I find it sad yet still amusing to see how the bigfoot Washington press corp tries to pussyfoot around the stunning outbreak of virulent open racism in our country. ‘Do you think maybe that these teabag people might harbor a little racial animus towards the president?”
Let me just say, ‘Fuck that.’ Here’s Limbaugh, prince of the GOP, with a lead-in by the racist Lou Dobbs of CNN.
If you think that isn’t race-baiting, then you’re hopeless. Maybe we all thought we were past this. After all, the country elected a black president. But the Republican Party isn’t past it at all, and they aren’t doing shit to stop this. Quite the contrary.
At least I can give this guy some props (h/t Kos) as he tries to talk reason to his tribe:
Look, I think it’s important to talk about black male violence, or at least as important as it is to talk about any other important social trend. I don’t think we should be squeamish about discussing it in a responsible and fair-minded way, despite what the politically correct say. But good grief, Limbaugh is up to something wicked. He’s plainly trying to rally white conservatives into thinking that now that we have a black president, blacks are rising up to attack white kids! Christ have mercy, what is wrong with these people?
I won’t have anything to do with it, not even tangentially, which is why I took down the post. I can’t see this as anything other than Limbaugh deliberately trying to whip up racial fear and loathing of the president. This goes far, far beyond tough criticism of Obama. Does that man Limbaugh have any idea what rough beast he’s calling forth? […]
It’s undeniably true that black males, as a group, are disproportionately responsible for violent crimes today (and blacks are disproportionately victims, too). This is important to talk about. This means something. I hate the kind of political correctness that demands we pretend not to see what we see. But as far as I’m concerned, if the Limbaughs of the world are going to be doing this kind of thing, and trying to blame, with no logical grounds whatsoever, a black president for black-on-white violence, and if they’re going to do this in an increasingly hysterical atmosphere of protest against that black president, I don’t want to talk about these things at all. Now is not the time. With this kind of inflammatory rhetoric, they are quite simply tearing the country apart.
You want to know who does a lot to help young black males stay out of trouble? ACORN… You morons.
