Angry right gets mad when you accuse it of race-baiting!

[DonViejo]

Critics didn't like my column saying the shutdown stemmed from 50 years of racism. I should have written even more

BY JOAN WALSH

Reason’s Matt Welch is occasionally smart. Unfortunately, he’s still mad at me for calling him out on a really dumb column he wrote three years ago. Oops: “Calling him out”; I shouldn’t have said that. Because according to Welch, that’s gangsta rap talk. But maybe that’s only if Obama says it. Maybe it’s OK because I’m a white woman?

No, seriously. Here’s what happened. When the president warned “special interests” in a 2009 speech that if they continued to “misrepresent” what was in his healthcare plan, “we will call you out,” Welch called it a “SnoopDoggesque display,” and he linked to a video of Snoop’s song “Shut U Down” to make his point. “Shut U Down,” “call you out,” same difference, to Welch anyway.

I really didn’t see anything in Obama’s speech that evoked Snoop Dogg (now, of course, Snoop Lion), so I called him out on it, and then he called me out for not having a sense of humor, and now he’s calling me out on my Tuesday piece, “The Real Story of the Shutdown: 50 Years of GOP Race-Baiting.”

I got a lot of criticism for that piece, much of it from racist nut jobs, but I wanted to take a moment to respond to Welch’s, because he makes a couple of good points. First, he notes that interracial marriage is on the rise, and libertarians like him support interracial marriage, and that’s great news. Of course, in my piece, I said only a minority of Republicans were actual believers in white supremacy and black inferiority and desired to prevent the mixing of the races. But maybe I wasn’t explicit enough.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/angry_right_gets_mad_when_you_accuse_it_of_race_baiting/