-Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods’ troubles - the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses - little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world’s greatest golfer.
Except in the black community.
When three white women were said to be romantically involved with Woods in addition to his blonde, Swedish wife, blogs, airwaves and barbershops started humming, and Woods’ already tenuous standing among many blacks took a beating.
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“The question everyone in America wants to ask you is, how many white women does one brother waaant?”
As one blogger, Robert Paul Reyes, wrote: “If Tiger Woods had cheated on his gorgeous white wife with black women, the golfing great’s accident would have been barely a blip in the blogosphere.”
Now if a white blogger had said that he or she was outraged that Tiger was sleeping with only white girls imagine the outrage.
Members and officials of a private swimming pool in a Philadelphia suburb reacted to a visiting group of minority children by asking them not to return and pulling other kids out of the water, according to a day camp director who said Thursday that parents are considering legal action against the pool.
The pool claims the kids were unruly and the pool was noisy and crowded, prompting them to cancel their contract.
The other issue, of course, is the recent arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr for disorderly conduct in Cambridge. In that situation, Gates was seen breaking into his own house, prompting a neighbor to call the police.
In both cases the immediate response and accusation was the same: Racism. The kids were mostly minority, so of course the swim club was a snooty all white club getting rid of the low lifes. And Gates, instead of thanking the officer for checking up on the suspicious entry, proceeded to loudly accuse him of racial profiling.
OK, not all. Just the idiots who insist on being idiots.
After the Tea Parties I was panned on a liberal blog because I suggested that the protests were effective in making people discuss the issue.
I was wrong. Conservatives were discussing and debating the issue while most liberals were trying to defer, distract, defend and deflect it.
I am used to that, so no big deal. But one of the commenters at that liberal blog decided that the real issue was once again the liberals number one excuse regarding anything you might dislike about Obama or his policies: Racism.
Janeane Garofalo went on Olbermann’s show and opened her pie hole with the same theory.
The tea parties were not about taxes, or spending. They were not about the constitution and abuse of power.
The existed only because conservatives hate blacks, particularly the one elected president, solely for being black.
It has become the liberal mantra. No matter what argument the conservatives make, its all about racism. Never before in the history of politics has race bating become such a finely tuned art.
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I will qualify this up front that Obama himself is not the race baiter, or the person dropping the race card, though he has played that game in the past.
The problem here is his supporters and other members of his party, including one member of his cabinet.
This is about three separate stories, all of which happened in a short period of time.
A New York Post cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police drew outrage Wednesday from civil rights leaders and elected officials who said it echoed racist stereotypes of blacks as monkeys.
The cartoon in Wednesday’s Post by Sean Delonas shows two police officers, one with a smoking gun, standing over the body of a bullet-riddled chimp. The caption reads: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
The cartoon refers to a chimpanzee named Travis who was killed Monday by police in Stamford, Conn., after it mauled a friend of its owner.
As you may know, I am a fairly strong minded cynic when it comes to politics. I generally expect the worst of politicians and I am generally not disappointed.
But sometimes even I read or hear something so outrageous I get surprised. Sometimes a politician says something that stuns me.
This is NOT one of those cases. This was just too typical.
REICH: …”I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers…I have nothing against white male construction workers, I’m just saying there are other people who have needs as well.”
I always say that context matters, so to keep this in perspective, this is the context:
The stimulus plan will create jobs repairing and upgrading the nation’s roads, bridges, ports, levees, water and sewage system, public-transit systems, electricity grid, and schools. And it will kick-start alternative, non-fossil based sources of energy (wind, solar, geothermal, and so on); new health-care information systems; and universal broadband Internet access.
To be clear, this is not pointed directly at Obama, nor even necessarily his campaign, though one instance does feature Biden.
This is more pointed to his hidden campaign team, the media, who have taken over his campaign’s early race baiting. He doesn’t have to do it any more, he has many willing accomplices.
First, USA Today has a piece on White Supremists, and inserts a slight twist:
In her October 21 article, “White supremacists target middle America,” USA Today’s Marisol Bello took a look at how hate groups are trying to go more “mainstream” by ditching Nazi armbands, brown shirts and white sheets and going for a more “middle class” look. While there is merit in covering such a story, Bello and/or her editors unfortunately chose to color the piece in a way that reflected negatively on the GOP by featuring with the article the photo shown at right with this caption:
Derek Black, left, gets help from his father, Don, on his Internet radio show Sunday in Lake Worth Fla. Don Black is a former Ku Klux Klan leader, and Derek holds a seat on the Palm Beach County, Fla., GOP committee.
The presidential race this year has brought out polling as never before, and the numbers are all over the board.
It brings back to mind the Governors race in California a few years back where Contender Bradley was leading in the polls, then lost the election anyway. This resulted in the creation of “The Bradley Effect”.
It suggests, in essence, that in a racially divided contest, that when white voters are polled they will claim to vote for the minority candidate so as to not appear racist.
It is hardly out of the realm of possibility, as many people use the stigma of racism to influence anything they can. The Obama campaign and supporters have dropped the race card every chance they can, including this recent attempt by Joe Biden (via Sister Toldjah) and the popular perception has already been put forward that if Obama loses, race is the reason.
With an African-American running for president this year, there has been a lot of chatter about the “Bradley effect,” allowing the media to wail about institutional racism in America.
I don’t have to replay all the past drops by the Obama campaign and all the other various uses. Prime examples are as in the recent events file.
One was when Palin took the gloves off and attacked Obama over his association to unrepentant domestic terrorist, William Ayers.
As this RNC faq sheet shows, he did have a close association, and Ayers has never recanted his terrorism.
And almost immediately, the race card was dropped on her. Not by Obama, ironically, but by the Associated Press1:
Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge
By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.
And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.
If you connect the dots between racism, sexism and democrats you end up with one word:
Hijacked.
In both cases we had serious social issues. We had serious social revolution. We had real change and social enlightenment.
And we ended up with both issues being hijacked by the democrat party for political gain, with many of the advances and changes being lost in the betrayal.
In both cases equality and empowerment were traded for victim hood and entitlement.
I am no social expert on either topic. But I can speak to change because I have seen change.
I have seen peoples attitudes shift and their determination to be fair and to ignore race and sex.
But I have also seen opportunists. People who stir the flames of distrust to gain power and prestige.
I have seen racism and sexism offered as default explanations to imaginary problems.
I have seen white males herded into an atavistic corner, and told they are racists and sexists and that they can never change because of institutional discrimination and white male privilege.
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