Touré: Romney is Campaigning on the ‘Niggerization’ of Obama
On Thursday’s episode of MSNBC’s new show The Cycle, the topic du jour was Mitt Romney’s assertion that President Obama should “take [his]
campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago.” In that comment, Touré perceived what he believes to be an explicit racial dog whistle in what Romney was saying, calling it the “niggerization” of the campaign.
“That really bothered me,” he said. “You notice he said anger twice. He’s really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook against Obama, the ‘otherization,’ he’s not like us.”
“I know it’s a heavy thing, I don’t say it lightly, but this is ‘niggerization,’” Touré said, as his co-panelists dropped their jaws. “You are not one of us, you are like the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.”
Conservative co-host S.E. Cupp took issue with Touré’s characterization of Romney’s remarks, saying, ”you were implying that Mitt Romney and the base will respond to this dog-whistle, racially-charged coding, and hate Obama, the angry black man?”, to which Touré responded, “Absolutely.”
“That’s so irresponsible,” Cupp snapped back.
What do you think? Do you believe that the Romney campaign is trying to paint President Obama as a hoodlum by saying he should take his style of politics back to Chicago? Touré is certainly correct in saying that much of the right wing has engaged in a sort of “otherization” of Obama, because no other President has ever been demanded to show his birth certificate, or otherwise prove that he is American. Would you define that as “niggerization” ? Or did Touré take it a step too far.
Watch the exchange below:
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“Niggerization?” They say the most dangerous animal is one that is cornered, injured and has nothing left to lose. This comment suggests, no, it confirms the desperate state of the Obama campaign. But maybe it is appropriate dialogue in support of a man who “leads from behind,” one that depends on the animosties sown among the divisions he has created.
Boiled to its foundational premise, the progressive stance is ultimately one that depends on convincing its electorate of its oppression, an ideology that equires a reliable target and convenient oppressor. The reason Barack Obama has worn so thin, so fast, is that Americans are unnaccustomed to the vitriol of defeat, victimization, demonization, acccusation, class and economic devision and the barrage of discontent from a man elected to lead a country from under its economic state of despair.
Instead, the president has turned America, as promised, on its head, the result of an attempt to “fundamentally change” these United States with unprecedented attacks on liberty and overt suggestions that the power of the State undermines any success to be found, therefore justifying more of a claim on earned proceeds when one of us reaches the point where “you have made enough money.”
Mitt Romney exemplifies the very principles that offend Mr. Obama, thus the implication that someone’s profit always must accompany someone else’s loss. Thankfully, for a while at least, the State has not bought a permanent class of political supporters with handouts sourced from the public trough. Those of us who earn what we have are tired of being defined as “greedy” for wanting to keep it, while “fair” is the call coming from those who did nothing.
There is excitement in the land again, something similar but fundamentally different than the Hope and Change fervor of 2008. This time, people are looking past the book and reading its pages and they are clear: “Hope” is not a plan, and “Change” for change sake is not always a good thing.
Brent: You don’t know what the h**l you are talking about. In fact, you must be a real close friend and co-worker of Dr. Boyce – being paid money like he is to try to turn the black community against President Obama. Well, here’s a news flash for you – IT AIN’T WORKING. I am out there in the community working to get folk registered and there is A LOT of enthusiastic excitement about Barack Obama. So go crawl back in your hole and STFU.
It amazes me that non-blacks think that if Romney is president and abolishes all programs that help the poor, this will exclude them! LOL His politics would discontinue the assistance you receive for your parents Alzheimer’s care, medicaid/medicare, cut SSI, school programs (little league, etc), libraries, and many many more that you are not even aware of. His has stated many times he wants to get America working, and has a fool proof way of doing so…cut out any type of assistance. You don’t create jobs, you just allow the ones with them to eat. Therfore only the Americans with jobs will be able to sustain themselves, the rest will cancel/die out therefore creating a nation of working Americans. Now to whites this sounds agreeable, but remember YOU ARE IN THAT NUMBER! He can’t cancel programs for blacks/latino’s only, he has to cancel it in it’s entirety. Buyer beware!
First, Romney never suggested eliminating all welfare-type programs. But let’s pretend that he did, and that somehow he managed to get Congress to change the law to get rid of them (you do know that the president can’t actually cancel a program all on his own?). Ok it is the middle of August, so let’s pretend all the programs that give out food or provide money for food will end on September 1, 2012. And let’s pretend that YOU are currently on one of these programs, and that is how you have been “buying” your food. What are you going to do when September gets here? You have two basic choices — either starve or find a new way to “buy” your food. Since nobody likes to starve, you will find a way to earn some food molney. You might walk around the neighborhood, asking if people need some work done. Maybe you could clean out their gutters in exchange for a 20-dollar bill? Or maybe mow their lawn in you happen to own a lawn mower. Maybe you will tutor neighborhood kids in math to make food money. But I am confident you will find some way to eat if the food isn’t given to you by the government. So, in a sense, when someone says that ending the program will, in fact, get America working, they are telling the truth. I’m doing OK these days, but there was a time that I needed money so badly that I did work at the “fun” jobs, like fast food, mowing lawns, delivering flowers, temp-work at a factory, retail in the mall, and so on. (The fast food was the best, as I always managed to get some free food while working.)
We ALL know that our welfare programs have three major problems. (1) They are abused by people who are perfectly capable of working, if they just would, (2) they create dependency, and destroy the spirit of people who are on them, and (3) the welfare programs are very hard to get off of, once you are on them, because the programs are so generous, they provide more than most entry-level jobs will pay, so people won’t take entry level jobs, and thus never have the chance to be promoted to “good” jobs.
I won’t give this response much validation because the analysis provided by Toure actually is quite accurate in it’s description of not just the campaign of Romney (AKA RobMe, Mr. Strip and Ship, and Moron), but the portrayal of POTUS Obama throughout his entire term as President. Let us not forget how President Obama has been compared to Apes, Hitler and several other historical figures that have had less than popular reputations. What’s really interesting is that you fail to give any examples of how it is exactly that Romney is qualified to lead this country or how POTUS Obama is incapable of doing so. The fluffed piece that you continue to perpetuate would likely best serve as a comforting read before you go to bed than as proof of capabilities of one who has been just about absolutely incapable of running businesses, except into the ground and making money off of them and those that lost their jobs in the process.
We should expect the Zingers to continue,provide it doesn’t degenerate into insults,as it often does…We should encourage Criticism,it is the Incubation that births Great Leaders…Criticism and Great Leadership go hand in hand…It’s like a Visit from your Mother-in-Law,with all the Pranks,Bad Habits,Unstoppable Reminiscences and Terrible Cronies….Some People are so Full of Themselves,they would rather play God or go completely Beserk in their Dirty Money and Self -Delusion……Obama-Obama-Obama 2012!!
That red head is clueless!
Hey Brent…all that non sense you just sprewed, probably copied from another article is worthless. Romney is definitely not fit to run this country so you can’t forget about seeing him as President of this country.
Brent please go back to whatever white website you read!!!!
Toure rarely oversteps in his analysis.
I saw that exchange. Let’s call it what it was. Toure said what so many of us have thought and know to be true but rarely speak on. Bravo for Toure TV!
Tourre constantly puts everything in a racist model. Clearly any person with common sense and a knowledge of Chicago politics, knows the dirty, mud slinging style and methods used over the years and this is what Romney is talking about. Let’s PLEASE keep this election about the issues.
It’s interesting that it’s racism to expose the very insulting portrayal of African Americans in this country especially when considering that POTUS Obama has been referenced in every insulting way possible and yet, it’s racist to reference racism.
The issue is that Romney doesn’t have a leg to stand on regarding his fiscal policies and will only perpetuate the failed policies of Bush and the only way he has been able to even come close to being a possible candidate in this election has been his assault on the character of POTUS Obama by using racial undertones and coding. Any person with common sense can see that as well.
Being a Chicagoan, I do know a little about the dirty politics within the area, however it does not compare to the way that POTUS Obama has been slandered and misrepresented (to put it lightly) within the media with little to no consequences in response.
So Courtney, if clearly we must understand what Romney is referring to when he interjects Chicago. Then why is it so hard to understand Biden’s comments when it concerns unchaning deregulization. Biden’s comment couldn’t possible be racist because deregulizations will affect everybody. However, not all of us can live, sleep, eat, drink, work, bank or VOTE in Chicago.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, and that dream was that ALL men be judged by the content of their character. King did not include the caveat that those assesments all be positive, or that black men assume the special privilege of abridging critique.
Frankly, the criticism of criticism is ironic; Barack Obama is not beyond or above the basic repsonsibility of answering to his detractors. That America is not amenable to a message that undermines the basic tenet of self-determinism should certainly not surprise anyone – - except those who have been fed, and eaten, a steady diet of policy that condescends with the notion that if not for institutional boogeymen, or the liberal plantation to provides the respite, blacks would have nothing at all.
I find that notion horribly offensive and demeaning. Liberals call it their platform.
In my 71 years in America I have never witnessed the number of lies, untruths and mis-characterzations perpetrated intentionally and publically on someone as those on President Obama. A pure and simple example of white-fear expressed through so-called white privledge!!!!! Willard Mitt is totally out of his element!!!!!!
Toure is right “Until Lions Tell Their Tale, The Story Of The Hunt Will Always Glorify The Hunter”on and that S.E. Cupp young lady seems to be hiding deep seated anger towards someone, did a black man ever smack her behind or something……..she always seems to be simmering underneath those sparkling eyes of hers. It’s the “Force” it is alive and well in American and has been for centruies. I’m reminded of an African Proverb that states “Until Lions Tell Their Tale, The Story Of The Hunt Will Always Glorify The Hunter.” We live in a Roman-Greco influenced America our history has been overlooked if we look closeer we might find out that whites stole some things from us???? We as the lions as aforementioned need to tell our own story and to call a spade a spade and suffer whatever consequences truth might bring about. The one thing about truth is the freedom that it affords you, so if we can’t be free literally……then we need to free up this small member of our body and speak the truth (your tongue). Keep the faith Toure, S.E. Cupp probably feels that she ought to be the moderator, but Dylan Ratigan knew what he was doing when he put in a good word for you…………Peace WF3
This is insane. Obama is not an angry black man. In fact I believe that people are still scared of an intelligent, well-spoken, Christian black man being in office and taking things to the people. I have yet to see any Republican candidate do that. The only people their issues define are the upper middle-class or the super rich.
I do not know why you are taking to these Teatards. Nothing gets in the bubble and they think they are masters at deception. Nobody but them is fooled. Guess they think after all this is over and they have won on their usual fear campaign that they can then go get in the corporate welfare line. They don’t understand that trickle down economics means they have nothing coming and their current status is in jeopardy. Sad that they don’t even know they are play with fire will get burned when the 1% finish the job that Bush Jr. started.
Weapons of mass destruction was only to create a fear factor to gain confidence for going to war with a country, Iraq and remove Sadamm from power. Where are the weapons of mass destruction. They don’t exist. Why the never got Bin Ladin, because the fear factor had to be maintain and provide a sufficient distraction so not paying for those wars would go unchallenged by the same retards that now challenge everything Obama does have sufficient place obstructive obstacles in his way at mid-term. Those people are garbage and I am ready to take out the trash!
The advantage for Blacks is they get to see what Whites are really like nehind all the anti-racist blather Whites love to spout when they want Black votes.
Niggerization? I actually like that word, because the GOP as a whole (Romney Campaign, Tea Party, Conservatives, Republicans, and good white folks who allow the nonsense to occur) have been compiling crazy talk that amounts to summing up America’s first black President as nothing more than….a n****r.