Another case solved! No racist element to the Tea Parties because David Brooks saw racial mingling!

[EmilyAnne]

That's right, folks!

David Brooks was on the 9-12 scene in D.C. and he saw, with his own two beady eyes, that black people and white people were gettin' along just fine!
Some white people even bought lunch from some black people!
Some of the wilder and crazier white people really let go and listened to a black people rap concert!

Now, if you think that Tea Party leader Mark Williams was racist when he called President Obama an "Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug," you are so wrong.
Tragically, there are many more like you.
"We live in a nation in which some people see every conflict through the prism of race," says David Brooks, as he shakes his head at the shame of it all.

That's right.
Every conflict.
Just like that poor fool Jimmy Carter who just won't shut up about race.
He sees EVERY conflict through that prism of race.
He's been talking about it for, like, a whole two days or something.

Now, it isn't just liberals such as Carter who are vulnerable.
This tendency to see every conflict through the prism of race may be spreading to Tea Bag leader Joe Wierzbicki!
Why, ole Wierzbicki himself said that posters depicting Barack Obama as a witch doctor with a bone in his nose are indeed racist.
But that's only because the people are angry, he went on to say.
I see his point.
If someone is racist, its OK if they are expressing anger.
I mean, imagine being racist as a means of expressing love?
Or that you are hungry?
Its just silly!

Regardless, angry or not, Joe Wierzbicki needs to know that those signs actually aren't racist at all.
Thanks to David Brooks' hard hitting investigation of the 9-12 Tea Party, everything is just fine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/opinion/18brooks.html?hp
(If you can stomach reading an essay in which the Tea Partiers are "populist" and we Democrats are the "militant progressive reaction.")

[SoCalDem]

1. Even during the days of slavery, there were always a few "trusted" slaves

who might rat out other slaves, in exchange for favors from the master

maybe those favors included:

better food for his family
his wife would only get raped by the master twice a week
he got to "keep" his children
he didn't have to work the fields

a few sell-outs like Michael Steele, Condi, Clarence Thomas & goofy-eye..and some others do not make the republican class any less racist. It opnly means they found a few who could be bought

[EmilyAnne]

10. Michael Steele is the most interesting case to me. I seriously don't get this man.

He's hilarious, though.

[EFerrari]

2. He called the Iraq invasion Bush's "epic gamble".

For someone who's so smart, he sure can be an idiot.

[anonymous171]

3. David Brooks is truly the greatest journalist of this modern age.

Woodward and Bernstein have nothing on him.

[Czar One]

5. You ARE Joking, Right?

Right?

:wtf:

[anonymous171]

7. Of course. nt

[bunkerbuster1]

12. I was hoping you'd stay in character a bit longer...

but, hey, we all have lives!

[jaysunb]

4. Psst ! Yo David

there was a "black family reunion" going on at the Mall the same day.

Lots of food for sale as well as arts and crafts, concerts and chat sessions.

:evilfrown:

[EmilyAnne]

8. That's exactly what he was talking about! LOL

I guess he expected to see a big brawl or at least hear a black person called the n word.
But, jee whiz.
There wasn't even a fist fight.
And the white people weren't afraid to get cooties because they bought food from some black people!
Racism is SOLVED!

But in all seriousness, I really wonder what it would take for David Brooks to acknowledge that something is racist.

[DefenseLawyer]

6. Several teabaggers told Brooks personally that "a lot of their friends are black"

So there you have it. Truth wins again!

[EmilyAnne]

9. You left out the rest. They told him that "a lot of their friends are black, but they don't act

black. Like, they aren't pimps and rappers or anything."

[bunkerbuster1]

11. There wasn't any of that misa... miscous... race-mixin', though, was there?

I mean like a white lady kissing a black man on the lips? Breedin' little half-breeds?

[Enrique]

13. how can he write about labor in early America without mentioning slavery?

he's talking about race and he's talking about "free labor is the essence of Americanism" and he talks about Jefferson vs. Hamiltion on labor, and he doesn't say a word about both Jefferson and Hamilton accepting slavery.

And since when are populism and racism mutually exclusive? I see them going hand in hand at times in our history.