The "War on Whites"... I can't even begin to address the hypocrisy here.
This is the response I received from my rep, Mo(ron) Brooks, after I called him out for his "war on whites" comments.
Is this projection? Plain Stupidity? What?
Dear al_liberal:
Thank you for contacting me in opposition to my comments regarding the Democrats’ race-baiting public policy and political strategy. I appreciate the opportunity to respond.
So that you and those you communicate with know how abhorrent and sinister the national Democrats’ strategy is, I share with you information that prompted my remarks and which I hope you will find illuminating.
During the 2012 election cycle, the House Democrat Conference (which consists of ALL Democrat Congressman) sponsored a campaign seminar for Congressional candidates and Congressional staff to train them on how to make race an issue in campaigns. The Washington Examiner reported on the Democrat seminar. Although there are many notable quotes, I share but two from their training seminar:
“Democrats will seek to portray apparently neutral free-market rhetoric as being charged with racial bias.”
“It's emotional connection, not rational connection that we need."
Stated differently, national Democrats brazenly seek to make race an issue regardless of whether there is a rational basis for their assertions! The national Democrat strategy of fomenting hate and racial discord is repugnant to the America I know.
Consistent with their candidate training seminar, Vice President Joe Biden stated in 2012 that Republican policies are designed to put blacks “back in chains”. The Vice President gave no rational basis for how Republican policies put anyone “back in chains”.
The national Democrats’ race-baiting strategy has gone full throttle in 2014. So far this year, national Democrats have made numerous race-baiting statements designed to divide Americans apart, designed to create racial discord, rather than uniting us as a people. The list is endless, so I share but a few “low lights”.
Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blamed “5 white men” for the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision (involving Freedom of Religion versus forcing employers to pay for employee contraceptives). I can understand the reference to “5 men” (inasmuch as that plays well in the Democrats’ strategy to divide America by chromosomes), but why mention the word “white” . . . unless to expand on the Democrats’ race-baiting strategy? As an aside, Senator Reid was so zealous in his race-baiting that he categorized Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “white” when he is quite clearly an African American.
Democrat Congressman Steve Israel, who chairs the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, declared that the Republican base vote is “animated by racism” …… thereby denigrating the motivations of tens of millions of American citizens.
Former Democrat House Speaker and still Congressman Nancy Pelosi declared that the GOP’s desire to secure America’s southern border and enforce America’s immigration laws is race-based and “has a scent of Japanese internment” to it. Never mind that every American, regardless of race or ethnicity, is hurt by lost jobs and suppressed wages caused by millions of illegal aliens competing for and taking jobs from American citizens.
In the heat of the immigration debate in early August, President Barack Obama declared that House Republicans are “just hate all the time” and should stop it. Hating who? In the context of immigration policy debate, it is clear President Obama was engaged in race-baiting in an effort to induce Hispanic American voters to reject Republican candidates for office based on the false perception that racism motivates Republican desire to secure America’s southern border and enforce our immigration laws.
Democrat National Committee Chair and Congressman Debbie Wasserman Shultz stated that Republican support for border security is support for illegal alien “certain death”, “outrageous”, and irresponsible. Ms. Schultz adds that “I think deeply embedded in too many of the Republicans in the House of Representatives is a thread of bigotry that is appalling.”
National Democrats cannot defend their policies . . . because they fail America and the very people Democrat claim they help. Given the Democrats’ public policy failures, national Democrats have resorted to name calling and race-baiting in hopes American citizens will react based (as taught in their campaign seminar) on “emotional connection” not “rational connection”.
Hence, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy broadly proclaims that “if we want to protect communities of color, we need to protect them from climate change” . . . thus branding as racists those who oppose the Democrat global warming agenda because of uncertain science or the enormity of resulting job losses. As an aside, I can’t help but wonder why the EPA Administrator did not simply make a statement in terms of perceived risks to all Americans, regardless of race. Why did Obama’s EPA Administrator focus on people “of color”, if not to echo Democrat race-baiting themes for 2014?
Similarly, Democrats brand as “racist” those who opposed double-dipping Alabama legislators (never mind that a majority of double-dipping legislators were Caucasians).
Democrats brand as “racist” those who seek to prevent voter fraud by requiring photo identification when voting.
Democrats brand as “racist” those who want all states treated equally under the Voting Rights Act.
And the list goes on and on.
In sum, I believe the national Democrat race-baiting political strategy is bad for public policy discourse and bad for America. Democrats should not, for purely partisan gain and without a rational basis for their claims, drive race wedges among Americans that increase fear and hate.
I don’t know the America the Democrats describe, where skin pigmentation is an insurmountable barrier to enjoying success and the American dream. The America I know is an America in which a minority child raised in a single parent household both abroad and in the tiny state of Hawaii can become president of the United States. We can disagree on whether President Obama’s policies are good or bad for America. But there should be no disagreement over how, only in America, a person of Obama’s background can become President of the United States.
Rather than race-baiting, Democrats and all Americans should focus on what brings America together. Rather than race-baiting, Democrats and all Americans should focus on how all of us face challenges but, in America, we have a country of greatness . . . a country in which we can overcome our challenges through hard work, hard study, and the like, and be successful.
I have faith that the vast majority of Americans will, if the true facts be known, reject Democrats’ race-baiting tactics. As such, I am going to do my part to call national Democrats out in hopes America will rise up and exact such a high price of Democrats that they will be forced to stop their race-baiting and, instead, focus on what unites Americans, what solves the challenges we face, rather than insidiously dividing Americans based on false charges of racism.
Please feel free to contact me again in the future. You may wish to visit my website at http://brooks.house.gov/ for additional information about issues and legislation before Congress.
Sincerely,
Mo Brooks
Member of Congress
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