Replies to post #139467 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

Another ONE..The House Negro Cometh….



..................Just Put Tim Scott’s Picture Here

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In case you missed who the House Negro is, I’ll repeat his name here – Tim Scott (R-Thug-South Carolina). You know, the fool who refused to join the Congressional Black Caucus (not that I care, cause all he’d probably do is spy and report back to his Massa about what the uppity Negroes were planning). Susie had me LOLing at this:

Last but not least, South Carolina’s Rep. Tim Scott. The poor guy’s really got to prove himself – first, because he voted for the continuing resolution that extended the budget for three weeks, but also because he’s a black Republican. So he’s a member of the Club for Growth, plus he just introduced the Rising Tides Act of 2011. http://www.americanindependent.com/172798/s-c-rep-tim-scott-introduces-bill-to-slash-corporate-taxes ]

My boat’s still in dry dock – that Rising Tide hasn’t moved that far inland. And I’m surprised that the other House Negro, wingnut Allen West (R-Thug-Florida), hasn’t signed on to this hullabaloo – just to prove his House Negroness.

Still, none of the Grand Old Perverts are talking about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! And they got Tim Scott in that mix to tear down even further and kick people when they’re already down.

Isn’t Herman Cain whining about what “Da Lawd” is telling him to do (run for POTUS in 2012) bad enough example of a House Negro trying to seek, if not sought, elected office and what they will do and whom they will do it FOR?

I will channel my inner Bernie Mac and call these mofos what they really are: DIRTY SUMMABISHES.

http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2011/03/the-house-negro-cometh/

[StephanieVanbryce]

The republican's latest Negro experiment.



"Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will." ~Mark Twain~

I wish my man Herman Cain well, I really do. I heard that he was in Iowa last week giving em his I am black but I am just like you speeches. I wonder how he is playing down there? It looks like they [the republicans] are going social again and forgetting the economy now that O and his peeps have the Dow over *12,000 and the unemployment numbers heading South and not North. Anyway, Herman might have some work to do before he can convince the rest of you Negroes that he means well. [ http://articles.boston.com/2011-03-27/news/29353045_1_gay-marriage-iowa-and-new-hampshire-potential-republican-presidential-candidates ]

"Listen, all token black conservative presidential candidates who Republicans keep trying to push on us colored folk; I really don’t have a problem with your decision to throw your hat in the ring. Why not, right? Everyone is entitled, and if you feel like you’re qualified then do your thing and show us just that – your qualifications. Do not, however, use the same tired and insulting tactics year after year in an effort to court a political base that has little interest in you by embarrassing the rest of your community.

First, This Year’s Black Conservative Herman Cain tried to get attention for his pending presidential campaign by telling anyone who would listen: “Don’t condemn me because the first black one was bad.” Yes, of course, the go-to sleaze tactic to use when you are eager to prove to some white people that you dislike President Obama as much as them is to say something attention grabbing like that.

Now, right on schedule, he has busted out the second in what I’m sure will be a series of cliché tactics to appeal to his conservative base: Christianity. Cain appeared on the Christian Broadcast Network and told the interviewer that he believed God brought him through cancer so that he could maybe become president, Politico reports. Stop it, dude. And I say that as a Christian. We know that professed religion is pretty much a requirement for all conservative candidates, but to take advantage of that moment in your life and twist it for political gain is really sleazy." [ http://atlantapost.com/2011/03/23/this-years-black-conservative-strikes-again/ ]

Now now Mr. Smith, don't be so hard on Herman. Maybe he means well. Why don't we give him a chance before we call him a house dwelling hypocrite?

Carry on Herman.


http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2011/03/republicans-latest-negro-experiment.html

[StephanieVanbryce]

Herman Cain Playing the Race Minstrel for CPAC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkacOveF0

In the immortal words of Megatron in Transformers: The Movie, Herman Cain’s speech at CPAC really is bad comedy. As you know, I find black garbage pail kids black conservatives fascinating not because of what they believe, but rather because of how they entertain and perform for their White Conservative masters.

When race minstrelsy was America’s most popular form of mass entertainment, black actors would often have to pretend to be white men, who then in turn would put on the cork to play the role of the “black” coon, Sambo, or Jumping Jim Crow. Adding insult to injury, in a truly perverse and twisted example of the power of American white supremacy black vaudevillians would often pretend to be white in order to denigrate black people for the pleasures of the white gaze.

Herman Cain–an ironic name if ever, and one more suited to a tragic figure in a Harlem Renaissance era novella–is not “blackening twice” as some race minstrels chose to do.

[Unfortunately, the attendees at CPAC are not the butt of some type of joke where the white man wearing the cork is really a black man in secret.]

Instead, Herman Cain’s shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs “authentic negritude” as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies. Like the fountain at Lourdes, Cain in his designated role as black Conservative mascot, absolves the White racial reactionaries at CPAC of their sins. This is a refined performance that Black Conservatives have perfected over many decades and centuries of practice.

Let’s consider the routine. First, Cain enters the stage to Motown music. Then Cain feigns swimming after rolling up his sleeves to show them his black skin and how he is a hardworking negro (not like those other ones). Cain bellows in a preacher affected voice and channels the folksy negro down home accent of his late grandpappy. In the money shot, Cain gives the obligatory “black folks who are not Republicans are on the plantation” speech to the joyous applause of his White benefactors. And he doubles down by legitimating any opposition to President Barack Obama as virtuous and patriotic regardless of the bigoted well-springs from which it may flow.

In total, CPAC is a carnival and a roadshow for reactionary Conservatives. It is only fitting that in the great tradition of the freak show, the human zoo, the boardwalk, and the great midway world’s fairs of the 19th and 20th centuries, that there is a Borneo man, a Venus Hottentot or a tribe of cannibals from deepest darkest Africa or Papua New Guinea on display. For CPAC and the White Conservative imagination, Herman Cain and his black and brown kin are that featured attraction.

We always need a monkey in the window, for he/she reminds us of our humanity while simultaneously reinforcing a sense of our own superiority. Sadly, there are always folks who are willing to play that role because it pays so well.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/02/12/black-history-month-is-herman-cain-playing-the-race-minstrel-for-cpac/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet

[Hanibal]

Isn't being a black republican closely related to a black man joining the KKK?

I will never understand this phenomenon.

[fastlizzy]

He reminds me of that whacko Philip on Survivor!

His voice sounds the same too! LOL