who are you better than?

[angee_is_mad]

Interesting post about race and the tea party movement. Hat tip to WSY for the link:
http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=565866

<"You know when I was a little boy, there was an old negro farmer that lived down the road from us, named Monroe. He was ... (subtle laugh), I guess he was just a little more luckier than my daddy was. He bought himself a mule. [br />
It was a big deal in round that town. Now my daddy hated that mule. Cause, his friends were always kidding him about, "They saw Monroe out plowing with his new mule and Monroe is going to rent another field now he had a mule."

One morning that mule showed up dead. They poisoned the water. After that, there wasn't any mention about that mule around my daddy. It just never came up. One time we were driving down that road and we passed Monroe's place and we saw it was empty. He just packed up and left, I guess, he must of went up north or something.

I looked over at my daddy's face, I knew he done it. He saw that I knew. He was ashamed. I guess he was ashamed. He looked at me and said, "If you ain't better than a nigger son, who are you better than?"" - Agent Anderson, Mississippi Burning

And welcome to the Tea-hadist mindset. With Barack Obama in charge...who are you going to be better than?

And don't think some of us recognize the symptom because we are a pack of condescending know-it-all asshats. We are...but that has fuck-all to do with the observation.

It's just that we have seen this before. Up North...in our so-called "enlightened" neck of the woods.

Want to know the difference between North and South? Well, a man once told me that up North, it is OK to have a Black as your boss, but you will be damned if you will have one for a neighbor. Down South, it is OK to have a Black neighbor...but you will damned if you will have one as a boss.

So we went through all this Tea Party nonsense up North, about 20-30 years ago. And the reaction was just as vehement, inarticulate, and dumb as what is being spewed now. If you want to see hate and spittle, you should have seen how South Boston reacted to school integration.

But you would not have seen it 24/7 as you do today. It happened...but not in a perpetual echo chamber. And thank Christ for that.]

Please read the entire post for the poster's perspective on the tea party movement and north/south and racism.

[damntexdem]

1. "Good is better'n evil because it's nicer."

As Mammy Yokum said it -- and the Tea Parties are evil.

[angee_is_mad]

2. dayum tootin

pure evil and the msm continues to give them a pass and try to justify their actions.

[Kind of Blue]

3. Gem of an article.

Bottom-line, They are going crazy because there's a Black man in the White House. And so many say it's not about race.

Thank you, angee_is_mad!

KnR

[angee_is_mad]

4. You are welcome

I know dealing with race is uncomfortable for some people. Its easier to excuse or justify racist actions than it is to call a spade a spade.

[craigmatic]

5. it has to be race bush spent more money over things that really didn't benefit anyone.

he also started bailing out the banks with TARP. he also ended personal freedom by pushing wiretaps and the patriot act. All Obama has done is give people a chance to get health care and the teabaggers act as if the sky is falling. What's wrong with this picture?

[angee_is_mad]

6. welcome craigmatic

to DU. I know that and you know that, but if you listen to the msm its a whole different story.

[Kind of Blue]

7. Oh, you know, it's the Powers That Be using that

divide and conquer thing, it's "really" all about economics, power, greed and blah.blah.blah.

[political_Dem]

8. That article hits the nail on the head.

Teabaggers are going into convulsions because their "superiority" based on skin color is being attacked. Unfortunately, the need to reestablish "entitlement" becomes in their eyes a loud, violent and ugly struggle for "getting their country back". In this manner, fighting for one's "freedoms" has simply become a "battle cry" amongst the Teabaggers because they simply can't conquer change. Instead, their actions only reveal the futility of dealing with the American society of today and the future. Their "struggle" also lays bare their attitudes toward anyone that doesn't fit into their narrow world view.

And one has to be reminded that the Teabaggers are over-reacting to this "need for entitlement" after forty-six years! Not a century. Not two centuries. Not even four hundred years.

But nearly five decades!

The text goes into the core of the problem of why some whites can't simply say that everyone is "equal" now. The notion of "equality" goes a lot deeper than just the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There's a lot of stuff to work out that has been placed into the fabric of American life before and after Manifest Destiny. That's why the issue of race is more complex than "everyone being human beings" and people "not seeing color".

Thanks for the enlightening article. Everyone needs to read this.