Comments on: Back home, a page from the Sarah Palin playbook http://www.jinamoore.com/2009/08/14/back-home-a-page-from-the-sarah-palin-playbook/ Reporter & Producer Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:31:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jina http://www.jinamoore.com/2009/08/14/back-home-a-page-from-the-sarah-palin-playbook/#comment-144 jina Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:13:50 +0000 http://jinamoore.com/?p=737#comment-144 Wait, isn't the issue that Beck called the President a racist, not whether Beck's a racist? I mean, yeah, that could be the next question, but Beck isn't that interesting in and of himself, and the post is about the first point, anyway. I really liked <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/08/10/090810taco_talk_sanneh" rel="nofollow">this piece</a> in the New Yorker, that picks up on some of the examples you mention and digs a little deeper into differing interpretations in America about what racism is--and why two people who use the same word can mean very, very different things, one of them systemic and structural. (I like people think about systems and structures, so maybe that's what appeals to me). Wait, isn't the issue that Beck called the President a racist, not whether Beck's a racist? I mean, yeah, that could be the next question, but Beck isn't that interesting in and of himself, and the post is about the first point, anyway.

I really liked this piece in the New Yorker, that picks up on some of the examples you mention and digs a little deeper into differing interpretations in America about what racism is--and why two people who use the same word can mean very, very different things, one of them systemic and structural. (I like people think about systems and structures, so maybe that's what appeals to me).

]]> By: davisoftheapes1 http://www.jinamoore.com/2009/08/14/back-home-a-page-from-the-sarah-palin-playbook/#comment-143 davisoftheapes1 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:46:12 +0000 http://jinamoore.com/?p=737#comment-143 Racist is a term that is applied "liberally" to most whites whenever they make a statement that fits certain criteria. It is NOT applied to blacks with the same measuring stick. Spike Lee said to a journalist from FOX who was trying to ask him a question, "I don't do Fox News." Racist comment? Hell yes. When Obama said that his grandmother was a "typical" white person, was that a racist statement? Hell yes. When considered with the same criteria that is used to judge white persons' statements it is. What's his name that Obama used to go to his church is a racist to the nth degree. No flippin question. The Harvard law professor a racist? By all means. I am acquainted with black trash, white trash, Asian trash, Mexican trash and I'm not a freakin racist. I watch Glenn Beck. I've also watched Charles Wrangle, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Beck's no more of a racist than they are. Racist is a term that is applied "liberally" to most whites whenever they make a statement that fits certain criteria. It is NOT applied to blacks with the same measuring stick. Spike Lee said to a journalist from FOX who was trying to ask him a question, "I don't do Fox News." Racist comment? Hell yes. When Obama said that his grandmother was a "typical" white person, was that a racist statement? Hell yes. When considered with the same criteria that is used to judge white persons' statements it is. What's his name that Obama used to go to his church is a racist to the nth degree. No flippin question. The Harvard law professor a racist? By all means. I am acquainted with black trash, white trash, Asian trash, Mexican trash and I'm not a freakin racist. I watch Glenn Beck. I've also watched Charles Wrangle, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Beck's no more of a racist than they are.

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