This is getting beyond tiresome. Another idiot, Bob Herbert at the New York Times, is unleashing a vitriolic attack on white people for their intimate, racist thoughts that clog their pale
noggins. It wasn't enough that Maureen Dowd ascribed Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's health care speech as raw racism, without a shred of evidence. Or that former president Jimmy Carter, whose mind apparently has gone to seed, declared
that "an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity
toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black
man." [Emphasis added.] This, even though Obama himself has said the opposition to his health care reforms is not race-based.
New York Times columnist Herbert probably felt left out at picking this scab, so he belatedly chimed in on Friday with this sort of crap:
I have no patience with those who want to pretend that racism is not an
out-and-out big deal in the United States, as it always has been. We
may have made progress, and we may have a black president, but the
scourge is still with us. And if you needed Jimmy Carter to remind you
of that, then you've been wandering around with your eyes closed.
And this:
For many white Americans, Barack Obama is nothing more than that black guy in the White House, and they want him out of there.
Or this:
But the fact that a black man is now in the White House has so
unsettled much of white America that the lid is coming off the racism
that had been simmering at dangerously high temperatures all along.
This, too:
Republicans have been openly feeding off of race hatred since the days
of Dick Nixon. Today's conservative activists are carrying that banner
proudly.
Finally, this lunacy:
Think about the Oklahoma City bombing, and the assassinations of King
and the Kennedys. On Nov. 22, 1963, as they were preparing to fly to
Dallas, a hotbed of political insanity, President Kennedy said to Mrs.
Kennedy: "We're heading into nut country today."
The
Oklahoma City bombing racially motivated? The assassination of John
Kennedy had nothing to do with race, nor was the shooter a
conservative. Robert Kennedy's assassination had nothing to do with the
racism that Herbert is talking about--the kind of racism that led to
King's murder. Yet, Herbert lumps all of this together into one crazy,
screwed-up thought.
The media have come up with names that suit
fringe elements like Herbert: Truthers describe the nuts who think that
George W. Bush had something to do with the 9-11 terror attacks.
Birthers describe those who believe that Obama's mother and other
co-conspirators pulled a fast one by getting a foreigner elected
president. Let's call the Herberts of the world racers--they want to be
the first to find a racist hiding behind every issue, debate and tree.
Racer, it is.
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Tags: 9-11 terrorism, Birthers, Bob Herbert, Jimmy Carter, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Oklahoma City, Racers, racism, Truthers
"Closely intertwined" overstates the relationship. Yes, he read the Turner Diaries, but there is little or no evidence More to the point, the bombing itself can hardly be put into the same "racist" classification as the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King. If it were truly racially motivated, I suspect he would have picked another target other than an office building that reflected the American demographic.