Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Sarah Palin Launches Flat-Out Racist Attack On President Obama

The Right camouflaged its racist contempt for our President of African-American descent with their disrespectful birther/foreigner/Kenyan coded talk, but finally Sarah Palin goes the full nine yards by criticizing what she calls Obama's "shuck and jive."

She and the rest of the Republican Right, the Tea Partiers and other of their ilk can claim ignorance, or over-reaction by people like me  - - or invoke that classic dodge: 'it was a joke' - - but Palin was a Governor and ran for the Vice-Presidency, a step and heartbeat from leadership of much of the world and cannot evade responsibility for her racist language.

So here you are, in her own Facebook words, as she shames the nation:

Why the dissembling about the cause of the murder of our ambassador on the anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil? We deserve answers to this. President Obama’s shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end.
Shuck and jive?

From the Urban Dictionary:
To shuck and jive" originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards. The expression was documented as being in wide usage in the 1920s, but may have originated much earlier.

"Shucking and jiving" was a tactic of both survival and resistance. A slave, for instance, could say eagerly, "Oh, yes, Master," and have no real intention to obey. Or an African-American man could pretend to be working hard at a task he was ordered to do, but might put up this pretense only when under observation. Both would be instances of "doin' the old shuck 'n jive."


10 comments:

Betsey said...

Who is she, again?

Fay said...


There can be no excuses for Palin's racist rant.

And there can be no excuse for the lack of a strong condemnation of her words and her actions by the Republican Party National Chairman, Reince Priebus.

If she were to claim ignorance of the hateful meaning of the words she chose to hurl at President Obama, then John McCain needs to apologize on her behalf. Without John McCains full throated Vice Presidential endorsement, this wretched woman would still be a racist, but she wouldn't have the GOP celebrity star power she now enjoys, and she would be unable to continually inject this venom into the national discourse. Sarah Palin's (and Donald Trump's) vile PR antics lend a disturbing legitimacy to the right wings resurgent racists and haters.

Shame on the national GOP leadership for not immediately moving to expel both Palin and Trump from the Republican party.

Anonymous said...

I am waiting to hear Mitt's denouncement of this (chirp).

Anonymous said...

Hi Jim ...
The previous post was made by Terry Amerson. It was not made by my wife (who you know) whose name seems to pop up after I submit to this blog.

I will continue to try to post only as myself.

My apologies for any confusion.

Please do not post under her name.

James Rowen said...

So do I delete the post beginning with "Fay said....

Anonymous said...

and why would this be considered a racist remark?

Anonymous said...

and why would this be considered a racist remark?

Anonymous said...

since she and obama are both basketball players, if she'd said "shake and bake," she would've been ok.

Anonymous said...

The favorite tactic of those who have no merit is to claim that those who have different are racists. This is supposed to strike so much condemnation upon them that they will immediately try to prove that they are not. Fuck this bullshit and fuck you race monger moron.

Reagan's Disciple said...

Urban Dictionary?

Nice source. Next time how about polling a class of K4 students for a definition.