Cheer Me Up, Ol' Dawg: John Lewis Dances To "Happy!"

Civil Rights Legend, John Lewis, 1964

 

 Civil Rights Legend, John Lewis, 2014

 

You Can Be Black (But Must Be The Right Kind)

We'll let Hot Air explain this clusterfuck:

Civil Rights Icon John Lewis, admitting he didn’t know the facts of the case, proceeded to defend Charlie Rangel against his ethics violations by dredging up Rangel’s involvement in the Civil Rights movement. I guess the facts of the case or rather the actual ethics violations themselves don’t matter to John Lewis if you are one of his friends. Yet Allen West says that while he was being viciously attacked during his recent campaign, having his social security number mailed to all of his constituents and being accused of being a member of an all white motorcycle gang, that John Lewis came down and campaigned against him, supporting the man who was playing the race card and egregiously smearing him. West sees this as duplicitous and asks if instead of defending Charlie Rangel, Lewis should have stood on character.

West also has strong words for the Congressional Black Caucus that he criticizes for ‘preaching victimization and dependency’ while supporting ‘liberal social welfare policies that are failing in the black community’.

With Barack Obama in office, especially, a lot of blacks are having a hard time knowing who or what is in their interest - and who or what ain't - here's a hint:

Anyone who proved he was a disaster specifically for black people, before he got into office, probably wasn't a good choice for blacks to follow and pledge undying support.

So now comes Allen West, a former military man from Florida who's not likely to maw-maw any kind of black (or white) line, but to do what's right based on what'll get results. Will black people take a real look at him? Or will they, as the CBC is doing, recoil from criticism merely because that's what it is? Honestly, we don't know. But we'll tell our fellow blacks this much, before they start the (expected) "Uncle Tom" talk - or as Barack (and the rest of the usual suspects) sink the country even further in debt - which will always hurt those at the bottom first:

It's only your friends who will tell you.

Some People Can Only See The Negative

"Let me get this straight. A couple of agitated yahoos in a rally of thousands yell something offensive and incendiary, and John McCain and Sarah Palin are not just guilty by association -- with total strangers, mind you -- but worse: guilty according to The New York Times of 'race-baiting and xenophobia.'

But should you bring up Barack Obama's real associations -- 20 years with Jeremiah Wright, working on two foundations and distributing money with William Ayers, citing the raving Michael Pfleger as one who helps him keep his moral compass (Chicago Sun-Times, April 2004) and the long-standing relationship with the left-wing vote-fraud specialist ACORN -- you have crossed the line into illegitimate guilt by association. Moreover, it is tinged with racism.

The fact that, when John McCain actually heard one of those nasty things said about Obama, he incurred the boos of his own crowd by insisting that Obama is 'a decent person that you do not have to be scared (of) as president' makes no difference. It surely did not stop John Lewis from comparing McCain to George Wallace.

The search for McCain's racial offenses is untiring and often unhinged. Remember McCain's Berlin/celebrity ad that showed a shot of Paris Hilton? An appalling attempt to exploit white hostility at the idea of black men 'becoming sexually involved with white women,' fulminated New York Times columnist Bob Herbert. He took to TV to denounce McCain's exhumation of that most vile prejudice, pointing out McCain's gratuitous insertion in the ad of 'two phallic symbols,' the Washington Monument and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Except that Herbert was entirely delusional. There was no Washington Monument. There was no Leaning Tower. Just photographs seen in every newspaper in the world of Barack Obama's Berlin rally in the setting he himself had chosen, Berlin's Victory Column."

— Charles Krauthammer, capturing the crazy of cultism, on Real Clear Politics