Yvette Carnell: George Will Plays the Race Card, Says Obama is Winning Because He’s Black
by Yvette Carnell
In the 2008 election cycle, some GOP pundits and writers pushed the notion that Obama was winning because he was black. According to them, Obama 
was winning because of a combination of white guilt and pigmentation politics, meaning whites were voting for Obama to rid themselves of some residual guilt and blacks, like zombies, were just shambling to the polls to vote for the black guy. And even though the ground has shifted substantially since 2008 – including some black disappointment with Obama, as evidenced by Smiley and West and me – the notion that Obama is getting a free pass instead of winning an election remains.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Prince of the Race Card (Rep. Allen West is the King) George Will:
“the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant not to give up on the first African American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation’s heart, if not its head.”
What Mr. Will seems reluctant to acknowledge is that, in this election, the black guy is just better than the white guy. In the last election, the black guy was just better than the white guy. No one on the Republican side of the aisle seems willing to admit that twice, the black guy defeated the white guy hands down, fair and square, not because of some voodoo magic, but because he was the better candidate.
The idea that the same nation that gave us slavery and Jim Crow is too meek to give up on the first black President is absurd. Voters would gladly give up on Obama if offered something better than Obama. But candidate Romney isn’t better than candidate Obama, and everyone knows it. In fact, one could make the argument that if Romney wins, with all of his android clumsiness, it’ll be because he’s white and Obama’s black, but not the other way around.
But if you’re black in America, even when you win, you lose. There’s always someone waiting in the wings to convince the world that everything you have came to you by way of The Liberal Fairy Godmother – perhaps a white liberal felt sorry for you and voted for you, enacted affirmative action policies and admitted you, or overlooked your weak resumé and hired you, but no matter what, you didn’t build that. Black successes are always, according to the right, the product of liberal generosity. And if that’s not a racist notion,then I don’t know what is.
Yvette Carnell is a former Capitol Hill and campaign staffer turned writer. She is currently an editor and contributor to Yourblackworld. You can reach Yvette via Twitter @YvetteDC or on Facebook.
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Wasn’t that the company line in the last election? I think he needs a better excuse than that.
Wow, the Boondocks got it right. George Will and Allen West are the ‘n*****s’ MLK was talking about.
Martin Luther King Jr.: Will you ignorant n*****s PLEASE shut the h**l UP? Is this it? THIS is what I got all those a*s-whoopings for? I had a dream once but it was a dream that little black girls and black boys would one day drink from the river of prosperity freed from the thirst of oppression. But lo and behold, some four decades later, what have I found, but a bunch of trifling, shiftless, good for nothing n*****s! And I know some of you don’t want to hear me say that word! It’s the ugliest word in the English language! But that’s what I see now! n*****s! And you don’t want to be a n****r! Because n*****s are living contradictions! n*****s are full of unfulfilled ambitions! n*****s wax and wane! n*****s love to complain! n*****s love to hear themselves talk but hate to explain! n*****s love being another man’s judge and jury! n*****s procrastinate until it’s time to worry! n*****s LOVE to be late! n*****s HATE to hurry! Black Entertainment Television is the WORST thing I’ve ever seen in my life! Usher, Michael Jackson is not a genre of music! And don’t get me started on Soul Plane! I’ve seen what’s around the corner! I’ve seen what’s over the horizon! And I PROMISE you, you n*****s have nothing to celebrate! I know I won’t get there with you, because I’m going to Canada!
BECAUSE HE IS BLACK ???!! He is sick. If anything Obama has been harassed, disrespected, slandered, and degraded by some on the TEA PARTY and their buddies… BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. Some of these folks…like George Wills need to be medicated and put someplace where they tend to folks that have debilitated minds. Maybe BARACK OBAMA and the Democrats offer a better message, better options, better ideas than ROMNEY HOOD and his sidekick GILLIGAN.
The typical dismissive attitude of an undercover racist. At least with the KKK types and Neo-n**i’s we can at least respect the fact they wear their hatred and prejudice like a badge of honor on the outside. Sometimes in life its not what people say that tells the truth when they are speaking it’s what they don’t say. George leaves out that the entire country country is sick of these elitist overseer’s. The same type of individuals who wanted to go to War for over a decade spending 12 Billion dollars a month in 2 Wars costing thousands of lives on both sides and thousands of physically and mentally injured men that we will have to deal with for the next 40 to 50 years. John McCain just like Mitt Romney offered more of the same. These type of men never seem to be at a lost for words when it comes to how much money things cost when it comes to the working poor and struggling people in this country but always seem to find more than enough money to send our son’s, daughter’s, fathers, mothers and friends to go fight and kill other people (usually always brown in some shade) who haven’t done anything to us. To this day I have never heard one politician Democrat or Republican explain to me how in the microwave section of h**l if there are only about 320 million Americans give or take a few million undocumented immigrants can we afford 12 Billion dollars a month on something that doesn’t make any sense but we can’t rebuild Louisana after a hurricane? Where does this make believe fiat money come from out of thin air? Then the lie that seems to wear off and get retold over ond over every 4 years about how the President whoever it is can magically create jobs and we the poor illiterate masses are just supposed to believe it again and again. In order to maintain their elite lifestyles they have to borrow money form China. China only makes money by exporting cheap goods that are made by slave labor that no American worker could survive on or would work under pre OSHA/Union conditions dying to make c**p for an Overlord. This equation will lead to the fall of America and none of these politicians will ever admit it because this equation maintains their lifestyle. They are all milionaires. No one reading this can name one world government or super power that maintained its status that didn’t make its own products. Yet these same men complain about half the country who don’t produce anything. No one in this country produces anything really. Everything we use or take for granted is made by some imperialist slave somewhere else. No one ever ask where do diamonds come from, coltan, chocolate, oil, uranium, platinum. plutonium, coffee, tea and just about everything you own. These men. The pundits and the people selected don’t have a dog in the hunt. They don’t care. It doesn’t matter to either side if the made up bronze age Comic book land of Israel wants to go to War with Iran. They will happilly send as many young boys and girls as it takes to go and die even though no one in this country was harmed to start this bs. None of their lives will ever be at stake. Not their children or their wives. It’s us. We die, they live. That’s the equation. But because we are Black, brown, asian it doesnt’ matter what we think and because of class diparity which is even more dominant now in this new gilded age. You have silly men like Obama comparing himself to Jay-Z and no one noticing these men have nothing in common except they are both millionaires and neither of their daughters will ever be required to fight, kill or die for this country that made them millionaires just like Romney. This election is like being asked who do you want to be your rapist some ugly troll or some movie star. You are still going to get raped. No one is going to do a d**n thing about importing cheap goods from foreign shitholes that send massa his paycheck to keep him rich. No one is going to tell Israel to sit down and shut up so what if Iran has a nuke. No one is going to grow a magical lever in the White House basement to create “jobs” or send any of the millions of able bodied people who can work and want to work; to anywhere else on the planet where you could possibly find a job if you don’t care any more about safety or pay. They need your a*s here to fill those slots in all the new prisons they have built for all you step n fetch kneegrows that want c**p they won’t even let your Black a*s work at the factory to produce. Politics is like the Superbowel where you have all the people who normally don’t like football or can’t tell the difference between the away jerseys and homegame cheering for one side or the other. Yet you are still broke no matter which millionaire on the field walks off with the win. Feel better? The only candidate who was talking anything close to realistic was Ron Paul. The funny thing is that man was a certified racist. Yet, he openly spoke about ending the drug War, mass incarceration, closing all these useless imperialist military bases around the globe costing billions. So yeah what’s more racist a man who openly admits to disliking Blacks or man who doesn’t admit it but believes we are cursed with Black skin and are demons thanks to his cult of Mormonism? Or Obama an elitist. You can be the scum of the Earth drug dealer but you made a cool million? Welcome to the house, want the maid to get you something cool to drink brother? The messed up thing is that if people finally woke up and got in mass they would come up with a Law or some kind of new Cointelpro plan to stop your Black a*s from leaving just like they did Garvey. What’s the point of having a 50 room mansion if you have to clean all the rooms yourself? They need us more than we need them. The trick is convincing people its the other way around.
George Wills showing his ignorance. Whites have let Obama win? 48% of them VOTED for Obama purposefully. Just because Mitt is lagging, he needs some kind of philosophy- however childish, to explain it.
If some people are voting for Obama just because he’s ‘black’, then there are just as many if not a lot more voting against just because he’s ‘black’–i.e.–Teabaggers, Republikkkans, etc.
He’s offering up lame excuses for Candidate Romney’s performance.
Right on Rod S. I would rather that he win because he is black than for him to lose just because he is black
I Am Getting Sick And Tired Of These Racist Pieces Of Trash Trying To Destroy Our REAL GOOD PRESIDENT. President Obama Is Trying To Clean Up All This Mess Those Racist Republican Presidents Created. Instead Of Appreciating What He Is Trying To Do All You Racist Want To Do Is Destroy Him. He Better Become Re-Elected Or You Are Going To Start Paying For This Racist Mess.
@Think about it…U make some great arguments about the state of the world from a geopolitical world view on governments and the control the keep over their people. I have felt the same way for years that its always “the lesser of the two evils” we black are always stuck voting for. And you are right, Ron Paul was too radical for his own party because his approach would have taken a lot of Ben Franklins out of some fatnecks pockets. I like a lot of his ideas, but the powers that be would never have that( IE- Steve Forbes suggested in 1996 to eliminate federal income taxes and Social Security taxes and go to a consumption tax and Congress ostracized him). Forbes stated that the states could raise revenue by increasing their sales taxes. The rich went off cause expensive purchases would have been taxed to h**l!!
Cont- Look at how much money we would have had in our pockets to do with what we want if those taxes would have been cut? Services would have been lost but the military industrial complex( Republican Eisenhower coined that phrase) would have suffered the most. This shyt is an illusion and we black folks have always been in shark infested waters with alligators and crocodiles alike. And ur right about some of us black folks idolizing Drug Dealers( the ends justify the means theory). J-Z is just another “taker” and that’s all. He did shoot his own brother also right? As for Mr. Will, he is a product of the same insane asylum that bore his fore-mothers and forefathers. He is pitifully cursed from birth. Hotep
@Imhotep:
Brother; you talk more shyt than a toilet stool, AND I LOVE IT!
YOU KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THESE demon/devils AND THEY’RE NEVER GONNA CHANGE!
These bamboozled negroids, who love them and want to integrate with them, will burn by the woodpile with them.
race card is another word for MINIMIZING THE IMPACT OF RACISM!!!
HOTEP BLACK MAN!
This is a sad country. It always has been. Especially how it came to be a country at all. Over a period of time some people tried to make it better for all, but the lies you told the people of it’s history. Even though we all know the truth, we all tried to work around it. It keeps comming back to haunt you or should I say (bites you in the a*s). You have tried to hide that black people were your teachers. You wanting to feel that you are the better than your teacher. Now is showing that if there is or was a Lusifer you are it. This country will never be one for all and all for one. You wiill always remind people that they were once your slaves. But the shame is on you- -not the slave. Time is revieling the truth. You really show false images of your self and of the country. Just do what is best for the country not for one race. And we will all survive as one. Many races died for this country together, so that others can live in this country together.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-852367
President Barack Obama, the Congressional Black Clueless….AKA….the Congressional Black Caucus, other State and local elected black leaders are killing off his or her own best interests and the Black community in general are losing because of the incompetence of the individuals a dysfunctional black electorate vote into office and not because of an elected officials black skin pigmentation.
I’m tired of Devils accusing Black Victims of Playing the Race Card when Crackers been Winning using a Stacked Deck for 400 plus years of Racism & Economic Castration! Loaded Dice & all other Games of Chance belong to Whites this is the Whiteman’s Burden! When Blacks start Winning Crackers want to Change the Rules! Tired of these Devils & that Racist System F%ck all y’all !