Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) recently told an audience that the Tea Party is out to lynch black people.
“This is the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow,” said Carson, the caucus’ whip, or chief vote counter.
“Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens,” he said. “Some of them in Congress right now with this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.”
His off-the-charts hate speech follows other recent remarks by fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus, such as Rep. Maxine Waters saying that the Tea Party can “go straight to hell.”
Today, Carson is standing by his remarks.
Carson’s spokesman, Jason Tomcsi, confirmed the congressman’s comments to USA TODAY.
His “comments respond to the frustration voiced by those in Miami,” Tomcsi said. “People are frustrated by the inability of Congress to do something about the economy and get people back to work.”
Tomcsi said Carson believes “Tea Party members in Congress know when they vote against programs, they know who they’re impacting. They have different priorities — their priorities are to protect millionaires, oil companies and tax cuts for the wealthy. Those people aren’t impacted by programs like child nutrition, Head Start, job training and job creation.”
That’s bull; Carson’s remarks were an incitement to violence against the Tea Party, a couple of whose leaders are currently running for the presidency. Carson should resign his seat. He won’t, but he should, because he is intentionally inciting a race war and promoting violence against other Americnans and presidential candidates. Either that, or he knows that no matter how much hate he hands out, his own constituents don’t really believe him but it comforts them to hear him spin these myths anyway. Put another way, if you really believed that a group of people actually wanted to take you and your family and hang them from the nearest tree, and that group was about to take power, you would do a great deal more than sit there nodding and applauding. The logical consequences of what Carson said are dire indeed.
As the video above shows, the CBC is engaged in a coordinated hate-based attack on the Tea Party. It’s not about policy, it’s about hate and it’s based entirely on generating irrational fear. That coordinated campaign began with the racist smear on the day ObamaCare passed. It shows absolutely no sign of abating, despite the fact that the election of Barack Obama was, were told, going to get us past all this disharmony and strife.
Rep. Allen West wasn’t asked to comment.
Rep Allen West was asked for a comment on FNC (can’t remember the show), but his response is that he won’t condone this type of speech and may resign from the Congressional Black Caucus. I believe Rush mentioned Rep West’s response this morning.
If the CBC doesn’t disavow and rebuke the hatemonger Carson very soon, then Rep. West should resign from the organization.
Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi suffered far worse sanctions for far less egregious, (if any), speech.
In point of fact, the Congressional Black Caucus is a prima facie racist organization, even if usually a fairly innocuous one, and as such no eleeted member of the government should be a member.
Ask yourself about the White constituents of the CBC’s members…are they not being wilfully unrepresentated by their elected Congressmen when the Congressman is conducting and participating in CBC business?
Is this not “taxation without representation” predicated upon race?
Or is it only okay when it is White people being disenfranchised?
The reader is invited to draw his or her own conclusions.
I dislike mentioning it, but one of the objectives of the Weather Underground was to incite a race war in America. The Weather Underground was run by a certain unrepentant terrorist, who was very involved in grooming the political career of a certain president.
Speaking of which, you know who hasn’t made any mention, let alone condemnation, of the racist flash mobs which have erupted this summer in several cities, including Chicago? The President of the United States—and his top law-enforcement officer.
I’m still waiting for one of them to condemn the illegal and racist NBPP activities at the polls.
Not really.
Starting a race war also animated the actions of Charles Manson.
Ayers basically is Manson, had Manson had the advantages of rich parents, a college degree, a trust fund, and influential friends.
Food for thought here.
Must be some of that new civility we’ve been hearing about.
I know they are slick, scheming and conniving; in that sense they are intelligent. However, with regards to what we think of as rational, logical thinking, socialists are kinda thick. But are they really that stupid?
If they were to incite the armed conflicts within the United States that they seem to want, they would lose. Hands down, they would be decimated.
These CBC members ( excluding Allen West ) probably would start a war if they could, and for them it would be a race war. For the TEA party and those sympathetic to their ideas, it would not be about race at all, but about political ideals.
Their side would have zero whites, ours likely mostly white but noticeably mixed. I am supremely confident that in the end we would win for reasons I wont go into here; reasons I am sure they are aware of.
Really, how stupid are they?
No, they are not aware. They have given it no thought. They do not believe it would ever come to that, or they would be more judicious in their outbursts. They feel safe… because they know we are self-restrained. We are not them, and they know it.
So, they continue to heap ever more fuel on that small-potential fire….
“We are not them, and they know it.”
Very well said Marc.
What they dont seem to know is that we do have a breaking point. That can be seen repeatedly throughout history. That is when the gates of hell burst open.
I remember seeing footage of tribal warfare in New Guinea, Africa, the Phillipines and Brasil. I have read personal accounts of nearly every war ever fought. It can be plainly seen in Homer’s depiction of the Trojan war. I have spoken with numerous people who have seen it with their own eyes and I have seen it with mine. Certain cultures use intimidation as a tactic in combat. The goal seems to be to make your enemy run away.
We dont do that. We kill.
@ suthenboy – “The goal seems to be to make your enemy run away. We don’t do that. We kill.”
Very well said sir. We are the true patriots and always ready to defend this land and the many blessings that God clearly intended for us. Let’s hope they get distracted by some new shiny wheels for their crime-mobiles and don’t turn violent against our side. But if they do, then they will be obliterated and put in their (final resting) place. They might know how do drive-by shooting here and there, but we know that far too many on our side are well equipped and experienced to return fire with furious vengeance they could never expect. Watch how fast they retreat when they see a few of their fellow tribemember’s skulls instantly blown apart by .50 caliber rounds. We have been patient a long time with their periodic rioting and whines about civil rights. But like the other fellow mentioned, we have our breaking point and at some point will no longer tolerate their aggression. They will learn how to behave like civil people or be totally purged from our society.
God bless and stay strong.
Fasten your seatbelts, this CRAP is only going to get worse.
Full froth, up to election day-evening. obama loses, think back to 1992 and what I call, the Rodney King Riots. Just could get that nasty.
carson bozo AND the cbc, careful what you wish for, you just may get it.
Very true. I predicted in 2008, before the election, that no matter who wins, race relations will be set back 50 years. I stand by that, and note that even with the election of Obama, race relations are worse now than 4 years ago. And they’re going to get much worse from here.
I seem to remember the Attorney General calling out Americans as being “cowards” for our alleged failures to discuss race. Given that both he and our esteemed President have failed repeatedly to castigate the multiple, race-oriented flash mobs, I’m wondering which word(s) we should use in referring to their respective silence on this front? Supporters? Fans? Instigators? Agitators? Co-conspirators?
That the CBC is now out front verbalizing and promoting this type of festering garbage is all the evidence one needs to understand who the true racists (cowards?) in this country are.
I know I said this before, but Booker T Washington saw this coming 100 years ago:
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well”.
There are many blacks who see Washington as an “Uncle Tom” because he was not as aggressive or militant in his approach to racism as W.E.B. DuBois or others. Nothing could be further from the truth. The current crop of CBC folks ought to read up on their history, particularly the works of the first (and only) black intellectual who was a slave, before spouting off insane comments like Carson.
There is a little problem with your suggestion to them. The problem is at the very beginning; ” They should read….”
The CBC assumes that the Tea Party is strictly all-white and racist. I say that this assumption is racist thinking, therefore the CBC is a racist organization.
If the CBC race baiters believe that the Tea Party wants to lynch black people, isn’t it also reasonable to assume that white people at Tea Party rallies might be victimized in drive-by shootings?
That’s where this kind of incendiary talk leads.
The Leftist view that blacks “cannot be racist” because they belong to a “victim group”—and the corollary that whites cannot not be racist, however well-meaning they may be, because they belong to “the group with the power” is enshrined not only in academia, where it merely poisons discourse, but in black communities as well.
This way of viewing the world has been a commonplace in the black community for over 40 years—since, in fact, the Marxists and black-separatists wrested the Civil Rights Movement from Martin Luther King after passage of the Voting Rights Act, and turned what had been a movement for civil rights into a quest for ever-expanding “human rights” in the form of subsidies, set-asides, and preferences. It is the viewpoint of the old Black Panthers—Maoists, like a certain unrepentant terrorist leader of the Weather Underground—and of the exponents of the Afrocentrist ideology. It is the viewpoint which undergirds the sermons of Jeremiah Wright; the inane reflexive condemnation of any opposition to Barack Obama as “racist”; and the knee-jerk condemnation of the Tea Party rallies. This poisonous vine of grievance has been permitted to flourish unexamined within black communities even as the larger society has resolutely striven for the same four decades to eradicate the practice of racism.
It is this viewpoint which drives demands for “reparations”; which is behind Carson’s inflammatory rhetoric; which is responsible for Eric Holder’s Social Justice Department dismissing the case against the New Black Panthers; and which is ultimately responsible for “flash mob” behavior.
There’s nothing well-meaning about that semantic monkey business. It’s pure cynicism.
You misunderstood me. I did not say that the viewpoint itself was well-meaning—quite the contrary. I said that the viewpoint decrees whites to be perpetually racist however well-meaning they may be; that in other words even the white person who intentionally strives to avoid any vestige of racism is irretrievably tinged with it.
It is a determinist viewpoint which, not coincidentally, gives the lie to the Left’s endless prating about “education”—for at bottom, the Left does not believe that “education” will eradicate, or enable anyone to overcome, the destiny of their genes.
IOW, whiteness has an Original Sin attached, because somebody white way back when did something (eating the fruit) bad to somebody black. The more I look at the way leftists think about things, the more religious underpinnings I see. Environmentalism is another example of leftist myth laced with Judeo-Christian undertones.
And of course, they’ll deny all of this to the death.
Exactly.
The same thing is true of “maleness” in Leftist world. Many years ago, a one of my girlfriend’s co-workers, who had recently discovered her Inner Lesbian, stopped by our apartment to let her know that their Women’s Martial Arts Collective (or whatever it was called) was having a fundraising jumble sale. She was invited, but I was told (semi-apologetically) that I would not be permitted to attend, as “there were women there who did not want their ‘safe space’ invaded by men.”
I pointed out that if, as legend has it, men make more than women do for the same work, they should be encouraging men to attend and spend money, as a form of “reparations.” I observed further that the whole “martial arts” thing was really kind of useless if these women trained in the arts of self-defense, and surrounded by their sympathetic sisters, could not manage to deal with the sight of people who were prepared to pay them fundraising money merely because they were male.
I then asked, what about the children?—since one assumes that at least some of these women might have offspring, and not all of them, surely, were female. They responded that the group permitted male children in the sacred precincts—but only until they reached puberty, at which point they were barred. I replied that this was one of the cruelest things I could imagine; that these women would raise a child in this ideological hothouse and then reject him on purely biological grounds. Surely, if any male could be “female-friendly” according to their own standards, it would be a boy raised in that environment—but the original sin of maleness was, apparently, proof against even the most intensive education and upbringing.
And then junior goes to college, is accused of sexual harassment buy some coed who’s mad at him because he wouldn’t hook up with her, and he gets kicked out under the “preponderance of evidence” standard. At this point, some of these women have an epiphany, and realize the damage that these cutesy ideas can cause. But most don’t.
I agree: the same crowd demanding reparations, is the same one criticizing academically oriented black students of ‘acting white’. They demand more money for education, decry the those that are studious within their own group, and force everyone else into a form of mindless group think. They think it’s “black solidarity”, but allowing the lowest common denominator determine where their future lies, is self defeaing and alienates the larger majority (you know…the one’s they’re trying to extract money from).
Would Alfonzo Rachel kindly ask for an apology on behalf of one of the Tea Parties that has recently asked him to be a speaker?
Conduct this ‘thought experiment’ – Santorum/Demint/Perry/Bachmann addressing a Jewish Organization audience thusly:
“This is the effort that we’re seeing of Progressive Democrat Ideology.
“Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see Jewish Americans as second-class citizens,” “Some of them in Congress right now with this Congressional Black Caucus would love to see us marched into a Gas Chamber”
IMAGINE the Reaction from the “Fourth Estate”‘
THAT IS THE REAL STORY.
Quite frankly, a second-class citizen would be a step up for Carson.