CNN Scrubs Dobbs’ Racially Charged Comment From Transcript»

This entire "race issue" is only as issue because of the old,white men who refuse to adapt to the present. At a time in the United States where a product of a black man (gasp) and white woman in Barack Obama will soon be elected the president, they have shown no additude change. They may show tolerance for 'other' people for a time, but when they are amongst themselves, they joke and laugh at the insultation and general stereotypes of all other races. Maybe i'm the racist, maybe because of the old, white male cops that have tried so hard to put me in jail, the old, white men who just look at me crazy, the white girls fathers who become enraged when they see me with their daughter (heh, heh, that's actually quite funny), CAN i THINK that all OLD, WHiTE MEN are racist?


CNN Scrubs Dobbs’ Racially Charged Comment From Transcript»

Mar 31st, 2008 at 11:39 am
Referring to Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) recent speech on race while speaking with a group of journalists last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. “still has trouble dealing with race because of a national ‘birth defect’ that denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country’s very founding.” Rice added that this “birth defect” makes it “hard for us to talk about it, and hard for us to realize that it has continuing relevance for who we are today.”

When asked to respond to Rice’s remarks on the Situation Room last Friday, CNN host Lou Dobbs became agitated. TPM’s Josh Marshall noted that Dobbs explained “how he’s sick of ‘cotton pickin’ black leaders telling him how he can and can’t talk about race (he catches himself at the last minute — sorta).”
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While it appears that Dobbs was about to say “cotton picking” (often used as a racially charged slur) in reference to Rice, he caught himself, only uttering the word “cotton.” Yet, the CNN transcript from Friday’s Situation Room has omitted the word “cotton” from Dobbs’ remarks:

DOBBS: We’ve got to be able to talk about it and I can guarantee you this, not a single one of these [the word “cotton” should appear here] — just ridiculous politicians should be the moderator on the issue of race. We have to have a far better discussion than that.


Okay. SO what you're saying, DOBBS, is the following statements, let's translate that to a clear message:

But let’s look at what Dobbs said and possible reasons why he said it. What could he have meant by that remark?

1) “As a white male, I would prefer things return to the way they used to be, with everybody else knowing their place.”

2) “We can have a discussion on race, but only by white people — that’s the only perspective that’s important.”

3) “We wouldn’t even HAVE a race problem if only people of color would just keep their mouths shut.”

4) “Just because some people have had to struggle for generations to make it in a system stacked against them, doesn’t mean they are entitled to tell ME anything about race.”

No matter how you slice, parse, and dissect Dobbs’ remarks, it still seems to come down to a white guy loudly asserting his birthright as a white guy and the entitlements it bestows.
( -misshusseinmolly)