The New Dog Whistle agianst African Americans

[USArmyParatrooper]

Is anyone seeing a pattern here?

Barack Obama: Accused of being a "racist"
Michelle Obama: Accused of being a "racist"
Obama's pastor: Accused of being a "racist"
Jesse Jackson: Accused of being a "racist"
Al Sharpton: Accused of being a "racist"

Any prominent African American who represents the left is accused of being a "racist"

Most recently, Shirley Sherrod. What was that? Oh, yes. Accused of being a "racist."

What's the real underlying message here? It's the dog whistle that loudly says what they dare not say in plain English. They're BLACK. Be afraid! It's them against us.

[Matariki]

1. It's interesting, isn't it.

I saw a clip from fox news on Rachel Maddow's show of all the Fox ladies just gasping in outrage at Shirley Sherrod's 'racist remarks'. It was kind of funny really. Except that I think you are correct, it's a concerted and deliberate effort, which isn't funny at all.

[Bonobo]

2. It's also transparent psychological projection.

And evinces a deep inner fear of black people probably born out of anxiety about having to face up to justified anger.

[Hydra]

8. It's actually a more insidious form of projection

Republican Congresscritters do it all the time. Whatever they are doing, they blame it on their victims or the people trying to stop them.

It's disturbing how effective it is.

[Nay]

11. Funny how that is, Hydra. What's worse is that it is obviously such

an unconscious psychological thing that you can't ever get the projectors to realize they are projecting. It's almost like a gross blindness. Humans really are messed up.

[Hydra]

12. No, I feel sorry for the people doing honest projection

These people know what they are doing, and are sliming undeserving people with allegations of what they are actually doing.

It serves the dual purpose of pushing the victim off guard and forcing them to defend themselves against the accusation, and makes the accuser look spotless.

If we were being more truthful in our national dialogue, it would never fly.

[Nay]

17. Oh, I completely agree that the media types know exactly what they are

doing with the whole projection thing. They are consciously using a psychological tool to manipulate the people I am talking about.

[Booster]

3. And Anderson Cooper isn't helping any by constantly repeating

"the left does it too". LOL These people are so damn transparent it really isn't funny anymore.

[JI7]

4. yeah, but it's not that new

[meowomon]

5. You can't be a racist if you have no power

Historically and currently in the west, white men have the power.

[jah the baptist]

34. divide and conquer

make the poor fight each other

[Chulanowa]

6. Demonstrating and striving for the equality of nonwhites has ALWAYS been "racist"

It's the first card in the deck as far as racist plays are concerned.

[proteus_lives]

7. Yeah, that's pretty obvious.

I've never understood why people would be afraid of other people because of their skin color.

Afraid of zombies? I totally get that one.

[NOLALady]

31. It's BS.

They are not really afraid of black people. They are afraid that black people may succeed where they will fail. Thus proving they are not superior beings. The horror!!!

[SwampG8r]

35. i wont live next door to them

zombies i mean
wake up one morning with your brains all gnawed out
call me racist if you must but i will not live near fucking zombies!

[Number23]

9. Shoot, I'm starting to take all of this as a compliment

With everything that's going on in the world right now, with menace and sinister forces apparently lurking behind every corner, Fox News has decided that BLACK PEOPLE (including our wonderfully esteemed president) are now the greatest threat to America.

Who needs to worry about flood and famine or war and woe?? It's those brown people with the deep voices and kinky hair that will be our nation's downfall!! :crazy: :crazy:

P.S. There's nothing "new" about trying to label black people as racist. This kind of thing has been going on since the first slave revolt.

[USArmyParatrooper]

10. Maybe I just didn't see it before

I think after this latest "controversy" I started putting the pieces of the puzzle together and finally noticed a pattern.

[lunatica]

22. We've finally gotten a glimse of little evil man behind the curtain

Who's been running the whole show based on keeping his power through fear. This incident with Ms. Sherrod pulled that curtain back. They're busy pulling it to hide the facts again, but once we see their motives it isn't so hard to see the pattern. It's a real aha! moment.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Part of it is projection but I also believe there is a calculated motivation by the powers that be

to change the political frame from obvious growing class disparities to racial slants as a means to divide and conquer the American People.

Magnifying the people's emotions of fear and hatred to overrule their reason and wisdom.

Sometimes we fall into their trap when they lay the bait out.

The Republicans are happy to use anything to divide the American People race, religion/religion or religion/secular and regional animosities, the only open division they're afraid of is that of class because they lose big time under that equation.

So discussion of class disparity, outrageous CEO salary as compared to their workers, etc. is ignored altogether or obfuscated.

Thanks for the thread, USArmyParatrooper.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Exactly right.

Except that people who are ruled by fear and hatred tend not to have much wisdom or the ability to use reason.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Yes, but even less so when their emotions are aroused.

Even some rational people can behave stupidly when they're enraged or fearful.

[Karenina]

19. See: Generational Holocaust PTSD.

;-) :loveya: Unca Joe!

In Solidarität,

Tante K.

[Uncle Joe]

21. I feel the same way

about you, :loveya: Karenina!

Peace to you,:hi:

[w8liftinglady]

28. exactly-at the risk of repeating-the editorial in my paper

http://www.elliscountypress.com/news/126/ARTICLE/6832/2010-07-22.html

The NAACP

JIMMIE SIMMONS
July 22nd, 2010
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to me, is racist-sounding. As a personal example, in my younger days, I was a red-head having an abundance of freckles (with freckles remaining to this day). Now if someone had come along and suggested my starting a national organization for people like me, say, the National Organization for the Advancement of Red-Headed Freckled-Faced Boys (NAARHFFB), I would probably, not a little, be put off.

Actually, it offended me when people called me Red, Carrot Top, Red on the Head blah blah blah blah blah blah (XXX), Freckles, and so forth. My mother named me Jimmie Lee, not Red something or other, I would say, to no avail, of course.

A high school basketball upper-classman team-mate would occasionally refer to me as Red Bird which, for some reason, I didn’t mind. His being a few inches taller and a little bulkier than myself, of course, surely couldn’t have had any effect on my non-responses.

I can also visualize a cute little blonde, brunette, or red-head of those days cooing sweet nothings in my ear, prefixed or suffixed with any of the above mentioned derogatory slang references, as not bothering me in the least. Go figure…

Now, where was I going with this?

Oh yeah; the NAACP, during its recent national convention at St. Louis, in addition to hanging onto the every utterance of Michelle Obama, I’m sure, also found the time to denigrate, of all things, the Tea Party, or the Tea Party Movement, or a sign somebody once saw at a Tea Party gathering (which they interpreted as) denigrating Colored People in some way. Something like that.

In my numerous attendances to Tea Party events, I’ve seen lots of signs, most of them close to the genius category, most of them hitting the nail directly on the head. Those people are focused and cutting edge. Now it is possible, no, probable, that if some one or some larger number of liberal elected officials happened also to be Colored, the chances are very good that signs have been made and seen at Tea events not complimentary to those liberal Colored elected officials.

For every one-sign directed to Colored figures, you would see a hundred directed to Caucasian figures who also needed the friendly or not-so-friendly reminder of what We the People and our constitution expected.

The burr under the NAACP saddle, as I see it is they (NAACP people) think the Tea Party is all about Obama. Guilty conscience? Or, are Coloreds exempt from criticism?

Yes, it is about Obama, and George W before him, and about Slick Willy before him, and about George Herbert Walker Bush before him. Not about Reagan.

It’s about Peanut Carter, and about Watergate Nixon, certainly about LBJ and a little about John Kennedy.

Not much about Eisenhower, even Harry S. Truman, but a ton about FDR-style socialism and Hoover dumbism. Harding and Coolidge aren’t talked about very much at Tea events, but Woodrow Wilson, though he was in the kitchen for only the income tax, the Federal Reserve taking over for the U.S. Treasury and Congress, and World War I, is otherwise not mentioned.

So it goes. You know yours truly will bring up "Honest" Abe Lincoln at every opportunity as being the kingpin responsible for the troublesome mega government now seated in Washington, instead of little governments in all 57, er, 50 states, as envisioned by the founding fathers .

So it goes; yes, the Tea Party is not happy with Barack Hussein Obama; not at all! But neither is it all that happy about many other American presidents and elected officials; and we don’t mind saying so and going about trying to have most current ones replaced. In fact, we insist on saying so, irregardless of what the NAACP says or doesn’t say or think. We cannot help that Obama is half Caucasian, half Colored. Tea would be on him, regardless of his skin color, for his socialist and Marxist, big central government ways.

It would be nice if the NAACP looked on presidents and other elected officials, not for their skin color, but for their adherence to the constitutions of the states and nation. May Yahweh God bless through Yashua the Christ.

[mmonk]

32. That is how I see it as well.

Here's a snippet from my latest blog post (which I'll post here over the weekend:

Racism has been a tool for many governments throughout history for taking or holding power from the time of slavery, to the rise of fascism in Europe in the 20′s and 30′s up to today’s political tactics of the right in the United States. Since the Civil Rights Act was enacted by the Johnson administration, the Republicans under the Nixon administration developed what has come to be known as the Southern strategy to take advantage of white resentment. Since the age of Reagan and voo doo economics for the rich, multi-national corporations, and the military industrial complex, it has become worse. To vilify any of the people’s money going to the people for their benefit instead of everything for corporate interests, scapegoats have been needed. The have nots needed to be divided to vote against their interests and racism has provided the perfect weapon. And now that the Democrats elected Obama, the right has reached for old racist themes such as he is a socialist or Marxist (like they called Dr. Martin Luther King) though he has governed center to center right and the echoes of the racist “send them back to Africa” theme can be seen in the birther movement. The reappearance of dog whistles of the old south has opened the door for tools like Breitbart and he hasn’t disappointed. Add in the false race baiting stories generated by Fox “News” that has led to the destruction of ACORN, the bogus “New Black Panthers” story, the Van Jones firing, and now the firing of Shirley Sherrod, while dismantling the public square and attacking the themes of the 14th amendment. It has become way too obvious to deny or ignore. But Breitbart may have bitten off more than he can chew as Sherrod is contemplating whether or not to sue.

http://americancommentary.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/velvet-revolution-lawyer-sends-letter-to-maryland-ag-requesting-prosecution-of-breitbart-okeefe-and-giles-for-violating-marylands-privacy-laws/">Here

[GoCubsGo]

14. Yep, and the same thing is going on with "illegal immigration"

When the GOPers held the White House and both houses of Congress, we rarely heard a peep from them or their teabagging minions regarding undocumented workers. Now, all of a sudden, it's a HUGE issue. Never mind that fewer and fewer of them have been coming here, thanks to the poor economy. You never hear about that fact, but we've sure been hearing all of their flat-out lies about murders, beheadings, robberies, and other crimes. They want everyone to fear all brown-skinned people, regardless of the shade of brown.

[blondeatlast]

18. Indeed; I was abouty to write much the same.

I have lived in southern AZ and now reside in Phoenix and if I didn't understand the motives of the ReBPublican Party, I'd wonder what all the fuss was about.

[lunatica]

20. Using the term dog whistle is very apt

What sounds like utter idiocy to us actually means a great deal to those who it's aimed at.

We've been slow to pick up on this, because we haven't understood it. We keep trying to make sense out of why they do or act or say many things, scratching our heads in puzzlement, yet the answer has been staring us in the face.

I wonder, do they have as hard a time understanding us?

[HipChick]

23. Divide and Conquer is working well..

yep..people fall for it everytime...it diverts from the fact that the Republicans have no plan..no solution...I'd go further to say, they want a race/class war in this country..

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. pardon me... what is UP with that avatar?

Yes, I'm off topic, but what is up with that?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. The tail, obviously. -nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

27. no kidding.

So, a heavily sexist banner flown by a guy enlightening us on racism....


O! Irony!

[applegrove]

25. Yup.

[VMI Dem]

29. Are you a white person?

You think that's new?

:rofl:

[Scurrilous]

30. K & R

:thumbsup:

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Bravo

and Rachel Maddow explained it the other day with a bit of history to boot... as in going back to... the Republican Southern Strategy. (And further back)