Tigerhawk Talks Race, Crowds and WI

Protesters of Undetermined Race

Why come to think of it, those crowds DO look overwhelmingly white, don't they?  Funny, the Tea Party crowds were sliced and diced racially by the Bought and Paid For Media, but they haven't been able to bring themselves to draw such a fine distinction here.  Tigerhawk has. 

Leave It To The Brits To Get American Politics Right

The Economist tells us the wholesale flight of working class whites from the Democratic Party is not an issue of race.  Why can't our own media realize this?

Senator Webb On Race In America

Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today that contains a lot of sense--and also probably really, really pisses off his Dem friends (that's ok, he pissed Repubs off when he was one of us).  Key sentence here:

"Beyond our continuing obligation to assist those African-Americans still in need, government-directed diversity programs should end."

Go the distance Senator--end the programs---period.

Democratic Racism?

According to this nifty little story, black Americans support Barack Obama at a rate of 90%, even as the President's numbers nationwide have dipped to 46%.  Additionally, while the President's numbers remain stratospheric within the black community, the Democratic Party is having a very difficult time convincing black Democrats (but I repeat myself) to get excited about candidates who are not black Barack Obama. 

How is this not evidence of racism in the black community?  Why is this not ever asked of black voters in stories like this?

Henry Louis Gates Debunks Reparations

Beer summit participant and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates has a book coming out that skewers the notion of reparations begin paid to modern day blacks as recompense for the evils of slavery. Why? According to Gates (quoting other historians), 90% of blacks sold into slavery were sold by other blacks in Africa. Whoops.

H/T Instapundit

Bill Clinton Has a Harry Reid Moment

Our first Black President is going to have some tough 'splainin' to do for remarks made to the late Senator Kennedy during a phone conversation seeking the Senator's endorsement during the rough and tumble Dem primary in 2008. Apparently, Bill Clinton told the Senator that "...a few years ago, this guy would be getting us coffee...", which so incensed the Senator that he went on to make the Obama endorsement.

Now of course, these remarks had NOTHING TO DO with the fact that the would-be President Obama had virtually NO EXPERIENCE doing anything Presidential (or worthwhile for that matter). They had nothing to do with drawing a comparison between Bill's wife (generally thought to be well-prepared to be President) and the youthful, inexperienced Obama. No--how silly of you to think that. They are of course, racist remarks, and that's the way they'll be treated.

H/T The Daily Caller

UPDATE: Looks like Mark Steyn beat me to the "First Black President" reference.

Harry Reid and the "...light skinned ..." African American with "....no Negro dialect..."

Ah, sweet irony, sweet beautiful irony. I love watching Harry Reid squirm at the inconvenience of his Trent Lott-like comments....and in the ridiculous way that he's sucking up to the President and unidentified "civil rights leaders" and African American Members of Congress...

But wait....from the article, here's what Joe Biden said on the campaign trail...."I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

And HE had to apologize for that.

The delicious part of all of this is, that while inarticulate and based on outdated language, both Reid and Biden WERE RIGHT. Barack Obama was acceptable to huge portions of the American public as a "gateway drug African American President" specifically BECAUSE he DID NOT represent the image of the modern African American experience that any one of us can watch on MTV. Aside from that, he also does not represent the image posed by some of the more colorful members of the Congressional Black Caucus. He's a well educated, well-spoken left of center Democrat who is married to the mother of his children. But the mere mention of these abidingly positive, abidingly American practices and values--brings up the specter of racism.


UPDATE: Michael Steele is wrong, and he still must go.

Oh No He Just Di'int!

I don't know how much exposure Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had to black women growing up, but this is one way to find yourself at the receiving end of a kick in the nuts...

Jesse Jackson On Being A Black Man

"You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man." There you have it. Being a black man isn't just a cultural, racial, and social thing. You must THINK a certain way. Hogwash.