The Gold Standard of Racism
Last night I watched a Sean Hannity interview with Congressman Allen West which elicited a gleaming nugget of liberal Democrat racism of which I was unaware. Most of TAH’s readers are probably familiar with the viciously racist political ad issued by a Democrat PAC which showed Congressman West beating up on old ladies, old white ladies, in fact, just to get their racist message across. But what many of you probably missed, as did I, in my disinterested viewing of the ad, was one of its most snidely racist stereotypes: the Allen West depicted is sporting a flashing gold tooth, a complete fabrication, obviously intended to reinforce stereotypes of black thugs who mug old white ladies.
As West said and visually demonstrated as well to Hannity, he has no gold teeth.
What a thoroughly despicable, racist, cheap shot by the folks who are so quick to call us conservatives racists and condemn us for stereotyping blacks. When are blacks going to wake up and realize the true contempt which their liberal Democrat masters have for them?
Crossposted at American Thinker
Category: 2012 election
PT…
Yet again, we see whose true colors show when it comes to being racist. When the Reverend Wright opined about evil white people, I remember thinking, “Does every black person hate me the way he does?” I was dumbfounded. And then you’ve got that tool at MSNBC– Toure. Nothing but a punk doing everything he can to incite racism. There are no scruples and the gloves are off with the dems. This includes the President issuing veiled threats to the Romney campaign.
You meant to say “gold grille”, Russ…
You are absolutely correct – that’s a racist stereotype being unfairly and inappropriately applied to Mr. West.
I still think the GOP tends to have more race bias than the Democrats, but that doesn’t excuse things like this. It just illustrates there are idiots in both camps, something which surely we can all agree on.
LTC West has balls of steel and can deal with it. This kind of stuff turns off any thinking human so I say keep doing it and see what happens in Nov.
Re#3 “I still think the GOP tends to have more race bias”. Bullshit. It was the Dims that voted for everything to stop integration.
I’m really getting tired of this racial shit. I live in Bubba country yet I never hear any of them being racist…admittedly. that was in the past. Oh, whoopsie…they are all Dims And voted for Dear Leader…last time, because he was a Dim.
But, If Pres Shroom keeps this up and blacks don’t slap him down, then I may have to rethink my views. Same goes for “Religion of Peace”/s folks.
What a relief, just don’t call him “articulate”, “distinguished”, “intellectual”, “competent”, “industrious”, “skilled”, and “ambituous”. He doesn’t want to be labeled as an uppity black man and all.
Who was it that called Shroom a clean, articulate, black man? I think he was a Dim.
It was Joe Biden.
The brightest of all the dem bulbs.
Seriously, Anonymous, you think that the Republicans are running blatantly racist ads? How bout you show me where they are.
@9, He cant, cuz they’re not. 🙂
I am so confused… If that West guy ran for President I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. Am I a racist?
That ad is sad for our Country. Bad for the Democrat Party. And quite frankly good for COL West. Because it shows the truth about liberals. They will do and say anything to keep the money (our taxes) flowing to those who are not earning it!
I still think the GOP tends to have more race bias than the Democrats
Is this based on anything other than repetition by Democrats?
Where’s insipid? I’d like to hear how he thinks it’s racist that someone noticed racism by the DNC.
Not really. I expect his idiocy will induce desires of violence in many, but who would have known that racism wouldn’t get his attention.
Beat me to it, WOTN. Been waiting for sip’s denunciation of the racist ad since it became known, but all I hear are the crickets chirping.
STATISTICS Anonymous!!! Show us the numbers to back your specious stereotype. Put up or shut up…it’s simple as that.
I was a Democrat as long as I’ve been a conservative and a Republican and my life experiences have shown me the exact opposite of what you claim.
It’s somewhat akin to these Occupy thugs compared to Tea Party demonstrators. Everyone can see with their own eyes who the true pigs are, those who leave a wasteland in the wake of their demonstrations; conversely, the Tea Party demonstrators leave their demonstration sites as pristine as they were prior.
But that truth, that fact, doesn’t fit the liberal media’s meme about the Tea Party so they’re the ones described as disruptive, destructive and disrespectful radicals.
insipid where are you? insipid come out and play…clink clink…insipid…come out and play…clink clink…
I am a Southern Democrat but Sean Hannity is a moron.
JPJ He’s too much of a chicken shit to call the left out on it’s blatant racism, yet spares no effort to twist words on this blog into racist remarks.
that crap made me almost as angry as that turdball toure coming up with a fake word to say “angry” was now racial coding. My conservative crush s.e. cupp bitch slapped him. What a tool that clown is. Pretty much shows how deperate the obamarites are.
That video clip was racist? I’ve gotta get out more…
jonp, S.E. is a hottie who knows how to shoot, knows how to eat meat, and knows good politics… did I mention hot?
Green Thumb, why is he a moron? It is a sign of a weak mind to level an insult. Why not explain why you disagree with him, why you believe his politics are different, and why you feel that you can simply call him a name as if that means anything to him?
See, calling someone a simple name because you disagree with them is about as meaningful as a Special Olympics gold medalist calling someone retarded.
@9 I didn’t say the Republicans are running blatantly racist ads. I simply said I find that the GOP has a larger race bias than the Democratic Party. I’ll provide a bit more info in my other replies.
@13 Since I’m clearly in the minority here, let me just try to link a few things below in one reply. Also, please bear in mind I’m by no means claiming the Democrats are completely and utterly free of racism – that’d be ludicrous! – I’m just saying that, in my opinion, I find the GOP, on the whole, to have a larger bias when it comes to race-based things.
Racism isn’t a binary thing – there are degrees to it, nuance to how it’s perceived, white vs. black racism, black vs. white racism, black vs. asian racism, etc. We all have some sort of intrinsic race bias, I just find it slightly higher in the GOP.
@16 I didn’t claim it was a stereotype – I don’t, for example, believe the vast majority of GOP members hate pick-some-minority. Every person, white, black, asian, native American, etc., has intrinsic attitudes towards race. Some are stronger than others. This doesn’t mean that every member of the GOP is a racist bastard, it simply means, to my experience, the prevalence of low-level racism is more wide-spread in the GOP than it is in the Democratic party. Let’s back up, though, and start with demographics. Can we agree that the GOP has a larger contingent of older voters? And that, as various studies have shown (and our own history has shown), racial prejudices tend to be less severe in younger people? If you don’t accept this premise, I’ll find articles for you. Those two facts together should show that statistically, stronger racial biases are shown in the GOP. If you want some studies on such things, I just Googled and found a few – one comes from a study done at the University of Washington’s WISER institute: http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/resent.pdf I’m linking that slide in particular because it highlights racial resentment in two directions – oddly enough, with Democrats going far one way and Conservatives going (slightly farther) the other. It also shows Tea Partiers, on the whole, as slightly further still than Conservatives. Of course, there’s also the whole Southern Strategy, the demographics of rural vs. urban attitudes, and plenty of other things. None of which is there to say that you, Poetrooper, are a racist bastard. Or anyone else here for that matter. It just shows that there are biases, and in certain groups of people they’re larger than others. I have my own biases, and I have family members who have some pretty severe ones. Yeah, a lot of the Occupy people were idiots. And many of the Tea Party people were respectful, clean patriots. I’m not saying otherwise to any of that. Now, if you don’t mind me reversing the question, since you take issue with my suggestion that the GOP has a larger racial bias than Democrats,… Read more »
@25 Your slide is misleading to say the least. Besides not having any labels on the axes it lacks any p values to define what a statistically significant result would be if the results had actually been labeled. As none of the results are outside of one standard deviation I’d have to doubt any significant result was found based on that slide alone. Along with the fact that beta standardized coeffecients can be misleading. If the slide is to believed at all it measures predictors of racism, not actual incidents or racism.
As far as any psychology or social science research at the university level goes universities use undergraduate students. Judging by the only demographics I can find from the school which can be found here: http://www.washington.edu/research/guide/demographics.html
The sample used for the study wasn’t representitive of the population.
Basically, you just linked a picture.
Wasn’t the Republican party the ones that ended slavery? Just sayin……..
George Wallace was a Dem. And he was very outspoken about segregation and blacks. Libs always have selective amnesia.
Anonymous is doing what doctrinaire Leftists do – make a casual accusation (“I still think the GOP tends to have more race bias than the Democrats”) and then use the “prove I’m wrong” defense while disqualifying any pertinent evidence. Obvious bullshit from a weak minded person.
Not to mention using the logical fallacy of making someone else prove a negative, which can’t be done.
@Raptor…don’t forget Sen. Fulbright, who Clinton clerked for and called his mentor and inspiration was an avowed segregationist. And let’s not even get into LBJ’s comments about how he’d “have those ni****s voting Democrat for the next hundred years” after signing Great Society progems into law.
Or just the general affirmative action or set aside programs which basically are liberal’s way of indirectly telling some minorities they’re just too stupid to compete with the average folks…
If anything I’d say the GOP is the party that cares less about race. They value a person’s value more than their skin color, like say, libs, with their affirmative action.
Yeah, today’s liberals always seem to forget it was the Democratic party that ran – with an iron fist – the Jim Crow “Solid South”. And that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed only with GOP votes, because segregationist Democratic Senators and Representatives would not vote in favor of passage. Though the Democratic party had a veto-proof majority in the Senate and nearly 250 votes in the House, they could not muster the votes to pass the act in either chamber without GOP support.
@ 25- Dude, studies of any kind are bought and paid for ahead of time. So when some jackwagon spouts off about studies, I look the other way because the outcomes are pre-determined. Maybe Mr. Dillard needs to get over here and straighten your line of thinking out….Just saying.
Don’t forget the beloved (by other Dims) Sen Robert “Sheets” Byrd was a Grand Kleegle or whatever the title is, in the KKK
Joe biden’s shackles comment made me laugh. Especially with so many caught up in the shackles of public assistance. The Dens want Americans in the shackles of government!
SJ, I agree with your comment in post #34. How can anyone claim that Republicans are racist when the Democrats had Robert Byrd, a member of the KKK? The KKK! You can’t get any more white racist than that. Put it’s all good. He had a D behind his name.
What a despicable ad…but I can’t say that I’m surprised. Political parties and their proxies use things like race, religion and patriotism to rile voter and raise money. I would argue that it’s wasted campaign money though, as I don’t think anyone who isn’t solidly locked in to vote one way or the other, would be swayed by the crass appeal to this kind of campaigning.
@ 26: I didn’t link to all the information about the slide, figuring it’d turn up if people were interested. In short, the main study (linked below) faced some criticism because some views that are considered non-mainstream with respect to race also correlate with simple conservative ideas – which by itself would not be indicative of racism. So a regression analysis was performed to account for that. Mind you, this deals only with the Tea Party, not ‘Republicans’, but if you need proof that the Tea Party is compromised of more Republican-leaning types than Democrat ones, I can also find those. Here’s the main study: http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html And here’s the paragraph in which the figure was linked, but I’d suggest reading the preceding two as well as it goes into the methodology: “As the figure shows, even as we account for conservatism and partisanship, support for the Tea Party remains a valid predictor of racial resentment. We’re not saying that ideology isn’t important, because it is: as people become more conservative, it increases by 23 percent the chance that they’re racially resentful. Also, Democrats are 15 percent less likely than Republicans to be racially resentful. Even so, support for the Tea Party makes one 25 percent more likely to be racially resentful than those who don’t support the Tea Party.” As for the survey itself, it wasn’t done of local students at UW, it was a multi state survey targeting Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and California. Here’s a bit more on the methodology, and you’ll like question #5 in particular since the author is very clearly stating that this data only applies to the states surveyed, not the country as a whole. Link: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/pollster-responds-to-your-questions.html As for measuring ‘actual incidents’ of racism, that wasn’t my intention – as I said, racism isn’t a binary thing. One can be racially biased yet not act on it in any trackable way. I simply said that I find the GOP to be more racially biased, quite possibly because their base tends to be older, and age and racism have correlated pretty well… Read more »
@ 29: It wasn’t so much a ‘prove I’m wrong’ defense as it was “Here’s some evidence and some reasoning – what have you got to counteract that?”. Notice people in these comments making points about Democrats being racist? I’m simply saying where are the statistics that show this to be a common mindset as opposed to a individual incidents.
You can make a case, for example, that affirmative action is racist. I certainly think it is, yet it’s widely supported by many liberals. I’m an independent voter, not a Democrat, and I KNOW both sides exhibit racial biases. I’m just saying that in my own experience, and what data I have seen, that it tends to be somewhat stronger on the GOP side.
@30 I don’t think this situation really qualifies for that logical fallacy. If I flip a standard issue coin and say it lands heads-up, and I say as much, asking someone who doesn’t believe me for evidence that it landed tails up isn’t the same as asking them to ‘prove a negative’ in that sense.
@31 For what it’s worth, I’m completely against affirmative action and do agree that it’s racist.
@ 33: As the saying goes, there are ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’. I think the DATA doesn’t lie (much – there’s always some intrinsic error within statistical surveys), but the interpretation of the data is often massaged to prove a particular point. I just don’t see how that was done in this case. You want to believe it’s a bought study, that’s your right.
Ahhh, the dog returns to it’s vomit as a yellow dog is wont to do. “I’m not an ideolog, heck, I even disagree with affirmative action. I’m so open minded that I can bring myself to calling it racist. Now, about you racist teabagging Republicans….”
The point of the original post was the blatantly sterotyping used in a Democrat political advertisement to undermine a black Republican candidate. So when is ignorant demogoguery fairly or appropriately applied to anyone? You obviously set out to create an argument, and did the usual, boring name calling, praising faintly, intellectual swooning, and dog-whistle-racist crap that no longer works.
What pathetic snobbery – “You want to believe it’s a bought study, that’s you right.” Almost as egregious as your pious bigotry about “yeah, some of the things my guys say kinda sucks, but YOU GUYS SUCK EVEN MORE.” Childish.
During the entire time I knew (then) Major West, he never had a gold tooth. Oh, and mugging was out of the question as well, that man had one of the most intimidating ‘mean mugs’ of any man I knew.
@ 43: I didn’t set out to cause an argument – I, as one of the more liberal (though politically independent) commenters on this site, simply wanted to say that I absolutely agree that the ad was racist. Whenever race comes up, people here rhetorically ask, “When are the libs going to say this is wrong?!” So, I did. And then, to the horror of all, I said that in my opinion, though both parties have their racial biases, the GOP has a stronger one. Where have I named-called? I think I’ve conducted myself fairly. The only time I’ve used anything that could be construed as an insult (‘racist bastard’) was when I explicitly said I’m NOT calling anyone that.
As for my reply to streetsweeper (#33), it wasn’t pathetic snobbery but rather the understanding that I tend to be pretty dismissive of ‘studies’, too, and he’s well within his right to view it skeptically. In this particular study, I don’t see a lot to argue with. We differed in our opinions, but it wasn’t worth fighting over. How is that childish?
The dismissive “it’s your right, but your obviously too stupid to understand it.” You’re right.You rock, man. You are a towering beacon of independent thought. I bow down to your superior intellect and deep insight into the American psyche. Even in the face of a mile high wall of blatant racism emmanating directly from the Democrat – oh, I almost forgot that your a Simon-pure “independent” – party, us Republicans are the mostest racist EVAH. Just because you say so.
re: Anon:”I still think the GOP tends to have more race bias than the Democrats, but that doesn’t excuse things like this. It just illustrates there are idiots in both camps, something which surely we can all agree on.”
No, not really. The Democrat party was the party of slavery & Jim Crow. The Democrat Supreme Court Justice Tanney stated that “a black man has no rights that a white man is bound to respect”. Dead Dem Sen Byrd WV was a kleagle in the Klan. Stop with your moral equivalency & your psychological projection.
re @25 “This doesn’t mean that every member of the GOP is a racist bastard, it simply means, to my experience, the prevalence of low-level racism is more wide-spread in the GOP than it is in the Democratic party.”
If by this statement, you’re implying that Democrats have a higher prevalence of high-level racism, then you might be on to something.
So, the Ivory Towers have determined that “conservativism,” a Southern address, or membership in the RNC, are indicators of racism, hence they aren’t surprised to find that “Tea Party” protestors must also be racist. Somehow, Anon has already determined that the Elderly are also racists, because in the current elections, it looks like they’re going to vote against the DNC. Let’s start with that last bit. Senior Citizens, historically, have supported the DNC. What swings their vote? Medicare, Social Security, inflation, and other issues effecting their fixed incomes. Because Historically, the DNC voted to increase (or “protect”) Social Security and Medicare (or at least produced advertising that said they did), the Elderly voted for the DNC. The current crop of Dems voted for Obamacare and support the Buffett tax, both of which increase Medicare costs to Senior Citizens, while decreasing benefits. THAT, not the color of the POTUS’ skin, is the reason why the Elderly are hoping to put him out of office. Of course, their experience in life also effects their positions on other issues, such as Record Deficits. And oh yeah, those racist Southerners. Bulls***! I’ve lived in Northern, Southern, East Coast, West Coast, and Foreign cities, as well as rural areas. The biggest racists I’ve met in life were yahnkees. This isn’t just a modern phenomenon. Following the war, the first black owned businesses were in Southern cities, while the first race riots were in Chicago. And racism is not more prevalent in rural society than urban. In rural areas, one is far more likely to be judged on their own contributions to society, on their own work ethic, and their own morals and standards, than the color of their skin. And outsiders are likely to be viewed with suspicion, regardless of the color of their skin. The most racist undertone, that is prevalent in current politics, is that if you have a certain skin color, you aren’t smart enough to compete with those of less melatonin. This undertone is found in various programs that lower standards, require higher admission and employment quotas, and tell that voting… Read more »
@ 47: I should have specified I was talking about present-day incarnations of the parties. The collective attitude of each party seems to change over time.
As for higher prevalence of high-level racism, ‘high level’ probably wasn’t the best word for what I was thinking. I meant it as a contrast to low-level things like racist sentiments, even if actions aren’t taken on those sentiments. It could very well apply to ‘high-level’ people, though, like Rev. Jesse Jackson. I don’t know if it’s true, but I could see a case being made that the Democrats have more ‘high-level’ party-identifying types like this than the Republicans. I just think that the rank-and-file Democrats have less inherent race bias than the rank-and-file GOP members.
This, once again, does not mean I think all conservatives are knuckle-dragging racists. Let’s put some numbers to things – I’m saying IF 3% of liberals were racist, maybe I could see 4% of Conservatives as racist. That’s more. It’s not nearly ‘all’ as some people seem to be taking the statement.