GOP: red, white and racist?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/gop-red-white-and-racist/2012/01/11/gIQA430ItP_blog.html

Posted at 08:46 AM ET, 01/12/2012
GOP: red, white and racist?
By Barbara A. Reynolds

Recently GOP presidential candidates and leaders have so consistently showed their colors of red, white and racist that I wonder if they took a secret pledge to denigrate African-Americans. Or is this simply a matter of inverted Social Darwinism: the survival of the mega-maladjusted?

I raise this question because I don’t understand how logical well-adjusted people can continue to insult, condemn and ridicule blacks non-stop to the point that sometimes it is hard not to feel like a rag doll that people keep pricking holes in.

The latest outrage du jour was Republican Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal forwarding around an e-mail poking fun at First Lady Michelle Obama. According to the Lawrence Journal-World, it said “I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing Mrs. YoMama a wonderful, long Hawaii Christmas vacation—at our expense, of course. “YoMama?” Neal later apologized for the condescending remark, but the damage of this toxic hateful speech has been done. Could you see former first ladies Jackie Kennedy or Barbara Bush receiving this kind of disrespect without national outrage?

O’Neal is a little Kansas fish in a big pond and since he is not running for national office his remarks aren’t important, it could be said. Not so, because this anti-black ideology runs from the top down.

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1. "But... but I was for Herman Cain," they'll say.

As if a man of color has any chance at actually being elected President by typical publicans, whose short-sighted self-righteousness and need for an authoritarian leader is second only to their tribalist racism.

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2. All too many fit the sit...not Pono...Not Good..Hate = Divide = Weaken