The Axis Of Stevil Show

We hear so much in the news and the blogs about racism in today's politics. Most of the accusations are thrown at Conservatives, particularly members of the Tea Party movement. So skewed are these comments that most don't even realize how ridiculous and wrong these claims are. I am not saying that there are no racists on the right, but the fact is that the organized and coordinated racism that we have seen in recent politics comes from the left. Yet recently, Harry Reid (Democrat, Nevada) made the following claims about those who oppose his health care reform bill.

"Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right," Reid said Monday. "When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough.'" 

He continued: "When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted they simply, slow down, there will be a better day to do that, today isn't quite right. 

"When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today."

I'm sure most people who read that statement assumed that it was Republicans who filibustered civil rights legislation. It was not.

The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes.

Now, one could make try to make the case that Democrats have since had a change of heart.  After all, the first Black President is a Democrat, and many elected Democrats supported him to put him in that position. Doesn't that speak well of the party? Perhaps, but what were their intentions in supporting him? Some of their comments are very enlightening as to their motivations.

Harry Reid:

According to the new book "Game Change," Reid "was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,' as he said privately.

Vice President Biden:

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Bill Clinton (after he and his wife were accused of racism):

CHARLESTON, S.C -- Bill Clinton, speaking to reporters in a Charleston bar and grill, said that criticism he and his wife have recently endured on racial issues is the product of an overzealous media whipped up by Barack Obama and his surrogates.

"This is almost like once you accuse someone of racism and bigotry the facts become irrelevant," a red-faced Clinton said, staring down several print and TV reporters. "Not one single solitary citizen asked about any of this and they never do… They [Obama's camapign] are feeding you this because they know this is what you want to cover, this is what you live for, but this hurts the people of South Carolina—what they care about is not going to be in the newspapers tonight because you don’t care about it – what you care about is this and the Obama people know it — and they just spin you up on this and you happily go along."

According to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times, Reid attempted to influence the governor's nominee choice by expressing serious reservations over the 2010 electability of three potential Blagojevich picks -- Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. and Danny Davis and state Senate President Emil Jones.

All three men happen to be black, as is Burris.

Reid is said to have told Blagojevich he had more confidence in the electoral popularity of Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan, who like Reid is white, or Tammy Duckworth, an Asian American who heads Illinois' Veteran Affairs Department.

So we have Reid publicly claiming to be opposed to Blago making any selection based on the controversy surrounding him, yet he would have been okay with the pick had it been the white or Asian candidate.   Perhaps they were "light skinned" enough and spoke in a dialect more suitable to Reid? Yet this type of opposition to minority candidates is nothing new from the Democrat Party. Senator Robert Byrd, Democrat from West Virginia and former KKK member, is the only Senator to have voted against both African Americans to be nominated to the Supreme Court.

Byrd is the only Senator to have voted against the nominations of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, the only two African-Americans to have been nominated to the court. Marshall's confirmation vote came in 1967 when Byrd and other segregationist senators were opposed to the idea of a black integrationist being placed on the court. In order to gain evidence against Marshall's appointment, Byrd asked FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to look into what Byrd believed to be the possibility that Marshall had either connections to communists or a potential communist past.

In 2001, the same Senator Byrd made a few interesting comments of his own.

They're much, much better than they've ever been in my lifetime... I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely behind us... I just think we talk so much about it that we help to create somewhat of an illusion. I think we try to have good will. My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time, if you want to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.

These are not your average American who happens to be attending a protest of some sort. These are elected leaders in the Democrat Party.  Robert Byrd was the Senate Majority Leader for the Democrats from 1971 through 1981, and he was Senate Minority leader from 1981 through 1987. This is a bit ironic, because Senator Byrd points to a singular moment when he allegedly gave up his racist ways.

Byrd has also said that his views changed dramatically after his teenage grandson was killed in a 1982 traffic accident, which put him in a deep emotional valley. "The death of my grandson caused me to stop and think," said Byrd, adding he came to realize that black people love their children as much as he does his.

Notice, Byrd led the Democrats from 1971 through 1987. His "views changed dramatically" in 1982. This means that for 11 years he lead the Democrats before coming to the realization that blacks love their children as much as whites do. A mere 5 years after this epiphany,  he got canned. It seems the party was more comfortable with being lead by a racist than being led by one who claims to no longer be.

All of this raises the question, how do Democrats get in a position to claim the moral high ground on the race issue?  The words of former President Clinton come back to mind. "This is almost like once you accuse someone of racism and bigotry the facts become irrelevant,". And the racism of the left is not limited to the white members of the party. Let's call it like it is. Recently, when being interviewed by African American journalist April Ryan, President Obama made the following statement.

"And that means that the steps we're taking around education reform, to make sure our schools are performing properly; the fact that, for example, we have recorded historic increases in Pell grants and Perkins loans, which disproportionately help our folks;"

Our folks? Shouldn't the President view all Americans as "his folks" rather than dividing us into groups based on our race? And this is not the first instance of this President making such a statement.  In his book "Dreams From My Father", Obama wrote the following.

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!”

Furthermore, during the campaign then Senator Obama openly expressed his stereotypical views of white people when he made the following statement about his white Grandmother.

Obama is drawing a new round of criticism for his comments on a Philadelphia radio sports program yesterday in which he said his grandmother is a "typical white person" who has fears about black men. He was attempting to explain a portion of his speech on race earlier this week—specifically, the statement that his white grandmother gets nervous when a black man approaches her on the street.

Jesse Jackson, a former Democrat Presidential hopeful, has also made many racist comments. Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman.

I, for one, am tired of this ridiculous notion that racism somehow resides on the right. When Harry Reid is forced to admit that his support for Obama was based on his "light skin" and his lack of a "negro dialect", he can no longer claim that his support proves that he is not racist. And frankly, his statement is a mirror of the words of Joe Biden. This causes me to wonder how pervasive this attitude is in the party. Furthermore, it makes me wonder how Joe Biden would characterize Jesse Jackson. If Obama is the first "clean" and "articulate" candidate, was Jackson then a dirty black who spoke in a "negro dialect"?

I have opposed Obama from day one. I have opposed him because of his policies. I care not how he states them, nor how dark his skin is as he pushes for them. I will gladly place the record of my party against that of the Democrat party any day of the week. The fact that I support the civil rights movement that allowed a black man to become President does not mean I have to support every black man that runs for the office. I have, and will continue to judge politicians based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin nor their dialect. 

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