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12:13 pm CST - July 29, 2010
Posted under The Scoop
Left Admits Tea Parties ‘Racism’ Charge a Tactic, Not a Truth
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 black leadership group are condemning the left’s false use of the accusation “racist” as a political tactic, saying they recognize the strategy from the teaching of left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky.
Former U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Mary Frances Berry, a long-time prominent liberal activist, has admitted in an interview with Politico that the left is trying to smear the tea party movement as “racist” for strategic reasons, not out of genuine concern that the movement is itself racist.
Berry called the tactic an “effective strategy” and chose not to denounce it.
“As an active participant in the tea party movement, I know the movement’s motivation is about Obama’s policies and not his race,” said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 full-time fellow who has spoken at many tea party rallies and is scheduled to speak at the “Uni-Tea” rally in Philadelphia on July 31.
“Race card politics is the last-ditch effort to shift the debate away from President Obama’s harmful policies such as the government’s takeover of health care and his failure to create jobs — both of which are having an impact on his popularity. This diversion may also help Obama to try to jam through cap-and-trade legislation through Congress. It’s a grand distraction from policies and may unfortunately increase racial tensions.”
Berry, now the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and History at the University of Pennsylvania, was asked, “will branding the tea party ‘racist’ work?”
Berry replied:
“Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.
“This is exactly the kind of thing that has irked me all of my adult life, to put it mildly,” said Project 21 member R. Dozier Gray. “This willful and purposeful use of the race card for nothing more than political gain is toxic to race relations, and Mary Frances Berry must know that. But she evidently does not care. Based on her comment, political posturing takes primacy over whatever real issues regarding race that she might pretend are her calling cards. I have seen this all before. I find it shameful.”
“Project 21 member Bob Parks added: “What’s most disturbing about this very public quote? Not only is Mary Frances Berry making this comment without fear of admonishment, and that progressives have apparently embraced and are employing these very shameful, race-baiting tactics — but Berry is likely teaching this ’social thought’ hate to children.”
Left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky, whose tactics have been studied and followed by Barack Obama and his followers, taught his activists to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” The Tea Party movement has unnerved the left and energized supporters of smaller government, causing the left to target it, as per Alinsky’s method, with bogus racism charges.
The Politico interview with Berry is available at by clicking here.
Project 21, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research, has been a leading voice of the African-American community since 1992.
8 Comments
Christian Archer
2:56 pm CST
July 29, 2010
“… Mary Frances Berry…has admitted in an interview with Politico that the left is trying to smear the tea party movement as “racist” for strategic reasons…”
We all have known that. We conservatives know that we need to band together regardless of race because we are fighting for our country. Because we are faced with losing our country to socialists and communists, I believe the conservatives are banding together regardless of race, color, creed, religion, social status, ethnicity and age.
“Race card politics is the last-ditch effort to shift the debate away from President Obama’s harmful policies such as the government’s takeover of health care and his failure to create jobs.” I believe the race card is also used because the DEMONcrats can’t debate the issues so use Saul Alinsky’s tactics to divide and conquer. Liberals don’t want to admit that their messiah abuses executive orders, appoints an abnormal amount of czars, intimidates congressmen and senators to vote for the legislation he wants, has a flippant attitude towards a crises, has contempt for the American culture, has contempt for the military, wants the U.S. to be modeled after the socialist states in Europe, is a liar and has a narcissistic personality.
We’re wise to the race card. Try another tactic LIBERALS!
CWJensen
6:19 pm CST
July 29, 2010
If there were NO Racist before Obama took office there certainly are NOW.
I wonder how long it will be before we have a race of liberals.
I find it IRONIC that the indigenous people of the United States, Mexico and Canada, who were here before any of the Racist screamers are so SILENT on the race issue.
The Spanish came to South America, Central America, and Mexico and enslaved or exterminated the indigenous population. Since they found them to be poor workers they imported slaves from Africa.
The Hispanics that want to be considered a RACE so they can claim RACISM were created from a blend of the indigenous natives, Spanish soldiers and immigrants, French soldiers and immigrants and black slaves from Africa.
So before we start apologizing for Racism lets make DAMN sure we are apologizing to the RIGHT offended parties.
BTW:
Saul Alinsky learned his tactics from Adolph Hitler so lets just go straight to the source.
The Obama administration is using Hitler’s tactics.
alicia
8:58 pm CST
July 29, 2010
You beat me to it, CW. Certainly! Hitler’s tactics all over again. Goebbels, himself, said that if you tell a big enough lie often enough, people will come to believe you.
The leftist nitwits get all bent outta shape when they see a sign in a Tea Party crowd that refers to Hitler. Well, until they manage to revise German history, the facts of the similarities between the Hitler and Obama regimes are indisputable. It’s *history* you leftist fools!
SJK
9:07 pm CST
July 29, 2010
Unfortunately, if we allow it…..it seems history is repeating itself! Hussein and his administration are definitely following the path to a dictatorship! If we feel defeated, then they have won! Together we CAN and WILL defeat him!
Jim Pyeatt
4:59 am CST
July 29, 2010
“Where there is no shame, there is no honor.” (old Ethiopian proverb)
David
3:21 pm CST
July 29, 2010
EXPECT MORE OF IT. The Democrats/liberals/progressives are desperate and they will continue to try to “divide and conquer”. They will be trying to get all types of conservatives to argue and fight with each other by spreading vicious lies. We will have to be vigilant and continually warn our freinds and neighbors about their tactics. Do you remember how they tried to turn people against the NRA just a month or so ago?
Sonny
3:02 pm CST
July 29, 2010
Do you remember what the NRA did a month or so ago?
alicia
10:11 am CST
July 29, 2010
Clumb in bed with ‘em didn’t they, Sonny?
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