Jimmy Carter: Wilson comments 'based on racism'

[CountDeMoney]

She seems very cool, well spoken, mature.

Racist.

[CountDeMoney]

Of course, because it doesn't fit his narrative, Money left out that Beyonce brought Taylor Swift back out.

 

I'd ride Beyonce like the Kentucky Derby.
Shame that nasty ass Jay-Z has despoiled that.

[MadImmortalMan]

Of course, because it doesn't fit his narrative, Money left out that Beyonce brought Taylor Swift back out.

The Black Avengers made her.

[garbon]

 

I'd ride Beyonce like the Kentucky Derby.
Shame that nasty ass Jay-Z has despoiled that.

Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the beast

[CountDeMoney]

Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the beast

Is that our problem, g? We're just too damned pretty?

[KRonn]

Of course, because it doesn't fit his narrative, Money left out that Beyonce brought Taylor Swift back out.

Yeah, very classy move.

[KRonn]

She seems very cool, well spoken, mature.

Racist.

Lol... No, you are a racist for even thinking that!  Nyah, nyah.... 

[Neil]

I guess Carter feels that he needs to periodically remind the world he's still alive.

Well yeah, I think anyone who gets to the level of POTUS is going to be a giant attention whore.

Especially poor Carter, an irrelevancy of a man trapped between the twin giants of Nixon and Reagan.

[garbon]

Is that our problem, g? We're just too damned pretty?

Too pretty for our own good.

[Admiral Yi]

Just heard on CNN that both B. Hussein and Hairplug Joe have made statements that they disagree with Jimmy Earl.  Good for them.

[Caliga]

Especially poor Carter, an irrelevancy of a man trapped between the twin giants of Nixon and Reagan.

Carter has been a nuisance and essentially a rogue agent who thinks he represents America in some semi-official capacity ever since he left office.  It's why Clinton hates him so much.

[CountDeMoney]

Just heard on CNN that both B. Hussein and Hairplug Joe have made statements that they disagree with Jimmy Earl.  Good for them.

They're not from the Deep South.

[Admiral Yi]

They're not from the Deep South.

Neither are you.

[CountDeMoney]

For those of you who don't seem to understand the concept of "Suthun' Thinkin", and why this is such a big deal, an article explaining it.

Jimmy Carter, True Son of the South, Hits Nail on Head
By: Kai Wright
Posted: September 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM

The White House's fear of challenging the tea-bag madness is typical of its cautious politics. The rest of us accept it at our peril.

Jimmy Carter is a son of the South. Not the New South of relocated corporate headquarters and (foreclosed) McMansions, but Jim Crow's South. So we'll all have to excuse his refusal to act like he doesn't hear Glenn Beck's vicious dog whistle. He knows too well the coded language of political racism because he witnessed its writing.

America abhors history. No wonder, given how many national crimes are lurking back there. But we've arrived at a time when a politician's refusal to consider the past is a perverse testament to prudent leadership. And as a result, a statement as obvious as Carter's—that the tea-baggers hate President Barack Obama because he's black—can be passed off as controversy in 2009.

It's self-evident that a movement that calls the president a lying, socialist, Nazi eugenicist with a fake birth certificate is about something more than deficit spending. People don't brandish automatic weapons and pray for the president's death because they want to keep their employer-sponsored health plans. But to name the stalking beast is more than we can bear.

Not, thankfully, for Carter. He knows the tea-baggers aren't new, that their fear of "big government" is but the latest version of states' rights, which was itself a pseudonym for white supremacy. And he wants us to recall this history: In the months following the 1954 Brown ruling, a Mississippi college football star and plantation manager named Robert Patterson launched a crusade to protect school children from "being taught the Communist theme of all races and mongrelization." Patterson was angry, and proud of it. "You say this is not the time for hotheads and flag-waving," he wrote in a public letter quoted in Gene Roberts' and Hank Klibanoff's must-read history of civil rights journalism. "We need those hotheads, just as we always have when our liberty has been threatened."

Patterson channeled his anger into a lasting innovation for the white supremacy movement—give it a respectable face, strip it of explicitly racist rhetoric and use it as an invisible hand to guide mob violence. He created the Citizens' Council, which would spawn a regional network by year's end. Each council's membership boasted the area's finest white leaders in business, government and, yes, media. They directed their public anger less at integration itself than at federal incursions on local rule, but the resulting violence was no less extreme.

At the time, Carter was a Plains, Ga., peanut farmer and board of education member. He recalls in his campaign memoir, Turning Point (Random House, 1993), how the Plains Council pressured him to join. When he refused, the council sent 20 of his best customers to demand compliance. Carter again refused, this time adding, "and besides, there are a few politicians in Atlanta who are taking the dues from all over the state and putting the money in their pockets, just because folks are worried about the race issue."

Tea-bagging elites like Fox News, Sarah Palin and Joe Wilson are the political descendants of Patterson's councils. They're still using coded language to orchestrate rowdy, racist mobs and they're still pocketing the money the frenzy generates.

In the tea-bagging universe, "big government"—or, really, the social programs both Beck and Rush Limbaugh conspicuously dub "reparations"—is a stand-in villain for integration. Not the literal act of blacks and whites going to school together. Rather, bashing big government swats at the same anxiety Patterson had: a concern over who gets to make the rules. That question has haunted Dixie ever since black slaves outnumbered the South's white residents. And it still haunts the GOP's Southern, white base today.

Nor is it new for the movement's media mavens to cry foul when someone dares break the code. It started, as Roberts and Klibanoff detail, as the national media covered Little Rock's brutalities, and it intensified throughout the era. Southern newspaper editors, themselves affiliated with Citizens' Councils, led a concerted effort to bully national outlets into what pioneering Atlanta Constitution editor Ralph McGill called "the cult of objectivity."

The fruits are seen in the temerity of today's mainstream news. Demonstrable liars like Joe Wilson and Sarah Palin are given point-counterpoint coverage. A rally dominated by ugliness such as that on display in Washington on Sept. 12 is reported as legitimate political dispute. And Jimmy Carter's willingness to speak the clear truth is debated as controversy. Decades ago, CBS correspondent Howard K. Smith predicted this outcome as he watched his network reel from complaints about his Freedom Ride coverage. Applying balance to a discussion in which there is none, he warned, was "equivalent to saying that truth is to be found somewhere between right and wrong, equidistant between good and evil."

The White House's fear of challenging the tea-bag madness is typical of its cautious politics. But the rest of us accept it at our peril. The absurd, plainly racist ideas that found air at Palin's campaign rallies have dug in as meaningful parts of our daily public conversation. Carter is the most significant public figure to say that's not OK. Rather than allow the right to shout him down, many more purported leaders must stand up with him.

[CountDeMoney]

They're not from the Deep South.

Neither are you.

The fuck I ain't.  I'm all down here in the Masie-Dixie Line.  Gotta burn mah boots, they touched Yankee soil!