Sarah Palin Starts Obama-Bashing With ‘This Isn’t Racist’, Racism Ensues
Sarah Palin just won’t confront racism. What does one expect when she continues to propagate it in numerous speaking engagements?
Palin spoke at the conservative Faith & Freedom Coalition’s fall fundraiser Saturday, a “non-profit organization committed to educating, equipping, and mobilizing people of faith and like-minded individuals to be effective citizens”),where she compared the U.S. debt to slavery and prophesized that young Americans will be “shackled” by the country’s out of control spending.
According to the Des Moines Register Palin stated at the event,
Essentially, Palin is saying that our president–of mixed descent, a hearty portion of which is African American–is spiraling America into a class structure akin to slavery through incurring too much debt. And where does a prominent amount of American debt go? To WAR, of course! Yet how many times have you seen a Tea Party sponsored anti-war rally? How many times have you seen the Tea Party or conservatives shut down the government over ending the wars? Instead, Palin actually berated conservatives who did not back the government shutdown over the Affordable Care Act.
To the contrary, conservatives are typically the ones beating the war drums whenever possible, as war equals profit. They are the same groups who also continually cut social programs that help those most in need, and currently the American structure strategically places people of color predominantly in those positions. The system is designed against color and its economic structure clearly illustrates this. As does Palin’s argument. Anyone serious about cutting spending cannot ignore the vastly bloated “Defense” budget this country continues to raise at every opportunity.
Yet Palin has the nerve, the ignorance and privilege to spout her mouth, to publicly, shamefully claim that our Black president is reducing Americans to slavery. She hasn’t the faintest notion of what slavery was, what it is, nor of the history (the REAL history) it has regarding the United States. She is the quintessential racist. Ignorant of her own ignorance. Blind.
Blindness is the only reasonable excuse. One hopes she is blind to it, otherwise it is malicious and despicable. Ignorance and blindness are no excuse for her, sadly, however, as there is no doubt that these errors have been pointed out to Mrs. Palin by the public for many years now. She is no stranger to public racist statements. She stated something very similar in 2012 when she claimed President Obama is “brining us back… to days before the Civil War.”
No, this is not a blind mistake but an intentional position. A racist position. One has to wonder how often comparisons to slavery were made in politics prior to Barak Obama’s election to the presidency.
To continue to dismiss, reduce, minimize, or draw false comparisons to the current, privileged American lifestyle and slavery is to not only highlight the ignorance rampant in this country, but to also ensure our trajectory toward a more humane future remains off course. We must begin to alter the narrative, and it begins by not listening to garbage like Sarah Palin.
Please watch the video below and spread her shame.
Palin spoke at the conservative Faith & Freedom Coalition’s fall fundraiser Saturday, a “non-profit organization committed to educating, equipping, and mobilizing people of faith and like-minded individuals to be effective citizens”),where she compared the U.S. debt to slavery and prophesized that young Americans will be “shackled” by the country’s out of control spending.
According to the Des Moines Register Palin stated at the event,
This free stuff, so seductive. Why do you think marketers use free stuff to bring people in? Free stuff is such a strong marketing ploy. But didn’t you all learn too in Econ 101 there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch? Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children and borrowing from China.She continued,
When that note comes due–and this isn’t racist… but it’s going to be like slavery when that note is due. We are going to be beholden to a foreign master. Because there is no plan coming out of Washington, D.C. to stop the incurrence of debt… What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin.Leaving the economic debate aside, forgetting that the cuts being lobbied for would inevitably come from the small budget allotted America’s social and educational programs rather than war, war, and constant war (always war!), let’s examine Palin’s statement in regard to race and racism for a moment.
Essentially, Palin is saying that our president–of mixed descent, a hearty portion of which is African American–is spiraling America into a class structure akin to slavery through incurring too much debt. And where does a prominent amount of American debt go? To WAR, of course! Yet how many times have you seen a Tea Party sponsored anti-war rally? How many times have you seen the Tea Party or conservatives shut down the government over ending the wars? Instead, Palin actually berated conservatives who did not back the government shutdown over the Affordable Care Act.
To the contrary, conservatives are typically the ones beating the war drums whenever possible, as war equals profit. They are the same groups who also continually cut social programs that help those most in need, and currently the American structure strategically places people of color predominantly in those positions. The system is designed against color and its economic structure clearly illustrates this. As does Palin’s argument. Anyone serious about cutting spending cannot ignore the vastly bloated “Defense” budget this country continues to raise at every opportunity.
Yet Palin has the nerve, the ignorance and privilege to spout her mouth, to publicly, shamefully claim that our Black president is reducing Americans to slavery. She hasn’t the faintest notion of what slavery was, what it is, nor of the history (the REAL history) it has regarding the United States. She is the quintessential racist. Ignorant of her own ignorance. Blind.
Blindness is the only reasonable excuse. One hopes she is blind to it, otherwise it is malicious and despicable. Ignorance and blindness are no excuse for her, sadly, however, as there is no doubt that these errors have been pointed out to Mrs. Palin by the public for many years now. She is no stranger to public racist statements. She stated something very similar in 2012 when she claimed President Obama is “brining us back… to days before the Civil War.”
No, this is not a blind mistake but an intentional position. A racist position. One has to wonder how often comparisons to slavery were made in politics prior to Barak Obama’s election to the presidency.
To continue to dismiss, reduce, minimize, or draw false comparisons to the current, privileged American lifestyle and slavery is to not only highlight the ignorance rampant in this country, but to also ensure our trajectory toward a more humane future remains off course. We must begin to alter the narrative, and it begins by not listening to garbage like Sarah Palin.
Please watch the video below and spread her shame.
No comments:
Post a Comment