NYU Black Renaissance Noire Summer/Fall 2011 | Page 8

President Obama and the New Secession “As the first African-American president he’s been up against a racist white bloc in the Republican Party that has come dressed as the Tea Party.” Frank Schaeffer, author of Sex, Mom & God, interviewed by Jonathan Capehart, substituting for Martin Bashir on msnbc, August 12, 2011 6 The Tea Party Congressmen didn’t go to Washington to insist upon fiscal responsibility, but to destroy the first black president. This is a racist movement in which holocaust deniers and Neo-Nazis, Neo-Confederates play a prominent role and whose members are drawn largely from the secessionist states, states that cited their desire to continue using human beings as property as the reason for their secession. Writing in Salon.com, August 2, 2011, Michael Lind found that the majority of Tea Partiers are white men from the south. It figures, because the Tea Party is a secessionist movement and the filibustering against President Obama’s programs, the most frequent use of the filibuster in history, amounts to a new nullification. Early on Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his goal was to deny President Obama a second term. He’s from Kentucky and though Kentucky was not part of the confederacy, a confederate “shadow government” was a powerful influence on the state government during the rebellion launched by traitors. 004-Essay-Ishmael-Reed.indd 6 The Tea Party is founded on a racist Big Lie. Broker, Rick Santelli, who calls himself the Tea Party’s “lightening rod,” said that whites are angry because minorities are receiving all of the entitlements, when it would take a few hundred years for blacks and hispanics to achieve the kind of government largess that has been accorded whites, which includes forced land grabs at the expense of blacks, native americans and, mexican’s; the resistance to minorities gaining financial opportunities, from the driving out of the chinese from gold mines to the racist policies of the Federal Housing Administration, which denied millions of blacks mortgages for decades. Whites also benefited from fdr programs (the G.I. Bill was called the “white” G.I. Bill), The Great Society programs, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and federal highway programs that built their route to the suburbs—suburbs that excluded blacks often by mob violence—just to mention a few. Whites even benefit from programs that were set up for the benefit of blacks like Affirmative Action. This is not the only such program that’s supposed to benefit blacks but ends up benefiting whites. By ISHMAEL REED One could say that in comparison to blacks, native americans, hispanics and south asians, the white middle class is living in a socialist utopia however, the upper class whites, with whom they formed an alliance under the banner of a Reaganite white nationalism, might be ready to jettison them. Jewish Americans who thought they’d been accepted into this coalition are now being threatened by the far right, which the Tea Party represents. This movement is anti Semitic as well as racist. Maybe those Jewish Neo-Cons at The New Republic and Commentary (whose black representative is John McWhorter), who felt so secure in the embrace of white nationalism that they supported quack theories about black intellectual inferiority, will notice this new threat to the security of Jewish Americans. Despite Manhattan Institute spokesperson John McWhorter’s claim that racial profiling is the last issue facing blacks (he’s changed his mind since he was used by Commentary to dismiss racial profiling as an issue), millions of blacks have been denied the kind of advantages accorded whites when buying homes. As late as Sunday, July 31, 2011, Tom