Racial McCarthyism abounds in 2010. America is scared and any accusation of racism is quickly and aggressively addressed. But the protection against racism and bigotry in post racial America is now confined to perceived offenses towards Anglo Americans.
While Anglo Americans have not suffered the nooses of the KKK, have not felt the humiliation of Jim Crow laws, have not feared a state in which they must carry their passports at all times, nor have seen restaurant signs comparing them to dogs, the media- government- political complex of the 21st century is now thoroughly devoted to their protection from racism.
The swift reaction of the Obama administration in the notorious incident of Shirley Sherrod is an indication that the fear of the accusation of racism against white Americans has spread into official Washington. The success of the frame-up of an honest and decent farm-saving hero by the Joe McCarthy of race, Andrew Breitbart, is unfortunately just a symptom of the hysteria that has gripped the media and political elite.
Apparently the trio of Breitbart, the GOP, and the Tea Party are the now racial conscience of America. It seems that any creative edit from the triangle of racial terror can suffice to inspire the strength of the federal government to strike down any individual or organization that crosses their path. Shirley Sherrod was indeed lucky that a white farmer came to her defense early or she and the NAACP would have gone the way of ACORN. The fear of anti-white racial accusations has so gripped DC that we can expect future Salem-like trials with Sean Hannity presiding as judge and Goody Breitbart serving as the entranced petitioner.
Breitbart and the Republican party he caters to have found a way to scare the world's most powerful executive branch and the once venerable US Senate into fits with the mere upload function on YouTube. While it's amusing to watch the mass hypnosis the right has performed on the DC media complex, it has real and very negative consequences. One of the most apparent outcomes includes the way in which the US Senate has refused to address immigration reform.
The un-confirmable and fantastical wide-scale anti-Anglo bias, combined with the phantom menace of headless white corpses in the Arizona desert, has been enough to scare DC into a paralysis that perpetuates an entire shadow underclass of abused workers in America. The leaders of our country are so scared of the scare that they have deemed it acceptable to throw the dreams of immigrant college-bound young adults into the streets and to discard the US- born children of undocumented workers into cold detention cells.
There is no reason to not have fixed the immigration system in this country long ago other than the fear of the race-based illusions created by a few cruel grand wizards pulling levers behind sheet curtains, yet DC cowers like a weak lion when they bellow.
After the McCarthy hearings and after the Salem trials there was much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands. Hindsight is clear and history can prove to be a heartless critic. The media and those in power are at a juncture: will sanity be brought to bear or will we continue to dunk important policies in the hunt for witches?
Mario Solis-Marich is the online editor of MyLatinoNews.com and a progressive talk show host that can be heard on AM 760 in Denver and streamed at WWW.GoToMario.com Mondays through Fridays from 4 PM MT to 7 PM MT.
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Sally Kohn: Secret Emails Between Breitbart and Beck Revealed
I found these emails on a secret thumb drive that was given to me around the same time that Laura Ingraham apparently got secret copies of the Obama Diaries. The emails below are as verifiable as Ms. Ingraham's book.
black unemployment is a historic problem, not something that happened on his watch and given how badly beat up he is by the GOP/Tea partiers and the progressive left of his own party, do you want blacks to jump on him, too? you know if he fails a black man will never be elected again. maybe you can do a better job? i hate that acorn lost its funding, but who could defend it after their employees gave advice on hiding the sex trafficking of young girls? if you're black, don't you get that he has little wiggle room? no margin of error? couldn't even defend a black professor from getting arrested for entering his own home? stupid beer summit with a snobby working class white cop who couldn't take words of frustration from a rich, old, tired man just back from china.
george bush gets to ride off into the sunset. could obama have gotten away with just half of his crimes?
How is cultural origin (anglo refers to being descended from England, so it only covers a very small percentage of American "whiteys") any matter to racial discussion? And so goes the tired and lame attempt to keep the concept of "race" whilst transforming it into ever smaller sub-groups based around ethnicity and other such bullshit.
It has gone from being a problem of "whiteys" to being a problem of specific "whiteys"--which is assumed to mean all "whiteys" but those from the Iberian peninsula and Western Asia. Because as we all know that "those" people are historically "white" "racially", but they are culturally not. Culturally they are the part of the "other." I wish that the census did a DNA test instead of letting people make their false group assumptions. Or like Mexico we just gave up on the concept of a racial census completely.
It is stupid to attempt to otherize components of society based on false qualities and use them as a source of identifying blame. It is even worse that these false groups are using their false groupitude as a basis for their political teaming. America sucks. It is not a problem of any "race" or "ethnicity" or politically correct granfalloon. It is problem of ignorance and stupidity.
Breitbart punked you all! Hung you all on your own left-wing racist meme petard: jumping to conclusions without looking at the facts. How does it feel? Oh, and by the way, Ms. Sherrod will never be rehired by USDA. She's tainted goods. She could never turn down any white farmer for assistance, even rightfully so, without looking at a discrimination lawsuit. She'd be the star witness, and her self-admitted bias would be Exhibit A. I expect as quiet a retirement as possible.
Lastly, on the full-length video at 0:43 in, Ms. Sherrod thanks "the NAACP President here." Ben Jealous made a big deal condemning the conduct of the audience in response to Ms. Sherrod's remarks, but was he actually there and jumped the gun to save his own butt? Check the video out!
“What? Shooting, abusing and raping illegals? Sounds like a winner to me! Where do I sign :)â€
Your own words. The smiley face makes it nice though.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/TheMadKing/seven-latin-american-nati_n_652440_54349704.html
"Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad."
The beloved white supremacy of too many right wingers has needed to die for a while now. Now that it looks like it's going to, I can almost smell the fear. There's a palpable sense that too many people are afraid of paying for their ancestors' sins (whether said ancestors did it or not). So they fight to hang on to their privileges tooth and nail, knowing in their heart of hearts that it's a losing battle. I sympathize a little...but my sympathy only goes so far.