This writer seems to be doing more harm than good. You don’t curb racism by creating different levels and special categories of racism. It’s almost as if he’s bragging… “my racism is more important than your racism because we were lynched and you were not”. Well, what if your anger over the crimes of the past creates a “new racism” and it too gets to the point of lynchings. Is this what you want?
I pray that it’s NOT what you want.
Gio-
Don’t forget to take the pledge.
Emmy-Winning Commentator and Writer for Esquire
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can’t they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of “equality” the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.
To that end, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is accusing Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor of being a “new racist” because of a line she delivered in a speech back in 2001. Sotomayor is quoted as saying: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
Reasonable.
Unless you’re, like, an aging geezer peaking out of your window at those scary dark-skinned people who just bought the house across the street. Then all your shriveled up little ears hear is a supposed corollary to Sotomayor’s statement which is — according to Newt — “My experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman” to which he added, “New racism is no better than old racism.”
By the way, thanks for coming to the party late on that denouncement of “old racism.”
But here’s the deal, Newt, your “new racism” isn’t like “old racism” ’cause “old racism” tended to involve things like shackles, and whips and the Middle Passage. Attack dogs, Billy clubs and water hoses. Burning crosses and lynch mobs. Confederate flags, liquor and screams of “Kill the (fill in pejorative here)!” “Old racism” was red lining and segregating and “whites only” drinking fountains, schools and country clubs. It was The Dred Scott Decision, Executive Order 9066, and the Trail of Tears. “Old racism” was a blind eye and “all deliberate speed” that wasn’t deliberate or particularly speedy and nonsense about the sanctity of marriage which was crap when it was applied to “race laws” and is crap when applied to “one man/one woman.”
“New Racism?” That’s apparently a Latina openly talking about how “more often than not” she would like to avoid the “conclusions” that allowed “old racism” to thrive. That’s a long way from getting your ass beat for trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge so maybe your kids might one day enjoy the right to vote.
The fact that Newt would even attempt to compare “old racism” and “new racism” only proves Sotomayor correct in saying that experience based on fact is very different than that based on perception.
Newt, seriously, anytime you want to swap racisms give me a call.
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Soft racism feels so much better. Until soft racists like Sotomayor start letting sharia rule propogate and everyone who’s not down with a***** gets their ass beat.
I wonder how we managed to cause 60% of black pregnancies to end in abortion? White male racists, up to our old tricks.