Only someone with their ideological blinders on can claim that the GOP has more “race baiting” than the Dems. The dems entire playbook is to call the gop racist and hope it sticks. That is pretty much all they do.
Why must liberals always lie? Why can’t they argue based on facts? Is it because they know they are wrong? It has to be.
Monkeytoe on July 20, 2010 at 8:07 AM
If you start from the proposition that someone is racist, you can convince yourself that everything they say and do is racist or “code langauge” for racism. That is all TRC has done. He believes that the GOP is racist, therefore everything he hears proves it. No actual facts needed.
Monkeytoe on July 20, 2010 at 8:10 AM
She is just doing what she’s told. Her resignation means nothing. Who hired her is a racist and has racist policies in action.
lilium on July 20, 2010 at 8:21 AM
Define “uppity black”. Interesting to see that you consider black racists worse than white racists. Does that mean that you believe that white racists have the moral high ground?
Thanks for showing your hand.
“I might be racist but thank god I’m not a black racist” – SouthernGent
/sarc
Bradky on July 20, 2010 at 12:58 PM
The Sad reality is that there are many in Civil Service that have their own personnel agenda they use to filter how they react to/with citizens.
This is intolerable! Fire all of them!
micktexan on July 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Bradky, you’re not nearly as smart as you think you are. Don’t you see how neatly you fell into SouthernGent’s trap?
The word “uppity” is shocking and wince-worthy to anyone who knows history, and very nearly as incendiary a code-word as it gets.
Southern(hello?)Gent obviously knows that — there is no way he does not know that — and, if I have understood him correctly based on his prior posts, he deliberately used it here to get a clueless liberal to rise to the bait. You obliged him very nicely.
Here’s how it works: You gleefully (that was your word of the other night) jumped on SG to call him a racist. You, Mr/Ms Bradky, must just looooove to holler “racist” at everyone to your right, given the number of times we’ve all witnessed you doing it on these pages. So of course you couldn’t resist snapping at the bait. But if it hadn’t been you wriggling on the hook, it would have been TRC or crr6 or some other troll.
Now, follow me closely here: Is one (1) use of a racist term or code word enough to make someone “a racist”? Or not?
If yes, then SouthernGent is “a racist” — and so is Ms Sherrod! Therefore, you can’t defend her any more, since, according to you liberals, racism is the worst sin, and the only unpardonable one.
If not, then Ms Sherrod isn’t “a racist”, at least not by her words (her actions are another matter) — but neither is SG. In other words, you can’t have it both ways. There is no scenario in which you can prove that SouthernGent is a racist and Ms Sherrod is not — the more so as we have no evidence that SG has ever committed a racist act, while Ms Sherrod has admitted committing a racist act herself, in a public forum, on video.
You lose. And don’t you dare try to wiggle out of it by saying that I’m “defending racism” here. I’m doing no such thing. I said the word was wince-worthy, and in fact I winced, too, until I concluded that SG is playing very close to the razor’s edge, in order to point out liberal hypocrisy.
I will note here that this is one of the characteristics distinguishing liberals from conservatives: Liberals tend to act impulsively on their feelings, whereas conservatives generally consult their feelings for guidance but make a reasoned decision before acting. (Not saying anyone is perfect here, just observing general tendencies.) So you may “feel” that some particular person “is a racist”, but in SouthernGent’s case, at least, you haven’t come to that conclusion by any use of your reasoning faculties, such as they are.
Mary in LA on July 20, 2010 at 4:40 PM
Everything you presume is based on your opinion that I am liberal. I’m not.
You are good at name calling but honest discourse is something you fail at. I also note how you ignore his assertion that black racists are worse than racists in general.
Nice try but as expected wildly off the mark.
Bradky on July 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM
Okay, that leaves progressive, socialist, and Marxist.
I call ‘em as I see ‘em.
With the way you put words in everyone’s mouth, you’re a fine one to talk. Your M.O. is to twist what anyone says and then argue with what they didn’t say. Did you think no one would notice?
Are you blind? The whole substance of my argument was that he was setting up bait for liberals. You took it. Therefore I conclude that, despite your protests to the contrary, you are one.
Mary in LA on July 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM
Bradky, this is you:
You won’t be happy until everyone’s thought processes are sanitized and controlled. You won’t be happy until we all think only doubleplusgoodthoughts.
I do not agree with SouthernGent’s assertion as a statement of fact. I think “racist is as racist does”, independent of the skin color of the putative racist. But you’re swallowing a camel and straining out a gnat here. My larger point, which you entirely missed, is that SouthernGent set a trap to catch a knee-jerk liberal, and he caught you.
Mary in LA on July 20, 2010 at 5:47 PM
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