President Jimmy Carter calls tone racist

September 15, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: racism

A quick video clip through here. I don’t know that I agree that the tone is necessarily racist, although I’ve never seen as much disrespect tolerated by mainstream Republican pols. Would Joe Wilson have broken over 200 years of protocol if Obama was white? Would the tone be different? Hard to say, but Carter has seen racism and sure knows how to recognize it. Certainly the placards of Obama mugging Uncle Sam, and some of the birther crap is racist. But some of the tea baggers don’t need race as an excuse to be angry. They’re just angry. Appropriate or not, Carter has just brought the question into the mainstream of discussion.

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September 15, 2009 at 10:34 pm

anon

were the teabaggers angry during both bushes,reagan,and nixon years?i never heard of them till now..a

September 15, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Tom Sebourn

Jimmy Carter, the last honest president.
He speaks from experience.
http://www.mikemalloy.com/
Mike Malloy lives in Georgia and often talks of the Neanderthals that live and hate in his neck of the woods.
As a liberal talk show host he has to pack heat due to the threats made on his life and that of his family. The local Sheriffs told him that these people mean business. He now carries a concealed weapon.
Just south of North Carolina, Georgia seems to be battle ground for civil rights.
You can’t get Mike’s show on radio in south county but there is a free stream.

September 15, 2009 at 10:57 pm

happy white male

There’s been much talk of the “angry white male” since the Clinton administration. Some people were really angry when Clinton “stole” the presidency in 1992 with the help of Ross Perot. Everybody expected the Republicans to win presidential elections into perpetuity. Everything had gone well for them for 12 years. Then talk radio ascended and the white males were rallied to think that they were the anti-establishment underdog. The average white male champion won in 2000 but they were still angry and defiant against some imagined anti-white male paradigm. The election of a black president with a muslim sounding name was the last straw.

September 16, 2009 at 7:14 am

Eric Kirk

You could argue that the “angry white male” phenomenon has existed since 1968 with Nixon’s “southern strategy.” But then how do you define the resistance to integration before that?

September 16, 2009 at 7:14 am

Moonshadow

there was a very interesting opinion piece in the LA Times this morning definitely worth reading. One good passage reads:

Wilson, for example, isn’t just a loudmouth with impulse-control issues. He’s one of those Southern lawmakers with links to the sinister neo-Confederate movement and, as a state legislator, was one of the die-hards who opposed removing the Confederate battle flag from atop the South Carolina statehouse. He’s also an unrepentant supporter of Obama’s extreme critics.

And while I am on the subject there was one other article about all the recent “public outbursts” from Wilson to Kanye

September 16, 2009 at 7:42 am

dave

My post this morning is similar to yours. I really think Carter did say the obvious when he spoke of racism.

Most people know this, just by watching the actions of the “Birthers” and “Teabaggers”

My question is: what can be done about this dangerous trend to get rid of a sitting president?

September 16, 2009 at 8:52 am

hit the road

My question is: what can be done about this dangerous trend to get rid of a sitting president?

But it was so en vogue with the last president? But of course it’s different now that the marxists are trying to assume control.

jimmy carter was, until obama, the worst president in US history. He is an idiot. Is this the best defense of obama you guys can come up with? lame.

September 16, 2009 at 9:49 am

Cristina

To add to Moonshadow’s comment, Wilson also got on Essie Mae Washington-Williams’s case when she revealed, several months after Strom Thurmond’s death, that she was his daughter. Because, you know, secrets like being a pro-segregation Dixiecrat with a half-black daughter should STAY buried.

September 16, 2009 at 11:08 am

Anonymister

“Jimmy carter was, until obama, the worst president in US history. He is an idiot.”

Uh-huh, yes, and George Bush: great president, or greatest?

September 16, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Moonshadow

This is a very interesting article about the overt racism being displayed by Obama’s opponents.

Why are African-Americans so frequently the subject of Glenn Beck’s ridicule

September 16, 2009 at 8:00 pm

anon

Looking at this madness.reminds me of a comedian telling a joke about aliens..he said that these aliens were circling the earth,and one of them wanted to land to meet with earthlings..the other looked at him,and said,are you freakin nutz? those people down there wont even accept themselves as being different..we are purple..now what do you think they will do to us?

September 16, 2009 at 9:57 pm

Anonymous

I saw a great cartoon recently about “why is Jimmy so happy”?. the cartoon shows a cartoon picture of Jimmy Carter. At the end it gives the answer to the question …… because thanks to Barrack Obama he won’t go down in history as the worst United Stateds President.

Congressman Wilson was telling the truth, Obama lies. Wilson was out of line to shout it out when he did. But he apologized, Obama accepted the apology, and now Wilson was publically spanked. So get over it. This crap that if you disagree with or dislike Obama it makes you a racist is getting old. When you screw up or are taking some heat throw down the race card. Snivel snivel snivel.

I don’t like Obama as the Prez because he is an empty suit, a lousy Prez. He looks good in a suit, can read very well from a teleprompter, and can raise lots of money. But he is good at taking care of his buddies; trial attorneys, ACORN, and an assortment of Chicago politicians (the Chicago way). Many of his friends and accociates are ethically questionable. His answer to everything is to spend money, pay off political debts.

It’s good that not many people care about what Jimmy Carters thinks.

A few thoughts from the other side.

September 17, 2009 at 3:42 am

sofa

Judge him by the content of his character: Obama is openly racist, and hates america and western civilization. His wife, mentors, pastor, associates, and all his friends are clumsy corrupt shysters who steal what they can before we dare to call them on it. They get caught, call others racist, and then steal more. Only lies spew forth. Evidence of character.

Carter has always just been a deluded dumbass. But he sincerely believes what he believes, and tells you so – Making him a man of principle. Deluded and naive; but principled.

The “content of his character” is what damns Obama.

September 17, 2009 at 5:05 am

moviedad

Do the fascist-propagandists pay these guys to cruise local blogs and post such stupidity?

September 17, 2009 at 5:23 am

anon

MC CAIN-PALIN WOULD HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB FOR THIS COUNTRY

September 17, 2009 at 6:42 am

highboldtage

Considering the last eight years your assertion that Jimmy Carter was the worst president is laughable.

Don’t you remember how shocked everyone was because he admitted just thinking about another woman? How far we have come.

King George left us in such bad shape that there is doubt in my mind (and I am not alone) that the republic will survive it.

have a peaceful day
Bill

September 17, 2009 at 6:43 am

Anonymister

“A few thoughts from the other side”

The other side of the moon? The dark side of the teabag? The side of Freedom Fries?

September 17, 2009 at 6:54 am

Moonshadow

I have to shake my head at those who think Jimmy Carter was the worst or that Obama will be, is, the same. Has everyone forgotten that the same obstructionist my way or the highway tactics were employed against him . . . and against Clinton? Things are the way they are because the Republican opposition in our government cares little about what is good for the country as a whole. All the Republicans and their extremist supporters care about is paying as little as they can get away with, the rest of the people be damned. Just as with Marie Antoinette they want their cake and they are damn well going to eat it and not share a penny with anyone who is different from them in any way.

For all the lip service paid in this country to the “melting pot” the USA is one seriously bigoted and racist land.

September 17, 2009 at 7:19 am

highboldtage

Three years ago when I was still in Nevada Jimmy’s son Jack ran as a Democrat against the corrupt and often drunk Republican Jim Gibbons. Although I am no Democrat I am an anti Republican and I supported Jack’s campaign.

On several occasions I met various children, grandchildren and spouses of the Carter Family, and I can tell you that at least the branch of the Carters I met were a wonderful bunch of compassionate, smart, and engaging people.

If you ever get a chance to meet one, do it.

have a peaceful day,
Bill

September 17, 2009 at 7:45 am

milt

“President Carter is flat out wrong. This isn’t about race. It is about policy,” RNC chairman Michael Steele said in a prepared statement. When questioned further about how he arrived at that claim chairman Steele said that while the substance of it was entirely his, he did have a problem understanding the current proper pre-approval protocol for RNC statements these days: Should he run it by Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck first? Because of Mr. Steele’s concern the RNC has now instituted a new co-signatory pre-approval form, RNC911911911, which must be signed by both Republican titular heads before Mr Steele can release any statement at all. This should clear up any misunderstandings in the future.

September 17, 2009 at 7:54 am

highboldtage

They will have to run it by Dick Cheney too, won’t they?

It’s like the old troika government in the soviet union. A three headed hydra.

have a peaceful day,
Bill

September 17, 2009 at 8:35 pm

Eric Kirk

I’m surprised he’s still in there. I think Republicans dread every moment he steps in front of a microphone.

September 18, 2009 at 5:28 am

Moviedad

Seriously, why all the Nazi’s on a “Progressive” blog?
If the actions of the elite right-wing wealth-party weakens our country, strengthens our enemies (who are they again?) while at the same time stealing our money, gutting our services…how is it they’re not enemies themselves, and traitors to this country?
God! When will they be finished building Dubai with our stolen money; so they can get the hell out of America?

September 18, 2009 at 6:45 am

anon

Limbaugh is Fanning the Flames of Racism
By Ed Wiley III
Views

Perhaps one reason the war between conservatives and the Obama administration has taken on such racial overtones in recent days is that the Grand Poobah of right-wing shock jocks is stoking the fires of prejudice.

Rush Limbaugh, the self-anointed czar of vitriolic talk radio, who makes a living steering his 10 million listeners on a crusade against the nation’s first African-American president, sounds a lot like the Civil Rights-Era segregationists who played up the fear that White children are at risk. During the 1960s, southern Whites spread the notion that White kids would suffer educationally, culturally and morally from the influx of Black children.

This week Limbaugh warned his troops about “Obama’s America,” in which White children are no longer safe. In a clumsy attempt to tie the brutal beating of one student by another student, he told his listeners, “You put your kids on a school bus you expect safety, but in Obama’s America the White kids now get beat up with the Black kids cheering, ‘Yeah, right on, right on, right on.’ Of course everybody said the White kid deserved it; he was born a racist, he’s White. …Now that we have a Black president, Blacks are rising up to attack White kids.”

In actuality, The St. Louis-Dispatch reports, Belleville, Mo., Police said the beating was triggered by a dispute over seating and was not racially motivated.

But as Limbaugh keeps pumping fuel into the fire, it’ll likely keep burning – and spreading out of control. Former President Jimmy Carter, noticing both the rapidity and ferocity of the blaze, says he has no doubt that racism is behind it.

President Obama, however, understands that acknowledging the role of racism can do him no good. In fact, such a pronouncement would likely have the opposite affect, helping polarize an already racially divided nation. On Wednesday, the president distanced himself from Carter’s assessment of the situation, but he had no explanation for why he is being poster-ized as Hitler, a clown and a bone-in-the-nose witchdoctor.

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