By Frances Rice
With the headline “ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after Barr'sracist tweet,” FOX News reported that the wildly popular reboot of
"Roseanne" was cancelled within hours after Roseanne Barr posted a
racist tweet about former President Obama's aide Valerie Jarrett.
According to
that article, ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said in a statement:
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent
with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show."
Condemnation of Roseanne in every media outlet was swift
and vicious. The social media world
exploded with collective outrage over Roseanne’s racist tweet for which she
apologized, but was not forgiven.
Roseanne earned her rebuke for using racist language to
describe a Black Democrat.
This incident brings into sharp focus a racism double
standard.
Anyone who “touches the third rail of race” and dares attack
a Black Democrat with a racist epithet is roundly denounced and driven from the
public square.
Yet, there is near silence when Democrats attack Black
Republicans with the same type of vile racist epithets that Democrats have used
to demean all Blacks since the days of slavery.
Below is an article “Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas: Northern Liberals Are More Racist Toward Me Than Southerners” by Steve
Straub that was published on February 12, 2014. Nothing has changed.
Further below are just some of the racist language aimed
at Black Republicans and racist imagery of Black Republicans published on
the Internet and in influential newspapers, including the New York Times and
the Washington Post.
Liberal Democrats and their media allies accept the most
disgusting racist attacks, just as long as the targets are Black conservatives.
One reprehensible example, as shown below, is the visceral
hatred expressed by Blogger Eric L. Wattree who wrote on his Blog: “If the GOP had ever
taken the time to truly get to know the Black community, they’d know that the only thing more
toxic to Black people than a flat-out racist, is a Black conservative.”
Where is the outrage?
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas:
Northern Liberals Are More Racist Toward Me Than Southerners
February 12, 2014
This will likely come as a surprise to no one who pays
attention!
“My sadness is that we are probably today more race and
difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school. To my
knowledge, I was the first black kid in Savannah, Georgia, to go to
a white school. Rarely did the issue of race come up,” Thomas said during a
chapel service hosted by the nondenominational Christian university.
“Now, name
a day it doesn’t come up. Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody
doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If
I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.
"Every
person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said
something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them — left them
out.
“That’s a part of the deal,” he added….
“The worst I have been treated was by northern liberal
elites. The absolute worst I have ever been treated,” Thomas said. “The worst
things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about
me, by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.”
As one of six Catholics on the court, Thomas also
addressed the role his faith plays in his work as a justice.
“I quite frankly don’t know how you do these hard jobs
without some faith. I don’t know. Other people can come to you and explain it
to you. I have no idea,” he said. “I don’t know how an oath becomes meaningful
unless you have faith. Because at the end you say, ‘So help me God.’ And a
promise to God is different from a promise to anyone else.”
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RACIST LANGUAGE AND IMAGERY DIRECTED BY DEMOCRATS AT
BLACK REPUBLICANS
Left wing blogger Steve Gillard defaced Michael Steele
(former Maryland Lieutenant Governor, former Maryland Republican Senate
candidate and former Republican National Committee Chairman) and portrayed him
as a "sambo", "minstrel".
NEWS BUSTERS: Former Washington Post cartoonist Ted Rall depicted
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a “lawn jockey,” just like Democrats
demeaned Black people during the era of slavery.
Former Florida U S Representative Allen West was
demeaned by a left-wing Blogger of a Blogsite with the title “ Zero ToleranceFor Silence” as “wackadoodle congressman Allen West of Florida.”
Eric L. Wattree on his Blog: The Wattree Chronicle
depicts former Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain as a “dummy.” His
Blogsite post is filled with racist vitriol aimed squarely at Black
Conservatives. Here is just a sample: “If the GOP had ever taken the time to
truly get to know the Black community, they’d know that the only thing more
toxic to Black people than a flat-out racist, is a Black conservative.
The above two cartoons were published in the Washington Post and depict former Secretary of State under
President George W. Bush as an ignorant parrot and a bare foot “mammy,” just as Black women were portrayed by Democrats during the days of the discriminatory Jim Crow laws
enacted by Democrats.
Far Left Winger Dave Granlund showed his total disdain
for former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with the above two cartoons.
