A Racist Orgy of Racially Offensive Racism

Posted by Mary Mancini on September 16, 2008 under Uncategorized |

Nashville21.com’s Sean Braisted zeros in on the hypocrisy of the GOP’s most recent hollow cries of “sexism:”

So, if being dismissive of Sarah Palin’s accomplishments or “substance” is “sexist,” does that mean that being dismissive of Obama’s accomplishments is racist? If so, then the entire GOP convention was one racist orgy of racially offensive racism.

Excellent point. And while we’re thinking about racism. Let’s take in Tim Wise’s latest, which strains the last two weeks of election coverage through his white privilege filter:

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don’t all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you’re “untested.”


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White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.


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White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was “Alaska first,” and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you’re black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.


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White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.


Oh, there’s more…