The New Liberal Racism

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By E.W. Jackson Sr. 

Last week we witnessed repeated efforts by Democrats to polarize the country along racial lines. Eric Holder, speaking at Al Sharpton's conference, implied that he and the President are being treated harshly because they are black. Then Nancy Pelosi claimed that Republicans are refusing to support an immigration bill because they don't like Hispanics. She actually said, "I've heard them [Republicans] say to the Irish, if this were just you, it would be easy." The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair, Rep. Steve Israel, was asked on CNN whether his Republican colleagues are racist. He answered, "Not all of them, no…But to a significant extent the Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism, and that's unfortunate."

This is more than election year politics. It is worse than a crass attempt to manipulate black voters with fear of Republicans. It is the insidious new racism of liberal elites who masquerade as champions of racial justice. The old racism is obvious and unacceptable. However, the new liberal racism is camouflaged as a cure when it is in fact a far more deadly strain of the disease. It is time to expose and denounce it.

The Republican base that Steve Israel says is animated by racism, nominated me -- an American of African descent and a great grandson of slaves -- for Lt. Governor of Virginia. They embraced me warmly, treated me respectfully and supported me enthusiastically. The liberal media on the other hand set out to destroy me. My white Democrat opponent was even caught on camera refusing to shake my hand. The new racism is very different in style from the old, but the same in substance. The old racists liked blacks who knew their place and stayed in it. The new racists behave exactly the same, but define our “place” as the Democrat liberal camp.

When I won the Republican nomination for Lt. Governor of Virginia, the Washington Post and the Richmond Times Dispatch dedicated themselves to discrediting me. As a child, I lived in a foster home which had no indoor bathroom. Liberal reporters said that since they could not prove there was no indoor bathroom, I must have lied. I served as a Chaplain for the Boston Red Sox, but they said I must have made up that story because nearly twenty-five years later the Red Sox had no record of it. The press was not interested in Benghazi or the IRS scandal, but they combed through the minutiae of my life looking for something to diminish my achievements.

Today’s liberal elites are the new virulent racists. When you agree with them, they honor you as an African-American. When you contradict their orthodoxy, they abuse you like a dog. Even liberal Juan Williams felt their wrath when he went off message.

Yet, neither Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, nor the liberal elites who prop them up represent the true values of the black community. Most black folks oppose abortion, support traditional marriage and favor school choice. Black leaders ignore these facts and dance to the tune of their liberal benefactors. My convictions come from my proud black father who took me out of foster care, raised me as a single Dad and never took a dime of government assistance.  They come from my church upbringing which taught me to trust God, not government. Black conservatives want to break the cycle of poverty in the black community, not use it to perpetuate the grievance industry. Who are the real sell-outs? Who are the real racists?"

After seventy percent of black voters supported California’s Proposition 8, defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman, they were called homophobes, bigots and ingrates. The black community’s support of Proposition 8 was characterized as a “betrayal” of those who claimed a right to their loyalty -- the liberal establishment.

One hundred and fifty years after slavery, a new generation now claims ownership of the thoughts and behavior of Americans of African descent. These ersatz masters believe they deserve absolute fealty. Slave owners usually think themselves beneficent, but those who thirst for freedom have a different perspective.

We have largely rid ourselves of the old racism. It is time to rid ourselves of the new form. The burden is on the liberal elites in the Democrat Party and the media to end the paternalism and condescension with which they treat the black community, and renounce the hateful attempts to destroy black conservatives. They need to stop pointing the finger of racism at others and take a hard look at themselves. They are not the racial conscience of the country, but the cause of racial regression.

I have been calling for unity across racial and cultural lines for decades, reminding audiences of the last line of our Pledge of Allegiance - "one nation under God invisible with liberty and justice for all." It is time for Democrat elites to stop dividing us and start bringing us together in fulfillment of that pledge.

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*E.W. Jackson is the former Republican Nominee for Lt. Governor of Virginia. He is a Marine Corps Veteran, graduate of Harvard Law School, President of STAND, Bishop of The Called Church and Senior Fellow of the Family Research Council.

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Congressional Black Caucus Member: Obama Disrespects Blacks

AP

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Madeleine Morgenstern

Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) accused President Barack Obama of ignoring and disrespecting black groups that were crucial to his winning re-election in November, including the Congressional Black Caucus, black newspapers and historically black colleges.

The 76-year-old lawmaker said the Congressional Black Caucus sent a number of qualified names to the White House as possible cabinet picks but was ignored. The Obama administration has been criticized, particularly in recent weeks, for a lack of diversity in key posts.

“The black caucus of Congress then sent 61 names to the White House,” Hastings told the National Newspaper Publishers Association last week. “Time went by. Not one of that 61 was selected – not one.”

Hastings said the Congressional Black Caucus also had to pressure the Obama campaign to advertise more with black newspapers. Of the $1 billion the campaign raised, just $1 million was spent on black newspapers — and that was up from the initial plan of $650,000, he said.

“If I was president of the United States, there is no way in hell that I would raise a billion dollars and don’t spend but a million dollars with people who probably had as much to do with my becoming president as anybody,” Hastings charged.

He accused Obama of not spending enough money on historically black colleges, and said it took nearly a year before he appointed a single historically black college graduate to his administration.

“It was nine months into the administration before he appointed a single person, not just at the cabinet level…none in his first nine months of his administration was from a historically black college,” Hastings said.

(h/t Weasel Zippers)

Farrakhan Unleashed: Obama Will Be Assassinated by ‘Hardcore Racists, Tea Party Zealots’ in His Second Term

FireWire from The Blaze/

I] According to the Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan:

• President Obama has had to endure hardships that no other white president has 
• Obama has been called a “racist, an anti-Semite, a socialist, a communist, a foreigner, an alien and they’ve even called him a terrorist”
• The president might as well “join” Islam, given the ridicule 
• If the President became a Muslim he “really would get something done”
• No one care’s about the experience of Republican presidential hopefuls because “they’re white”
• “To Hell with you” if you are a Republican — “If we want to vote for a brother because he is black, that’s our business”
• It is an honor to vote for “one of our own kind”

According to Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan:

• America is a part of a “Synagogue of Satan”
• Obama is the spokesperson for this “Synagogue of Satan” and does its bidding
• Obama was “really not in favor of the attack on Gaddafi”
• Colin Powell was “a black man in front of a policy to kill black people”
• Obama & Powell want a “pat on the back” from their “former slave-masters and their children”
• There are “bombs coming” America’s way that are self-inflicted, given the country’s foreign policy
• Serving in America’s military is “fighting for the enemy”
• America’s wars are “engineered by Zionists who love Israel more than America”
• Speech was given at the United Center in Chicago on February 23, 2012
• Part of ongoing Blaze/ GBTV Investigation into Farrakhan’s rhetoric & influence

III] According to the Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan:

• The southern ‘Red States’ are the same as the Confederate States in the Civil War;
• If you did not vote for Obama, “you didn‘t want a black man’ as president;
• “Climate for his assassination” is the same in the South now as it was when Lincoln was president;
• “Hardcore racists, the Tea Party zealots and the Republicans” are planning Obama’s assassination;
• Republicans “want a Muslim to kill President Obama” … and they “already have somebody in mind that they working on.”

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100 blacks beat white couple, media bury attack

WND/ By Joe Kovacs

There’s outrage in Norfolk, Va., today after a white couple was attacked by a group of dozens of black teenagers, and the local newspaper did not report on the incident for two weeks, despite the victims being employees of the paper.

Even today, the Virginian-Pilot did not cover the crime as news, but rather as an opinion piece by columnist Michelle Washington.

“Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim,” Washington wrote, describing the onslaught that began when Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami stopped at a red light while driving home from a show on a Saturday night. A crowd of at least 100 black young people was on the sidewalk at the time.

“Rostami locked her car door. Someone threw a rock at her window. Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower, and that’s when the beating began. …

“The victim’s friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. It happened four blocks from where they work, here at the Virginian-Pilot.”

Washington says neither suffered grave injuries, but both were out of work for a week. Forster’s torso ached from blows to his ribs, and he retained a thumb-sized bump on his head. Rostami reportedly fears to be alone in her home., while Forster wishes he’d stayed in the car.

The columnist admits the story has not, until today, appeared in the Virginian-Pilot.

“The responding officer coded the incident as a simple assault, despite their assertions that at least 30 people had participated in the attack,” Washington explains. “A reporter making routine checks of police reports would see ‘simple assault’ and, if the names were unfamiliar, would be unlikely to write about it. In this case, editors hesitated to assign a story about their own employees. Would it seem like the paper treated its employees differently from other crime victims?”

Washington says the day after the beatings, Forster searched Twitter for mention of the attack, and one post in particular chilled him.

“I feel for the white man who got beat up at the light,” wrote one person.

“I don’t,” wrote another, indicating laughter. “(do it for trayvon martin)”

Trayvon Martin, is the unarmed black teen, who died after being shot by a community-watch captain with white and Hispanic parents, George Zimmerman, in Sanford, Fla., sparking a wave of outrage long after the incident.

The newspaper is coming under heavy criticism today from residents in the greater Norfolk area, known as Hampton Roads.

“It is unbelievable that the Virginian-Pilot would BURY this story for two weeks for politically correct reasons. That is sad and disgusting,” said David Englert of Norfolk. “Someone should be fired or resign over the decision not to report this attack. It is a sad enough commentary on our society and community to read about how the responding police viewed this crime, but for our only newspaper to decide that they will hide from the truth rather than report the truth is PATHETIC! Any attack by a mob of people on any innocent victim should be put under a bright spotlight for all involved to be judged and exposed as appropriate, and to make sure that the criminal justice system does its job to protect those who obey the law.”

William Tabor of Chesapeake, Va., complained: “Surely the Pilot knew about it. A racially motivated attack is certainly news. Was it not politically correct enough to be reported? Is civilization suspended in Norfolk after dark? If we can’t rely on the police for protection, and our [news] media fails to warn us of such hazards, we can only rely on ourselves.”

Charles Chandler of Norfolk indicated: “I am not sure what I am angrier about. This story, or the crowd of black teens who needlessly and thoughtlessly beat two white victims. Or am I just angry that this still occurs in the year 2012. Nearly fifty years after the marches and the speeches and the declaration of civil liberties for all people. Clearly we are nowhere near the dream Dr. King envisioned. I am angry. I am angry at the calloused cop who stated “this is what they do”. I am angry at the Pilot for hiding it under a bushel.”

And Douglas Gaynor of Virginia Beach brought up the need for self-defense, saying, “If the young lady was armed and trained, she could have whipped out P345 and taken out a few thugs.”

A imagen y semejanza

Por Andrés Pascual

El caso Trayvon Martin ha durado más que suficiente en la prensa liberal: defensas, acusaciones, amenazas… sin embargo, hay un par de cosas que, como buenas rectas para un bateador de poca vista en el home plate, han pasado (pasan) por el medio y nadie le tira: la primera, todavía no se ha anunciado el arresto de los responsable del grupo terrorista Panteras Negras por instigar al asesinato (porque es igual de significativo por su supuesta intención que el tratamiento dado a la muerte de Trayvon) de George Zimmerman por medio de pasquines impresos pegados en cualquier lado y sin esconderse, ¿Cúando se producirá la o las detenciones pertinentes con las acusaciones normales ante casos como este? ¿Acaso la media filocomunista, Eric Holder, Obama y lo que le cuelga creen que todo el mundo se chupa el dedo aquí?

Lo otro, muy positivo para la sociedad, “el crimen de Sandford” logró lo que nadie pensó que podría suceder: para la televisión, la prensa y la Internet se acabaron el asesinato y el robo de cualquier cuantía por parte de los negros…

Desde hace varios días NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, UNIVISIÓN, TELEMUNDO, AMÉRICA-TEVÉ…no dan noticias de crónica roja, a no ser que un hispano “de piel ligeramente blanca de entre 6-6’3 de estatura violó a una mujer en un motel La Quinta en University Drive.

Ya no hay fotos ni videos de crímenes, porque resulta que, cuando muchos dijimos que “la televisión no miente” por la mayoría abrumadora que cometían los negros, que podían verse, pues la medida es, como en México o en el feudo de la tiranía castrocomunista, “desaparecer las pruebas, que lo que no se ve no se conoce” y así son los comunistas del mundo, los filo de aquí, el partido demócrata en su mayoría, Obama, su corte y sus “sponsors”.

Uno de los titulares con el que desvían la atención de la censura sobre lo criminal en la ciudad y con lo que también buscan pasar por estúpidos a la comunidad no negra de Miami, es: Obama critica fuertemente a Cuba (no a la tiranía, que es como deberían decir) en Cartagena, pero no hablan de la ayuda que le brinda para mantenerla allí a través de viajes, remesas, intercambios…no, eso también es motivo de censura porque no es “objetivo ni balanceado”.

El caso Guillén, también manoseado como escudo del objetivo del cual desvían la atención, todavía ni sugiere sostenidamente que el venezolano se haga otro harakiri, no como continuación de su defensa por lo que dijo, sino por la forma como lo defendió la tiranía en el Granma, que incluyó una sugerencia tan rara y peligrosa como “le ultrajaron la dignidad bajo coacción”, ¿Qué más saben el libelo y sus dueños sobre la relación Guillén-Castro para suponer que, al estilo de la autocrítica castro-estalinista, televisada en 1971, a que obligaron a Heberto Padilla, el tipo se arrepintió bajo amenazas? Hay una foto excelente del manager de los Marlins abrazado con su socio Maradona; además, le envió mil perdones al Titán de Bronce, entre algún que otro…

También está ahí, aunque no manejado como debe ser, la trampa (esto lo digo yo), que le tendieron a Obama en Colombia con los agentes del Servicio Secreto, que no tuvieron tacto como para controlar el instinto y la calentura sexual ante lo que, evidentemente, fue una carnada y mordieron el anzuelo. Porque estas indecencias y faltas de respeto son la marca registrada del partido demócrata, el califa debe tener cuidado porque, “a cualquiera se le muere un tío”.

“Venezuela no representa un peligro para Estados Unidos”, bueno, Venezuela no, es el chavismo el que lo representa. Con Obama ahí sobraba Ana Belén Montes o cualquier otro.

Norcorea le disparó un cohete de prueba de largo alcance en el hocico a Obama, y ¿Qué? Nada, a fin de cuentas, mientras más se contribuya a destruir el prestigio y la moral americana mejor, o ¿No es para eso que está este radical antiamericano en la Casi Blanca?

Como parte de la política de confrontación, de apoyo a la revancha y de destrucción de la nación americana, ya Zimmerman está preso y no existen negros que roben ni maten en Miami, tal vez ni en el país… ¡Manden dinero que estamos ganando!