Touré Neblett Says Romney Engaging In “Niggerization” Of Obama
August 17, 2012 3 Comments
The cries of racism shall begin in earnest. MSNBC’s Touré Neblett declared that Romney’s recent fired up speech in response to Biden’s chains line was the “niggerization” of Obama. Neblett went out of his way to say that he didn’t use the term lightly before using the term lightly. Apparently we’ve all been trained to fear angry black men, as though angry white men are something no one should fear. The left views everything through the prism of race to the point of absurdity. Neblett’s declaration of “niggerization” is absolutely absurd. But of course we’re not allowed to call Neblett out because he’s black and only black people really “understand.”
Everybody knows about Joe Biden’s absurd statement about Republicans who are “gonna put y’all back in chains.” The first black Governor since reconstruction, Douglas Wilder, criticized Biden’s racially charged statement. There were plenty of other people on the left disturbed by Biden’s comments, which were made to a largely black audience. Romney responded by telling team Obama to take their campaign of division and hate back to Chicago. Apparently in Neblett’s mind this is the “niggerization” of Obama. In reality, this is just politics and has nothing to do with race whatsoever.
Let’s be up front, Joe Biden wouldn’t have used such racially charged rhetoric unless he had a black man to hide behind. But for Biden’s ridiculous comments, Romney wouldn’t have made his. But let’s assume that Biden made some equally absurd, borderline offensive comment without the racial undertones. Let’s further assume that Obama is white. Would anyone have thought anything of Romney’s response? Sure Republicans would be excited to see their candidate get feisty but would anyone on the left think anything of it? The back and forth this week is pretty typical in a Presidential election, there wasn’t anything particularly noteworthy about it with the exception of Biden’s racial undertone.
But Neblett doesn’t want to talk about Biden stoking the flames of racial prejudice. He wants to accuse Republicans of hating black people. So he lightly uses the term “niggerization” as though Romney had some sort of racist motive for attacking the Obama campaign. You can tell the Democrats are getting scared when they start accusing everyone they disagree with of racism. Obama is losing, he’s focused on tax returns, Biden is trying to scare blacks and Obama media surrogates like Neblett are baselessly reading racism into everything Republicans are doing. Meanwhile the public is concerned about jobs, the economy and the national debt. Romney is largely focused on that while Obama and his gang are focused on everything but.
Obama’s pathway to victory is to scare people into believing Romney is a bad guy. The tax return nonsense and all the innuendo associated with it is proof. Obama is still talking about Romney’s tax returns because he can’t talk about the state of the economy. The left-wing media knows this, including race baitors such as Neblett. Neblett has made a career out of accusing white people of racism and reading racism into everything. Thus he lightly accuses Romney of trying to create the “niggerization” of Obama while he completely ignores Biden’s blatant racially charged comments. The ends justify the means and in this case they’ll do anything to paint Romney as evil in order to ensure an Obama victory. If it means accusing him of racism without the slightest shred of evidence, in Neblett’s world that’s how it works.
I can certainly agree that not every use of the word “angry” by the Romney campaign is a dog-whistle. I don’t see how one can dispute Neblett’s overall point that “Otherization” of Obama has been the objective all along. I mean, it is just Atwater’s Southern Strategy Version 2.0…or maybe 3.0.
You should probably update your post to reflect that Neblett has since apologized for his use of the at least 50-year old word.
I just saw that he apologized this morning. Still, that Neblett was willing to say what he said is out of line and absurd. The notion that Obama has been “otherized” by the right is ridiculous. Obama “otherized” himself for years, going as far as to tell his publisher he as born in Kenya. Romney hasn’t even touched any of that stuff though, he’s been largely focused on the economy and jobs. Obama is the President, it doesn’t serve Romney any purpose to discuss anything other than Obama’s abysmal record.
Why is it ridiculous? He IS really different from the homogenous monolith that is the GOP. It is just smart politics to point it out and highlight as directly and directly as possible cause you guys don’t do ‘different’.