America: A Nation of Cowards
Most people have, at some point in their life, stared at passing clouds and recognized, in their view, various shapes. Rarely do two people agree on what shape a cloud represents. One person could see an angel, and their cloud-observing antagonist may see an evil spirit in the same cloud. Perhaps their visual perceptions are caused by a psychological predilection. Psychologists believe this is so.
The Rorschach inkblot test is one form of administering a psychological evaluation for diagnosing underlying thought disorders. After staring at an array of ink blots, the testee describes what the shapes represent. This test was played out in real life yesterday as a political cartoon in the New York Post.
Perhaps a preamble is necessary in order to make manifest the various dynamics surrounding the political cartoon. Two events were headline news earlier this week: the signing of the spending package by President Hope and Change; and the pet chimpanzee that went on a maniacal rampage, almost killing his owner’s friend, and was subsequently killed by the police. Two hundred pound pet monkey violently attacking the owner’s friend= monkey bad; President Hope and Change signing an $800 billion defective spending bill that no one has read, including Hope and Change = leaders stupid. For these two events to occur simultaneously is manna from heaven for a political cartoonist.
The cartoon: 
Any observer with a passable intellect, common sense, and a semi-workable sense of cerebral balance, would know that the cartoon referenced the monkey attack, and the verbiage from the officers represented an intellectual view of the spending package. But Post Haste was the ignorant reaction from the visceral in regard to the cartoon. Leading the charge was race baiter and racial opportunist, Al Sharpton.
Sharpton said the cartoon….”invokes historically racist images in suggesting an ape wrote President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package.” Sharpton also stated, “The cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best, given the racist attacks throughout history that have made African-Americans synonymous with monkeys.” The spending bill was written by congressional Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, (a white woman), and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (a white man). I personally don’t find it objectionable that Sharpton referred to Pelosi and Reid as monkeys, but I am sure there are plenty of monkeys that would be highly offended by the comparison.
Also chiming in from the peanut gallery is Rolland Martin, a syndicated columnist who on a good day is limited to just being a racial bigot. Martin gleefully celebrates the death of anyone he has anointed as racist. Referencing the deaths of Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox and Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, and speaking shortly after the death of Sen. Jesse Helms, Roland glibly stated, “Death has a way of sanitizing the most virulent and despicable aspects of prominent lives, especially those who trafficked in racial bigotry. Now they are joined in the conservative wing of heaven by former Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina.” Perhaps Martin should re-read–assuming he has read it once–the Bible, as there is very little compassion for the type of liberalism that is pervasive in our society today, much less accommodating a liberal wing in heaven. Martin called the cartoon offensive, careless and racist , and also said the cartoon was clearly comparing President Obama to a chimpanzee.
The cartoonist, Sean Delonas, in his defense said, “It’s absolutely friggin ridiculous. Do you really think I’m saying Obama should be shot? I didn’t see that in the cartoon. The chimpanzee was a major story in the Post. Every paper in New York, except The New York Times, covered the chimpanzee story. It’s just ridiculous. It’s about the economic stimulus bill. If you’re going to make that about anybody, it would be Nancy, Pelosi, which it’s not.” As the York Post said in its defense of running the cartoon, “Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon – even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.”
Quite serendipitously, Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States, and one of Obama’s more deplorable picks, stated quite analogously yesterday, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”
Eric Holder is correct: we are a nation of cowards because we cannot discuss the issue of race. The reason being because Eric Holder, Roland Martin, Al Sharpton, NAACP, New Black Panthers, et al, are ardent racists, and, as demonstrated during the Obama campaign, all criticism of Obama was rooted in racism. There was plenty of dialog about race, and it usually went as so:
Smart person, “Obama is not qualified.”
Racist, “That’s a racist statement.”
Smart person,”Was Obama born here?”
Racist, “That’s a racist question.”
Smart person, “Obama is a Socialist.”
Racist, “That’s a racist statement.”
Smart person, “I don’ agree with Obama’s liberal ideology.”
Racist, “That’s a racist attitude.”
And on and on and on with the same old race baiting poppycock. Indeed, there was plenty of race dialog during the campaign, and it has not abated one iota. Case in point is the statement by black South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn that, “southern governors opposing the stimulus package is a slap in the face of African-Americans. Folks, it does not get any more racist than this in the 21st century.”
Until the multitudes of simple-minded apostles resist being led down the path of philistinism by these sectarian, intolerant, and self-serving provocateurs, no honest dialog will happen.
This cartoon, this ink blot, this litmus test of common sense, was an unwitting test of one’s propensity for racism. Whoever was offended by this cartoon is a racist because of his projection bias. Their projection bias of racism will always be attributed to something or someone else as long as they harbor their disfigured disposition. Whatever one’s inclination happens to be, will be found in what they have contact with: if good, then good will be reflected back; if hateful, hate will be reflected back; if racist, racism is reflected back.
Have we, as a country, achieved a point where the word “monkey” is now deemed racist? Should we refer to the hairy creatures as macaca fascicularies-Americans? Is this the point we have arrived at?
Yes, indeed, we are a country of cowards. Al Sharpton, Rolland Martin, James Clyburn, and Eric Holder, and their ilk are the cowards–Americans only in the academic sense: they are unfit to be considered my countrymen; they are unfit to be considered patriots of this country. Indeed, Mr. Holder, you are a coward, and as far as there not being enough dialog about race, you are a liar; in fact, there has been so much talk about race this past year, I am quite frankly sick of it, especially the racist dialog coming from your side of the aisle.
Comments (3)
Great post, Jim. I wrote something about this myself today.
Oh, my. If it weren’t so tragic, I would be laughing my self into a frenzy. Another numbskulled response from another white ignorant individual who has NO CLUE how to be insightful nor see past his own limited experience and view.
Perhaps if ol’ 1Jimbo and friends had IQ’s beyond their shoe sizes, and a heart and mind capable of seeing beyond their own noses, they just might have the ability to understand that the experiences of ALL African Americans, no matter who or what situation they are born into, as long as their skin color had enough pigmentation that they were considered “Black;” they have had to deal with something no white person, rich or poor, literate or illiterate, has had to deal with— An Institutionally and Individually bigoted environment in this entire country. There is no place. no state or city, town or village, that blacks have been able to thrive without coming into contact with that ugly historical legacy that continues on until this very moment.
No matter what “progress” we as African Americans (and I include myself since I have a “black” father) have made, even with President Obama being the Leader of the “Free World,” the bigotry is still there, always reminding us how inhumane other humans can be.
And YES, Roland Martin was CORRECT— people like former Gov. Maddox, the bigoted Georgian who didn’t want people of color to grace his “pure white” Universities (or lower echelons of education ie high schools) was a part of civilization whose demise brought us a tiny bit closer to a world where God did NOT intend such hatred==nor approves it).
“Obama is not qualified?” How DARE anyone make such an asinine statement. If one was to go back in history and look at EVERY OTHER PRESIDENT SINCE WASHINGTON, you would find that Obama has MORE education and INTELLIGENCE than many of these white slaveholding racist a–holes.
Even Abraham Lincoln was nothing more than a hick lawyer who by some weird stroke of fate (?) won over other more so-called “qualified” men. And
by the way- WHAT MAKES A PERSON QUALIFIED???
WHO are YOU to determine that this very clever intelligent man cannot run this country. HE DESERVES AS MUCH CHANCE TO MAKE THIS A BETTER WORLD AS ANY OTHER PERSON- And, remember HE WON, FAIR AND SQUARE, HE WON. Get over it. The White House no longer is the EXPRESS DOMAIN OF WHITE MEN.
YOU are NOT the only group of people who reserves the right to be represented by someone who looks like you—IT’S WAAAAY OVERDUE for me to look toward Washington, DC and see someone who LOOKS LIKE ME, for a change. No one crowned you King of the Earth. At least, Our Creator (God) did not. It was something you did on your own. But the tide has turned! And we will NEVER go back, never!
Finally, as for your so called examples of the Rorshach Test, The Cartoon of the Gorilla, or any other examples you may think you find, I have NEWS for you: Your reasoning is very SKEWERED. It is not as simple as “perception.”
Whether one person (ie Roland Martin, Rev. Sharpton) sees something as being racist, compared to (YOU, and those of your ilk), depends on the HISTORY OF THEIR EXPERIENCES.
It was NOT you who when finally allowed to serve in the Armed Forces, was SEPARATED from his/her fellow soldiers. Yes, SEGREGATED for something as basic and by fate of birth) as stupid as PIGMENT IN YOUR SKIN!!! And, did you or your parents ever experience the humiliation of not being able to dine in a restaurant or even ATTEND A LOUSY BASEBALL GAME because of the color of your skin????
Did your parents or grandparents feel the pain of having DOGS BEING SIKKED ON THEM, WATER HOSES BEING AIMED AT THEM, OR WAS YOUR UNCLE OR AUNT BURNED ALIVE OR HUNG FROM SOME TREE?????? (Go to withoutsantuary.com) if you dare, and then come back and tell me how RACIST blacks are!
Poor white man. You are so put upon. You are so…unable to feel for your fellow human beings. Shame on you.
Linda,
You again. For the love of Pete. You apparently have some remnants of a brain, I presume, since you are, at the very least, able to fire enough signals to your fingers to operate a keyboard. But– God, help us– you pathetically continue to attempt to use the English language as a weapon, and you clearly have not read the instruction manual.
You see the world only in two colors, and two races: black and white. It is nauseatingly ignorant people such as yourself, who vomit hate, racism, and wholesale stupidity from the aperture between your nose and chin that causes people as myself, quite frankly, to not give a rat’s ass about your plight. My only method of cleansing myself after having my brain permeated with you and your ilk’s poison, and restore my faith in the black citizenship of this country, are the words of Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, and Martin Luther King; three individuals with whom you have no connection with other than color. You obviously have a PHD in the Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Roland Martin School of Victimization.
To quote you quoting me: “Obama is not qualified?”
Where to start? You continue with your expounding of me: “How DARE [sic] anyone make such an asinine statement.” I stand by my statement that Obama is not qualified. He is not morally qualified, his lack of principles makes him unqualified, his fascism makes him unqualified, and lastly, his lack of intelligence makes him unqualified.
If one was to go back in history and look at EVERY OTHER PRESIDENT SINCE WASHINGTON, you would find that Obama has MORE education and INTELLIGENCE than many of these white slaveholding racist a–holes. Yes, Obama did go to Ivy League universities. That is a fact. But contrary to the other presidents that you belittle, they went to universities also, but considering that the current state of America’s Ivy League universities are nothing more that dens of indoctrination, and pale in comparison to the time when universities actually focused on education, I would venture that Obama is the least educated of the group. The difference being that Obama was admitted because of the color of his skin, the others, by merit.
WHO are YOU to determine that this very clever intelligent man cannot run this country. (Tip, please use a question mark at the end of a sentence) Well, Linda, I say he is not a “very clever intelligent man”, and he has, so far, demonstrated he does not possess the skills to operate a lemonade stand. But I challenge you to answer a few questions, or provide documentation, for me. And if you can, I will retract what I said and concede the point. And if you cannot answer them, concede that you voted for Obama because of the color of his skin. I believe that to be a reasonable wager.
Answer or produce the following pertaining to Obama to validate his intelligence:
A copy of Obama/Dunham marriage license
A copy of Soetoro/Dunham marriage license
A copy of Soetoro adoption records
A copy of the Fransiskus Assisi School application
A copy of Punahou School records
A copy of the Selective Service Registration
A copy of his SAT score
Occidental College grades
A copy of his Passport (Pakistan)
A copy of his Columbia grades
A copy of his Columbia thesis
A copy of his Harvard grades
A copy of his Harvard Law Review articles
A copy of his Baptism certificate
A copy of his medical records
A copy of his Illinois State Senate records
A copy of his Illinois State Senate schedule
A list of his Law practice client list
A copy of his University of Chicago scholarly articles
Other than being able to read words off a teleprompter that someone else wrote, show me some confirmation of intelligence, anything. Please produce evidence of intelligence or as you so eloquently stated, evidence that he is a “very clever intelligent man.”
Did your parents or grandparents feel the pain of having DOGS BEING SIKKED ON THEM, WATER HOSES BEING AIMED AT THEM, OR WAS YOUR UNCLE OR AUNT BURNED ALIVE OR HUNG FROM SOME TREE?????? Give me the names of your parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts who suffered these atrocities, and the genealogy to validate it. Also, explain the connection of this statement and its relevance to Obama’s presidency.
And lastly, in one of your other rants, you stated, “The only thing that brings a smile to my face when thinking about you stupid people is that there IS A GOD- and there will be A JUDGMENT DAY!!!” So Linda, please explain to me what you will have to say to God on judgment day when asked about the blood on your soiled hands from the deaths of thousands of unborn babies you sanctioned the killing of by voting for Obama?
Linda, not only are you just a plain ol’ garden variety, hateful, and ridiculously fatuous racist, you are also just as fanatical with your religious hypocrisy.