Alan Lebetkin

There must be a calamity at CNN headquarters because they managed to publish someone who’s not a complete loon jackass.

Glenn Beck rewrites civil rights history by Will Bunch

About time someone pointed this out. The whole reclaiming of the civil rights movement as if it was the Republicans who marched for equal rights is just laughable to anyone who isn’t a complete loon jackass, and it needs to stop. That was a different era and the political parties weren’t on the same platforms as they are today. Southern Democrats opposed civil rights, and when the various rights acts passed, the Republican party invited them to their side with the implementation of Nixon’s Southern Strategy. It’s just history and facts, and has nothing to do with today. The people who should get credit for restoring civil rights to black Americans are black Americans themselves. They were the ones who marched and fought dogs and fire hoses.

Glenn’s strategy here is to strip Obama of his special status as the first black president, because once bigoted white Americans feel they were responsible for granting civil rights to blacks, they are no longer perceived as racist for attacking Obama.  It’s all a racist attempt to bring down Obama by honing in on his blackness as a political weakness. Obama is a strong politician with few real weaknesses to his credit. Great speaker, interesting personality, visionary initiatives, super-intelligent. Really the only thing he can’t control is the color of his skin. It’s just sick and politics needs to get past this.