I posted these before:

July 2008 “When discussing “slavery reparations” with a group of “minority journalists,” Obama states, “I consistently believe that when it comes to… reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.” Several days later, to calm fears of white taxpayers who read his remarks, Obama adds that he’s not calling for direct cash payments to descendents of slaves, but indirect aid through government programs to “close the gap” between white America and black America. The government programs will be “universal” – such as universal health care, mortgage credits, college tuition, job training, and even universal 401(k)s – programs that Obama feels “disproportionately affect people of color.” In other words, Obama does not dare propose a program to directly tax whites to give payments to blacks, so he instead offers “universal” programs for everyone, but will design them so that blacks will benefit disproportionately. (Note that one of Obama’s advisors is Professor Charles Ogletree, a prominent proponent of slavery reparations.)

Summer 2008, Reverend Leah Daughtry is named by Obama and DNC chair Howard Dean to be the Democrat Convention chief; in Daughtry’s home-town “House of the Lord Church” in Brooklyn hangs a banner supporting slavery reparations, which reads, “They Owe Us.”

On January 16, 2009, Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) introduces House Resolution 40, Reparations for African-Americans,” to create a commission to study slavery in the United States and “recommend appropriate remedies.” (Conyers has introduced the bill every year since 1989.) Note that Obama advisor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. is a prominent advocate of slavery reparations, and the co-chair of the “Reparations Movement Coordinating Committee.”

“Obama did speak out against Wright”

To the extent that he has against Limbaugh and others ? No, he has not.

“Is it your contention, dans, that when a black person criticizes a white person that is racist? Does it work the other way around.”

No, it does not. My post was to elicit a reaction such as yours, to show how silly such an argument really is…

ACTor,

I’m having difficulty deciphering your cryptic #52, which is a non-answer as far as I can tell. You said Sykes’ set was “rife” with racism and I am asking you to please justify your statement. I’m not trying to demean you. There were two jokes that had to deal with race and I’m giving you your likely argument that the Sojourner joke was racist. So given that there was only one other joke that had racial content, please explain how her set was “rife” with racism, unless you were just being heavy-handed.

ACTor, I hear what you are saying but please make your point and cite it. If there were two moments that you felt were racist towards other races then fine (though I don’t agree). But where in the heck was she racist towards her own race? Why won’t you answer the question instead of posing another question and then answering that one? You clearly responded with “I presented you with a question of which I gave you an answer.” I can’t imagine any situation, aside from maybe a conversation with Socrates, where that is an appropriate response to being asked a question.

Dan Re # 41 – I agree to a certain point on the author’s comments (eg top 10).

As you requested you wanted a full text or context of an example of Rush’s racist comments.

Maybe the Young Turk’s site is what you are looking for. Here are Rush’s comments from Aug 2007 about Darfur & Mandela, click on the video.

http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/08/25/rush-limbaughs-unebelievably-racist-comments/

But here are a few of Rush’s racist/racial ziggers I managed to research:

On slavery – “it had its merits”
On James Earl Ray who assasinated MLK – “a posthumous medal of honor”
On the NFL & higher % of black – “looks like a game between the Crips and the Bloods”
On Jesse Jackson – “pictures of wanted criminals look like him”
On the NAACP – “get a liquor store and practice robberies.

Need I say more or do you need the full context of each example.

I call BS on the list of Limbaugh’s supposed “ziggers”.

If he had said even a single one of those things everyone would know about it and he would no longer be on the air.

I’d like to see legitimate sources for these supposed quotes i.e. ABC, CBS, CNN etc, not some hate spewing anti-Limbaugh site.

I won’t be holding my breath.

Kiddin’

After reviewing the videos I will concede that “rife” was not the appropriate word. Although it was pro-Negro and anit-Caucasian, I cannot justify anything other than the blatant racial remarks. By my and definitely zimzo’s definition, there were all too many “under and over tones” of race. My initial respose was to the “hate” and I stand by that. I take these entertainers as helping to expand the division between races that this president so diligently campaigned to “heal”. You are who you associate with. Obama needs to distance himself from this type of dialouge and behaviour.

Kevin, interesting you should make reference to the “one step forward and two steps back” bit in Sykes’ routine. It was one of the few parts of her gig that I really appreciated. It was humor and, at the same time, not humor. I personally think that it may have been one of her lines which was directed at all us regardless of race — and deservedly so.

I don’t think I have to explain my meaning to you on this, but I can provide a personal example. I have an adopted grandson who is, if you will, “mulatto.” He is two years old. Just the other day, in front of my house, he picked up a large plastic ball and started trying to dribble the thing. He actually shocked me by doing very well at it. I must admit that my very first thought was: “What do we have here? Possibly another Dr. J?” Then the Sykes comment smacked me upside the head. Why did I automatically think such a thing when I might have thought, rather, of a young man with perhaps a real M.D. after his name someday? In this I will give Sykes a plus among the many negatives I saw in her routine.

Agreed, Kevin. Somehow these thoughts must be gotten across to an entire generation of kids out there. Bill Cosby seems to be pushing that theme for all it is worth. His major criticism is that not nearly enough of his highly visible contemporaries are pushing it as well. He is starting to get some much needed public support — with Juan Williams being an important example of that. Let us hope they are successful, for all our sakes.

Prester John, I agree with you. I would like to see real sources for the Rush quotes. I’ve been waiting for Baron to post them, but so far nothing. If Rush said them, I’d like to know. If he didn’t, someone should “man up” and admit they made them up in the continuing saga of “Branding Rush a Racist”.