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Black Kids Are Kids, Too

imageI headed over to Townhall this morning, in much the same way you go the long way to rubberneck at the accident you heard about on the radio.  Wait, I’m the only one who does that?  Well, it was theoretical anyway…not that I’d ever do it…gotta finish this post up, there’s something going down on 23!

Anyways, Walter Williams, who is black, is attempting to negate Jimmy Carter’s comments that much of the criticism Obama faces is based on racism by declaring - wait for it! - that Carter himself is racist!

Former president Jimmy Carter said, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.” That’s from a man who earlier referred to Obama as “This black boy” on the Jim Lehrer “News Hour.”

WHAAAAAA?  A former President demeaningly referred to a grown black man as a “boy”, and the librul legacy MSMedia covered it up?  Despicable!

Except, oh, wait, no.

JIM LEHRER: And do you think that—if it happens that he is elected, or even just being nominated, is—will send positive ripple effects throughout the country on the race issue?

JIMMY CARTER: Around the world. Around the world. And I think it already has sent a wave of approbation and admiration in many countries around the world, just knowing that this black boy who grew up with just a loving mother and grandparents—and that was about all he had to start with—does now have a chance to become the nominee of the Democratic Party for president.

And that’s a transcript from Jammie Wearing Fool, who probably inserted in another three things he thought were racist but were actually just multisyllabic words.  Jimmy Carter referred to Barack Obama as a “black boy” during the period in which Obama was a boy.  And black, too. That was shortly after he renounced his Indonesiandom.

I can’t wait until conservative bloggers decide to protest a elementary school basketball game on the South Side of Chicago for engaging in racist stereotypes.  And then claim they actually left the streets cleaner than when they got there, like tiny Roombas who claim they read Hayek on a regular basis.

 

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 07:16 AM • (19) Comments

And then claim they actually left the streets cleaner than when they got there, like tiny Roombas who claim they read Hayek on a regular basis.

Hahahahaha!  Now I will forever think of the teabaggers in DC as “tiny Roombas” (never mind the piles of discarded signs and food containers and the overflowing rubbish bins).  Squat, ugly little mindless machines that move aimlessly in circles and keep mumbling Socialist…fascist…socialist every time they bump into each other.  Awesome.

They’re really good at misrepresenting via selective quoting, aren’t they?  It’s about all they’ve got.

Comment #1: litbrit  on  10/01  at  08:47 AM

Squat, ugly little mindless machines that move aimlessly in circles and keep mumbling Socialist…fascist…socialist every time they bump into each other.  Awesome.

Actually, I like to think of them as Daleks, screeching about Resistance is Futile, and You Too Will Worship Ayn Rand, and the like, but not actually able to climb stairs or spell protest signs correctly. Also, I’m pretty sure Daleks were British robots, not drunken hillbillies. Other than that, the same.

Comment #2: pastordan  on  10/01  at  10:06 AM

Imagine if the time and energy spent going over speeches with a fine-tooth comb and nit-parsing them into offensiveness were being used to do useful things in people’s communities.

Comment #3: paul  on  10/01  at  10:09 AM

This would be hilarious if it weren’t so utterly disappointing.

Comment #4: bananacat  on  10/01  at  10:12 AM

Daleks can climb stairs now.

Still not overly bright and stuck on RAGE and SCREAMING since they can’t stand anyone who’s slightly different from themselves and want to exterminate them, though, so not a bad comparison. 

Realizing that screaming, raging, idiotic machines might not be quite as easy to defeat now as in the past is also a good lesson.

Comment #5: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  10/01  at  10:43 AM

Actually, I like to think of them as Daleks, screeching about Resistance is Futile, and You Too Will Worship Ayn Rand, and the like, but not actually able to climb stairs or spell protest signs correctly.

http://picasaweb.google.com/zifnab25/GoofingAround#5387629300272317634

Comment #6: Zifnab  on  10/01  at  10:53 AM

Walter E. Williams is just as offensive in the classroom as he is on Townhall.  Trust.

Comment #8: SarahMC  on  10/01  at  11:06 AM

I love Doctor Who and the mention of the Daleks and I love the pic zifnab.  WW is a crazy man.  SMH

Comment #9: Kitty  on  10/01  at  11:54 AM

Actually, I’d bet that Carter himself would go into great grandfather-scholar detail about how his early “training” in racism affected how he sees the world and where his greatest challenges still are in that regard.

Comment #10: Ms Kate  on  10/01  at  12:54 PM

Which, Ms Kate, is at the very core of why they hate him. Honest, disciplined self-awareness is un-American.

Comment #11: Auguste  on  10/01  at  01:34 PM

This is pretty funny stuff.

I can remember an instance in which a news commentator referred to Obama as a “boy” that I find far more racially insensitive than what Carter said.  I don’t think the commentator was necessarily trying to sound racist or make a racist comment, but given who he works for and his own known political leanings, it wasn’t the best word choice…

Fox News Channel, November 4, 2008, immediately after Obama won the election:

Brit Hume:  As we approach the hour, we’re about to tell you something that you may have recognized was inevitable.  It’s now 11 o’clock, we project California for Barack Obama.  That will change our electoral board from 220 votes to 275, and make Barack Obama, in our view, President-elect of the United States of America.

[pause as camera view switches to Chicago rally]

And that of course is the scene in Grant Park in Chicago, where as you can see, a large throng has gathered and has been waiting for some hours to hear this news.  They came, obviously expecting it, on what turned out to be a remarkably balmy night for early November in the Midwest.  And there you see flashbulbs popping, American flags in the breeze, and people jumping up and down applauding and yelling with joy that their man, Barack Obama, a hometown boy, at least an adopted hometown boy, has been elected the 44th President of the United States.

I don’t think Hume was trying to make an intentionally racist remark with those words, but given the historic nature of that night, it seemed pretty innappropriate to characterize the man who had just been elected the first African-American President in U.S. history as “a hometown boy”.

I wonder if Williams is prepared to call Brit Hume a racist for referring to Obama as a “boy” on the very night he was elected president?

Comment #12: DTG in STL  on  10/01  at  03:06 PM

I lost all semblance of respect for Williams when one of his columns showed up, IIRC, the Bryan-College Station Eagle (cue Aggie jokes), and he felt the need to define rape and murder as _property crimes_ before he could declare them immoral.  The man’s slime.

Comment #13: Scott the Obscure  on  10/01  at  03:10 PM

Tsk.  “Resistance is Futile” is from the Borg, not the Daleks.  The Daleks were all about exterminating.

Comment #14: Katherine  on  10/01  at  03:17 PM

Daleks can climb stairs now.

Well, they fly, which is infinitely better. And they say “Elevate” before they take off, which is about the time the Doctor shits his pants and starts running, as I recall.

What?

Comment #15: Incertus, Nacho Daddy  on  10/01  at  06:16 PM

Honest, disciplined self-awareness and sincerely Christian humility is un-American.

FTFY!

Comment #16: Ms Kate  on  10/01  at  06:40 PM

Zinfab - the sign is all wrong.  It’s not hand written.  You forgot the apostrophe in GUN’S. All the words are spelled right.  And where’s the picture of the President with a scribbled-on hitlerstache?

Concept:  A
Execution:  C

EXTERMINATE!

Comment #17: JadedOptimist  on  10/01  at  09:45 PM

Also, Daleks aren’t robots. What you perceive as the Dalek is actually its combination tank and life support system. Inside the casing is the actual Dalek, which is a mutated descendant of the Kaleds, based on the specific mutations that were developing in Davros, their top scientist, as the world was so poisoned by nuclear war the Kaleds could not survive as a species. The Dalek is actually a squidgey green thing, strong, but usually incapable of surviving long if their casings are broken open.

Comment #18: Samantha Vimes  on  10/02  at  07:10 AM

a hometown boy, at least an adopted hometown boy

To be fair to Brit Hume, that’s how the phrase goes. We don’t *say* “hometown man”. It’s “hometown boy” because it originated as a reference to where someone grew up, so it’s a short way of saying “person who as a boy grew up in this town”.

“Boy” without qualifiers may be a horrifically racist way to refer to a black man, but when you add qualifiers that make it a set phrase, such as “hometown boy”, or if you’re actually referring to the time in the black man’s life when he was a child, then it’s not racist anymore.

That being said, the point about conservabots not saying anything about Hume’s use of the word “boy” but freaking out over Jimmy Carter’s is well taken.

Comment #19: Alara J Rogers  on  10/02  at  03:41 PM
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