Why Is It You Have An Agenda…

…When you speak about discrimination. When you point out the disparity all of a sudden you are “pushing your agenda?”

Whether it is for marriage equality, LGBT human rights, or pointing out the disparity of race the oppressor starts criticizing you for pushing your agenda. Look at First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech at Tuskegee University and the push back from that…

First lady's critics have much to learn
Columbia Daily Tribune
By Richard Cohen
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Sometimes I think Rush Limbaugh is the dumbest man in America. This happens whenever I take him at face value and forget that he is basically an entertainer with contempt for his audience. He will tell them anything. Last week, as if to validate my opinion of him, he went after Michelle Obama for playing the “race card” at the dedication of a museum in New York City. He described her as angry and complaining. The word he should have used was “right.”
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Limbaugh was hearing none of it. The way he looks at it, Obama is not entitled to her experiences, certainly not to talk about them. “I mean, even if you’re a committed liberal, you don’t want to hear this stuff all the time,” he said. “You’re here at a museum dedication, and you want to hear an angry first lady stand up and start complaining about stuff like this?” Well, yes, Rush, I do.
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The conservative National Review also chided Obama for what it called “racial scolding.” It went on to argue that, in recent years, cultural institutions have gone out of their way to attract minority audiences — and without much success. (It cited figures from the National Endowment for the Arts showing blacks woefully underrepresented as museum visitors.) The magazine then preposterously blamed the problem on “the American Left” and its disparagement of “the West’s high culture” — and not on the previous century or so of implied or enforced racism. For a long time, a black kid hesitated to venture below Harlem or down to the Washington Mall and its feasts of museums.

It seems like whenever anyone points out the racial disparity you are pushing your agenda. In Connecticut when the governor pointed out the disparity of “drug free school zones” he was playing the race card.

House Republicans Protest Governor's Racism Remarks
Hartford Courant
By Christopher Keating and Daniela Altimari
May 13, 2015

HARTFORD — The House of Representatives came to an abrupt halt for five hours Wednesday after Republicans walked out of the chamber to protest remarks by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy that they said implied their opposition to his criminal justice overhaul was racially motivated.

Republicans have opposed portions of Malloy's Second Chance Society initiative, saying that they disagree with the Democratic governor's proposal to eliminate mandatory minimum penalties for certain drug offenses.
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Malloy responded by saying that residents of New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport should not be treated differently from suburban residents. For years, members of the legislature's Black and Puerto Rican Caucus have argued that current laws mandating increased penalties for drug possession within 1,500 feet of a school, day care center or public housing complex unfairly target residents of urban areas.

That's because in densely populated cities, large areas are within 1,500 feet of schools, day care centers and public housing. In suburban and rural communities, fewer residents live within the proscribed areas and thus aren't subject to increased penalties if caught in possession of drugs.

Nowhere in Governor Malloy’s speech did he say anything that wasn’t true, but the Republicans flew into a rage over the comments. The same thing happens if you point out the income inequality you are creating class warfare or if you mention Republican’s war on women or LGBT.

It seems like whenever the oppressed fight back over the oppression we are being uppity or we are thugs. As long as you stay in your place they can live in happy little dream world from the land of “Father Knows Best.”