NYT op-ed page celebrates Tim Scott’s appointment by dumping on black Republicans
But this “first black” rhetoric tends to interpret African-American political successes — including that of President Obama — as part of a morality play that dramatizes “how far we have come.” It obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress…
Even if the Republicans managed to distance themselves from the thinly veiled racism of the Tea Party adherents who have moved the party rightward, they wouldn’t do much better among black voters than they do now. I suspect that appointments like Mr. Scott’s are directed less at blacks — whom they know they aren’t going to win in any significant numbers — than at whites who are inclined to vote Republican but don’t want to have to think of themselves, or be thought of by others, as racist…
For Mr. Scott, the true test will come in 2014, when he will presumably run for a full six-year term. As Mr. Obama has shown, the question is not whether whites are willing to vote for a black candidate, but whether black candidates can put together winning coalitions (no matter their racial makeup) and around what policies. I suspect black South Carolinians will not be drawn to Mr. Scott.
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What garbage. I don’t need to read anymore.
Paul-Cincy on December 19, 2012 at 9:43 AM
That didn’t take long.
I wonder if the fu*kwits in the NYT ever stop to ponder just why their newspaper is declining.
Bishop on December 19, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Die reprobates. Adolph, aptly named. Just kick off to your great sulfur reward.
tom daschle concerned on December 19, 2012 at 9:43 AM
What a dismissive and hateful screed.
Irritable Pundit on December 19, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Old and busted: token. New hotness: cornball brother.
JeremiahJohnson on December 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Tim Scott is American by experience, unlike our President, who has no real American experience.
Tim Scott happens to have a heritage common to most blacks in the US, unlike our President.
Of course, Liberalism is skin-deep unless you “leave the plantation.”
The party of the KKK is having a problem with a Senator who is black? Color me surprised…not!
ProfShadow on December 19, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Translation: We fear black Republicans might break the stranglehold the Dem Party has over black voters, so we must do all we can to dismiss them.
These people have no shame.
changer1701 on December 19, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Heh. Sounds like the NYT is scared! Good.
ramesees on December 19, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Republicans having black senators is racist.
mwbri on December 19, 2012 at 9:52 AM
No shame, no brains, and no morals.
MLK’s corpse must be spinning in his grave at around 10,000 RPM by now.
MelonCollie on December 19, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Why does Hot Air even provide direct links to this racist garbage? I refuse to give NYT more clicks/advertising revenue over incendiary writing like this.
blammm on December 19, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Would black South Carolinians vote for any Republican?
NYT sucks. Sorry for repeating the obvious.
22044 on December 19, 2012 at 9:54 AM
The ‘logic’ goes, a lot of blacks probably won’t support this black man, thus Republicans are racist for supporting this .
They actually slurred this black man while in the same breadth called us racist.
But the media is controlled by The Party, so until we fight the media we’ll continue to be destroyed until our own children are all taught we were the racist and deserved the sliming by The Party.
The media is the root of our problems.
Fight, take over and replace.
GardenGnome on December 19, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Yet white South Carolinians likely will be drawn to him. Isn’t that the true sign of progress? That people who don’t look like Tim Scott will gladly send him to Congress(again) and entrust him with making decisions that will directly impact their lives?
Doughboy on December 19, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Being authentic is to be pro-union, pro-abortion, and pro-tax.
mwbri on December 19, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Good grief! The NY Times is already so full of crap that it doesn’t even make a decent birdcage liner.
Naturally Curly on December 19, 2012 at 9:56 AM
This is so over the top that it is scary even for the the NYT…
d1carter on December 19, 2012 at 9:57 AM
If you must link to Adolph’s racist screed, please use the print-only version so as to at least avoid filling the NYT dwindling coffers with ad revenue:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/opinion/the-puzzle-of-black-republicans.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print
SoRight on December 19, 2012 at 9:59 AM
a black facebook friend posted it a couple of days ago saying the GOP finally has its token black Senator. IDK why I expected anything else.
Donald Draper on December 19, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Equality and diversity to liberals means falling into lock step with their ideology.
gwelf on December 19, 2012 at 10:00 AM
It never changes: The Dems can not argue against the general Tea Party message, so they smear them, millions of people they’ve never met, as racists. Sick.
This dishonest, angry approach to politics is why I eventually gave up on being a Lefty years ago. It disgusted me then, and disgusts me now.
visions on December 19, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Fitting story from a guy named Adolf.
cw10036 on December 19, 2012 at 10:01 AM
It’s actually very sad. How do you even counter this type of BS?
MoreLiberty on December 19, 2012 at 10:02 AM
NYT – keeping the Democrat voters on the plantation.
gwelf on December 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM
The biggest racists of modern politics are Progressive liberals as found in the current makeup of the Democrat party and various areas in media. You have a black man from South Carolina taking the seat of a former Democrat segregationist, but the Left’s racism-fog is so thick they can’t see anything but their own hateful hands in front of their own hateful faces.
By the way, on a side note, this is also why we can never have a “National Disccussion” (TM) on guns. How can we trust a side who calls black men and women in the GOP “tokens”?
Weight of Glory on December 19, 2012 at 10:05 AM
The progressive thought process is a wonder to behold.
Conservatives are racist for not being inclusive when it comes to minorities, but they’re also racist when they are inclusive of minorities.
antipc on December 19, 2012 at 10:06 AM
The dems got it covered both ways. Minority republicans in power is tokenism and the white republicans are evidence of racism.
mwbri on December 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM
I told him that the GOP currently has one more black Senator than the Dems. Then he challenged that post-reconstruction Dems had the edge, and I pointed it out it was a measly 3-2 “advantage”.
I told him that if one just listen to Scott’s townhalls you could see he is an articulate defender of conservatism and anything but a token.
He then fell back to the whole, “you know Republicans need to diversify the party” routine. So basically, if we elect minorities, they are tokens, and if we don’t, we’re racists.
Donald Draper on December 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM
This is another reason why I truly despise leftists.
Oh, and the NYT. I pass their building quite often. Wretched sh1thole
blatantblue on December 19, 2012 at 10:09 AM
The NYT Times comment section is a mess. A few conservatives get in some comments, but sometimes it is hours after the original comment they are responding to.
This is totally “worthy” of goofing on, but I do not see any twitter account for Adolph.
mwbri on December 19, 2012 at 10:11 AM
What an idiot. Tim Scott was backed by tea-party groups. Allen West was backed by tea-party groups. Nikki Haley won due to tea-party groups. Marco Rubio won due to tea-party groups. Ted Cruz, the same thing. Raul Labrador, same thing. Mia Love nearly won, she was back by tea-partiers. All these minority long-shots have won due to tea-party support.
topdawg on December 19, 2012 at 10:12 AM
a black facebook friend posted it a couple of days ago saying the GOP finally has its token black Senator. IDK why I expected anything else.
Donald Draper on December 19, 2012 at 9:59 AM
You should respond, “And white liberals have their token half-black president.”
NebCon on December 19, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Progs really do hate it when blacks escape their plantation.
Dusty on December 19, 2012 at 10:17 AM
What is happening is a full scale demonization of anything that doesn’t support the Party. Democrats can say the most vile things imaginable but until we fight, take over and replace the media MOST Americans won’t even hear us. They just default to the lefty hate messages.
Even pointing out all the racism and hate inherent to the left doesn’t get heard because they control the media.
The media is the root of our problems.
GardenGnome on December 19, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Of course, the NYT got a black progressive to trash Tim Scott, the Tea Party and Southern voters.
Adolph L. Reed, Jr. is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American politics. He has taught at Yale, Northwestern and the New School for Social Research. An expert on racial and economic inequality, he is a founder of the Labor Party and a frequent contributor to The Progressive and The Nation.
Cody1991 on December 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM
The NYT simply does not have the intellectual capacity to comprehend a conservative minority.
It does not fit their stereotypes. Bigots. All of them at NYT.
Jabberwock on December 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM
You know what? This article, along with the racist screeds of Charles Blow, convinces me that the NYT is the epicenter of the 21 century expression of racism; telling blacks that they must “vote” a certain way in order to be a legitimate black man or woman. That’s no different than the KKK going after whites, who support blacks, as traitors to their race. The NYT is filled with racists who’ve traded white hoods made of cloth for hoods made of editorials. Instead of burning crosses the NYTs burns aspirations and beliefs that are contrary to their own. In stead of fire hoses, the NYT sprays intimidating words of “inauthenticity” and “tokens” in order to keep black men and women in line, voting democrat. If the NYT allows white people to vote both republican and democrat while still being white, then why wont they allow the same for black men and women? Does the NYT think black men and women are less of a person than whites? Why does the NYT allow independent thinking for whites but not blacks. Why does the NYT only allow blacks to drink from the black water fountain of thought and not the white water fountain?
Weight of Glory on December 19, 2012 at 10:26 AM
People like Tim Scott represent an existential threat to black peer pressure complex that keeps 95% voting for Democrats. Guys like Scott scare the hell out of them.
The Count on December 19, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Heh. No matter how you slice it, any black person who does not faithfully lick the boots of their Democratic “massuhs” gets labeled as an Uncle Tom by the left.
UltimateBob on December 19, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Not really whistling past the graveyard, because they have all the momentum right now, it’s more like Narrative Maintenance.
It goes to the idea that many blacks are socially conservative and if the “racist conservatives” mud starts to slough, it’s possible to see a break to at least black conservatives. Even if it’s not that likely, the press still need to hedge against any momentum in this direction. That’s what providing a 24/7 narrative is all about.
So, somebody has to do the job of explaining how despite supporting a fairly dark black man, the right is still pretty racist. It’s kind of odd that the Tea Party popularity of a black man like Alan West as Congressman couldn’t support a black man in the Senate, but hey you have to pooh-pooh with what you have.
Axeman on December 19, 2012 at 10:28 AM
We need #MEDIACONTROLNOW
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Seriously though, if these turds want to limit our gun rights we need to demand mass media control themselves when it comes to this kind of slander/libel. Won’t happen but it would be fun to see them squirm.
jawkneemusic on December 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM
I suspect you will be proven wrong, you bloodyf*ckingracist.
Resist We Much on December 19, 2012 at 10:32 AM
I’d bet Adolph is a whitey.
This is a shot across the bows of any non-white who dares to defy the plantation owners. Again. Thomas, Alan West, Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Cain,Martinez, – all are race traitors in the Dem narrative.
Yawn.
CorporatePiggy on December 19, 2012 at 10:33 AM
“Token” = liberal dog whistle. Chrissy Matthews’ ears must be hurting this morning.
KS Rex on December 19, 2012 at 10:34 AM
The Left always chases after black Republicans as if they’re fugitive slaves.
Adolph Reed = Simon Legree.
steebo77 on December 19, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Classic. If racism was eliminated altogether, people like this guy would be out of a job.
That’s why they must keep it alive no matter what, most often by making false accusations of racism where it is not even an issue.
UltimateBob on December 19, 2012 at 10:35 AM
See my post @ 10:25
Cody1991 on December 19, 2012 at 10:35 AM
It’s damned cowardly to get a black guy to trash another black guy. In their world that can’t be racist. To them, it makes their view ‘authentic’.
But as we all know this isn’t about race. It’s about control and keeping their shabby coalition intact.
Cody1991 on December 19, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Adolph Reed = Racist
blink on December 19, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Well, in that case
Adolph Reed = Quimbo & Sambo
sans the repentance.
steebo77 on December 19, 2012 at 10:41 AM
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