CNN Panelist to Tea Party: ‘We Think Your Ideology is Racism’ (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, July 25, 2010, 9:04 AM
More tea party smears from CNN…
Analyst Warren Ballentine said the tea party ideology was “based on racism” last night on the CNN Shirley Sherrod special.
Via Breitbart TV:
CNN Analyst Warren Ballentine comments on the Tea Party during CNN’s Shirley Sherrod Special.
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Galt commented:
That’s the tactic: opposition to statism is attributed to a race-hate motive. In other words, no honest person could possibly oppose their statist goals.
They know this is not true, but cynically dismiss all dissent as racism. Which is their way of making a race-based attack on their political opponents.
Amazing, really, that they are doing exactly what they are falsely accusing Tea Party Patriots of doing. The media can’t call it, because they do it too. But people are seeing. For the first time in a long time, people are seeing.
Chisum commented:
As usual, CNN is behind the curve. Even the NYT has acknowledged this:
“he Political Times column last Sunday, about a generational divide over racial attitudes, erroneously linked one example of a racially charged statement to the Tea Party movement. While Tea Party supporters have been connected to a number of such statements, there is no evidence that epithets reportedly directed in March at Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, outside the Capitol, came from Tea Party members.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/07/026847.php
Galt commented:
“They created this.. they needed to elevate MARXISTS just a little higher than us to make them think they was so much better and then they would never work with us to try to change the situation that they were all in.”
See, Sherrod’s words actually ring true if you replace the word “whites” with the names of today’s hyperactive wrongdoers: marxists in general, government class apparatchiks, “elite” media blowhards, liberal academics, liberation theology cultists… etc.
No, Sherrod doesn’t recognize the harm those people do, often enough by force of law. Heck, she’s one of them! Nope, she urges her listeners to blame whites. CNN defends people who think like that. CNN thinks like that.
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aro5o75 commented:
LOL.!! What else would we expect from the Communist News Network.
Chippy commented:
Do you prefer Marxism or free market capitalism? CNN and the shrinking main stream media has jumped on board to the Liar Czar Train Express.
Ginger commented:
Whow! Who is the racist? All black people in that video. How dare someone give a different opinion as theirs!
StrngernFiction commented:
Juan Williams is either extremely slow, utterly disingenuos, mentally ill, or some combination of these. I would argue he’s at least the first two. If ever placed in a debate with Juan Williams I would simply wait for the inevitable contradiction and then laugh. Well let me ammend that, I’d probably laugh from the get go.
Chisum commented:
And the beat goes on.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) Rides The Racialist Mobius Loop
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/07/24/rep-steve-cohen-d-tn-rides-the-racialist-mobius-loop/
StrngernFiction commented:
P.S. if you want to understand what Juan Williams is all about, think Kirsten Powers.
bg commented:
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Jeremiah Wright isn’t RACIST??
uhm, have the ProgDems bought the Brooklyn
Bridge yet, because i heard it’s for sale.. duh!!
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Jean commented:
CNN is racist for exacerbating the lies of the left. It’s a fact that they can’t win at anything without cheating.
The more these criminals are exposed the more people will see the light. If this continues to be the case there is real hope for a change in November.
bill-tb commented:
So the no ratings racist at CNN have figured us out?
How would they do that, since they can’t seem to think.
snowman commented:
Those that pull the race card are the racist. just my opinion.
bg commented:
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in the PC Prodemsphere, calling racists racist, is racist!!
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Joanne commented:
It isn’t just a racial slur, it is how all liberals operate – when they can’t address the issue and the truth, they throw out personal attacks – it is a sure sign they know they are wrong and have no argument at all.
USMC Thomas commented:
The continued onslaught charges of racism are going to increase dramatically as the elections draw nearer.
That’s all the Demoncrats have.
Chisum commented:
Rasmussen has BO at (-20).
43% Approve
56% Disapprove
RACISTS!
There can be no other explanation.
StrngernFiction commented:
Chisum, regarding the Pajamas piece on Cohen. What do they say about honor among thieves?
Arch commented:
So let’s see.
We we object to the government borrowing and spending $787B on a stimulus that we said wouldn’t work and now that we’ve been proven right, we are racists?
When we opposed the bailout of the banks, Wall Street, and the auto industry because it amounted to an unwise intrusion of government into the private sector, we are racists?
When we objected to the government takeover of the healthcare system because, based on experiences in Canada, UK and Massachusetts, it results in higher costs and lower quality, it would gut Medicare and put a bureaucrat between patient and doctor, we are racists?
When we opposed the cap & trade as another huge, job killing federal tax that would not reduce emissions of CO2 (as if that were a problem) and would have zero effect on climate change, we are racists?
When Nancy Pelosi and her democrat leadership marched through a Tea Party demonstration to taunt the protesters over ramming healthcare down their throats and they did not react (despite a false claim by Congressman John Lewis) we are racists?
When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People convention passed a resolution condemning all the above racism, someone played a tape of a black government official laughing along with her NAACP audience about discriminating against a white farmer she was hired to assist and the NAACP and their democrat enablers accuse the Tea Party organizations of being racist?
Now that the NAACP and the CNN and the democrat party has explained it to us simple folks, there is clearly racism here.
Militant Conservative commented:
GREAT NEWS, keep going CNN! This is showing America who the true Racists are. The more you push this POS story the more America wakes up to take the correct stance. The TPM IS MADE OF AMERICAN’S that want a return to constitutional governance. Kinda hard to fight THAT kind of logic huh??? powder is dry, LOL, gotta co clean my guns after I say my prayers.
Chisum commented:
This smacks of Racism!
Republicans press Biden to meet with Alvin Greene
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/110629-republicans-press-biden-to-meet-with-alvin-greene
Cindy commented:
I love it when they say the ideology of the Tea Party is viewed as racist by black people. That must be a news flash to the black Tea Party members. CNN & the other MSM know full well what the Party is about but the narrative is to push the supposed racist angle. And Rev. Wright was taken out of context? Really? Give me a break.
Sandy commented:
The Tea Party stands for Taxed Enough Already. What’s racist about wanting the Govt out of our lives? Obama was supposed to be a post-racial President but instead he turns every loss into racism, all to get his base to turn out in November.
There is an old story about a boy who cried wolf to get his parents attention. It worked so well that he kept on doing it until one day he really did see a wolf and no one would believe him.
I’m OEA Obamaed Enough Already.
bg commented:
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flashback:
Racist Content in Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”
[Their confusion made me question my own racial credentials all over again. …To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
The following paragraph dismisses campus radicals, with whom Obama shared an affinity, as “white and tenured.” Then Obama cited his need to “show your loyalty to the Black masses.” The context shows that he was not talking about Satanic rituals, either.
But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.]
more-so than whites.. sounds to me like Obama is not only calling
blacks racists, but made a conscious decision to be racist himself..
oops..
Barack Obama’s Racist Stupidity
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Aunt B commented:
This is a really great read: Hello, I’m a racist, pleased to meet you: http://bit.ly/bNsSjG
Bill Fabrizio commented:
You got me, I’m a Tea Partier and, therefore by any progressives’s definition, I am a racist. According to progressives, I am a racist because I hate essentially all of Obama’s policies. According to progressives, I am a racist because I don’t particularly like the president….it’s pretty hard to like a man whose sole intent is to sap freedom from each and every American and place the responsibility for those stolen freedoms in the hands of government bureaucrats. Progressives believe I am racist because I hate the fact that Obama does not seem to be serious in protecting us from terrorists or protecting our borders from invading illegal aliens. Progressives say I am racist because I hate the fact that Obama spends our money like a drunken sailor and constantly disrespects and undermines the private sector where jobs are created and from which taxes are paid.
I could go on and on as to why I hate Obama and all he stands for. But suffice it to say that if these things make me a racist then I am damn proud of being one and am going to continue to work as hard as I can to see that the president and his party lose power as quickly as posssible. Yes, if that sentiment makes me a racist, so be it. And I think the progressives will be surprised to find how many other racists will vote to remove them from power in November!
newton commented:
“We think your ideology smacks of racism”…
And We The People think your ideology smacks of plain old stupidity!
Patti commented:
Ballentine is sooooooo disingenuous. State Rights means a resurgence of Jim Crow law ?
Uh, not likely.
Are people dumb enough to believe this could happen ? Apparently some are.
If not, they are making it up as they go along-really lame.
Pagar commented:
CNN=Communist News Network 24/7 broadcasting of Democrat/Communist propaganda. No one publishes more Democrat/Communist propaganda. Maxine Green and William Ayers must be so proud of their educational success in producing so many anti-Americans.
Patti commented:
REv. Wright was taken out of context ?
Don’t think so. Think everyone is up to speed on him by now.
Slappy commented:
Race-baiting clowns like this Ballentine guy are marginalizing racism so that real racism will be meaningless or ignored. After all, their standard for calling someone racist has been reduced to simply disagreeing with a black person or even simply disagreeing with a party led by a black person. More importantly, it illustrates how desperate the Left is to keep power…power that they see becoming significantly diminished in the next 5-6 months. Resorting to the racism charge only shows that the facts are not on their side in appealing to the majority of the country.
This has to be especially galling to the voters that are moderate or even conservative but decided to vote for Obama in ’08 and are now being called racist because they oppose the guy they voted for based on his actions since he took office.
avery commented:
I”m bet you their more Black in the Tea Party,than white in the NAACP.
dissident commented:
No independent-minded person can call themselves intelligent and still watch the chicken news network.
UpChuck.Liberals commented:
How many people watch CNN now? 4 or 5? The TEA Party is Racist, the Human Race, America division. May the Clown Nothing Network continue their downward spiral to oblivion they’re already at irrelevance.
jorgen commented:
Thank you, CNN, it is nonsense like this that in November will ensure that a lot of Dems will be given the opportunity to spend lots and lots of time with their family!
Betsy Ross commented:
Well, yuh, they think TEA Party Patriots are racist because the US Constitution was written by a bunch of white slave owners so, naturally, to a liberal mind, the “ideology” is inherently racist.
Right Here Right Now commented:
Tea Party to cnn panelist: “We think your ideology is simply ignorance.”
Chisum commented:
The Good Old Days When Protesters Weren’t Racists
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/07/good-old-days-when-protesters-werent.html
aro5o75 commented:
In a sense this idiot is right…the Tea Party ideology is anti-communism and pro-human RACE.
Chisum commented:
The New Racism – Why Shirley Sherrod could be Called a Racist
http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2010/07/25/the-new-racism-why-shirley-sherrod-could-be-called-a-racist/
Multitude commented:
Remarkably, the designation of everything non-racist as racist is an important and necessary step towards a post-racial society. It’s impossible to return to pre-racial conditions (where we had no concept of race), so the only post-racial state is one where everything is racist (and subsequently the designation is meaningless).
In this respect, the left is helping us more than they’d ever anticipate. We can further the destruction of race-as-differential-identifier: use “racist” interchangeably with “lame,” “broken,” “inept,” etc. “These taxes are racist!” “That show was so lame it was racist.” “What a racist horse. I lost $50.” and so on.
Drive it into the dirt and society will no longer find it a resonant concept.
Subadar Lal Kukhri commented:
If you disagree with liberal frauds and Obama-worshipping imbeciles you are not just a racist and a fascist, you are more evil than George W. Bush!
Ignore the morons. Never make the mistake of arguing with someone who’s beliefs no sane person (othater than parasites) are so bad could respect.
dnb commented:
Given that many ‘brothers’ received public education, I’d be surprised if most even know the difference between federal and state rights, or the definition of Jim Crow laws. And that it NOT a racist statement, but rather an indictment of public education in America.
donh commented:
Maybe CNN is fishing to be bought out by the NAACP and become the colored news network. I always thought racism was defined by an ignorant belief system that marks people of certain skin colors as being inferior. Now racism is defined as a belief system that opposes totolitarian fascist governments in favor of individual liberties and freedoms.
Ginger commented:
Barry acts stupidly every day!
bg commented:
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On Racism and Republicans
[The history of racism in this country --
who is responsible for it and who is responsible for fighting it.]
The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow
[The Democratic Party identified itself as the "white man's party"
and demonized the Republican Party as being "Negro dominated,"
even though whites were in control.
Determined to re-capture the South, Southern Democrats "redeemed" state after state -- sometimes peacefully, other times by fraud and violence. By 1877, when Reconstruction was officially over, the Democratic Party controlled every Southern state.
The South remained a one-party region until the Civil Rights movement began in the 1960s. Northern Democrats, most of whom had prejudicial attitudes towards blacks, offered no challenge to the discriminatory policies of the Southern Democrats.]
much more @ link/s..
Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882-1968 *
ps re: bg #15
PC Prodemsphere = PC Progdemsphere
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bg commented:
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via American Conservative Daily
Be Civil? … by Frances Rice
It’s a sure sign that Republicans are winning a debate on issues when Democrats, aided by well-meaning civility police pundits and activists, demand that Republicans stop showing their passion and “be civil.”
I am still waiting for those with such a keen sense of civility to demand that Democrats cease their unrelenting and uncivil, even racist, attacks on black Republicans. I won’t hold my breath.
High on the Democrats’ list of those to be denigrated are accomplished black Republicans who do not toe the Democrats’ liberal agenda line. Shamefully, Democrats do not want poor black children to have as role models any black person who does not engage in victim mongering and works hard to become prosperous rather than become dependent on government handouts.
The message that Democrats gives to poor blacks is despicable. If you remain poor, uneducated and vote for Democrats, we will celebrate
your victimhood. If you get a good education, get a good job and vote
for Republicans, we will denigrate you as “acting white,” a “sellout”,
an “Uncle Tom”, a “House Negro”, a “House N-word”, a “Lawn Jockey”,
and worse.
Brazenly, on the left-wing Internet website called “The News Blog,” Democrats posted a doctored photograph of then Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele (now chairman of the RNC) when he was running for a Senate seat, depicting Steele as a “Simple Sambo” with a blackened minstrel-style face, nappy hair and big, think red lips. The cartoon caption read: “Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house.” This contemptible racist stereotype is the same one Democrats used to demean black men during the era of slavery and segregation.
In addition to other outrageous racist images of Dr. Condoleezza Rice produced by several Democrats, cartoonist Jeff Danziger depicted Dr. Rice as an ignorant, barefoot “mammy”, reminiscent of the stereotyped black woman in the movie “Gone with the Wind” about the slave era black woman who remarked: “I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ no babies”. This is the type of racist stereotype Democrats used to demean black women during the era of slavery and segregation.
Democrats now love Gen. Colin Powell, but spewed out racist attacks
on Powell before he endorsed Obama and embraced the liberal agenda
of higher taxes and a bigger government to provide poverty producing handouts to blacks.
A video was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee that shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Powell and Dr. Rice, when Sharpton was asked to give his opinions about whether Powell and Rice were “House Negroes”. That video can be found on the Internet.
An article that appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper was one of many exposing how hardly a ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly denounced Gen. Powell as a “House Negro”.
With impunity, the late Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy called black judicial nominees, including Judge Janice Rogers Brown, “Neanderthals.” Democrat Senator Harry Reid slurred Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as an incompetent Negro who could not write good English. “Slap at Thomas stinks of racism,” was the headline of the New York Daily News’ December 7, 2004 editorial.
Even black Democrats will be maligned if they dare step off of the Democratic Party’s political plantation. When black Democrat Juan Williams wrote his book entitled “Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead
-end Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America” that exposed the deplorable conditions in black communities caused by the Democrats running those communities, Williams was denounced on national TV by another black Democrat as a “Happy Negro”.
For details about how Democrats during the 1960′s even smeared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican, see the article posted on the NBRA website. “Civility, Ours and Theirs” is an article that provides more details about how Democrats vilify black Republicans while wagging their finger at Republicans about being civil. Our political discourse can be elevated to the high standards demanded by the civility police only when Democrats are also required to play by the rules of civility.
more here & here..
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IOpian commented:
They have to fabricate the angle that this about race because if they discuss the real motivation behind the TPM, responsible government and fair taxation, then they would be unable to defend opposition to this movement of what is really the old ‘silent majority’ not being so silent any more.
Tjexcite commented:
Well that is the meme put out by the new Journolist.
Everything sucks and we the dems can’t do a thing but you can’t let the other guys in, their all racists. So you have to keep us in so we can stop the racists that are will destroy the country so we can fundamental transform it so that all we deem racists will be removed from all power and sent to camps.
a-disgusted-former-democrat commented:
and they wonder why former dems like me are fleeing the democrat party and taking out a restraining order against the demoncrat party.
CNN, and NAACP and DNC are the same, their view, if you are critical of the community organizer, you are a racist, end of story. And you will forever be a racist if you don’t shut up, sit down and do as you are told by the community organizer and the commies in the congress.
There are no such thing as respectable dems anymore, or moderate one.. they are all being driven out of this disgusting party now.
Mo commented:
Assuming that a group of people who are mostly white oppose Obama because he is black is completely racist!!! These people show their racist stereotypes toward whites over and over and never get called to answer for it.
Dobby commented:
We are the black members of Journolist???
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=29858
Ed Driscoll commented:
“Jeremiah Wright isn’t RACIST??”
CNN knows nothing—nothing!–about Rev. Wright.
(Incidentally, last year CNN cheerfully invited on Wright’s sidekick, the equally incendiary Father Pfleger.)
infinite commented:
CNN must be doing worse than we know. Gutter media. Yellow journalism. Wow. Maybe their time is truly up.
Buffalobob commented:
You can’t argue with stupid people. Warren Valitine stated that rev. Wright was taken out of context. Then to show how tolerant he is, he told Juan Williams to go sit on the porch. That is a racist low comment. I believe Juan is a liberal and an Obama supporter. However if he is not allowed to even question another black man who makes a false statement without being also labeled as racist, this so called post racial Oama era never had a chance.
chilipalmer commented:
No right of center person or Tea Party defender whatsoever should appear on CNN. Anyone who does so is merely advancing their racist, slanderous, dangerous agenda. This should be obvious.
donovan commented:
http://weeklyworldnews.com/politics/19585/nancy-pelosi-joins-tea-party-caucus/
Sojourner commented:
… Limited government, honesty, fiscal discipline, charity, free markets, courage, national sovereignty,reverence,Constitutional rule of law, hard work, personal responsibility..yeah,that’s racism, alright.
{sarc}
OFail commented:
I think that is a Muslim brotherhood show. They hate Japanese, Chinese, and whites. They want Mexico to take out whites then they plan to take mexico. However, Mexico does not like too much these black Muslim haters and racists. CNN allows this because the Mulisms will beat up the owners and force them to pay them huge bank in lawsuits — after they take baseball bats to CNN’s heads.
Mats commented:
This is, as everyone knows, a way to distract people from the joblessness and Obama’s failures. They want to keep conservatives busy defending themselves so that they dont attack the Dems.
Ignore them and move on.
Galt commented:
They kind of put us in a strange position. If I was constantly being blamed for stealing from the cookie jar I might be tempted to finally help myself to a cookie — if I’m going to take the rap anyway I may as well get myself a tasty snack.
But always having to take the rap for made-up racism is harder — it’s not like I get anything out of giving myself over to racial animus. I got plenty of other animus — toward marxists and other criminals, but what benefit do I get from discriminating on something as meaningless as skin color?
The people who throw around these charges have much to answer for.
Arch commented:
If you watched the whole clip, Juan Williams really got his panties in a wad when Ballentine called him a “porch n****r”.
theblogprof commented:
Ballentine is the same guy that called Juan Williams a porch monkey during the Rush Limbaugh/NFL controversy: http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/07/cnn-panelist-warren-ballentine-to-tea.html
Bogdan from Australia commented:
I dream about that moment when The PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN stands shoulder to shoulder with V-CE PRESIDENT ALLEN WEST and her first words are “It is time to stop that rasist crap!
bg commented:
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are those people supposedly educated??
because don’t think so..
The Truth May Inconvenience Our Perceptions
[.] Can we not be legislated into slavery, or simply taxed into it? If many blacks recoil in horror at the thought of tens of thousands of black Confederates fighting and dying under the Confederate Battle Flag 135 years ago, it may just show the extent of their indoctrination, their alienation with the past, and the magnitude of the challenge Southerners face in ending racial hostility.]
Out of America:
[E.G. Long: "Africa is a painful reality. Over the past 21 years, I have lived and worked in five African countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire and Nigeria. ..There is nothing in Richburg's book that I could contradict. I too, experienced the horror, and hopelessnesss of that continent. I read 'Out of America' in one sitting... "
Steve Wishnevsky: "This is the voice missing from the current race 'dialogue.' Mr. Richburg is a courageous writer and clear observer...
His is an authentic voice and should be listened to closely. America is the only land where the descendants of Africans have anything approaching freedom and economic opportunity."
H. Luther: "So much of what you hear about Africa lately is from people who have never been there. People who want to romanticize what is in
fact chaos and disaster... Richburg has written what he has seen, he has presented reality with great integrity. It is a must read."]
oh btw:
The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America
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SukieTawdry commented:
I defy anybody to put Jeremiah Wright in an acceptable “context.” And I consider Juan Williams to be a principled liberal.
bg commented:
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re: Juan Williams..
heh, they tarred & feathered him for writing Enough..
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PJ commented:
Listen to the woman talking about the settlement of the black farmers. A billion dollars???
This is reparations. They will work against Obama unless he gives them the reparations.
whoframedrudy commented:
The Democrats are pathetic. They’re flooding the country in a tidal wave of racial neurosis and victim psychosis! Obama is up to his neck in race soup. Race race race race race race race. I’m sick of it. The Dems stink.
BurmaShave commented:
Tea Party member to CNN:
Try to show more independence from the [neo-racist] DNC.
Patti commented:
The greatest percentage of American citizens are opposed to reparations-it simply will not fly. This is in no way on account that most of us don’t find the idea of slavery as reprehensible as the enslaved and can only imagine the human suffering involved,we recognize what a criminal (unjust)and hateful institution it is and has been. It is more that none of us living today had a say, or one thing to do with it.Many US citizens came long after it was finished and can, in no way whatsoever, be held accountable for it.
In addition, many of us had ancesters who died in a bloody Civil War to oppose the inhumanity of enslaving another human being and had supported abolition.
I believe the federal government has been commited to the idea of reparations without consent of the people and the Pickford law suit is one means of settling it under the radar -without it becoming common knowledge.Although there certainly are cases deserving an award, I have to question if all cases now involved are equal to them. If someone can show us that, indeed, yes, then that would be the end of it.
I also think there is some possibility that because of these large rewards, they(?) didn’t want attention drawn to Shirley Sherrod, for her to become a known figure to the American public and this may have been the real reason for the rush to take her out of the public domain ?
When the urging for her to resign accomplished the opposite and made her into a household word, they saw the opportunity to not oly deflect but expand and exploit their favourite theme of racism.
In some instances, this becomes a win-win situation for them, at least among those who support the use of the race card.
Furthermore, it gave them another chance to dissuade voters concerning positive outcomes issuing from state rights. A totally lame canard in my view but it will resonate with some.State rights, like the US Constitution, is a roadblock to many of the statist schemes they have been cooking up these past decades for incremental power grabs.
I do not believe for a minute that any of the spokes-persons on the CNN panel have an actual aversion to states rights because of paranoia in regards to Jim Crow today. That is utter nonsense.
Having said this, I will also say this is my opinion, conceived wholly from my own suspicions about a government I personally see trending in the wrong direction and I no longer feel is being truthful or honourable.
TrickyDick commented:
How many white faces do you see in that picture. No one at CNN iseven worthy of being called a journalist.