Eyes Open Wide Shut: Fear, Denial & Racism Fuel Neo-Con Movement

By Heru Ammen

For those African Americans who have lived under the illusion that the hatred and evil perpetuated against our people is no longer an issue, and for those of whom believe that white Americans that identify with and embrace a neo-conservative mindset have moved on from its racist past into a new age of Kumbayah and empathy for the African American experience, the last two weeks have been an eye opening experience. For those like myself who already knew differently, let me say "I told you so!"

The fallout from the Rev. Wright sermon and "The Obama Speech" is still reverberating throughout America. For some White Americans this has given them the opportunity to spew all kinds of hatred towards and mischaracterizations of Rev. Wright, Senator Obama, and any other African American that they deem worthy of their verbal-vomit laden punditry.

The latest salvo of unadulterated racism spewed forth from the right comes from the blogs entitled Moonbattery and Kicking and Screaming. Here are the post as follows:

Moonbattery

Charlie Crist Open to Paying People for Being Black

"Possibly the most preposterous notion to come from the radical Left is that blacks should be given free money expropriated by force from everyone else as a reward for having ancestors who were given a hard time — just like the ancestors of every human being on the planet. I won't insult the reader's intelligence by explaining the absurdity of thinking this unjust and profoundly moronic concept would improve race relations.But someone needs to explain it to Florida's Governor:

The resolution stops short of calling for reparations for descendants of slaves, though Republican Gov. Charlie Crist said after the vote that he was open to the idea "if we can determine descendancy, certainly.

The resolution in question consisted of idiots like Crist wallowing in the neurotic white guilt that is creating monsters like Barack Obama and his circle of America-hating, racist kooks. (emphasis mine)"

...and this work of verbally racist art from the blog Kicking & Screaming

"Far as I am concerned, many Blacks in the US ought to be thankful that no matter how their ancestors got here they are better off in the US than in some shiitehole (sic) in Africa, eating scraps of bread, swatting flies and living in mud huts using arrows and clubs to hunt their food. (OK, yeah, yeah, I may be over-generalizing but if you can’t get my point then grow a thicker skin.)"

Both of these blog posts illustrates that fear, ignorance and racism are three of the major components that fuel the neo-conservative movement. The fact that Americans of African ascendancy have endured genocide, slavery, lynching, injustice, jim crow, unequal socio-economics, and a host of other injustices for over 389 years does not matter to neo-cons. The fact that despite all of the aforementioned atrocities perpetuated upon Americans of African ascendancy, An African American is seriously competing for and could possibly win the highest office in the land causes neo-cons to suffer severe consternation in the bowel area and racially-stressed, fear-induced diarrhea of the brain and mouth. Expect more vitriol from the right as this Obamian inspired political season unfolds.