Racism For Thee, But Not For Me: The Sherrod Family Bigots
Posted by Melissa Clouthier on Jul 26 2010 Filed under Featured, Media Bias, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
Now that the mainstream media has firmly established that all white people are racist, and Andrew Breitbart, in particular is racist, I’m wondering why their poster-girl for subjugation has been whisked out of the limelight? I mean, the woman has a story to tell and she should be telling it far and wide as a cautionary tale and to change the culture to being more accepting, tolerant and open. You know, to follow her excellent example of growth and personal development.Maybe the reason she’s not around is because every time she opens her mouth, she reveals herself to be an unevolved bigot herself. And evidently, she’s not alone in her worldview.
Dan Riehl prevents a damning video of Sherrod’s husband Charles. Dan has a “conversation” with Salon editor Joan Walsh, whose dimwittedness was on full display this weekend on CNN’s reliable sources.
From Dan’s research:
Charles Sherrod: “We must stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections.”Gee, Joan, can you tell me what’s so heroic about telling a room full of young black minds not even out in the world, yet – that if they ever embrace political, or socio-economic ideas that don’t jibe with your hero’s, the one elevated in a room before them, that they will be denounced as race-traitors? That is what Uncle Tom means, after all. What REALLY is heroic in that? It looks to me like what your hero does is build up their black identity to an extreme, then sends them a message that, if they don’t vote, or act the way he wants them to, he and his community make them outcasts, stripping that very identity from them as traitors to their race. Is that the message heroic Civil Rights leaders are passing on to young blacks today? It sounds like it to me, Joan.
Racism for thee, but not for me.
Consider for a moment Shirley Sherrod’s own words. Imagine, for example, if I or any other conservative white woman said, “It’s not about black or white, well it really is about blacks…”
It wouldn’t matter about context. It wouldn’t matter about capturing nuances.
But even in the Sherrod case, the more context that’s revealed, such as her whole speech, and then her family and associates and the environment, the worse the story gets. Not only did Shirley Sherrod view everything through the lens of race, her family does and continues to do so too.To pull a leftist favorite: Black bigotry is a systemic problem. It’s a cultural problem. And it needs to change.
And here’s my question for wobbly conservatives: Why aren’t you defending Andrew Breitbart here?
If your answer is public relations and the MSM is skewering us and this is a losing battle, I question your commitment to bettering America. The subject of race relations will never improve if we continue to hold one race to one set of politically correct standards and another race to another set of standards.
By definition, that’s racist.
Part of being American means being tolerant of other races, religions, creeds, etc. Does that mean that racism doesn’t exist? No. But it does mean that it’s a good thing that there’s social sanction against ultimately self-defeating behavior like seeing through the prism of race, alone.
Part of being conservative means judging someone as an individual and not seeing people as a group or collective. Part of being conservative means looking at a person’s character and actions, not his skin color or gender. Part of being conservative means having the courage to fight against falsehoods that misconstrue the argument and defend the indefensible.
Shirley Sherrod is nowhere to be seen these days because the more she talks, the more she reveals if not outright racism, but the bigotry that defines her worldview. It’s damaging to the liberal case casting Shirley Sherrod as the victim instead of as the woman who would use her power to help people of one race over another.
I suspect that the reason she was fired so quickly is because the Obama administration knew of her associations and actions and knew that those words were not an isolated incident but a way of life. The mainstream media, reliable as always, roared to her rescue.
Once again, the story is not at all what the MSM portrays. Conservatives need to have the courage to reveal the truth–even when it’s uncomfortable.
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