RNC STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATS’ CHARGES OF RACISM
Categories: Featured, Politics and Elections
Written By: Shawn Williams
Makes it a lot easier when a Black man delivers this message isn’t it.
From The (News) Wire
WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement today:
“President Carter is flat out wrong. This isn’t about race. It is about policy.
“This is a pathetic distraction by Democrats to shift attention away from the president’s wildly unpopular government-run health care plan that the American people simply oppose. Injecting race into the debate over critical issues facing American families doesn’t create jobs, reform our health care system or reduce the growing deficit. It only divides Americans rather than uniting us to find solutions to challenges facing our nation.
“Characterizing Americans’ disapproval of President Obama’s policies as being based on race is an outrage and a troubling sign about the lengths Democrats will go to disparage all who disagree with them. Playing the race card shows that Democrats are willing to deal from the bottom of the deck. Our political system has no place for this type of rhetoric.
“As the leader of the Democratic Party President Obama should flatly reject efforts by those in his Party, including Jimmy Carter and Tim Kaine, to inject race into our civil discourse in ways that divide, not unite, Americans.”
September 16th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Not everyone who opposes President Obama is a racist, naturally. But then few people I know who dislike or hate Obama are completely unaware how, to any extent, the sub-text is increasingly becoming racial. Many of the people I know currently BEING racist are not actually ‘racists’ but rather, people whose worst unresolved deep-rooted demons had no prior hatch from which to escape. They had no prior echo chamber for their words to reverberate and boomerang. With President Obama’s election, they do.
A tangent case in point~~~A friend the other day when I mentioned a great house for sale CHEAP near my home. She’s looking for a house but explained she felt ‘safer’ where she is despite her area having several times the violent crime rate of mine. The difference? Her area is predominantly white upwardly mobile with some Hispanic segments whereas mine is heavily Hispanic and about 20-30% black and 20% white. Yet her immediate area has currently 1) rapist on the prowl 2) shootings in corner ‘upscale’ strip center 3) car break-ins so many that my friend no longer locks her car anymore. “It’s easier than replacing another window” she says. Meanwhile I have no garage and for 26 yrs. parked in my drive near the street w/o a single break-in.
At least with her, it’s all about subliminal racism. Not mean-spirited and overt as Rush’s re-packaged transparent slurs.
PS: As someone who lived near Plains, Ga. during the President Carter years and knows that turf: Say what you will about Jimmy Carter. He comes from a world that once defined racism. So he is better capable of recognizing it when he sees or hears it than we.
September 16th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Don’t you think Jimmy Carter having come from that area would then be more likely to think that it was occuring? I grew up in a small town in Missouri, we had 1 girl in my school who was black. I didn’t even think racism existed until I moved to the city.
Then I moved here and felt the tension I had never felt with some people I worked with, they didn’t like me or trust me because I was white. It was a strange wake up call.
I watched the news today and it was pretty sickening. Just the constant barrage of racial stories, but really they are not racial stories… they are just stories.
With Rick Sanchez on CNN just screaming “Joe Wilson has racist ties…” over and over, when they actually play the story turns out some guy that is in a group that he is in, has ties to a racist group. Does that mean if the lady at my gym is a breast cancer survivor that I am a breast cancer survivor?
fyi not a Joe Wilson fan, I just like to keep our reporters ….. reporting.
On the flip side of that coin we have to suffer through Glenn Beck and all his rants about Obama being a racist, if you click over to Fox. Okay Sean, I am pretty sure you don’t click over to fox much… I do for laughs. Sometimes I feel like there are people out there that are intentionally trying to pit one side against the other.
You know I am not into a Federal Health Care plan, I never will be, but that doesn’t mean I am a racist. I feel like if anything it’s quite the opposite. Because I honestly believe that government is the worst spender of money, and the farther that money goes from the people it’s supposed to help the less help it actually accomplishes, and knowing that no govt program can stay on budget and most govt programs have the opposite effect then they were trying to accomplish, I fear for our debt which just continues to climb and our interest payments will crush our economy.
But you know what? compared to the trillion a year we spend on foreign policy….. I would take health care if we would just bring out troops home.
side note: Eddie Bernice Johnson Cosponsored HR1207 yesterday!! Good job Eddie B and thanks!
September 17th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Shawn, could you change “Sean” to “Shawn” in my last post.
My brother spells his name Shawn, I don’t know why I messed that up.
Apologies.