Is there any doubt that the teabagger movement is the newest home for racists (and this is supposedly one of their leaders here in Texas)? Picture found at the excellent blog What would Jack Do?
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Is there any doubt that the teabagger movement is the newest home for racists (and this is supposedly one of their leaders here in Texas)? Picture found at the excellent blog What would Jack Do?
It's pretty laughable when a racist can't even spell the epithet referring to those he regards as inferior.
ReplyDeleteHaha, so is Harry Reid a good candidate to be a teabagger based on your conclusions?
ReplyDeleteReid made a stupid mistake, but he's not nearly dumb enough to be a teabagger!
ReplyDeleteHas anyone actually read what the sign says?
ReplyDeleteCONGRESS = SLAVE OWNER
TAXPAYER = NIGGAR [sic]
What is says (albeit inarticulately) is that Congress treats the taxpayer like the slave owner once treated "niggars." That's derogatory towards Congress, not African-Americans.
It's reminiscent of the 1969 book "The Student as Nigger" by Jerry Farber (see the Wikipedia article).
According to Wikipedia, "Farber uses the term 'nigger' in the title to connote what he perceived as a 'master-slave' relationship in modern educational settings in which students were overly constrained and intellectually de-motivated."
In 2010, the American taxpayer is overly constrained and economically demotivated.
Come on CT, are you really trying to intellectualize away the racism on display here? I have read the sign and I consider it racist. If he meant slave, then why didn't he use (and misspell) that word?
ReplyDeleteWould I have used the n-word in that context? No.
ReplyDeleteIs it possible for someone who is not a racist to use the n-word to attribute dispicable, racist-like behavior to a group of individuals? Again, I refer back to the Wikipedia article about Jerry Farber and his essay (which was later expanded into a book):
"The essay, published during the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, in which Farber was an active participant, draws an extended analogy between the status of students at California State University and the status of African Americans." [Emphasis added]
It's always dangerous to use the n-word, no matter what your motivation (just ask Harry Reid - and he only used the more benign "negro"), but the absolute disdain that many in the Tea Party movement have for Congress (in many cases justifiable) can't be underestimated. Like Jerry Farber's sentiment towards academia four decades earlier, some people have so much pent up anger that they feel the need to use a word with that much shock value to get their point across. Again, not my style, but I can understand it.
Are there racists in the Tea Party movement? I'm sure there are. Is the guy carrying the sign one of them? Maybe, but I don't think you can necessarily infer that from his sign.
The only two things I can safely deduce is that he's absolutely furious at Congress ... and he's not very literate.
Really? Ask any African-American, and I think you'll get a different opinion.
ReplyDeleteI just remembered!
ReplyDeleteA "niggar" is a dark-colored fish. My granddad used to catch them in the lake. They go great with watermelon, grits and collard greens.