Saturday Night Card Game (The 10th Amendment is racist)
28th August 2011
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain…
There is a curious argument used to paint the Tea Party movement and conservatives as racist.
The argument goes that since slave owners and segregationists invoked states rights, and since the Tea Party movement and conservatives invoke states rights, therefore the Tea Party movement and conservatives are racist.
Of course, there is no logic to this construct. Just because one use of the 10th Amendment was for racist purposes does not mean that all other invocations of the 10th Amendment are racist. Unless of course the 10th Amendment and our federalist structure itself is racist.
Nonetheless, it is a theme the Jesse Jacksons of the world push day in and day out in order to play the race card in favor of Democrats, in this case having a crowd repeat “big government is us by another name.”
By ‘us’, of course, Jesse Jackson (Lawn Jockey of the Crust) means himself and his tax-parasite friends.
August 28th, 2011 at 12:00
What white people fail to understand is that blacks define racism differently.
Take classical Marxism. Now do the following substitutions: Capitalism = Racism. Capitalists = white people. Proletariat = people of color.
Under that construct, the Tea Party and conservatives are racist. But so are the Democrats.
Not saying it’s right, just saying that’s how they think. No useful dialog–other than bullets, which I’m sure All Good Texans are itchin’ to try–will be possible until white folks realize it.
August 29th, 2011 at 09:59
Of course blacks define racism differently. ‘Racism’ is inconveniencing black people. If it doesn’t inconvenience black people, then it isn’t racism, no matter who is actually being inconvenienced. Very convenient for them, oddly enough.
August 29th, 2011 at 12:58
Whatever. You wanna fix the blame, or fix the problem?
If you wanna fix the problem, you have to meet people where they are, not where you wish they were.