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Columnist: Obama‘s Election Triggered ’Fear of a White Minority’
- Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:09pm by
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Cynthia Tucker is a Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Also listen for her assertion that the stimulus plan brought the “biggest one-year tax cut in U.S. history.”
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Rock Knutne ND
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:06pmThe real shame in all of this is Obama could do some great things for America if he were so inclined. He’s a great example for black fatherhood. Stay home, stay married and help change the culture of black education by being or getting involved in your child’s education.
Has anyone heard him touch in a meaningful way on any of these issues??
Report Post »illinoisnana
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:37pmHow do we know if he is a husband, let alone a dad?????? They could belong to ???? just like his school records, birth certificate, his marriage license, his whatever, where are they???
Report Post »Jeetman
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:43pmRock Knutne ND I’ll give ANYONE a chance. I could careless about the color of a mans skin. Having said that, I disagree with you saying he’s a great example of fatherhood. He’s been proven to be a flat out liar. He’s deceiving and dishonest. Not the qualities I’d want my son or daughters to look up to.
I’m white BTW. I don’t see the need to separate him as a role model because of the color of his skin. It’s this very thing that the left and the media do constantly.
“Judge a man by the content of his character not the color of his skin” (MLK).
This President has a dismal character.
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 5:56pmUhm….I wouldn’t want my daddy to be a liar and a fraud.
Report Post »EntropysChild
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 9:38pmCheck out this video …. it was extremely controversial at the time…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZZ6GrzWkw0
Report Post »jmb847
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:06pmLet’s see
Mosque near ground zero – Yes it’s legal but Muslims could gain a lot of support by simply saying loud and clear it’s not appropriate.
Immigration – Most of us are descendents of legal immigrants. Almost no one is against legal immigration to this country. There is nothing racial about opposing illegal immigration. Should not Hispanics who are in line to legally immigrate to this country have priority over people who do not play by the rules?
Fear of being a minority – Why does the media accept such an absurd position without making the person stating it justify the position. I think the majority of the people in this country want nothing more than everyone treated equally rather than separate us by race into competing factions.
Was it not MLK’s position that we should all be judged by the content of our character rather than the color of our skin?
Report Post »BlackSwan
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 5:47pmJMB847 – there is just to much common sense in everything you just wrote for any liberal to get there arms around it..
Report Post »Teezer
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:05pmMs. Tucker drives in for her job at the AJC from Nutjobville. Or maybe she telecommutes. Anyway, she don’t have all her ducks in a line. She’s a few fries short of a happy meal. Her elevator don’t go all the way up to the top. In other words, she’s a perfectly qualified lib journo.
Report Post »Selfreliance
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:00pmWhy can‘t people on the opposite site of the illegal immigrant disagreement see that it’s the ILLEGAL part of things, not the immigrant portion, that’s at issue?
Playing the race card over and over is unfortunately working for these folks. Perfect example is enforcement along the southern border. It is obvious that a vastly disproportionate number of people in the US illegally along the southern border are Hispanic. In what world do you NOT use this well-known fact as A FACTOR in assessing the need to investigate individuals? If a robbery suspect is described by three victims as an American Indian, I would similarly assume you’d focus on people of that ethnicity in searching out the perpetrator.
It is time to stop out government from all the stupid things they do and don’t do, even if that means some people might have hurt feelings once in a while.
Report Post »riseabove
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:00pmIt wasn’t the election at all the triggered horror because the press failed to illuminate us about Obama and his radical left cronies, so right there she’s revealed herself to be uninformed. For me, it was day after day of seeing ACORN workers instructing pimps and prostitutes on the intricacies of gaming the system. It was watching videos of Van Jones screaming about giving “them” the wealth and that felons should be allowed to vote. It was the Mao loving lady telling high schoolers about how she adored him. It was the two angry Black Panthers shouting at a white voter about finding out what it‘ll be like to live under the black man’s rule now. It was the contemptuous treatment from the black community directed at those who have been working and paying in to the same system that’s been giving them free Welfare, WIC, food stamps, housing and medical help for the past several decades. It was the whole unhealthy reparations and redistribution of wealth thing. It was loads and loads of black SEIU workers being bussed on the taxpayer’s dollar to certain protest locales. It was the NAMBLA supporter Safe School czar and I could go on and on and on but anyone who‘s been paying attention to Conservative Media outlets knows what I’m talking about.
I’m not sure how they can expect welcoming committees when these angry hordes show up at our doorsteps demanding we pay their way. Does that make me racist? At this point I don‘t know and I don’t care. All I know is my thoughts and opinions are nobody else’s business.
Report Post »meriwether lewis
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:51pmi am so f#*k#*g tired of race bs ur its an agenda n im tired of it
Report Post »msctex
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:49pmShe is either not very bright, as evidenced by her ability to believe things provably and obviously not the case, or she is a professional liar like so many others, who will carry the banner until the money stops flowing her way.
Report Post »janeykins
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:48pmI am so sick of the playing of the race card when they cannot argue their point any other way. My first thought after the 9/28 rally ended was “Al Sharpton should be ashamed.” They had themselves all worked up that Glenn was hijacking the civil rights movement and it was so far from that. Mr. Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and their ilk love keeping the black community feeling like victims and until the people start realizing what they are doing to them, things will never change.
Report Post »aircraftmag
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:47pmCynthia Tucker likes to use the race card, she is no different than other race baiters. By using the race card, she hopes we will focus on that issue and not focus on what the real issue is, and that is the progressive agenda, which is destroying our country. No one on this panel had the intelligence to respond to her outrageous comments.
Report Post »ThymeBlazer
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:44pmNotice at 1:59 of the tape, Tucker says White Americans are involved in “anti-immigrant ravings.” First of all, ravings? Ravings are what out-of-your-mind people do, and White Americans are not collectively out-of-our-minds. And it is irresponsible and inflammatory for Tucker to make that suggestion. Secondly, those of us who are supportive of illegal immigration reform, are NOT anti-immigrant – we are just anti-ILLEGAL immigrant., many of whom are criminals who cannot come into America the legal route. What part of the word “illegal” does she not get? White America IS speaking out and saying “Get off our cases and stop with the false cries of racism!” Remember in November!
Report Post »ShadowEchelon
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:43pmWe have never seen a “minority” group that can’t get over the fact that they are the color they are. It seems that the “color” is what is used to get something and also used to stop other opinions. It is the catch all for an entire race. My only question is… where has that mindeset got them? Blacks have contributed to this country and have helped make it what it is, and although that sounds good on some levels… it is also the problem. The time for pity parties is over… we are all Americans now!
Report Post »ann123
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:42pmwe are all americans here . america fall it don’t matter if you are white , black , or yellow .. we all fall together .. we need to stop this bs of race . there is good and bad on both races
Report Post »pepka5520
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 5:54pmYou are correct, BUT those folks like to play the race card because it distracts people from the fact that they are still slaves controlled by the democrats through entitlements in various categories of society.
No Black leader has had the courage to gather Black successful members of U.S. society to address the educational needs of their people.Meanwhile, we have Jessejackson, Al Sharpton and those white “ journalists” promulgating the race issue.
Report Post »jmb847
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:40pmSo much for bringing people together. The best possible solution to issues in the black community and for a better furture for us all is for us to become united and work together.
The alternative is to listen to this lady ( and the media types that surround her ) Al Shapton and the rest who seen to think that all of us simply being Americans is the way to go.
We all need to be proud of our heritage but tags such as Afro American, Asian American, German American need to go in preference of being Americans. What ever happened to from the many one?
Report Post »twistedfreak
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:37pmAll the progressives care about is race. When are they going to grow up and realize most of America doesn’t care what color someone is. The fact is Obama has passed Carter as the worst president ever.The racism seems to be coming from the left. They are so obsessed with the color of someone’s skin, they can’t see the person for what he is..
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 3:42pmWow, wow wait just one minute – you see I am a progressive and I am not saying anything to do with race…please don’t generalize about all progressives. And by the way, I have never read anything that Saul Alisky has written…not all of us care about his views. Stop generalizing and demonizing every one who believes differently than you….that’s not very honorable or the way to treat your fellow citizens and Patriots…yes, I too am a Patriot and I love my country and my God just as much as any of your do.
Report Post »jimjonjr
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 3:48pmRacism on the left, huh? Really? We weren’t the ones trying to “reclaim the civil rights movement” That rally was proof that you see yourself as an oppressed minority. At a tea party rally I attended (for only 5 minutes) I was called a race traitor because I’m a white guy and my girlfriend is black. Then I was threatened with a handgun by this tool. I told him “This is America and I’m free to date who I choose.” I’m not saying here that all righties are racists. As humans we are not perfect. But the racists do exist moreso on the right than on the left. That has been my experience.
Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 5:06pmJimjonjr – To start at the last part of your post, I think that you are lying. If something like that had happened ti would have been blasted all over the news. Go tell your fictitious to a news organization and see if they believe you. Especially when you were threatened by a gun toten Tea Party Member. I would say “nice try” but actually it was pretty feeble.
Now to address the first part of you post. Civil rights is for everyone and is meant to protect everyone. To say that it is wrong for anyone to praise the civil rights movement unless they are an oppressed minority shows your lack of understanding about it.
Report Post »jimjonjr
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 6:39pmJust an added thought here Ricky, The rich folks I know, business owners like me,have a hatred of all middle class and poor folk because they’re “lazy” or they’re not “motivated”. These yahoos, little over half of them, had the businesses handed to them by their folks, and they have no respect for money. In short, my experience has been that yes rich folks are greedy.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 6:56pmRiiight. All of the big business owners like you site around and talk about the stupid and lazy middle class while you smoke your cigars, drink your champagne , and eat your caviar at the country club. They are all greedy but you. I doubt it. But should it be true, and once again I doubt it, who is greedy, those who the money belongs to or those who want it? Make all the claims you want, I doubt it.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:36pmWhats to comment on? I have heard this BS coming from the black racist community over and over again. It is always the nefarious plotting of whites bringing down blacks. It’s always a malevolent external force that is used as a way to draw the gaze of the community outward never inward. Dealing with an external force requires a simple emotional response while a inward gaze would require…What
Report Post »What ever it is these race hustlers find the price to high.
Navyee
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:33pmwow, I don’t even know where or what she is talking about. I am coming from a non white minority and I had no idea that the race was all about race. I wanna know where she gets her views from
Report Post »Hugh Williams
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:29pmSo Cynthia Tucker thinks if it was a white Marxist intentionally destroying the US economy no white person would mind. She says all white people that oppose the radical leftist policies of Obama do so only out of racism. This woman has zero intellectual honesty. Whe can not let the leftist frame all debates with the premise that all conservative views are all based on racism.
Report Post »sawgunner1
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:28pmHere is another glaring example of the how little the Pulitzer Prize means these days. How on earth can this woman assert that a 1 TRILLION (I can’t believe we are even using this number when speaking of debt) stimulus is biggest one-year tax cut in U.S. history? Also, as usual, the “race card” gets played in every conversation if you have another opinion.
Report Post »Jim AZ
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 8:21pmWe’re NOT using that number for DEBT, but for DEFICITS! (I am agreeing with your principle.)
Report Post »–So far this year, Federal deficit ~$1.4T
– ” Federal spending ~ $3.5T
– ” National Debt ~ $13.4T
– ” Unfunded Liabilities ~ $119.3T
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Rock Knutne ND
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:27pmLaughable… As usual when you’ve lost the argument and you know you have, play the race card.
The fact is Americans are tired of it and are finally standing up to all the ‘political correctness’ nonsense.
Report Post »Sadot
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:27pmWhy can’t white people just disagree with his policies? Don’t these liberals realize the more they call us names, the more they tick us off. I would WALK 5 miles in a HURRICANE to vote against these people!!!
Report Post »Lorimar
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:21pmSADOT, love your comment… I would do the same and then some! I’m so tired of people like Cynthia Tucker!!
w4jle
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:25pmShe is absolutely correct, I fear being in the only minority group that works, pays taxes and supports the parasites that will never hit a lick at a snake as long as they get a check from the government. I lived in Atlanta for a number of years and this is one of the less outrageous things she has said.
Report Post »missmarie
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:04pmAgreed, taxpayers are the minority. The reality is that I don’t care if the President is a smurf – either he can do the job or not. In my humble opinion, he can not and is not.
Report Post »jimjonjr
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 3:13pmTaxpayers are the minority because the CEO’s, CFO’s and shareholders need their billions and consequently there are fewer jobs to be had. I make $250,000 a year as the owner of 3 businesses. I know this to be the case. I’ve just had a hiring surge. It‘s not that people don’t want to work, they want to. There are simply not enough jobs to go around. Consequently everyone suffers.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 5:12pmJimJonjr – right. There aren‘t enough jobs because the billionaires are greedy and won’t spend their money on jobs. Wow. They must have all that money in a big bag under their bed. And you own 3 businesses and made $250,000 last year. Why do I have my doubts about that? I also doubt your other post saying that you were accosted at a Tea Party meeting because of your black girlfriend and threatened with a gun. To be blunt I think you are a liar.
Report Post »jimjonjr
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 6:32pmrickfromillinois: I have two restaurants and a record store. I’m certainly not lying about that. My girlfriend, mother, nephew and one of my restaurant employees who happens to be pregnant and her parents threw her out because she wouldn’t get an abortion all live with me. The tea party goof was probably drinking too much before he arrived. That, however, doesn’t excuse his behavior. Another tea party guy got him to put it down and I left. No harm no foul. But my credentials are not at question here. If you’ve see any of my other posts on this thread, you’d see that I say there are liberal racists as well. For example, Jesse Jackson. Is everything that comes out of his mouth racist? No. But there are times, the most infamous being “hymie town”, when he is. The bottom line here, Sparky, is I don’t care what you believe or not about me. The bottom line is there are racists on the right and they would believe they are in the minority if they are white.
Report Post »123halle
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:24pmit is time to stop blaming white people for your own mistakes
Report Post »Micah_iz_Free
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 5:11pmWell then… “I accuse my parents!”
Report Post »jerry3741
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:20pmHe doesn’t know what he is doing. He is trying to destory America and doing a good job at it.
Report Post »Hugh Williams
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:35pmJerry3741…… you are wrong. He knows exactly what he is doing. He is destroying the economy with a plan that has been around since the 1960′s. For decades the leftist have wanted to collapse the system and replace it with a Marxist utopia with them in charge of course.
Report Post »timeisnow
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:56pmJerry
honey, Obama knows exactly what he is doing, but what he doesnt know is that we know what he is doing too…. Collapse the system so he can save it with Socialism…. Wouldnt you love to be controlled by the Government? I didnt thinks so, but thats what Progressives want,thats their Agenda…
Report Post »debak
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:19pmHugh is absolutely right. He knows very well what he’s doing.
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 7:30pmI concur. You must have a total collapse of something to “fundamentally change America” only out of the ashes can the Phoenix of progressivism rise. He’s working it on all fronts, the economy, a terrorist attack, race war, class war. Whatever works?
Report Post »timeisnow
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:19pmPorkulus was a FAILURE, the Republican took one look at this UNION BAIL OUT and ran from it… OBAMA’S AGENGA TO GROW GOVERNMENT/SOCIALISM…
By the way this CRAZY RACE BAINTING BIGOT is out of her mind that this is about RACE! This is what Alinsky tells all opponents of their Social Justice Agenda to do. There is an entire chapter designated to do just that in the Rules for Radicals, page 126 called TATICS…
Report Post »mjbeejr
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:43pmDITTO!
Report Post »MCGIRV
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 3:13pmI concur!
Report Post »sdkavin05
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 7:43pmWhat is the deal with the whole race issue?! Seriously, if people want any kind of equality then leave race out of it! No one should get a better job, or a better chance of a job, or any extra funding to go to school, or have any color designated groups for being black or white or yellow or red, whatever color you are! White privilege is a myth. If a black person or a white person are going for the same job the person hiring shouldn‘t hire the white person because he’s white or the black person for fear or accusations of being racist. Blacks, Native Americans, Whites, Mexicans, people of Middle Eastern descent, none of these should get any special funding or chances for education for being minorities. We are Americans, all of us. Regardless of color, if you are born here, this is your native country, you are American. Get over your stuck up race issues, because not a one person here today was a slave in America nor were any of these people owners of slaves in America. I don’t care about what happened in the past. That is the past, leave it there. Many of the black and white peoples ancestors weren’t even in this country at the time of slavery, and some weren’t even here for the race issues of the 19th and 20th centuries. There are no slaves, or slave owners, the country doesn’t have “white and colored” bathrooms; segregation is nearly non-exisistent. If you want equality, toss out the race card, and go out and use your already equal rights. The only stereotypes formed about who is racist is by the ones making a big deal of it. If during the election of Barack Hussein Obama you based your vote due to his skin color, it doesn’t matter if you voted for or against him, that makes you racist, because it was based on race. If you voted by his policies, congratulations, you have chosen the path of equality and not racism. Get over the racist issue and focus on fixing our rapidly nose-diving country and getting it back on its feet!
Report Post »DivideByZero
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 9:24pmI’m confused!
President Obama is White….and Black….he’s both. So if I fear the president due to his ethnicity, which portion of him should I be in fear of? His feet? His hands? Or perhaps his hair….that part appears to be Black. Yes…that is it I’ll fear his hair. Give me a break.
I don’t fear the president because of his heritage, rather his unwavering devotion to Social Justice and big government agenda. But fear him for his race….as I stated, which one?
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:16pmWhy Is it always about race with these people? Chris Matthews even had a strange look on his face……The Majority will be heard…their color blind
Report Post »missmarie
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 1:54pmAnybody offended at the way she’s speaking so slowly? As if we can’t keep up with an idiot like her…please, spare me.
Report Post »john1961
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:04pmcynthia _ucker….YOU ARE A RACIST! white people voted obama into office….by the way, didnt the stimulus bill give money to ACORN? yes it did. i rest my case, your honor.
Report Post »missmarie
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:32pmDang, so nice to hear from you today. You just wake up, sweetie? Thank you for changing a few of the words of your cut/paste comments. I appreciate a little variety from day to day.
Report Post »klstj
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:44pmDanglinbags is clueless! Just like the rest of the progressive mass. Race baiting, divisionists…you think the tea party is radical and you are mainstream? Where do you live? You need to get out more, along with your elite friends. We the people are sick of maggets like you, feeding on self created controversy. How do you look yourself in the mirror? At least everyone I know doesn’t even consider race, simply the character and content of a person…take a lesson in humanity!
Report Post »john1961
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:45pmdinglebags said, “this GUY is right on”. cynthia _ucker is a guy???? dingleboy, whoever is paying you to come on here (moveon.org) is not getting their moneys worth!!! you are stupid.
Report Post »1st a Father
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 3:51pmI believe Ms. Tucker is either using the “Rules for Radicals” playbook or she has deceived herself into believing that all white people in the Tea Party movement are racists. This is statistically impossible, not to mention anyone has yet to show me that mainstream Tea Party members are racist. From what I understand any key members that display any racism are removed from their post. If there are any I am not aware of they should be removed. There is no place in the party for racism. that is not at all what the movement is about.
It would sure be nice if these progressives would debate the issues instead of labeling people as racists every time they disagree with policy. They like to play the people by screaming racist all the time. there are a lot gullible sheeple in this country, especially amongst the so called educated (indoctrinated) elite. The 17th amendment should have never been passed and I think its time it was repealed. What do you think.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 4:31pmRace is always used when they don’t have a real argument to support their position. Problem for them is they can only Cry Wolf for so long.
prano
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 4:59pmA class 5 hurricane is going to sweep the old and bring the new! The Left is running scared, a new breed of voter has risen from the ashes of discontent in the politicians that has taken this great country down the wrong road. A revolution is in the wind and the left will say everything to stop it !
Report Post »Max
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 7:24pmKeep playing the race card.
Report Post »Your just diluting it.
No one fears it anymore.