Black Conservatives Condemn Mary Frances Berry’s Cynical Comments on Progressive Racial Politics
by Bob ParksIn an interview with Politico, Mary Frances Berry — a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last reappointed by President Bill Clinton — called the progressive tactic of trying to smear the tea party movement as racist an “effective strategy” that she chose not to denounce.
Berry’s cynical remarks are drawing rebukes for members of the Project 21 black leadership network.
“As an active participant in the tea party movement, I know the movement’s motivation is about Obama’s policies and not his race,” said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21. “Race card politics is the last-ditch effort to shift the debate away from President Obama’s harmful policies such as the government’s takeover of health care and his failure to create jobs — both of which are having an impact on his popularity. This diversion may also help Obama to try to jam through cap-and-trade legislation through Congress. It’s a grand distraction from policies and may unfortunately increase racial tensions.”
In an interview posted on the Politico web site, Berry — now the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and History at the University of Pennsylvania — was asked the question “[W]ill branding the tea party ‘racist’ work?” Berry replied:
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.
“This is exactly the kind of thing that has irked me all of my adult life, to put it mildly,” said Project 21 member R. Dozier Gray. “This willful and purposeful use of the race card for nothing more than political gain is toxic to race relations, and Mary Frances Berry must know that. But she evidently does not care. Based on her comment, political posturing takes primacy over whatever real issues regarding race that she might pretend are her calling cards. I have seen this all before. I find it shameful.
Project 21 member Bob Parks added: “What’s most disturbing about this very public quote? Not only is Mary Frances Berry making this comment without fear of admonishment, and that progressives have apparently embraced and are employing these very shameful, race-baiting tactics — but Berry is likely teaching this “social thought” hate to children.”
Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives since 1992, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research (http://www.nationalcenter.org).
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I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I admire her honesty. I also truly wish to sh!t on her chest for being the human being who she is. Who cares about genuine racism, let's just figure out how this helps us win!
TeaParty folks are racist like Obama's a scratch golfer…
Go scratch, Obama…
Those who believe tea partiers are racists aren't going to vote for the conservative candidate in the first place. They make too much money on liberal oppressive policies of which the race card is just another atm card to them. If the black community wants to continue to allow race baiting and being used only for political purpose, then that is on them. I don't waste my time proving a negative, and I don't allow anyone to tell me what I am or what I'm not. Let the liberal oppressives continue to use this particular atm card and eventually there will be no more money on that card.
She cares about her people the way a pimp cares about his girls.
QUOTE OF THE CENTURY…..MAYBE EVEN THE MILLENNIUM
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. We have a lot of work to do.
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
GO TEA PARTIES U.S.A. – TAKE AMERICA BACK IN NOVEMBER
Unfortunately, labeling the Tea Party Racist is a brilliant strategy. It is right out of weathermen manifesto also Cloward-Piven. Marginilize when facts are unavailable. Brilliant. I just wish we on the right had so efficient a gameplan to follow. The Loony Left Radicals have won this one, we just need to come up with a revised gameplan and get back to work. Remember, the radical left has had this strategy under way for 50 years. We can't expect to defeat them with less than a year of planning.
Obama's a scratch golfer like MLK was a Klansman…
Halo, Is that Paris Hilton on your Avi and what is she reading?….I can't quite make it out….
I didn't know she could read…
So it really does boil down to the political party you are affiliated with as to whether racism is okay or not! I am fed up with this bull crap! Such a disgraceful attitude from the left, socialists and Democrats! Well, they are synonymous.
Another one note race whore plain and simple!
I was wondering when we would get a pimp analogy in here. Excellent !! Love the avatar.
I look at a black person these days and see a likely Olinsky voter and supporter and it irritates me, does that make me a racist?? LOL I want to say WTF is wrong with you, so what if the guy is black he is also a socialist hell bent on destroying our freedom.
I don't look at Olinsky and see black I see red.
What the heck is a black conservative? Oxymoron if you ask me
There is part of me that agrees with you. However, we know the tea party is much more diverse than what the LSM is reporting. What, I believe, they have failed to take into consideration is the number of people who have never been called a racist in their lives and thus are not used to such vile lies about themselves. The attention that will be paid to the LSM and their ilk will increase but it will not be through the same lenses as before. As a white person, that's all I've ever heard when either I disagree with a person of color or have had to terminate a person of color because of incompetence. It doesn't even remotely bother me any more, and it doesn't keep me from keeping my sights on the real issue and it no longer causes me to back down.
Oh you're back. DNC missing one? I think the illegal immigration thread is missing you.
Go figure, it would take someone from a former Soviet Bloc country to see it. It's like painting a car, sometimes you gotta be looking at it from a different perspective. Seems we missed a spot!
What many on the left fail to understand is the fact we are working more than double time. The RACIST Deck of Cards is worn out and Americans now laugh at it. Now we double down on the issues and laugh at their noise of racism. Everytime they (Left Wing Media and Lunatics) toss RACIISM charges we can now with impunity LOL…………. Americans get turned off and have seen far too much of the lefties games.
Keep speaking out Mr. Parks for in the long run this tactic is destructive to individuals and the nation as a whole but it's quite understandable why they do it- they've got nothing left. They can't win on policy and results and will do almost anything to stay in power.
"The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means…." – Saul Alinsky
The way to win is to have the public judge them by the same rules they have judged others ……….. .
"Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more live up to their own rules than the Christian Church can live up to Christianity." – Saul Alinsky
…………. and they will lose- on racism, on deficits, on taxes, on employment, on speaking the truth, on faith,…………….. on most everything.
If that doesn't make you sick what will?
An American
Whut in tarnation th' heck is a black cornservative? Is yo' freak! Fry mah hide!
what you talkin' bout Willis?
At least a whore has a job. She has the government. You can bet your last dollar her job was created by government money and not by her superior intellect which – at least by her comments – appears to be an open question. The interesting part is to say that liberalism can't compete on a level playing field.
Yes we can! My daddy used to say, " Boy, if you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough". We've been stupid long enough, it's time to get tough.
One of my favorite quotes " There is no problem in the world that cannot be solved via sufficient amounts of brute force and ignorance". It's time for the gloves to come off. At some point diplomacy doesn't work anymore.
Black Supremacist. Equal rights yes, not special rights.
The problem is a Conservative is capable of being shamed, leftys will never feel shamed no matter what they do.
It has to do with having a moral conscience.
A rare moment of honesty from a progressive. They usually play things much closer to the vest. Here's hoping her words spread far and wide.
Great Post.
Absolutely disgusting, everyone behind this should be in prison starting with Chairman O.
DRAFT HERMAN CAIN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012!
And so it goes…. Progressives in actuality are Re-gressives… Holding on to a bygone conclusion that all things “Racist” in nature can be blamed on anyone they choose. I can think of many other repugnant behaviors as well that I would not tolerate in any party I chose to associate.
I am never ever surprised by the false accusations of the liars on the left. If by merely accusing someone of being a racist makes it true to the likes of this woman how horrible it must be for her to wake each and everyday knowing she is surrounded by millions of us… They used to call this disease Paranoia.
How insulting.
Oh that's right, you ARE a liberal.
Thanks so much for sharing that, I needed it!
She is right that is why I do not even respond to charges like these. I just say I don't speak for them and they don't speak for me. Besides who cares.
I hope everyone understands that the Progressives play for keeps. They are Political Terrorists. Their rules are win at all costs.
The aggressor sets the rules. Ignore the left's indignation. Enough of this "we have to be better than that". It's about being effective and winning.
Anymore NAACP tapes out there? I bet there is. They need to be exposed for the phoney, racists group they are.
When will people learn that these liberal clowns like the Obama Administration, NAACP, Black Panthers, etc.etc. have done more harm with Race Relations in the past few months than Georce Wallace, Lester Maddox, Heuy Long, Bull Connors could have possibly done in their time, I am sure Martin Luther King is spinning in his grave right now, all his good work down the toilet, I have never in my 68 years on this earth, heard the term Nigger used more in the past few monthe than ever before, even in 1960 when I was stationed in Fort Benning, Georgia. Just maybe the Democrats thought we were getting along too good.
Didn't Limbaugh say that? Or something like it?
I care about genuine racism. I see it in her comments. She's perfect for a ideologue like Clinton and Obama. Put everyone in their place. And she is wrong.
If I were a slave owner, I would free all my slaves because it's the right thing to do. Freedom is the human condition. And right now, we are all slaves to the federal (imperial) government.
What else did you expect a Communist to say?
"Denouncing America's systemic flaws, while comparing the nation unfavorably to Communist states, has been a longstanding practice for Professor Berry."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProf...
"To describe Mary Frances Berry as a liberal, as she is frequently referred to in the media, is an insult to liberalism and Berry. She is a political radical well outside the mainstream of American politics." http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=6032
We have different definitions of 'racism'. Our definition is a person who thinks he or she is superior to a entire race of people for no legitimate reason. Their definition is not blindly agreeing with a black man or woman for any reason.
We all care about racism, just their definition is wrong.
This woman lives in fear
That none of her friends will find her dear
If something favorable is said about the party of tea
So she models her statements after the NAACP
Her ability to think outside the racist box is quite austere
A black conservative is akin to a freed slave.
All blacks who are Democrats are slaves on the Democratic Plantation.
Liberal Jews enslave blacks. Liberal Jews have taken their oppressed history and turned it onto blacks. Even many black Democrats know this and that's why anti-Semitism among black Democrats is so high.
Look at how openly you disparage a black for being a conservative.
We know. You think YOU own blacks.
John Boehner needs to apologize, just in case! …our Republican trained seals in Washington are moved by guilt.
A message to Ms. Berry: With all due respect, you’re an ignorant race hustler, who is consumed entirely by your race. This is not going to work this time…nobody on the free American side, cares a wit about your race, and most especially your silly slogans. You don’t have a race problem, you’ve got a math problem, this country identifies itself as 70% conservative, and we’re gonna correct the mistake of ’08…soon!
This woman is sick and absolute proof of how racist and corrupted the Democratic Party is.
Herman would make a wonderful President…..
Obama pushing the immigration debate is to keep the race debate at the top of the fold and the Tea Party on the defensive and hiding in their homes instead of taking to the streets on the real issues. The TP taking to the streets is by far the worst thing that can happen to the Dims, that is why he risk pushing the illegal debate, the risk is really wide open protest in the streets against Olinsky's policy's.
What I fear that they are accomplishing, is to frighten many TPers out of showing their support of the TP and their condemnation of Olinsky policy in public….I have to say that mission maybe already partially accomplished.
Don't know.
Off topic:
Michelle Rhee on the Restoring Honor site had this quote:
"I pledge resistance to the Czar of the Divided States of America and to Communism for which he stands. One Socialist, without God, divisible, with healthcare and welfare for all !!!!"
Jackson…
Wonderful find. So glad you brought this here. I have already posted it on my state and national sites. It is so very true. Thanks, man. We need to hear this even if it hits close to home.
We do have our work cut out for us, don't we.
The entire Democrat party teaches anything goes as long as they win, and the poster child for that is Obama. I think nothing but their boot on our throats will satisfy them. Our entire election system, our economic system, our education system, our judicial system and the Constitution are at risk from the chicanery and thuggery of the Progressive Democrats. Hillary and Obama are the king and queen of this takeover of America. Sewage.
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Sign up with your state draft Cain committee here: http://draftcain.org/default.aspx and let's get this thing rolling!
Exactly. Americans have never had a fascist/dictatorial boot on our necks. Communist dominated countries have been there!
I sure hope lots and lots of folks turn out for Breitbart's Uni-Tea event.
Please attend if you can. This one's important….not for symbolism….but as the name implies, for UNITY. We need all the folks we can get if we're gonna beat this vile government.
* http://www.uni-tea.com
You're welcome. I'm confident that Americans have awakened, and will speak in November!
No, intellectual Liberal is an oxymoron, moron.
No suprise really. At least she was honest which is getting really rare these days. If you make your $$$ on race then you have to keep up the fight even if you are the one starting it!
Progressives have absolutely no sham. They believe that they can and should do anything to get their agenda pushed through. Their so called ideas cannot win at the ballot box so they resort to parliamentrary tricks, activist judges and outright lies to get their agenda passed. They don't run on ideas they run on fear. Well they better be fearfull cause come November they will be job hunting and with Obama in charge the jobs will be scarce.
Tough talk from a duckbilled platypus.
When a culture decides it wants to independently learn and to educate themselves rather than taking the lazy route of someone spoon feeding them "knowledge."
From what I see and hear where I go is that we have far many more supporters then they will realize until the ballot box speaks. From grocery stores to garages and hair salons MANY MANY MANY are quietly fed up. Not joiners or big contributors, just quiet normal Americans who will be voting against the theft of the nation in November.
Absolutely disgusting! Just when you thought going lower was impossible, they defy all odds and expectations.
- Acuvue
Looks like RUFUS pulled a GOOFUS. lol
I'm not racist but I do believe our only chance at regaining our freedoms and liberties is a full blown revolution to take our country back. The progressives can have and take shelter in California, we'll concede that. If nothing else, time to suceed from the union. Fight for what you believe in if the progressives keep rigging the elections.
Applaud!
Obviously for a professor, she doesn't know much about Black American History. In fact, knowing history, I haven't got a clue as to why ANY American of African descent would ever belong to the Democratic Party?
Of course there was that sudden switch in DP politics in the 1960's that say the DP promising enormous sums of money in what is called trickle-down society that enslaved generations of people at the public tit. But hey, if Black America wants to forget who was behind Jim Crow laws, who was against the Civil Rights Movement, that Dr. Kink was a Republican, that Lincoln and the Republican party were founded for the express purpose of giving abolitionists abhorred by the Scott decision a voice… then pay no attention to those of us with real educations. Go ahead and get comfortable with relative truth as opposed to actual facts. I am quite certain Ms. Berry CANNOT refute as fact anything I've just written.
That woman is a racist CULL !!!!!
I believe it was Václav Klauswho is the President of the Czech Republic
Racist are you?
this is probably the best thing I ever read on a comment
I have seen this chick before….. she was an E.T. stunt double
sorebird, I'm a black man and I feel the same way. Screw his race, he and is horde are just bad for the country.
Superiority is a special power that liberals possess. They can divine the hearts and minds of others with their hyper-evolved “feelings”. It’s how they “know” the Tea Party people, Christians, Republicans and conservatives are racist. It saves valuable time and energy by bypassing the messy, cumbersome and primitive acts of gathering evidence, providing actual proof and applying fair and just due process.
Hypocrisy is another character trait and let there be no doubt the current regime got a double helping of it.
:In fact, knowing history, I haven't got a clue as to why ANY American of African descent would ever belong to the Democratic Party? "
Stockholm syndrome?
The lady of the article needs the new Obama Campaign poster.
http://img.villagephotos.com/imageview.aspx?i=265...
Funny, but that was very RACIST of you.
Ass hole that you are.
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She should be ashamed of herself. I didn't know how many racists there were in this country until BHO was elected!
bringing it closer to home: saw tonight an ACORN operative cut a padlock on a foreclosed home and let in squatters, saying it was their right…..got sick….here is someone's home, that the couple worked hard for, and for the debacle of this administration, could have lost their jobs and could not keep their home…..now a bunch of lowlifes come strolling in and just take it over…..this could be you or me, folks…..we MUST remember in November….if not too late…
Someone with a brain!
A thousand thumbs up!!!!!!!!
Might be an avi real soon….THX
"What I fear that they are accomplishing, is to frighten many TPers out of showing their support of the TP and their condemnation of Olinsky policy in public….I have to say that mission maybe already partially accomplished.
Disagree, I know we are waaaaay tougher than that. That's what got us into the streets in the first place. We are not taking this crap any more. I believe that the more all this ridiculous "racist whining" from the left is heard , the better it is. The more they cry, the more people (normal Americans) are disgusted with them.
"our Republican trained seals in Washington are moved by guilt"
Oh Yeah…. AND they haven't the slightest idea of what they should feel guilty about. Progressive Mission Accomplished!
LOL!
Thanks
Hyper-evolved feelings results in hyper-evolved hypocrisy. That's DEEP, Dude!
Time to move and take action. Thats all I will say.
"Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness"
Is she on the JournO list?
It took a while, but I quit using a shovel a long time ago. Now-a-days I use a "post" hole digger. lol
Just further evidence that the most racist persons amongst us will use any tactic to remain in power. Black or white it does not matter as long as you hold onto the reins of power.
You know, if they could accuse the Tea Party of being pedophiles then they would. But that might offend the pedophile wing of the DNC so I guess its back to racism for now.
A person with more guts than you'll ever dream of having troll. Black conservatives have made a stand against the toxic effects that liberals have had on the black community in this country and refuse to buy into the phony bull-crap that Dem-Wits have been feeding them for decades, (once the Dem-Wits put away their white hoods). BC's want equal rights, not special rights like the infantile liberals demand. A black conservative knows that he or she can stand on their own two feet without the historically racist Democrat party promising freebies for votes. They are people that care about their own race and the greatness of America which is something a liberal can't fathom. BC's know that the greatness of this nation is based on unity rather than the race-baiting tactics that your morally bankrupt side employs. Now run along back to Media Matters you pathetic little germ.
Well I hope you guys are correct, but the issues have been moved to the back burner for large portions of time since Arizona and the MSM agenda driven "news" will make herculean efforts to keep it above the fold.
They are making it out as if to wear a Tea Party hat or bumper sticker that we might as well be wearing a robe…the TP may think that they are not being marginalized but I think we are in few ways; Race above the fold, intimidation in public and losing whatever influence we thought we had on the Republican party, by forcing a wedge between the candidates and the TP….if we lose touch with the candidates then we have lost control of the message. We need to drive the message, we need to attack, and we need a much bigger tent to do that.
sad but true
true
Glad to meet ya!
I hate feeling that way, I was happy for the country when he was elected even though I feared that he was never vetted,, christ did that ever become an understated reality. I saw his election as an opportunity for black Americans to at least shed some of the weight of the perception of racism–hey a black guy won the Presidency maybe things are not as bad as I thought, kinda thing–and even now I think maybe that did happen, but damn, it can happen again too, come on people, you don't have to hang on like this will be the last time ever. LOL
Corrupt power hungry white guys have been screwing up the country for decades now, I guess Olinsky is pretty solid proof that it isn't about color.
Maj. Gen.Jerry R Curry (Ret.) Speaks Out On The Obama Eligibility Issue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO8n4Pij158
Wow thats like the coolest thing.
RE http://www.anonymous-surfing.es.tc
http://remembernovember.com/
Well, she’s honest, at least. Unfounded accusations are indeed “an effective strategy for Democrats.”
When conservatives tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, the liberals respond by accusing them of “hate speech.” We need to update a well-known Harry Truman quote, and say : “No, we never use hate speech. We just tell the truth and they think it’s hate.”
This does the same thing, totally private. Easy to use, and nothing to sign up to.
http://www.startpage.com/
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