by Charles Brown
Clive Bundy- the rancher who is mooching off of federal grazing land, but hates the federal government he's mooching off of - has already done us a great service by revealing his white supremacy on national news. The Republicans had to try to distance themselves from him. Ha. Along with the headline stories of taped white supremacist remarks by National Basketball Association owner Donald Sterling ...and Presto ! "racist" is back in the vocabulary of the monopoly media.
Not only that , but for the first time in decades, no journalists are accusing anybody of "playing the race card". Not yet anyway.
In Michigan last month, we had the editor of the local business newspaper use slave plantation imagery: “Maybe Detroit needs a permanent overseer” http://www.eclectablog.com/2014/04/crains-detroit-business-editor-uses-slave-plantation-imagery-maybe-detroit-needs-a-permanent-overseer.html; although that was only reported in a blog ,not on major television news.
Could there come a tectonic shift in media rhetoric ? Keeping my fingers crossed, but not holding my breath. Hey right-wing nuts in the news, please keep talking to the camera.
You see, in this Reaganite era a change we must make is in the media defaming those anti-racists speaking out against racism as "playing the race card". For decades, anti-racist speech has been censored by the Press through this sleight of hand. We live in a "post-racial" society, supposedly. So, the word "racist" is never used ,except perhaps rarely to describe some person of color protesting _against_ racism. Things are so twisted that almost the only thing called "racism" by Big Brother Press are acts or statements of anti-racism. For corporate journalists, that is"playing the race card", "reverse racism".
In the infamous US Supreme Court case of _University of Caifornia vs Bakke_ , way back in 1978, affirmative action to attain racial equality, the only way equality can be achieved, was slandered as violating protections of racial equality that are provided in the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution (wow, that's a mouthful; I'm a lawyer; smiles) This began more than 30 years of denying the existence of racism anymore. The narrative has been that the racial playing field is now level , and we have achieved a "post-racial" or colorblind society , in no need of affirmative action remedies to overcome historically instituted inequality between whites and people's of color.
The recent news splashes explicitly characterizing as racist the words and thoughts of Clive Bundy and Donald Sterling may be temporary , a flash in the pan.
Afterall, the powerfully racist words of the current US Supreme Court's decision upholding Michigan's Constitutional ban on affirmative action just last week were not called racist by the media (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDUQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlive.com%2Fnews%2Fann-arbor%2Findex.ssf%2F2014%2F04%2Fpost_16.html&ei=wl1iU-amGsuzyASctYGgBw&usg=AFQjCNGyldkG8yhU3izN3ZiH1ppQY9AIBg&sig2=oAf5qyrpPcYY7OapzjPUrA&bvm=bv.65636070,d.aWw
The Kansas City Star reports that "U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) ,a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus, accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky of making a 'racist statement', and said that conservative opposition to Obamacare is rooted in racism. He labeled Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an 'Uncle Tom.' And he alleged that Republican Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi turned down $426 million in Medicaid funding as part of Obamacare 'just because a black man created it.' Thompson assert[s] that Republicans have opposed President Barack Obama because he’s black, Thompson said, 'I’ve been here a long time. . . . I’ve never seen the venom put forth on another candidate or president like I’ve seen with this president. And that’s my opinion.' "
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/30/4993815/rep-bennie-thompson-stands-by.html#storylink=cpy
' Part of the significance of this is that it is in the Washington Post. Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown's white supremacist murders may be impacting the media coverup and denial that , as Mayor Young once said, "Racism do exist"
Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/25/three-quarters-of-whites-dont-have-any-non-white-friends/
We shall overcome...again.
Survey of subsequent, related stories:
Posted May 29, 2014 Clippers’ Donald Sterling the most hated man in America, according to poll
http://nba.si.com/2014/05/29/donald-sterling-most-hated-man-in-america-poll-clippers/
http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/new-hampshire-police-official-calls-obama-n-word?cid=sm_facebook
(Trigger Warning!) Fox News Racists Dismiss "White Privilege," Claim They Are Simply "Better Than You" (Video) By Dylan Hock, Take Tener
http://take10dylanhock.blogspot.com/2014/05/trigger-warning-fox-news-racists.html
UPDATE ON THE ONE PERCENTER
http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_nl21vo3b/
Donald Sterling -- Prays for Forgiveness at Black Church Donald Sterling sat in a Black church for 2 hours Sunday in South L.A. and... TMZ
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/06/cliven-bundy-owes-more-fees-to-feds-than-all-other-u-s-ranchers-combined/
https://www.facebook.com/TheAntiMedia/photos/a.156753707783006.14385.156720204453023/351870184938023/?type=1&theater
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' Margaret O'Neill It is sad that there is so much in the way of racial tension. God bless everybody affected. Peace to the people of Ferguson. Rest in peace Michael Brown. 2 hrs · Like · 1
Charles Brown Yes, we must call "racial tension" "white supremacy". 2 hrs · Like · 2
Margaret O'Neill Charles, the white people sometimes act like this. Yes. Not all of us though. Racial tension created by a white supremacist police force in Ferguson. Many white people have spoken out against it. Many more have protested to call wrong wrong. 2 hrs · Unlike · 4
Gloria Northcross Jenkins I saw it on TV. 2 hrs · Like · 1
Charles Brown Yes, Margaret O'Neill, in this Reaganite era a change we must make is in the media defaming those anti-racists speaking out against racism as "playing the race card". For decades, anti-racist speech has been censored by the Press through this sleight of hand. We live in a "post-racial" society, supposedly. So, the word "racist" is never used ,except perhaps rarely to describe some person of color protesting _against_ racism. Things are so twisted that almost the only thing called "racism" by Big Brother Press are acts or statements of anti-racism. For corporate journalists, that is"playing the race card", "reverse racism".
In the infamous US Supreme Court case of _University of Caifornia vs Bakke_ , way back in 1978, affirmative action to attain racial equality, the only way equality can be achieved, was slandered as violating protections of racial equality that are provided in the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution (wow, that's a mouthful; I'm a lawyer; smiles) This began more than 30 years of denying the existence of racism anymore. The narrative has been that the racial playing field is now level , and we have achieved a "post-racial" or colorblind society , in no need of affirmative action remedies to overcome historically instituted inequality between whites and people's of color.http://take10charles.blogspot.com/.../black-people-still...
Labor Power: "Black people still slaves to the 1% and their stooges - 'racism' back in the news" take10charles.blogspot.com|By cb 2 mins · Like · Remove Preview
Charles Brown We have to bring back the use of "white racist" and disgard "racial tension" and other neutral usagesk, as if the fault is on Black people _at all_ for the tension
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