Racist Republicans?

By: Steve Huston

By Chris Johnson

It is morbidly entertaining to watch liberal media and bloggers twist themselves into pretzels to accuse Republicans of racism.  Two minutes on Google has informed me that Republicans are definitely racist.

Just out of curiosity, I entered the major candidate’s names into the search engine along with the word ‘racism,’ i.e. ‘Palin Racism,’ ‘Romney Racism,’ ‘Gingrich Racism.’ Trump and Huckabee may be out of the race now, but they were also racists.

Here are some examples that prove Republicans’ blatant racism.

This quote comes from liberal columnist Kathleen Parker when asked by liberal commentator Chris Matthews whether Sarah Palin was “the poster girl” for racism on his MSNBC show.

“Not consciously… There`s this subliminal level of communication that goes on. The Southern Strategy has always been — well, since they stopped using the N-word and being explicit about what they`re trying to do with race and, you know, creating this “us versus them” dynamic, it became increasingly vague through the years. You started talking about state’s rights at a certain point. Then you started talking about, you know, these wedge issues like gay marriage and on and on.”

So when Sarah Palin talks about the rights that the state has according to the U.S. Constitution or about how she opposes gay marriage she’s actually talking about an inferior race, and she doesn’t even know it???

That proves it, right? I guess I’m a racist too, because I don’t agree with gay marriage…

Let’s move on to Gingrich’s racism.

David Gregory accused Newt Gingrich of racism when he called President Obama, “the food stamp president.” Here are Gingrich’s original remarks.

“You want to be a country that creates food stamps, in which case frankly Obama’s is an enormous success. The most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates paychecks?”

David Gregory questioned Gingrich about this comment.

“You gave a speech in Georgia with language a lot of people think could be coded racially-tinged language, calling the president, the first black president, a food stamp president.”

David Gregory hears “food stamps” and thinks “black people,” but Gingrich is the racist?

Interesting side note, studies show that there are actually more white people on food stamps than there are black people.

And then there’s Mitt Romney, a Mormon, which, according to far-left “comedian” Bill Maher is synonymous with “a racist.”

Romney was on an airplane and asked the passenger in front of him to move his seat up before they had even taken off. The other passenger, an unknown rapper who goes by “Sky Blu,” apparently took a swing at Romney. Sky Blu claims Romney started it by putting a “Vulcan Death Grip” on him.

Referring to this incident, Bill Maher thought it probably had something to do with Sky Blu’s race.

“He had a recent kerfuffle with a rapper on an airplane – Mr. Sky Blu, the rapper – and, apparently, Mitt was behind him, and the guy moved his seat back, and then he said Mitt gave him a Vulcan pinch, and I just couldn’t help but think maybe this has something to do with the fact that the Mormons traditionally have not had a great relation with the black people.“

Trump was a racist because he wondered how Obama got into Ivy League schools, because Trump had heard Obama was a terrible student.

This is what Ari Melber, writing for The Nation, had to say about it.

“By charging that Obama was not admitted based on merit, Trump is suggesting that Obama was admitted because he is black.”

“If there were any doubts about the racial animus driving Donald Trump’s attacks on Barack Obama, the billionaire reality show star exposed himself with his latest conspiracy.”

Again, the author hears “bad student” and thinks “black people” which prompts him to accuse Trump of being racist when Trump said nothing about race.

Huckabee is considered racist because of his defense of South Carolinians who protested the removal of the Confederate flag from the dome of their state capitol. Here are his words.

“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag.”

This is offensive to those who have defined the Civil War as a fight over slavery. To many Southerners, especially Robert E. Lee, the Civil War was about the right of a state to secede from the nation. The Confederate Flag didn’t represent the slave owners, it represented the south, and many southerners still identify with it.

Just for the record, I’m not saying I agree with Huckabee or with Robert E. Lee, I’m just saying that the controversy is built around a straw man.

There are even cries of racism regarding black presidential candidate, Herman Cain, who NewsOne for Black America calls “a pawn to suppress suspicions of racism.”

All this is not to say racism isn’t a problem in our country. Racism is a very serious issue and there are plenty of ignorant people out there who look down on races other than their own. But no political party, no religion, and no race has a monopoly on racism.

In fact, I think that when you accuse everything that moves in a direction other than the one you want it to of racism, that devalues the race related struggles that some people actually deal with.

The fact is that my beloved country has not always treated every race equally.

My wife and I went with my parents last weekend to see a local theater put on a play of Harper Lee’s classic novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

This book, for those of you who don’t know it, tells – from the perspective of the lawyer’s daughter – the story of a lawyer appointed to defend a black man charged with raping a white woman. The lawyer proves the man innocent – that it was literally impossible for him to have attacked the woman. In fact he proves that the woman was tempting the black man, who tried to flee. But the white jury proclaims the black man guilty anyway.

That is a fictional story, but it was reflective of the culture in the south at that time. There were plenty of real, unjust, horrible lynchings.

That is racism.

The internment of approximately 110,000 American Japanese citizens after Pearl Harbor by FDR was racism.

Merriam-Webster defines racism as “the belief that certain races of people are by birth and nature superior to others” or “hatred of or discrimination against a person or persons based on their race.”

Being a Republican or saying that you disagree with President Barack Obama’s policies is not in that definition. Let’s get past the name calling.

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