Stacey Dash Can’t Dash Away from The Racial Thing (UPDATED)
Source: Slimwavy
First of all, nice hairstyle Stacey. My wife has something similar. OK. To the meat:
It is 2012. The first non-white President was elected in 2008. A historic moment in American history. No way to deny that (unless your just a blockhead hater since I’m only expressing the historic moment, not his presidency). But even though a brown dude was elected POTUS, there are still instances where “the racial thing” just slaps you in the face. Case in point – Actress Stacey Dash’s support of Romney/Ryan:
Stacey Dash’s Pro-Romney Tweet Becomes Racial Flashpoint
By WSJ StaffActress Stacey Dash (“Clueless”) tweeted her support for presidential candidate Mitt Romney Sunday, writing “Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future.” She included a photo of herself wearing a red swimsuit, standing in front of the American flag.
The tweet, which has been retweeted more than 5,000 times, sparked a range of responses on Twitter, both for and against Dash’s view. But the Twitter reaction also included racially charged tweets leveled at Dash, who is of mixed race, which in turn prompted others (even if they didn’t agree with Dash’s presidential endorsement) to support her right to express her opinion without being subject to racist tweets.
While there have been tweets supporting her choice (even if they disagree with her position), there have been many more bashing her as “confused”, an “Uncle Tom”, a “jiggaboo”, and worse. Even one of my favorite actors, Samuel L. Jackson took a dig with:
Wait, did Stacey Dash Really endorse Romney today?! REALLY????! Is she CRA………..??!
— Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) October 10, 2012
*SIGH*
Message to my fellow Black folks that are criticizing Stacey Dash (and yes she’s getting most of the criticism from black folks): Do we really have to go there? I don’t know if you’ve been linked into popular events but President Barack Obama is President of the United States of America (not President of Black America). He received 69,499,428 votes in 2008. But guess what? John McCain received 59,950,323 votes. Almost 60 million Americans had a different point of view. And some of those people were Black! So Stacey Dash is not voting for Barack Obama. Big deal. I’m not voting for Obama or Romney. And? It’s my choice. Something that black civil rights activists back in the day fought and died for: a free choice! Guess what you have done with your criticism of her vote/support? Gave Team Romney some meat to tenderize (via The Huffington Post):
Dash said that Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, called her on Tuesday afternoon to tell her how brave she is. Ryan tweeted his thanks, saying: “Had a great conversation with @REALStaceyDash this afternoon. Thank you for your support!”
I hate the electoral college. I can’t stand the whole Presidential campaign season due to all the static that is generated and the lack of visionary ideas coming from the incumbent and candidate. But I do understand how the game is played. Team Romney is taking any and everything to turn into a weapon against Team Obama. Now they have a weapon that their surrogates and supporters are going to run with (Cult of Obama, Obamabots, black racial purity in voting, etc). Yuck! Spit! Yuck again.
Ugh! Now I’m getting emails from my conservative friends asking why black folks treating Stacey Dash like that. Every time I think I’m away from from “Answering for Black America”, something pulls me back in.
* UPDATE *
Twitchy.com just had to say it:
Disturbing and sickening, but all too typical. As always, the Left cracks whip with any minority or woman who won’t accept her assigned place on the Democrat plantation.
Any damn conservative that says “Democratic Plantation” is a complete and utter bigot. Plain and simple. Those black folks that leveled VILE criticism at Stacey Dash are bigots as well. Two sides of the same damn coin. If you want Black folks (if you care), to leave the Democratic Party, the word “plantation” needs to be banned from all your content. The Democratic Party is not a plantation. The Republican Party is not a “plantation”. They are a POLITICAL PARTIES. Here’s to hoping your mouse/trackball/touchpad/touchscreen becomes contagious with poison ivy.
Jerks…
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uuuuuhhhh, my brain just shut down… one of the sexiest women on the planet. I have had a kid crush on her since the movie Moving.
assuming some is a democrat because they are black is basically racist. maybe Samuel needs to wake up to that.
I guess I’m too old and out of it. I can honestly say I have never heard of the woman. She’s entitled to her opinion and I won’t lose any sleep over it.
Many an actor is shrewd about publicity. Worked here. Bathing suit politicking. lol
Re ‘answering for black america’ Tyrone, i have a sense of what you mean. On a filmed panel some time back, I sat next to Maya and the moderator, a fellow from harvard law, kept looking at her everytime some other dignitary on the panel mentioned black event/history/person/challenge. Finally Dr. Angelou drew herself up to her full sitting height, [she’s over 6′ tall} and sharpening her eyes to those of an eagle spotting prey, slowly said in her deep Shakespearian trained voice, WHy. Are YOU. Looking. TO me!
I think many persons no matter what background sometimes dont realize our minority groups are not monolithic. My group can never be spoken for specifically, only in some generalities: Latinos often tend to vote for x. Media makes the error over and over thinking one native American can speak for all Native Americans. Same for the many with Euro American heritages, same for people with Asian heritages, Pacific Island people and their many heritages. Tis folly to try to gain a fixed view by race or heritage, often too by other factors as well. Sometimes I think about who would speak for humanity, and how hard that would be to choose only one voice.
Just my .02
Thank you Dr. E! I’ve been saying that forever. All because black folks vote overwhelming Democrat, doesn’t mean they all think the same. My grandparents are essentially deeply religious social conservatives. Yet they’ve voted Democrat forever and have zero problem reconciling that. Yet I’ve already seen on some far right blogs that “Stacey Dash got smart and left the plantation”. And it’s phrases like “left the plantation” (and a mindset like that) that turns off many black folks. So black folks leave the Democratic “plantation” for your “plantation”? As Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson said:
CHILD PLEASE!
I support Stacey Dash’s right to her choice. She didn’t “leave the plantation”. She made a decision based on her beliefs and feelings.
Plantation is one of those words that I find illogically revolting. Of course within the context of “leave the plantation”, my normally illogical repulsion fits perfectly.
who says something like that???
Dr E, I too thought this is might have been a smart shot at some free publicity, but life for a conservative in Hollywood aint easy.
Jessica Williams did a piece on black Mormons (and to some extent the pigeon-holing that America seems to thrive on) on last night’s Daily Show. A similar theme (or perhaps the same theme) and funny. Dr E’s comment about Maya Angelou made me think of it again.
Tyrone, I agree. Think the idea of ‘plantation’ in that sense has a certain meaning this 140 years later +/-. It’s a strange use of the word, by anyone really, Viz: But/and it might be a misnomer too if others were familiar with history rather than just the pop media. Just interviewed a man from the Creek tribe, and he said in the southeast before the Trail of Tears, many of the clans of the Creek and other NA tribes, along with free former slaves, owned slaves and owned plantations for trade… as the government had a concerted program to ‘civilize’ native Americans, which included commerce. Not Gone with the Wind mega-acrage, but I’m learning most plantations in the US long ago were like tobacco grower industry is in US now, small plats, but large enough to need many people to sow, grow, harvest. There were and still are also ‘plantations’ (often called some version of ‘finca’) in the Americas and in the islands in which the many tribal groups of post Conquest Americas (including Mexico) were also enslaved, and brutally so. But that way of seeing life via a ‘plantation’ view, is not so far away: Looking for a slave labor force seems to be what many of today’s large mfg corps are looking for too.
Too Tyrone, I sometimes wonder if people say things like ‘plantation’ which was once a dreaded life for so many, to now in our time divide groups in which the people are actually at peace with one another about the important things in life– just to create unrest by pounding on old/new scar tissue. You know what I mean.
I’m not sure I understand this except as a kneejerk reaction. Wasn’t the “tweet” that the establishment demands and requires blacks to fit in a certain established parameters or be subject to insults,derision, and abuse. So te the democratic/liberal “establishment” tries to restrict their freedom t a particular political area. While using terminology such as this is akin to invoking Natzism thus overshadowing the conversation, I don’t see how it’s automatically racist, and in theory if you believe what the guy is saying there is a certain parallel, Any more that bringing up nazi’s make me anti-semitic. Heck a large part of the reason terminology like that would be used is because it has been used repeatedly by the other side of the political debate. I also don’t think a phrase, word, or statement indicates racism only due to the race or political affiliation of the speaker. I do believe that, due to political and historical context, some statements from particular people or groups can acquire and cause negative feelings in others. That doesn’t make the speaker automaticly anything, just because of the use of a word or statement, as the bias can be from the listener not the speaker. I will say that for a large number of these situations usage of certain words may not automatically indicate anything directly it does seem to show that the speaker is insensitive to the feelings that they should know will arise with said statements. I’m still not sure why being a dem is this situation would make it ok while being a Conservative, even is black?, means you are wrong.
EEllis, those conservatives that use the word “plantation” as in “Democratic Plantation” lose immediately. It implies that black folks are slaves to the Democratic Party. So are Southern white people slaves to the Republican Party? Why not say they are on the “Republican Plantation”. No because it doesn’t work because there’s no history. I support Stacey Dash’s right to vote for anyone she damn well pleases. And I’m ultra hard on those black folks who made a complete ass out of themselves in criticizing her. But when “Democratic Plantation” gets thrown around, I’m going to throw around “bigot”. Because they evoke bigotry with that language. Just like those black folks calling Dash “jiggaboo” and “Uncle Tom” evoke bigotry.
What T.S. said, “with bells on” (and with thanks to my English wife)
well yes it does and many people would agree. Aside from the active social engineering aspects of the Dem platform there is quite a bit that many black americans shouldn’t ok with. You could easily make the argument that Dems “buy” them with social programs and pushing the idea that all Repubs are racist. As I said there are certain words and statements that coming from a particular group will cause negative feelings in some. As you said the words evoke, but that doesn’t mean the people using those word say them meaning to cause those emotions so saying that someone is automatically a “bigot” is illogical, and wrong on it’s face. As far as I’m concerned calling someone racist is almost as bad as calling them a child molester in our society right now. You shouldn’t apply that term to someone without a heck of alot more than possible ignorance about how a particular word may make you feel.
” You could easily make the argument that Dems “buy” [black Americans] with social programs
What an unbelievably vilifying insult to black Americans: the very insinuation that human beings of a certain race can be “bought”
Soooo… White folks who’ve always voted Republican are…? Oh wait, the Republican Party always has their best interest to heart, right? And what about those white folks who’ve ALWAYS voted for and supported Democrats? See that’s the disconnect. And NO ONE has explained why it’s OK to call black folks “slaves” to the Democratic Party. But white folks aren’t slaves to any party. But here lies the difference. All black folks at a certain time in this country were slaves on plantations. That’s over and done with. But the imagery is strong and intensely negative. How about saying “black folks are blindly loyal to the Democratic Party and need to abandon ship”. But that doesn’t generate the appropriate bile.
Another thing, I didn’t call them racists. I called them bigots. A huge difference. Definition time:
And…
All racists are bigots, but by no means are all bigots racist. So I’ll say it again, read slowly for effect: “Any damn conservative that says ‘Democratic Plantation’ is a complete and utter bigot. Plain and simple. Those black folks that leveled VILE criticism at Stacey Dash are bigots as well.” Until proven otherwise.