Mixing the Races is a Communist Plot!
Posted by
Kevin
No, seriously, that’s her argument:
But maybe it’s not so simple. Obama and I are roughly the same age. I grew up in liberal circles in New York City — a place to which people who wished to rebel against their upbringings had gravitated for generations. And yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics. (During the Clinton Administration we were all introduced to then U. of Pennsylvania Professor Lani Guinier — also a half black/half Jewish, red diaper baby.)
… Political correctness was invented precisely to prevent the mainstream liberal media from persuing the questions which might arise about how Senator Obama’s mother, from Kansas, came to marry an African graduate student. Love? Sure, why not? But what else was going on around them that made it feasible? Before readers level cheap accusations of racism — let’s recall that the very question of interracial marriage only became a big issue later in the 1960s. The notion of a large group of mixed race Americans became an issue during and after the Vietnam War. Even the civil-rights movement kept this culturally explosive matter at arm’s distance.
It was, of course, an explicit tactic of the Communist party to stir up discontent among American blacks, with an eye toward using them as the leading edge of the revolution.
Like the little bit about how it was almost always a Jewish woman marrying the Black man? This rolls up all the dark demons of the far right wing id n one place: Jews, Blacks, race mixing and communists, oh my! And, of course, Obama is not to be trusted becasue his parents were obviously inter-racial at a time when interracial couples got together for not other reason to advance the communist plot for world-wide domination!
This smear has it all: hints of antisemitism, racism, the implication that Obama’s parents are huge phonies who only got together to advance Marxism, and, of course, that peculiar aristocratic/racist obsession with a person’s parentage. In one short blog posting, this moron has dumped every bit of insecurity and warped nonsense that festers in the minds of some on the far right all over the internet, like a baby who takes off his diaper and smears feces on the nursery wall.
God, what disgusting people.
Via Balloon Juice.
UPDATE [tgirsch]: TPM has a great take on this. Go read.
