Can You Handle The Truth?: 02/01/2009

A Bold Prediction

CALLING JANEANE GAROFALO!

This is what I emailed to Countdown at MSNBC:

HELLO

“I have some questions for her. Please tell her she is wacked out on her statements of the Tea Parties.

“Racism? I’m black and from Chicago, the most segregated city in the North. When I was younger in the 60’s, a large stone came through our house because we moved into a new neighborhood. (By the way, these were not the ‘racist Republicans.’ These were all white Democrats. Were not the white Democrats supposed to love black people?) I have experienced racism up close and personal many times in Chicago, all white Democrats, even on a daily basis at one time. I have even been “Heil Hitlered” by Neo-Nazis.

“When it comes to racism, I was out on the playing field getting knocked down for years. She was sitting in the nosebleed section of the bleachers just watching and eating hotdogs and going home unscathed. Her attempt to somehow sympathize with black people is very pathetic and very phony. She is only fooling herself with her rhetoric.

“Racism is only a nice spectator sport for her.

“If she really cared about black people, she would have been outraged about the four black students shot in New Jersey where she is from. Three of them died. But I did not hear a sound from her. As a matter of fact, here is what I found on Google: “Your search - ‘Janeane Garofalo’ ‘black students shot - did not match any documents.” It was on the news everyplace. What is she doing to stop the deliberate destruction of the black community? Her actions speak so loud I cannot hear a word she says.

“I dare say, if she was offered a million dollars to change her skin color to my color, she would not do it. Please tell her that for me. She benefits from the same white privilege that she pretends she is against. How clever. I know blacks much better than her and we can see that through that phoniness, but she cannot. She is completely blind yet touts herself as an expert in racial relations.

“If you can give her my phone number I would appreciate it. It is XXX-XXX-XXXX. She needs to learn what racism is about from one who has experienced it and knows more about it than she would care to know.”

I really want her to call me back.

My message to these phony white “civil rights” liberals is until you have walked 51 years in my shoes, you are completely clueless about racism. I experienced racism on a daily basis for 4 years when I was in high school in Chicago. When I wanted to visit a white friend in a fraternity at the University of Illinois, I was told by one of the frat brothers “We don’t want any trouble here,” and he turned me away. I had a racist boss in Ohio and that was not my choice. When I was walking a street in Texas, I heard from a car “Hey, you’re a nigger!” and “Hooray for niggers! Hooray for niggers!” I was even turned away from a motel in Canada because of my skin color. And I repeat, over 95% of racism I encountered was from WHITE DEMOCRATS and not Republicans. What does that say about you? You all sit with Ms. Garofalo in the nosebleed section of the bleachers while I played on field taking the blows. You think you are the experts in racism? You have the gall to talk about who is racist and who is not. You white Garofalo fans would not trade places with me, to go through what I have gone through and probably will go through. You white Garofalo fans criticize white Republicans and conservatives but just like Garofalo, you also benefit from white privilege and you would not give that up yourselves. I was born and raised in Chicago, a racist city, where I heard little boys on the street near White Sox Park say “White Power! White Power!” By the way, that was a 100% Democratic neighborhood. I have the utmost authority to say who is racist and who is not. I can also tell who are the white phonies who claim they love black people but don’t realize they don’t fool me. I have lived through racism. You have no authority whatsoever to flippantly call people racist. Besides that you are not thought too highly thought about with black Democrats. You are never praised or discussed in black conversation. The vast majority of Blacks do not even listen to Air America.

Just sit down and shut up.

There is Nothing New Under the Sun

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs."
-- Booker T. Washington

What They Will Say When Obama Fails

Today is Wednesday, April 8, 2009. These are predictions of what Obama supporters, if there are any remaining, will say after Obama fails:

“The Republicans messed things up so much it needed a superhuman effort to make things right. It probably needed more than 8 years by Obama to fix it”

“The Republicans and the traitorous moderate Democrats (probably closet Republicans themselves) did their very best to obstruct Obama’s policies.”

“The Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate did not rally around him like they should have.”

“The Congress cared more about their own power than about supporting Obama.”

“Obama had traitors working with him.”

“People demanded too much out of him.”

“God is punishing the nation for not backing Obama.”

“The ‘Birthers” wanted to bring him down. They should have left the birth certificate issue alone. Where Obama was born was nobody’s business. They act like its a Constitutional issue or something.”

“Wall Street wanted to bring him down.”

“Rogue elements of the Antiwar movement worked against him when they should have kept their mouths shut about Obama continuing Bush’s policies. And they should have kept it a secret that Obama was expanding the war in Afghanistan. They were only supposed to protest Bush only!”

“Those right-wing blogs and right-wingnut idiot writers on the internet confused clear-thinking people and got them brainwashed.”

“You all didn’t give him a chance.”

“Racist white Americans (every white person who did not vote for Obama) did not want to unify this country.”

“The Media, like Chris Matthews, only pretended to love him. Then they showed their true colors.”

“Sellout black conservatives and sellout anti-Obama black liberals conspired together.”

“Anti-Obama YouTube viral videos passed around destroyed the Presidency.”

“The Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, etc. did not do their jobs correctly to set the record straight.”

“Those evil right-wing talk show hosts brought him down. We told you they should have been silenced!”

“Those ‘Tea Party’ people should have been put in prison for treason and sedition.”

“You all didn’t give him a chance.”

“MoveOn.org, ACORN, and Organizing for America did a lousy job in supporting our President. No excuses!”

“The fascist Pro-Life Movement did everything they could to undermine our President.”

“They all worked to make sure that the first black president failed.”

“Those PUMA Democrats brought him down.”

“He had bad advisors.”

“They set him up.” (Who are “they”?)

“You all didn’t give him a chance.”

“You all resisted the will of God by resisting Obama.”

“Bush set him up to fail.”

“He was a public servant, not a perfect servant.”

“He is only human. He had good intentions.”

“You cannot expect one man to have all the answers.”

“The weight of the world was on his shoulders. It was just too much for him. He is a good man. He really tried.”

“He was misunderstood.”

“He is an imposter! That was not the real Obama. It was a Republican Obama clone who was paid off to fail. The real Obama was kidnapped! He never had a chance!”