How the Right Uses People of Color to Foster Racism

[Sapphire Blue]

How the Right Uses People of Color to Foster Racism
By Margaret Kimberly, Black Agenda Report. Posted April 4, 2007.

White supremacy, sensing the need to repackage itself for consumption in polite company, partially fills the demand for racist bile by outsourcing to mercenary writers of color. Michelle Malkin and Dinesh D'Souza -- of Filipino and Indian descent, respectively -- are top guns of the genre, ever eager to slander non-whites, especially Blacks, as threats to Euro-American white "civilization."

For premium fees, Malkin and D'Souza act as trusted Gunga Dins and shock troops for fascism. The corporate media makes advocates of racism and white American supremacy very rich. American racism also gives certain non-white people advantages. They are able to escape the indignity that black Americans face. They are then able to disassociate themselves and become allies with the very worst and most dangerous aspects of political life in this country.

Michelle Malkin, born Michelle Maglalang, is a dark skinned Filipino-American who loves the worst that white American civilization has to offer. Malkin is a darling of the right wing, a blogger and author who is eager to advocate invading other nations, and spewing hatred of immigrants in general and of Muslims in particular.

Malkin constantly rails against immigration, complaining about "drive by" and "accidental" citizenship attained by the children of immigrants who she and others label "anchor" and "jackpot" babies.

Malkin never told her loyal readership that her father came to the United States in 1970 on a temporary work visa. She was born in October 1970. Malkin is herself a jackpot baby, given automatic citizenship when her parents were not even permanent residents. The truth may set you free, but it doesn't get you on Fox news.

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Like Malkin, the Indian-born D'Souza comes from a country whose darker citizens get the cold shoulder. Try finding an Indian movie star who isn't light skinned. Imagine D'Souza's delight upon arriving in the United States. He was now part of a so-called model minority that was given certain advantages, even if the "n word" was hurled in his direction. All he had to do was sign up for the right wing propaganda machine of racism and aggression and he was home free.


Continued @ http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/50073/

[Th1onein]

1. Wow! Great piece!

Thanks for posting this!

[jaysunb]

2. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Karenina]

3. MM is hardly "dark-skinned"

M$M tweaking the palette? :shrug:

[formercia]

4. and when the shit hits the fan

racists can blame them because they're not lily-white. Bush Gang's back-handed racism. Never send a white person to do a dirty job when a person of color will do.

[ComerPerro]

5. what the right wing loves is a minority who says mean, bad, racist things about minorities

the things they could never say.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

6. they also love to put like-minded minorities in positions of power

ie Condie and Alberto, and then cry "RACISM" whenever someone criticizes their policies or actions. Classic deflection technique.

The RW dude on Real Time with Bill Maher last week was trying to defend Gonzales by trumpeting his Hispanic heritage and Horation Alger back story, as if that has some bearing on AG trashing haebeus corpus or firing those US Attorneys. Fool didn't even realize he was the one being racist, by injecting Alberto's race when it wasn't even being discussed.

[pigpickle]

7. kick