Black Racism Vs Honest Critiques

Black Racism vs Honest Critiques: Canadians vs Rush Limbaugh

There are fair and honest opinions and then there are sick, vicious diatribes.

One that falls into the latter category was posted by AOL’s “Black Voices,” with which I rarely agree but in this instance I have to gingerly climb on board their Black racist bandwagon: http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2009/05/29/radio-canada-easier-to-shoot-a-black-president-in-the-white-hou/?icid=main|htmlws-main|dl6|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackvoices.com%2Fblogs%2F2009%2F05%2F29%2Fradio-canada-easier-to-shoot-a-black-president-in-the-white-hou%2F.

The essence of that story relates to a French-Canadian who cracked a joke which so exceeded the boundaries of good taste that to call it merely incendiary is understatement.

The Radio-Canada network host said, almost six months ago: ”It will be good to have a Negro in the White House. It will be practical. Black on white, it will be easier to shoot him.” Said host, whose name does not deserve mention, no doubt considered his remark amusing which clearly demonstrates he is a nitwit and an historically-challenged twit as well.

Even allowing that the witless witticism was spoken by a French-Canadian, it was beyond tasteless and reflected a gross ignorance and insensitivity not only to Obama and his family but to the vast majority of Americans, even to those of us who didn’t vote for the man, and never would.

Fortunately and unfortunately, I lived through those November days of 1963 after Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated America’s president, after Jack Ruby in turn murdered Oswald, and as the nation sat stupefied by it all, that stupefication reaching its zenith and its nadir with the funeral and burial of John F. Kennedy, our 35th president.

I say fortunately because with that perspective I am able to understand perhaps a little better the gravity of Oswald’s cowardly, overtly seditious act and its effect on Americans. Conversely and unfortunately perhaps, I am more sensitive to any suggestion that it be repeated or that even an attempt be made at repetition.

I should add that at the tender age of 18 I did not support the candidacy of Jack Kennedy, despite his Irish heritage. But at the still-tender age of 21, I abhorred his murder.

I also strongly opposed the insanity of nominating and electing Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency. I much more strongly abhor ”assassination jokes” by foreign and domestic sickos which minimize the murder of any American president.

Then there is the other hand, not regarding presidential assassinations but regarding objective criticism and parody of our current, sitting chief executive.

George W. Bush was vilified, castigated, ridiculed, and parodied from the day he announced his candidacy, to his two elections, and throughout his 8 years as president. (For the record, I voted twice for Bush, by default.)

The demeaning of Bush began . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)