September 16, 2009 at 3:59pm
At a family backyard gathering in one of the city's more upscale neighborhoods, there was a conversation about the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that opened on the corner of University Avenue and Culver Road.
One middle-aged white man said to another that he didn't mind the new KFC, but he was concerned about the "demographics" a place like that will bring to "this side of town."
Former President Jimmy Carter is coming under fire for comments he made about the tone of the resistance to some of President Obama's policies. Carter says racism is still alive and well in America, and Obama is a target of it.
He's right on both points.
Carter's concerns have caused a firestorm of protests among the cable talk show hosts. The left, they say, has stooped to playing the race card. Bush, they argue, is still being called a liar, among other things. So, Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during Obama's speech shouldn't be overblown, and didn't stem from racism.
But people of almost any minority group will tell you that discrimination is multilayered. Take, for example, the intricate coded speech.
It may go unchallenged, but it doesn't go unnoticed; we all know what a word like "demographics" can mean.
Obama is a target. Since he was elected into office, the White House reports there has been a 400-percent increase in the number of physical threats against this president compared to his predecessors.
The Southern Poverty Law Center also reports a marked increase in the number of hate groups that have formed since Obama took office.
Conservatives argue that liberals are not getting the true meaning of the recent protests by people like the Tea Party members. It's Obama's policies they say they're rejecting; not Obama's race.
But it's hard to get that message when you see him depicted on signs and websites as a monkey or dressed as a tribesman, complete with feathers and bone necklaces.
It's reminiscent, on a smaller scale, of the county executive race when former city Mayor Bill Johnson was running against Maggie Brooks.
At a cocktail party in the suburbs, one young woman said there was no way "that" man would ever be elected county executive.
She never said that "black" man, but several of us filled in the blank.
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Rob said on Sep. 16, 2009 at 4:18pm
http://robparis.blogspot.com/2009/09/you-distract.html
Now Wilson must be aware that he was a bad boy. Rather than formally disapproving of Wilson, why not send him to the corner for 15 minutes to think about what he did. Wilson was obviously aware that the Democrats disapproved of what he said, and that the Republicans didn't. That's why the vote went along party lines. I don't see the point of formally disapproving. If the resolution was to make a point, then they should have made a point. Instead, Democrats chose to stick his nose in it and make him sleep in the backyard.
Brittanicus said on Sep. 16, 2009 at 8:04pm
As usual the opponents of any kind of restriction on the illegal immigration, is playing the race card? It's a forgone conclusion that the benefactors of promoting a mass invasion of our shores, such as religious groups, unions, ACLU, radical ethnic caucuses and even our own US Chamber of Commerce, will mouth epithets that doesn't benefit big business, that doesn't advocate a continuous force of illegal cheap labor. Now they are really livid because their objection to E-Verify was thrown out of court. Now all federal contractors and subcontractors must adhere to the law. They have conspired against the American worker and people for too long, and now we are fighting back ourselves against corrupt politicians and other elected officials nationwide,
Rep.Joe Wilson was actually telling the truth at the time, and now Democrats have placed restrictive language in the Health care reform package as a reluctant afterthought by public demand. This was nothing to do about bigotry or racism, but the American workers and family survival. None of the business community who hire them wants their labor, but forces the taxpayer to carry the financial load. The US labor force should not have to be in competition, with people from other countries. Businesses have already offshore American jobs, because it's cheaper? So every illegal foreign national and family member should be exempt from government run health care, jobs and all the billions of taxpayer dollars secretly allocated to pay for their support. Twenty million plus illegal people compromised themselves, when they entered a sovereign nation without permission. Find out the truth at NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH and contact your politician at 202-224-3121 demanding no weakening conditions to E-Verify or any other law authored by Congress.
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