The Rude Pundit - In Brief: Black Sheriff Calls Black Lives Matter Protesters ...

[meegbear]

"Subversives" and Terrorists

So Milwaukee Sheriff David A. Clarke, newest black darling of the right, went on Twitter, the social media of the damned, to say, "Before long, Black Lies Matter will join forces with ISIS to being down our legal constituted republic. You heard it first here." Now while "being" probably means "bring," you can be sure that "Lies" instead of "Lives" was an intentional, oh-so-un-PC pun.

Clarke responded to his own tweet with this: "I have been right on every call I have made about these subversives. I will be right again.".

The Rude Pundit thought, "Huh. This sounds familiar." So he did two minutes of googling and found this:

That's a video of Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke in Milwaukee in 1965. His previous visit had been in 1956. Both times, he talked about the need for equality and racial justice in the city. One could argue, with very little opposition, that the only reason Milwaukee has a black sheriff is because of the protests and marches during the civil rights movements. This includes the NAACP Youth Council's nightly marches for fair housing, the riots in 1967, and the visits by King in Milwaukee. Where, as mentioned, a black man is now the sheriff..

Now, here's a flyer from an anti-civil rights organization during the 1960s. A version of it was around Milwaukee during that 1965 speech:



It accuses King of leading riots and of being a Communist which, children, in the 1960s was considered pretty much the same as being in ISIS.

The Rude Pundit won't connect all the dots here. It should be obvious and sad, so very sad. And what should also be obvious is why conservatives and Fox "news" have embraced David Clarke.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/10/in-brief-black-sheriff-calls-black.html

[stonecutter357]

1. Fox is the new KKK.

[Scuba]

2. Clarke is certifiably insane.

[gregcrawford]

8. And modesty is only one of his many virtues...

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Our (POC) communities

have always had our share of "handkerchief-heads" as they are often called.

[Number23]

28. Girl... TELL IT. And they are so easy to spot

The ones who never seem to hang with black folks, never seem to actually LIKE black folks and seem to think our positions, beliefs and lives are only good enough for ridicule and dismissal making them absolutely no different from other anti-black racists.

And they are EVERYWHERE. And like you said, are nothing new.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Joe Madison often plays this particular Malcolm X audio sample

But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said.

And it's definitely happening continually.

[NYCButterfinger]

4. I respect Clarke, but I hope what he is saying isn't true

A lot of people at my workplace believe that BLM is a terrorist group. They tell me, "blacks hate America", "go they're terrorists", they shouldn't be in government, yada, yada". BLM has a lot of work to do, because a lot of people in this country are not buying what they are saying.

[trumad]

5. Well then you work with a bunch of idiots.

If a lot of the people you work with say Blacks hate America...perhaps it's time to find a new job in a new company.

[NYCButterfinger]

6. Eh, it's free speech. I heard people say that about African Americans

all my life. Even in college I hear it. It's just the way it is.

[Darb]

7. Have you ever bothered to push back against that idiocy?

Or just nod in approval? Or what?

[daleanime]

13. +1

[NYCButterfinger]

22. I told them to knock it off, but they shrug.

I try to ignore them.

[Darb]

9. You "hope what he is saying isn't true"?

What the fuck is true about it and why do you need to hope? YOu think they are terrorists? What, you get your information from Fux or Hate radio?

What the fuck?

[NYCButterfinger]

24. No, it's how I'm hearing reports about them burning

U.S flags, blocking subway service in NYC and LA.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Like Occupy on the Brooklyn Bridge?

[fasttense]

11. Wow you work with FOX tv watchers

It's not really news, just propaganda for the right wing to feed to low information voters. And they are always afraid of something. If it's not Black Lives Matter, it's a mosque near the World Trade Center, or Muslims or Mexicans or anything that moves. There is nothing you can say to FOX tv watchers to stop them from being afraid. And whatever you do, do not say Boo to them especially if you have a dusky complexion.

There is nothing you can do to calm the fears of your co-workers, except to tell them they have been watching way too much FOX. You may want to withdraw from the FOX too.

[dembotoz]

14. i live in milwaukee...bull clarke is not worth of your respect

[brush]

15. Sure you're on the right site?

[mountain grammy]

17. A lot of people in this country are racists and haven't bought the end of Jim Crow.

a lot of people in this country are ignorant.

[frylock]

20. Why on earth would you have any respect for this damn fool?

I'm serious. What is it that he has done to earn your respect?

[NYCButterfinger]

23. I respect that he's a sheriff, but he's looney

[Skittles]

27. "black people hate America"

WTF

[NYCButterfinger]

31. Yea, I hear that at work every time. Constantly.

Some people actually believe that though. I find it very odd.

[Skittles]

32. I would not hear that at work "every time"

because the first time I heard it I would give those racist assholes a browbeating they would remember

[Martin Eden]

10. Mental disease can strike people of any race

(conservative derangement syndrome)

[Enthusiast]

12. I remember the slurs against MLK. Way to go, Rude!

[Fred Sanders]

16. Look deeper at Sheriff Clarke...he is infested with the same religious zealotry as others like him

who religion has blinded to common sense.

This strange man, like Dr. Ben Stabby, can only be explained as being the consequence of religious fever.

[mountain grammy]

18. Yep!

[HereSince1628]

19. That Rooster Cogburn wannabe, darling of the right, runs as a Democrat

And that's one of the most egregious abuses of the party system in Wisconsin.

[KamaAina]

21. "I have been right on every call I have made about these subversives. I will be right again."

From the mouth of a Wisconsin elected official. Could Joe McCarthy have been reincarnated as a black man?

[hifiguy]

25. This far into the thread

an no one has called his critics racists?

Well, the facts of this particular instance do present something of a paradox.

DOES NOT COMPUTE

[gratuitous]

26. Strange, isn't it?

Here's a 100% bona fide, certified, dandified black issue. One that's undeniably created, promulgated, and run by black people. But the only black person qualified to speak about it and be quoted in the popular media is some nitwit from Milwaukee. Since our society is all post-racist and stuff (the Supreme Court said so!), we know that racism doesn't enter into this appalling spectacle. Apparently there's not one black person in the Black Lives Matter movement qualified to speak to it; wouldn't you think that person would be on the teevee and in the newspapers? Obviously such a person doesn't exist, so we're favored with the dumbassery of David Clarke.

[Comrade Grumpy]

33. I don't think anybody but Fox gives this asshole a platform. n/t

[Skittles]

34. excellent point

yes indeed