Upper class white liberal speaks for blacks and hispanics:
WaPo's Richard Cohen: 'Palin Couldn't Be President of Black America or Hispanic America'
By Noel Sheppard | November 23, 2010 | 09:52
If you thought the media attacks on Sarah Palin and her family were deplorable in 2008, it's clear with the 2012 presidential campaign starting and her name being bandied about, you ain't seen nuttin' yet.
Take the Washington Post's Richard Cohen for example who penned a column Tuesday concluding, "She could not be the president of black America nor of Hispanic America":
In her new book, she reportedly takes Michelle Obama to task for her supposedly infamous remark from the 2008 campaign: "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback." [...]
Michelle Obama quickly explained herself. She was proud of the turnout in the primaries - so many young people, etc. Evan Thomas, writing perceptively in Newsweek, thought - as I did - that she was saying something else. He dug into her senior thesis at Princeton - "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" - to find a young woman who felt, or was made to feel, "more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before." This was not a statement of racism. This was a statement of fact.
It's appalling that Palin and too many others fail to understand that fact - indeed so many facts of American history.
Actually, what's appalling is how Cohen and too many others have taken this snippet from a scant number of pages of Palin's book and attacked the former Alaska governor before actually reading the entire thing.
It's also appalling that Cohen and too many others for purely political reasons quickly came to Mrs. Obama's defense in 2008 and ignored just how offensive her comments were to a large percentage of Americans across the fruited plain.
As NewsBusters reported in February 2008, here's what Mrs. Obama said:
If Cohen wasn't offended by that, and still isn't, that's his right. However, those that were bothered by those comments also have the right to be so, although clearly not in Cohen's view:
Sarah Palin teases that she might run for president. But she is unqualified - not just in the (let me count the) usual ways, but because she does not know the country. She could not be the president of black America nor of Hispanic America. She knows more about grizzlies than she does about African Americans - and she clearly has more interest in the former than the latter. Did she once just pick up the phone and ask Michelle Obama what she meant by her remark? Did she ask about her background? What it was like at Princeton? What it was like for her parents or her grandparents? I can offer a hint. If they were driving to Washington, they slowed down and stopped where the sign said "colored" - and the irritated Palins of the time angrily hit the horn and went on their way.
And this is what people should expect in the coming months as the presidential candidates from the Republican ranks begin to toss their respective hats into the ring.
For Palin, until she announces one way or another, she will be attacked, excoriated, and vilified by the media in ways most people at this moment probably believe unimaginable.
If her decision is to run, the hatred for her on the airwaves and in print will be like nothing America has ever witnessed.
In fact, Cohen's Tuesday column will be considered quite mild by comparison.
*****Update: NBer Red Jeep asks in the comments section, "I haven't heard of those two countries. They new?"
And therein really lies the problem in the liberal media. Folks like Cohen and his ilk still see many Americas all divided by race and ethnicity.
This divide will only disappear when the Cohens of this world see America as one and stop using race as a political tool.
Sadly, I don't expect that will happen in my lifetime. How about you?
Read more: newsbusters.org
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#1 No matter who is elected, not everyone will be happy.
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 10:03am.
I am a Conservative. Obama in no way represents my interests. There are more Conservatives in America than there are Liberals, therefore Sarah Palin, if elected, would represent more people than Obama does.
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#2 Since when does a White
Submitted by Van Halen on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 10:03am.
Since when does a White upperclass Liberal Jew tell blacks and Hispanics who their President can be?
And if Palin can't be President of blacks and Hispanics, how can Barack be President of Whites or Hispanics - or even upperclass socialite white Jews?
Cohen you're an ass. What a stupid elite JournOList racist thing to say!
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What Cohen subconsciously reveals . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 1:23pm.
. . . is the Left's propensity for pigeon-holing of people by race and ethnicity, each category associated with a specific mindset and assumptions. Individualism is discouraged if it strays out of the lane proscribed for the individual.
Thus, not only can't Palin represent "Hispanic America" or "Black America" ("African-America?"), but Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Alan Keyes, et al, can't represent it either regardless their educational qualifications and personal experience, while race-baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are respected as spokesmen and (cough) "leaders."
For Cohen and company, Michelle Obama's quote can't be accepted at face value, but must be examined through a complex prism of social injustices and circumstances. Within the context the Left creates, Michelle Obama's quote is transmogrified (Thanks, Calvin & Hobbes) into a proclamation of her patriotism.
It is the antithesis of the Melting Pot, which the Left insists has failed despite ever mounting evidence to the contrary.
Cohen, having bought the whole ideological package, epitomizes one of its worst byproducts. He is permanently exiled in Hyphen-Land, where people are merely pixels in a white, black, brown, or (insert color here) screen.
And that perspective transfers over to their views of education, health care, and employment.
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nor of Hispanic America..,
Submitted by CarlosS on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 10:13am.
La Gobernador Palin habla para mi, usted no!
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Carlos Pablo Sanchez
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Racist Cohen
Submitted by AMR1960 on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 10:13am.
Washington Post's Richard Cohen is as racist as any KKK'er
This Hispanic rejects his wretched, vile, race-bating insanity...
Viva! Sarah Palin!!...QUE VIVA SARAH!!!
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And to think we heard this all the way back in 2008:
Submitted by lsudolemite on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 10:30am.
"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America--there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and a Latino America and Asian America -- there's the United States of America." -- Barack Obama
[ Liberals know that was just campaign horseshit. ]
And here I thought identity politics was dead after the Messiah's election. The Great Unifier would be horribly dismayed to discover that these new Americas apparently exist and aren't following his lead.
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