Cheesus Rice
Oh yeah. She's virulently antigay, too.
I just read an article over at Politicususa that was so WTF!?-inducing, that I put a record on just so I could make it scratch — skr-r-r-reeek!! — after which, I slapped myself, did a double take, rubbed my eyes with closed fists, did a shot of whisky, and then read it again.
That’s how absurd what you’re about to read is.
But first, let me back up.
A couple weeks ago, Michele Bachmann signed a Families Values Are Awesome and Homosexuality Will Kill Your Children pledge, which noted that while slavery was, like, totally the worst, at least little black childrenses had two parents back then.
The “slavery preamble” to the Conservative Nutbag Pledge read as follows:
“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA?s first African-American President,”
Needless to say, that didn’t go over too well; the odious clause was removed from the pledge, and Bachmann made some silly claim that she hadn’t actually read the slavery preamble (even though it was the first damn clause in the pledge, hence the term “preamble”).
But never mind that. Point is, the conservative nutbags realized that it is absolutely inappropriate for a white person to laud the virtues of black family life under slavery.
It’s much better if you get a black person to do it.
Enter Star Parker, right-wing nutjob and religious whackadoodle — who obviously has a deep-fried sneaker where her brain should be — to confirm what white folks have been saying all along, which is that black families arguably were healthier under slavery than they are today.
<crickets>
From Politicususa:
Parker, who said recently that “too many Blacks do not want to be free” (what, they yearn for slavery?) endorses the claim that black families, while not being allowed to have families because they weren’t allowed to marry, were somehow better off under slavery.
No. Just no.
What is with the sudden proliferation of nutty-ass black folks spouting nutty-ass theories? On Sunday, at the South Central Tea Party rally, I had a close encounter with nutbaggery as I listened to Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson preach his special brand of Crazy. (I wrote about it over at TheGrio.com: “Black reverend preaches stereotypes to mostly white ‘South Central’ Tea Partiers“.)
Did you know that during the civil rights movement, black folks made a bargain with the NAACP — remove the father from the home in exchange for some supersweet government benevolence? You didn’t know that? Well, that’s the gospel of Reverend Jesse Lee:
“The NAACP is no different than the KKK hat the KKK hung black Americans up by their physical bodies, but the NAACP steals their hearts and minds and souls, and they kill black Americans by making black Americans or causing black Americans to hate their country, to hate what’s right, to depend on the government rather than depending on themselves.
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50 years ago, starting with the civil rights movement, they came in and said to black Americans that you’re being discriminated against, this country’s against you, but we’re going to help you… you need the government; the government’s going to help you, but you can’t have a father in the home, and so black Americans said yes to that, and they took the fathers out of the homes and the government became the daddy of the families…”
These Negros have lost their damn minds. You have to be one ignorant, brainwashed, or opportunistic individual to believe this nonsense, or to go on a rightwing talk show (American Family Radio’s Today’s Issues with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Tom Wildmon of the American Family Association) and propogate this nonsense.
Quite simply, It’s utter bullshit.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson over at Politicususa nails it:
We don’t have data on what a black family looked like during slavery? Really? Here’s the answer for you Star: We don’t have data because slaves were not allowed to have families. Is that good enough for you? How can something that can’t exist be more intact than something that can?
The simple fact is that today, free of slavery, blacks are free to marry and have families. The simple fact is that during the slave era, this was not true. It’s really very simple.
It’s amazing logic: we’re being told by conservatives that liberalism has enslaved blacks, that Democrats are racists. But if blacks were better off under slavery, wouldn’t this logic lead to the obvious conclusion that Democrats have actually helped blacks by re-enslaving them?
It’s remarkable that someone could push this narrative and not fear being accused of catastrophic levels of ignorance; more remarkable still is thinking you are going to garner black votes for your causes. It’s not going to matter that the speaker herself is black. It’s rather like a Jew arguing that Jews were better off under Hitler or a Native American arguing that Native Americans were better off on the reservations than living free on the prairies and in the forests, or that like a Heathen saying “Boy, we’re sure glad the Christians took away our religion and our culture from us!”
As a friend of ours said in response to this news:
Jesus take the wheel. And bash that crazy lady with said wheel.
Indeed.
[via Politicususa]
“It’s not going to matter that the speaker herself is black. It’s rather like a Jew arguing that Jews were better off under Hitler…”
This is the biggest point here. Only a racist white person could think that black people would buy this horseshit just because it comes from the mouth of a black person. It’s just patently absurd, and made even MORE SO by the fact that someone thought that it would seem less absurd to have it coming from “one of your own”.
Maybe if conservatives actually, you know, did things to help black people (gays, Jews, Hispanics, etc…) there would be more support for conservatives from those communities. But having some token minority conservative come out and lie about how liberals have NOT helped minorities, when members of minority groups know first-hand that they HAVE, just pushes them further away from conservative bullshit.
Note to white conservatives: People don’t like having their intelligence insulted, even if you think they’re stupid.
“Only a racist white person could think that black people would buy this horseshit just because it comes from the mouth of a black person.”
wait, you think they care? this trotting-out of the (not so) representative black person isn’t for the benefit of black people. it’s for other whites. it’s the “some of my BEST FRIENDS are black” of crazy ideas. this trope is generally hauled out just before someone is about to say some racist shit to someone of similar ethnicity, or just after they’re accused of racism by someone of similar ethnicity, as a reassurance that “no, see, it’s cool”.
luckily, this white boy has never heard of Star Parker. so there’s that…
Star Parker is a female Clayton Bigsby.
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, what a stupid c-word she is.
I’m sure there were a few cases where slaves were treated (relatively) well by their owners under slavery.
I guess one post-modern perspective on the problem of slavery is just that other owners did not treat their slaves as well as they should have, and thus they were the “not real slave owners” or “not real Christians” who gave slavery a bad name.
The easiest way for a black person to get rich in the usa is to be a hardcore right winger. The right will pick you up as their Very Special Colored Person and you’ll be beating the Heritage Foundation and Fox News off with a stick. They’ll be sticking money under your front door. Constant gigs at Tea Party throwdowns. Offers to write more books than you’ve ever read.
Of course, few have the stomach to be Michael Steele or Star Parker, thank FSM.
“Cheesus Rice”! Well said. When the call goes out for stupid..you can bet someone will step up. It doesn’t matter what color you are there’s no immunity from being a dumbass.
How dare they start jabbering about slavery in any way except to say how criminal it was and to work diligently on Reparations.
You know, my local paper The Trentonian features a Star Parker column and I read enough of her to realize she was nuts. Or rather, as dear Zora says, some of our skinfolk ain’t kinfolk. But like the above comment says, if you’re brown and anti-Obama, you stand to make a boatload of money. I wonder who’s underwriting the Tavis & Cornel ‘We hate Obama tour’?
Stepin Fetchit would be ashamed of this woman.
Jeebus Christ on a trailer hitch! Cha, you’re correct when you said, “It doesn’t matter what color you are there’s no immunity from being a dumbass.”
Dumb b*tch!! I couldn’t stand this heifer back in the 1990s!!!
How do the wingnuts find these people?
Black conservatives perfecting self hate since insert date here. I never see a group of people that wants to belong to and defend an ideology if it had its way back in the 1960s those black conservatives will be living in an America their grandparents and parents lived through.
Debating black conservatives is easy because they always box themselves in a corner when you tell them the history of their party and ideology. If they truly believe they got where they are at because some conservative fought for them, they prove smoking crack and politics don’t mix.
I can not believe Star Parker is still around. I remember seeing her emerge when I was in college. The past couple of months, I’ve been thinking of her because I knew it wasn’t long before that prop was dusted off and brought out. Sigh.
“It’s not going to matter that the speaker herself is black.”
They aren’t speaking to us. They are speaking to others who think because their black friend (stranger on the street in reality), then it can’t be racist. You know the type!