Angry right gets mad when you accuse it of race-baiting!
Critics didn't like my column saying the shutdown stemmed from 50 years of racism. I should have written even more
BY JOAN WALSH
Reasons Matt Welch is occasionally smart. Unfortunately, hes still mad at me for calling him out on a really dumb column he wrote three years ago. Oops: Calling him out; I shouldnt have said that. Because according to Welch, thats gangsta rap talk. But maybe thats only if Obama says it. Maybe its OK because Im a white woman?
No, seriously. Heres what happened. When the president warned special interests in a 2009 speech that if they continued to misrepresent what was in his healthcare plan, we will call you out, Welch called it a SnoopDoggesque display, and he linked to a video of Snoops song Shut U Down to make his point. Shut U Down, call you out, same difference, to Welch anyway.
I really didnt see anything in Obamas speech that evoked Snoop Dogg (now, of course, Snoop Lion), so I called him out on it, and then he called me out for not having a sense of humor, and now hes calling me out on my Tuesday piece,
The Real Story of the Shutdown: 50 Years of GOP Race-Baiting.
I got a lot of criticism for that piece, much of it from racist nut jobs, but I wanted to take a moment to respond to Welchs, because he makes a couple of good points. First, he notes that interracial marriage is on the rise, and libertarians like him support interracial marriage, and thats great news. Of course, in my piece, I said only a minority of Republicans were actual believers in white supremacy and black inferiority and desired to prevent the mixing of the races. But maybe I wasnt explicit enough.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/angry_right_gets_mad_when_you_accuse_it_of_race_baiting/