A tale of two Rices, the race card, and rank hypocrisy
Black conservative Deroy Murdock takes on the race-card-playing tactics of Democrats on the issue of UN Ambassador Susan Rice – and wins:
Just as the aforementioned Democrats rebuffed Rice and Thomas due to policy differences (possibly excluding KKK alumnus Robert Byrd), Senate Republicans such as Arizonaβs John McCain, South Carolinaβs Lindsey Graham, and New Hampshireβs Kelly Ayotte have criticized U.N. ambassador Susan Rice β but not for practicing diplomacy while black. Regardless, liberals scream: βRacism!β
βThere is a clear sexism and racism that goes with these comments being made by unfortunately Senator McCain and others,βΒ saidΒ Representative Marcia Fudge (D., Ohio), incoming Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman. βIt is a shame that anytime something goes wrong, they pick on women and minorities.β
After Republicans called Susan Rice βincompetent,β Representative James Clyburn (D., South Carolina) toldΒ CNN: βThese are code words.Β .Β .Β .Β Those of us who were born and raised in the South β weβve been hearing these little words and phrases all of our lives and we get insulted by them.β
When 97 House Republicans wrote President Obama to condemn Rice, a November 22Β Washington PostΒ editorialΒ helpfully noted that βmore than 80 of the signatories are white males, and nearly half are from states of the former Confederacy.β
MSNBCβs Richard WolffeΒ decriedΒ a βwitch hunt going on the right about these people of color, letβs face it, around this president. Eric Holder, Valerie Jarrett, now Susan Rice.β
βIβll leave it to you to decide how much of the tarring of Rice as incompetent and unqualified is about the myth of black inferiority and female inferiority,βΒ saidΒ MSNBC anchor TourΓ©.
Why would allegedly racist, sexist Republicans let another black female diplomat named Rice β Condoleezza βΒ addressΒ their national convention last August 29, immediately before Representative Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) accepted the partyβs vice-presidential nomination? Since when do bigots give 19 minutes of prime-time TV to people they despise?
If Senators Graham and McCain really canβt stomach blacks, why did they andΒ every other voting RepublicanΒ send a black woman (Condoleezza Rice) to run the State Department and, in McCainβs case, a black man (Clarence Thomas) to the Supreme Court for life? (Only two Republicans spurned Thomas: Vermontβs James Jeffords and Oregonβs Bob Packwood, both liberals.)
Make sure to read the whole thing.
Murdock rightly goes on to call for what we all have been for years now: For the left to STOP Β falsely playing the race card every time “one of their own” has been criticized, and save the criticisms, you know, for actual racism – not the phony type imagined or contrived for shameless political gain at the expense of the national discourse and, er … going forward on the issue of race in America.
Of course, Democrats won’t listen to this because they have too much invested in the black vote (and the female & Hispanic votes, too, it should be noted) and – as this election cycle reaffirmed, theirΒ demagoguery Β on any number of issues, ranging from birth control to rape to affirmative action to illegal immigration went a long way towards helping get Barack Obama and his party back over the finish line after a very disappointing year from them in 2010. Β We can’t rely on the left to stop these disgusting tactics, nor can we count on most of their allies in the mainstream press to call them out on it, so it’s on us to continue to tenaciously take them to task until people, in particular “minorities”, start waking up.
And when they do, and the peeling off of their voting ranks from the Democrats starts, it’ll be a thing of beauty. Β I, for one, hope I’ll be alive to see it. Β As I’ve said repeatedly, once the left loses its stranglehold on the “minority” vote, winning elections will be a lot harder for them because they’ll have less of a “victim” class to exploit.
Hey, a girl can dream, can’t she?