Now Jill Scott is in the White House guest hot seat notice a pattern here? A racist one?

[wndycty]

Singer Jill Scott Is The Next White House Guest Being Targeted As Racist By The Right

A short while ago, Drudge Report tweeted out this quote: “When my friend told me his wife was Caucasian, I felt my spirit wince.” Intrigued, I clicked the accompanying link to find a column the singer Jill Scott wrote for Essence about her feelings on interracial dating posted in March of 2010. At first, I wondered why on earth Drudge Report was interested in a year old column by a singer. Then it hit me; she’s going to the White House, isn’t she? Sure enough, Scott is the latest guest of the First Lady’s poetry event to come under fire from the Right.

If you haven’t been following the story, Michelle Obama’s event is set to feature poetry readings by a number of public figures. One of the figures, the rapper Common, has come under intense scrutiny because of an old video in which he raps about carrying a gun and threatening police officers and then-President George W. Bush. The controversy also touched on a 2005 interview Common gave in which he came out against interracial dating as a detriment to “self love.”

Some industrious soul decided to search through the other attendees’ public comments and came up with Scott’s Essence article which is now being widely shared and denounced. The column did indeed cause a small controversy when it first came out, however, it’s important to look beyond the scandal then and the (manufactured) one now and see that it is actually a very thoughtful piece. If you read past the provocative quote that Drudge tweeted, you’ll see that Scott is actually analyzing the internal conflict she has between being raised to view everyone as equal despite the color of their skin and the subconscious discomfort she feels seeing a successful black man dating a white woman. In that way, Scott’s supposed racism in making these comments is about as real as Shirley Sherrod’s.
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/singer-jill-scott-is-the-next-white-house-guest-being-targeted-as-racist-by-the-right/

[CakeGrrl]

1. Deflection is a great tactic

Since the Repubs count their racist dogwhistlers as friends and role models, beat the opposition to the punch and call THEM racists first!

:puke:

[Kurska]

2. She IS being singled out because she is black, but her comments on interracial dating are despicable

Neither side is completely immune from criticism here.

[Honeycombe8]

10. Her comments aren't despicable, when you know where she's coming from.

I'm a white woman (disclaimer), but I read an article a long while ago about this phenomenon that has been occurring in recent decades: black men marrying non-black women.

Why does that matter? That's what I thought. Then the article explained. It was long, and I can't remember all of it. But it relayed the black female experience in America. Seriously, black women have been on the bottom of the class system here forever. If black men had it hard, imagine being even lower on the scale....a black woman...middle aged....maybe overweight. There was a time when if you were that, you were almost guaranteed never to have a good job, a husband, a house, all the things that we take for granted in America.

On top of that, black men started abandoning their wives and girlfriends, esp. when the men became successful, often for white women, considered proof positive, in the man's mind, that he'd made it. Maybe the man didn't have a girlfriend or wife; still, out of all the available black women (and there were many more of those than available white women), a lot of Af. American men would go for the white women.

This added to the problems of the black women in our country, abandonment by their own men for "prettier" and "higher up on the social scale" white women. Not to mention the feeling that the black women are somehow not worthy. Even if the Af. American women were successful, that still wasn't good enough; they were still passed over by Af. American men often for white women.

That was the gist of the article. I didn't relay it exactly, and I didn't get all the nuances, but that was basically it. It wasn't that they had anything in particular against white women.

Af. American women do marry white men, but that's rarer. So I think I get it.

[politicasista]

3. Yep. She caught flack for that

That said, I love her music and while I am not a fan of Common, they aren't bothering anyone.

[leftynyc]

4. Everybody needs to see

the magnificent takedown Jon Stewart did last night on this very issue. It was a 10-1/2 minute long ripping-to-shreds of hannity and his pals on their hypocrisy. I've sent the clip to everyone in my address book.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. What is so stupid is how they try to hold Obama responsible for the views of other people

I mean these people are just guests at the White House.

[kwassa]

6. well, if they are guests, then Obama must agree with these views!

[kwassa]

7. Drudge: Flinging Shit, By Any Means Necessary.

Isn't that his motto?

[slackmaster]

8. When your only tool is a hammer,

Every situation looks like a nail.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Oh Dear Lord

*sigh*

When our people were enslaved, "Massa" placed his Caucasian woman on a pedestal. She was spoiled, revered and angelic, while the Black slave woman was overworked, beaten, raped and farmed out like cattle to be mated. She was nothing and neither was our Black man. As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the White woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show. She was unequivocally the standard of beauty for this country, firmly unattainable to anyone not of her race. We daughters of the dust were seen as ugly, nappy mammies, good for day work and unwanted children, while our men were thought to be thieving, sex-hungry animals with limited brain capacity.


Read more: http://www.essence.com/relationships/commentary_3/commentary_jill_scott_talks_interracial.php#ixzz1MFly5kEk




Sooooooooooo - Jill Scott is a racist because she told an ABSOLUTE truth?