Can LIBERALS be RACIST?

Question

"After a lengthy critique of Bush administration education policies, Joe Biden attempted to explain why some schools perform better than others -- in Iowa, for instance, compared with the District of Columbia. "There's less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington D.C.? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102402716.html?nav=rss_print/asection

Democrats - pretend a Republican said this. How would you respond?

Just curious.......

NOTE: I don't think Biden's comments are Racist.

Biden, I believe, was speaking to the socioeconomic relalities of D.C.

I just know if a Republican made these comments CNN & MSNBC would devote hours to it.

Answer 1

like this:

- James D. Watson, 79, “lifelong Democrat” and co-discoverer of the DNA helix and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine, told the Sunday Times of London that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really." He recognized that the prevailing belief was that all human groups are equal, but that "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."

“I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease.”
Liberal USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux on Clarence Thomas

“Blacks and Hispanics were too busy eating watermelons and tacos to read the fine print on the phony insurance policies.”
Mike Wallace, of 60 Minutes fame

- Garry Trudeau, of the out dated, boring Dunesbury (wonder if he’s still wearing platform shoes and into disco?), caricatured Condi Rice and put a label under her calling her “Brown Sugar.” Nice touch there, Garry. All you need now is a white robe with one of those pointy little hoods.

- Lib racist Pat Oliphant incredibly pictured Rice as a big-lipped parrot in one of his “cartoon” (yes, everyone finds racism “real” funny, Pat). .

- But, as they say in the commercials: Wait, there’s more… Jeff Danziger has shown Rice as the servant in Gone with the Wind (frankly Jeff, to paraphrase Clark Gable - and as shown in the last few elections - no one gives a damn about anything you liberals have to say)

- Ted Rall referred to Condi as the president’s ‘House N-word’… however, Jesse Jackson has, insofar as I know, not had– for the first time ever that I can remember - any protest to lodge over this.

- Finally, one upping the former DEMOCRAT Gov. of Alabama, George Wallace, John Sylvester, in P.C. Madison, called Condi an “Aunt Jemima.”

- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said last year that the Supreme Court's lone black member was "an embarrassment to the court.”

- Left wing Democrat Ted Kennedy’s brother, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy, ordered the illegal wiretapping of Martin Luther King

- Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean suggested in 2004 that most blacks hold menial jobs in a speech

- The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel noted Nov. 1, 2005, "In losing a woman, the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman and a black man, who deserves an asterisk because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America.” Forgetting the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg represents no one but the radical, dinosaur feminists (so does she get a pink asterisk?), does this mean Jesse Jackson also gets an asterisk for all his non-mainstream antics?

- Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, a black Republican also gets the usual lib hatred, including Democrats who have thrown Oreo cookies at him during campaign stops, and then of course the usual litany of “lib dirty tricks,” such as personal credit checks on Steele's financial history and records - simply because he had the temerity to leave the lib socialist nanny state plantation

Answer 2

Ummm, actually they did bring it up a couple times on MSNBC today, and I'm pretty sure Fox is going to just eat it up, so don't worry about media coverage. Biden's "clean and articulate" comment made the news for a while.

To answer your question: Al "White interlopers" Sharpton and Jesse "Himeytown" Jackson.

On your other question, if the Republican clarified afterwards and went on about socioeconomics and was really sincere about it all just being a poor choice of grammar, then it's O.K. by my standards, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Since this is a hypothetical, I don't know how the media would react. My predictions would be that the media picks it up for a while, a couple of TV specials on racism are aired, and Fox defends the subject like they were Christ and blames liberals as always or something.

Answer 3

Joe has a history of sticking his foot in his mouth, so this is no surprise and why he won't win the nomination or even be nominated for VP.

And yes, Liberals can be racist, even if it is implicit.


edit: Well, I expect that Biden's comments will fill up most of the evening on Fox News, and doubt that I will be disappointed by their coverage.

Answer 4

Rather a democrat or republican said this I would think the same thing:

It was a racist comment, but I don't think it was meant to be. I think he was trying to say that minorities, in general, live in more poverty, which would effect school performance. He should have said that though. he should have said that economic level was the factor, and not said minorities.

Answer 5

Yes, if by racist you mean it in the true sense of discriminating against someone on the basis of their race (which, by the way, does include white people and men). If, though, you mean racist in the context of simple facts that tend to disfavor "minorities," then they're perfectly in the clear. It really sends shivers up my spine.

Answer 6

Liberals are some of the most racist people I know.

Please note how Hillary talks when she is in front of a group of blacks compare to that when she is in front of group of whites.

Can you imagine the out rage if lets say Hillary is president and has a black Sec of State and Rush was to call her a house slave.
Tell me there would be crys from coast to coast for his head.

Yet that is allow to be said about Rice.

Go figure.

Answer 7

Very much so. Anyone can be regardless of their political/ideological identity.

I frequently observe some (NOT ALL) bigoted liberals here refer to conservatives as trailer park trash (even though they are supposedly rich corporate execs too) making fun of NASCAR fans etc.

Oh, and lets not get started on the hate/blame whitey crowd.

Then you of course have:
Black Caucus: Whites Not Allowed
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=4AF8124E-3048-5C12-006558D2C4DED716

and

Cynthia McKinney
- Told a Saudi prince she would accept his offer of $10 million that New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani rejected because it came with anti-Semitic strings attached
- "She is a racist. She bases everything on race. Everything bad that has ever happened to her is because she's black. She's anti-Semitic, that's who she is." -- Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas)
-Her hatred of Jews and the Bush Administration also apparently includes a hatred of white people here and abroad. Of Marxist President Robert Mugabe's racist policy of confiscating all white farms in Zimbabwe, McKinney said: "To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue — to return its land to its people."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1508

Answer 8

anyone can be racist, political party affiliation doesnt make you, or not make you racist. There just happen to be more racist conservatives than liberals because conservatives are descendants of the white christian male supremacy movement. But, racism has no boundaries.

Answer 9

LOL Wasn't it Biden who remarked that Obama was bright and clean and articulate? Nice-looking too!

Answer 10

Not wits that are associated with Biden's head; it's the fake sod that crowns it that has people talking.