The Media Just Can’t Help Themselves
[guest post by Dana]
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Promoting a story on Bobby Jindal yesterday, the Washington Post tweeted this:
“There’s not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal.”
The article itself discusses the Americanization of Piyush Bobby Jindal (naming himself after Bobby Brady from the all-white Brady Bunch), his conversion to Christianity, and infers that at a result, his cred as a “conservative of color” is questionable. Because, if “many see him as a man who has spent a lifetime distancing himself from his Indian roots” while chasing the American dream, how can he possibly be viewed as “Indian enough”?
As Allahpundit suggests, the real problem, of course, is: Jindal assimilated. He happily and willfully embraced Americanism and all its glory. It just doesn’t get much worse than this, right?
In yet another bit of race-focus nonsense, a misguided article at The Hill discussed Gov. Nikki Haley’s “shrewdly mapped play” which called for the removal of the Confederate flag, and how that prompted a GOP turnaround on the issue:
And after years of happily whistling political Dixie as part of its mad racial plan for Southern domination, the Republican Party backed away from this in an unprecedentedly humble about face.
It’s packed with tiresome claims which you can read for yourself, but as with most political and cultural issues of the day, there is an obligation to massage and spin so that race takes center-stage:
This was some very smart, very intelligent and very long-term strategic maneuvering on the part of South Carolina’s governor, a move that may have just secured her a new political life and a fresh national stage. She’s still very popular. In terms of image, she’s suddenly transformed herself into Republican Wonder Woman of color, who took a stand against racism even though the GOP hates talking about it.
(h/t JWF)
–Dana
ADDED: It is certainly no coincidence that the Washington Post published their story questioning Bobby Jindal’s authenticity as a “conservative of color” just one day prior to his announcement that he is a candidate for 2016. As with Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, and now Bobby Jindal, the MSM will do all it can to portray the Republican candidates in an unfavorable light.
Hello.
Dana (86e864) — 6/24/2015 @ 10:03 ami betcha bobby has more indian than hillary has estrogen
happyfeet (a037ad) — 6/24/2015 @ 10:15 amDoesn’t flying a particular flag –or not– qualify as “free speech”?
BURNING one has long been accepted as such.
As a poke-in-the-eye to the Black-Racial-Grievance-Agitation-Community, I say KEEP whatever flags were up before. Some crazy-dude’s action –demented and vile as it was– is NOT sufficient grounds to vilify and lock away part of our nation’s history.
Just my two-and-a-half cents’ worth.
A_Nonny_Mouse (eafea7) — 6/24/2015 @ 10:31 amAnd, PS, yes I know the topic is “WHO is truly ‘minority enough’ to count” when it comes to Republicans or conservatives.
But I hate-loathe-despise the Propaganda Arm of the Dem-Prog Party, and don’t want to lower myself to argue against the utter nonsense they publish, when I’d have to use the terms and definitions which they’ve already twisted out of all semblance of meaning.
The Fourth Estate can go rot in the same level of Hell that I hope the Beltway RINOs will soon be occupying.
A_Nonny_Mouse (eafea7) — 6/24/2015 @ 10:38 amThe irony is totally lost on liberals, especially white liberals. What they are really saying is, “Hey you, darkie, you can never truly be one of us.” So they hide that exclusionary bigotry by promoting this progressive notion of, “But hey, that’s cool. You should hold on to your authentic selves and not try to be like us whitebread Americans.” I’ll bet there are progressives in lily-white neighborhoods who find themselves thinking when a minority moves on to their block, “Gosh, wouldn’t they be way happier in a community with more of their own people?” You know, they would of course never try to prevent a minority family from moving into their neighborhood but they just wonder why the Chakrabarti family wouldn’t rather want to live in that charming little part of town with the great Indian restaurants and the Hindu temple instead. And when they find out that Dr. Chakrabarti is no fan of ObamaCare and supports Ted Cruz then they hiss to themselves that the family is just trying to act white.
JVW (e36e8e) — 6/24/2015 @ 10:46 amThis is the one that worries Putin the most…we have his IQ scores and Hillary’s senior thesis –lets just put it this way–we respect your military more than Hillary does.
Putin Advisor that secretly admires the United States (48fb95) — 6/24/2015 @ 10:48 amRemember Duke professor Jerry Hough, who was excoriated for a comment he made on a New York Times article:
And so Bobby Jindal, an Asian, did take a very simple old American first name, and assimilated, just as we (supposedly) expect immigrants to do. The problem is that, for the Democrats, immigrants who do assimilate become Republicans, and that’s the last thing that the left want.
Thus we can see the basis for Republican support for Governor Jindal: he is the son of legal immigrants, and he became an American in thought and word, and not just by the technicality of his birth. Conservatives and Republicans support people who are Americans, period, regardless of the color of their skin.
The multicultural Dana (f6a568) — 6/24/2015 @ 11:11 amBobby Jindal is more Indian than Elizabeth Warren.
The extremely snarky Dana (f6a568) — 6/24/2015 @ 11:12 amBobby Jindal is more American than Warren.
Putin Advisor that secretly admires the United States (48fb95) — 6/24/2015 @ 11:15 amThe WaPo insists on judging Bobby Jindal not by his accomplishments or by the content of his character but by their own racist expectations for a person of his skin color.
“How dare the jumped up little ingrate disappoint his social and intellectual betters.”
ropelight (173355) — 6/24/2015 @ 11:30 amApparently, he’s not “dot” enough, but she’s plenty “woo woo.” Got it.
Gazzer (be559b) — 6/24/2015 @ 11:53 amBet Bobby has more Indian in him than Elizabeth Warren
Hey-yo!
Eramus (8c487b) — 6/24/2015 @ 1:13 pm“The irony is totally lost on liberals, especially white liberals.”
– JVW
Truth. The irony is especially especially lost on a narrow segment of liberal race theorists, who insist that it is impossible for black Americans to escape the color of their skin while simultaneously nodding along to arguments that Bobby Jindal has escaped the color of his skin.
It was one of the strangest things about the Dolezal story, for me. A bunch of black academics, who likely spent their careers arguing the injustice of a biological skin color determining life’s opportunities, turned around and argued that a woman’s life opportunities should be limited by the fact that she didn’t have a particular biological skin color. A bunch of people who spent their whole lives that the biological color of one’s skin should be irrelevant did an about fact and argued that the biological color of Dolezal’s skin was highly relevant.
It was bizarre.
Leviticus (f9a067) — 6/24/2015 @ 1:15 pmThe article fails to note that a DEMOCRAT governor put up the confederate battle flag in 1962, 97 years after a Republican removed it from all SC government offices.
pat (2dd751) — 6/24/2015 @ 1:42 pm“even though the GOP hates talking about it.”
Somebody needs to explain to the little Liberal darlings that the reason the GOP hates talking about some subjects has a lot to do with the way those subjects are brought up. I mean, when every time somebody says to you “We need to talk” what they mean is “you need to sit there and take it while I get all emotionally abusive on your ass” you get a tad reluctant to have those talks, neh? If they wanted to talk, and weigh demonstrable facts, and follow lines of reasoning, that would be one thing. But “I’ve found another reason to tell you what an evil loser you are” isn’t enticing, somehow.
C. S. P. Schofield (a196fd) — 6/24/2015 @ 2:16 pmThere’s not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal.” Washington Post
Thought game for the author of the above: fill in the blanks
There’s not much black left in (fill in name of prominent black democrat).
Would your blank filling cause a problem for the Washington Post or any other liberal “news” organ?
Bill M (906260) — 6/24/2015 @ 2:46 pmThe article fails to note that a DEMOCRAT governor put up the confederate battle flag in 1962, 97 years after a Republican removed it from all SC government offices.
pat (2dd751) — 6/24/2015 @ 1:42 pm
Is this true?
felipe (56556d) — 6/24/2015 @ 2:52 pmYes, Ernest ‘Fritz’ Hollings, he even ran for President in 1984,
narciso (ee1f88) — 6/24/2015 @ 2:54 pmThe irony is especially especially lost on a narrow segment of liberal race theorists, who insist that it is impossible for black Americans to escape the color of their skin while simultaneously nodding along to arguments that Bobby Jindal has escaped the color of his skin.
Leviticus,
I’m glad you made this great point, but I have one quibble with it: while it may or may not be a narrow segment of liberal race theorist pushing this school of thought, it matters little when one considers the immense widespread influence and reach they’ve had. We can point to any number of recent events that evidence the taking hold of a large swath of the populace who, without batting an eye, also nod in agreement. Inconsistencies and hypocrisy don’t matter as long as it plays well in the urban areas and with the Democratic vote.
Dana (86e864) — 6/24/2015 @ 6:08 pm“The Hill” is considered a MSM newspaper? I thought it was a “rumor rag”. do they actually quote people by name?
seeRpea (0cf003) — 6/24/2015 @ 6:58 pmSkin color will always matter as long as there is affirmative action.
DRJ (e80d46) — 6/24/2015 @ 7:06 pmSpeaking of DNA, Barack Obama has a peculiar and virulent strain of anti-Americanism in his. “Fundamental transformation” in a pig’s ass.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/24/2015 @ 7:25 pmI think skin color will matter as long as there are Democrats seeking power. It has to. It’s all they’ve got.
Dana (86e864) — 6/24/2015 @ 7:39 pmI’ve just updated the post:
Dana (86e864) — 6/24/2015 @ 10:59 pmIt’s no secret what the anti-American progressive cultural Marxist left wants.
This is just Marx’s concept of “class consciousness” in new tinsel.
“People of color” must be taught that America is a hotbed of white racism, white supremacy, and white privilege.
To assimilate is to betray
the proletariatyour race. In fact, they have said that to expect non-white immigrants to assimilate is just another facet of racist America’s white supremacist thinking.So to have a strange new name indicating an aversion to assimilation is to be authentically black. To be authentically “of color” is to oppose the oppressor and the oppressor’s racist system. To be authentically black is to demand that the system fundamentally transform (where have we heard that before?), not to be assimilated by it.
Oh, yeah, I know where I heard that. I’ll let Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor how this theory works.
https://trinitychicago.org/the-black-value-system/
See the genius of this? White racism is responsible for everything. And if you can’t see that, it’s because your white privilege blinds you to reality. It’s a perfectly self-contained alternate universe, perfect for the cult of liberal white guilt.
The Democrats running Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis, and Baltimore (not like the list stops there) create the social conditions that turn their cities into third world hellholes and killing fields, then blame the problems they created on “white supremacy.” We see the result of this insanity. They gave the protesters “space to destroy” in Baltimore, and destroy they did. Now the residents who destroyed their neighborhoods are (as in Ferguson) demanding that the businesses they destroyed rebuild and give them jobs or “no justice no peace.”
I’m sure the progs will blame capitalism for failing “the community” yet again when that doesn’t happen.
Bobby Jindal can not be authentically Indian if he’s a race traitor who allowed himself to be coopted by the white oppressors into the system of white supremacy.
Steve57 (ec1eac) — 6/24/2015 @ 11:54 pmhttp://downtrend.com/71superb/best-hillary-speech-ever-more-gun-control-and-immigrants-shouldnt-assimilate-to-american-culture/
One of the tenets of the anti-American, anti-Western civilization, anti-capitalist cultural Marxist transnational progressive left is that assimilation is racism.
So Erdogan wasn’t speaking in a vacuum, or pulling anything out of his own rectum when he said:
http://europenews.dk/en/node/7132
He was simply using the same language the left in the West uses.
The left and Muslim supremacists agree on many things. And since both of them are hostile to political and economic liberty, and would like to overthrow systems of government that are founded on principles that protect and promote such liberty, then racial minorities and Muslims must be indoctrinated to forever remain an unassimilated and hostile third column in such countries.
To do otherwise is, in America, to act white.
Steve57 (ec1eac) — 6/25/2015 @ 12:18 amThis is further O/T than my previous comments (although I think it’s relevant to explore the leftist viewpoint r.e. minority assimilation into oppressive “white culture” that the LHMFM is so thoroughly steeped in, which produced the reporting in question):
There was this amusing exchange on the high profile crack-up of in-over-her-head perpetually petulant juvenile Marilyn Mosby and her case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=bgeunJbAD50
Her stupidity in deciding to pose for a feature article in Vogue in order to declare, “I’m not trying this case in the press” features prominently.
Steve57 (ec1eac) — 6/25/2015 @ 1:03 am