Punk'd...... Again

You know the drill.

Find a clip on YouTube of so called black racist/racism (more on this).

Take the clip out of context.

Play the clip over and over again.

Make the POTUS respond, renounce and repudiate the speaker/group/remarks.

Viola! Punk'd again!

Note to POTUS and the NAACP...This is war, treat it as such.

: like al Qaeda, the radical right ain’t playin’ and prefers long term, secretive strategic planning calculated to do maximum damage. This is just the first in a wave of planned attacks they will be rolling out. I sure hope y’all learned something from this unsavory episode. Lesson 1: get some interns hittin’ YouTube to find anything they might be planning to use against you, issue talking points and recommendations to your city and state leaders and don’t get caught flat-footed again. This is war. Treat it as such.

This is how they operate;

“You can play the media. You can force them to cover things,” he says. “This is not just stenography. There’s a performance art to it.”

Now about that black racist/racism thing. Black folks do not have a documented history of being racist or racism.

To hear conservatives tell it, there's a one-sided race war going on in America, and white folks are the targets. From President Obama's secret plan to use health care reform as a way to procure backdoor "reparations" for slavery, to his equally secret plan to wreck the economy as a way to pay white people back for centuries of racial oppression, to his personal responsibility for a fight on a school bus in Belleville, Illinois, in which two black kids beat up a white kid, it's open season on white America. And of course, in case you weren't convinced, surely that tax on tanning bed customers that was part of the health care bill should suffice to make the case: after all, it's a clear slap at white folks and the result of the President's deep antipathy towards those of us lacking sufficient melanin.

The New Black Panther party was not trying to intimidate white voters in Philadelphia, PA as breathlessly reported by the white wing media. However there was nary a word on the real voter suppression/intimidation that occurred in 2000 (Florida) and 2004 (Ohio) and the Minute Man intimations in 2006. Black folks are the only ones convicted of "voter fraud".

Once again, a case of individual racism--which turned out to be phony anyway--gets the attention, while the institutionalized mistreatment of people of color goes ignored.

What Tim Wise said;

Sadly, nowadays the cult has the attention of the media and a white public already anxious about changing demographics, the presence of a black president and economic insecurity. Unless the targets of their race-baiting (including the President) show the courage to push back and expose them for the venal fear-pimps they are, their methods will only get more extreme, their lies more bold, and their ability to inflict lasting damage on the nation more definitive.

It's time to stand up to the media. The media doesn't get to define or determine racist/racism. As Ronnie B. says;

The Angry White Right has essentially told the President: "Boy, we're going to slap your Black mother in the face whenever we feel like it, and their isn't a damned thing you're gonna do about it. Understand?"

The so-called mainstream media, now knowing that the President--for whatever reason(s)--will do nothing, watches for and covers the assaults whenever they happen. Their (rather logical) conclusion is that: "well, if the President of all people doesn't act as if Black Americans are worthy of a certain level of honor and respect, then it appears that we don't need to either".

When political leaders regard us with utter disdain and contempt, and a mainstream media goes along with blind indifference, then we are in serious trouble.

Are we in serious trouble yet?

I think so.