The congressman was corrected that the audience was about half black.
“Yes. I mean, why would the vice president go into a setting like that where presumably half of the people wouldn’t have any understanding or feelings about what was going on?” Cleaver said. “The reality is that the discourse in our politics has become unsophisticated, unpolished, unnecessary and rather than try to raise the discord to some degree both sides look for little things that would remove the discussion from the things that matter to something that’s completely asinine.”
“I’ve been black all my life so that comment I can tell you would have no impact on me,” he said. “…I know that that statement by the vice president had absolutely no impact. There’s not a single black person in this country who is now going to say by golly, I’m going to vote for Obama and Biden because Biden said something about putting you back in chains.”
So combined with the NAACP’s and Black Caucus’ non-defense of Allen West and Joe Biden’s blatant racial epithet to a mostly black crowd, race has become a one-sided political issue whereby your politics determines your guilt for racial issues.
And why do the Right continue to play this game?
It was a completely unneeded comment.
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We all know that Obama is going to replace Biden with Hillary Clinton.
Prediction: Biden stays on the ticket, but Hillary replaces him in the VP debate.
- Horrid gaffes and Democrat bloodshed avoided.
- Hillary plays loyal Dem but stays clear of Obama taint in the next four years.
- She sets herself up for 2016.
- She contrasts her supposed foreign policy expertise with Ryan’s lack of same.
- She forces Ryan to be suicidally gentlemanly.
- Obama gets back the PUMAs and women he’s lost.
“I’ve been black all my life so that comment I can tell you would have no impact on me,”…
…unless a Republican said it. Then it would be Hate Speech.
Bingo.
So, “chains” isn’t “code” or “dog whistle”? Gimme a break. If Ryan had been discussing putting chains on his tires in the winter Cleaver would’ve linked the chains to the color of the tires as “code”. For these race-baiters Webster’s Dictionary contents is “code” if the speaker is a white conservative. Or a black conservative, for that matter.
“there’s only a sprinkling of African-Americans there clearly the minority in that crowd,”
So if they’re outnumbered it’s not racist to tell them they’re going to be enslaved?
I bet he would react differently if Ryan/Romney (any Republican for that matter) had said that the democrats wanted to keep them enslaved via welfare and affirmative action policies.
Wouldn’t matter if the crowd had been 100% white… Biden clearly was using a slavery metaphor. To suggest otherwise is silly. We all know whites are supposed to feel race guilt, so saying there are more whites in the crowd only makes it more so.
He doesn’t care about ‘racist comments’ because he doesn’t care about ‘racism’ in the abstract. Accusations of ‘racism’ are a tactic, nothing more.
The NAACP,the Congressional Black Caucus and other black “leaders” are nothing more then House Niggers.
This very derogatory term was originated by, believe it or not, Malcolm X, to describe those blacks who genuflected to the white leadership (in present times, the millionaire white leadership of the democratic party), who will do whatever they are instructed to do by the millionaire white leaders of the democratic party, so that the house niggers can maintain and increase their own personal wealth and influence amongst the white ruling class.
Of course, the ordinary black folks in the inner city are denied – by the WHITE MILLIONAIRE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS and their HOUSE NIGGERS – school choice which, though not a panacea to alleviate the black inner city pathologies, would certainly go a long way to moving these unfortunate souls into the mainstream of society.
Of course, the House Niggers also promote welfare for all and any other programs to keep poor blacks on the dole and uneducated.
Frankly, today’s black leadership puts to shame the efforts of the KKK to destroy – for generation upon generation – the black family.
Blacks never had any misconceptions as to the goals of the KKK; the deceit, the lies, the misinformation, and most importantly, the policies of the millionaire white democratic party leaders and their house niggers is far more demonic and harmful.
Right on, and AMEN. Had to be said and should be said again.
Couple of points about your rant.
A) Malcolm X did NOT originate the term “house nigger”. It has been a deroatory name used for centuries by both whites and blacks.
Whites would say it to demean a well spoken free-black person, implying that their “intelligence and civility” must have come from being a house servant to a white person rather than from their own experiences.
Blacks would use it to differentiate among themselves….the “authentic suffering” of the “field nigger” could was often used to insult the manliness of those peforming the easier forms of servitude inside the mansion. The implication was, (then and now) that a “house nigger” was a sell-out, licking the boots of the Master in exchange for the better clothes, food, and environment it afforded, at the expense of his fellow “real” slave.
Read some actual history…diaries, newspapers, letters etc. from the 1750-1850 timeframe, and you’ll see Malcolm X merely repeated a phrase as od as Blacks in America
B) The KKK didnt care about the “Black Family” at all one way or the other. They were a racist group bent on subjugation as a means of segregation. If blacks stayed Married in Sucessful Healthy Nuclear Families AND were kept out of all levels of White Society, that was fine with them. If they disintegrated into mobs of mongrels and did the same, that would be just as good. They didnt care about Black Families.
What the KKK wanted was for Blacks (men) to remain poor, un-armed, and unable to vote. This, through intimidation and violence, would prevent them from participating in the traditional roles of Citizens, like freedom of movement, being armed, and voting, as such “luxuries” tends to produce a desire to preserve and protect these things, and eventually leads to an expectation of parity in social tatus as fellow citizens.
The Klan wanted nothing to do with Black People at all, family or otherwise….and would have been happy to see them all shipped back to Africa, except for their (white mans) inability to labor afield in the hot humid pre-undustrial South.
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No effect, eh? So he wouldn’t mind a Republican saying he wants to take the chains of welfare of long time recipients and free them from bondage to government?
“I’ve been black all my life” is code for “I’ve been racist against whites all my life.” People who are already racist against whites will not see this for the race baiting that it is. They truly believe already that whites want to put them in chains. Thus, they need to overcome – as in “We’ll shall overcome” – whitey, not racial oppression. Only those who are not racist against whites understand how this is an undisguised atttempt to convincen them – and agree with those who have been black all their life – that white people want to enslave them. And that is the audience Biden was trying to reach.
>>>>>“I’ve been black all my life” is code for “I’ve been racist against whites all my life.”
As opposed to those Black people who became black during middle age?
“The people out there weren’t thinking about the history of race relations in that community.”
Yes they were. They’re Democrats, and race is all they think about all the time.
Well, isn’t that special.
Because I’m pretty sure that if a honky Republican had made the same statement, this mutt would have soiled his pants on CNN in a frothing rage while flashing a 5X8 index card with the word “Racism” written on it in big, red, size 24 font.
Oh well. I think this is the guy who along with his colleagues ate all the Chick-Fil-A that Cong. Allen West brought to their luncheon and then weeks later whined about how the Chick-Fil-A was all racist and nasty and besides, wasn’t SPECSH-ULL enough for them.
Them being Congress-mutts and all.
“Am I offended ? Tell me who said it, and I’ll let you know.”
You expect double standards and hypocrisy from the Congressional Black Caucus.
And from the NAACP as currently constituted under the leadership of moron Ben Jealous.
Any and all so called reactions (to anything) are a function of optics and positioning and have little, if anything at all, to do with truth.
Racist Dems don’t have to worry any longer about keeping black people “on the plantation”.
The NAACP and Black Caucus will do it for them.
It’s tremendously sad how their own “leadership” and their liberal political enablers have crippled, discouraged, disincentivized and demoralized an entire population of Americans- for decades. Such a loss of potential is tragic not only for them, but for the nation as a whole.
“There’s not a single black person in this country who is now going to say by golly, I’m going to vote for Obama and Biden because Biden said something about putting you back in chains.”
Anyone dispute that? No, the attack on Biden’s words should have been about hypocrisy and double standards, particularly within the MSM. Lots of examples, lots of low-hanging fruit. And another lost opportunity by Romney’s nasty, clueless, tone-deaf surrogates.
Giuliani is right: Biden is simply stupid.
Cleaver: “I’ve been black all my life” – and here all these years I’ve thought he was a convert!
The Congressional Black Caucus is composed of a bunch of corrupt thieves and liars, and Allen West. Last week Alcee Hastings (elected to Congress after being impeached and removed as a federal judge for corruption) complained about West bringing Chik-Fil-A to a meeting when it was his turn to buy lunch.
Turns out, it was six months ago, every bit of the food was eaten without complaint at the time. If we had video, it’s even money Hastings ate his sandwich and stole someone else’s.
someone else’s.” absolutely!
Obama could be caught stabbing Cleaver to death on video and would still get a pass. We need to clean this corrupt nest of African Americans out of Washington. Dr. Thomas Sowell, rep. Allen West, former rep. J.C. Watts and others like them are the black communities only hope.
“I’ve been black all my life so that comment I can tell you would have no impact on me,” he said.
I’m curious is there a example of someone who has not been black all of their life.
Michael Jackson
“I’ve been black all my life so that comment I can tell you would have no impact on me,” he said. “…I know that that statement by the vice president had absolutely no impact. There’s not a single black person in this country who is now going to say by golly, I’m going to vote for Obama and Biden because Biden said something about putting you back in chains.”
For those who are so sensitive about the bondage of their relatives over 150 years ago, it is amazing to see how complacent they are concerning the condescension of a White leader imitating the patois of the poorest Black and asserting the possibility of Republicans putting them back in chains or shackles as he meant to say. The condescension is so insensitive and rude it is easy to see why Blacks prefer the bondage of the Democrats to freedom. The plantation mentality is alive and well; as horrible as it was, an individual was cared for and guaranteed shelter, food, and clothing, The Democrats have exploited longing for security and own they the Black race, but more importantly they own their vote. Their willingness to submit to the condescension of a moron is proof of their willingness to accept this bondage meekly and without voicing outrage.
For once, I agree: Biden is an idiot, but not every mention of chains, monkeys, slaves, or the word “niggardly” — in any context and any situation whatever — is automatically (or even probably) “racist”, nor does any possibly-not-100%-PC statement made magically offends and shocks and destroys the tender sensibilities of every black person within earshot.
Whether a Republican or a Democrat uses such terms, I have long ago became convinced the claims about being “shocked and insulted” are just temper tantrums by political hacks.
I’m Jewish. Am I supposed to scream and holler any time someone mentions noses, money, or usury in any context whatever, about how insulted and antisemitic they are? God knows there are enough real enemies of the Jews as it is, without creating fake “antisemites”.
Hey Skeptic, I hate PC-nonsense too, but I hate being called a bigot and racist even more. And having the Vice President of the United States state that Republicans want to put blacks back in “chains,” (i.e., revive slavery), is indefensible and vile.
Do you seriously believe Biden meant Romney, if elected, will repeal the 14th amendment and make slavery legal again? As much as I can’t stand him…
No, I don’t. But that doesn’t mean he should feel free to say this type of race-baiting drivel, or that he shouldn’t be called out on it.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. What did you expect? The NAACP Inc. didn’t think that the Dem attack ad on Allen West was ‘racist’. No kidding? He’s, apparently, the wrong type of Afro-American; doesn’t toe the party line. Maybe he’s not an authentic black man. How pathetic, the commercialization of race grievance.
all his life, just like obama (who’s actually been half black, 40% arab, 10% bullshit, and 100% liar all his life).
‘“And so it makes absolutely no sense that some kind of a little throwaway line is now being used to make Vice President Biden appear to have been throwing out these words in order to somehow attract dumb African-Americans who if they hear the words chains are going to automatically vote for him and President Obama,” he added.’
What do you mean it makes no sense? If they don’t attract idiots, they aren’t going to win the election.
Rep. Cleaver was among those who, despite being unable to confirm this with video being taken at the time, asserted that Tea Partiers repeatedly used a racial slur toward the Congressional Black Caucus during their victory walk among the crowd at the time of the Obamacare vote. He now regards a Democrat’s assertion that Black folks are now going to be shackled by Republicans as a “throwaway line?”
Mhmm.
“… unless spoken by a Republican or white guy!”
– numb to your criticism as he digs for Truth. He is a numb digger.
Isn’t it ironic that the “party of Lincoln” would be accused of enslaving people?
“I’ve been black all my life so that comment I can tell you would have no impact on me,”
Correctly stated:
“I’ve been black all my life so that comment I can tell you would have no impact on me as long as it’s a democrat that says it,”
Whatin the world is happening in this country. If the same remark Biden made was from a conservative White, all these idiots would have been making noise and the left liberal media would have a fest of it. Now, they are behaving like tamed dogs with their tails between legs. Basically all they have is one agenda and that is opposing conservatives no matter they are White, Black, Asian or Hispanic. OBAMA BIDEN should have a new slogan: CHAINS WE CAN BELIEVE rather than CHANGE WE BELIEVED & FAILED.
we democrats, especially black ones are the final arbiters of who and what is racist. We will decide if something is racist…And oh, by the way…just to narrow thing down….if a democrat says it…it isn’t racist.
Now…..where were we?
“26. Tanstaafl jw” is to be commended for his observation about Lincoln. Joe Biden is, among other things, an ignoramus. The Republican Party was founded as the anti-slavery party, and it was the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, which ended slavery.
The “Congressional Black Caucus” is itself a racist group. How would the “Congressional White Caucus” or the “Congressional Chinese Caucus,” etc. go down?
…or the Congressional Mormon Caucus, perhaps?
Whoopi Goldberg’s comment to John McCain on September 12, 2008 of “The View”, “Do I have to be worried about becoming a slave again” was also just a throw away line? Liberal’s are cheap shot artists to the max…. always have been, always will be.
Published on Mar 26, 2012 by LibertyPen: Professor Williams looks at President Obama’s philosophic twin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp_jjL6Hm8ofeature=relmfu
The Klan was founded as a Democrat proxy group. Many b l a c k Americans served in the U.S. Goverment in the 1800′s and beyond as part of the “Radical Republican” party. In 1912 the ‘Progressive’ Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson instituted racial segregation into the Federal Government. Many b l a c k s were subsequently pushed out of the Federal Government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bEOiDjdhF4