What deBlasio said. This is "Racist"? How? [View all]

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The NY Police Union’s Vile War with Mayor De Blasio
To criticize the mayor for telling his black son what every other father of a black youth must say is divisive and fails to see what’s wrong in America.

I covered New York politics for 15 years, and I saw some awfully tense moments between the police and Democratic politicians. But there has never been anything remotely like the war the cops are waging right now against Mayor Bill de Blasio for the thought crime of saying something that was completely unremarkable and so obviously true that in other contexts we don’t even bat an eye when someone says it. And for that, the mayor has blood on his hands, as Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association head Pat Lynch said Saturday evening after the hideous assassinations of two NYPD officers?

Let’s rewind the tape here. On Dec. 3, in the wake of the Staten Island grand jury’s refusal to indict in the case of the police homicide of Eric Garner, de Blasio gave a press conference at a Staten Island church. He spoke of the need to heal and so on, the usual politician’s rhetoric, and then he uttered these words:

This is profoundly personal for me. I was at the White House the other day, and the president of the United States turned to me, and he met Dante a few months ago, and he said that Dante reminded him of what he looked like as a teenager. And he said, I know you see this crisis through a very personal lens. I said to him I did. Because Chirlane and I have had to talk to Dante for years, about the dangers he may face. A good young man, a law-abiding young man, who would never think to do anything wrong, and yet, because of a history that still hangs over us, the dangers he may face—we’ve had to literally train him, as families have all over this city for decades, in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.

Dante de Blasio, as you surely know, is a mixed-race young man of 16 who looks black and sports a large, ’70s-style afro. Does anyone seriously think that his father should not have told him what he did? Come on. We all know the odds (actually, we don’t, more on which later). We hear every prominent black man in America who has a son and who decides to talk about this publicly—football players and actors and others—say exactly the same thing. We’ve heard it hundreds of times. Are these men lying? Are they paranoid weirdos? Of course they aren’t. They are fathers, describing to the rest of us what I thought was a widely acknowledged reality.

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The NY PBA/NYP "issue" with deBlasio seems to be the same "issue" they had with Eric Garner. Oh there's racism alright. But it's not coming from deBlasio. Or Obama. Or Al Sharpton. This is a classic case of projection, where the most guilty accuse the targets of their abuse of the very thing the abusers are doing themselves.

You know why? IT. WORKS. People believe it. EVERYONE believes it. If you can get that accusation out there in front of everyone first, you WIN the propaganda war. I've had it done to me. I KNOW how this shit works. Unfortunately, it works REALLY well. And Republicans, Teabaggers, RWNJ and their media institution (they control it ALL) have got this one propaganda technique honed to an artform.

This is racist backlash. We've been subjected to the most acidic of it since Obama was first elected. It's white conservatives having their last 'rebel yell' at non-whites and 'wimmin' taking what they consider to be places too high and mighty in our society today. It's the societal equivalent of RWNJ's tossing acid in the faces of the targets of their racist/sexist hatred and disgust - non-whites and women.

And as a final blow, they're projecting their abuse onto the targets of it. And their media (that's all of it) help them do it.

The US is a toilet into which they deposit their hatred and ignorance. They'll blame the water because it's become unsanitary. Nevermind where the sewage actually came from.