A man in blackface in this brave new century would invoke the wrath of our culture writ large. When the tape of a blackfaced act originating in Australia was seen in the United States, the revulsion was immediate, calling to mind Al Jolson singing “Mammy” in blackface nearly a hundred years ago.
But what about seeing a black man in whiteface?
What about seeing a black President of the United States in whiteface?
And what if that insult emanated not from a meaningless talent show down under but from the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) official fundraising presentation.
What we have here, thanks to reporting in Politico, is a RNC Finance Chairperson Rob Bickhart rallying the faithful in a way that not only mocks Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as the cartoon characters Cruella DeVille and Scooby Do, but also presents President Barack Obama as “The Joker,” complete with white makeup and the garish red lips made famous by Jack Nicholson and the late Heath Ledger.
And here’s the kicker: under the whiteface Obama is one word: “Socialism.”
Is the image racist? I will leave it to the Tea Party and the Publicans to explain how a black President in whiteface is not a racist image. I would pay to hear that and then—socialistically and selfishly—I would send them the bill. They have had to make many such explanations over the first year of the Obama Presidency and this will surely not be the last. I would also ask them to explain Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri’s joke about “the monkey problem” in Washington during the Family Research Council’s 2009 Values Voter Summit.
As with said monkey, the apologists of the Right will say Obama in whiteface is a parody, that they’re poking fun, and perhaps that Joe Louis was a hell of a fighter. But there’s really nothing funny about it, is there? It’s a hateful, craven image meant to generate fear, a blatantly racist image that any sentient person would be ashamed of, were he or she to belong to a party that had any shame left.
There is practically no possibility of those in the RNC feeling “bad” about this. The lemming legions that adore this stuff are just as unlikely to feel “bad.” When slavery, Jim Crow segregation and discrimination are considered A OK, and ending them serious inconveniences, how or more correctly, what do we reach in these individuals. They have no moral sense of wrongness to appeal to or they are “evil” in a classical sense.
I have learned to accept this as a reality. Believe me, the law protects these legally defined humans who have no humanity, from those who recoil in disgust with the bigotry.
The only thing they respond to is something similar to Jack London’s law of club and fang. Yes there is some irony.
Gentlemen, your partisanship is showing again. You get all bent over Obama in joker face, but when a major national news outlet doctored the eyes of Dr. Rice to make her look menacing, total silence. Is this evidence that your racial sensitivities depend on the political affiliation of the subject?
Cheers,
Can we buy a hint Mr. Pat Sajak?
Nobody cares about obama errr barrys or edwards hurt feelings. my sympathies go to conmans and eds wives though. They married some of the most effeminate “humans” ever to wear work pants.
Crying Wolf
Hate Crime aka Hoax Crimes
Another Fake Hate Crime
by Jeff Davis
The phenomenon of so-called hate crimes fabricated by the alleged minority “victims” in the form of swastikas or the letters “KKK” scrawled on a door have become so common that it’s a wonder anyone takes these things seriously anymore. Many states have made scrawling racist graffiti on a house or burning a cross on the front lawn the equivalent of a death threat. Whites rarely do these sorts of things to the point that most of the reported incidents of this kind of behavior are actually political theater utilized by ant-Whites. An endless string of Mexicans, Blacks and Jewish extremists apparently miss the racist graffiti and feel a need to go out and do it themselves so they can have something to scream “racism” about.
The Los Angeles Times reports: “The UC San Diego student reportedly responsible for hanging a noose last week in a campus library issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist motivation. The noose’s discovery set off protests at a school that is already tense from recent racially charged episodes and triggered condemnations from UC leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. In a letter published Monday on the front page of the UC San Diego student newspaper, the Guardian, the student wrote that the incident was ‘a mindless act and stupid mistake’ and was not meant to recall the lynching of blacks.’As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by the recent issues on campus, I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain,’ the student wrote. She was suspended Friday and remains under investigation for a possible hate crime. The letter is signed ‘Anonymous UCSD Student’ and offers no clues about her identity or ethnicity.”
I wonder how she got caught if she sent an anonymous letter. They must have gone through video surveillance recordings and pulled out all the stops or else one of her friends ratted her out. How can she be charged with a hate crime against her own race? Now, that’s a new one even on me.
The article notes “The woman wrote that she and friends had been playing with the rope early last week, making a lasso and then a noose. She said that she took it to the library Tuesday, strung it above a desk and forgot about it. Its discovery Thursday night caused a firestorm on campus, where tensions were high after a Feb. 15 off-campus party that mocked Black History Month. A campus official declined to comment on the letter and said that university police (who apparently have no real crime on campus to contend with) continue to investigate the incident.”
So we are expected to believe that in the midst of a mighty uproar caused by alleged disrespect against Black History Month (which is an historically bogus and artificial celebration to begin with) this young lady of color decides now is the time to start tying nooses for recreation? I detect another fake hate crime. Perhaps she realized the authorities were closing in on her and attempted to diffuse the situation with an anonymous letter, but they got a hold of her and suspended her anyway. Considering how often this sort of thing happens, perhaps one day out of Black History month should be devoted to hate crime fraud.
Mitch:
Had I seen the Condi mock-up I would have been equally outraged. Who wouldn’t be?
Best, Con Man!
Michael,
In fairness to you and Ed, I don’t doubt that you both would have objected Dr. Rice’s unfortunate photo doctoring. I would hope you’d be mildly curious about why you didn’t hear about it.
One quip before I sign off. I think you’re stoking the flames of racism by characterizing the Obama image as “white face.” The image is a take-off of Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker in Batman 3,The Dark Prince, not, as you suggest, the antithesis of theatrical color makeup used to appropriate African-American slave culture in the 19th century. I’m not defending the RNC’s choice in this matter, but your characterization strikes me as a wholly disingenuous exacerbation of a really crappy decision.
Cheers,
another great adventure from the conman and his lackey ed (hes the super-duper sensitive one) on
as the propaganda turns.
a place where DU and a million people are killed in the middle east over empire and obama err barry is given the peace prize, and letting light bulbs burn unattended is a violation of human dignity, while illegals rape and carry out ‘breed em out warfare’…..
ohhh the horror
next week
how to keep al gores lies alive, and
trying to figure out which award berry should get next.
[ I will leave it to the Tea Party and the Publicans to explain how a black President in whiteface is not a racist image. I would pay to hear that and then—socialistically and selfishly—I would send them the bill. They have had to make many such explanations over the first year of the Obama Presidency and this will surely not be the last.]
Welcome to the Tea Party, Mitch. What took you so long?
The wonderful thing about about apologists for racism is they can always find an example on the other side. Condi Rice? The slurs against Obama have been continuous and egregious. There’s no comparison.
One other thing, Mitch: how about a moratorium by conservatives like yourself when it comes to pursuing an argument by saying the other side is worse that your side. If the other side is worse, it makes your side no better. That’s a pretty good way to LOSE an argument, come to think.
Best, Con Man!
PS Oh yeah right. This is a parody of Barack Obama as Heath Ledger. And what exactly is being parodied. The evil of the Joker or just “The Evil Empire.” Ridiculous.
When making the point that, racially speaking, you are exacerbating an already crappy decision, I was tempted to suggest this is precisely your design, but I thought that would stand in stark contradiction to the benefit of a doubt I was willing to give you regarding the doctoring of Dr. Rice’s photo. That said, the belly aching and hand wringing in your last comment tell me that not only was my decorum unwarranted, my instincts about your design are spot on. With you, It’s all about which party is in power.
Cheers,
Mitch and all others,
I find any racism repugnant. No, I was not aware of the doctoring of Dr. Rice’s photo image. This kind of dumb bell crap is one of the virulent weaknesses in the USA, I condemn it without reservation. I do wonder why I didn’t hear or read about it, shocked that Murdoch and Ailes let this slide.
To clarify, if it is not obvious, I have issues with peoples policies, not their looks, unless racist tatoos and clothing are a part of the look.
Info, you must be severely deficient. You mistake disgust with boo hoo whining feelings. My feelings as such, are not hurt. Racism does not hurt my feelings. The feelings I get are frustration when the racism is directed towards me and those I care about — including my wife. The frustration is based on the limitation of having to beg some legal system, to address the issue if it reaches that level, when in all likely hood in almost every instance I can take care of the problem in 1 or 2 seconds. Incidentally most racism is a white collar crime — I am going to financially screw you because of your looks and or heritage; a part of screwing you because I can mentality.
So just in case you have additional confusion, when you want to man up, and stop hiding behind your nom de plume, and reveal the glory of your grill, let me know. Otherwise I forever bless you as the yella livered coward that you are, forever blogging in your burqaa. Boo!
ed, I hate to slap you in the face with reality. this government isnt here to service your insecurities.
course, maybe they are
Mitch:
My decorun is intact. Yours? Not so much. Perhaps a sign of a lost argument in the making.
Best, Con Man
Ed,
I agree with your standard, which is partially why I wonder where Michael’s unapologetic exacerbation of the Joker’s mask comes from. Perhaps from the same place that gave rise to Dan Rather’s unfortunate “watermelon” reference last Sunday?
At what point does the proclivity of the left to point out racial insensitivity step over the line of concern and chin deep into the realm of bias? It is a poor model indeed that depends on the existence of something that all but the truly depraved detest.
Cheers,
Mitch,
I understand gaffes and foot in mouth disease. I might be mistaken, but Dan Rather is from Texas and older. Undoubtedly, there was time and opportunity for him to have conversations where various epithets and local “colorful” phrases were used with complete comfort. The person growing up in this type of environment has to be aware that using such language that they may have grown up with has been left behind as socially unacceptable — but as he and Sen Reid are acutely aware (perhaps) blunders may occur.
The doctoring of Obama and Rice are different — willful acts based on premeditation without regard to other peoples or society’s consideration. I have a sense of revulsion when I consider that these individuals expect me to respect them.
I did not grow up with that type of language and don’t find it hard to not use negative epithets. When I do use them it is deliberate. When I say the Tea Party has a lot of functionally literate red neck racists; it is deliberate. These “red neck” racists are just as proud of their station as any inner city ghetto thug — consumed with ignorant pride.
Our political process is/has evolved to where it models the lowest scum cartoon denominator within a mosaic of demographics as the superman of the future, with the simpleton on par with Da Vinci and Jefferson. This country continues to drift away from the ruthless form of meritocracy necessary to buttress our government and the blend of social capitalism so necessary for the development of citizens. We have become complacent about the clones of Claudius as captains of industry, elected officials and civil servants. All to rarely we get Jack Welches and Obamas and Paul Volkers.
Instead we seem to be desperately enabling the next idiot into positions of power and influence, and it is they teaching through marketed culture bequeathing a poisonous intellectual laziness that has us at the precipice.
So we black face, blame people who see themselves as “white,” “black,” latino/hispanic, blame immigrants and every imaginable demographic as the demon destroying America instead of self development, education, creativity and work.
ed, I hate to slap you in the face with reality. this government isnt here to service your insecurities.
course, maybe they are
For reasons that you info might understand; most people who live in this valley know who I am, and if they want to know me they can. Unlike your fright, I have the security to be able to write without fear.
Keep blogging in your burqaa!
[Our political process is/has evolved to where it models the lowest scum cartoon denominator within a mosaic of demographics as the superman of the future, with the simpleton on par with Da Vinci and Jefferson. This country continues to drift away from the ruthless form of meritocracy necessary to buttress our government and the blend of social capitalism so necessary for the development of citizens. We have become complacent about the clones of Claudius as captains of industry, elected officials and civil servants. All too rarely we get Jack Welches and Obamas and Paul Volkers.]
Are you suggesting Welch, Obama, and Volker are gifts given to a mankind unaware of the problems to which people like these are the solutions?
How Nietzschean.
Mitch,
that you tube ‘trailer’ was truly hilarious. Now that is a gift!
Those individuals abilities came from self determination and simple luck we like to call opportunity — not from deliberate societal expectation demanding and stemming from a government of the people by the people and for the people. It is like a farmer expecting fields of wheat without sowing seeds. Their might be a few ungerminated seeds from the previous season; that seems to be what we are getting.
burqaa blogger,
I don’t expect you or others like you to care. I have never experienced that delusion. I am aware that you and those like you care when you are forced to submit, via personal action, law or some other mechanism forcing a response that would have you (collectively) weaseling for a way out of the predicament.
Individuals like you generally don’t care until their is a concern about the bar of soap on the floor and hearing heavy breathing. I see no philosophical difference from you and the thieves on wall street, mortgage scammers, and insurance companies. You maintain proof of your fifth column affiliation; all your phoney conspiracy “interests” to the contrary.
The stink of the pile of s–t is more worthy than your yella livered cowardice. I see nothing bold, brave or daring about what you do. Granted, this is a public correspondent “conversation,” and perhaps nothing is being done, that being said doesn’t preclude the possibility that someone wanting to uphold the ideal of citizenship hasn’t already acted from what you or I, Mitch and Michael and the rest have written.
A forum of ideas, may lead to subjectively defined “positive” action. Remember, you care enough to blog, even though it’s B.S. because you are not sincere.
Yes, bad things do happen to good people.
my comments were removed
tisk tisk hyper-sensitive lackey
lets see, the conman and eds cry, obama is in whiteface or a documented plan to eliminate blacks in third world countries.
you make the call
Henry Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for
Food Control Genocide
This article appeared as part of a feature in the December 8, 1995 issue of Executive Intelligence Review, and was circuclated extensively by the Schiller Insitute Food for Peace Movement. It is reprinted here as part of the package: “Who Is Responsible for the World Food Shortage?”
Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide
by Joseph Brewda
Dec. 8, 1995
On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine. Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger as national security adviser (the same post Scowcroft was to hold in the Bush administration), was put in charge of implementing the plan. CIA Director George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, as were the secretaries of state, treasury, defense, and agriculture.
The bogus arguments that Kissinger advanced were not original. One of his major sources was the Royal Commission on Population, which King George VI had created in 1944 “to consider what measures should be taken in the national interest to influence the future trend of population.” The commission found that Britain was gravely threatened by population growth in its colonies, since “a populous country has decided advantages over a sparsely-populated one for industrial production.” The combined effects of increasing population and industrialization in its colonies, it warned, “might be decisive in its effects on the prestige and influence of the West,” especially effecting “military strength and security.”
NSSM 200 similarly concluded that the United States was threatened by population growth in the former colonial sector. It paid special attention to 13 “key countries” in which the United States had a “special political and strategic interest”: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. It claimed that population growth in those states was especially worrisome, since it would quickly increase their relative political, economic, and military strength.
For example, Nigeria: “Already the most populous country on the continent, with an estimated 55 million people in 1970, Nigeria’s population by the end of this century is projected to number 135 million. This suggests a growing political and strategic role for Nigeria, at least in Africa.” Or Brazil: “Brazil clearly dominated the continent demographically.” The study warned of a “growing power status for Brazil in Latin America and on the world scene over the next 25 years.”
Food as a weapon
There were several measures that Kissinger advocated to deal with this alleged threat, most prominently, birth control and related population-reduction programs. He also warned that “population growth rates are likely to increase appreciably before they begin to decline,” even if such measures were adopted.
A second measure was curtailing food supplies to targetted states, in part to force compliance with birth control policies: “There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID [U.S. Agency for International Development] and consultative groups. Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion.”
“Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be considering these possibilities now,” the document continued, adding, “Would food be considered an instrument of national power? … Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their population growth?”
Kissinger also predicted a return of famines that could make exclusive reliance on birth control programs unnecessary. “Rapid population growth and lagging food production in developing countries, together with the sharp deterioration in the global food situation in 1972 and 1973, have raised serious concerns about the ability of the world to feed itself adequately over the next quarter of century and beyond,” he reported.
The cause of that coming food deficit was not natural, however, but was a result of western financial policy: “Capital investments for irrigation and infrastucture and the organization requirements for continuous improvements in agricultural yields may be beyond the financial and administrative capacity of many LDCs. For some of the areas under heaviest population pressure, there is little or no prospect for foreign exchange earnings to cover constantly increasingly imports of food.”
“It is questionable,” Kissinger gloated, “whether aid donor countries will be prepared to provide the sort of massive food aid called for by the import projections on a long-term continuing basis.” Consequently, “large-scale famine of a kind not experienced for several decades—a kind the world thought had been permanently banished,” was foreseeable—famine, which has indeed come to pass.
To read the entire NSSM 200 document, click here.
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please no more fluff guys, theres more important things out there to cry about.
on a different note, but not really. the conman learns from his mentor that censorship is the way too go.
nice job, conjob
http://www.infowars.com/ventura-youre-not-allowed-to-ask-about-911/