More than 31,000 views in 2 days
So that video I uploaded on Thursday has been all over the blogosphere. It’s been linked by some of my favorite blogs including Instapundit, Hot Air (twice by them), The Corner and Newsbusters and a host of other blogs as well. Right now it stands as the 8th most watched video for the day in the News and Politics section, and the 5th most watched video in Australia’s News and Poltics section thanks to a link by Andrew Bolt. And there are more than 500 comments.
Needless to say, I’m really happy that the video took off. The response has been generally positive and I think most people got the point of the video. The point, expectedly, has been entirely missed by some. It isn’t that the Tea Parties aren’t racist because minorities attend them, it’s that the overwhelming majority of Tea Party members simply don’t care one iota for skin color. It’s an unremarkable attribute to a person. It’s neither here nor there. The issue at hand is government spending and politicians that won’t listen, not the shade of your epidermis. At the very least, the video shows that everyone is welcomed at a Tea Party. Moreover, there is not some sort of racial quota Tea Partiers are looking to fill. Race is just not an issue. It becomes an issue when leftists start throwing around accusations of racism for political gain and force the Tea Partiers to go on the defense. And the debate goes somewhere completely different. It’s a tactic and it works.
Hopefully, the video sheds some light on the ridiculousness of the Left’s obsession with using race to promote political agendas and attack political opponents. For the likes of Olbermann, a minority really isn’t an individual person. In their minds, we minorities are racial beings, political tools. His use of the expression “people of color” further shows his misguided views on race.
And yes, the video, in some ways, is absurd (it is, after all, answering an absurd question) and meant to be as such. One shouldn’t have to give in to the racial head-countin’ demands of race-mongering demagogues such as Olbermann. Like Ed Morrissey said, it’s a no-win game. If you don’t provide an answer to Olbermann’s moronic question, then, in his deluded mind, he’s proven right. And if you do provide a response, then you’re trying too hard and you’re accused of giving the “I’m not racist! I have black friends!” excuse and, again, in Olbermann’s mind, he’s proven right. And this is then used as “proof” that Tea Parties are indeed racist. It’s a nifty little trap. There’s just no way to win with ideologues whose minds just won’t change about anything. They disagree with you, you’re racist. Period.
You should see some of the comments these ideologues have made on the video — some of the most vile and disgusting stuff I’ve ever read. It broke my heart to read them. One person compared the “colored people” in the video to Jews at the Final Solution. And others used the words “house n**gers,” “tokens,” and “sellouts” to describe the men and women they saw in the video passionately standing up for what they believed in. The hate and contempt these people have for minorities who don’t align with left-wing political beliefs is utterly frightening.
Racial head-countin’ is no way to prove a group’s racism or lack thereof. If this were the case, the antiwar protests during the Bush years, dominated by the white and young upper-class crowd, were the resurgence of the Klan and MSNBC, with its overwhelmingly white staff, is where they go get their news. Of course, this would be a ridiculous thing to assert.
So, that’s it for now.
