As some of you are aware, last Friday, I wrote in a Live Wire for The Minority Report that Charles Blow of The New York Times was an idiot and a racist. (And, my girl Jaded was kind enough to put my Live Wire in a Red Hot on Redstate—thank you Jaded.) Normally, I believe that name-calling is the hobgoblin of puny minds, and I loathe people who carelessly toss around the term “Raaacist!!” without any proof. However, if you read Mr. Blow’s column, you will most probably agree that Charles Blow definitely deserves the title of “racist idiot”.
In Charles Blow’s ridiculous column, he discusses his impression of a Dallas Tea Party that he attended–and yet he spoke to no one else there (he admitted this fact on Laura Ingraham’s radio show). (If you are interested, here is a good promotional video of the Dallas Tea Party.) There were so many offensive things in Mr. Blow’s column, that I don’t even know where to begin—like when he wrote that seeing a black doctor, a Mexican immigrant and a Vietnamese immigrant on stage together reminded him of “a bizarre spoof of a Benetton ad”, or when he complained about how many white people were at the Tea Party. However, what I found to be particularly appalling was when Mr. Blow referred to the minorities speaking at the Dallas Tea Party as “a political minstrel show”. What Charles Blow implied by calling the Dallas Tea Party “a political minstrel show” is that African Americans and minorities should all think alike and be liberals—and if they dare to think for themselves or speak at a Tea Party, then they are “putting on a minstrel show” for the white man. Now, in his nasty column, Mr. Blow singled out Alfonzo “Zo” Rachel, an African American conservative comedian who was performing at the Dallas Tea party, as part of “the political minstrel show”.
By the way, someone needs to inform Mr. Blow that it is quite normal for a comedian to perform for an audience—it’s what they do for a living. Was Bill Cosby putting on a “minstrel show” when he used to perform for predominately white audiences? What about Oprah Winfrey? Her audience is mainly white as well. Oh, and what about MSNBC? As our own Lori Ziganto points out, their entire staff is white. So if a black pundit is a guest on MSNBC, is he putting on a “minstrel show”? But, I digress.
Anywho, Zo finally got around to responding to Charles Blow, and it was a sheer delight to see Zo tell that pompous New York Times columnist just how much his column blows (pun most definitely intended). (H/T to Aaron Gardner and Big Journalism for the video. Please read Aaron’s excellent column about the “minstrel show” incident here).
Man, that was a thing thing of beauty, wasn’t it?
Y’all have a good night. (I know that I will after seeing Zo hand Blow his you-know-what.)
This diary was originally posted on The Minority Report.
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That was great...
discerningconservative (Diary) Tuesday, April 20th at 11:35PM EST (link)I won’t hold my breath waiting on a response from Blow.
Thanks....
Susannah (Diary) Tuesday, April 20th at 11:44PM EST (link)I’m glad that you liked it.
And, I agree that Hell will probably freeze over before Blow responds.
Zo is the bomb -nt
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 12:32AM EST (link)Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Agreed EPU....
Susannah (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 11:40PM EST (link)Right now, I want to be just like Zo when I grow up.
Kowalski....
Susannah (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 11:55PM EST (link)…And you, of course.
Awsome job Zo on Charles Blow but then again it hard to
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 12:56AM EST (link)land a Blow on him(I love puns).
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Sweet!
texasgalt (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 1:39AM EST (link)I was there. A good time was had by all, except Mr Blow.
I didn’t see a single infiltrator, but there must have been 500 3-5 year olds with their moms and dads. Real vicious types . . .
Guy sitting in front of me was pretty loud. Insisted on high fiving me on the applause lines. Nice black man.
Sounds like a good time....
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 9:35AM EST (link)….I would have liked to have been there just to meet all of the different types of people.
Anyway, I’m glad that you had fun.
Zo is very much a Conservative-American....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 5:32AM EST (link)like me
One thing the Democrats will NEVER understand is that Conservatives are unified and when WE speak it is OUR WORDS that heard NOT our sex and or skin colored that is seen, it is the OPPOSITE in the Democrat Party!
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Jaded, thanks again for the Red Hot action....
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 9:31AM EST (link)Thanks so much for putting my diary in Red Hot!
You’re a doll.
X0X0, Suzi
My pleasure and it is a no brainer that....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 12:57PM EST (link)if you have the ability to RedHot that you put in stuff that might slip off the FP so that MORE eyes can see the brilliance of you and other writers here at Redstate
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Thanks Sweetie....
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 1:01PM EST (link)…I’m blushing.
I love Zo. nt
Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 7:14AM EST (link)“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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"We've got proof of your hatred all day long."
penguin2 (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 7:49AM EST (link)Profound words. I wish Zo could speak at the Black churches where the people only hear words that keep them enslaved on the “plantation” enabled by Overseers like Charles Blow.
Blow’s noting of Zo’s former drug addiction was an effort to discredit Zo with the right. Blow is too ignorant to know that we on the right applaud those who have struggled and won.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills
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I wish he had gone one step further on the former drug user.
Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 8:46AM EST (link)So was Obama and he’s president. So, if Zo is a loser for it, Obama must be,too.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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One more thing.
Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 9:00AM EST (link)I didn’t kowalski because it’s a separate thought.
Blacks are more conservative than they claim out of fear that they’ll be tarred like those who speak out. They’re pressured not to and to vote Democrat as a sign of unity which really is nothing more than another form of slavery because it breeds dependency just like the slavery of old.
It’s a scary thing to go against the status quo but the message Zo really brings is, if you’re black, conservative, and speak out, you win. The Democrats are so weak, except in their own minds, they have only words with which to fight… false words and name calling.
When false words and name calling are all that can hit you, you’ve won. The false words are those that tell them they need someone else to do battle for them in the fight for equality negating the fact that “all men are created equal” while promising the trappings of equality wrapped up in government dependency programs, political correctness, and perpetual outrage over the superficial.
We (conservatives) don’t spend a lot of time on race because we look at people as equals and race/skin color/culture are external features that no one can change but what is one’s heart is what truly matters.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Great comment Steph....
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 9:33AM EST (link)“We (conservatives) don’t spend a lot of time on race because we look at people as equals and race/skin color/culture are external features that no one can change but what is one’s heart is what truly matters.”
Well said!
X0X0, Suzi
This video needs to be the first entry
redneck_hippie (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 11:23AM EST (link)in the hall of great put downs in history. Thanks for diarying this, so I didn’t have to.
You're welcome.....
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 12:38PM EST (link)I’m glad that you liked it.
And, I totally agree that this is one of the greatest put-downs evah!!
Blow is talking in circles
Ann_W (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 1:47PM EST (link)The teaparties must be racist because the right percentage aren’t minorities, but when there are minorities there they aren’t real people, just a minstrel show. Do liberal black people kind of try to keep other black people on the Lefty farm by putting them down publicly if they stray too far? I don’t know, but that’s what this whole thing seems like to me.
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
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Regarding the "how many white people were at the Tea Party" comment--
Flagstaff (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 1:53PM EST (link)An observation that is making the rounds at Fox News is that since Obama had the support of about 95% of all blacks for his election, there is a mighty small base of them who might be interested in participating in events that tend to find fault with his work. IOW, there aren’t many blacks at Tea Parties because the ones who do come, come from a small part of the whole.
Yet it seems to me that there are plenty of others who have now changed their minds about Obama, yet don’t want to participate in the rallies for fear of being vilified for it, not by the Right, but by the LEFT. Judging by MSNBC interviews, they may be right. So the scarcity of black faces in the crowds doesn’t mean an absence of black support for Tea Party principles.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Excellent point Flagstaff!
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 2:01PM EST (link)There probably many African Americans who agree with us, but don’t want to deal with the Charles Blows of the world.
In point of fact
aesthete (Diary) Saturday, April 24th at 3:33PM EST (link)Blacks comprise ~6% of Tea Party activists, according to the most recent polling. Considering the aforementioned 95% stat, that would seem to indicate that black conservatives are overrepresented, if anything, in Tea Parties relative to their presence on election day, which in turn would seem to discount most of the theories on racism circulating in the media.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
Don't mess with the 'Zo man!!!!
From ME to You (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 2:44PM EST (link)He is an example of true talent rising to the top!
Hmmmm….I wonder what it would be like if he went on ‘SNL’??
(insert graphic of heads exploding here)
Hey, it's so good to see you back!!
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 2:48PM EST (link)I missed you.
Oh, and yes, I agree that Zo would be awesome on SNL.
Now, can I please have some lobsters? Pretty PLEASE? (Batting eyes.)
I've been here lurkin', readin' and recommendin'!!
From ME to You (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 3:04PM EST (link)Oh Susannah!!!
How could anyone, anyone refuse such a request?????
Oh, happy, happy, joy, joy!!
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 3:18PM EST (link)….I got my lobsters….and they are soooo cute!
Thankies!!
NBC Reporter Kelly O'Donnell Should be Questioned
DavidS1787 (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 5:26PM EST (link)When she asked the following Question:
Now why would Kelly O’Donnell ask this Question?
I believe the media should be asking!
for got to add in two words left out
DavidS1787 (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 5:33PM EST (link)Now why would Kelly O’Donnell ask this Question to this Tea Party member?
Yes, I agree with you completely....
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 5:36PM EST (link)….That more people in the media should be asking why Kelly O’Donnell would think to ask this question.
In fact, if you click on the link to Lori Ziganto’s diary that I put in my diary, you’ll find that she discusses this issue as well–and in an interesting and colorful way (like she usually does in all of her diaries).
Sure Thanks
DavidS1787 (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 5:38PM EST (link)n/t
You're more than welcome....
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 5:40PM EST (link)well we already know don't we?
kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 6:18PM EST (link)Kelly is the kind of lefty who is utterly consumed by race. Race issues are virtually the only thing that matters to her. Witness her allegation a week ago that all black people were athletic.
In short, she is much more of a racist than anyone who was at that rally.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Recommended, with a caveat.
spainishirish (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 9:32PM EST (link)You assume in LeftWorld, susannah, that Zo is black. He isn’t there. Colin Powell wasn’t, either, until he endorsed a Democrat for president. Until Zo becomes a Democrat he doesn’t get his pigmentation back. Not one second sooner, either…
Other than that twisted world view shared by those on the other side of our Great Divide..great stuff!
Thanks spainishirish....
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 10:53PM EST (link)….I appreciate it.
And, you must be right, because your explanation is the only one that could logically explain their completely illogical behavior,
Very nice - thanks. And while we're at it, let's do some math
Jack_Savage (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 10:19PM EST (link)We know that 95% of blacks voted for Obama. NINETY – FIVE PERCENT. So that would leave 5% that are able to think for themselves and voted for McCain. That would be 5% of 13% of the population of America.
This would mean that in order for conservative blacks to be represented proportionally at tea parties, they would need to comprise 0.0065% of the attendees.
I think we’re there.
However, MSNBC has no blacks working for them, which would mean they need to hire more than a few people to hit the minimum 13% goal which they themselves promote.
I think they’re a little short.
Good explanation Jack....
Susannah (Diary) Wednesday, April 21st at 10:56PM EST (link)Your math makes a lot of sense.
Not that it detracts from your point.
cwilson (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 10:17AM EST (link)but 5% of 13% is 0.65%, not 0.0065%. We’re still there — the Tea Parties I attended had many times that number, though nowhere near the full 13%.
But…remind me again why we’re talking about numbers and quotas? Oh, yeah…some lefty that can’t stop talking about race decided to p** in our cornflakes, when the subject of the day is fiscal sanity. Got it.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! –Samuel Adams
Thanks
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 10:29PM EST (link)It was late. That decimal point gets me again….aargh.
Stats and polling indicate around 6%
aesthete (Diary) Saturday, April 24th at 3:40PM EST (link)so that would mean that blacks are overrepresented by about a factor of 10, if we’re using the percentage of blacks who voted for Obama as a baseline. (Even if we averaged out the percentage of blacks who voted for the Dem in Presidential elections since Reagan, I’d guess that they’d be overrepresented by a factor of around 5.)
Expect the media to shift the narrative to “anti-hispanic racism” with the recent poorly thought-out, but NOT racist, conservative anti-immigration bill that passed in AZ.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton