“Which brings us to both the profiteering right-wing media and the aimless Republican Party stuck in its tail wind. Both have decided their survival in America’s new multiracial reality depends upon a very old playbook: pursue narrow financial and political gain by exploiting the justified anxieties of working-class whites.”

Translation: Rush, Beck and Fox are pointing out that “whites” are getting screwed. Which is exactly what Martin Luther King did for African Americans.

“…exploiting the justified anxieties of working-class whites.”
Should read: “…giving voice to the justified anxieties of working-class whites.”

Can you believe that he uses the word “justified”? An alternate translation is “Whites” have “justified anxieties” about the “justified” screwing that they are getting for benefiting from slavery.

Cold black rain battered on the corrugated iron roof of the Barack Obama Community Health Center; it streamed down the broken windows and puddled on the concrete floor. From the gaggle of wheezing, sneezing, coughing and bleeding supplicants that filled the holding pen one white haired individual shuffled forward. “Hold on” he choked. “I’m coming…”

“Who are you –Sam and Dave?” snapped the Administrator. “Let’s go! Chop chop!”

“Sorry sir” mumbled the dotard. “Sorry…hard to walk…leg hurts”.

“Yeah, yeah; we all got problems. Name? Number?”

“Citizen, John Q. ObamaCare Access Number 17031955/JQ/2008 (B)”.

“Sorry. You’re not on my database, mister. I got no records for you”.

“Um, maybe I forgot… a number…sorry, sir. Let me just check my bar code arm tattoo”. John Q Citizen began to fumble with his cuffs.

“No time for that, coffin stuffer. Go to the back of the line, please. And try to supply accurate information in the future. Next!”

“But my leg really hurts…”

“I bet it does. Smells bad too. Back of the line. Next!”

“But…”

“Don’t make me call Security. Next!”

As Mr Citizen reluctantly retired his place was taken by another, eager for treatment.

“Name? Number?”

“Doe. Jane Doe. ObamaCare Access Number 14011960/ JD/2012 (S)”.

“Let’s just pull up your records…whoa! That ain’t good! Nuh uh”.

“What? Oh my God! What does it say? Tell me!”

“Sorry; no can do. Confidential”.

“But those are my records! I have a right…”

“Confidential, I said, goddammit. Don’t make me call Security. Okay; I can make you an appointment to make an appointment to see somebody…”

“A doctor?”

“I said ‘somebody’, I didn’t say ‘doctor’. Are you deaf or something?”

“What? A little I think. But mostly it’s when I cough, there’s blood all the time…”

“Oh yuck! Gross! Just don’t do it on me, okay? I can book you in for 7.30 am on the 27th”.

“Of August?”

“January”.

“That’s a long ways away. I’m scared; I think it might be cancer. There’s a history in my family…”

“Hey, I didn’t ask for your life story. January 27 – take it or leave it”.

“I’ll take it, I guess”.

“Fine. Now we’re getting somewhere. Take this form, complete both sides in black ink, using capital letters, and take it to that room over there”.

“What happens then?”

“You complete another form and you go to another room”.

“And then?”

“Are you complaining? Huh? You better not be!” growled the Administrator. “Actually, looking at your records and seeing how much you’ve, um, got wrong with you and considering the cost of treatment…maybe I can fast track you after all”.

“To a doctor? That would be wonderful! Oh, thank you so much!”

“Get up! Quit licking my hand! Stop crying! And I didn’t say ‘doctor’, either. I meant fast track you to a special program just for expensive, incurable – I mean extra special – people like you”.

“Extra special? What kind of program?”

“Did you ever see the movie ‘Soylent Green’? No? Well, then it will be a whole new experience for you…”

Teabagging rednecks is as much of a label as the “n” word and is intended to be the most denigrating of insults. But, they miss the mark by a country mile because there are upper-middle class folks in the millions who have never seen anything with four-wheel-drive or a gun rack and who don’t hunt, own a gun or drink light beer or bowl, or all those other “red-necky” type things. (Using Jeff Foxworthy’s criteria for redneck) who just don’t want this administration to move another got-dang inch.

The liberal media is so far out of touch with middle class America that they have gone into the realm of particle physics just to function because their world is so small.

But this is the ultimate result of what happens when people think they are “movers and shakers” are, in fact, just wigglers and whiners.

My response to Jeanine would be, “Lady, you would have me lay down my life and let myself get shot by a mugger before I fought back for fear of being called a racist”

Because apparently, being out of the closet is not an endearing quality to one with Obama’s personality

Yes, if you are one of those citizens who dares to disagree with Obama and you happen to be a race other than African American, you are a racist. It’s that simple. We saw Obama supporters pull the race card during the primaries as well.

Be prepared to be called Nazi, warmonger, or bigot for the mere act of talking if it does not conform to Democratic talking points.

Puppet….meet string…

“Let’s be very honest about what this is about,” she said. “It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.”

– Jeanine Garofalo, April 16, Countdown with Keith Olbermann

Stories by Kai Wright

Kai Wright is a freelance journalist in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn.

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How the mortgage industry stole black America’s hard-won wealth.
Posted on Jun 30, 2008

The “Colorblind” Attack on Your Health
Since the civil rights movement’s close, blacks in particular have made no progress on what may be the most important measure of social well-being: living to see old age.
Posted on Jun 5, 2007

Upward Mortality
Is racism slowly killing black Americans — physically as well as systemically?
Posted on May 24, 2006

Fear, Loathing, and the AIDS Generation
If you’ve paid passing attention to the news about gay men and our sex lives in the last year, you’d think we’re all depraved, barebacking, bug-chasers. But that’s not actually what’s killing us.
Posted on Jan 12, 2006

Harlem’s Toxic Nightmare
Black and Latino children are paying the price for the mismanagement that has many public housing projects saturated in pesticides and literally crawling with rats.
Posted on May 3, 2005

More Sex, Please
The gay rights movement has sacrificed sexual pluralism on the altar of civil rights. While legal equality is a worthy goal, it’s also a goal that will remain elusive as long as we opt out of the sex wars.
Posted on Apr 1, 2005

Red, Black and Blue
Many progressive black voters entered this election in a jubilant mood, with increased engagement and high turnout in key states. But their effect was often countered by new evangelical voters – some of whom were African American.
Posted on Nov 5, 2004

Sarah Jones’ Reality Theater
Sarah Jones is making a name for herself as heir to the feminist performance-art thrones of Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg, while her romance with unvarnished urbanity puts her closer akin to Spike Lee and Richard Pryor.
Posted on Jun 1, 2004

What Rainbow?
Queer people of color have been reluctant to engage the in the gay civil rights movement’s marriage battle. That’s because we don’t see what’s in it for us.
Posted on May 21, 2004

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No wonder Mr. Gates and NPR would be so enamored of him/her. He seems right up their alleys.

But why isn’t he in Mr. Obama’s cabinet?

proreason predicted weeks ago that crying racism would be a major tactic in the war to implement socialism via Death Care..

But it was really too obvious to brag about it much.

Still, it’s a nice twist though to bring Prof Gates in on it.

Given his bona fides as an objective observor of racism.

Isn’t this a great country?

Casa does have some very interesting signs posted on their website.

I suppose great minds think alike – I love it!

“The American People voted stupidly on November 8, 2008 and the Executive Branch has acted stupidly ever since”

I stopped by the business (I had not intended to stop there) and purchased a few items and told him to keep up the good work.