Friday, March 01, 2019

The politics of anger, racism, and fear.

TWEET MEDown in Washington D.C. there is a modern day Klan rally going on. I think they call it the CPAC Convention. I say modern day Klan rally, because unlike the Klan rallies of old, there are actually some black folks down there cooning for the convention goers entertainment. ( I see you Van Jones, Diamond and Silk, and Candace Owens.) At this rally the are  also cheering the death of past political leaders.

Anyway, these people down in Washington -who have been brought together by hate- will fit right in with the party of trump.

The following article is a must read if you want to understand what is going on in out current political climate.

The Field Negro education series continues.

"Is the president of the United States a racist? The short answer is yes, but the question itself actually misses the mark and is dangerously misdirected for those who want to redress the ongoing consequences of racism in America.

Since January, a number of national leaders have asserted that Trump is a racist. First, when asked on CBS’s 60 Minutes whether she believes President Trump is a racist, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded, “Yeah, no question.” More recently, Senator Sherrod Brown followed suit, telling Chuck Todd on Meet the Press that “We have a president who is racist.” Bernie Sanders has also forcefully said, “We now have a President of the United States who is a racist.”


These statements were met with surprise by white male reporters. During the 60 Minutes interview, Anderson Cooper immediately challenged Ocasio-Cortez by asking, “How can you say that?” Chuck Todd, host of one of the most important television political platforms in the country, quickly cut off Brown with the rejoinder, “Let me pause you there. You believe in his heart, he’s a racist?”

Since that specific question is in the national conversation, we should give it a clear answer: Yes, Donald Trump is racist. My colleagues at Democracy in Color have catalogued 242 separate actions, statements, or policies from the first 18 months of the administration. Both Vox and The New York Times recently provided historical summaries of Trump’s racism going back decades.

While it’s important and a good sign that some of our nation’s leaders, and media, are coming forward to call out Trump as a racist, focusing on that narrow question is problematic and could be counterproductive in many ways to the larger goals of ending inequality and injustice in America.
First, it diverts attention from the manifestations of racism that are most destructive. The emphasis on one individual’s personal views, actions, or statements misses the point, if the goal is to dismantle racism. Martin Luther King clarified the distinction in 1963 when he challenged the idea that legislation “has no great role to play in this period of social change because you’ve got to change the heart and you can’t change the heart through legislation. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me but it can keep him from lynching me.”

The problem in this country isn’t the backward views of individuals, even if one of those individuals occupies the Oval Office. What plagues this nation is a vast array of public policies and practices that perpetuate a status quo that is grossly unequal and unjust after centuries of explicit racialized economic exploitation that is maintained by widespread, contemporary implicit bias. It is those public policies and practices that are the problem and that need to be addressed.

Far more dangerous than Trump’s personal beliefs are his public actions to make America white again—his political efforts to consolidate the support of millions of individuals who fervently believe that white Americans are under siege from people of color, especially Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Muslims. At a recent Trump rally in El Paso, Texas, a Trump supporter articulated the public-policy priorities of far too many Americans when he said, “Build the wall, deport them all.”

Which leads to the second shortcoming of focusing on what’s in Trump’s heart—a diversion of energy and efforts from the immediate and most important challenges before us. The solution to a racist individual in the White House is to remove that individual (which absolutely has to happen). But our country’s problem is bigger than that. Much bigger. In order to transform this status quo, we need sophisticated electoral and social change strategies that are executed with a narrow focus and pinpoint precision.

In light of the significant opposition to increasing racial diversity and enthusiasm for returning to the days when white was legally and unapologetically right, the moral and political imperative of this moment is to build a larger, more powerful, and more effective movement than the one that propelled Trump to power and continues to cower most of the Republican Party. Journalist Ron Brownstein, one of the clearest analysts of this situation, describes what is happening right now as a struggle between the Coalition of of Restoration versus the Coalition of Transformation. Fortunately, there are more people in the Coalition of Transformation, what I call the New American Majority—people of color and progressive whites. The challenge is ensuring that those in the transformation coalition turn out to vote so that there are more voters in each upcoming election. Naming racism—especially systemic and structural racism—can in fact be an important and motivating signal to the multiracial base of the Democratic Party.

To maximize our prospects for victory, we should also work to attract moderate whites who are repulsed by Trump’s behavior but have managed to excuse and overlook what he is doing to the country. In order to attract those voters, a singular focus on what goes on in Trump’s heart rather than what comes out of his mouth and how those words represent the sentiments of a hateful and hostile movement of people would be a serious electoral mistake." [Article here]

39 comments:

dinthebeast said...

It is possible for a racist to enact legislation that helps minorities, like LBJ did.

Fergus is no LBJ.

What's in Fergus' narcissistic heart is a grandiose vision of himself that even if he weren't so deranged he could never begin to make real.

Everything else is secondary.

So, really, he's not as ridiculously racist as many of his followers for whom racial hatred is a burning presence in their every thought after years of being told that other races are responsible for the mess they perceive their lives to be in (instead of the billionaires-first policies enacted by the goddamn Republicans they are loyal to) and retribution is their main desire.

Fergus doesn't care about anything that much, with the possible exceptions of the kind of clout he thinks would impress his father or Roy Cohn, and the Russian mob.

Either way, there's a lot to repair when he goes.

And the first bill out of the most diverse house of representatives in history was a good first step.

It won't make it into law now, but it will be there, all ready to go for the incoming Democratic administration to take up without having to burn up any of the eighteen months of a favorable congress they'll have, so perhaps steps two and three can be considered, as this congress isn't remotely through yet.

In fact, it's just started.

-Doug in Oakland

Anonymous said...

Oh no! It's the "racist" card again.

Gambler2 ASKA White Woman said...

Anonymous said...

"Oh no! It's the "racist" card again."

9:31 PM

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Well there are quite a lot of racists out there. So playing the racist card is going to be a regular event at least until the racist in the White House and his gang of racist thugs in congress are no longer in office. Of course there will be additional opportunities for playing the race card when public servants in state and city governments behave as racists.

Paradoctor said...

I do not know what is in a man's heart. I'm not even sure if Trump has a heart. But I do know what Trump has said and done; so that is what I can judge; and the evidence is clear enough.

Anonymous said...

If only there were as many White Racists in the country as you commie idiots claim. Black Racists are in great abundance and that warms Granny Mudpole's heart. 80 IQ just won't do...

Anonymous said...

Worn out coal burner says...

"Well there are quite a lot of racists out there."

The whole world is populated by "racist". Thinking and acting in the interest of those that look like you is normal and every race does it except White people. When a minority of White people point this out they are denigrated, shunned and assaulted.

I find it to be incredible that less that 10% of the worlds population poises such a threat to all the other races. I guess White people really are at the top of all the worlds different people. You might say that we are supreme. LOL

anotherbozo said...

Trying to find "Trump's heart" would be what's called a fool's errand anyway. Smaller than his brain, I'd imagine.

Speaking of institutional racism, what was this "prison reform" thing all about? It came and went so quickly from the news cycle I didn't get it straight. Was it significant? I'm sure it didn't reverse prison privatization. Was it mainly to make Manafort more comfortable? Or were there any benefits for the poor and/or POC?

Anonymous said...

"The Field Negro disinformation series continues."

Anonymous said...

I'm black and attending CPAC, what is the big deal and how is it a "klan" rally???

mike from iowa said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
If only there were as many White Racists in the country as you commie idiots claim. Black Racists are in great abundance and that warms Granny Mudpole's heart. 80 IQ just won't do...

But, but the bwack wacists are only 13% of the population so you are not only a liar you are a fucking mow rawn imbecile. Does yer klan hood double as a dunce cap, dunce?

Anonymous said...

“Speaking of institutional racism, what was this ‘prison reform’ thing all about? It came and went so quickly from the news cycle I didn't get it straight. Was it significant?”

It mainly reduced mandatory minimum sentencing on some federal crimes. I would say it was significant — it is at least a move in the right direction — but not a huge change.

Van Jones was right to give the Republicans a little bit of credit for passing it, but I don’t see why he needed to go so far as attending CPAC to thank and praise them. You’d think the GOP had ended racism, poverty, and global warming from the way he is carrying on. But they’re still the same old evil bastard party.

Anonymous said...

Keep in mind that when Republicans sign on to criminal justice reform bills, they’re not always doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. Instead, the realization has hit that “tough on crime” policies have increased the prison population to the point it is resulting in higher taxes on rich people. When one of their dumb policies finally hits their rich donors in the pocketbook, that will finally get Republican politicians to reconsider their assumptions.

Anonymous said...

Whereas OUTSIDE of Clown World, Chicago has gone 1462 consecutive days where each one has had a shooting or a murder; the last day without either was 2/28/2015.

All thanks to blacks.

Gambler2 ASKA White Woman said...

Anonymous said...

Whereas OUTSIDE of Clown World, Chicago has gone 1462 consecutive days where each one has had a shooting or a murder; the last day without either was 2/28/2015.

All thanks to blacks.

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So you're saying that all of the murders and/or shootings in Chicago during those 1462 days were committed by Blacks? If so, post what ever data you have to support this claim and give your sources. Otherwise, you are just trying to baffle us with bull shit.

Paradoctor said...

A few centuries ago, Europe was a benighted shithole run by warlords, while Arabia was in a Golden Age. So though racists worship the bitch-goddess of Success, she does not worship them back. Success is not a racist; her bitchiness is that she's _fickle_.

Gambler2 ASKA White Woman said...

Anonymous said...

" Whereas OUTSIDE of Clown World, Chicago has gone 1462 consecutive days where each one has had a shooting or a murder; the last day without either was 2/28/2015.

All thanks to blacks."

12:34 PM

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Murders are down by one-hundred in Chicago in 1218 compared to 2017. If you read the article (from FOX News) that I have referenced below, you may gain some understanding of how loose gun laws and city neglect in some neighborhoods have contributed to violence in Chicago.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-shootings-put-spotlight-on-illinois-gun-laws

Anonymous said...

Sorry, Jussie, but we no longer give a shit.

Anonymous said...

Gun laws in Illinois have nothing to do with the violence in Chicago, its NIGGERs plain and simple.

Anonymous said...

80% of all homicides in the city of Chicago are committed by blacks.

mike from iowa said...

Wingnuts "git tough on crime"policies mirror their fiscal prerogatives- incarcerate the poors in poverty and free the richest from any constraints. Does not matter what a wingnut does, it is always the wealthy they keep closest to their hearts and our pocketbooks.

Why? Because they be stoopid fucking wasicu wastey racist bitches with shit fer brains.

Gambler2 ASKA White Woman said...

Anonymous said...

"Gun laws in Illinois have nothing to do with the violence in Chicago, its NIGGERs plain and simple."

2:25 PM

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Obviously you didn't read the article, not that I thought you would. It seems you and others who think like you immunize yourselves from the facts.

Gambler2 ASKA White Woman said...

Anonymous said...

Worn out coal burner says...

"Well there are quite a lot of racists out there."
Your response:
"I find it to be incredible that less that 10% of the worlds population poises such a threat to all the other races. I guess White people really are at the top of all the worlds different people. You might say that we are supreme. LOL"

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You've got it all wrong, Anonymous: White people are just more cruel and more devious than other people. White people are far from being supreme. LOL!

mike from iowa said...

The politics of anger, racism, and fear. The politics of stoopid fucking wasicu wastey wingnuts. Go for the lowest common denominator and the waste of white pol who is the most clewless.

Lt. Commander Johnson said...

Queenie, what in the world has President Trump done to offend you? Name it. You get it over with.

Now....once you start your crap, tell me WHY you are offended.

mike from iowa said...

Drumpf offends everyone. Some of you are too stoopid to realize this.

Anonymous said...

VERITAS:

https://heyjackass.com/

Anonymous said...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/belmont-cragin-shooting/

Anonymous said...

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-march-1-2-3-4/

Anonymous said...

All negroes:

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/09/22/englewood-shooting-three-injured/

Anonymous said...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/us/trump-black-supporters.html

field negro said...

"I'm black and attending CPAC, what is the big deal and how is it a "klan" rally???"

Might as well read: I am a cow, and I sit on the board of Burger King.

Anonymous said...

field negro said...
"I'm black and attending CPAC, what is the big deal and how is it a "klan" rally???"

Might as well read: I am a cow, and I sit on the board of Burger King.
7:37 AM


Proof Positive of the bully alt left and their hidden communist agenda.

Anonymous said...

I am a 9'11" Martian, to whom all Earthlings look alike, and I think that the black Trumpist, and the 6'3" Chinese-American, and the 6'2" Japanese-American, who have posted to this site, are all as fictitious as I am.

Anonymous said...

>> So you're saying that all of the murders and/or shootings in Chicago during those 1462 days were committed by Blacks?

Strawman.  Blacks commit a great majority thereof.  Without blacks, there would be many days without shootings or homicides.

>> If so, post what ever data you have to support this claim and give your sources.

Apparently you don't know how to type "shooting victims in Chicago" into your search bar.

As of 8 days ago, the Chicago Tribune has these figures for homicide victims over the past 365 days:

Black, not hispanic:  321
White:  40
All other: 176

This page is a little old, dating back to 2016, but has this to say:  "The data on offenders also tells a troubling story: Young, Black males are overwhelmingly committing most of the murders."  That would be 122 out of 171 offenders identified, or 71.3%.  Whites accounted for just 6 offenders, less than 1/20 as many from a larger population.

Last year Chicago had 2962 shot but only 495 fatally, for a fatality rate of about 1/6 (thank the trauma surgeons for that).  With 2962 shot every year (and another 94 non-shooting homicides) it is no wonder that Chicago has gone more than 4 years with at least one shooting or homicide every day.

All of that is irrefutable truth, easily found by anyone who bothers to look.  But if you can't handle the truth... well, there's no help for you.  The only thing you can do is label the truth-tellers "racist".

Do I really need to point out that calling people "racist" does nothing to deal with the cause of the problem?  You should drop that word from your vocabulary.  You won't, but you should.

>> A few centuries ago, Europe was a benighted shithole run by warlords, while Arabia was in a Golden Age.

A few centuries ago, Arabia and the Maghreb were taking both African and European slaves at a rate which dwarfed all the traffic to the New World.  More Europeans were enslaved by Arabs than Africans were transported to N. America.  The Arabian "golden age" was LITERALLY built on slavery, as Europeans were often literate and could do intellectual labor.  Black African slaves from the Atlantic coast were universally illiterate.

Paradoctor said...

Who are anonymoid hate trolls trying to convince?
Themselves.
Of what?
That they are not trolls.
Do they succeed?
As well as they succeed at anything else.

Anonymous said...

Court report: Black man gets two 10-year prison terms for robbing Loop store and beating victim for a coat:

www.cwbchicago.com/2019/03/court-report-man-gets-two-10-year.html


Anonymous said...

Fresh off a 30-year prison sentence, career negroe felon accused of violent armed robbery near Andersonville:


http://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/fresh-off-30-year-prison-sentence-mans.html


Lt. Commander Johnson said...

Speaking of trolls:

I ask Queenie a question..which is replied to, by some slut, the question never answered, by some supposed corn and hog boy from Iowa, no sooner than I asked Queenie the question.

Who is the troll? Corn boy, or Queenie?

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