By Deroy Murdock
August 27, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Congressman-for-Life Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) recently
waded into the enduring controversy over Vice President Joseph Biden’s August
14 remarks in Danville, Va. That’s when Biden notoriously used a southern
accent to tell a largely black audience that, if elected, Mitt Romney is “going
to put y’all back in chains.” Biden and his defenders claim that the Veep
innocently referred to Republican aspirations to unshackle banks. Doing so,
somehow, would slap manacles on all Americans — not just the black folks standing
before Biden in the final capital of the Confederacy (black population: 48
percent).
“Was he [Biden] talking about slavery?” Rangel asked last
Thursday on The Perez Notes radio show. “You bet your ass he was. Was he using
the vernacular? Yes, he was. Did he think it was cute? Yes, he did. Was it
something stupid to say? You bet your life it was stupid.”
Rangel now joins former Virginia governor Douglas Wilder
as a prominent Democrat who has rejected Biden’s side of this still-simmering
story. “Biden’s remarks brought race into the campaign and they were not
necessary,” Wilder told CNN on August 17.
Biden’s comments were just a bizarre and crude effort to
scare black people into voting Democrat, again. After all, if Biden is telling
the truth, how would deregulating banks put Americans “back” in “chains?”
Before the 2007–8 financial meltdown, banks did not hold Americans in chains.
Au contraire. Fueled by the federal Community Reinvestment Act, loose money
from the Federal Reserve Board, and the boisterous encouragement of Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac, many banks promiscuously approved mortgages — even for dodgy
borrowers with little prospect of repaying their loans. So, come 2013, there
would be no “chains” into which banks could put Americans “back,” even if a
President Romney cremated the Dodd-Frank law in a giant bonfire on the National
Mall.
While one may disagree with Romney, his running mate Paul
Ryan, and every Republican on Capitol Hill, the notion that the GOP is itching
to re-enslave blacks is an outrageous, disgusting lie that utterly mutilates
American history. As most students learn in junior high school, abolitionists
launched the Republican party to end slavery. Republicans defeated the
Confederacy and then spent Reconstruction trying to incorporate blacks into
American society. Democrats fought them at every turn.
Democrats opposed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution,
which bans slavery, and the 14th Amendment, which guarantees every American
equal protection under law, regardless of race. Unwilling to limit their
anti-black hate to Capitol Hill, Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan as, in
essence, the party’s militant wing. In the 1920s, Democrats defeated the GOP’s
federal anti-lynching legislation. Led by West Virginia’s Robert Byrd — a
one-time Exalted Cyclops in the KKK who recruited 150 new Klansmen — Senate
Democrats filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Republicans broke that
filibuster and moved that landmark legislation to President Lyndon Baines
Johnson’s desk for signature.
President Ronald Reagan named General Colin Powell to be
America’s first black national security adviser and authorized the Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. national holiday.
After President George W. Bush appointed not one but two
black secretaries of state (Powell and Condoleezza Rice), a freshly inaugurated
President Obama and Senator Richard Durbin (D., Ill.) ended the Washington,
D.C., school-voucher program. Thousands of young, black Washingtonians were
relegated to lives of ignorance and poverty once Obama and Durbin had derailed
this Underground Railroad out of the ghettoes of the nation’s capital.
Against this backdrop, Americans were startled to hear
Touré, the mononymous co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle, remark on August 16 that
Romney was using “racial coding” to effect the “niggerization” of Obama. So,
how does Touré contend that Romney “niggerized” Obama? According to Touré,
Romney said that Obama is running an “angry” campaign. Romney and his
supporters had chided Team Obama’s class-warfare rhetoric, criticized claims
that Romney is a “felon” who has paid no taxes in a decade, and condemned a
pro-Obama super-PAC commercial that blames Romney and Bain Capital for speeding
the cancer death of the wife of a steel-mill employee.
“That really bothered me,” Touré said on live TV
regarding a Romney campaign appearance. “You notice he said ‘anger’ twice.”
That’s right. What could be more “niggerizing” than
uttering the word “anger” twice (!) in reference to Barack Obama?
After all, only black men get angry. (You should see the
rage on my face right now.) “Anger” apparently is a “dog whistle” word that
only whites can hear. How odd, then, that a black man like Touré deciphered
this “racial code.” Perhaps Toure’s otherwise-Negroid eardrums can discern a
few of the kilohertz that only Caucasians can perceive.
Romney’s super-high-pitched statement helped him
telegraph this vital secret to white voters in swing states:
Barack Obama is black!
This shocking news surely will drive white bigots by the
tens of millions into the loving arms of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
Meanwhile, the Left is trying to “honkify” the
Romney-Ryan ticket. As columnist Victor Davis Hanson masterfully documented,
leading liberals labor mightily to portray Romney and Ryan as Whitey McWhite
& Son.
Actress Mia
Farrow saw the first Romney-Ryan rally on TV and said, “Camera pans crowd:
whole bunch of white people.”
State senator
Louise Lucas (D., Va.), an Obama campaign “Truth Team” member, said on July 20
that Romney is “speaking to that fringe out there who do not want to see
anybody other than a white person in a leadership position.” Lucas barked this
just nine days after Romney used his speech to the NAACP’s national convention
to ask black Americans for their votes.
Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), who has a history of racial bomb throwing, warned
that if Romney wins, “the day after the election, 17 angry old white men will wake
up and realize they just bought the country.”
Whether or not these Leftists believe this nonsense,
Americans are on edge, thanks to the stagnant economy and a host of other
frustrations. Some unhinged individual may hear this idiotic drivel about lily-white
Republicans using cryptic messages to re-enslave blacks. Who knows what such
stupid lies might inspire some fanatic to do?
Gay-rights volunteer Floyd Lee Corkins allegedly opened
fire at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., on August 15. Police
say he declared, “I don’t like your politics,” and then shot staff member Leo
Johnson in the arm. While Johnson (who happens to be black) will recover fully,
things might have been far worse had Corkins dropped the 15 Chick-fil-A
sandwiches that he carried as part of an apparent “social-conservative
disguise,” and pumped FRC staffers full of the 50 bullets that he reportedly
possessed.
On August 13, anti–Paul Ryan protesters interrupted his
remarks and tried to rush the stage as the House Budget chairman addressed the
Iowa state fair. Police say that one hooligan at the gathering “punched a
volunteer.”
If this nastiness continues, something truly ugly could
happen. The Right’s public discourse has its blemishes. But hatred, invective,
and racial pot-stirring are light years more common and intense on the left.
Obama should blow his own dog whistle and tell his
partisans to cease and desist. They should discuss today’s issues. Slavery is
not among them.
Lest he disappoint Americans even further, the candidate
who promised in 2008 to unite Americans should set an example by employing
lively but non-inflammatory campaign rhetoric. President Obama then should
insist that his supporters follow his lead.
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