I ask you: Who is more likely racist, the person who sees race every time she turns around or the person who aspires toward colorblindness? Could those always pointing the accusatory finger be projecting their own discomfort with race?

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

I understand that persons resent being thought of as 'racist'. Unfortunately, this country has a racist history - and many of us, regardless of color or background, have been tainted with this history. I feel that most Americans have this disease called 'racism'. Most today have it in check, and earnestly try to treat others with respect. As we see today, some don't. If it is important to you - you could have asked me if I was a racist. I feel that I am earnestly trying to overcome racist feelings. Many here have never been in situations where a 'racist' feeling would be present in their heart - many have. As I have said many times, I have been on the Internet discussing 'race' since the Clinton days. There has been a great improvement since that time - and since the time I was a student in elementary school. When people feel threatened discussing their point of view on other issues, their rudeness sometimes takes on a 'racist' overtone. Most do not do that on this blog - but a few have insisted that 'blacks' are inferior to 'whites'; don't work 'hard'; and have awful neighborhoods. Those are really broad generalizations. I would be racist is I said all 'white' people felt this way. I know that is not true. The American people are uncomfortable with the 'race' issue - you included.

I'm not uncomfortable with the issue of race, David's mom. Would I be on here discussing it if I was uncomfortable with it?

You're not very intelligent.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

You're putting me on the spot here. Honesty, I have respect for both you and Davids mom just as I have respect for most everyone else on this board. As such, I'm going to respectfully decline answering.

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however, the MSM propaganda ALWAYS brings race into it.

You say that Obama is blowing the guvment out of proportion? RACIST!!!

You say you don't like his health plan? RACIST!!!

You protest his policies in DC with upwards of 1.5-2 million others at the 9-12-09 Tea Party? RACIST!!!

Put up a poster equating Obama to the Joker from Batman? RACIST!!!
Get arrested for exercising the First Amendment

Really the thing we all need to remember is that there is only one party in DC. They were once called the Democratic Republicans, forgot about that didn't we?

Left and Right is a false paradigm. Think about it: no matter who is in control major policy shifts DO NOT OCCUR, EVER!!! The government still gets bigger, the banksters still control the money, the taxes get higher, and our standard of living keeps going downhill.

Racism is just another divide and conquer tactic used by the elite to keep us fighting ourselves, instead of fighting against them.

In Liberty,

DarthDubious

Our system is set up in such a way that we already have seperation from each other as citizens by classifications such as democrat, repulican, libertarian, etc. I'd love to be able to vote for any individual on any ticket, rather than having to choose a title. I dont agree with any of them fully, and obviously they don't agree with each other, even inside their respective boxes.

Our problems cannot be blamed on any one man, or President. It is more our inability to accept each other's differences, in a land where we are EACH different from the next. We are not only different through DNA, but through our basic beliefs.

But, with all of that, we have all been greatly blessed to live in a land where there is no war over our differences within our borders. If you live in the United States and think you are not fortunate, you need to learn more about the rest of the world. Quit rallying against each other before what makes us great(our ability to live with our differences)is ripped to shreds, and we find ourselves like other countries who live with war on a daily basis because of differences.

May we continue to be a blessed nation.

what we need to learn, ALL of us, is: WE ARE ALL THE SAME!!! We are all descendents of the same eight people.

99% of our DNA is THE SAME!!!

I have come up with a solution!!! We must teach our children to look at skin color, the way we look at eye color. Isn't that a cool idea? If we could do that, racism would go away.

In Liberty,

DarthDubious

I feel that given time, Americans will begin to identify as American - rather than the labels we've been given to separate us - and allowing for one group to feel superior to another. I love the idea of eye color! (But someone needing to be 'better than' would figure a way to make brown eyes superior to blue eyes.) When we - as Americans - can join together in demanding an end to this legacy of racism, we will be the most admired country in the world. . .not the most feared based on our military strength. After all, every race, creed and ideology can be found right here in America - most living peaceably with one another.
For information - what does MSM stand for?

But someone needing to be 'better than' would figure a way to make brown eyes superior to blue eyes

Brown eyes are better than blue eyes (aren't they?).

Anyway, all I can say is that when my two little doe-eyed granddaughters ask me for anything at all, I cannot resist or refuse.

You're not alone on that one!

Ah, common ground!

Let me just toss in here that I continue to respect you as a person of good will who consciously seeks a reasonable and conciliatory position on the various issues discussed here--race relations in particular.

Believe me, that 'toss' means a lot. Thanks!

Chuckle!!
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If you were on a flight and you realized that the plane was about to crash.. You made your way to the cockpit only to find the pilots 12 yo at the controls.. You look at the pilot and he says "Don't worry about it" Just give him more time.. What would you do..?

Mrturner.. that light at the end of the tunnel is not the end of the tunnel.. It's a train barreling right us..

Shall we just wait and see if we crash or try to land the plane.. WE know we are going to crash.. how hard is the question?

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of “Liberalism” “they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened” Norman Thomas US Candidate for President

The Kanye / Taylor incident had nothing to do with race. He is not racist - but he is definitely ignorant. His girlfriend and most of his close friends are white. He was going on tour with another young lady from that same award category as Taylor and Beyonce (Lady Gaga) who is white but anywho -

Do ALL African Americans insist that all white people are racist? I don't think so.

To tell the truth, I'm getting very confused about what I am, and who I'm allowed to support or disagree with.

I didn't know that I was a racist, but I don't support Obama, so I must be one.

I thought that I liked Steele, Rice, Clarence Thomas, and other conservative blacks, but since I'm a "racist" that just can't be.

I thought that I felt the same about Obama, Reid, Palosi, Carter, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and others of their kind.......but that's a mixed race bunch of folks.

I know why I don't support the blacks, (because I'm a racist), but why is it that I don't support the whites?

Oh well, just something else for me to ponder.

Dueling 'racist' claims defuse once powerful word

The word is being sprayed in all directions, creating a hall of mirrors that is draining the scarlet R of its meaning and its power, turning it into more of a spitball than a stigma.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

From an article in 2002:

There’s no proof in the world that Dr. King was a Republican or expressed any political affiliation with the Republican or Democratic Party. Now if the claim were that King was Conservative I would have to agree with that statement. There seems to be a preacher in Houston claiming Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican. He even put up a billboard to tell the world of this revelation. Now, Steve Klein, a senior researcher at The King Center dismissed the “King-was-a-Republican” rumor when the GOP ran radio campaign ads in 2006 targeted at Black listeners. “I think it’s highly inaccurate to say he was a Republican because there’s really no evidence,

Most of the elders in my family, when they registered to vote - registered as Republicans - especially in the south- if they could register - because it was the Dixie-crats (Democrats) who kept them from going to the polls.

Look it up - on sites other than Human Events. . which is a wee bit slanted and has trouble with reality.

I think was described as a "jackass," by the President. That is slightly less insulting than being a racist! I suppose it is a downgrade due to ignorance.

Racism is so abvious with some people that it is fun to watch them say they are not racist! They have been molded by a few baduns.
Git tried it on here by saying that he WAS racist, all the time indicating that he was really joking----wasn't he?

go back and read your own blogs. You denigrate every racial, religious and ethnic group. The only good thing I can say is that you are an equal opportuntiy racist.

What on earth does racism have to do with religion? Racism is due to appearance and color isn't it? Or is it just acting like you have the color and appearance?

Most racists will swear that they are racist. They have deep denial. No one is supposed to live differently than they and look so much differently, and they are all alike---almost, but they don't know any who aren't!

It is a psychological thing for many.

I love it when the R's pretend to be all pure while demonizing the D's. Here's the leader of the Rep. Party and his psychotic minion calling Obama a racist:

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck call Obama racist

HoHum. Politics is hardball.

You guys like to throw up anyone else but YOUR OWN ELECTED OFFCIALS..

Just how many "ELECTED" officials have now expressed the same sentiment? Huh Jeff?

I can pull just as many "LIBERAL" talk show host (what few there are) that called Bush a "Terrorist, A Traitor, A Racist, A Murderer.... etc..)
We are not pretending we are snow white.. We just don't live with rose colored glasses on all the time. You Dems think you have a monopoly on race.. Well I guess so since you have a KKK member in the Senate..

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of “Liberalism” “they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened” Norman Thomas US Candidate for President

Here’s one of yours from right here in Georgia. A certifiable fringe nut:

Paul Broun: Obama Dictatorship

I don’t have any rose colored glasses to look through. The Republican Party is filled and run by nuts pulling it further and further to the right led by its vast media machine.

Y’all complain about Obama talking to school kids when Reagan and both Bush’s did the same thing. Complain about Obama’s advisors when Bush appointed 43 advisors that he actually called czars. Rush and Glen and Sean regularly call or liken Obama to Nazis or Hitler.

We’ve heard all of this before and from the same Party. The same stuff was said when Social Security was implemented. The same stuff was said about Kennedy when Medicare was implemented.

There are two differences now, first the rhetoric wasn’t nearly as noxious; this time there are no limits to how far the right will go demeaning us. I really don’t care about that, politics is vicious and always has been and historically, pre-WWII, the rhetoric was a lot worse.

The second difference, and by far the most important for the political parties, is that when the John Birch Society was formed to oppose JFK, real conservatives like William Buckley stood up to them. He not only used his Commentary magazine to undermine their influence in the Party but he organized the not crazies too. He got together with Ronald Reagan and other Repubs of stature and influence and they banded together to keep the Party from being hijacked. If I remember right, Buckley wrote a 14 page editorial in Commentary that they all signed warning about letting the fringe gain control of the Party.

This time there are no Reagans or Buckleys. You’ve got Rush and Beck and nasty bottom feeders and scum like Savage doing exactly what Buckley and Reagan were afraid of, dragging the Party off into the really weird fringe. If anybody thinks that the Dems are not going to exploit the radicalism and extremism of the Repub Party then they are just naive.

Do you ever read your own links? I don’t know much about Paul Broun, and the link you posted to someone else’s blog and Broun’s campaign video had nothing that he had actually said about Obumbles or any other statist in Washington. Did I miss something?

Now, for some more important business - when are you going to live up to your filial responsibility and get that doddering old fool Jimmy off the streets? Can’t he be happy in knowing that he has just been replaced by Obumbles as the worst president in the history of the United States?

Jeff look at the thread.. The subject was people (ELECTED OFFICIALS)and Hollywood types calling protestors Racist.. Jimmy Carter (you know him?) did the same thing..
You threw out two talk show host.. I responded with I can throw out just as many on the left.. You dance around that and came back with the John Burch Society.. again I ask you where have any of these been elected to Congress or the Senate ot the House?
Maxine Waters is calling for an investigation..no.. not on ACORN but on the protestors.. She wants to know who we are..she thinks we are dangerous.. I guess so if she means by taking the power and corruption out of Washington and out of her hands..

Jeff there are just as many "RADICAL" left winged groups out there.. ALF, ELF, Storm, Apollo, CDS on and on and on I could go.. YOU guys
have been spouting your radical crap for years.. now you feel threatened.. WHY? Show me the Assassination movie on Obama, Show me the books written by people that wants Obama to assassinated. Do you really want to go there?
I have 8 YEARS of material from you people..
Well take your Move.org, George Soros, Michael Moore and others parade them around America.. You've been doing it for years.

2010 will signal a change one way or the other.. We will find out if America is a Socialist Country or a Country that still reveres Freedom and the Constitution.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of “Liberalism” “they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened” Norman Thomas US Candidate for President

I interpreted the blog as a bunch of holier-than-thou R’s whining yet again about how mean the D’s are being to their poor pitiful misunderstood souls and surely the American people would support them if only they screeched their nonsense louder or got their leaders to tow a more strident line about the coming apocalypse.

You want to see your elected officials? Here’s a whole group of them, so terrified about angering the nuts in charge of the party that they are afraid of answering a question about Obama’s birth certificate.

Capital Hill Doesn't Know If Obama Is A Natural Born Citizen

How’s that for spineless?

And the difference between orgs on the left like MoveOn and Rush and Sean is that MoveOn isn’t running the Dem Party. Rush and Sean are by far and away the biggest influences in the Rep party. I hear them on the way home and read their thoughts two hours later right here on this blog. And the elected Rep officials? Want me to drag up the old stories and videos of them bending over to lick Rush’s shoes after they dissed him and he demanded and received obsequience? When has any organization been able to make a Dem. cower like that. Never. And the reason is that Rush is the power in the Party so equating his views with the views of the Rep. Party is perfectly legitimate. There are Dem. officials who disagree with MoveOn. There are no Rep. officials who publicly disagree with Rush. He won’t allow it.

Why would you think we feel threatened? I think the Reps. are self destructing before our eyes.

2010 is going to be shocking to one of us, isn’t it?

"And the difference between orgs on the left like MoveOn and Rush and Sean is that MoveOn isn’t running the Dem Party."

The MoveOn.org Democrats

millions of dollars for candidates of the Democratic Party

Stand up for Democracy in the Democratic Party

Apollo Alliance

Transnational Progressivism

The Weather Witch

I really really could go on for HOURS.. Jeff on the influences of the Democrat Party.. Again you really want to go there?

Don't cha just hate the internet that Al Gore invented Jeff?

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of “Liberalism” “they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened” Norman Thomas US Candidate for President

The fact that liberal organizations support the Democratic Party is neither surprising nor relevant to my point. Lots of disparate groups support the Dems. My point is that the Republican Party is ONLY supported by the Rush Limbaugh wing and anybody that doesn't toe his line is being systematically purged. MoveOn isn't running the Democratic Party and I can cite hoards of elected officials who don't support them, starting with all my blue dog Dems., and none of them are in danger of being driven out of the Party by MoveOn. You can't name any national Republican who doesn't kowtow to Limbaugh without having a major campaign being mounted against them to purge them from the Party.

If Rush runs the party then how did McCain, whom he absolutely despises, get the nomination?

You need to come up with some talking points other than what you hear on NPR or from Keith Olberman.

All the other candidates were even more pitiful and either frightened the American people with their astonishing ignorance like Sarah Palin, were one-trick ponies like Gov. 9/11 what's his name, or was a Mormon; an unacceptable religion to the evangelical mainstream of the Republican Party.

And since then, Rush has used the McCain loss to consolidate his iron grip on the Party.

Palin wasn’t a candidate for the primary nomination. Who’s “Gov. 9/11”? If you’re talking about Rudy, he was Mayor. And if the evangelicals are the “mainstream” then why didn’t Huckabee get the nomination?

You said Rush ran the party, Jeff, yet the republicans that he despises are still around – McCain, Snow, Dukakis, etc.

And if the American people were truly frightened of astonishing ignorance, Jimmah and Obumbles would be in a maximum security prison right now.

Let's hear from a non-relative and non-Georgian.
by Yomin Postelnik at Canada Free Press

"Carter’s statement that Rep. Wilson is a “racist” for calling out Barack Obama on a mistruth is as troubling as the needless and petty resolution passed by his party, if not more so. And in making that statement, Jimmy Carter brings hypocrisy to a new art form.

The Democrats’ own Senate president pro-tempore, Carter’s own Senate majority leader, is an unrepentant former member of the Ku Klux Klan who as recently as 2001 used the n-word on national TV in one of the most tasteless and sickening exchanges since, well… since the Carter administration. Yet Democrats and Jimmy Carter have the temerity to call us racist - we Republicans who have stood up against racism since the very founding of our party.

Republicans have always been the civil rights party. This was true in both the 1860s as well as the 1960s. Charlton Heston was a great civil rights leader and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. In the meantime, the Democratic Party has gone from being led by the likes of Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson and Daniel Patrick Moynihan to boasting such luminaries as Diane “Castro” Watson, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Jimmy Carter among its highest ranks and to being organized on the ground level by the likes of Louis Farrakhan.

Carter’s tactic is as dangerous as it is shameful. Those who use the smear of “racism” lightly only increase paranoia and further divide the citizens of this great nation. Using accusations of racism as a political weapon is shameful.

Far worse, still, is the use of false accusations of racism to stifle political dissent. There can be few things more harmful to the health of a democracy. What’s more, holding someone above reproach because of his or her race is the very definition of racism. Such an attitude also allows for the unchecked growth of federal power.
read more at www.canadafreepress.com.

MLK Sr. was no more a Republican than I am and the only time Louis Farrakhan ever announced his political affiliation he said he was a Republican.

we Republicans who have stood up against racism since the very founding of our party.

I know that you have heard this on a lot of the ‘talk shows’ – but it just isn’t true!
Take a look at ‘history’. The Republican Party is not the ‘party ‘ of LINCOLN!

Goldwater was adamantly opposed to ‘civil rights’.

Today the South is solidly Republican. In every presidential election since 1964 -- save the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976 -- Dixie has been the heart of GOP presidential politics. The white Southern vote was key to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994, and President George W. Bush was elected in 2000 because he carried every Southern state. Ronald Reagan was key to the South's transition to Republican politics. Goldwater got the ball rolling, but Reagan was at his side from the very beginning. During the 1964 campaign, Reagan gave speeches in support of Goldwater and spoke out for what he called individual rights -- read that also as states' rights. Reagan also portrayed any opposition as support for totalitarianism -- read that as communism. In 1976, Reagan sought the Republican nomination against the incumbent President Gerald Ford. Reagan's campaign was on the ropes until the primaries hit the Southern states, where he won his first key victory in North Carolina. Throughout the South that spring and summer, Reagan portrayed himself as Goldwater's heir while criticizing Ford as a captive of Eastern establishment Republicans fixated on forced integration. Reagan lost the nomination to Ford in 1976. But when the former California governor ran for the presidency again in 1980, he began his campaign with a controversial appearance in Philadelphia, Miss., where three civil rights workers had been brutally killed. It was at that sore spot on the racial map that Reagan revived talk about states' rights and curbing the power of the federal government.
. . and that is the way the Republican party is viewed by many today.

It was at that sore spot on the racial map that Reagan revived talk about states' rights and curbing the power of the federal government.

Gee... now I find out I'm a racist again because I embrace the concept of states rights. Guess I didn't see the negroes imbedded in the states' rights issue. And now to also find that because I favor "curbing the power of the federal gumament" that makes me a racist too. Oh well... so be it. But please tell me I don't have to wear one of those stupid pointed white hats.....

Obama.... The Bernie Madoff Of Washington

Tuck the 'ego' in tight. My comments are not directed to you exclusively. . .but if you say you didn't see 'negroes' imbedded in the states rights issue - you're younger than I think you are!

Go to bed little boy - it's past your bedtime.

When the silliness of your postings get exposed in a satirical way eh?

You know deep down I'm right. Schmoochies to ya! Good Night!

Obama.... The Bernie Madoff Of Washington

Just trying to keep you honest. (real)

and try to re-write history.. but Google Civil Rights and Voting Records.. See who is really on the side of minorities..

Oh btw... You constantly say blacks have not progressed much... Who has stopped that? Dems were in control for most of the 60's-80's.. How did that work out for you?

Just how many times have repubs blocked a minority for a position in the Whitehouse.. Now Google that same question and apply Dems record.. Count'em DM..

How many times have repubs attempted to assassinate the character of a minority to block their appointment.. Now Google the same question and apply Dems.. Count'em DM.. You see LIBERAL Rhetoric can only take you so far.. Sort of goes pale in the light of the TRUTH..

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of “Liberalism” “they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened” Norman Thomas US Candidate for President

How old are you? Let's look at the 91st Congress (1969 - 70) and what party was represented in the Senate by the five southern states.

Georgia: Russell (D); Tallmadge (D) - both voted against Civil Rights legislation

Alabama: Both Senators Democrats - Voted against Civil Rights legislation

Louisiana: Ellender (D); Long (D) - Voted against Civil Rights legislation

Mississippi: Eastland (D) Stennis(D) - Voted against Civil Rights legislation

Virginia: Byrd (D(; Spong (D) - Voted against Civil Rights legislation

Now, (never send anyone to a research area unless you have done the research yourself) - let's look at the 110th Congress. (You do the research) - Republicans now represent the five southern states that I noted in the 91st Congress. . and have a poor record when it comes to civil rights legislation. . or opportunities for minorities or women. The democrats of the 91st Congress were known as the Dixie-crats - and become Republicans with the help and encouragement of Goldwater and Reagan - who appealed to an electorate that was perceived to have a racist bent. This is not a 'spin' - this is a validated part of American history. Reagan going to Mississippi - where Emmet Till was murdered was a wake-up call of whom the Republican Party was going after for votes. As long as we have 'race' as a problem in this country - this is despicable catering to the lowest denominator of our citizenry. I think the younger generation is sick of it. Aren't you?

Is it impossible for your to see anything in other than the color of peoples skin? How are we supposed to move forward when people like you continue to harp on the past? Please, quantify the "poor record of civil rights legislation" by the republican party with FACTS.

People like you don't want to get past race, do you DM? It seems like you find pleasure in wallowing in the discgrace of America's past. You need that crutch to get by, don't you David's Mom.

Get over it already!

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

The reason the Jewish people will not let us forget the Holocaust is because they don't want it to happen to ANYONE again. The reason Black people will not allow the truth about the legacy of slavery and the era of Jim Crow to be forgotten - is because they don't want it to happen to ANYONE again. I have never said that race-relations in this country have not progressed. I have seen in my own lifetime tremendous progress. . .but there is enough truth about our current political situation that it is unnecessary to create 'lies' about the history of our country. If you believe what you write - please, please start to read various accounts of our history - and make your own decision about TRUTH.

I made a comment about the 60-80's and there you stayed. It is obvious to anyone as a body the dems have a less than an enviable record of supporting minorities.

Now how about addressing the body of my comment about TODAY'S Dem party.. do a little research there or will it be just too painfull?

It is CLEAR in the last 8 years if a BLACK was nominated by a repub the DEMS came together to fight the nomination. Now is that the dems just being political or is it that they just didn't want the wrong sort of black in the postition?

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of “Liberalism” “they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened” Norman Thomas US Candidate for President

Come on Lindsey - you can't have it both ways. We didn't want a Republican in the position - black, green, purple, or polka dot! If Colin Powell had run on the Republican ticket - he probably would have had overwhelming support from 'black' Americans - because he is highly respected. After he was 'used' by the former administration - there is wide-spread belief that the current Republicans 'put up' certain 'blacks' hoping to get the 'black' vote. It just doesn't work. We vote for the person who will acknowledge the needs of the American people - especially those in our communities. Your spin is not even getting support from the Republicans - and your spin is one of the reasons so many are registering independent. By the way, for your information, the 110th Congress, which I addressed, is not from the 60's to 80's. Nothing painful about addressing today's Democratic Party that has women, minorities, rural, and urban representation. . . a better representation of today's America.

Jimmy Carter is nothing but a race-baiting human hemmorroid.

Pot meet kettle. Or, in this case, blackhearted, race baiting, thug-loving, moralizing hypocrite, meet the truth:

Here’s an account of some of Carter’s actions in his 1970 race for Georgia governor as David Freddoso of Commentary Magazine writing in the Washington Examiner reminds us:

Readers should refer to Stephen Hayward’s The Real Jimmy Carter if they want a taste of the out-and-out racism that Carter employed in order to defeat moderate former Gov. Carl Sanders for the Democratic nomination that year. As Hayward’s book points out:

* Carter’s top campaign staffers were spotted distributing grainy photographs of Sanders arm-in-arm celebrating with two black men. Sanders was a part-owner of the Atlanta Hawks, and in the photograph he was celebrating a victory with two players who were pouring champagne over his head. Carter’s leaflet was intended to depress Sanders’s white vote.
* “The Carter campaign also produced a leaflet noting that Sanders had paid tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.”
* Carter criticized Sanders, a former governor, for preventing Alabama Gov. and notorious segregationist George Wallace from speaking on Georgia state property. “I don’t think it was right for Governor Sanders to try to please a group of ultra-liberals, particularly those in Washington, when it means stifling communication with another state,” said Carter.
* “‘I have no trouble pitching for Wallace votes and black votes at the same time,’ Carter told a reporter. Carter also said to another reporter, ‘I can win this election without a single black vote.’”
* Upon receiving the endorsement of former Democratic Gov. Lester Maddox, Carter responded by praising the life-long segregationist: “He has brought a standard of forthright expression and personal honesty to the governor’s office, and I hope to live up to his standard.” Maddox had not only refused to serve blacks in the restaurant he once owned, but he had also greeted civil rights protestors with a gun, and made sticks available to his white customers with which to intimidate them.

There’s more at the link.

Carter only became a great race healer when he decided to run for the presidency. He carefully cultivated a few black leaders in Georgia and earned a reputation as a racially tolerant governor who appointed a few black judges and other state officials - a not uncontroversial thing to do in a state where Jim Crow had been destroyed less than a decade before. But Carter had his eyes on a bigger prize and knew he had to energize the black vote in the south if he were to not only win the Democratic nomination, but the general election against Gerald Ford as well.

Such is the life and legacy of a man who didn’t mind using racial agitation to win elections, and now uses it to smear the opponents of his party’s president.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Thanks for directing us to that link so that we could see the 'truth'. President Carter, as acknowledged by many here in Georgia, has been a role model for what a former president can do to make a meaningful change in our country. For your information, the legacy of Jim Crow is still hanging around our wonderful country. Not even Michael Steele denies that.

Why leave out the rest of the quote? He was responding to a question about whether or not he would seek the endorsement of the States Rights Council, a white supremacist group.

"I can win this election without a single black vote but I don't intend to. When I'm Governor I intend to be Governor of all the people of Georgia. I will not seek their endorsement and won't accept it. The people of Georgia have moved beyond that sort of racially divisive politics and are more concerned with education for their children, jobs for their family...."

In the election, he won more black votes than any other candidate in the history of the state up until that time.

Google that quote and you'll find a string of right-wing web sites all using just the truncated first part. Does anybody really think that they don't have the rest of the quote or is it that they are deliberately lying? Duh.

I did google Jimmy Carter quotes and found one that I liked very much:

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America." - President Jimmy Carter

I can not say that I cared much for his latest comment on racist protesters but have to say that I do admire the humanitarian work he has done with such projects as Habitat for Humanity. What I like about that program is that it asks those receiving a home to work to help build it and to 'pay it forward' by helping build a home for others.

As with any President, there are things that can be criticized; but, with Carter there is also much to be admired.

Thanks!

...Calm down and take it easy. There are those who can only cut and paste from a single source.

Have a great weekend!

Just what did the hate speech regarding Carter have to do with the 'truth' about the current Republican Party being the party of Lincoln?

I lived in Canada for several years and have many friends who I communicate with weekly. Most don't care about our politics, except for what we might do that affects them....like trade policies and the like. But, each one I have talked with today ask me what is wrong with Jimmy Carter? They, too, think of him as the worst president in US history. All I can tell them he is a fool. He's old and pathetic. He knows most Americans know he was SO very bad as president and we corrected the collective mistake of electing him by un-electing him when Ronaldus Maximus was elected in 1980. At least we tossed Jimmy's sorry ass out after one term. Perhaps medical attention is in order for him. I told them we, also, wonder why he is acting child-like, foolish and ignorant since he had a golden opprtunity to move into 2nd place in the worst president category given the disasterous and failed presidency of obama. At this rate, obama might require 1st and 2nd place in the worst president category and put Jimmy in 3rd. But, it looks like Jimmy wants to keep his place as the number one worst president. Go figure. Oh, and now osama bin laden wants us to read Jimmy's book. osama bin laden is just a typical liberal democrat.

Both parties are starting to resemble the Donner party.

maybe a stronger ethical party will emerge. One that will stand up and actually keep their promises.. One that will not ALLOW corruption, payoff and the subversion of the Constitution.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of “Liberalism” “they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened” Norman Thomas US Candidate for President

I dont't agree with Obama's white side or his black side. I don't like either side of Jimmy Carter. I voted for him but I was young, stupid and uninformed.Carter needs to sit down in his rocking chair and shut up before he starts a global war. He also is about to start a war at home because he doesn't know what he is talking about. The people are speaking out because of policy not race.As far as Pelosi and Reid . He does what she tells him. And Madam witch astroturf is made out of plastic like your face.

People do seem more flipped out than usual and a lot more rude and hateful. I can see race maybe being a part of it. Obama is being painted with broad strokes (lots of stereotyping) but if you climb in and investigate what he's doing, most of it makes sense. We're in tough times now with 45 K people dying per year because they don't have health insurance and the lousy state of an economy he inherited.

Carter may have gone a bit far with the racist comment (he doesn't represent all Democrats and Obama has also race plays no role) but he is an extremely intelligent/thoughtful guy. He's helped countless folks. Far more than most.

Still, its odd how people are screaming and pulling their hair out without doing the slightest bit of research into reality. That part may ultimately play well for the left. I think there are a lot of people out there that are very glad we have an intelligent president and this whole wacky shrill rude Republican behavior just makes them leery. Time will tell.

in Zimbabwe..

The only people bringing race into it is you dems.. Just because we have substantive objections to the MASSIVE spending the Government is doing does not make it racial..

"45 K people dying per year because they don't have health insurance "

Please go ahead and illuminate us on that factoid...

tomicus.. I am going to go out on a limb and say you're a democrat.. ok.. try to do better though we just won't expect much more however.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of “Liberalism” “they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened” Norman Thomas US Candidate for President

I think the racist comment is about rudeness, not about disagreeing. And personally, I have heard people say some pretty racist comments in casual conversation. Either way though, I think toning down rudeness would be a good thing.

Illumination on the 45K people dying from lack of health insurance is here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090917/hl_nm/us_usa_healthcare_deaths;_ylt=AhtqFrngRpxWd74QHh4mOHis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFpOWdkNDh1BHBvcwM0MQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDc3R1ZHlsaW5rczQ1

I should have included it the first post.

On the national debt, I think all responsible American are concerned about the massive spending. Keep in mind, all sides have been supporting Bernanke and his effort to avoid Depression number 2. I'm not sure if its the best thing to do but I haven't studied the Depression as much as he has. He may be right that massive borrowing is the least evil in this situation. Time will tell.

The prior 8 years though was borrowing to support tax cuts to the wealthy and a war that wasn't all that well thought through. Nobody is perfect, but I do prefer hiring a very intelligent person to be president and I think we did that last election (Although I must say, both men, McCain or Obama were quite capable).

Main thing I'm for is critical thinking and research. The right has left planet reality and I think everyone is struggling to understand why. Race could play a role. Certainly strong bias.

But it seems to be all about fear now, and fear about crazy stuff at a time there are some real things to fear. Whats going to get a lot of these people is cancer and heart disease (and crappy health insurance causing economic hardships). But people seem to be more concerned about guns, birth certificates and secret militias.

Fear does make the media lots of money. Is it just that or do other factors such as race play a roll? Its probably both things and more. Its all pretty fascinating.

He just prefers the Palestinian Terrorist over the Jewish people.

Heck he prefers any dictator over a freely elected offical

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of “Liberalism” “they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened” Norman Thomas US Candidate for President

has more substance to it than all of the criticism that has been posted on this thread about him. He was calling it like he sees it, that peoples' dislike of Obama's race is playing a part in the degree of negative reaction that is being generated. My opinion is that it is barely newsworthy because the subject is so obvious. Jimmy Carter's work with conflict resolutions and for the betterment of mankind shows the world what really makes America a great country, which is the kindness and generosity of the majority of the American people.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

The loud cry - "it's not about race" - usually comes from those who have just a 'taint' of racism in their reasoning. In 2009 the majority of American people are not basing their opinion regarding issues on 'race' - but Jimmy Carter is well aware of that minority of citizens who still harbor fear, resentment, and ignorance in their hearts of those who are different. Obama doesn't have to even deal with the obvious - the media and those who try to get citizens to deal with the race issue with civility - has kept it before our eyes constantly. If we don't learn how to calmly deal with it - we're in trouble. (Those of us over 50) I really think the younger generation is on the way to moving on and accepting Americans based on their actions rather than their color. Those politicians (on both sides of the aisle) who continue to pander to that 'group' who fear difference are despicable.

The loud cry - "it's not about race" - usually comes from those who have just a 'taint' of racism in their reasoning.

What a shameless and intelectually dishonest statement to make. And you consider yourself civil.

Obama.... The Bernie Madoff Of Washington

Get a dictionary, use spell check, and take a nap!

You caught me on a misspell..... Goody for you. Did have a nice little nap though. Now address your idiotic and insidious comments.

Obama.... The Bernie Madoff Of Washington

Get a dictionary, use spell check, and take a nap!

So I can say its "not about race" or better yet, I can criticize the President without being labeled a racist?

The President has already realized the slippery slope of such innuendos and has appropriately distanced himself from such discussion. Very wise on his part. Wouldn't you agree?
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Of course! Just be sure not to include 'white-hating, elitist, northerner in your discourse. I am so impressed with his wise decision to stay above the fray on this one. He discussed his view of 'race' in America early on - and that is enough. The president of the United States is black, a democrat, a Christian, raised by a 'white' mother and 'white' grandparents who loved him dearly and taught him he could be all he can be in our country. Although his father left his young American family, they did not denigrate the man - and Obama is proud of his African heritage. His sister is an American who is half white, half Asian, married to an Asian. There are Americans who disagree with some of his policies. There are Americans who agree with some of his policies. Most Americans disagree civilly with Obama and their fellow citizens - some do not. Let's hope that the rudeness and incivility tones down - and we move on to solving some of the problems that have developed over the past 10-15 years. I get your message loud and clear - end of discussion of Obama and 'race'. Not end of discussion of 'race relations' in America.

"The president of the United States is black...."

Actually, David's Mom, he's half black. Why don't you acknowledge his whiteness?

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

he's half black. Why don't you acknowledge his whiteness?

Why don't you!! If he walked into a barber shop - no one would say - he's 'white'! Would you? Why do you react to him as an American 'black' man if you want to acknowledge the 'whiteness' in his heritage? Obama - our 44th 'white' president. Happy?

He discussed his view of 'race' in America early on - and that is enough.

This is how he addressed 'race' early on:

"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?".

Barack was definitely playing the race card early on using nothing but straw men. This is how he discussed race 'early on'.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

You are a good prop for those who want to conquer and divide. Having a president who represents the best in America (black and white and yellow and red) is what the international community is recognizing and applauding. You and yours are what the rest of the world wants to put in the past - where ideas and sentiments like yours belong. Fear, ignorance, and bigotry will be the downfall of this country if we don't get over our errant past and move on to the future that includes hope and confidence that humans can live peaceably with one another on this planet.

DM,

We'll move on when you and Barack Obama stop shoving race into every comment and issue facing America today. It is YOU that will not let go of the past and move forward. It is YOU that injects race into each and every argument and issue facing America today. And it was Barack Obama that used a falsehoods and insunuated that those that those that disagree with him do so on the basis of color.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Thanks for your input. I'm off 'the train'.

IT AIN'T ABOUT HIS DAMNED COLOR It is ALL about his policy direction and bents to confiscate liberties from the American people and to terminate the free enterprise system. Many of us refuse to accept the model of Big Socialist Government governing every aspect of our lives and destroying the vestiges that made this country great.

Now tell me... What the hell does any of that have to do with the fact that our President's race is mulatto. Grow up for God's sake lady.

Obama.... The Bernie Madoff Of Washington

I'll believe your rant when you stop referring to his 'color'. Take the word 'mulatto' and shove it where the sun 'don't shine! You should have started this concern about 'socialist' government and taking away your liberties long before January 20!! You represent the worst that this country has to offer! Now go back to sleep!

Mulatto denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry.[1] The term may be perceived as pejorative in some cultures and situations

My president is half white just as much as he is half white. So you can just bite me.

You should have started this concern about 'socialist' government and taking away your liberties long before January 20!!

Anybody KNOWS I've been voicing concerns about the socialist direction that the Democrats along with Obama have desired to take us for years now. Your girly slap carries NO merit what-so-ever which comes to no surprise to those who read you reguarly.

You represent the worst that this country has to offer! Now go back to sleep!

OMG....you left me speechless. That statement makes about as much sense as nominating and awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Price long before he ever took office. (eyes rolling)

I'll believe your rant when you stop referring to his 'color'

And I'll stop ranting back atcha when YOU stop referring / injecting "color" into every damned subject that pops up and someone disagrees with you on.

Now go back to sleep!

Later babe! (schmoooooochies)

Obama.... The Bernie Madoff Of Washington

Obama is a man of color you fool. She is right in ensinuating that you are against Obama because of the blackness he proudly is. just be mad and yes go away. you have 7 more years to go before you think you can do something to stop positive change.

What the heck is "ensinuating" you boob. And where's your avatar saluting your savior?
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that I allowed this youngster to prompt me to lose my dignity. I will earnestly endeavor to ignore his personal attacks from now on - and just deal with the facts.

Good for you, DM, for apologizing. I was surprised to read your former responses in this thread, as they were not your usual level-headed style. Although I find I disagree with some of your opinions, I can count on you to be reasonable and civil. Thus, I always read your posts with an open mind. It takes a fine human being to admit her mistake. Kudos.