Who Says There Is No Racism In America?

A California on-line poll found the 26% respondent would try pro-white political party. The Orange County Register reports that…

Poll: 26% who responded would try pro-white political party

By JAIMEE LYNN FLETCHER
The Orange County Register

GARDEN GROVE– While most online readers said a pro-white political party would be too extreme for their taste, about 26 percent of readers who participated in a Register poll said they'd likely join the group.

A story on the GS Party [I removed their full party name because I do not want search engines to pick up my blog], a self-proclaimed pro-white group pushing for political representation in California, pulled about 285 comments and nearly 600 participants the online poll.
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Readers on the comment boards were split on the issue – some applauded the GS Party's harsh stance on illegal immigration while others said they believe the group is hiding behind legitimate political controversies.

221614 wrote: "I just went to GS party's website.....I have to say I agree with everything on their site, immigration turning our state into a third world country, losing our liberty one link out of the chain at a time etc."

Ocsleeper wrote: "Man you guys act like these groups are only forming because of illegal immigration. These racist are just using the issue of illegal immigration as an excuse. Illegal immigration or not, these groups will always be around spewing their ignorance."

More than a dozen readers said they believed the GS party is victim to a race-based double standard and they should be allowed to show their pride for their heritage without being labeled white supremacists.

Of course, this was not a scientific poll and could be subject “stuffing the ballot box,” but still I think that it is an eye opener. Racism is alive and growing ever since President Obama took office. According to the British Telegraph, “Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service.”

The Philadelphia Tribune reported in an article…

Racist attacks on Obama intensify
Written by Charlene Muhammad
Saturday, 29 August 2009
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Since he announced his candidacy, Obama and his family have been maligned, slandered and targeted by right wing and so-called independent media hosts. Among those who have focused on largely discredited issues are right wing radio host Rush Limbaugh and self-described “independent” CNN host Lou Dobbs.

Verbal assaults against Obama have ranged from outright racist insults to doubts about the president’s citizenship, his religion, his patriotism and his racial loyalties. Whites known collectively as “the Birthers” have refused to accept proof Obama, the son of a white American mother and a Kenyan father, was born in Hawaii. They haven’t been satisfied by the birth certificate circulating online, or produced by both the Obama campaign and the state of Hawaii. They aren’t alone.

As of mid-July, nine Republican members of Congress were supporting a bill by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., that would require all presidential candidates to provide their birth certificate.
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“These policies and their promoters, many of them are the deep, deep, deep wizards behind the curtains on these attacks on the president and the attacks are part of politics — some are fair, many are not. It’s always fair to have a debate about public policy. But personal attacks like the inane and insane point of view that the president is not a citizen of the United States that’s, you know, just such a distraction and designed to divide people,” he [Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League] said.
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…In addition, he said Fox News Channel has usually been a platform for more sophisticated and subtle race-baiting and racism. Beck is allowed to make baseless accusations and characterizations of the president and every American, Black and white, should be insulted, Rucker [ColorOfChange.org] said.
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Since announcement of his candidacy, right-wingers have been slinging mud and innuendo at the man raised largely by his white grandparents. They have called him a secret Muslim, a supporter of a Black racist church and pastor, a socialist and a pampered insider. Limbaugh admitted shortly after the inauguration that he hoped President Obama failed.

“Barack Obama has one thing in common with God ... Know what it is? God does not have a birth certificate either,” Limbaugh recently told his listeners.”

In a New York Daily News article entitled “Fox News' Glenn Beck's right-wing rants go way too far, critics charge” they write that…

* Beck, 45, has called Obama a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" - comments that have sparked an advertising boycott of his Fox News Channel show.
* He declares the nation is headed toward a "fascist state" and that the White House is infested with "radical, revolutionary and in some cases Marxist" advisers.
* He claims Obama's entire agenda - including health care - is designed to "settle old racial scores" and that Americans must rise up to take back their nation. "The time for silent dissent has long passed," Beck warned last week in a typical call to arms.

Media Matters in a report back in 2008 entitled “Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan aired "side-by-side comparison" of speeches by Hitler and Obama” said,

“On the February 11 broadcast of Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan Show, host Tom Sullivan took a call from a listener who stated: "Listening to [Sen. Barack] Obama ... it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Adolf H [I remove the last name to again avoid the search engines], how he would excite the crowd and they'd come to their feet and scream and yell." Sullivan replied: "Oh, yeah, yeah ... I presume you're not saying he's H, but I understand your point." Following the commercial break, Sullivan stated the caller "wasn't calling Barack Obama H. He was just talking about how H got the crowd all excited, and Barack Obama got the crowd all excited." Sullivan then stated that he would do a "side-by-side comparison" of a H speech and an Obama speech. Sullivan then introduced the "comparison" by stating: "So, ladies and gentlemen, from the past, a little archive, a little walk down Der Fuehrer's memory lane. Here he is, the one, the only, Adolf H!" Sullivan proceeded to play a clip of a Hitler speech, followed by Obama's February 9 speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Richmond, Virginia. Sullivan mimicked the crowd during both speeches, yelling, "Yay! Yay!"

President Obama speaks in the style of great orators like the Rev. Martin Luther King and other African-American ministers where they do not just talk to the audience, but they include the audience as part of their speech. To compare him to Hitler is an affront to a whole culture.

It is time that we all speak out against bigotry in all forms; racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all the other ‘isms. Its time we speak up against these hate mongers.