The following series of links is the rough material from which I plan to draw for an upcoming post. As I've not got to writing said post, and I’m always eager to share links, here you go…
In a complaint about Hillary Clinton’s treatment during the campaign, a commentator at a popular democratic blog left the following:
Now wrap your mind around this: If Obama had been called, God forbid, the n word or jokes made about watermelons, or shine my shoes, etc. there would have been an AVALANCHE of protest from everywhere!
Don't tell me about vile things said about Obama supporters when it was OUR CANDIDATE that was insulted over and over and over again.
Think we're angry? You have no idea.
Alrighty then. Let's play. Did we hear about all of these?
“Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause”
Curious George t shirt and Obama
SP: on racist attacks on Obama
Curious George and the Rush Limbaugh Show
GOP Congressman Apologizes for Calling Obama 'Boy'
“Obama and the Bigots”
And to be fair, we can’t forget the Obama Campaign “race baiting” memo:
Obama Camp Memo on
Several videos at You Tube, some featuring watermelons, some the KKK, currently exist. I’ll post links shortly. Oh, and some of those videos also employ overt misogyny. One, in fact, targets “fat white women” who support Obama.
And, of course, the miles of text devoted to racist cliches and dog-whistling on blogs worldwide. Or do they not count?
Also, is a diehard Hillary campaigner (and pro-HRC sockpuppeter who constantly defames Obama on sites such as Hillaryis44) the same woman who posed as a 67 year old black woman to infiltrate the online chat room of Sally Heming’s descendents in order to prevent those descendents from being admitted to the all-white Monticello Association? You might recall that Sally Hemings was Thomas Jefferson’s slave. One of her descendents has been DNA tested, which confirmed the descendent’s relationship with
More on the sockpuppetry later, perhaps (someone else is working on it [see comments], and I'd hate to step on toes when s/he has done so much research), but here are two articles, both of which name the lady, to peruse.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/the_democrats_options.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/thomas_jefferson/index.html?offset=45&s=newest
UPDATE: The women I alluded to above is named Paulie Abeles (also known as Paula Abeles), and she was mentioned today in Ben Smith's blog at Politico. Apparently she contacted the site to complain about her pro-Clinton group's treatment by Politico, and Mr. Smith did a little research: he discusses the Monticello Association episode. Do read his article.
UPDATE II: The Atlantic's Matthew Yglesias has a brief write up on the Abeles affair. The Comments following his piece are quite, well, telling. Abeles herself contributes a plea that this "smear" is unjustified as it's common practice to assume a pseudonym on the internet (let's be pedantic: a pseudonym is the adoption of a different name, not an invented identity--say, that of a 67 year old African-American woman with emphysema when one is a relatively young, upper-middle class, white woman).
Note: Abeles posted the exact same comment at Politico. She includes her email address in both; methinks someone is hoping for media contact.
Added: Someone posted this at Politico. (comment by "Amazon Grace," 6/16, 08:59). I've left the bold in place.
Paulie is a DIE-HARD all right, a die hard racist. Teh goodgle found this on Amazon, a review of a Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings book. I bolded the more, er, calm and civilized portions.
3 stars - Politically Incorrect September 15, 2000 By "spabeles" For anyone who has followed the Jefferson-Hemings story this is an interesting book. However, it glosses over much of the historical evidence, and seems to suggest that anyone who questions the conclusion that Jefferson fathered Hemings children is a racist. Media sound bites and Lanier to the contrary, the DNA evidence for Jefferson's paternity is very shaky and Lanier neglects to mention that the descendents sic of Madison Hemings (of whom he is one) refused to be tested at all (although he does mention that the DNA testing eliminated the 150 year old claims of the Woodsons) Regardless, Lanier believes that ALL the families should be accepted by the Jefferson family to order to support racial harmony (which seems a little ridiculous since there are always people who try to claim descent from more illustrious forbears). Most of all, you are left with great sadness that the Hemings descendents are so desperate to be related to Jefferson it has become the focus of their lives, and even when their claims are proven impossible (as with the Woodson families), they still cling to a belief that they are descended from a great WHITE man (which is pretty sad). Whether Jefferson never acknowledged the Hemings children or treated them differently than any of the other house slaves because he was a really bad guy, OR because they were not in fact his children is a question that will remain (at least for me) until more sophisticated DNA analysis can link paternity not to one of 27 Jefferson males, but to Thomas Jefferson himself.
"They still cling to a belief that they are descended from a great WHITE man (which is pretty sad)," a statement that is pretty darned revealing.
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