Blacks vs. Non-Blacks: Race Relations Forever Fractured? Part 2

Author’s Note: This is Part 2 of a 2 part blog piece. In Part 1 Tessler examined the use of the Obama race card. In Part 2 we review the Obamaland brand of racism.

Part II: The Obamaland Brand Of Racism

Overt, in-your-face, clearly definable black racism has no place in the Obama Administration. Just ask Shirley Sherrod.
Subtle, coded, this-is-what-my-words-really-mean, opaque black racism is alive and well in the Obama Administration. Just ask Shirley Sherrod.

Much has been made about the Sherrod video originally posted by Andrew Breitbart on his website. Now everyone thinks that Ms. Sherrod is owed an apology. I disagree. Did you watch the people she was talking to? Did you listen to them? I saw the entire video. In all the controversy about that video, Breitbart summed it up correctly when he said, defending the video clip that was posted, [it] was “a self-contained newsworthy video that established the media standard of pointing out that the NAACP countenanced [sanctioned] racism in its own award dinner setting. That was the point. That was the point. And the video proves it.” – Breitbart: ‘I am public enemy No. 1…’

That woman spoke in racial overtones to an audience that was agreeing with her before they realized she was attempting to make a redemptive point of her (allegedly) “past” racism. I’m not so sure she’s yet beyond the racism of the 60′s.

“The assembled crowd of card-carrying members of the NAACP took great pleasure in that, their laughter was not nervous at all. That is a contemporaneous expression of racism by today’s politically correct standards, not racism from some 40 years ago.” – In Defense of Andrew Breitbart

“Now, in case the impact of this hasn’t settled on you yet, imagine Sherrod is a white woman and she is talking about refusing to help a black man. ‘Took him to one of his own kind?’ ‘I didn’t give him the full force of what I could do?’ … A key difference is that in the Tea Party movement, you won’t find people condoning it as this friendly crowd condoned Sherrod’s racism … If the NAACP is looking for racism, they need only go look in the mirror. – Shirley Sherrod Confesses Her Racism to NAACP

While everyone was criticizing her past (?) overt racism, nothing was being said about her other racism in that same speech. The subtle racism that the Obama Administration prefers was not there. “Given the clear and undeniable facts about what Sherrod believes when it comes to race relations, it’s impossible to take her seriously as a uniting force. Given the ease at which she dispenses racially divisive comments, it’s impossible to take her seriously as an arbiter of race in America. And given her blanket accusations of racism against anybody she disagrees with, it’s impossible to take her seriously at all.” – Shirley Sherrod Falsely Sainted by Propagandist Media

Even Tessler experienced getting dealt the race card for questioning whether or not Ms. Sherrod was being truthful about her feelings on race. I dared to publicly criticize a black person!

From this Twitter member: “@TesslerPT why do you keep referring to her as a black racist why not refer to someone you think is racist as just racist it makes me wonder.” Wonder what? You mean there is no such thing as a “black racist?” Are all racists white, then? After I responded to that little gem in Twitter that same person replied “disappointed at your lack of response fairness you are coming off like a racist person u really need to reevaluate yourself.” Say what? I called someone a “black racist” (as opposed to a “white racist”) and now I’m the racist? When will these intellectually deprived socialists learn?

But it wasn’t over. Another Twitter member chimed in with this gem, in response to my comments about Sherrod and the video and called me “a racist pig!” Now that must have taken a lot of original thought to come up with that one.

I researched the Tweets of both of those name callers. Both are clearly Obama supporters and one is even a confessed atheist who absolutely hates Sarah Palin. Just the usual left-wing, socialist nut jobs. And at least one those Twitter members is (gasp) black.

So the fact remains that the Shirley Sherrod video, and Shirley Sherrod herself, are representative of the fact that there abounds more black racism today than what has ever existed before. Only it is both more subtle and more overt than ever before. The Sherrod video shows that she was a racist then, she committed a racist act, and the NAACP members loved her for it. But now, after the Breitbart posting of that video, she’s made statements clearly underscoring her own brand of racism statements. They are not the “Obama Approved” subtle racism he likes from his Executive Branch lemmings.
- Shirley Sherrod Laments Land Being Sold to White Man.
- “He’d Like To Get Us Stuck Back In The Time Of Slavery”
- Sherrod Blasts Fox News as Racist

The first video clip we all initially saw in the news showed an overt, in-your-face racism. And so, the Obama White House, in its false desire to show they don’t tolerate overt racism in the Executive Branch, had Ms. Sherrod fired. If she had cooled her jets and started to talk racism in the more subtle terms the administration and the major media likes, she probably would have appeared on any number of Sunday talks shows yesterday. But she didn’t.

“Considering the Shirley Sherrod interview barrage that took place last Thursday, to not see Sherrod on television Sunday morning sends a clear signal the mainstream media no longer feels allowing the public to get to know the real Shirley Sherrod advances their agenda.” – Shirley Silenced: Sherrod Kept Out of Sunday Talk-shows

Shirley Sherrod didn’t fit the big media’s narrative of being a “redeemed black racist.” She continues to be racist. She lost the “sympathy vote” on the issue of her firing because she became what we’ve all known all along, a race bomb thrower. Obama and the major network media can’t control her.

Overt black racism: Out.
Subtle black racism: In.

The Obamaland brand of racism.

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